Category: Fun and Games
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Game Center CX: So totally nerdy, it has to be Japanese
Arino-san Arino-san up close. He’s afraid of “the concept of (a) time (limit)!” Game screen shots with little explanations of the game characteristics. In this case, rappelling action is the key to the strategy. A while back I heard about Game Center CX (and an English Wikipedia link also.) It is a TV show that […]
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Things I’ve been watching on TV
These are things I’ve been watching on TV. I didn’t know much about “How I met your mother”, but I really like Neil Patrick Harris. So I started watching because he’s in it. I have no idea where I started watching from, but I really enjoy the series. Neil Patrick Harris’ character Barney is an […]
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Cool Amazon Robot Party
Large Danboard Robot (peeking over my cube wall) Mini Danboard Robot Danboard and mini Danboard hanging out together I envision that the start of the human-robot wars will look something like this A Danboard is a “robot” that showed up in volume 5 (I think – I’m only up to 3) of the Yotsubato! manga. […]
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I need to check out 紅虎餃子房 or 万豚記
According to Famitsu, the restaurants 紅虎餃子房 and 万豚記 will have SF4 themed menus from 2009-02-12 to 2009-04-12. There are a bunch of either of those places in Tokyo, so I should be able to find one. Didn’t look like there were any in Shibuya though. Also you get a card with a QR code and […]
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I really hate Zangief
Actually, Zangief is totally my favorite character. I love him. This guy apparently doesn’t though. A rap from Balrog / M. Bison’s point of view. Really funny. Man, I want to go play some SF4.
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Crayon Physics Deluxe
Crayon Physics Deluxe Menu The level select GUI is cool too Pivots! They are part of Physics! Make your own pivots! I recently bought a new game, Crayon Physics Deluxe. In the past three or four years, I’ve bought maybe three or four games: the Orange Box (for Portal mainly – I haven’t gotten anywhere […]
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Another brief roundup: cheap ebooks, cool indy games, and a neat graphics library
This is another post mostly for myself so I don’t lose track of some interesting looking things. First up, cheap $1 ebooks from Orbit. It looks like this publisher is selling one ebook per month at $1, which is a deal that you can not pass up, even if the books are DRM-encumbered. I’m seriously […]
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Marketing in Japan
Aomori Marketing Mascot? Final Fantasy Posters Final Fantasy Posters Final Fantasy Posters Final Fantasy Posters The other day while walking around my local supermarket, there was a stage set up. I thought this was a bit odd, but no stranger than anything else I have seen around Tokyo. On the way out, things had started […]
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Mini Manga Reviews 2: Crossfire and Yotsuba volume 2
Continuing in my series of mini-manga reviews, we have Miyuki Miyabe’s “Crossfire” and the second volume of “Yotsuba to”. Crossfire is a pretty nice and easy read. There were two words that I learned, basically accelerant (促進) and pyrogenesis (I think that is the English for it – someone that can cause fires with their […]
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Those guys over at 2-d Boys are really cool: buy World of Goo
World of Goo I like the idea of independent and fun games. I don’t really have much time to play games, and I am horrible at 3-d things. I get lost in the real world, and I don’t want to emulate that within a sandboxed virtual 3-d environment. With monsters running after me. Trying to […]