I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
Get directions and/or tickets from PushPush Theater.

Nextly,
Thursday night @ 9:00pm
Pleaseeasaur performs at the Drunken Unicorn! Scheduled to open for P-saur is none other than The Attractive Eighties Women. This is a show that will surely go down in history as having actually happened! P-saur and AEW go together like guns and bullets, or rats and vampires.

If you missed P-saur the last time they came through town then you've probably not been warned about how Totally Cool Cobras can be despite the fact that it takes them several days to die sometimes!

Lastly,
The New Nintendo Wii comes out Sunday!
My birthday was at the beginning of this month. I have forsaken all gifts in order to roll-over my birthday into the purchase of a new Nintendo Wii. Here's hoping I can grab one on sunday! Nintendo has been reporting that they've exceeded their expectations in the number of Wii units they've manufactured, this means that hopefully I won't have to step on your face come sunday morning to get one. But be warned, I will step on your face if I need to, and I love you guys! THAT'S how important the Wii is!

Just imagine, by this time next week we could all be playing Nintendo together.
I'll be all like, "Would you like to take a turn with the Nintendo Wiimote? Also, how is your face healing? Sorry about that."

It's the legend of Zelda and it's really rad.

those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad...

only 2.5 more weeks until the new Nintendo Wii launches!
also, happy birthday to me today.

I got a crotch full of quarters

This is one of the coolest costumes I saw floating around the internet this morning. This guy's costume was a PLAYABLE Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet. (via metafilter)

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
Get directions and/or tickets from PushPush Theater.

Nextly,
Thursday night @ 9:00pm
Pleaseeasaur performs at the Drunken Unicorn! Scheduled to open for P-saur is none other than The Attractive Eighties Women. This is a show that will surely go down in history as having actually happened! P-saur and AEW go together like guns and bullets, or rats and vampires.

If you missed P-saur the last time they came through town then you've probably not been warned about how Totally Cool Cobras can be despite the fact that it takes them several days to die sometimes!

Lastly,
The New Nintendo Wii comes out Sunday!
My birthday was at the beginning of this month. I have forsaken all gifts in order to roll-over my birthday into the purchase of a new Nintendo Wii. Here's hoping I can grab one on sunday! Nintendo has been reporting that they've exceeded their expectations in the number of Wii units they've manufactured, this means that hopefully I won't have to step on your face come sunday morning to get one. But be warned, I will step on your face if I need to, and I love you guys! THAT'S how important the Wii is!

Just imagine, by this time next week we could all be playing Nintendo together.
I'll be all like, "Would you like to take a turn with the Nintendo Wiimote? Also, how is your face healing? Sorry about that."

It's the legend of Zelda and it's really rad.

those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad...

only 2.5 more weeks until the new Nintendo Wii launches!
also, happy birthday to me today.

I got a crotch full of quarters

This is one of the coolest costumes I saw floating around the internet this morning. This guy's costume was a PLAYABLE Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet. (via metafilter)

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
Get directions and/or tickets from PushPush Theater.

Nextly,
Thursday night @ 9:00pm
Pleaseeasaur performs at the Drunken Unicorn! Scheduled to open for P-saur is none other than The Attractive Eighties Women. This is a show that will surely go down in history as having actually happened! P-saur and AEW go together like guns and bullets, or rats and vampires.

If you missed P-saur the last time they came through town then you've probably not been warned about how Totally Cool Cobras can be despite the fact that it takes them several days to die sometimes!

Lastly,
The New Nintendo Wii comes out Sunday!
My birthday was at the beginning of this month. I have forsaken all gifts in order to roll-over my birthday into the purchase of a new Nintendo Wii. Here's hoping I can grab one on sunday! Nintendo has been reporting that they've exceeded their expectations in the number of Wii units they've manufactured, this means that hopefully I won't have to step on your face come sunday morning to get one. But be warned, I will step on your face if I need to, and I love you guys! THAT'S how important the Wii is!

Just imagine, by this time next week we could all be playing Nintendo together.
I'll be all like, "Would you like to take a turn with the Nintendo Wiimote? Also, how is your face healing? Sorry about that."

