Saturday, July 24, 2004

Raging Drag Queens.
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Shin- Meh. I don't know what to think anymore.

James- *keeps that in mind* Shin shook my faith in VII, but considering he did the same thing to VIII.. :P

DDG- I have a rather weak prescription, so I don't have to worry about that. My dad, on the other hand.. Heh, I won't get into that.

Mimmi- Hey, I calls them as I sees them. :P

Mal- Do not! >:|

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My brother slept over at a friend's house yesterday, and you know what that means..

I could watch whatever I wanted instead of listening to him whine about wanting to watch Ed, Edd & Eddy while asking me to hug him all night.

I watched some stand-up comics on Comedy Central, and they were all pretty good. The first guy was treating the audience like a group of small children as he sang songs about hermaphrodites, how his alcoholic father brought a new mommy home every night, and his childhood best friend who was "special."

The next guy bored me for a bit, so I flipped through the channels. QVC, the Home Shopping Network, is apparently doing a Christmas in July thing right now. Well, they were trying to sell this "game console" for $21. It was called the Game Maxx, or something like that, which boasted fifty piece-of-crap games and graphics somewhere between NES and SNES quality. The controller was a blatantly a knockoff of Gamecube's, with the same color scheme and button placement. The only thing that was different about it was that it was about the size of the old Xbox controllers, with some sort of steering wheel placed in the middle.

Most of the games were little knockoffs of old arcade games, but the guy seemed to put particular emphasis on the Speed Racer games..

I ask you, when was the last time Speed Racer wore a red costume and raced random people on a motorcycle?

Point is, the thing totally blowed, and the QVC people were praising it as if it was the epitome of entertainment. They were praising the "vibrant" colors (Think of Game Boy Color) and the "fun" games.

Fifty year old housewives were calling in and talking about how they were buying two for their nephews. They then brought up how it was so easy that even grandparents could play with their children.

Let me tell you something, QVC. Go sell some Playstations or a Gamecube. Hell, if you want games to be simple enough for grandparents to pick up and play the games, put out some Super Nintendos. Better yet, try on Bubsy 3D. If Speed Racer on a three miles-per-hour motorcycle is so great, then Bubsy must be the Mona Lisa of gaming.

In short, QVC, you suck. Tell your host people to become movie critics so they can praise every romantic comedy that's released.

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I then watched a little more I Love the 90's (I can't get enough of the Resevoir Dogs segment), and went back over to the TV Guide channel. It said that .hack//DUSK was going to be on at one. I had not seen any of the series before, and because I read the manga I have no desire to buy the DVDs, but I felt I may as well watch it.

The beginning was pretty dull. The opening song was rather boring, and the opening scenes were just some recap. It certainly felt light-hearted and cheery, like the manga version, and the dub was solid, but the only part I really liked about it was the hot spring scene (Ooh la la), but the plot twist at the end was cool as well.

And that's all I have to say today.
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