In which I ramble incoherently about some games I played in 2025, both new and old.
In which I ramble incoherently about some games I played in 2025, both new and old.
It'll be five years to the day on Sunday since I last posted a blog here on Giant Bomb. That's not to say I've left the site over this time; in fact I think I've kept up decently well with everything that's gone on with the site over the years, though admittedly with an ebb and flow of interest, for various reasons. When it came to the act of forming my thoughts on games into words, like I'd do...
I think it’s fair to say that Gone Home was a bit of a revelation for me. Just in terms of game design, it’s perhaps mostly responsible for a clear pivoting point in my taste in games. Similar to the way Rock Band introduced me to a new genre in rhythm gaming and started a years-long obsession, I feel like my interest in games these days seems the strongest when I’m experiencing a concise and v...
What's up, guys? I've recently decided to pick up a PS4 Pro, and it's been a neat experience so far, so I thought I'd share. I started this console generation thinking I would be all PC all the time. Fast forward a couple years to 2015 when I decided to buy an Xbox One and was enveloped in that warm and fuzzy feeling of console comfort that I didn't know I was missing. Now, after another couple...
Hi guys! I'm JJWeatherman and I (still) really like playing video games. Drawing, on the other hand, I haven't ever much cared for. Believe it or not I actually found a way to fail a freshman art class in high school. That said, anything's a lot more fun when there aren't letter grades and due dates attached to them. So I may not be a great artist, but deep down I truly believe that I am indeed...
Well guys, it’s that time of year again. The new NBA 2K game is out(ish), and as one of the game franchises I tend to enjoy the most and put significant amounts of time into, I want to talk about it. As of Friday, anyone who decided to preorder the game has had access to it before this Tuesday’s official release date. The whole play before everyone else for preordering thing has always seemed a...
There’s just something about video game consoles. I’ve primarily been a PC gamer for the past several years now. Ever since the era of the 360 and PS3 began to die down and the new, current era approached. PC gaming has been great for all of the obvious reasons including, but not limited to, Steam sales, extra graphics settings, higher frame rates, and a bevy of control options. Though there ar...
You never forget your first I used to be one of those people who didn’t understand the appeal of Monster Hunter. I tried playing the game for the first time a handful of years ago with Monster Hunter Freedom on my PSP. I bought it thinking it seemed like a cool concept. The cover art looked awesome with a big, intimidating dragon squaring off against a knight wielding a sword that is almost com...
Final Fantasy is a series that I've never had much luck getting into. It's not that I don't like games of the particular ilk, either. I've played and enjoyed things such as Legend of Dragoon, Golden Sun, Lost Odyssey, Wild Arms, and more. I've never played more than a few minutes of any Final Fantasy, however, so I figured I'd finally give one of the most unanimously adored entries a proper go....
When I learned yesterday that Monument Valley had finally been released on Android, I switched on my Nexus 7 and bought it immediately. It's a game that was able to capture my imagination through its gorgeous aesthetic alone, and had me considering buying an iPad to experience it, along with a handful of other games exclusive to Apple's ecosystem, of course. The gorgeous aesthetic didn't disapp...
After years of driving vehicles that didn't belong to me, I've finally purchased my own—and it's a motorcycle. A Honda 919, to be exact. I decided I wanted a motorcycle a while back, and it took a while to make it a reality. I had to sign up for a motorcycle safety and training course that would provide me with a completion card, which bypasses the skills test for a motorcycle endorsement at th...
Nonsensical titles aside, I've suddenly found myself with a wide-open month of October. That being the case, I figure now is as good a time as any to catch up on some games I've been meaning to get around to. Only a handful are "horror" games, but I'll be holding onto those and playing them closer to the 31st. Updated October 21st, 2013 With my trusty red sharpie, I'll be crossing things off th...
I feel like I've outgrown the internet. And yet I'm still hanging onto strands of it, possibly out of habit, but maybe it's more out of some hope that I'll be able to find the same level of ignorant excitement in it that I once experienced. I've abandoned Twitter, I've cancelled my Xbox Live subscription, I never did properly use Facebook—most notably, even the Giant Bomb forums have become ins...
Hey, guys! I built myself a new PC recently, and I'm loving it. I thought some of you may be interested in hearing about how my building process went, thus this blog was born. Everything Plus the Case Part Detail Case Corsair Carbide Series 500R Motherboard ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO CPU Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell GPU EVGA SuperClocked w/ ACX Cooling GeForce GTX 770 RAM G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB @ 1...
