Sunday, August 28, 2005

I really wish that the One Piece dub wasn't a pile of horseshit.

Comment Commentary

Tony- The play count is one of the cool things about iTunes.

But yeah, go for it. Lord knows yours will probably turn out twenty times better (and larger) than mine, though. Unless there's some sort of rule, like "top 100 albums only." But then, I don't know how many people could do that many.

There has to be a program out there that does this without making us do all the cropping, resizing, and organizing.

Ethan- I've had this in the works for a month now, and in my defense, your "collage" was only five or six album covers, at least three of which were exposed to you by me.

I could write a whole rap battle verse about this. I'm so tempted to, but I don't have a phat beat on hand.

Shin- The hypocrisy is what annoys me about it, but I understand how people could find it funny.

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By royal decree of the mother, I was formally summoned to clean today.

But it turned out more along the lines of "organize your shit" day. They are similar events indeed, but this merely required the moving of objects' placements, not actually cleaning. No dusting, no vacuuming, and certainly no long-term solutions. This turned out to be rather fun, though.

As usual, I started by organizing my games and DVDs in this room. This area shall hereby be referred to as QUADRANT A. Before the cleanening, QUADRANT A was particularly messy, as one day I brought a metric ton of shit Ethan borrowed back over and just dropped it on the ground. I never bothered to pick any of it up until today. So once I did, I wasn't sure how I was going to keep it in an easy-to-maintain form. I then decided to just stack all of the cases vertically, not horizontally, so that I can hold more in one place.

So, while I had my Playstation 2 games and DVDs sitting there all neat in their little stacks (My brother has stolen the Gamecube and held it hostage in his room), I asked myself, "why the hell aren't other consoles in here?" So I went out on quest for my N64 and Super Nintendo collections.

Back in the days of cartridges and the shitty cardboard boxes they came in, you see, we decided to buy these little boxes that you could store all of your cartridges in neatly. VideoMatics, they were called. We had one for SNES and one for N64.. One was already down here, the other was in my parents' room, and as I went through them I got quite nostalgic.

I've said this many times before: 75% of my Super Nintendo collection is shit, because I was a little kid who didn't know better and decided to buy cheap games with familiar franchise names (this generally meant first-party Nintendo stuff or crappy Loony Toons games). Just for fun, here's a little list:

- Championship Pool
- Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday
- Speedy Gonzalez's Las Gatos Banditos
- Pac Man 2: The New Adventures
- Disney's Goof Troop
- Pitfall: The Mayan Adventures
- Tazmania
- Clue
- Super Black Bass
- Kirby's Super Star*
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars*
- Yoshi's Island*
- Midway's Arcade Greatest Hits
- Frogger
- Paperboy
- Battleship
- Megaman X*
- Maui Mallard's Cold Shadow*
- Top Gear
- Super Star Wars
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past*
- Animaniacs*
- Bomberman 2*
- Super Mario All Stars*
- F-Zero
- Jeopardy!
- Wheel of Fortune
- Star Trek
- Caesar's Palace

The ones marked with asterisks are games that are either not crap, or I have fond memories of playing (I remember Maui Mallard being the shit, but I could go back and it could be just shit now).

Wow, eh? Yes, I regret missing out on this generation. So many great SNES RPGs that would be a bit of a hassle to find today.. Man, I sucked when I was seven.

My Nintendo 64 colleciton got better in quality of games some, but the collection is smaller and even more first-party. I think some might be missing though.. Namely, Jet Force Gemini and Super Mario 64.

- Harvest Moon 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Paper Mario
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- Banjo Kazooie
- Yoshi's Story
- Wave Race 64
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
- F-Zero X
- Donkey Kong 64
- Hey You! Pikachu!
- Star Wars Episode I Racer
- Super Smash Bros.
- Pokemon Stadium
- Bomberman Hero

Less stinky, but substantially smaller and less varied. Funny story about Hey You! Pikachu!: It's a microphone game that, with the microphone included, was basically an $80 four-hour Pikachu talk-fest that could have really been entertaining were it not so awful.

