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<rant> So I finally get my paycheck yesterday. I am ready to buy stuff! So I head to PSN and say yes, I would like to buy Deathspank. Problem: I can't change my country. I'm stuck on USA. So the billing information doesn't work. Okay, fine. Create another account. Problem: <country name here> isn't listed. So how am I supposed to buy Deathspank? I have a credit card with a <country name here> address stuck on. They've been driving me crazy for the past 3 hours. There's no way I can get around this. Ugh. Anyone know a way around this? </rant>

For the record, I play those old games, but I'm not hipster. Or nostalgic. Or...older than 21. My point being that there are people who actively seek things they like, no matter how old.

Since we're all basking in the glory of the Vaselines, here are songs off albums the members did afterwards. They're all really good. Just, you know, different to the Vaselines. I don't know why they're not as popular. Lack of Kurt Cobain's endorsement, probably. For now, here's some Suckle: l5ZkLdFM_7Q G0MMAhAvw84

In celebration of one of my favorite bands releasing a second album (21 years after their debut! It's as old as I am!), I'm putting up three songs. One is their new single. The last two are old, but like all of their music it's completely classic. i1zMx4Eltbo njFD-zE4Qro s5omrkrW3bk And finally, as a special fourth in this trilogy of songs, here is Eugene Kelly playing one of his songs with Nirvana, at Reading: OremaRZJhCc

Patent for stuff by Ueda and co. "User-generated layout". I sometimes think Ueda resides in my brain, scribbles down ideas I get and then does them.

As far as I know, it's real. I thought it could be the same cloud because it's in Finland and, as far as I know, happened in the same time frame as the concert Kolzig referred to.

Yeah, glad you guys are alright. Was it this particular cloud, by any chance?

In all fairness, that Comic Book Guy mentality's always been prevalent probably just as much in the past as it is today. Anything truly great will immediately grab their attention. Ebert described it perfectly here, '"Attention" means silence...when the film deserves and earns it. I once saw "Silence of the Lambs" with a chattering audience looking forward to a "horror movie." In ten minutes, the audience was mesmerized.' I'm probably talking about "great" in the let's-put-on-a-show sense instead of philosphical-and-deep - meaning more like, I don't know, Harry Potter instead of Moby-Dick - but my point is that an audience needs bait. You could try thinking of it the other way round: the audience isn't being sneery at the game, but maybe they can't be bothered to try and engage with it, and with so much choice out there they simply move onto the next thing with the hopes it'll engage them better. They haven't got their noses turned up, they're just bored.

Just fo' clarification, I do mean cute in a good, complimentary way. It is cute. I just tend to dislike the word. It feels girly. This post courtesy of me realizing my last post could be misinterpreted as sarcastic in tone.

Nothing worked. Went to the bank, they're being jerks. I don't suppose anyone here wants a game on Steam that's priced anywhere from $15 to $20? I'll gladly buy you that game if you can gift me Deathspank. PM if you're interested... PS: And I really do mean that you want a game, and want it now. $15 (because that's Deathspank's price) up to $20 (because it's only fair that you get paid a little extra, I guess). Remember: Steam. For some odd reason, GOG won't let me buy stuff from them either.

I used to be, but then life screwed me over and cast me into Jordan. Soon as I get back on my feet I'm out of here for good. 'grats, dude! I've never lasted that long with someone. Plus the coffee/Koffing thing (the Pokemon? Shameful that I had to Google it, and I used to be the biggest fan of the original 150 when I was 12) is super...cute, really. I hate that word but it's the best way to describe it.

Just woke-up from a starvation-fuelled dream. Thought I'd write it down while I was still sleepy for reference later. I always have the best dreams, so I want to remember a random one. - Was at a bookshop, seeing if I could get Scott Pilgrim. They only had the "novel novel" version, which was a badly-novelized cash-in, written backwards, right-to-left, so you'd read the last page on the right ala a manga. This was called Hipster English. - Ended-up at Carleton University, where almost everyone had gotten so fat they sandwiched 72 floors (not flights of stairs) in between the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Computer Science building (for anyone at Carleton, Herzberg). They gave us orange pips (infinite amount), and asked us - including me, the guest - to unlock an achievment called "All All All". This meant we had to go to the dozen or so pot plants on each floor and throw three orange pips each inside the soil. - Flew away over an icy river on a cloud, listening to "Holiday" by Scorpions and reading soliloquies from Hamlet. - Somehow ended-up running into my girlfriend. Was kissed. - Woke-up feeling terrible. Glanced at open laptop screen. Realized I'd dozed off from the hunger and the heat. Wrote this.

