A few things…
- Last night I had dinner with a bunch of friend and other folks, including Steve, who was wearing a totally hot jacket which he first alerted me to its existence earlier in the weekend… a Tron track top. You can see Steve sporting his new attire, and quite proudly (as I would) here, though pictures doesn’t do it any justice; all over the sleeves are printed circuitry, just like what the folks in that world have all over their bodies, and slightly raised.
Also got to finally pass along some belated birthday gifts, which included a shirt for Dave, the Sheltered design, which is all cutsey-like, since I know which is something he likes, and one for John, featuring Stormtrooper beating Darth Vader in ping pong, which is pretty lazy I know (I’m sure the guy is totally sick of anything Star Wars related at this point), but still…
And with that out of way, I can finally say publicly (since I didn’t anyone even getting a small idea of what they might be getting) that Oddica is my new fave outlet for shirts. BTW, I wore the robot giving the finger to oil companies shirt last night for the first time, and it was uber comfortable. Can’t wait to rock out the other one for MoCCA; hey, I gotta look my trendy-nerdy best, right?
Oh, and I simply cannot wait for their next wave of shirts. I’m totally getting Richman’s Sport, Sith Abandon Ship, Trainman, Can’t Beat Em, Sell Em, and the robot vs the octopus one the first day they’re available.
I also have to state that the folks who run Oddica are top-notch. Not only did they upgrade my shipping when they made a slight mistake on their end (which I would have never noticed, so its not like they needed to tell me or anything), but they loaded the bag up with all sorts of cool pins and postcards, plus the shipping bag itself was simply awesome. Order for yourself to know what I’m talking about.
- During dinner, one of the main conversations was X-Men 3, naturally, which shifted to talk about the Ghost Rider trailer that played beforehand. The concensus seems to be is that it looks stupid, but seriously folks… it’s a flaming skull wearing a leather jacket that swings around a chain whip while riding a bike that leaves a trail of flames. How “realistic” can that possibly look in the first place?
Also, while talking about bad dreams, I mentioned how the only ones I have is due to me having to sell some much loved games in the past, so I’m constantly searching for them in an attempt to buy them back, which resulted in Dave mentioning that he has the same exact dreams as well… of me selling my games and the all the shock and horror from his end, which I found funny.
And when Steve left, I asked him if might be interested in checking out some midget oil wrestling match that’s I guess taking place in Willamsburg (I saw a flyer when I was in town for the GNG the night prior). Which got a good laugh from everyone…. though I was serious. Though I hope the flyer was serious too and it wasn’t the name of some fucking shitty as hipters/emo band. Cuz then I’ll be pissed.
- Well its June 1st, and I just got paid (from my teaching gig, plus a nice meaty freelance check arrived yesterday), so I’m going to finally go out and get New Super Mario Bros. I know it was yet another game that I told everyone “OH DEAR JESUS, I HAVE TO GET THAT GAME ON DAY ONE!!!” but never actually did. Actually I was going to pick up last week, but…
I’ve been hesitant on admitting this publicly, but I may as well, since I’m still pretty pissed about it. Remember that party I threw last weekend? Well, it was great except for one really shitty thing: I was the victim of petty theft. Joe Salina passed along a gift certificate to GameStop, which besides being totally awesome, was going to be my direct ticket to New SMB, but by the end of the night, it was missing from where I left it in my bedroom. Since then I’ve been going through my bedroom like crazy, to make sure it didn’t fall behind some furniture or something.
So who would do such a thing? None of my friends, that’s for sure. But there were more than just friends at my party… a few vague acquaintances were there on-hand, and at least one person whom I believe to be the culprit. But since I have no proof, I won’t say anything, and even then, that would be wrong, even though I’m certain that the person doesn’t read this site. Anyway… it’s pretty shitty I know. And sorry Joe… but thanks again, I really appreciated it.
- Just when I figured my piece for GameSetWatch (I think I’ll be sticking with the “To Live and Game in NY” title since at least one person likes it… thanks Robin) was ready to wrap up and send off, some unexpected and new information comes along. This morning at Insert Credit, another NYCer passed along a report regarding Lazer Park, the laser tag arena & arcade in Times Square, which closed it to door to business this past weekend. It’s sorta sad to see yet another shut down, though its hardly surprising of course, plus I don’t know anyone who was particularly a fan of the establishment. My only “fond memory” of the place, if you can call it that, is of myself and others goofing on this one kids in our class in college who worked there. The guy was so proud that he wore his uniform everyday to class, even though I believe he only worked there a day or so. Plus he was a real nerdlinger-grade uber geek, dumpy & Asian, with a pony-tail, and had a drawing on his pencil box of one of the ninja turtle’s head with the inscription “T.M.N.T. lives in me!”