It's nearly two in the morning and I'm wide awake. I've recently finished some games, so I figure I'll write a bit about them while I have the time. BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien I've finally finished this! I really liked it a whole lot, and I was trying to savor it for as long as possible. But I did finish it a few days ago, and continued to play after the final bos...
Following a light downpour of rain earlier, the clouds have moved on and it's been surprisingly sunny outside this afternoon. Here I sit, next to my open window, while a nice Spring breeze carries the inspiration my way to write about some video games! A couple in particular: Dark Souls and Uncharted. Let's start with the former. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition I've been chipping away at Dar...
Yes, this stupidly named blog has returned for yet another week. I'm not sure why, as I've had a hard time writing anything for it. Despite that, I've managed to cobble some thoughts together on a few things, so I figured I'd throw them together and hope for an easier go at it next time. Let's do it. Amy Converting my experience with Amy into a string of words that are able to accurately convey...
Hi! It's been a while since I've done this. Lately I've been pondering picking my blogging back up regularly, but I have a lot going on, so we'll see. For now, I have a good bit I'd like to tell you all about. Settle in, because I've been playing some things. The Legend of Dragoon I bought a PS3 recently. You'd know as much if you'd read my last blog, but you didn't, and I don't blame you. Anyw...
It's perhaps a bit ironic that I've waited until just before the expected Playstation 4 announcement to buy a damn PS3. Anyway, I have. It was probably for the wrong reasons, but I'll have to live with that. This is the model that finally entangled me in its web of intrigue. Or something. Anyway: A year and three months of Playstation Plus is what I'll be getting. So, that's cool, right? I have...
No one wants to be told that they’re wrong. The genius of Kentucky Route Zero is that it allows players the freedom to do whatever they want within its world, and always feels as if that were how it had to happen. The intrinsic mystery that’s been baked into every aspect of this game takes away any sense of forced storytelling and allows the player to bask in the delight of an uncertain certain...
Must do better.
I’ve recently been catching up with season two of “Louie,” Louis C.K.’s self-produced television show. It’s a great show, and if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. Seasons one and two are both on Netflix. Anyway, there was a scene with Louie in the car with his daughters and one of them says that she’s bored. As you’d expect from a five year old, she keeps repeating that she’s bored ev...
Hello, friends. Last time we talked, I’d just built my very first PC and began dipping my toes into the endless ocean that is the Steam catalogue. I’ve now played a bit more of some games, and extensive amounts of others, and I’m feeling ready to talk about them. Feeling ready to listen? Good. Let’s begin. Diablo III Diablo III is interesting. At the time of this writing, I’ve put right around...
Having done something very gaming-focused, I figured I'd go ahead and write up a post about it. Finally, after years of dreaming about it, I've built myself a gaming PC, and I'm loving it. Roughly what my shiny new gaming PC looks like. If only; that would be great. My total cost for the whole enchilada thus far is right around $860. Originally I wanted to keep things modest and only spend abou...
Just for the record. He's over here . He's also apparently on Twitter now, over here . As a side-note: Best of luck with the future, Rich! I'm sure you'll be fine.
What's up, guys? I'm not entirely sure why I'm writing this blog. Maybe it's because I've been considering deleting my account here on Giant Bomb. To be honest, I'm not even sure that's possible--not with one click, at least. I could go through and delete everything that I can manually. Seems like a lot of work. Just a little bit ago I decided on a whim to deactivate a bunch of my social networ...
SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content. A large chunk of my life over the past few years has involved Giant Bomb, and to a lesser extent, the other Whiskey sites. I've spent more time here than I should probably ever admit. These sites have given me such joy over the past few years, but I'm finding as of late that I'm not having those same feelings anymore. Or at least not nearly...
For anyone reading this that's not informed: I'm writing a series of blogs about cartoons. My loose plan is to feature one cartoon per blog and tell you--dear reader--why I love each featured cartoon. We can then proceed to recall the 'good ole days' of our respective youths. Full series: Part 1 -- "Hey Arnold!" Part 2 -- "The Magic School Bus" Part 3 -- "Rugrats" Part 4 -- "Spider-Man" (You're...
