For some reason I just found it funny that there'd be "that guy" who hated New Years. It seems almost nobody is down about New Year. You have people who don't like Christmas or Valentines Day or other holidays. But most people seem to warm up to the idea of a whole new year and a fresh start. It's a group psychic cleansing. Still, it makes me chuckle that the moment that ball drops there's one guy at the party who tosses his bubbly and storms off, grumbling "Aw, fuck this."
Anyway, I said I would post about gaming, but haven't even done one yet. So it's time! Drum roll please...
I'm looking at getting a Nintendo DS. I have a PSP, which I love. It's got the custom firmware (Dark Alex's 3.71 M33-4) so that I can play emulated games of all kinds, as well as the more traditional music, movies and other content you can load on the thing. I really do think that the PSP had the potential to be an end-all be-all gadget and Sony dropped the ball. While the DS has fewer multimedia capabilities (out of the box anyway) - I'm intrigued by the gameplay of the double screen and stylus. Plus those new crimson and 'onyx' models are damn sexy.
I'm not really sure that I'm the kind of gamer who would play DS games. I've never been a huge fan of Nintendo games. Link, Mario, Wario, Schmario, they're all one brightly colored blur to me. Yet, at the same time, I feel I need an antidote to the Grim Meathook Future games that swarm the X-Box 360. How many games can you really have with large improbably armored men grunting and killing aliens/monsters/each other? Even though some of those games are great, they're tiresome in the context of overbearing similarity. After so many levels of Gears of War or Call of Duty 4, I'm clamoring to jump on flying mushrooms and throw tomatoes at pixies.
Anyway, I said I would post about gaming, but haven't even done one yet. So it's time! Drum roll please...
I'm looking at getting a Nintendo DS. I have a PSP, which I love. It's got the custom firmware (Dark Alex's 3.71 M33-4) so that I can play emulated games of all kinds, as well as the more traditional music, movies and other content you can load on the thing. I really do think that the PSP had the potential to be an end-all be-all gadget and Sony dropped the ball. While the DS has fewer multimedia capabilities (out of the box anyway) - I'm intrigued by the gameplay of the double screen and stylus. Plus those new crimson and 'onyx' models are damn sexy.
I'm not really sure that I'm the kind of gamer who would play DS games. I've never been a huge fan of Nintendo games. Link, Mario, Wario, Schmario, they're all one brightly colored blur to me. Yet, at the same time, I feel I need an antidote to the Grim Meathook Future games that swarm the X-Box 360. How many games can you really have with large improbably armored men grunting and killing aliens/monsters/each other? Even though some of those games are great, they're tiresome in the context of overbearing similarity. After so many levels of Gears of War or Call of Duty 4, I'm clamoring to jump on flying mushrooms and throw tomatoes at pixies.
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