MrHoatzin

Life is good again.

I know.

Who doesn't?

My mother thinks everything I do is some sort of quaint distraction and that any moment now I will drop it all and opt to study law. This of course is passive-aggressively hinted at between long episodes of heartfelt support for all my ventures. So no. She doesn't read it. The few articles of mine she has read -- published here and elsewhere, on games and other things -- she has misunderstood due to skimming and the language barrier. That said, she would probably be very sad if she ever came upon all this random slurry bile. I seldom try to meet her half way. I don't tell her I am writing anything when I am. I don't show her my writing unless she insists. Plus, being a scientist, she has a completely different working english vocabulary and may earnestly misinterpret certain highfalutin words. And I think she is afraid I will live like a pauper as an artist/writer/whathaveyou.... I feel like shit now. Screw you all.

Does anyone know of some site that has trustworthy data on weekly, monthly, yearly, video game sales? Something that may tell me how Psychonauts is selling relative to Driv3r, or something like that. I know that Gamespot has that little thing they do at the bottom of their news page, but I want some sort of a better breakdown, if at all possible, with total unites sold and whatnot. Somebody ought to be keeping track of this shit.

Rarely do I watch a movie and think, 'I could've written this better.' Usually my opinions are binary, either it works as it is, or it doesn't. I feel like Lucas has fucked up an opportunity. Or three.

Why do they all lament the fall of Psychonauts? It was barely out for a month when they started singing it eulogies? Is 12912 units for the xbox version alone too little in the given time?

However if there is a convenient passage in the old testament for banning queer people from getting married, they'll use it without batting an eyelash.

There is more of a game in there than there is game in Half-Life or Full Throttle.And no, I am not seeing any slides either.

Wanged?HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH!!

Hmmm...

It is too fucking shiny, but I kinda like it. The arbitrarily-shooting-over-the-cover-while-remaining-hidden is a new moment, at least I haven't seen it in games before.

Oh, man! Oh, MAN! I stood in front of that video for ten minutes dumbfounded! It was so awful! Why did it have a canned laugh track?! What was it all about?! Why does Snake still walk like he crapped his pants?! WHy, oh, why?!

I think he was going for that Mark Twainism: "The works of great writers are like wine, mine are like water. But everybody drinks water," and then lost his way in the middle of the metaphor.

You're all banned, bitches.

No, but random bitchiness is rewarded by annoyance.

No way, motherfucker! This thing generates traffic and puts us higher in the google search.

Ron Gilbert, the male model and polar cap explorer.

Holy fucking hell, this thread has 11180 hits!

As a nose-in-the-air intellectual I am insulted. Pox upon both your houses!

I think it would be absolutely impossible to make expansion packs for this game.

Yeah. It is almost too bad we didn't get to see Spore at the Expo.

Like Spaff, for example, who in fact did.