tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54128895478774083922011-07-08T05:06:53.266-04:00Random Musings from an Otaku.GundamGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465248666560654742noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412889547877408392.post-84832492656272743192009-07-31T01:21:00.002-04:002009-07-31T01:23:16.319-04:00

In case your one of the at most 2 people who read this blog, I've moved to a new wordpress site. Why? Because It's better, and I can of course. Hopefully you'll keep reading and learn why I think it's better. http://lagrangepoint4.wordpress.com/See you there

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So yesterday I went to Bush Gardens, which was as big a surprise to me as it is to everyone else. My uncle called Sunday Night at 10:30 and said they were going tomorrow and asked that we go with them. My mother then proceeded to beg me to go. Long story short I went, and so now I feel I should recount my experiences so that perhaps I can help someone in the long run.Highlight #1) We had to go on

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So last night I got to play FNM for the first time in a month. I had a very busy prior four weeks, with a family reunion, visit to the lake house with my friends, and Otakcon so I always always away from town on Friday. I really enjoyed all of these things but I also enjoy FNM, and last night was my first time with the new rules. They didn't make any difference at all for me. Last night was also

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Otakon is fast approaching, and thankfully they have the list of events and list of shops already on their website.Here is what I would like to see knowing that chances are I'll miss some or most of these.FridayMobile Suit Gundam 30 Years 10:45 amBudget Tokyo Travel 3:15 pmOishii : A Cooking Panel 7:30 pmBandai Entrainment Panel 9 pmSaturdayEvangelion 1.0 12:30 pmSgt Frog 5:30 pmSat Night Fan

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In very disappointing news today Kotaku reports that No More Heroes creator Goichi Suda, says that after No More Heroes 2 is finished No More Heroes is going to move to a different platform."I think ['No More Heroes 2'] is the last ‘NMH' that is going to be developed on the Wii. To expand ‘NMH' to new possibilities, we need a new platform. Wii is a great platform, but we've done everything we can

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So recently I've taken up Magic the Gathering again, as has my girlfriend, and most of our mutual friends. I've noticed when playing with them that while they have the basics down really well some of the more intricate parts of the magic rules are very confusing to them. While I won't profess to know everything there is to know about Magic as I am not a certified judge yet... I plan to write a

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Yesterday, my uncle, first cousin, her friend, and I went to DC. It was very interesting and all but they had no idea just how far everything was apart. Their plan was to go to The Capital, Some of the Smithsonian's, The Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial, Fords Theater, and the Holocaust museum. For those who know D.C. this is an impossible task if your on foot, so what we ended up doing instead was

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So I've not updated in awhile. One blog I read suggested that bloggers always feel like they have to have a reason (Excuse) as to why they were not updating like usual. Me I just didn't have much to talk about. So here is what I was doing, and have planned to do soon.1) I've been playing "The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena" Talk about a mouth full. For those of you who have no idea

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I've recently started playing Magic the Gathering again. The last time I played Odyssey was the current block, and things are really different now. That aside I'm playing an artifact based deck, which is working out fairly well for me right now. The worst part is that targeted removal is a killer to my my deck, and targeted removal is very big right now. That's OK things will even out eventually

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So I bought the Conduit yesterday and beat it today. This is not a new trend in video games so I should have expected as much. What is annoying however is the fact that the game has a cliff hanger ending... and not even a good one. Your going after the main bad guy, have to warp out the self destructing HQ of your Nemesis and Bam game over. You don't actually get to resolve anything. What adds

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For the past two years I have volunteered one week of my "valuable" time so that a kid with one of forty two types of Muscular Dystrophy could have a stellar week at MDA Camp. Each camper has his or her own counselor to take care of them. Sometimes you get paired with awesome kids, some times your the pairing doesn't quite result in a stellar time, just a good one. Last year I had a good time,

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... playing,PS3, Wolfenstein 3D, Unreal Tournament 3Wii, Star Tropics 2,Magic, Esper Aggro... reading,Star Wars: Coruscant Nights II: Street of ShadowsCrossbone Gundam... watching,Gurren Lagann MovieNeon Genesis Evangelion

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Today I gave blood for the first time in four months. This is the first time I've given blood that was not part of a blood drive at school and the experience was very interesting for many reasons, the least of which was that my blood technician was as nerdy and in all likelihood more nerdy then I'll ever been. He started off by asking me if I knew where the skull and crossbones came from. I was