Anyway, if there’s one lesson that can be gathered from the write-up, its that if some girl asks you to play laser tag with her, you fucking drop whatever you’re doing and join her. Period. Granted, this sorta depends on how cute she is, but my point still stands.
- Meanwhile, over at NeoGAF, here’s an interesting discussion regarding Sony and if are indeed biased against 2D games. Well, anyone with half a brain already knows the answer, but its fun to see Sony apologists in action, especially in this day and age.
- Over at IGN, they’ve decided to relaunch their Dreamcast section, but re-reviewing all games to see how they compare to stuff out today. Sounds interesting… till you discover that it’s only for US game, so no imports are included. Then it becomes “what’s the point?”
- And the latest chapter of the Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage has been released. It’s better than ever and bits of stop motion are quite wonderful. I especially love the surely looking purplish-pink Triforce.
- For those who are curious (I’m sure no one’s even though about it), what I generally do when surfing the web is whenever I come across anything interesting, I’ll copy and paste the link so I can bring it up later on when I post. The thing is, I sometimes have all these text files with random links on them floating around, sometimes labeled and sometimes not, and over time I forget about stuff. Well the other day I decided to sift through them all and see what I’ve missed, and its quite a few things, including classic scenes from games done in Lego and a one-legged guy playing DDR, and rather well.
- Plus, here’s a ton of game related YouTube & Google videos, including…
… a great Japanese ad for Zelda: Four Swords featuring puppets (I’m sure I’ve linked to it before, but whatevas)…
… another old Nintendo television spot, this one for Metorid…
… here’s one for the Mega Drive (Genesis) featuring a very serious looking guy (and some SHOCK)…
… androgynous goth J-rocker Gackt and Parappa the Rapper, together (at last)…
… here’s another long one, which I’m certainly most people won’t have the interest to sit through in its entirely, though fans of Streets of Rage should definitely check it out: the game’s composer, Yuzo Koshiro, playing DJ at a club with his own game tunes…
… for those of you who haven’t been able to beat the game with the all the achievements necessary in Sonic Adventure 2 (hell, I can’t even get passed the shitty ass Knuckles levels with its worst camera ever in a 3D platformer ever), here’s a look at what you get: the first level from Sonic 1 in 3D…
… and finally, for those who have forgotten the brilliance of the live action Super Mario Bros movie (seriously… it’s highly underrated), here ya go.
- Finally, word on the street is that the DS Lite, which is supposed to come out in the US next week, started floating around earlier this week due to places likes Target and Walmart breaking the street date. So lots of people started running around trying to grab one early, but eventually Nintendo caught wind and put the kibosh on things. But that hasn’t stopped folks from still searching… including Slonie, who stopped by a Target, where they didn’t even have the original DS. A friend of his took a pic of some guy who was disheartened by the empty shelf space…
… Slonie claims that its not him. Yeah, right.
Slonie also reminded me that the Venture Bros Season 1 DVD came out this week! Gotta grab that. Also found out that the new 20th anniversary edition of Transformers is coming out this November. I really hope they hire that crazy British guy that I saw at that lame ass Tranformers convention a few months back who knows pretty much everything about the movie (and will hopefully have those animatics from key scenes that he created himself from bits and pieces of discarded storyboard books that he’s paid thousands of dollars in acquiring).
- Been looking towards this weekend for a while now… I’m heading to Deleware to shoot guns again. Can’t wait!
UPDATE: Just wanted to pass along a big thanks to Brent for a few things…
First off, he’s the guy who turned me onto Akismet, which has more or less eliminated all my spam woes. The absolute worst was earlier in the week when I got seriously almost 3,000 spam posts in a single day! Even worse than that was how they caused my email server to freak out Tuesday night, so I?m missing out emails from a four hour timeframe that evening. But since Jason installed Akismet on Wednesday morning, it caught pretty much every single piece of spam (with the exception of two), which has been precisely 3,648 fake posts. And all legit comments haven’t been accidentally snared. Sweet! And once again, thanks!
Second, props to Brent for catching the Ghostbuters reference in the title of this post.
Also, and I didn’t find this out till recently, Brent is the man behind Assembler.org, specifically the very awesome (especially if you’re a shooter aficionado) RIG, which was recently shown at some indie film and video festival (I would have loved the chance to see it projected on the big screen, but I believe it took place in Texas). Hopefully, he’s working on a screensaver version for OS X!
