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90% of Idle Thumbs staff succumbed to Moledina's Curse at GDC '08.
We have new content.
Owning an Xbox 360 and not buying and playing Rez HD is against International Law and all other known laws - national, natural, spiritual, physical, metaphysical.
M.C. Escher is not an MC.
We ran out of facts.
Tommy Tallarico has a guitar.
"Some may find it hard to classify Shenmue. However, Yu Suzuki did not. He came up with the genre of FREE, or Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment."
The DS has a temperature meter.
Zipatoni uses their experience to arm brands with strategy-fueled, market-leading ideas that transform marketing dollars into market share and revenue.
Eastmost peninsula is the secret.
McDonald's is the EA of food.
It's amazingly easy to make a Hitler Mii.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi has not played Full Throttle or Grim Fandango.
There are no words in your language.
Goths never fly first class.
Calling a game event "Game On", Level Up, Next Level, or using GAME or PLAY as acronyms, should be made punishable by death.
Capcom has a studio called Nudemaker
Tetsuya Mizuguchi taught Marek how to kill a man with one blow.
After 1984, Peter Molyneux went back to the computer industry to create more floppy discs.
Amazon.com sells a surprising number of unicycles.
Tim Schafer made my girlfriend cry
If something smells it's probably the Buttz.
Ben is the best Wii player in the world, according to Nintendo officials.
In Poland, Koopa means "shit".
Chun Li should NOT have a tiny blutack penis.
CliffyB says the best place to show off any game is in a dark room. You need something more intimate. (Marek read that as "darkroom")
Sony = Toilet, a French toilet where shit costs $600.
We're too cynical.
Mobile phone games are the only video games that can be played by a fish.
Sonic is 15 years old now. He is still Jailbait.
Bears can smell menstruation.
No woman can resist the charms of a Mario.
Together we consume games, digest them, and then eject them forth as wasteful excrement, having absorbed all that is good from them.
Sonic the Hedgehog is an enzyme.
You can turn grass into a whistle, if you have thumbs
In the Netherlands you don't make a call, you "Bell" someone.
The founders of Berkeley Systems also started MoveOn.org.
There is actually a game for grannies, based around finding your cats who've been captured by goblins who rub them together to make electricity. It sells exclusively to women who are over 60.
You are not a ludologist until you can spell Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi.
Doug ended up sitting in on the Will Wright-presented Spore demo that was crashed by Miyamoto.
Space Ghost stole Doug's chicken at the GameTap party.
E3
We ain't afraid of no ghost balls-kneeing robot.
Hating E3 is significantly more hip than liking it.*
* It really is bad though. I'm not even just saying that to be cool I swear.
Spaff is really good at Animal Crossing DS. He is one of the highest scoring AC players in the world.
Marek embarassed himself by forgetting the name of his ISP
Marek couldn't swim his way out of a barn
Tim Schafer's animal is a prick.
Dr. Kawashima hates the allergy season.
Marek's mom thinks the Xbox 360 balloon fight TV ad is for "condoms or something".
Easyjet do not have a weight restriction on hand luggage 'within reason'. You are not allowed take an Xbox on board as hand luggage.
You can maximize your luggage allowance on budget airline flights by packing: 4 slim PS2s, OR 4 gamecubes, OR 16 DS lites, OR 1 xbox (with controller).
GDC reminds you why you love games, E3 reminds you why you hate them.
John Romero's new massively multiplayer game should really be called a ROMMOERORPG
Guitar Hero is the most fun that Tommy Tallarico had with a strap-on all year.
Having a press pass to GDC is possibly the best thing ever.
At GDC, Marek had an encounter with David Freeman, author of Creating Emotion in Games.
50 Cent: The Game might be a shit license, but The Game: The Game would be worse.
Ron Gilbert ripped a mushroom swish at the most recent IGDA meeting.*
*Fact subject to verification
Idle Thumbs sometimes publishes articles!*
*Fact subject to verification.
The Meat Second is the amount of time it takes for an animal to become a piece of meat after it is slaughtered.
