Outlaw’s Angry Dome

Aaah…Apollo Justice is finally out.  I’m so glad to finally be able to play the latest installment in the Ace Attorney series, even if it’s with a brand new scrub attorney.  It’s nice to see Capcom’s writers still haven’t lost their touch with people named things like Olga Orly (Oh really, Ms. Orly?).  Not playing as Phoenix is a little strange and actually seeing his sprite other than in court is also strange.  I’m really anxious to see what happened to Nick’s career in the seven year gap between the third game and this one, but I guess I’ll just have to work my way to the solution.  Hopefully he didn’t get in trouble for inappropriately touching Pearl…

I rented Zack and Wiki from Gamefly this week.  It’s really, really fun but….IT’S FUCKING HARD!   I spent an hour tonight just doing one level.  I would either run out of chances to get the puzzle correctly, or die from an enemy attacking me, or accidentally destroy an item that was crucial to finishing the level.  It’s good to have a challenging game on the Wii for once but damn, it’s driving me nuts.  One problem I do have with the game is the damn bell ringing mini-game.  The fucking Wiimote doesn’t respond correctly to me shaking it like a bell making notes ring too early, too late, or not at all.  Still, I hope Capcom is already working on a sequel.

Today was Super Tuesday, and my first experience voting.  I voted for Obama in the primaries - I can’t help but vote for a black guy - and no on most of my state’s propositions other than the Indian gaming ones.  I don’t get why so many young people are so lazy about voting.  It’s not like it’s hard or takes a lot of time; are people really so unconcerned abut who will be running the country for the next four years?  Hopefully there will be a larger young turnout this year as a backlash from eight years of Bush hating.  We need to take control away from all the old people that make horrible decisions for us.

 Zzzzzz……oh I’m sorry, did the Super Bowl Halftime Show end?  Why did Fox have to choose to be ultra-safe with the halftime show this year?  I understand trying to avoid another Nipplegate, but breaking into the old folks home to drag out Tom Petty and the Heartbreaks is going too far.  First of all, I refused to believe all those good looking college students would really be that excited at a Tom Petty concert without 6 beers in their system.  Secondly, the group sounded like their dentures fell out.

Perhaps this was all just another advertising stunt for Fox.  Tom Petty does voice the character Lucky (shown in the picture) on King of the Hill.  With the Ryan Seacrest red carpet event and the Paula Abdul performance clearly advertising American Idol, I wouldn’t put it past Fox to just use the halftime show as an opportunity to plug another one of their creations.

Break out the chips and guacamole, tomorrow is the big game! Not the Super Bowl of course, but the Puppy Bowl. I’m not much of a football fan so I spend most of the Sunday flipping around whatever filler the other channels show, and I’ve been watching the Puppy Bowl since it started in 2004. There’s something so mesmerizing about watching puppies fight each other for three hours while accompanied to smooth jazz music, and the addition of the Kitten Halftime Show only sweetened the deal. Does this make me less of a man? Probably. But a bunch of men smacking each others asses and grinding each other isn’t the most manly thing either.

20

Ok, the internet has it all now.  How many five year olds could you take in a fight?  I know they’re annoying, but who really needs to know how many of the little buggers they could kill?  I don’t even think I could take 20.  Kids that age have those little hands with death grips and sharp fingernails.  This number may come in handy for teachers during 1st grade uprisings though; they happen all the time in public school.

Today, I passed someone walking down the street carrying a ghettoblaster playing Snoop Dogg.  Not only is this unusual because it’s not 1983, but it’s strange to see a black person on the west side of Los Angeles.

Anyway, that brings me to my rant.  Attention all people that think we, for some reason, want to hear the music you like.  We don’t want to hear it.  Don’t walk down the street with a boombox, don’t play grainy mp3s off your cellphone in public places, and don’t drive down the street with your radio blasting and your windows down.  There’s a reason headphones were invented.  And to those of you that use earphones?  Turning them up so loud that everyone within half a block can still hear your music isn’t helping.  I really can’t wait for five years from now when you’re legally deaf.

The topper to this music rant is that my damn headphones broke today, after only two months!  That was not worth my $20.

I’m tired and a little uninspired today, so instead of doing a real blog post, here’s another Half-Life 2 video about 100 different ways to die in Garry’s Mod.  I especially like any method with numerous explosions for no apparent reason.  Watch out for attacking melons!

So according to Google, today is the  50th anniversary of the Lego Brick.   Legos used to be my favorite toy; my parents once bought me one of  those 2000 brick sets, and whenever  we went to Toys ‘R’ Us or Pic ‘n’ Save, I would always get a small vehicle kit to fool around with.  For a while my favorite PC game was actually Lego Island.  I don’t know what it was about that shitty game, but I spent hours and hours driving my pizza scooter around.  If I recall correctly, I did everything that could possibly be done probably five times over.  I even almost named my dog after the main character.  Perhaps my old love for Legos is what made me get into Perler Beads and Pixel Blocks.  Building something big out of a lot of small things is just fun, no matter how old you are.

Ok, so The Simpsons hasn’t been as funny the past few years. But you have to admit, that made you chuckle a little. Frankly, I’m surprised they even added Amy to that picture, she’s not exactly well known. I can almost hear the frantic typing of Sonic x Rouge/Sally/Cream/Tails/Shadow fangirls angrily yelling on message boards about how wrong that picture is. Be careful Matt Groening…you just angered an internetload of furries.