Know this, Shol'va, I will see to it that you suffer slowly.

Aries' Prime: Know this, Shol'va, I will see to it that you suffer slowly.
Teal'c: And I will see to it that you die quickly.

If there's any MMORPG that I'm looking forward to, other than WoS (I hope) is Stargate Worlds. The show was just hilarious, and given their universe, there should be many possibilities for the game. Here's some concept art from io9.

Also listed on io9 is a pretty neat landscape of san fran using various kitchen utensils/silverware.

Rat-a-tat-tat

I wonder how many titles I can make that uses the word "Rat" in honour of the year of the Rat? Anyway, As I've had enough of RPGs for a while and want something quick, I picked up Taiko Drum Master DS as I kinda like rhythm games. And wacow, I think it's so much harder than Osu >< Unlike when I first saw the gameplay vids for Osu, I'm not confident I can approach ANYWHERE near this level: Taiko no Tatsujin DS - Tenjiku 2000, Oni, 100% hit, non-auto. So. Damn. Hard. T_T

Got Snow Cont'd

In addition to the link to some pics of the Sapporo Snow Festival I recently posted, here's a cool one posted on kotaku: Space Invaders Invade Snow Festival. Oh, and Happy New Year :)

Boom boom boom

I'm really loving io9 now - just today I saw a few pics of explosive goodness:
The Navy's Explosive Super Weapon Crushes Speed Records
When Nano-Wires Explode
Massive Detonation Leaves A Permanent Scar

On a separate note, I just finished FFXII: Revenant Wings and I am quite disappointed. I usually like most game endings, but for some reason this one was unsatisfactory. And it doesn't help that the gameplay was kind of annoying as you're essentially playing RTS on a tiny TINY screen with dumb AI (pathing to be exact, and no HOLD - wtf is an rts with no hold? stupid units running around...) Ah well, I guess I expected a better ending due to the barely tolerable gameplay. Hit up their site for some gameplay footage if you want. They do also have some nice artwork on the site.

Christobel wannabe...

I've always used the fact that I'm left-handed as an excuse for my poor drawings on my comp (as I use my mouse with my right hand)... Now, I don't have an excuse anymore, well sort of anyways as apparently there's a homebrew DS program called Colors! that's been out for a while and it lets you Paint in your DS, save the drawing AND playback your drawing step-by-step as well! Oh, and apparently you can email it from your DS as well, but I need a proper access point to test that since my router's a POS, and I think they're working on functionality to allow for collaboration on a drawing... So cool >< Anyway, here's a collection of drawings done by others. I basically tried to copy part of the art posted on Kotaku (before I saw the collection site has the actual file AND drawing history so I can review it later on :)) and have included it here:

Guess now that I can use my left hand to draw, I wonder how long it'll take before I can make something worthwhile...

[Edit]
I forgot to mention that one of my favourite games, Soul Calibur, is now adding Star Wars into the mix... Yes, you read that correctly! More info here from 1up. Man, with XBLA and this, soooo very tempted for a 360....

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! What better way to start it off than this interesting flash game: Cursor*10. Pleasant surprises are always good :P

So cool

Johnny Chung Lee is smart. But why describe with words when you can just see for yourself what he recently did: Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote.

Tales of the Past 3

In continuation of my last post, I finally managed to see Tales of the Past 3 of the Tales of the Past movies (blurb on wowwiki) and as I haven't exactly seen a lot of machinima, I don't have a lot to compare to. I don't even think capturing hordes of zealots in SC for our Dune project back in high school can even count. Anyway, since I now frequently check out Kotaku, I caught a glimpse of a blurb about a 90 min fan video of WoW... so obviously, I had to read on... After looking it up a bit, I decided to go for the whole 2.3gb dl as I was really curious what fan movie can last 90 min, esp. in wow... While dlding, I was able to watch parts 1 (~15 min) and 2 (~41 min) to get some background, and while they weren't the best, they weren't too bad either (besides, since I can't make one, I shouldn't really complain too much.) So finally comes part 3... Well, when he said think Advent Children, he wasn't kidding - it was literally wow+anime (there's even a mandarin song in there in addition to some anime music, lol!) Also, at times it just reminded me of DBZ, which may or may not be a bad thing :) Anyway, considering it's a fan film, it was surprisingly well made, though I'd guess that prolly only ppl who play wow will truly like it.

Wii stuff

Now that I've time to do some light reading, I've been doing a lot of browsing at kotaku recently. Here's a few Wii related things that I found interesting/hilarious:

Swarovski Crystal Wii Owners Can't Complain Ever
The Wii Brings Families (And Pets) Together
The Chinese Wii Rip-off TV Spot

They just keep coming...

Damn Internet.... Wyl sent me a link to a couple of hilarious WoW ads... and from there... well, I just killed off some time....

WoW Detox
Retro game tunes and MIDI art

[Edit]
Sir Chewcelot, this is for you: The Haruhi Dance in Prison (in color)

Gibberish

Wandering through the forest of my mind,
hunting for the elusive form unseen,
only driven by the question before you.
At times its true nature does appear,
mirrored on the canvas wrapped around me.
I wonder why it teases me so?

I guess the answer is simply I am me.

A friend just sent me this vid: Kiss Me (JP version) + Kingdom Hearts - not bad!

Future Sims?

A friend just sent me this link - U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi... I think this would fit in well with some form of Sims....

Maybe I should try solitaire...

As some of you may know, I'm not very good at Tetris... and this vid clearly shows I should play something I've a chance at (i.e. Picross or Sudoku...)

TGM 3 Tetris Arika !!! Invisible Tetris

Osu!

Hearing that I'm going on a trip to cosplay country soon, I started receiving some cosplay vids.

As I'm a blizz fan, of course I must link to: Blizzcon 2007 costume contest

Being a narutard, I found some of these to actually be quite impressive and/or funny:
The Best Naruto Cosplays
best naruto cosplay (part one)
Awesome Naruto Cosplay

And for those of you who're fans of Osu, you gotta check out
OSU! TATAKAE! OUENDAN! cosplay AnimeXD - linda linda. I've included a video of the game for reference: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan - Linda Linda(Hard) ALL 300.

Another interesting link sent to me is of how to make a laser microphone for espionage.

Come on, it's never the first one...

LOL, hilarious "trailer" for Minesweeper The Movie. Should check out some of their other vids (just look up elephant larry).

[Edit]
Oh, anyone interested in vg/movie soundtrack/trailer like music, definitely check out X-Ray Dog (wiki) and Immediate Music (wiki).

Classics

One of the vid I'm linking to is essentially a whole bunch of classic video game references all rolled into one and the second one is a speed painting of Bruce Lee... wow....

Q-Day needs more ppl...

lol, just a bit after the wsvg I saw 60 minutes with this segment:

Fatal1ty on 60 minutes.

[Edit]:
101 Greatest Simpsons Quotes.

WSVG 2K7 and Fan Expo

Anyone interested?
http://www.thewsvg.com/events/info/9/

EEE

Just checked out some vids from E3.... I think it's time to win me a 360....

Of the vids that I've seen, some notable ones are:

Naruto and Golden Axe on 360 and XBox Live Arcade.... GOLDEN AXE! (and naruto cause... well, I'm a narutard)...

Super Mario Galaxy looks fun (and confusing :/)...

but Echochrome and LittleBigPlanet for Sony's machines stood out the most imho. Their style would suit the DS so well... sigh, too bad :(

neways, with all of those classic games and movies being released on live, the 360 is looking ever sweeter...

The left hand DOES know what the right hand is doing

All I have to say is damn...... Ikaruga Final stage 2 ships 1 guy!!