Doctor Robotnik's character design is based on Theodore Roosevelt in pajamas.
Marek has gotten really bored with the Katamari Damacy internet meme.
Thumbs is not afflicted by video game fatigue. (Source: New York Times)
Only 500
Rez Absolute Sets exist in the world. Idle Thumbs owns one of them.
Rusalka MAY die by the age of 21
Rusalka will NOT die by the age of 21
Sainsbury's Homebase is home of plant pots, desks, and ovens. It is also one of the only stores in England that had Xbox 360 in stock today.
Playstation 3 will not have a small nuclear reactor inside.
Bad games (*ahem*Shadow the Hedgehog*ahem*) affect the world we live in, including wildlife.
In Italy, Mario and Luigi are Japanese people.
A gamer is defined as someone who has played video games in the last six months on any platform, including interactive TV (iTV).
Everyone on Xbox Live is a dirty child molesting paedophile.
Look at Peter Moore's face in that Quote of the Moment I mean just look at it.
People play Iron Man far too often during long Guitar Hero sessions.
A video report of Idle Thumbs at E3 2005 exists, somewhere.
Guns don't kill people, hedgehogs do.
Xbox 360 lets you "watch your photos of b-boys and breakers, and also your honeys"
It's "Videogames," you plebe.
It's "Video Games," you wanker.
Idle Thumbs is linked on a billion porno sites. FREE MATURE THUMBS! Now we've made it worse.
Psychonauts will be released next year in Europe
It's SEGA Europe's Xmas party today — FREE BOOZE!!!
Today is Satoru Iwata's 46th Birthday.
...but this chicken comes with a side dish... of the supernatural!
James Bond never smiles.
(this may not be a fact)
SEGA Europe employees have been given xbox 360s prior to the official release date
Yoda man.
Mario Kart tricked Marek into going to McDonald's.
Cats sometimes dream that they are people
Idle Thumbs is a huge gaping ass full of delicious candy.
You can't spell "Grandmaster Flash" without "Grandma."
It's eleven minus one, plus two, minus one, it's eleven!
In Angelique Duet on the DS, you play as a new candidate for Space Queen, where you must take part in the final exam which will test your abilities for queendom.
Bummed in the gob
One of the Thumbs staff played the Nintendo Revolution.
Sin Episodes looks like Half-Life 2 with some added color.
A starving child in Africa will go hungry because your mom feels guilty about serving you too large a portion at dinner.
All the Idle Thumbs staff, plus some of their girlfriends, ex-girlfriends, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, friends, family and co-workers, exist as NPCs in Pokémon. Except 'Rusalka'.
When you put down one mother, you're putting down mothers all over the world.
He's off the case.
I like the cut of your video jib.
It's no longer Halloween!!
Spaff spent Ł15 (fifteen real pounds) on a Faith No More t-shirt.
Dodongo dislikes smoke.
StarCraft Maps are fun to make and are cool to play!
Warcraft gives you the chance to play as an undead character!
Wizard needs food news badly.
There is a princess in Burundi named Kamatari.
The funniest thing to say with those old Apple text-to-speech converters is "My name is Chester the molester."
Nintendo is not dying. HERE'S PROOF.
Paperboy calls it quits.
Marek touched J Allard
Microsoft just called Marek to tell him to get his ass over to X05. Woot.
You know you're up too late when you check BBC Weather to find out when sunrise is.
X05 is happening a five minute walk away from where Marek lives, but he's not invited. :(
One or more of these people does not care about LucasArts any more.
J Allard just got a vinyl printer and is making up stickers.
Snood is shit.
Microsoft and Nintendo are both having their birthday today. MS is 30 years old. Nintendo has been around for 116 years now.
You're less likely to die from playing Lineage than you are from getting hit by a truck.
The sun can give you skin cancer, but Mario appeals to gamers and non-gamers alike.
Sit-ups are bad for you, but video games make you a better surgeon.
Blanket statements are dumb
S.C.A.T. is significantly less okay by Christians.
