Evil Avatar linked to a splendid Pinball demo, and now I'm, um... Linking their link.

Zoid Kirsch - creator of the original CTF for Quake, currently working at Metroid Prime developer Retro Studios - took me to task for talking about the Metroid Fusion ROM the other day. Gabe didn't say anything about it, but I'm certain he took some time out to leer.

I have been a proponent of Opera for a very long time, I've just liked how clean it felt. As it turns out, it gets even cleaner.

Revolting continuity.

Just got back from Jackass, and I know you aren't supposed to like that show if you're smart or whatever but that's the best Goddamn eight-fifty I've spent in recent memory.

I always thought I sounded a bit like Sean Connery. Then the guys at PGC did this audio interview with us. Now I realize I don’t sound anything like Sean Connery. It’s more like Vin Diesel really.

Natural Selection drops tomorrow night. Might be a good time to brush up on the manual.

Kara and I got it this morning as well. Kara is a huge fan but personally I’d say it’s the only game I could actually fall asleep playing. YAAAAAAAAAWWWN...

A lot of the fundamental geometry of the game is fairly dated, coming as it does from the past, but it looks better than I remember. Facial textures have taken a step up, and even dingy urban environments manage to be colorful. To say that load times have been "improved" over the ponderous DC original is a feat of understatement. I can't tell you how happy I am to be playing a Shenmue game again. I had feared that I wouldn't find myself taken by it, that I had perhaps amplified the original beyond reason or measure. Thus far, this has not been the case.

People keep hurling this ROM at me, and since my morality gland is largely vestigial I snapped it up.

I was thinking about some more Tony stuff.

I don't know if it's some kind of spam prevention mechanism or what, but it appears that Gabe can only send 500 messages or so per day from his e-mail account. I don't think they tell people about that limitation, as most people won't brush up against it - as soon as you send number 500, it places a twenty-four hour moratorium on sendings.

If I told you that Gabe kept hitting me with a tube he fished out of the dumpster - pausing briefly to consider the precise ferocity quotient his next strike should embody - well, that's not likely to reflect on me favorably. Please envision a scenario that doesn't make me look like a total pussy.

I stopped going to IGN about a year ago after one of their many re-designs. It seems that each time they get a bug up their ass to overhaul their website they make it harder and harder to actually find any content. So I probably never would have seen this review of Clone Wars by Cory D. Lewis had Tycho not been kind enough to bring it to my attention. We always joke about how terrible most reviews are. The rating systems are usually completely worthless. I mean, if you ask your buddy what he thought of a game he doesn't say "It's about a 7.8". This latest review for Clone Wars only served to prove our point. Cory D. Lewis delivers more mixed messages in this review than a teenage girl on her first date.

My friend/admin Webjester hooked me up with this Dinky Bomb game, whose mechanics should be familiar to anyone down with Worms. Anyway, Dinky Bomb is free, free, free, runs in a browser, and is Internet capable. So yeah.

Gabe was out of town this weekend visiting family, and since his parents have that digital shit he was able to check out the G4, Gamer TV thing. He apparently quite enjoyed the show that had no people on it. Once he saw the actual people, he became feisty - hence the strip.