Month: May 2003

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Sissyfight!

It’s nice to find reminders of your old favorite websites.

Basketball in the summer… what a crazy idea!

Svetlana Abrosimova is a stud. I don’t know if it’s ok to refer to WNBA players as “studs”, but when you’re battling for rebounds and leading the fast break like that, “stud” is the word that comes to my mind.

Guggenheim Gaming

Drawing parallels between Cremaster 3 and everyone’s favorite man-versus-ape game is a stretch, to say the least, but Wayne Bremser somehow pulls it off.

Sci-Fi Sequel Showdown!

In a binge that left me kind of dazed, I saw both X2: X-Men United and The Matrix: Reloaded last Saturday.

Adieu, Adieu.

As if the end of Buffy’s run wasn’t bad enough (both in the sad-to-see-you-go way and the boy-this-show-sure-went-downhill way), we lose another serial friend this week: The Brunching Shuttlecocks are shutting things down.

Pardon the mess: we’re moving type here.

I put the ol’ sediment codebase out to pasture, and replaced it with the oh-so-slick Movable Type.

Josh, Sediment, and You.

This is Semifat Sediment. It is a weblog. In it, a man named Josh Lee posts occastional ravings, mostly the about video games he spends too much time playing, but also about other exciting adventures he has, some of which even involve him leaving his apartment.

More babbling about Ikaruga

After completing your game, you get a password that you can enter at Atari’s website. The highest scores are displayed prominently for all to see.

Which way the wind is blowing.

The amusing thing about the panel is how each participant says exactly what you would expect them to say based on their job titles: the EA vice president talks about sports games and The Sims; the lead at Naughty Dog plays up character development; the Id guy focuses on engines.

WARNING: Deconstruction Zone Ahead

If we could combine this with some of those ready.gov illustrations from a while back, we could have some real fun.

Bananas, powdered sugar, coffee, and a few too many distractions.

I can, however, confirm that it was a mighty tasty cake. Very… brown… but tasty nonetheless.

Later than expected, but still the end of the road.

A good solid game, and we can go into the offseason with our dignity intact, which is more than anyone expected after a season that could be politely described as “tumultuous.”

iTunes? I want my iRoms!

Imagine it: you open up your front end and look up the game you want, the program asks you if you want to download it. Click “buy,” and badabing, badaboom: your credit card is charged, files are downloaded, and away you go.

English is a hard, cruel master.

After looking over my last couple of postings, I’ve concluded that sixteen years of education were wasted on me, and that now is as good a time as any for me to learn the english language.

Ikaruga: The well-tempered video game.

Unlike the story-driven games that are so popular nowadays but are only good for a single playthrough, the durability of play in a neoclassical shooter like Ikaruga lies in repetition and the quest for perfection.