Some mother fucker stole my Toaster Strudels at work and I hope they choke on them or even better have a heart attack. BTW they could just asked I would of let them have one don't just take the whole thing that's just bull shit.

Edit: happy birthday JMickle.

Going to ouro preto in a few hours

going to birmingham tomorrow

this is a bit later than you're referring to but the nintendo power issue about pokemon stadium (i have it at my house for some reason still but i can't find a pic online) had this cover (or maybe it was art in the article??) where the pokemon did look like clay even though they were cg (i guess????) and i'm pretty sure most other covers were like this too.  this is what i immediately thought of when you said clay because they never quite looked CG but they didn't exactly look like anything else either and it was always very weird!

i really miss the days when nintendo power determined the bulk of my video game purchases.  it sounds weird from today's standpoint but i mean nowadays i don't even hear about anything but the main games coming out (call of duty again: this time it's serious).  i mean with the internet i should hear about MORE games but instead i just hear less!!!  at least with GW if something like deadly premonition comes along i'm aware of it but nintendo power would have a fucking list of almost every game coming out for their systems the following month.  i'm not aware of games other than halo call of duty w/e coming out unless i am in a store and happen to see them or unless it's something like ghost trick where yeah it's not one of the huge franchises but there's enough excitement around it to have seen it on joystiq.

but when i was a kiddo it wasn't like this at all, i mean you still knew what the big games were because nintendo paid more attention to pokemon or donkey kong or mario but they reviewed everything.  i can't remember the name but there was some game where you played a big fat redneck (probably named bubba) and you played all these redneck themed mini games and i remember seeing it and going "jesus this looks like the worst game" but i still liked the fact that nintendo had a mini review on it!  i wanted an n64 because of nintendo power but i didn't want it because of mario 64 or OoT, i wanted it for snowboard kids 2.  because i read a little feature on it and it sounded hella cool.  and it WAS hella cool!!!  i also got legend of the river king because of nintendo power, which is a game i still really like even though there's nothing too special about it (except fishing rpg....) and i got revelations: the demon slayer and idk i can't remember if the shadowgate thing was in nintendo power or another magazine but what i'm saying applies to other magazines too though nintendo power seemed to have weirder games

the point is if i had grown up with the internet as it is right now i never would have bought any of these games because i wouldn't have even been aware of them.  yet i'm always painfully aware when a new halo or call of duty comes out despite the fact that i don't play either one.  and video game magazines right now, from what i've seen of the ones that still exist, have gone this way too.

yeah I was saying in some big topic before Nintendo Power and also the fact that I still went to/had a local video store I feel like I tried every single N64 game even every stupid pointless racing game this probably skews my perception. All these new game systems should let you try every game they make as a little demo like those PLAYSTATION DEMO CDS those were great too

I really do like the 00's 10's to some degree it's just not really anything on tv movies games anymore like some stuff on the internet is so ON POINT it's just not very articulate compared to some joke etc. you'd hear on TV like some of these internet people should be writing for the Simpsons (to make it more like early Simpsons) except... they shouldn't because they can't write a good joke out of it. Simpsons team should contract them and rewrite their jokes to be funnier

Man I still have probably 20 playstation magazine demo discs. Sure you can download demos now but those discs had games I wouldn't have thought to download demos for. My brother's friend had a PS2 when it launched and I had one of the first PSM PS2 demo discs and he let me play it on his PS2. It had Ico on it, that was the first thing I played and I was so in awe. Nowadays I know it was Ico itself but at the time I was like 'Woah...the PS2 is so amazing...this is the future...'
Man idk if those demo discs are at my apartment or at my parent's house but I should dig them out and see if there's some old PSX game I missed out on.

I really don't know how demos work now, if you can beam them into your playstation 3 for every game or what

I used to browse rpggamer.net/com but that was like digging through archives/not laid out very well lol I'm the game librarian

Man I still have probably 20 playstation magazine demo discs. Sure you can download demos now but those discs had games I wouldn't have thought to download demos for. My brother's friend had a PS2 when it launched and I had one of the first PSM PS2 demo discs and he let me play it on his PS2. It had Ico on it, that was the first thing I played and I was so in awe. Nowadays I know it was Ico itself but at the time I was like 'Woah...the PS2 is so amazing...this is the future...'
Man idk if those demo discs are at my apartment or at my parent's house but I should dig them out and see if there's some old PSX game I missed out on.

