Check this out - Monkey and I saw Episode II on a system like that, and if you can possibly wrangle it, I'd recommend you see it (or see it again, perhaps) on a digital screen. That shit be mad crisp. It was like they had a gigantic monitor in the theater.

I cried during Episode II.

I saw the greatest Ad Council banner ever the other day on Planet GameCube, and I just wanted to share it with everyone. Sublime!

Extra flavour.

The latest strip is up. Coolest Dad ever? By comparison, my own father is like a drunken, toothless hobo gumming a hot dog.

Oooooooh.

Hot damn. I'd definitely watch that again, and not out of some twisted sense of Star Wars loyalty, either.

Some of you may remember back in March I mentioned that Kara had purchased a very special anniversary gift for me. I was to be the proud owner of a Hyper 64 mother board. Well the package never came and after some unsuccessful attempts to resolve the situation with the post office I had basically given up all hope. Today as we were heading out the door one of my neighbors came by with a package for me. He told me it had been delivered to his place by accident back in March and he had just forgotten about it. Well I opened it up and I’ll be damned it it wasn’t my Hyper 64.

Okay, one more thing: Brenna got the rest of her tattoo, which you can see here at the Monkeycams. On a scale of Hot to Super Hot, I'm going to call this one a "God Damn."

Just got this in my mail.

I knew I was forgetting something.

When the whole console price war was just a blasphemous rumour - and really, a rumor that's been around awhile - it didn't really warrant a strip yet. With only one player left to act, it's probably time we chime in. There's an interesting article at MSNBC about the whole thing, which you are welcome to think of as an appetizer.

Writing reviews is like pulling teeth for me, like pulling my own teeth with no help and improvised tools. Here's your Xbox Controller S review. I'm going to try to get this second one out, but I wouldn't put much stock in it. My keyboard and I seem to be fighting.

The Neo-Geo got mentioned on Slashdot today. I started to scroll down through the comments and immediately saw emulators mentioned. I quickly closed my browser window and took some deep calming breaths. I am not going to have this argument today. I am not going to have this argument today. I AM NOT GOING TO HAVE THIS ARGUMENT TODAY!

Sorry for the lack of posts. I honestly didn't think anyone would care if I skipped a few days. It turns out many of you were interested in hearing my thoughts on the poor Star Wars Episode 2 reviews floating around. I'll tell you Thursday after I see it. Oh and for those of you who have already seen it, please stop filling my mail box with spoilers.

• Invasive Advertising: This is fascinating stuff, I almost wonder why it took them so long. Seriously though, article guys, listen. You're calling these pieces of advertising software that install themselves via known security holes - viruses, essentially - anyway, you're calling them Malware, and that is a pretty stupid name. I don't even care that you didn't come up with it. Why not Warewolves? Or maybe Badvertising? That took like five seconds.

• Strange Horizons: I think it's adorable when people use the term Speculative Fiction, it seems like a code-word catch-all for geek shit. Well, Strange Horizons is a weekly journal of that, and I've had some pretty good times there - John Scalzi (whose Agent To The Stars you might have read recently) dropped Alien Animal Encounters, but that's only one example. They update every Monday, but if you've never been there before, it doesn't really matter what day you go. You haven't seen it anyway.

• Cartoonist's Choice Awards: If I recall correctly, last year's Cartoonists Choice Awards were a sort of front for the Keenspot Awards, or at least any reasonable person would have assumed that from the list of nominees. If you are a cartoonist, they are seeking out your favorite online works in a handful of genres, like "Best Something Something" and "Best Stuff." We turned down our nomination last year as one of the Best Gaming Comics - you are welcome to call me a fucker for it, but I don't have any intention of vying for position in a genre I helped create.

• World RPS Society: Yes, they do mean Rock, Paper, Scissors. I had After Dark 4.0 for my 5300 where I used to work, and you can bet your ass I spent the whole day watching wily Rocks do battle with Paper which was also doing battle with Scissors at the time. Hone strategies with he world's best.

• Roadies: I'm always hearing that people from Britain or whatever need to be boiled right away, when really, I think that's something we can put off for a bit. I mean, who would make Flash games like Roadies, which is itself a sublime combination of Lemmings and The Incredible Machine?

• Ludology: From the site - "Ludology is a new discipline that studies games in general and computer games in particular. Here you will get news, opinions, upcoming conferences and links to articles." Well, yeah. That sounds like a site I want to go to.