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Dream Journal: March 11, 2012
Dream One
I’m hungry. I ask my mother what there is to eat around here, to which she replies in her finest ebonics, “well shit my [negro]! get yo’ self some motherfuckin’ corn dogs!”
Dream Two
I’m back in school. My assignment for the day is to take abstract philosophical concepts and to represent them in simple shapes. My drawing of the concept of God looks like Pac-Man.
Posted in Dream
Santa Clarita
I recently spent some time in Santa Clarita, California. Honestly, it was pretty boring and if I ever return to California I’ll go somewhere fun instead.
Here are some photos that I uploaded to my Google+ account. Of course, I realize that nobody will actually use Google+ until Facebook goes through a serious PR nightmare or loses all its money, so I’m also posting them here.
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Posted in Pretty Pictures
Dream Journal: April 23, 2012
I’m back in my old high school English class. What’s different about this class is the fact that Bryan Danielson is one of my classmates. He leans over and tells me that he’s engaged and that the wedding will be happening sooner than he thought. I am insanely jealous of this unknown lucky girl and give Bryan the silent treatment.
Posted in Dream
Retail Memorabilia part one
Years ago, I worked for a certain Large American Retail Chain. At said Chain, those of us in the electronics department would get various merchandise from vid con vendors. XBox 360 pins and Playstation 3 lanyards were the standard fare. Except for this one time where we got a lanyard promoting Rogue Galaxy, of all things. Maybe one of these days I’ll get around to playing it.
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Posted in Pretty Pictures, Vid Cons
Dream Journal: April 13, 2012
I’m having sex with singinglions dot tumblr dot com. However, I am interrupted by an unknown person and asked to drive to a local pharmacy.
Posted in Dream
A photo comparison of Rainbow Islands
After the smoldering pile of shit that was Ai Cho Aniki, I needed something to play that wouldn’t make me feel massive amounts of Nerd Rage with a slight twinge of Real Rage mixed in. So I started up a new game in Dark Souls, only to stop when I realized that it had been taken over and co-opted by a racist, homophobic and misogynist fanbase who drop tired internet memes at the drop of a hat to the delight of absolutely nobody. I will probably do a write-up on this at some point.
After that, I went through my ROM collection. Mostly a lot of Taito’s bright, rainbow colored, unintentionally gay-friendly puzzle-platformers that had excellent ports to the PC-Engine. Stuff like Liquid Kids and The New Zealand Story are fun as hell and absolutely adorable, but it’s mostly Taito’s other series that gets the most of my love. That of course is Bubble Bobble, the brainchild of the late Fukio Mitsuji.
To get right down to it, I’ve spent a lot of time lately playing the various releases of Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble II. I played them, then decided to take screenshots and give my impressions on which version is the best. This is not exactly an exhaustive list, mind you; I don’t have a reliable Amiga emulator and if you think I’m going to play anything on the fucking ZX Spectrum then ha ha ha ha
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Posted in MAME, Pretty Pictures, Vid Cons
A review of Ai Cho Aniki (Masaya/PC-Engine, 1995)
I’ve finally gotten around to playing Ai Cho Aniki. It seems odd that it’s taken me this long, especially considering that in the eyes of every mainstream vid con website there is, Cho Aniki is the de facto title that gets thrown around when homosexuality in vid cons are concerned. And as a gay man who likes playing vid cons, I can see why this would be the case. Forget about all those awesome gay characters in Persona, or Nier, or Fallout: New Vegas or Deadly Premonition (the mainstream sites have), I want to see a couple of ugly, exaggerated body-builders shoot laser from holes on the top of their heads all phallic-like. That’s what’s hot! The fact that my sexuality is so closely tied to something that in its native Japan is labeled as “Kuso-Ge;” literally, “Shit Game,” is pretty cool and certainly not remotely offensive in the least and it is most bewildering why I haven’t gotten around to playing this sooner.
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Posted in Vid Cons
Dream Journal: Entry for February 14, 2012
I’m in a job interview. During the questions, my qualifications are brought up. The interviewer tells me that I seem to be capable enough to do the job, but then adds one more question: How good am I at NBA Jam?
Does this answer your question, Mr. Imaginary Business Owner?
Posted in Dream
Goodbye, Metal Gear Online
The news is out. On June 21st, Konami is going to shut down the servers for Metal Gear Online, the multiplayer add-on to Metal Gear Solid 4. It was an add-on riddled with bad design decisions, dodgy netcode and was so full of rampant cheating it made the PC port of Modern Warfare 2 look good by comparison. I can’t imagine that it will be missed once it’s shut down.
Except maybe by me.
I admit, although I haven’t played the thing in over two years, I have something of a soft spot for MGO. Metal Gear Solid 4 was the pack-in for my Playstation 3, so this was the only vid con I had for a long time. The few matches I had that weren’t loaded with hackers and idiots trying to get around the text-based censorship (turning “fuck” into “****” as an example) were quite fun. All the wackiness of Metal Gear was on display; running around inside cardboard boxes, laying down porn magazines to distract enemies, an entire button dedicated to saluting. It was certainly unique.
As I sit here, typing this out, I currently have Metal Gear Solid 4 sitting in my PS3′s disc tray, downloading MGO’s final update. I think I’m going to run around and do some matches for old times’ sake. Either it will be the fun, cardboard box running times of old, or it will be the laggy, getting headshot through walls glitch abuse times of old. Regardless, I think I might actually miss this. At least we’ll still have Peace Walker’s online play.
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Posted in Vid Cons
An update from yesterday
Source: CNet
In response a great deal of criticism and controversy, Reddit has decided to ban the posting of sexually suggestive or exploitive images of minors.
After years of dealing with child pornography on a case-by-case basis, the social news site announced today that it would ban all subreddits that focus on the sexualization of children. Beyond obviously illegal content, the large amount of content in a legal grey area eventually convinced the site’s administrators that its previous policy had “become unsustainable.”
“We have changed our policy because interpreting the vague and debated legal guidelines on a case by case basis has become a massive distraction and risks reddit being pulled in to legal quagmire,” the company said in a statement titled “A necessary change in policy.”.
The move was in response to a wave of criticism on the site community chat boards over a subreddit called r/preteen_girls.
One user wrote of the controversy:
quote:“My guess is it’s similar to /r/jailbait, a mix of photos from creeps lurking around on Facebook, from the seedier corners of the Internet, and a few tamer photos that could be seen in /r/pics. It might not be illegal, but it sure as hell is disturbing, and might break the ‘Don’t post personal info’ rule.”
Reddit administrators shut down a “Jailbait” section last October after explicit images of a 14-year-old girl were posted to the section, which had more than 20,000 subscribers. The subreddits are created and moderated by users.
The decision to ban sections that focus on child sexuality wasn’t an easy one, administrators said, adding that child pornography is “toxic” to Internet communities.
“We understand that this might make some of you worried about the slippery slope from banning one specific type of content to banning other types of content,” the site’s statement said. “We’re concerned about that too, and do not make this policy change lightly or without careful deliberation. We will tirelessly defend the right to freely share information on reddit in any way we can, even if it is offensive or discusses something that may be illegal.”
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