This Week In Entertainment (1/14/07)

I don't know when I'll finish this so just take a look at my Pick of the Week. I'm more excited at the idea of a Puppy Bowl 4 than a Superbowl 42.


Update:

Track of the Moon Beast? Oh wow!

I'm not sure if I've seen Earth vs the Space Saucers, but I'm sure it's the kind of cheese I like.

At first I thought The History Channel was stretching it by this thing about playing cards. When I learned that the special was not about poker tips but rumored stuff like the Mason influence on the cards, I knew that they were stretching it in a different way.


In theaters, the only thing interesting is Teeth, and by interesting, I mean freaken nuts. It seems to be about a woman who is Hollywood's idea of someone who vows to be chaste, until she finds out she has vaginal dentata. I wouldn't even mention this film but I saw a few short clips in an ad at Rotten Tomatoes, and apparently she becomes a sexual monster. Or something. I don't think like Hollywood people. I read that this was originally a NC17 movie. I'm going to now weep.


On the Wii Virtual Console is Pac-Attack. I would say it is one of the lesser Pac-Man games, but it isn't really a Pac-Man game. Baby Pac-Man is a lesser Pac-Man game. This is a weak Tetris game with Pac-Man characters.

Sunday, Lazy Sunday (1/13/07)

All my respect for Tony Dungy is gone and so is my lack of respect for Coughlin. Funny how that works.


I beat Bonk's Adventure today. I didn't think it would be so short but it only has five levels. It was ok, but I hope the sequel has more.


I should have worked today, but I didn't. I ended up watching the Dallas game. I'll be busy tomorrow catching up.


I will get my hands on my Cinematic Titanic dvd soon, but I won't be able to watch it until I get a break. We'll see if I write anything about it.



Those guys I talked about in the previous post probably didn't even come close to their goal. All I know is that they were 24 hours in and still stuck on Majora's Mask. Plus, the feed kept failing and they ended up showing a lame Wii review show, over and over. Oh well.

Sitting a marathon.

I saw an interesting, if a bit depressing thing at my favorite Nintendo blog, GoNintendo. Some guys announced somewhere that they were going to beat four 3d Zelda games in a period of 48 hours. I've seen them play, and while it was an ok idea, it makes me wonder about my generation.


Anyway, marathon gaming. I've played tons of games in my life, but have I ever marathon gamed? Probably the closest I've done that is when I rented Chrono Trigger, where I played 23 hours in a 3 day rental period, but I'm starting to think that I exaggerated that feat.

I do sympathize with the idea of playing several similar games back to back. There were days where I would come home from school and decide to play all the Mega MAn games I had back to back. I don't recall if I was capable of doing that in one day, and I'm sure once I owned the fifth I had to use another day or so.

Another series I used to love playing through was the Tomb Raider series. Too bad the games kept getting increasingly bad. Once I owned the fourth one I think I stopped playing the series in order. I always collect the secrets for the middle two games but didn't bother with the first and fourth.

Still, while I wasted a lot of free time playing these games, I never played them in a marathon way. When they started having stories of Asian people dying from whatever straight hours of playing, I was a bit incredulous about the stories. EEven I can't play a game for more than 20 hours straight. My mom, when I was a younger game player, would force me to take a break every hour to stretch and focus my eyes elsewhere. But even after she stopped enforcing that, I still didn't have problems eating or sleeping. Maybe I would wait a long time before finally going to bed, and maybe all I ate was a bowl full of doritos, but I don't get how these guys can play themselves to death.

Still, I do have a webcam and a ustream account. And I'm always looking for ideas to steal so I have more blog material. So here's my idea of marathon things I could do.


I could beat the entire classic Mega Man series in 9 hours. Mega Man and Bass and the GBs don't count.

I could beat the entire Tomb Raider series (7 current console versions only) in a week.

I could beat every Final Fantasy from 1-10 in a month.

I could watch every episode of MST3k in 16 and a half days.

I could read every Discworld novel in a year. I don't need that much time, but I'm a slow reader in more ways than one.


This list will get bigger when I get more ideas.

MST3k is a cool show.

Whoo, MST3k! GREAT SHOW!


In other news, I have no material for today. I'm just tired.

Tork's Picks Week 18

I'll take
Green Bay over Seattle
New England over Jacksonville
Indianapolis over San Diego
Dallas over New York Giants

This Week in Entertainment (1/07/07)

My Pick of the Week is another Virtual Console game. It's Startropics, a game I got because it was featured in two issues of Nintendo Power. It's an interesting Zelda-ish game about a boy who fights with a yo-yo. 500 Wii Poins.


On DVd this week is the entire Sweating to the Oldies set! Even the disappoining third one!

It's 3:10 to Yuma, a movie with a stupid title and probably nothing more.

I've never seen this iteration of Scooby Do, but can you believe there's almost as many Scooby episodes as Simpsons episodes? That's mind-blowing.

All-Star version of Family Feud. And by that, we mean various B-stars from sitcoms from the sixties and seventies.

One of the greatest movies of all times! Not because I've seen it, but because it gave us the Overdrawn at the Memory Bank episode of MST3k.

How many Superfriends series were there? I think they could mark these things better.




On the Wii is Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. Uhh, didn't they already release this for the GameCube? Is Sega really trying?

Also out is the Wii's version of Harvey Birdman. Since it's a Phoenix Wright rip-off, it would only be fair to call objections by thrusting the remote towards the screen.

Sunday, Lazy Sunday (1/06/07)

I'm going to be so busy this month. I'm going to do the usual updates, but that's probably it. I shouldn't even be doing this. I should be working. But nooooo, I like to fall behind in my work. Oh well.


I thought I had more to say, but I don't. What a poinless post.



Monday morning edit: I remembered at least one thing I was going to mention.

I was thinking about joining a MMORPG lately, probably WOW since it's so popular. I was thinking about doing it just to see what it's like and maybe to make fun of it on my blog. I probably won't do it since I don't have the free time a teen has, but I still have a lot of free time so who knows?


I hope to get The Oozing Skull (from Cinematic Titanic) soon. It's suppose to ship on Wednesday. Hopefully the CT guys can figure away for the DVD making company to make and ship these things faster. I hope they at least make a dozen episodes.


I've seen some sites mention the possibility that the state of California might control the thermostats in CA homes. Of course, I'll have to take their word for it, since I can't read legalese. I guess the clf-bulbs weren't enough.