So my busiest days here are Saturday and Sunday. I work 10 hours a day both days with a 30 minute break for lunch (if I'm lucky and on schedule for my classes). It can get exhausting but at the end I've cleared $600 for the weekend. This is mostly due to the fact that after only being here a year, I'm already the longest held employee this school has (including Chinese personnel). Turnover is h...
I'm not a very consistent person. This is especially so when it comes to my opinions. This especially struck me today as I was glancing over some of the reviews I've written here on Giantbomb. I gave the original Diablo and Lucidity both three and a half stars? Diablo is a classic genre defining franchise starter, and Lucidity is a charming-but-middling all-but-forgotten platformer. I gave the...
Dear Chinese Population, Before you get all up and arms and protest the Japanese ownership of Senkaku, first realize that you are tools. Realize that any protest you are even allowed to have exists only because it suits the governments needs. Why do you care about a land dispute with a foreign government that will not affect any of your lives at all when the government you should be protesting...
So. China. Beijing? Yup. I've been here a little over a month now, and truth be told I'm in love with Beijing far passed any of my original expectations. It's not as pretty as Japan, it's not as warm as Taiwan, the food isn't as good as in India, the people aren't as friendly as in Colombia, but I'm in love none the less. First of all, Beijing is HUGE. I've been here a month and still feel like...
So, the past two hours have been... unbelievable. I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out earlier today and am currently on a LOT of pain medication. Seeing as how I already watched two movies, I decided to try my hand at the original Sonic the Hedgehog . Watching the positive reviews for Sonic Generations has gotten me on a bit of a Sonic binge, and I've been casually playing through the f...
Just going to use this as a place to record my thoughts on games as I play them. First of all, this games presentation is stunning! The music! The art! The animation! The writing! I'm blow away! Especially by the writing/translation. Maybe it's because I've been playing "Secret of Mana" for the first time as well, and that games dialogue is about as stilted as it gets. Fire Emblem though... hat...
So, here I am, a little after 7:30 on a Wednesday night, and I am dreading using up my last cigarette. Been slowly working myself down over the past month from roughly half a pack a day down to now... my last cigarette for the foreseeable future. Started smoking abroad as it was cheaper and didn't hold most of the negative connotations that exist here in the U.S. I've gone months at a time with...
Well, it's that time again. For the past 6 years now, I have been alternating between living abroad in Asia (Japan, Taiwan) and coming back to the U.S. to finish my degree. Now I have it, and I'm moving to Beijing in a little over a month indefinitely. So for the next month I will be packing my bags, and scouring my parents house for any and all possessions that are mine and putting them into d...
...but they always seem to miss. So it's been a month I guess? It's been a pretty good month. First of all, I just came from the annual Sanford Syse award ceremony where I walked away with the "Best Actor" award for the 2010-2011 academic year. I won it for my portrayal of Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who Came to Dinner". Wow. Very flattering. Very awesome. It's also more than a little bewild...
That's right ladies and Gentleman, I'm flat broke and can't afford to go out tonight. So, what beats going out on the town? Megaman. Megaman and Tequila. Tall Cooler Glass x1, Shot of tequila x1.5, Fill with OJ, Top with grenadine = Tequila Sunrise So, follow along (or not) as I boot up an old favorite of mine and write down my thoughts after completing each level. We'll see how far I get befor...
So my friend Marc's puppet show, "Razia's Shadow" is now over and I have nothing to distract me from the undeniable fact that I am absolutely TERRIBLE at getting homework done. My methodology for doing homework goes somewhat like this: "Alright, I've set aside the entire evening to get this project that I've been putting off for weeks finally done. I've got my coffee, I've told my friends I'm b...
So, for the past year or so, the amount of video game time I've had has dropped off dramatically. I don't have any of my systems with we when I travel abroad so I only really played DS or PC games last year. This year is my final year at college so I've been really bogged down with a huge workload. Between theatre, dungeons and dragons, modeling, homework, socializing, and my job, I just haven'...
I went skidding off my scooter here in Taipei the other day. It was a stupid mistake and entirely my fault. As soon as I got up, I knew I had broken my wrist. As I walked to the side of the highway still in shock and bleeding from some painful roadrash, I came to a horrible realization. Shit. I can't play games with a broken wrist, can I? This isn't my wrist, but it's the same operation I had-...
http://www.suvudu.com/2010/04/cage-match-2010-championship-5-rand-althor-versus-15-jaime-lannister.html Jaime Lannister has made it to the finals! He faces Rand from the Wheel of Time series. Rand has agreed to a challenge of seven in Westeros. So never mind that he is a walking demigod with the ability to control the e lements and space. Let's help Jaime win this one for Westeros! If anyone el...
So I'm on a bit of a retro game binge and am playing through the classic adventure game "Gabriel Knight Sins of the Father" and something is driving me absolutely crazy about it. I've visited and talked with Gabriel's grandmother and she told me to go to the cemetery and visit the family tomb. I see all sorts of names in on the tombs except for "Knight". Gabriels grandmother's tomb is there but...
That's right boys and girls, in an attempt to liven up the board, improve my Japanese and perhaps even encourage some new members to sign up and laugh at me (Hit the register button and join our small family! Yes YOU!), I will be detailing my journey through the Japanese version of Final Fantasy IV for the SNES. I've always heard it was the most abused in the series when it came to it's origina...
Browsing Kotaku today when I stumbled upon this article. http://kotaku.com/5251146/game-rights-snagged-for-george-r-r-martins-song-of-ice-and-fire .... What? I'm perhaps once of the largest George R. R. Martin fans in the world and my brain just broke. How is that going to work? Classic JRPG style? Will Caitlyn and Sansa be casting spells? A choose your own adventure where no matter what all of...