It’s been a while since I’ve done this. I haven’t exactly been in the highest of spirits as of late, but I figured doing this could possibly help to take my mind away from the real world for a little bit. I don’t feel like playing games, watching movies, really much of anything at the moment. Good ole writing; you’re always there for me when I want to do nothing else. Alaska_Gamer deserves some...
I’m apparently the worst at keeping a regular blog. I plan to do something weekly, and yet somehow I keep finding ways to just say “eff it, I’ll do it next week”. In all honesty, I’ve just had some things going on recently that have kept my mind occupied and not really able to focus. The distractions have been good things though. I’ve been having great new experiences and I’m really glad for th...
It’s been a good while since I’ve written one of my weekly blogs. In fact, it’s been three weeks now. I wrote another blog explaining my situation , so you could read that if you actually care. Not much of a situation, really. Basically I just got lazy a couple of weeks ago, and last week I was on vacation ! I’ll tell you all about it in a minute. I also have bought a few video games since my l...
I was just reading an article in the latest issue of Game Informer that was a bit interesting. The article is called Green Gaming, and it’s of course about the effects of gaming on the environment and how we can reduce the impact. The whole “Green” thing is admittedly an overused term at this point, and it’s often seen everywhere. You can always count on someone to write an article about “going...
Salutations, followers! I guess this is for anyone who actually cares to read my usual Cloudy with A Chance of Gaming blog. There’s likely not many of you, but even so, I feel like I should write up this post if only for future reference as to why I missed blogs. Last week’s blog was never written. That was mostly because I was lazy. Or maybe I wasn’t so lazy, because the main reason for that w...
Greetings, compatriots. Maybe I should let it be known up front that that I‘m still feeling the effects of sickness and that I’m forcing myself to write this blog. I’m sorry if that actually becomes noticeable at any point. I feel like I’m on a good roll of consistently posted blogs though, and I’d rather not mess it up now. Besides, I’ve played some great games and also have some things that n...
Happy Easter Sunday, everyone! I always feel a bit weird celebrating these religious holidays like Christmas and Easter. It’s really more of an excuse for my family to get together and eat though, more than anything else. Later today I’ll be heading over to my grandma’s house for a meal that will no doubt be entirely too large. It’s kind of a shame that I’m not feeling so well today. I’ll proba...
Blog facelift, go! I’ve put some work into creating some new banners, as you can see. I think this is already the third “style” I’ve gone with in this blog’s short history, but that’s OK. I’ll keep reinventing the look until I get to a point where I don’t find it ugly after a couple of weeks. Maybe I’ll stick with this for a while. You’ll have to come back in the following weeks to see if it ch...
I don't like my banners anymore. I'll make new (hopefully better) ones when I have the time. I don’t know what it is, but I’ve been super tired of the internet recently. Not exactly the internet itself, but more the people that populate it. Even while visiting Giant Bomb as of late I’ve found myself reading specific forum posts and then thinking to myself, “Wow. Shut up. *sigh*” Something along...
Hey yo, the Blazers beat the Lakers last night. That's right Kobe, your ridiculous barrage of threes couldn't save your team this time. The Blazers threw lobs for days and came out on top. Just wanted this to be known. It's important!! =P Here's a quick video recap of how it went down Gerald Wallace was a huge contributor on both ends of the floor as well as being a great source of toughness ag...
I'm late, for a very important date! Blah! Kind of a busy weekend, which explains the tardiness of this blog. I usually try to get them up late Saturday night, which is actually Sunday morning, so that usually works out perfectly. My uncle is in town form across the country though. Plans were made, things happened, and here I am. I was at one of Oregon’s many cold beaches earlier today. That wa...
Today is the day that comes afterwards Hello again! The weekly blog is back yet again. It’s as unstoppable as Jeff’s NDX podcast . OK, maybe not quite that unstoppable. What have I done this week other than watch extremely exciting basketball games ? Well, I’ve received a couple games in the mail. These games were none other than Jade Empire (Limited Edition!) and Brutal Legend. Brutal Legend w...
Yesterday, I witnessed one of the best basketball games in recent memory. The Portland Trail Blazers took on the San Antonio Spurs (best record in the NBA) at home and pulled out the win in miraculous fashion. It was a battle throughout, but some key plays that all took place during the last 40 seconds of the game helped Portland take the win. I have to share this; It’s too good. The first huge...
