Starting with video games, Chris' interests have led him to write game reviews, study Japanese and move to Japan to continue his studies. Of course, he has other interests, like cooking and baking, travel, and occasionally updating his blog.
The Mirror’s Edge demo came out last week. Now, this is a came I’ve been excited about since it was first unveiled last year. Well, I finally got a chance to get some time hands-on, and if the rest of the game is as good as the demo, EA will have won itself back into my heart.
ME combines aspects of free running and parkour in a somewhat dystopian society in the future. “Runners,” athletic couriers, exist and try to remain out of society to help deliver message. So the demo has you go through some basic training and then has you make one delivery. So just how fun is jumping from rooftops, kicking open doors and running from the man? It’s quite fun.
So in one month I’ll be halfway across the world and living it up in Japan. I plan to eat tons of food (melon pan, fugu, sukiyaki, okonomiyaki, tonkotsu, etc.), walk around a lot and burn off some of those calories, and pick up a few gaming-related goods.
I’m trying to figure out what things I may want to pick up for myself. DS games are an option, as they’re small and not terribly expensive. But what to get? Rhythm Tengoku Gold, as that still has no release date in the U.S. Maybe an old PC-Engine/Turbo Grafx-16 game, I dunno. Anyone have suggestions? I’m trying to avoid picking up an entire gaming system, though I am tempted to pick up a Japanese Wii to play some of the games I know won’t ever get released here.
So, shitty androgynous, emo bands have become all the rage recently. But where did they get their start? A few of my coworkers and I discovered the answer, and it’s none other than Chris Gaines, or should I say, Garth Brooks.
Now, you may not realize this, and it’s probably because it was a stupid thing to do, but Garth Books tried an unsuccessful pop career back during the height of his popularity. He even came up with a whole timeline and history for this pseudo persona. Did you know Chris Gaines was born in Australia to an Olympic swimmer coach?
Take a look at that mug of his. It screams “Daddy don’t love me know more and he beat me in front of my girlfriend and he took her from me and now I have nowhere to go so I’ll sing about it!” OK, maybe that pic doesn’t say it, but surely this second one does.
Wendy’s used to have the 99 cent value meal. It was great. All the items I wanted for 99 cents each! Now it’s the “Super Value” menu. That means not everything is 99 cents. Some is 1.19. That doesn’t sound like such a super value compared to what was had before.
So, I’m talking with my Montanian friend, Rebel Treble, one Saturday night, and I decide to ask her about foods and cultural differences I may not be aware of. See, in some states people won’t have the same foods you may have in your own.
Out on the east coast–North Carolina and upward, as far as I know–you can’t order brisket. People there, with the exception of butchers and expatriates from states that are home to brisket, don’t know what it is.
So I asked her if she knew what brisket was, and she said yes. Then she asked if I had tried flavored honey.
A few posts back, I mentioned the need for professionalism in the world of gaming journalism. I neglected totalk about one of my pet peeves: copy editing. Not a day goes by that I browse the various gaming news sources where I don’t find an error. The problems range from incorrect word usage (homonyms, incorrect denotation) and comma splices to the inability to spell common words.
I can understand the occasional slip. I mean, large metropolitan newspapers have errors in each issue. But when almost every single post on your site has an error, that reflects sloppiness and laziness, both on the part of the writer and the editors that should be checking the article.
Now onto other gaming news: the new Nintendo DSi. It adds two .3 MP cameras, eliminates the GBA slot, adds music playback (AAC format), enlarges the screen and adds an SD card reader to a. Oh, and in Japan it’ll cost about $50 more than the standard DS Lite.
