Year: 2009
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My First Click-Fest: Torchlight
I have never really been a big PC gamer. Other than some SimCity 2000 and Castles II: Siege and Conquest back in the Mac OS 7 days and a little bit of the first Sims, I have been almost exclusively a console-based gamer (including portable systems) my whole life. I suppose the only “reason” was…
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A Very Zelda Christmas Memory
It was Christmas 1998. I was a junior in high school. While I had a semi-part-time job, I was not raking in much of my own cash and could not purchase every single game I wanted. That’s OK, though. Ocarina of Time would have only been out for a month, so I could wait until…
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Why the “Frieza” Spelling Drives Me Nuts
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This 2009 blog post seems to still drive a decent amount of traffic. It’s… not the most well-written thing ever, and certainly could use a little more modern of an attitude-adjustment, but I assure you there’s good intentions behind the frustration here! I should really just re-write it from scratch. Anyway, it’s not…
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Random DBZ Image: #002
Wow. I haven’t done this in forever. As I’m working on the FUNimation Dragon Box review, though, and scrubbing through footage on the R1 and R2 releases… I couldn’t help but notice this amazing scene… Caption, anyone?
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Pojo Blatantly Steals Daizenshuu EX Article
I live in the real world. Let’s all be honest, here — the web exists as it does today because people lift content from each other. News aggregators, forums, social networking… today’s Internet is a fuster cluck of occasionally-attributed content reposted and repurposed. For the most part, I subscribe to the Techdirt view on content…
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The 99-cent PS1 Game Adventure
Despite having no PS2 backward compatibility in my particular model, all PS3s at least have full PS1 backward compatibility. Of course, the problem that complicates that so much is the lack of support for the “PSone Classics” area of the Playstation Store in North America while the PS3/PSP transfer and full compatibility teases in the…
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YouTube Comment Hilarity: Vegeta’s Eyes Are Burns
Don’t you hate it when you think you’re so darn clever and hilarious that you just have to share it? And it’s not actually that funny to anyone but yourself? This is one of those moments. Forgive me. So a while back, I captured a commercial for DragonBall GT eyedrops off of a raw VHS…
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Lesson of the Day: “Brick” is NOT an Insult
Daizenshuu EX has been around in some capacity (whether it was named that or not!) since January 1998. Yeah, in internet years, we’ve been around for eons. Once it began to receive any kind of traffic and notoriety, you can reasonably assume that we started to receive the kind of both loyalist- and oppositional-styled comments…
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Shocking Realization About DBZ Questions We Get Asked
I feel incredibly stupid. It just dawned on me. We get tons of questions from people asking something along the lines of, “What was said in the Japanese version where/when [insert event here]…?” Sometimes they will phrase it just like that, but other times it will be preceded by, “I was watching my orange bricks…”…