The New and the Improved Welcome, one and all! As you may have already noticed, I’ve put a little more work into some banners and things than I have previously. Nothing is by any means set in stone; I’m kinda just messing around. The design is in flux, so this could look totally different next week. Maybe not though, as I kind of like it. We’ll see. As far as what’s on the docket for today, I’l...
All About Games Edition Rare occurrence here on the weekly blog: I’m actually talking about games, and only games. Rare occurrence indeed, but it's been that kind of week. New video games abound and plenty to talk about. I finally caved in and bought Beyond Good and Evil HD on XBLA, Pokemon Black , and Alan Wake . I also bought the Limited Edition of Jade Empire off of eBay for the bargain pric...
99.9% of this blog has nothing to do with Lost Since last week's blog was a day late, my plan was for this one to be a day early. It's not going to technically make it until the early hours of Sunday, but that's good enough. Here I sit, softly sipping my scrumptious orange cream Sobe, ready to tell all of you about the things that interest me. Against all odds, I made it to yet another Blazer g...
I'm In I'm a day late. I hope--nay, I know --that nobody minds. Anyway, I'm not going to post these to the forums every week due to them not being very video game-centric from time to time. This is one of those times. P-Town said three goggles I went to my first Portland Trail Blazers game of this season last Friday. It was amazing. One of the best games of the season, probably behind only the...
The cat that I've known my entire life is being put to sleep as I type this. Her name was Molly. We took her in when I was probably one year old, and she was already fully-grown at that point. I'm now almost 21. She's been having a hard time seeing, hearing, and smelling for a little while now. It was hard making this decision. I knew I'd be sad, but these feelings are fucking unbelievable. I w...
Welcome Home Greetings, all! This is the second blog in my new weekly series, featuring whatever steamy thought vapors are floating around in that cloudy head of mine. This week I’ll be celebrating my S-rank of Forza 3, Introducing you to a great podcast, going back in time, proclaiming my love of Timothy Olyphant, and more! So watch, that, show! Wait, I’m not Conan; sorry about that. Solid Gol...
Off He Goes As a few of you already know, I’ve decided to start up my own weekly blog. Don't worry though Video_Game_King , you're still the king of blogs. Sunday seemed like a good day to post these, so here it is! It will be about not only the games I’m playing, but noteworthy things happening in the game industry, as well as my occasional personal thoughts regarding a variety of things. I li...
I'm thinking of starting a weekly "Whatcha been playin'/doin'" blog. Would that be as boring as I'm imagining? So many people already do it. I like writing though, and I'm always meaning to do it more. Maybe I'll start and just see where it goes. If anyone feels like swaying me in a direction, then by all means.
I just thought this was really cool, so if anyone wants to check it out, I think it's worth the time. It's basically similar to street view on Google maps, but you can visit a long list of famous art museums. You can navigate by floor plan and click around to move as if you were really there. The coolest part is the ability to click a small plus icon next to most of the paintings which opens th...
So this happened: "Dead Eye" Parker and RJ giving the #1 sign with Obama That's my baller on the left. I think he's in the process of rabbit-earring Tony Parker. Team photo with our baller president, y'all! What the hell. Why don't I get to hold the jersey? Fuck you Ginobili; you weren't MVP! That jersey looks like cardboard. IWannaShakeThePresidentsHandFuuuuuu! Never. I expected an actual trop...
It seems that a lot has happened this week. Between receiving more info about the 3DS, the PSP NGP announcement, and some big-budget demos being released, there's a lot to get excited about this week. Not to mention the reminder of how many awesome games are going to be shipping this year courtesy of Ahmad_Metallic . Maybe this is a bad idea, but I thought I'd just condense everything into a si...
I've finally gotten around to setting up some PC hacks to free my Kinect from the shackles of everyday Xbox-life. Props to eroticfishcake for supplying me the link to a nice starting point for all of this. If anyone else is interested, here's that link: http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page In order to set this all up, you need to have some form of compiler. I happen to have Microsoft's Visual S...
This is so fucking stupid... :D
Note: If a game released in twenty-aught-nine can still be spoiled, then consider this a spoiler warning. All of the goods in a single box I'm glad to be finally experiencing a game that I should have experienced day one. That game being Dragon Age: Origins. I recently bought the Ultimate Edition (!) that comes with a full second disc of DLC to pre-install. There's quite a bit of content there....