'Scat' is okay by Christians.
Christians give Golden Showers a THUMBS UP!
In the original Mario Bros. game for the 2600, Mario was a Carpenter.
A "megabyte" is equal to one million bytes, in the same way that a "Mega Man" is equal to one million men.
By law of Sony a memory card is never full, it merely contains insufficient space.
A "piqu" is a tightly woven fabric with various raised patterns, produced especially by a double warp.
"Squip" is the sound of a man putting his cock in a Boglin.
Musical saws are also known as "The Lumberjack's Lady."
A hilarious piece of information awaits you here.
This is not a fact.
Marek 'Von Bismark' Bronstring is visiting Idle Thumbs UK
The dot-com economy is apparently still pretty pricey, but affordable if you all pitch in together.
Dr. Mario is in the house! His prescription? KOs.
ItsameaMario, letsago.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
Possible alternate names for this site in its design stage were:
1) GameBitch
2) ANGRY FIST
3) Gameslol
The Feed Burglar burgles no more.
1) There's Nascar Heat and Tonka Town.
2) Stuntman makes my head spin 'round.
For fudge: 16oz Chocolate Chips + 4Tbs Butter + 14oz Condensed Milk. Melt in double boiler until smooth, pour into buttered 9x9 pan. Cool completely.
The sequel to Feel the Magic: XY/XX will be called "Where do babies come from?" in Japan.
A pot roast is surprisingly easy to prepare if you have lots of time.
Caffeine is your friend.
Playing cs_assault is a lot less awesome when the server's custom sounds are lines from Beavis & Butthead ... in German.
You cannot skin a ghost!
Ben Andac is one year older today... at the stroke of midnight!
Walter will write at least one article by the end of August.
Yufster's mother wants to know how to download and apply the GTA 'Instant Coffee' MOD, out of "curiousity".
At Comic-Con, Chris got his DS signed by the Penny Arcade guys, and Gabe drew Twisp (the one with the hat) on it.
Last night, I had a dream about being a ninja. Seriously. I scaled walls and chopped heads and this one time I hung upside down. I was extreme.
When Alex makes a game, he's going to make all the music himself, with his mouth.
Sometimes our facts suck.
There is a secret verse hidden in the poem.
I'm a mechanical man.
Nick has never seen the movie 'Gladiator' starring Russell Crowe, but he has seen the classic TV series 'Up Pompeii'
Commander Keen aka Billy Blaze aka William Joseph Blazkowicz II is the grandson of William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz, the Allied secret operative from Wolfenstein 3D.
In a deck of cards, the king of hearts is the only king that doesn't have a moustache.
"It's a fact. Wine from big bottles lasts longer."
My flatmate just got his hand stuck in a radiator...
Microsoft hires jugglers and stilt-walkers for their summer parties. None of them are dressed as Bigfoot.
Some pockets aren't actually pockets, they are merely decorative flaps.
It sucks more being at your parents' house on a Friday night.
It sucks being at home on a Friday night.
I just met... netmonkey - Jake.
The Green Giant, he's just a big... green... giant.
Metallus has started playing Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates again. Weep for him.
OMG
I just met Robert Garriot - Spaff.
The Nintendo Seal of Quality isn't made of real gold. Don't try to scrape it off.
Metallus was stopped and fined for speeding today; the officer who brought this reckless youth to justice was called Officer B. Savage.
It IS actually possible to run fast in big red sneakers.
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Thumbcast 08
Wiiiiiiii this is the wii podcast! Plus: Gears of War is for noobs, and Viva Pinata is nothing like Animal Crossing. |
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Thumbcast 07
A brief look at PS3 and Wii launch hype, discussion of gaming shows VideoGaiden and 1UP Show, the mario rap, and more. |
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We discuss Tetsuya Mizuguchi's perpetual state of jetlag, the closing of Lik-Sang, the closing of Clover Studio, and possibly other bonus closings. |
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It is not as bad as it seems, because the voltage is quite low.