It's the legend of Zelda and it's really rad.

those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad...

only 2.5 more weeks until the new Nintendo Wii launches!
also, happy birthday to me today.

I got a crotch full of quarters

This is one of the coolest costumes I saw floating around the internet this morning. This guy's costume was a PLAYABLE Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet. (via metafilter)

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
Get directions and/or tickets from PushPush Theater.

Nextly,
Thursday night @ 9:00pm
Pleaseeasaur performs at the Drunken Unicorn! Scheduled to open for P-saur is none other than The Attractive Eighties Women. This is a show that will surely go down in history as having actually happened! P-saur and AEW go together like guns and bullets, or rats and vampires.

If you missed P-saur the last time they came through town then you've probably not been warned about how Totally Cool Cobras can be despite the fact that it takes them several days to die sometimes!

Lastly,
The New Nintendo Wii comes out Sunday!
My birthday was at the beginning of this month. I have forsaken all gifts in order to roll-over my birthday into the purchase of a new Nintendo Wii. Here's hoping I can grab one on sunday! Nintendo has been reporting that they've exceeded their expectations in the number of Wii units they've manufactured, this means that hopefully I won't have to step on your face come sunday morning to get one. But be warned, I will step on your face if I need to, and I love you guys! THAT'S how important the Wii is!

Just imagine, by this time next week we could all be playing Nintendo together.
I'll be all like, "Would you like to take a turn with the Nintendo Wiimote? Also, how is your face healing? Sorry about that."

It's the legend of Zelda and it's really rad.

those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad...

only 2.5 more weeks until the new Nintendo Wii launches!
also, happy birthday to me today.

I got a crotch full of quarters

This is one of the coolest costumes I saw floating around the internet this morning. This guy's costume was a PLAYABLE Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet. (via metafilter)

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
Get directions and/or tickets from PushPush Theater.

Nextly,
Thursday night @ 9:00pm
Pleaseeasaur performs at the Drunken Unicorn! Scheduled to open for P-saur is none other than The Attractive Eighties Women. This is a show that will surely go down in history as having actually happened! P-saur and AEW go together like guns and bullets, or rats and vampires.

If you missed P-saur the last time they came through town then you've probably not been warned about how Totally Cool Cobras can be despite the fact that it takes them several days to die sometimes!

Lastly,
The New Nintendo Wii comes out Sunday!
My birthday was at the beginning of this month. I have forsaken all gifts in order to roll-over my birthday into the purchase of a new Nintendo Wii. Here's hoping I can grab one on sunday! Nintendo has been reporting that they've exceeded their expectations in the number of Wii units they've manufactured, this means that hopefully I won't have to step on your face come sunday morning to get one. But be warned, I will step on your face if I need to, and I love you guys! THAT'S how important the Wii is!

Just imagine, by this time next week we could all be playing Nintendo together.
I'll be all like, "Would you like to take a turn with the Nintendo Wiimote? Also, how is your face healing? Sorry about that."

It's the legend of Zelda and it's really rad.

those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad...

only 2.5 more weeks until the new Nintendo Wii launches!
also, happy birthday to me today.

I got a crotch full of quarters

This is one of the coolest costumes I saw floating around the internet this morning. This guy's costume was a PLAYABLE Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet. (via metafilter)

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
Get directions and/or tickets from PushPush Theater.

Nextly,
Thursday night @ 9:00pm
Pleaseeasaur performs at the Drunken Unicorn! Scheduled to open for P-saur is none other than The Attractive Eighties Women. This is a show that will surely go down in history as having actually happened! P-saur and AEW go together like guns and bullets, or rats and vampires.

If you missed P-saur the last time they came through town then you've probably not been warned about how Totally Cool Cobras can be despite the fact that it takes them several days to die sometimes!

Lastly,
The New Nintendo Wii comes out Sunday!
My birthday was at the beginning of this month. I have forsaken all gifts in order to roll-over my birthday into the purchase of a new Nintendo Wii. Here's hoping I can grab one on sunday! Nintendo has been reporting that they've exceeded their expectations in the number of Wii units they've manufactured, this means that hopefully I won't have to step on your face come sunday morning to get one. But be warned, I will step on your face if I need to, and I love you guys! THAT'S how important the Wii is!