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I just finished watching Gundam 00 after taking a long break while waiting for Menclave to release it's subs. The last part of last week I just gave up on waiting... it's been 3 months or so with no updates... Anyway I started watching again at episode 12, and watched until the end of the series...One would think that would be a good sign for how compelling the series is, however I thought that

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Just finished Vampire Hunter D VI: Pilgramge of the Sacred and the Profane this morning. Over all I thought it was a good book, not as enjoyable as the V, but better then III and as good as IV.I've decided because I'm bored and graphs are all the rage right now to graph by enjoyment by volume.As you can see I greatly enjoyed the first book... didn't enjoy the third one hardly at all, and then had

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Here is the results of E3... warning funny may or may not be found.But what about Solid Snake!?Microsoft in 10 min.I didn't think this was that good... it's two slow... and could be cut better for more funny.Another Remix of Bam There it is. Very popular.and My personal favorite... NEVER!

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So the Zelda Concept Art displayed at the Miyamoto round table this E3 has finally been leaked... and what do I make of it? Well it's clear to me that Link is missing a Sword... Or is he...As crazy as this will sound... that's no Girl... that's a Sword. Which seems just outlandish enough to fit in a Zelda game... But the follow up question will have to be... how do you swing a girl sword? I'll

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I recently watched the big three press conferences for the video game industry where Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo showed off all of their new devices, games, and sales figures. While I enjoyed all of the conferences and though that all parties involved had done a good job, many players who spend their time on messages boards across the internet disagreed. To some Nintendo talked to much, didn't

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To make this as simple as possible I have devised a never before seen system to analyze E3. Hold your applause till later.The Good.Lots of trailers.Crackdown 2 was an unexpected surprise.Left 4 Dead 2 features chainsaws. Chainsaws and zombies a match made in heaven.Metal Gear Solid Rizen.The Bad.Project Natal seems really neat technically, but doesn't seem very workable... I don't want to play

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This past weekend I won a free dinner for two to Chipotle at UMW's annual Video Game Olympics. What's great is that I won the dinner by bowling the top score (220) in WiiSports bowling. The whole notion of turning Video Games into a professional sport has been around from the start of Arcades, but has now been more widely accepted. There are some people who describe themselves as professional

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For a long time I have thought of video games as relevant mediums for the dissemination of information. I have always assumed that games much like books and movies were worthy of analysis and interpretation. Two Sundays ago I when to a panel by Prof. Whalen at the first Mary Washicon about the validity of video games as conveyor of culture. Prof. Whalen suggested that video games are still

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The running joke at Kotaku is that they don't know how to describe Noby Noby Boy, however after playing Noby Noby Boy for a few hours, I have come to the conclusion that it's an example of how games can go astray. Noby Noby Boy has so much potential, coming from the masterful mind behind Katamari Damacy A modern day classic because of it's addictive gameplay and illustrious sound track. The

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Spring is almost here, I just hope I can afford all these that come out between now and summer. Wii March 10, 2009 MadWorld May 2009 Little King's Story June 2009

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I'm so lucky. I have to work on a project for my rhetoric class, but what is awesome is that I can do it on rhetoric in video games. What I think I'm going to do is a project about the way disjointed narratives are used in video games. More specifically what kind of information do they give you in messages that you have to find to hear, as compared to messages which you are forced to hear. Two

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So I'm watching the 203 episode of the hit Japanese anime bleach when it occurs to me that no matter what bull shit they throw at me in the way of filler arcs, quarter episode recaps, and the generally been there done that nature of the "epic" battles, I keep coming back for more. At first this realization was rather shocking but I discover that I am watching bleach not for the great pacing,

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It is no secret that I love video games. I've been gaming for 16 years; have played over 250 games, and I enjoy board games and card games too. I love games nearly as much as I love my girlfriend. But every few weeks I feel really bad about playing video games. When we were younger my brother and I played video games together: taking turns, and playing cooperatively. Unfortunately my brother

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So today I received my new 320 gigabyte Samsung harddrive in the mail. It was a good deal with a 10 dollar discount and free two day shipping from newegg.com. I had heard that it's very easy to change the PS3's hard drive but I was still skeptical because the kind of people who upgrade consoles are generally pretentious pc gamers who deal with computer upgrades all the time. I thought it was

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My New Years Resolutions.1. Get a job. Any job will due, but hopefully something I'll enjoy.2. Pass my classes. Shouldn't be any problem.3. Go to the gym regularly.4. Shave more often.Edit: Now with more better resolutions.5. Work on new system of tailed review scores.6. Move out of my parents house.

