GAME REVIEW: Kirby 64

A kickass game, that’s for sure. While it is easy, and has not much of a difficulty curve, it’s very fun. It’s graphics, 2000’s eye candy, are nice, even by today’s standards, (fine. on handhelds.), and it’s replayability is very high, just to get all the crystal shards. And you know, some of Kirby’s other adventures, namely Nightmare in Dreamland and Squeak Squad may have better gameplay mechanics, you simply can’t beat the combination powers of Kirby 64. (my favorites: lightsaber, curling stone, and exploding ninja stars). With few powers, about 7 or 8 (too lazy to check which) it doesn’t seem like you can get much variety, but the combination makes it so you can have a heck of a lot more. And for all of you who take the time to get all of the shards, you get a treat with possibly the most fun boss of ALL TIME. My score: 9.5/10

It’s a FINER line, people.

In the previous post, I have said things that are being taken the wrong way. I think that Nintendo is great. I think this of Nintendo. http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/184/its_a_wonderful_game

It’s excellent. But, my personal opinion is that Wii gaming is innovative, and not purist. It is the Protestant (more popular now) to the 360’s Catholic (less popular now). However, some rabid Nintendo fans will still manage to take my words wrong, so let me say this: IT’S AN OPINION. Also, STOP commenting on this! IF YOU CAN TELL ME WHERE I SAID THE WII WAS INFERIOR, THEN SHOW ME. I HAVE NEVER SAID THAT. Nor have I ever said playing FPSs makes you a purist. I simply named games that I had been playing at the time.

It’s a fine line, people.

Are you a gamer, or are you just someone who plays video games? My thinking: A true gamer is one who plays such as Halo, or CoD, or something else, not necessarily with a traditional controller. Essentially, a person who considers a big part of their life to be playing video games. However, I don’t think the Wii fits in this spectrum… The Wii is just sort of there, and without a traditional controller, (besides the Gamecube ones) it isn’t really a purist’s console. It’s more an innovator’s console, or the console for the people. The Xbox 360 is a purist console, because it has a traditional controller. SOMEONE is going to try and say “But the Wii has Corruption!” Yes. The Wii does have Corruption, and it’s a great game. However, in Nintendo’s AMAZING attempt to put you more into the game, they succeed, but they have gone away from the appeal of the gamer’s video game. The gamer’s video game is buttons, not waving their arm around. It’s a fantastic thing, but it just doesn’t have the same thing as the old consoles/other consoles. The Wii is everyone’s console, and the gamers don’t like that. Great for business, but gamers want to be individualized by what they do, and a people’s console falls out of that range. Gamers also want to be individualized by the complexity. If everyone can pick up a controller and be ridiculously good at it, the joy in owning n00bs goes away.

NOTE: This post has been closed for commenting. I don’t delete things on my blag, except in the case of these previous harmful comments (not harmful to me, harmful to you. I can do SO much with those words.) I think people are taking my words wrongly. I do not mean to say that Nintendo sucks. That is not my point at all. Above are simply my opinion on gamers. Yes, you can have a Wii and be a gamer, but not in the traditional sense. You are an innovative Wii gamer, not a purist (sort of like Catholics, but I didn’t start an inquisition against Wii gamers) gamer. I think that Wii gamers are great, but I feel it’s like diluting the solution. Like putting some water in strong tea. It still tastes good.

HA! IN YOUR FACE, G.B.!

Those initials stand for someone. A very important someone. Sort of. Everyone (almost. You’ll get there, don’t worry) hates him, and he isn’t doing his job too well. Either way, with the Internet becoming huge, i say we make it a STATE. But, there isn’t really a place on the globe for it. I’ve got that covered too.

It’s the Bermuda Triangle. We should just say the Internet is there! Not really any other place for it, and it’ll just be like Alaska or Hawaii. Anyway, we’re not even sure what’s there. It could just be a giant server farm! PERFECT for the Internet. Soon, The Great State of Internet. That way, all the Communists will be FORCED to show their online activities, and we’ll see just how good for the U.N. they are! So, edit your flag desktop background, and edit your maps, we’ve got 51 states.

[For the non-internet savvy individuals, a server farm is like a web hosting place, its what holds the web site so you can visit it. No, the website isn't just THERE.]

Webcomic!

I’d love to show you my new webcomic. I really would. Unfortunately, it’s on my desk. Not my desktop. Just my desk. I don’t have any means of getting it onto my computer, so you’ll have to do with its name, and main character. It’s called meteor, and it follows a guy named Ted. Yup…

Nothing is certain in life

But death and taxes. Forgot who said that. Either way. Think about the tax situation for a bit. We’re NINE TRILLION dollars in debt, since 1776. We’re a really young country, but we have a HUGE national debt. We have an estimated population of 303,810,000 people living in the country. I was unable to find how much was paid in taxes last year, but if each citizen pays $500 in taxes, the government gets $151,905,000,000. If we determine a billion goes to waste in paying the government workers, and ten billion goes towards the country, we have $140,905,000,000. If all that goes to paying the debt, in 63 years we have all of it paid off. Of course, we’ll have higher tax rates then. I know those numbers aren’t CLOSE to accurate, but if we paid MORE in taxes, instead of getting all these tax cuts, people would be slightly less happy, but if we pay $500 more per citizen, then that’s 32 years. Even if we spend even more on the government and fixing things up, we’ll still have it all paid off in about 40-50 years. That’s 1/5th to 1/4th the time we accumulated that. So if you don’t mind paying a bit more for taxes, and if the government gets an actual budget worked out, we’ll be out of debt! The economy will actually GROW! Hasn’t done that in a while. If we time this plan of action to coincide with a spike in the economy, it might bring it down temporarily, but if timed right, the US will prosper, the dollar will go up, and we won’t have an enormous national debt! [I know someone is going to get mad at me, so let me say this!: This is all pure speculation. But if we fix up our budget, this could become true. So don't blame me if this is wrong. I couldn't find anything to back me up on this, but just think about it. I don't care if you think this is bullshit. It might be! I have no experience with taxes, but if we all take one for the team...]