I finally got my room painted and my Brandon Roy fathead up. It took a lot of sanding and hard work to get it up correctly, but it was worth it. Funny story: I was playing Dance Central with that Brandon fathead up behind me. Now I'm not sayin' there wasn't some kinda glitch. All I'm sayin' is that I earned an achievement for the game taking a picture while two people were dancing, when in fact...
Today has been a pretty boring day. I've been parading back and forth from my bedroom to paint, back to the kitchen to eat something. A little bit of video gaming has been thrown into the mix as well. This whole situation started because I got a Kinect for Christmas, and decided that I would make it fit in my bedroom, since there's not enough space in the living room. So I planned on just rearr...
Note: Yeah, I beat Mass Effect 2 a few days ago. This blog is indeed about that (as well as why it’s my GOTY). Don't like it? Don't eat! **Spoilers below** So the first time I was able to play Mass Effect 2, it was borrowed from a friend. That was months ago and I only got to pay probably five to six hours before he wanted the game back. So I got a good taste, which had me dying to finish the g...
Mass Effect 2. --JJWeatherman
I haven't been on Giant Bomb much lately. I decided that I needed to take a little break since I've basically been using this site every day for a very long time. Well, I made it several days, but the Quick Looks piled up and I've decided to return and catch up on everything. Oh Giant Bomb, how you've been missed. I had two of my wisdom teeth pulled last Monday morning. That was an experience....
2K Reel Maker is in effect, and this is totally blog-worthy: I added some sweet sound effects that totally class up the piece, but sadly, they aren't showing up. :(
I couldn't tell you why it's taken so long, but I'm just now realizing that BioWare is probably my favorite video game developer. The game worlds that they've created, and the game mechanics that they've pioneered/refined, have kept me coming back to their games again and again over the years. It's pretty incredible looking back on all of the great experiences BioWare has been able to deliver m...
Note: I'm sorry for any typos that may be present. I'm a bit tired and am choosing not to proof-read this super throughly. This isn't a review (I do plan to write one), but more like a stream of consciousness type deal where I'm going to talk about how I feel about Rock Band 3. I have quite a few things to talk about, so this may get rambly. Fair warning. Rock Band 3 is easily one of the most a...
So I've been carving video game pumpkins for at least a couple years strait now. Last years pumpkin was based on portal. I only have a shitty picture of it, but here's that one from a year ago: Portal's a game. Just FYI. It was roughly carved, but I thought it turned out fairly well. This year I decided to continue the theme and think up something else video game related. Since I've been playin...
OK, yes I do. I expected to get strait-up murdered in Duke 3D yesterday on TNT. Turns out I'm way better than I expected. I won two strait matches rather convincingly. I come with proof: Y'all got owned Y'all got owned: The College Years I know I probably look like a douche for this blog, but I'm proud of myself. To everyone in the matches: Good game. It was really fun. --JJWeatherman
As a few of you may remember, I once upon a time created a crazy story in picture form based on one of Dave's tweets involving him ordering a pizza. Well, I guess I'm a crazy stalker because I decided to do it again. This one is done in a record time of 1 hour post-tweet. Gotta be on top of this breaking news, people. This is based on real events that occurred at around 9 PM on Tuesday, Septemb...
It's true. He answers my tweets. So I guess the Giant Bomb/FINALLEVEL collab was put on hold. I just hope it happens sooner rather than later. FLTG fo life!
I got to play PlayStation Move today, yay! My brother bought it, so it isn't really my own. I did play around with Sports Champions a good while though. I don't even know what to call the controller. The wand? The Move stick? The Ice Cream Cone? I think it's called the Move Controller, but that's no fun. Squishy orb is squishy Picking up the Ice Cream Cone for the first time felt pretty good. I...
The NBA 2K11 demo has been released on XBL to my surprise. This game has absolutely snuck up on me this year. It's one of my favorite sports game series of all time though, and I may go as far to say it's one of my favorite video game series' in general. Needless to say I was excited to try out this years product, so here's some points that struck me having played through the single-quarter dem...
It's tradition on gaming sites to tell others "Watcha been playin". I almost never do this, just because I think it can easily become boring. Whatever though, I got a bunch of random stuff to say. Feel free to disregard this entire blog. Editors note: This blog did not end up very simple or traditional at all. Oh well. First thing's first: Deadly Premonition After beating the game for the first...