So.. Yeah, just for a bit of contrast (and to destroy my boredom), here's Playstation 2:

- Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
- Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga I
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Katamari Damacy
- Kingdom Hearts
- Devil May Cry
- Midway Arcade Treasures (again!)
- Alien Hominid
- Devil May Cry 3
- ATV Offroad Fury 2
- Tekken Tag Tournament (that's my brother's, not mine, I swear to God)
- .hack//INFECTION
- Time Crisis 3
- Medal of Honor: Frontline
- DDR MAX 2
- Final Fantasy X

Gamecube:

- Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
- Animal Crossing
- Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (Not mine, as well)
- Soul Calibur II
- Resident Evil 4
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Metroid Prime: Echoes
- Enter the Matrix
- Metroid Prime
- Pikmin
- Pikmin 2
- Evolution Worlds
- F-Zero GX
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest
- Namco Museum
- SSX 3
- The Simpsons Road Rage
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2: Rogue Leader
- Super Mario Sunshine
- The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker

DS:

- Meteos
- Nintendogs: Dauchshund Edition
- Jump Superstars
- Super Mario 64 DS

GBA:

- Fire Emblem
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
- Advance Wars
- Iridion 3D
- Super Mario World
- Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland
- a few other games that aren't worth remembering, or I traded them off.

I think it's safe to say that my taste in games has progressed pretty nicely, though looking back at all of these titles, I can't help but think I'd be a much richer (and much more unentertained) person.

And with that, the cleaning resumed.

I moved all of the wires to the PS2 behind the TV, so things look much less cluttered.. And with all of this cleaning, even all of those games and movies only covered one of the VideoMatic boxes. The other one could be where the Gamecube could go (as well as the games I listed), but my brother just HAS to have it in his room.

Gaaah. Well, I'll have the last laugh when Zelda comes out and I lock myself in his room for a week or two.

I put all of the "irregular" DVD and game boxes on top of the whole TV case thing. This includes my Evangelion box set (plus other Eva DVDs for continuity), the Digital Devil Saga box, the Invader Zim box, Noir, the special edition Lord of the Rings sets, the P! box my FLCL coffee mug came in, and for some reason, my Fire Emblem 2 box. I don't know, I guess a GBA box that isn't crushed is rare and interesting.

The next daunting task I undertook was gutting out the shelves above my computer entirely and organizing it. Now, this was scary because these shelves were a wasteland of wires, PC game boxes and random hardware that doesn't work anymore, but I came out victorious in the end. Top shelf is dedicated to stationary and crap I don't need, the second one is my video card/motherboard/sound card boxes, containing all of my driver CDs, as well as the Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition box, floppy disks, an atrocious controller that's so dated it doesn't even run on USB, that mic headset my brother got that I use for Counter-Strike, and Ikea lamps. The bottom is the box for my Zim box, all of my PC games, camera, spare ink cartridges, blank CDs and iPod box.

It's a really nice setup, since I know where I need to go for things now. It's almost scary.

Oh, and I found this Disney's Magic Artist drawing tablet in the garage. As fruity-looking as it is, I was kind of hoping that I could use it on this computer, but I can't seem to get it to work in Photoshop. Oh well.

Now that I think of it, Disney's Magic Artist was my very first picturey-program.. Almost predating my MSpaint phases, I think.

[/room of doomy bullshit]

Stoner comment of the day: You know what's really freaky? Like.. Try typing while standing up sometime. It will blow your mind.

EDIT: Lolz. Thanks, MSN Groups Scanlations!

In case you haven't seen, they've been running Naruto trailers on Cartoon Network. I haven't heard any dialogue yet, but the animation is a hell of a lot cooler on a fullscreen TV than a 200 x 300 .wmv file. And now that they've announced the American voice acting cast, I'm pretty optimistic. Countdown, two weeks.
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