Just imagine, by this time next week we could all be playing Nintendo together.
I'll be all like, "Would you like to take a turn with the Nintendo Wiimote? Also, how is your face healing? Sorry about that."

It's the legend of Zelda and it's really rad.

those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad...

only 2.5 more weeks until the new Nintendo Wii launches!
also, happy birthday to me today.

I got a crotch full of quarters

This is one of the coolest costumes I saw floating around the internet this morning. This guy's costume was a PLAYABLE Pac-Man Arcade Cabinet. (via metafilter)

I was born to give and give and give.

I like the new Weezer album.
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)

I don't love it. But I really like it.

This is Weezer's sixth album, but only the third to be given a color. I'd love to be able to say I've broken the Weezer code... Then I'd tell you that those Weezer albums that are assigned colors (Blue, Green, Red) are more in line with a "traditional" style of Weezer music, and that the intervening albums are experimental indulgences. That would be really interesting, but I'd just be making that up... I think.

The facts are: Like the other color albums, this album does a good job of giving me the type of Weezer songs that I enjoy listening to and singing along with. Even if that's something Rivers Cuomo likes to make fun of.

"Everyone likes to dance to a happy song
with a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along"

It's still true. Three songs off this new album are currently available as tracks for Rock Band on Xbox and PS3. I haven't gotten them yet, but you can bet I'll buy them tonight. I'm really looking forward to singing along to the catchy chorus on The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

Also, I know it destroys my theory, but Pinkerton should have been a color album.

Also, also, we should have some news next week about the play RP and I wrote for Dad's Garage titled - FWD::

Block Smashing Cake Action

While reading this Boing Boing post about a multi-teared multi-tiered video game console wedding cake it reminded me of the super awesome Groom's cake that my friends made for me when I got married.

I sent the photo along to the guys at Boing Boing and they made a post about it. I wouldn't have had this great cake if not for the hard work of Matt, Jackie, Nat and Sharie. Thanks again you guys!

Exploded View

Still trying to find a Nintendo Wii?

It's hard. People are still lining up at Best Buys and Targets just to get a Wii off the next shipment! Here is the site we used to figure out where to look for ours. You put in your area code, and it tells you when stores near you are rumored to get their next shipment, and how many. The accuracy of these are not always 100%, but it's better than trying to get info out of Best Buy employees, who are corporately TRAINED to LIE to your face ABOUT EVERYTHING.

It's still next to impossible to find extra controllers for the Wii! In the meantime, why not wear this T-Shirt bearing the Wiimote in exploded view! [via infendo]

Secret Collect!

Our friends, neighbors, and insanely talented indie cartoon makers at Homestar Runner have retooled a couple of their old flash games to make them 100% Wii compatible.

Just point your Wii Opera browser to www.videlectrix.com/vii/ and have some Wiimotey fun.

Secret Cry: Annoyance

If you own a Wii and love shootem' ups, I advise you to STEER CLEAR of Far Cry: Vengence. It'll only break your heart. I got this game as a much anticipated Christmas gift. Despite some so-so reviews concerning it's lack luster graphics (snore) I found the game to be super fun to play.

Until it broke.

Far Cry for the Wii has bugs so bad they make the game unplayable. This is not an exaggeration. My game is stuck at a loadpoint that locks up my Wii... Every. Single. Time. No fixes, no work arounds, nothing.

The crash is so bad that I have to unplug my Nintendo to get it to restart. I'm even afraid to play the game because of the damage it might be doing to my Wii, and yet I keep trying to get this level to work because I've enjoyed playing the game so much.

Here's some advice for Ubisoft, the developers of the game:
Next time, put your game ending, system crashing bugs at the beginning of your games. That way, when I'm forced to stop playing because your game is so poorly designed it won't be as big of a deal.

Lastly, I sincerely hope Ubi gets their shit together. I believe the Wii version of this game was rushed to be completed, and even then, as a total afterthought. I believe that the makers of Far Cry: Vengeance thought the Nintendo Wii was going to be a joke. Now that everybody is squawking about how bad ass the Wii is, I only hope that Ubi hasn't alienated all it's Wii customers with bad versions of great games.