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I'm on winter break and I've been bombarded by my family. Going into this break I was planning on playing through 2 or 3 full length games, maybe even getting a trial account with gamefly. That has all flown out the window now as I have been crossing the VA, WV state line multiple times a day. Tomorrow I'm off to PA to see a play about Christmas and why it's so important at the behest of my

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Hey, it's Lauren here. Since John gave me author privileges on this blog, I thought I'd take the liberty of sharing the fact that John turns 22 tomorrow. What did I get him? Funny you ask. I've got a picture right up there:Awesome scarf you've got there, John.

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You can't turn on the TV anymore without having to hear about how Americas economy is in distress and how we are one step away from a depression. Well now it appears that we might actually be going into a depression because prices are starting to fall in the consumer durables and non-durables markets. This is a great thing for consumers but a potentially bad thing for the economy. When prices

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I've been waiting since launch for this day. Fallout 3 on the PS3 was finally updated to have trophies today. As a bonus they also fixed some of the bugs... which is great because I'm actually going to play the game now instead of just staring at the case longingly. The question that this update and all non-multiplayer updates, brings up is "Why release buggy games?" when you know your going

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It's no secret that PlayStation Home Beta went public this past Thursday. I thought it was very lucky timing indeed because Thursday was my last finial exam for the year and I came home to my 42in LCD HDTV. I messed around with Home for about an hour Early Friday Morning and found as I suspected that Home is entirely meaningless. Yesterdays Penny Arcade summed it up nicely. I was expecting

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About two weeks ago, I purchased a copy of Vampire Rain: Altered Species off of Gamefly.com.It was an impulse buy even though I had been considering picking up a copy of Vampire Rain for a while. $10 for a game that came out less then half a year ago (on the PS3) was too good of a deal to pass up.I don't know what it is about games that get terrible reviews that make me want to play them.

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Earlier this fall I picked up a Japanese copy of Siren: New Translation at AnimeUSA. Siren: New Translation is the exact same game as Siren: Blood Curse except it was packaged for retail sale in Japan, instead of only being available for download as episodes off of the Playstation Network Store.Siren is a Survival Horror franchise in the vein of Silent Hill and Fatal Frame. It doesn't focus on

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Censorship is bad. Video games interestingly enough show a sign of going completely 180 from earlier censorship trends. In a recent event, Fallout 3 is being "de-nuked" for Japan. I haven't played very far into Fallout 3 yet. Why play threw the game, only to do it again when the trophy patch is released? Removing Fat Men and the option to nuke Megaton from Fallout 3 for Japanese audiences,

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I applaud MSNBC's efforts to cast light on the growing otaku subculture in the US, but Brian Alexander's article is very much off kilter.This quote by Patrick Macias“Among Japanese fans — the guys — it is a badge of honor to say, ‘We do not need real women; [these] figures are better, they do not talk back’” said Macias. “Americans are not there yet, but at the rate things are going, we are going

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I just finished GTA4's story missions. Why is this game so full of lose. The last mission was nothing but lame. I chose the revenge path, and I've heard that was the better of the two endings, but even so Jimmy is such a weak character to end with. After all this build up, and all this nonsense about moral decisions GTA4 does not let you make any significant moral decisions at the end of the

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So it's been a long time since my last post... I'm kind of distracted by my senior year of college. Yes this is a personal blog. I wish I could provide a service for society, but I don't have much to talk about that isn't already covered by everyone else on the Internet.So anyway, I've been playing my PS3 for awhile, and have loved most of it... but I'm so glad that games have trophies now. I

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This game is actually OK. But only if you download the control and dragon pack from the PSN store. It's a free download so that's not the worst thing in the world. I say this game is OK, because some of the mechanics are still terrible. Your dragon can shoot rapid fire like an X-wing... wonder why...You have to ram some enemies, and then shake to defeat them. You do this with "gun emplacements

