Proof that others should be running my blog

Mere hours after the 'launch' of this blog, Jessica suggested an excellent link that I have failed to post until now because I'm kind of a dick. Anyway, here it is: the Gogo Yubari/Bride fight from Kill Bill dubbed with (not enough, if you ask me) Super Mario 1 and 2 sound effects. What I got from this that is amazingly clear now that I think about it is that as cool as Kill Bill was as a movie (or 2, or whatever), the best medium for this story is the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Up-to-the-two-months-ago tech news!!!!

I sort of forgot to "report" on this when I got it, but this is still as good as it was when it was released. I'm just going to assume that you guys don't read the other game-news websites.



I have the best screensaver of all time, not counting future screensavers that read your mind and display your fondest memories presented as breakdancing performances. And you can get it here, for free.



A little background, to help answer questions you may have, such as "What is this?", "What are you talking about?" and "Why is my life so unsatisfying?"




These guys, who call themselves Buro Vormkrijgers (I'm quitting linguistics, so I don't have to pretend I can pronounce that anymore) built a clock that is basically a wall-mounted screen displaying a game of Pong. Every hour, the left player scores, and every minute, the right player scores, so that the score is the time. To me, this seems like an electronic version of how the continuous movement of a regular clock's gears also happens to cause a time display on the clock face; I can't explain it without a bunch of hand-waving and "I don't know"-ing. But I'll assume you get why it's so cool, unless you are a horrible person who is dead inside.



Oh, and you can play Pong against the clock. This is good for me because there are some rooms of my apartment that do not yet contain video game systems, causing me to go for painful amounts of time with only as many handheld systems as I can fit into my pockets to sustain me. It would really help if there were some sort of emergency game on a nearby wall.



The cost is only 199 Euro, which converts to no fucking way dollars.



If you clicked the first link, though, you already know the best part of this: they also released the Pong Clock as a free screensaver, ensuring that nobody will ever buy their ridiculously expensive clock. If you have a fancy LCD or something you don't need a screensaver for, I don't fucking want to hear about it.

It's been about a year and a half since the DS's release. It's getting to be time for Nintendo's Buy the Same Hardware Againza!




Oh, look who has come along! It is just like a Nintendo DS only it looks like an Apple product! Small Apple devices sell a lot, right? This DS Lite should do well then! Actually, Nintendo fans are a lot like Apple fans, now that I think about it. They tend to buy every revision of the same item.


Not me, though! I only bought the original GBA, and the SP, and the DS! I'm a smart consumer!

No GB Micros for me! Until maybe Christmas, or if the price drops $20.




Oh, right, back to the exciting new DS Lite! It comes in colors! Oh no, is that a black one I see? That's exactly the design feature that I was holding out for. I mean, the whole "30% Smaller" thing is okay, and the adjustable screen brightness is I guess nice, but it's only the advanced "Being Black" capabilities that would cause me to uncontrollably throw my credit card at the screen before regaining my composure and buying one for every room of the house.




Oh, close call! Nintendo saves me from Ramen City with shitty colors.

By the way, did anyone notice how Nintendo made some fake GBA cartridges in coordinating colors so the bottom of the system wouldn't have an ugly grey rectangle in the marketing photos?



Oh... it's... a cover. I guess that's, uh, nice too. Honestly, I just keep a GBA game in my DS. I don't know why you wouldn't just do that with the...




Well, sorry I bothered you guys.

No! My Tetris DX score!

My beautiful seven-year-old Game Boy Color Tetris DX Score, 1,074,317 points (it was either 1021 or 1029 lines) died today. Cause of death: a poster on the Gaming Age Forums named nildem, who produced photographic proof of both a 1,318,705-point game and a 1,297,194-point game.

My assumed Tetris DX high score will be missed.