I can tell you though, this customer is all but lost.

I sent this tale of lost love to the great Nintendo weblog Infendo. The site is run by C-dub's friend and old band-mate Blake. Blake was kind enough to link to us.

You've got the goldeneye kid...

Back when the Nintendo64 was still putting up a fight against the original Sony PlayStation, me and all my nerdy friends used to play a game based on the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It came out right as I was going away to art school, and we spent many late nights playing the first real 4 player shoot'em up. Seriously...we were obsessed.

The game was so good, and so popular that we played it well after the Nintendo64 had pretty much ran it's course. Even when all the best games where being made on "Compact Discs" we still plugged in that clunky cartridge and had the times of our dorky lives shooting each other. The game is considered by most gamers to be a classic.

With The Nintendo Wii's super successful "virtual console" (a part of the Wii that allows you to buy and download classic games from years gone by... Like The Original Zelda!) everybody's been asking when GoldenEye will make it's triumphant return to the Nintendo. Well it's complicated.

The company that made GoldenEye, Rare, was bought by Microsoft. They're dealing with their own next-gen console the Xbox360. So the possibility of them being really, really nice and letting Nintendo have the rights to GoldenEye looked pretty slim. Honestly, could anyone blame them for not helping the competition?

However, recently the President of Nintendo America went on the record as saying:

"Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we're exploring all the rights issues."

as well as:

"the pain is worth the gain"

wow... Game Companies are actually listening to their customers and are trying to give us what we want? To their credit, Microsoft has fully supported Nintendo's handheld system the DS. And with Sony being such jerk faces, Microsoft has actually been looking like the good guys lately. So maybe this'll actually happen!

Wii're excited

The Wii in Review:

We waited in line for much of saturday to make sure we could get our hands on a shiny new Nintendo Wii the second they were released. We realized that we could have probably gotten in line a couple hours later than we did. But we ended up being fourth in line, so we were happy to stay put.

And so it went... at about 12:05am on sunday morning my Special Lady-Friend (she waited with me, what a lady!) and I walked out of the store, our hands heavy with a newly purchased Wii.

Clearly Nintendo has ripped off Apple's style... Shiny, white, and candy-coated. While I am usually the first to balk at design mimicry... If you're going to do it, at least rip off the best. What this translates to is a very clean set-up and unpacking experience with the Wii. Opening the package and taking out the two individually numbered boxes was a thrill. Each sub-box is labeled with a smartly designed icon of all the Wii parts that box contains.

If you are not familiar with the new system, it uses an innovative "Wiimote" instead-of / in-place-of a controller. You point the Wiimote at the television like a laser pointer. A small hand on screen tells you where you're pointing. Within seconds we were making stuff happen. A few moments after that, we were swinging our virtual tennis rackets in WiiSports, the collection of 5 games that came included with the system.

Sunday Evening we were able to accumulate enough Wiimotes so that we could play 2 on 2 tennis! Four people standing in the space station living room swinging little shiny white remotes at the television was pretty hilarious, not to mention ultra-fun. To our utter joy most of the WiiSports games seemed to match our movements perfectly. However, I've found that you need to find each game's "sweet spot." Meaning that you need to play the game the way the game wants you to play it. Trying to get WiiGolf to recognize your spastic excuse for a golf swing won't get you very far. (Havens... I'm looking at you, and laughing. Have another drink why don't you)

Honestly I could go on and on about playing the Wii, but I'll spare you. The system is tight, the games are great... (I've been playing the new Legend of Zelda and it's just awesome, and I've only just gotten to the first dungeon!) If you are unsure about the system, I say go play it somewhere. I have a feeling that after you try tennis you'll be sold. Being the cheapest next-gen game system out right now doesn't hurt the Wii's greatness either.

It's a big Week!

Firstly,
Wednesday night @ 10:00pm
Matt Chapman (of homestarrunner.com) will be the guest monologist for The Doug Dank Project @ PushPush Theater. Matt will bravely deliver monologues that will then be used to create complicated tightly-woven* improvised scenes performed by highly trained improvisational professionals. (*guaranteed)
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