Hola, Como estas?

Yes. I’m turning Mexican. Racist jokes aside, I came up with a really good webcomic idea today. Only problem: I don’t have a server, this won’t hold up to it, and I have no means of getting it onto my computer. Sigh. Epic failure. I haven’t updated in a bit (50 hits ago. Wow) because I came down with the flu, and went off to Oregon. Oregon was awesome, flu sucked. My uncle lives up in Oregon, is an awesome neurosurgeon, and for some odd reason had human bones, that he thought were Indian that he had found. He wanted me to help re inter them. I didn’t. (interesting anecdote: when I first looked at the bones, my vision went all weird and I felt faint. No, not supernatural, dehydration. I hadn’t been drinking much. I drank water after that, I’m good. Don’t worry two (hopefully more!) people who check regularly.)

I’m BACK!

And none of you care. Sigh. You don’t need a wordpress account to comment, just so you know. Anyway, I’ve decided to put up some sayings I just made up. Hope you like them, and feel free to comment with your own.

When you find yourself in a hard place, ask yourself, What Would MacGyver Do?

If faced with impossible odds, bet against yourself.

Think of yourself as so awesome, that nothing can touch you. Like M.C. Hammer! Can’t touch this!

When life gives you a computer, code.

Do ridiculous things, just for fun. (like make a ballista!)

Be prepared to fail. Being prepared means getting shot down, and then respawning and rushing again.

Don’t try the same thing twice. (ie, don’t storm the castle, and then do the same thing. It’s called a siege.)

Find joy in fragging.

More later.

REAL h4×0rs use Windows Safe Mode.

[Okay, in response to all this shouting at me. This is my opinion. Also, Microsoft has opened parts of the source code for its programs to third parties, so the third parties can make more compatible programs. I know Vista is crap. I also know that Microsoft has some stuff that is in court. I don't care about how you think I'm totally wrong though. This is my opinion, my free speech, and I don't care that you think Linux pwnz0rz Windows. Windows works fine for me. It seems that most people have problems with it. They stopped upgrading on SP2 because Windows no longer needed any major bugs worked out. I'm saying that Windows works fine for me, and I honestly don't care what you think. I know me writing this is going to make lots of you mad, but seriously. NOT MY PROBLEM. I don't want to hear about it.] Windows seems so undervalued today. It’s a great OS, albeit a bit buggy, but you can find so much neat stuff in it! It has a program for EVERYTHING! Linux and Mac may be less buggy, but Windows is just awesome. Just about anything will run on it, if not, hack it til it does, and you can do almost everything on it! I mean, it’s inconvenient, but REAL h4×0rs use Safe Mode to get rid of all the crap. My friend was running Windows on a Mac laptop one time, and his built-in keyboard was not being found by Windows/it was dying, so he called me up there, we put it in Safe Mode, and it pretty much fixed itself! In Windows, you can pretty much run a diagnostic for everything, it’ll tell you what’s wrong, and it’ll fix it. With TWO clicks. Linux, when it rarely happens, you have to go into the source code and find it. Also, Windows is getting more user-friendly. They’ve started revealing bits of their programs to help third-party programs, so they can make it better and more compatible. Also, what hacker goes on a Linux desktop to try and hack a Windows one? Command Prompt is MADE for hacking! You can tell command prompt anything, short of “make me dinner” and it’ll do it. Even if it’s ping NASA. It’ll go to the IP address and connect to it. You can probably do even more if you know how, I don’t, but you probably can. And the real joy of Windows is the hidden programs. There may not be many, but a fun one is “eudcedit”. It’s the Private Character Editor, and you can stick stuff like “pwned.” into documents, and it’ll read em just fine.Want a picture of a smiley face to use as a period? Go right ahead. It may require some button remapping, but you can do it. Windows can do a crapload of stuff, and it’s just trashtalked. No one actually does anything about all this great functionality. Tell me, when has Linux fixed itself? (ok, for all you people like LinuxCrayon, this is semi-serious. I’ve just been thinking how most of the gamer/hackers/developers are thinking that Windows is showing its age, and I’m supporting it. I may be exaggerating a bit, but Windows does most of this stuff.)

Stop the madness!

Some statistics.

70% of the internet is now classified as porn.

Overfeeding is the leading cause of fish deaths in the US. Car crashes are the second.

80% of what you know is totally wrong.

100% of what I know is TRUTH

10% of your supposed hard drive space isn’t there (i.e., if you have 80 gigs, then you really only have 72)

50% of people need glasses.

60% of people are self-concious of dandruff.

Only 40% actually have dandruff.

47% of all percentages are made up on the spot.

Microsoft is going partly open-source.