If you can’t say anything nice… welcome home.
Tried to install Yellow Dog 4 today to a FireWire drive: left about eight gigs of “Free Space” after partitioning. The YDL 4.0.1 install discs, I was under the impression, were supposed to make this possible and maybe even easy. But I ran into a couple of issues:
More updates as I can make them up.
The best thing about new consoles are their new games, and as near as I can tell Pursuit Force has never come out anywhere else before. Of course a lot of the aspects look familiar, but hopefully it will be derivative in good ways.
I like that the star villains are called “Killer 66.” They must have kicked out the craziest twenty-two members.
Kheldar suggested to me that the PSP’s breakout puzzle hit Lumines was based upon an open-source game. I’ll be damned if I can find any open Lumines, but I did happen across this entertaining knockoff for Mac and PC [possibly being ported elsewhere]. Be sure to go to page three of the thread and download the update [it drops into the original folder and replaces lumines.exe], which fixes some timing issues and ups the difficulty a bit but sadly does not include a pause button.
It’s a throwback to the glory days of the PS 1. I abandoned Sweet Tooth and Calypso for Vigilante 8 and V8:Second Offense, so I can’t really compare this to Twisted Metal 3, 4, or Black. What I can observe is that the environments are expansive and detailed, if a bit dark. The cars seem to control all right. All the favorites are there from the git-go, although the thug who used to drive Thumper seems to have sold it to a Fergie lookalike, and it fires a series of fireballs instead of the hood-mount flamethrower. I don’t remember Roadkill trading in his steel girder for a boomerang, either, but it’s time for progress.
I haven’t taken time yet to play this in network mode, but it has to be more fun than trying to beat the latest iteration of Sweet Tooth, whose hook I will not reveal here.
So, from my Gmail account, I wrote to Bill and Jeff about tonight’s film society event. Gmail suggested this page in a frame adjacent to the message. I’m still not sure why, as we live nowhere near Red Bank, but my best guess is that it recognized the subject line I used — “Tonight, tonight, the street’s just right” — and provided a greeting from Asbury Park.
FWIW, we didn’t do anything having anything to do with improv, unless you count going to a later movie when we missed the showing we wanted first. As a general rule we are not stand-up comedy people, though I recently saw Jon Stewart live and would make similar exceptions for Mr. Show alumni or Courtney Cronin.
Longtime readers of this rag know that I hate when a company releases a bunch of rehashes for every new console that minces down the pike. However, I just received a PSP and I am wanting — nay, needing — some gristle for the mill. So far, all I have is Twisted Metal: Head-On, which I rented from Blockbuster GameRush near home [the regular Blockbusters have not yet hop't 'pon the PSP gravy train]. What I was thinking, as I perused reviews of the launch titles, is that this thing really needed a Syphon Filter game. Preferably a new game.
Jake 8-Bit came through for me today — I come home to find this post in my NNW. New Syphon Filter game next month! And GTA mid-month! Nice!
As for the PSP itself — the screen is beautiful. The unit’s a bit heavy compared to, say, the wife’s Game Boy Advance, but nothing I can’t hold comfortably for a couple-three rounds of Twisted. Holding off on the Memory Stick Duo purchase for a bit yet. Would really like to hitch my cart to at least a two-gig horse. On the other hand, I may have to start looking at Sony Cyber-Shot cameras now, just to maintain consistency in this household’s flash media.
Has anyone else written into them to tell them it wasn’t called Saturady Starcade, but Saturday Supercade?
THEME SONG:
Hey, it’s Saturday Supercade, come around,
we got your video friends together
Perhaps the writer was also fondly remembering Starcade.
I remember Saturday Supercade most vividly for an episode of the Donkey Kong cartoon in which Mario, chasing Kong, somehow gets a giant kettle dropped on his head. The resulting 15-odd seconds of staggering was, to my young mind, the funniest cartoon physical comedy I’d seen.
On this page, they mentioned the Space Ace cartoon series, but not the Dragon’s Lair show. In keeping with the interactive-cartoon nature of the arcade game, each act would conclude with the narrator offering Dirk a choice of paths and asking the viewer “what would YOU do?” After the commercial break, they would then show Dirk taking the wrong path and buying the farm, and then — NARRATOR: “but if you chose the mountain pass…” — the story would continue.
Does anyone else remember this stuff, or did I grow up in an alternate Mobius where Robotnik won and took things over?
I have been doing this for years. Around here we don’t call it a “man date” and get all self-conscious about it, we call it the Sepatown Detroit Film Society ["Sepatown" after an affirmative Pootie Tang uses in conversation -- I think]. Granted, we wind up eating mostly at bars, but still. Often there is a movie involved. Occasionally up to five members of the society attend a meeting, but more often than not it’s just me and Bill. Maybe it’s just because we’re in Detroit and not New York, but I have never gotten the urge to drop my mug and make out with Bill. I believe Bill will echo these sentiments.
Please remove the Last Name pronunciation. ONLY Japanese users should fill this.
[- Apple Certifications site, when I tried to put "Like it sounds." in the 'Last Name Pronunciation' field. Hey, it said it was required only for Japanese users, but it didn't say others couldn't fill it in.]
Recently, quietly, Google integrated the satellite imagery from their Keyhole subsidiary into their Google Maps service. Although similar services have been online for years through both Microsoft and Acme, this is the first time it seemed so fast and seamless.
For now, you can only link to an actual address. Between that and my fading memory, this is the closest I could manage to right smack in the middle of Walt Disney World. Scroll up and to the left to see the Magic Kingdom and the Seven Seas Lagoon; scroll down and to the right to see Epcot and the Disney/MGM Studios. You may see a message that says that Google doesn’t have photography for this location, particularly if you zoom in; try again later, I’ve seen the entirety of both the Magic Kingdom and Epcot. [Hint: Follow the elevated monorail track between the MK Trans&Tix Center and Epcot's front door.]
I bet you could see a lot of other amazing places from above — sadly, Times Square isn’t all that impressive, but the Grand Canyon is pretty cool. An original bpdw.commentary No-Prize goes to the first guy to the Great Wall or that one Saudi airport that was carved out of a giant block of solid gold.
