Year: 2009
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Older Music Games Cheap… Worth It?
Yeah, yeah… we missed another month on the podcast. Go ahead. Sue us. I’ve got a perfectly fine excuse (moving!). In going through my feeds today, I noticed a couple good deals. One that stuck out to me was Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock being sold for a mere $9.99 over at Best Buy…
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Post Office Frustration
On March 20th, I received an e-mail from Meritline.com that the pair of digital audio cables I had ordered from them were on their way to me in the mail. On March 23rd, I came home to see the standard orange/pink-ish slip the post office leaves when they have a package that will not fit…
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Does The PS2 $99 Price Point Affect You?
As of April 1st (being tomorrow), the PlayStation 2 will officially (and finally) hit that magical $99 retail price. As someone who owns two PS2s already (US & Japanese; my PS3 is the 40 GB with no backwards-compatibility), I initially thought this would not affect me in the least. But then I got thinking. At…
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Strange Image Comparison
This is something that could only come from my mind. So I was browsing through my RSS feeds today and came across this article via Engadget talking about nanotubes, blood flow, power generation, and something about iPods. It was accompanied by the following image… … which to me clearly translated into: Yeeeeep…
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PSP Post of Peril (Total Hardware Failure)
You may have heard a little bit about this on the podcast, but now that the entire situation has been resolved and I have all necessary images (and video!) to go along with the story, it is time to share my experience. First up, however, you will need a little bit of back-history with my…
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Adults Can’t Play “Animal Crossing”…!
One of the biggest stories going around the blogs today is a bit of fantastic “journalism” by ABC 17 News with the following specific quote by investigator Andy Anderson (as taken from Game Politics) really striking a nerve: “There is no reason an adult should have [Animal Crossing: City Folk],” says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes…
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People Hear What They Want To Hear
I came across the following video on YouTube the other day while going through the referrals for website traffic on Daizenshuu EX. The description is basically nothing more than a link to my site, and the title certainly caught my attention (“TRUE DRAGONBALL FANS WOULD GO SEE DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION”), so I figured I was in…