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So I've no updated this in a while. I got distracted this summer, by the PS3, Oblivion, Beyond Good and Evil, and various other games. Anyway Perhaps I'll keep this updated from now that I have a stead schedule.This is my last year of college, and I've started it off with a bang. I'm taking 3 classes I don't really want to, but have to anyway. I thought I would enjoy Industrial Economics until

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So I finished Metal Gear Solid 4 last night for the first time. I beat the game at 12:50 and wasn't in bed till 3 because of how long the closing cenamatics were. It also like all the others had a twist ending, but it happened before the credits... or I should say during the credits... They ran a roll of credits and then put a video in the middle of it... and ran the whole 20 min credits after

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So I spent the last Week in the "happiest place on earth." It was great fun, the rides and shows are amazing, not because of being the biggest or fastest... most of the time, but because of how well themed they are. You enjoy them because they aren't just a steel skeleton in the middle of some trees. They look like they belong, they have a story, and they are wonderful to ride because of the

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Ok, so where to start.I bought Assassins Creed, and The Orange Box for the PS3, Assassins Creed wasn't worth the discounted $30 I payed for it. I enjoy it and it looks really good, but it's 100% repetitive, and some of the tasks such as finding the flags and killing templars seems impossible to complete with out a guide book. Sort of like the Flying Rats in GTAIV... 200 of them... hard to spot...

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So I finished my finals this past Wednesday at around 1:30. I didn't even up leaving UMW till thursday at 2:30, because of the last JADE event of the year. Which was worth it. We watched The Girl Who Leapt through Time, which is possibly the best movie I've seen in years, of any kind period. I must admit I'm a little biased because I love time travel movies by default, but this one was special

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I bought this game last week, and haven't been able to put it down since. I played most of Okami on the PS2, and loved it. I didn't know if the Wii version would be worth it or not, because I have played the game before, and I wondered if it could hold my attention, now that I know what's going to happen. Yes Yes it has. The game actually looks better at least in my opinion on the Wii, then

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Today was the 3rd Annual Walkathon for Honduras at the University of Mary Washington. This year we were walking for money to put orphans threw college. 5 miles around campus is a small price to pay for the potential challenge grant of $200,000 by the Sun Shine Ladies Foundation. According to the founder and CEO of Students Helping Honduras that would be enough to set up a grant to put every

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I just finished watching the last two episodes of Gundam 00 season 1. What an epic conclusion to an ongoing series.So much was unveiled, and so many characters killed off. I thought the battle was over then out of nowhere enemies showed up, twice.I can't believe how awesome this Gundam series is. The art is amazingly crisp and lovely, the characters are complex, and not 100% bullet proof. They

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Vampire Hunter D is an amazing franchise with two great movies and many great novels. I started reading the novels during spring break this year and have so far enjoyed every moment of them. Vampire Hunter D the movie is based on the first novel, so I had some idea of what to expect. I was floored by the first book. It surpassed the first movie in every way in my opinion. The movie and the

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So I just got back from the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC. It was really fun but really tiring. The food was good but most of the goods were out of my price range. I saw a Gundam CD from japan, for $44.50 which is a ridiculous price to ask. The sound track to the New Zeta Gundam movies is in no way good enough to warrant $44.50. I ended up buying a fabric something or other

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A year or maybe two ago, I stumbled upon this website called Gendou, which has an amazing collection of anime music. I proceeded to download all the opening and endings themes from all my favorite shows. I've since moved on to all the shows that the Club I am in have watched. It's really a great site especially because it's direct downloads with decent speeds. The UMW network has no problems with

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So, I just got an E-mail from the student Aid in the Economics department. All it included was this picture.Just to clear this up, I did not become an Economics major for the money. I enjoyed my intro economics classes and it seemed really intuitive to me. Money's not a good reason to major in anything. That said I guess the Business/Marketing majors who think Business is the way to make a ton

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So I just beat No More Heroes for the first time early this week... only to find out that once you beat the game you unlock a ton of new stuff to get in a second play threw. Needless to say I had to collect all the new T-shirts and concept art... Sadly I have to many games to play and not enough time...I started playing Earthbound Zero ("Mother" in Japan where it was actually released) earlier

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So i've never done this before... don't really know what I'm doing really or how to use the plethora of features available at my disposal now.So recently I've been watching more fansubs then usual. I've not really had the time... I don't really have the time now, but I seem to watch them anyway.Bleach is as good as ever... but I hope it doesn't turn into Dragon Ball Z... and just keep going and

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