If you find a game on the demo disc called Blow Me! I put that game in there for you to make it easier on you for the real thing

I'm glad I'm doing an art+something concrete degree tho because I know I would get fed up with just wading around in arts every day every class. and I just have to feel like I'm doing something, art and design is too natural and too enjoyable I need to math and science it up

this is how i feel.
i definitely want to go to art school for comics/illustration, but i still will have interests in so many other subjects and i don't want to just stop learning them... like, i read a lot on my own and research stuff, but i can't imagine never having academic classes to teach me important things. i will always love math, science, history, social studies, etc... i will probably focus a lot on both psychology and Japanese in college but those also feel too enjoyable. i want to always be studying all subjects in classes. i want to go to college forever.

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this is how i feel.
i definitely want to go to art school for comics/illustration, but i still will have interests in so many other subjects and i don't want to just stop learning them... like, i read a lot on my own and research stuff, but i can't imagine never having academic classes to teach me important things. i will always love math, science, history, social studies, etc... i will probably focus a lot on both psychology and Japanese in college but those also feel too enjoyable. i want to always be studying all subjects in classes. i want to go to college forever.

those are both kinda play degrees too and like everyone interested in japan wants to go for them. but that's ok because you're still like 16 or something? I know back in junior or sophomore year of high school I wanted to go into psychology and that was around the same time I was really interested in japan. after that I wanted to go into graphic design or game making, and after that I ended up going to college for a biochem degree and then switched to an architectural engineering degree and then finally to landscape architecture. so you have a lot of time to make up your mind

better to do it before the end of sophomore year tho don't want to waste too much money

a girl I know is doing commucations/arts which sounds terrible but she apparently has enough drive to take some interesting classes even though they're not required

sorry guys can't hear you over how rad my dog is

henryk gorecki died

I went to my aunt's funeral today. Everyone just talked about how good she was at business but I guess it was less painful to think about that stuff rather than more personal things so who cares. It was secular/humanist cremation thing I guess and now I kind of appreciate more all the old catholic ritual stuff but I don't want to get cod-sociological about it. It was pretty weird to think her body was in the coffin but noone talked about it. The worst part was at the inn where people ate and had some drinks after the ceremony because I was sitting with some younger cousins and they were so bright and enthusiastic and probably gearing up to good lives full of events and knowledge about the world and it made me want to collapse into a heap and just stop trying. e m o  a s  f u c k read baudelaire in a cavern every day

whats so wrong with an arts degree? It's amazing fun and exciting and you learn all kinda of interesting shit, and it's cool as it's like totally down to your interests rather than READ TEXTBOOK PAGES 67-132 AND ANOTATE that non-creative degrees tend to be. Yeah it's kinda mostly opinions at first, but then you kinda research what influenced artists and what influences you and so on.
It is a pretty self centered choice, but to be honest it's not as bad as doing a degree in a field related to business or finance, because those are solely money-motivated courses, while art has the creative and soapbox element to it.

those are both kinda play degrees too and like everyone interested in japan wants to go for them. but that's ok because you're still like 16 or something? I know back in junior or sophomore year of high school I wanted to go into psychology and that was around the same time I was really interested in japan. after that I wanted to go into graphic design or game making, and after that I ended up going to college for a biochem degree and then switched to an architectural engineering degree and then finally to landscape architecture. so you have a lot of time to make up your mind

better to do it before the end of sophomore year tho don't want to waste too much money

a girl I know is doing commucations/arts which sounds terrible but she apparently has enough drive to take some interesting classes even though they're not required

yeah i definitely want to do art i'm just saying that i also want to do everything else. like i don't think that i'll switch majors in college maybe even at all because i do know exactly what i want to do right off the bat (comics/illustration) but i just want to always be taking classes in other things just for fun. i LIKE "read and annotate these pages" kind of classes but i also like "paint this model" classes. i like everything.
seriously, i can't really think of any subject that i'm not interested in studying. i guess that's why i do well in Quiz Bowl (national academic trivia team); i know the basics about lots of areas of study and the specifics about quite a few things too. by the way, i just got back from the state Quiz Bowl (NAQT) tournament and my school's team qualified to go to nationals in Atlanta, and we got the "Best Public School" trophy too, wootwoot~

at the same time you can't say like art? like math and physical sciences? do architecture. because that's real specific, and no one knows what landscape architecture is at all so don't bother mentioning that. classes are hell a lot of the time and while you'll have an easier time finding a job it's not guaranteed at all especially if you're not good. plus a lot of the classes are like math lite science lite compared to the stuff engineers and biochemists study but you can't have it all, not in 4-5 years

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