Sunday,September 07, 2008
Friday,September 05, 2008
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links for 2008-09-04
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Excellent animation on Adult Swim, just so happen to be on when I was flicking through channels in the hotel room. :)
Thursday,September 04, 2008
Tis my B-Day!
It's great getting Facebooked with Happy B-day wishes from all my friends from my Sun, Propylon days and friends from college. It's great. Got the "old skool" HB wishes via emails, SMS' and also just saying it to me person to person. Got tweeted as well. Heehee. It's great to be connected to friends who I have not seen for a long time and who are in different parts of the world. Technology, huh! :)
Oh, and I purchased Photoshop CS3 (after Mick had problems with his VISA again, he forgot to tell them he is in the States for another week, VISA is getting annoying at this stage). One thing, I checked the receipt and they had my email address, it's so freaky. I got back and I got the receipt via email from Apple. Efficient and freaky...
links for 2008-09-03
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Alteil is a story-driven online card dueling game with art by Japan's most talented fantasy artists!
Tuesday,September 02, 2008
links for 2008-09-01
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"Animation needs man's drawing hand, which is why I will continue to use the pencil for as long as I can." - Miyazaki
Monday,September 01, 2008
Looking back at PAX 2008
From the overwhelming amount of people attending PAX this year to my utter disgust at Freezepop's inability to perform without your ears bleeding to immense pleasure of witnessing Gabe's artistic talents at work in creating Monday's panel (which unfortunately won't be seen till Gabe's machine is fixed, but that's ok as I have a video of it to remind me what it was like, and you can check out the photo of the final image at the make-a-panel). Who can forget the many, many DS' and laptops shining out during the gig, and Jonathan Coultan's act was fantastic, the Portal song and the Zombies were my highlights. Audience participation is a must for full enjoyment.
From phrases like "Whooo-oo" to "Yea-aah!" to "Awesome" was the main vocab for some odd reason. It's not like nerds/geeks are not educated or anything, it felt like they are either rednecks or surfer dudes (and yes, dude was mentioned somewhere out there).
The moment of Jerry tying the mic chord around Mike's neck to get the Pacman watch given by a fan was funny, Mick did not get a shot of that, we'll need to wait for the PAX 08 DVD to come out to see that again. Another thing I've never experienced before (apart from it being my first time at a gamers convention) was the use of PictoChat on the DS. It's fantastic up to a point where people were populating it with wangs and arses. Although I was happy when I drew (or tried to) a stick figure version of the portal slide and got Portal responses from the people around.
And finally some pics from PAX can be found at here
Sunday,August 31, 2008
You know you are at a gamer's conference..
...when everyone played Rockband in expert mode!
PAX 2008 so far
It's fun reading what Kotaku has written from where they have been in PAX so far, but I'm surprise that they did not get into Fallout 3 demo. There are a few jerks milling around PAX, but you have to remember, that there are more than 60K wandering around the main convention centre and across the road where the table top games are. So it's the minority, but somehow it's the minority that sticks in some of what you remember. They normally heckle, draw wangs and arses in DS' Pictochat, and walk into you without apologising (my brother found that they think that they are larger than you that you will get out of their way, and yes). Mostly, people around are normal people having a good time, some dressed up in their cosplay finest (one as Yumi kindly took a pic with my brother in exchange for a badge, if you collect enough of these special PAX badges you get some free swag). Beanbags are everywhere, I have not succumb to sitting on these yet, or else I would not have moved at all if I did.
I think the main thing people will remember are the long queues. It's was over 5 hours accumulated on Friday, was not so bad on Saturday, 1 hour for Fallout 3. I did not bother queuing for Jonathan Coultan's or PA's signing.
Friday night's gig was good apart from the shagging Freezepops! They suck donkeys, the main singer, she was trying too hard to be a punkish, while the music was retro 80s. As Mick puts it, the music was cute... for the first 10 minutes. It was grinding after that, and we had to endure one and a half hours before Jonathan Coultan came on stage. It was so bad, people were leaving the gig, at least that meant we were able to shuffle closer for Coultan's gig (aside from the ears bleeding from FP). I'm glad Kotaku did not like them either. Oh, the first performers, Oneups were quite good, it's just funky, jazz covers of games music. They had vids of the games on either side of the big screens.
Now all I have to do is pick out some pics and post them up on Flickr (they are on Mick's account at the moment).
Friday,August 29, 2008
Wednesday,August 27, 2008
Monday,August 25, 2008
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In Seattle, baby!
Right, so it's raining when we landed.... ro-ight. Hmm, so much for not believing Seattle's weather is like Ireland's. It was a bit bumpy coming in for landing, but who cares, I'm in Seattle counting down to PAX this weekend! Staying in Hotel Max, and the bed is so comfy! After a 9 hour flight, it was a welcome sight, and felt like heaven as well. Oh, if only I found the Seattle Tour Map online earlier. Got it from the hotel, not too bad... now for brekkie and find that information centre.
