On “Replay Value”

Every so often, I get the urge to dust off Disgaea: Hour of Darkness or boot up the PSP port of it and slowly march along toward some of the postgame content, secret bosses, and stuff like that. I’m not rabidly attentive enough to sit there for hours straight, powering everyone up to level 9999, [...]

Navel Gazing.

Recently I exhumed the hard drive from my dead laptop and turned it into an external device to recover my old docs and stuff. While scouring, I ran into the old ‘dumb coded’ version of my site and started reading my old material (Didn’t this happen last year too?) I think I write better when [...]

Whee.

Seeing as how I lost my old image stashes along with my last laptop, I’ve been doing a lot of sifting through my old backup discs and finding old artwork and stuff I forgot I even did. (Also a lot of the stuff I thought was awesome kind of sucks now) But among them were [...]

Star Fox- The Other Nintendo Series

Nintendo’s usually pretty good to their protagonists. Just a glance in Mario’s direction shows that he can pretty much do whatever he feels like and get a game made to boot. Link is pretty prolific too, but doesn’t get much time to relax and screw off the way Mario does, even though they’re both in [...]

Union of the State.

Y’know, year in, year out, I make a big to-do about doing a ‘Year in Review’ article, and it seems like every time I begin work on one, I’m amazed that things can actually get worse from where I was at this time the year before. Maybe I’m in a bad state of mind this [...]