Wtf? Ugh. So, what. I live in Fnarg, so I can't buy PSN games? Am I not allowed to get excited for shit now because it's on PSN? The fuck is this.

I wonder how illegal it would be for me to create a Canadian PSN account...

I'll look into that, but I'll do it as a last resort. Aiyee, karamba. This backwards world is run old school dinosaurs. Someone explain how stupid this is to Sony.

While I didn't like the Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone as much as Blink, I do think they're good episodes. I'm looking forward to seeing next series, especially that they have a bit of leg-room to play around in. We'll see how it goes.

I can sympathize. I lived with an otaku for a year or so. I absolutely detest anime because of the experience, even though I've barely seen anything (saw Death Note all the way through and then a bit of Ergo Proxy).

Have you seen Moffat's run of Doctor Who? It's miles better than Series One (with the Ninth Doctor). His individual episodes trump almost everyone else's.

Heh, that got a chuckle out of me this morning. But just in case other people think I'm being stupid again, I just mean it in a figurative sense: let it grow on you. It's got a certain appeal to it.

Tasha's work is a little bit more animation-oriented. She was at Pixar, for example, and was responsible for all those wonderful facial expressions in Brutal Legend. I can see why people might dislike the look of the game, but I know that feeling when I dislike something initially but see a certain appeal when I squint my eyes and suddenly get it. It'll probably and hopefully grow on you. Personally, I'm all for it.

Yeah, I was watching my girlfriend play through Grim Fandango the other day. I'd forgotten just how clever and constantly inventive the writing was. Fantastic plot, excellent characters, and dialogue sharper than a freshly constructed nail. Anyways, I'm very excited about this game. I like the cutesy characters and the concept seems right up my alley. Should be fun to play this Halloween (seems like they're aiming for an around Halloween release). I like this kind of Deathspank-ish like game.

I recently read this book, partially because of Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent, partially because of Sean Vanaman's neverending love for it, and partially because the opening sentence grabbed my attention "the way only a testicle squeeze can" - IGN.com. Thou art shall read it. Opening chapter excerpted here.

I guess I just don't get what he wants. Is it money? Does he seriously believe he'll suck the dry teat of anyone who has the word "edge" in their work's title? Do movies count? Or is he just an attention whore? I miss Jack Thompson. Anyways, I'm hoping he succeeds because I then want to trademark "the". Maybe then I'll trademark "Tim" and "Langdell". Maybe "then" and "maybe". Fuck, I'll even trademark the letters a, e, i, o, and u. You will call me god. And then pay me for copyright infringement.

I've seen the first two episodes of Mad Men. Someone had rented the DVD, so I used-up my free time of the day to watch. Quick thoughts: The writing is very impressive. They know who these characters are and write them accordingly, even if the misognyism of everyone is a little heavy-handed in the first episode. I would have made one or two scenes a little more subtle, but for the most part I was very impressed. The reveal at the end - that Draper had a family - just made that character for me. He was impressive to begin with - he's the good guy, if an asshole - but that rounded him up a little for me. Joan was another character who I found myself thinking about. Is she really helping Peggy? Why does she think the way she does and what brought her to this stage? What I don't like, however, is that the characters seem to exist for one reason: their job. Let me explain: up until the moment one of them said, in the second episode, that he liked The Twilight Zone, I couldn't see many of the side characters as anything but Business Executives, that omnipresent suit that internet forumers like to blame for the death of all art (you know, The Man). I need something: do these people read books? Do they watch movies? Have they ever been bowling? Or do they just work all day, drink all night and rape the girl at the prom (which they half-jokingly imply they've done)? Anyways, there's a lot to say about Mad Men's first two episodes, most of it good. Right now I've run out of time (ugh, final exams; the worst), but I'll post my thoughts if I feel strongly enough about them to share when I see the rest of the series. That won't be for a while, though, because this arrived in the mail, finally:

I've been watching Steven Moffat stuffs recently. For those of you who don't know, Moffat's a BBC writer who's done everything from Press Gang (TV drama about teenagers) to Coupling (autobiographical sitcom about a staff writer whose wife cheats on him). At one point he began writing episodes for Doctor Who. He's done a spectacular job on almost every episode he's done, and a very good-to-great job on the others. He became head writer on series 5, and it's far, far superior to the only other Who series I've seen (the new first one, with the Ninth Doctor). He recently co-created the updated Sherlock series for the BBC ( ).See his stuff. He's ace. See Sherlock. Much more true to the original source material than the recent Robert Downey Jr. film.