The goggles! They do nothing!

Megaman 9? Check. Diablo III? Check. How about some freaking Chrono Trigger!?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:53:38 GMT

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ctds/

It's about goddamn time Squeenix.

Giygas is real!

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:27:46 GMT

Yeah, I went there. The creepy giant galactic-space fetus you kill at the end of Earthbound by praying is real, and I'm going to prove it!

...Alright, so maybe it doesn't exactly look like Giygas, but there is definitely a resemblance. Anyways I found the above cloud of gas (or is an exploding star? I dunno) on a site that is pretty much like google maps, only it's a giant map of our Galaxy. It's really cool.

http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/ glimpse.php?x=0.3275&y=-0.0422&z=63.8961&t=100

Did you hear about the kidnapping?

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:59:48 GMT

They woke him up

Half-life 2: Episode 1 Shenagians

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:50:09 GMT

So, deciding I want to finally beat Half-life 2, and play Episodes 1 and 2, I borrowed my friend's steam account to play them. So yeah installed Half-life 2, played it no problems. Then came Episode 1.

It installed and loaded up fine, but then when I went to start a new game - it occurred. First the game crashed back to desktop, but I noticed I had a program pop-up that had just come up, so I figured that was the problem. Turned off that program and restarted up half-life 2. Then it loaded without sound!

Starting to get annoyed I exited out and rebooted the computer. The 3rd time I loaded the game it loaded up a bunch of graphical glitches such as the opening text being scrambled, and then it would crashed with this error - Engine Error "Internal Driver error in IDirect3DDevice9::Present()"

Apparently I wasn't the only person with this problem. It would appear ATI cards don't play nice with the game, and I just spent the 2 hours or so messing around with possible solutions to get the game to work, and none of them worked.

I finally gave up, I really don't think there's a way to get this game to work on my PC. So I'm asking does anything worthwhile happen in the game? Because for some odd reason Half-life 2: Episode 2 works, and I'm probably just going to end up skipping Episode 1 if I can't get it to work.

Toothpaste is awesome

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:54:00 GMT

You're probably wondering why I'm making a blog post on how awesome toothpaste is. I mean all it does really is help prevent you from getting teeth that are like that of a English fellow, har har just kidding?... or am I?

Anyways there's one other functionality to toothpaste other than keeping your teeth in working order, which I will get too after I tell the story of the my Rainbow Six Vegas game.

So Rainbow Six: Vegas, a tactical first-person-shooter on the xbox, pc, and PS3, and probably one of the better shooters out there. Actually it's probably my favorite shooter on the xbox360 thus far. I got it over a year ago, and after a few months of play disaster struck and my xbox 'ate' the disc. Those unfamiliar with a problem that usually affects launch model xbox 360s, but has gone unnoticed because of the RRoD problems just watch this video - http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/video/Xbox-360-Scratch-Disks3.wmv.

Yeah something like that happened to my Rainbow Six Vegas disc, but not as bad. I also didn't moved the system. It just sort of randomly happened.

So I figured it was useless to try and fix the disc using those disc fixing kits you can buy, and I couldn't return the game because it was a Christmas gift, and the person who bought lost the receipt. Anyways I just sort of put the game and it's box and forgot about it - never actually throwing it away. I guess you can probably start to put together at this point why I'm saying toothpaste is awesome.

So last night a bunch of my friends were playing Rainbow Six Vegas, and I was instantly reminded of that stupid scratched disc - and then a thought occurred to me that did not occur a year go: using google to see if there was anyway to fix damaged CDs for free basically. After some searching I found out the best stuff is apparently Brasso, but since my house didn't have any brasso I kept searching until I found something quite interesting: use normal toothpaste.

I sort of took a double take - "toothpaste? Surely you jest Internet," but I figured "what the hell?" so I spent nearly 3 hours rubbing the scratched area of the disc with toothpaste and then washing it off. I put the disc down to try and went to bed because it was like 3am at that time and I was tired.

The next morning, this morning actually, I woke up and put my disc in - surely toothpaste wouldn't work, right? I put the disc in and my xbox started loading it. The screen went black for like a minute, an awfully long loading time for booting a disc up or getting a disc-read error, so I figured the xbox is just struggling to load it. Then it happens the music plays, and the opening trailer starts to play - I stat there staring at my TV screen for a couple of minutes. Even then I was completely convinced it was fixed enough to be playable, after all I had discs in the past that could be loaded up tot he loading screen and still not work, so I decided to load the first level - and it worked.

So there we go, Toothpaste can remove huge scratches from your damaged DVDs and CDs. How awesome is that?