Intrepid Homoludens

LOL!! I was kidding. But does remind me of names of characters in children's books.

M. It's often said to be more powerful than Metropolis.

That's....pretty.

Seriously, I'd rather read Descartes than watch a talentless Keanau Reeves look pretty on the big screen.

I don't really like Chipotle. They're healthy, yes, but it tastes wrong somehow. Might be how the spices are mixed, I dunno. I prefer to have a true burrito at the corner taqueria*, a more authentic one. No longer living in a large city, I miss that. *This was not a paid advertisement.

So umm, Kingsley Cunningham Kingz, how much is Chipotle paying you to include a link in your post? Anyway, I don't even think about it. If someone on the street needs help I am genetically programmed to immediately come to their aid (I was probably a fucking Boy Scout in a past life), it's really a no-brainer. But really, it depends on the situation. Years ago my sister was stopped by a young woman who was begging her to help her friend who 'had an accident' in an alley around the corner. My sister, being almost as street smart as I, smelled something suspicious and instead offered to find a cop nearby. The woman persisted but finally gave up and ran back into the alley.

It looks like an overgrown iPod wannabe.

I. Must. Not. Laugh. Suggestions: Smiley Lubberflegm Otto Asphiksia Ima Strokanoff Bubba Kissplump Ivan Nawstybone

Wow. Where do I send the money? Do I get a special prize for actually watching it all the way through?

A true minimalist lounge would only have the suggestion of the new Xbox in it.

Some of them are impossible to get, the ones that float all over the place. I just left off at the start of Napoleon's board game. Aw man, the levels just get more and more fucked up!

No thanks, Spaff. Last thing I wanna do after buying expensive hardware is to fuck with it. So THAT's how it works. Not all games are enabled to save onto memory cards. You'd have to look at the box where it's indicated. Project Gotham Racing and Tao Feng can be saved onto the card, but Psychonauts, KoTOR, and Jade Empire can't. I wonder if it has to with the memory storage capacity per card. Shit.

That's what I've been trying to do, but the 'copy' option isn't showing up at all.

Haha!! I left off in that stage actress's mind. I swear, it just gets trippier and trippier!

"Red buttons are the best!" "I sew them on my vest!" "If they break like the rest..." "The boys will see my chest!" "YAY!" That 'find the milkman' mission level was freaky. In an awesome way, natch! I loved the wigged out evil mom boss!

Good god, the game's been 'out' for what, 2 weeks now? And people are STILL waiting for it.

That reminds me of a similar story when I bought Xbox Psychonauts at Gamestop last week. While I was waiting for the manager to find the cd of the game for what seemed like forever (why the hell did they FILE the cd away in the first place? I should have asked him, "Hey, do I get discount on opened merchandise, man?"), a female CTA* traffic coordinator came in, obviously on her lunch break or something. She plopped down a game cartridge (I think it was GBA) on the counter and asked how much she could get for it. Well, I was looking at her and thought she must have heard you get good money for used games, although I was trying to get it out of my head that she may have 'borrowed' her kid's Gameboy cartridge that day. The clerk looked at the cartridge, went into the computer, and then told the lady, "Well, we'll give you 40 cents for it." The woman looked at him a few seconds, scooped up her kid's Gameboy cartridge, and walked out. I guess she wasn't able to buy her lunch that day. *CTA: Chicago Transit Authority - our bus and subway service.

Well, I guess I should go back and play some more....

Yep. Right or wrong. What are the most important things in one's life. The death of a loved one and what that means. Giving money to a charitable organizaion as opposed to giving it to a homeless person who just might use it for drugs. Things like that. And I'm still waiting for Kingz to recount his experience with talking to 'The People' and how it came about that he thinks that 'The People' are too stupid to discuss philosophy.

I can't. Because there aren't.

Sorry to piss on your parade, but IMO the art for the Psychonauts package is too muddy, predictable, and vague to get much notice on the store shelves. Conceptually it's really no different from many other box art. The formula is cookie cutter and is typical of the techniques you're taught in school - show the hero in the center with the supporting characters and villains in the backgound framing him. How is that different from a Harlequin Romance novel or any pulp sci-fi fiction paperback at the bookstore? Thus far, for me, there have been very few games with strong box art that you can spot from two aisles away. Hitman 2 has quite a strong visual draw in its minimalistic design, it communicates exactly what you're gonna get succintly, and its simplicity in design shoves it front and center compared to all the other overdesigned box art. Half-Life 2 doesn't need 10,000 things on its box, it's confident enough to draw on its past reputation and the strength of its hero, thus a more intimate, portrait style rendition of him, instantly recognizable, and again, very simple.

Excuse me? I am gay and grown up and if I had the money I'd get the PSP, you bigoted breeder trash. Besides, most Nintendo games I never gave a damn about. Too fucking cutsie cutsie for me, and I'm not a Resident Evil fan, and I don't care about Mario and his minions, and all that. Besides, PSP has the very sexy Wipeout Pure [drools].

This is the one I have (though the top main button is slightly different). And it's not even mine, it belongs to my little nephew. Since when the fuck do seven-year-olds have their own cell phones? He doesn't know how use it, of course, but he does know how to call his mummy and how to listen to the various musical ring tones. I only use it when I go into the city and need to call my sister to meet her so we can take the commuter train home together and drive home from there. Other than that I never use it. I don't 'do' cell phones. I'll be getting my own cell phone when I move in a few weeks.

Once you find the button, go to the store in the main lodge in the camp and show it to Cruller. I can't believe how much I laughed my ass off. When you find the feather use it on everyone.