For anyone reading this that's not informed: I'm writing a series of blogs about cartoons. My loose plan is to feature one cartoon per blog and tell you--dear reader--why I love each featured cartoon. We can then proceed to recall the 'good ole days' of our respective youths. Full series: Part 1 -- "Hey Arnold!" Part 2 -- "The Magic School Bus" Part 3 -- "Rugrats" Part 4 -- "Spider-Man" (You're...
For anyone reading this that's not informed: I'm writing a series of blogs about cartoons. My loose plan is to feature one cartoon per blog and tell you--dear reader--why I love each featured cartoon. We can then proceed to recall the 'good ole days' of our respective youths. Full series: Part 1 -- "Hey Arnold!" Part 2 -- "The Magic School Bus" (You're reading it!) Part 3 -- "Rugrats" Part 4 --...
So I've been getting back into Halo 3 recently. what's the deal with Halo 3? /Seinfeld impression It's actually not the game which forced these thoughts into my head, but rather the players I've been playing with. I know that the internet has been the go-to destination for as long as I can remember for people to show up and complain about other players online, for that reason I usually don't li...
これを翻訳する場合は、7日間で死んでしまう。グッドラック！ 訪問していただきありがとうございます。 をお楽しみください残りの7日間。 Oh and by the way: If anyone else feels compelled to craft their own crazy Japanese profile pictures, I would fully support it.
For anyone reading this that's not informed: I'm writing a series of blogs about cartoons. My loose plan is to feature one cartoon per blog and tell you--dear reader--why I love each featured cartoon. We can then proceed to recall the 'good ole days' of our respective youths. Full series: Part 1 -- "Hey Arnold!" (You're reading it!) Part 2 -- "The Magic School Bus" Part 3 -- "Rugrats" Part 4 --...
And man, it's lead to some photoshop work. Thought I'd post these: In case you guys wanna watch some predators get gotten, there seems to be a never-ending stream of the show here . (psssst: you get to see Ann Curry from time to time!) I've been watching for the past few days. I've seen almost all of the episodes now but I STILL can't pull myself away! It's so compelling! XD --J-Dawg out **My a...
*In my best sexy DJ voice* This is for alll yaaall followers out there: *In my best Bender impression* Haha! Suck on that! Doo doo bee deep boop boo! Now I must apologize for writing yet another "tired blog", which may as well be drunken blogs. It's 7:55 AM right now and I have yet to sleep. Now that you all feel throughly insulted, let me *sexyDJvoice* eeeeeeaze the pain */sexyDJvoice* with th...
It's rare that a game will give me such a strong first impression that I feel like I have to stop and tell everyone about it. That's the case here though. US Box art So I just got the new P3P and have been playing a few minutes of it. I had to stop after I got to the first save point and write about how AWESOME it seems so far. I remember everyone saying they liked P3 more than P4 when the firs...
The release of Crackdown 2 is on the horizon now, which is great news for my fellow agility orb hounds. Upstart developer Ruffian Games is the studio behind the new release. The shift in development duties shouldn’t be palpable though, as most of Ruffian is made up of former developers of the original Crackdown. These guys know how to make a Crackdown game and it shows, for better or worse. Swe...
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For anyone who doesn't follow Screened so much, Alex and Matt have been watching A LOT of bad movies recently. So I decided to make fun of them properly, in the photo edit thread. The first one I did was referring to The Last Airbender and how horrible it turned out to be. This is my imaginary reaction from Alex and Matt: They've also been on somewhat of a Twilight binge the last couple weeks,...
Not that you guys don't already know everything about it. But I have one now and it seems pretty awesome. It's very quiet. Slightly less quiet with a disc spinning bu oh man it's soo much improved. The beep sounds on the touch buttons are nice. But oh no! It already has finger prints on it! Go go bad camera phone pictures! I payed a whopping $65 after my trade deal with Gamestop. Pretty good st...
This is based on real events that occurred between Friday night, May 28th, and Saturday Morning, May 29th. **In no way am I intentionally implying Dave does drugs of any kind in real life. :P
Yo... I made some blog banners: I was working on a third one until I gave up, due to it being ugly as hell. I was trying to make a design based on a circuit board. Turns out I'm not quite creative/skilled enough to pull that one off. At least not at 2am. I kinda like the brown one though. Anyone else have opinions? Is my work crap? :P
So this happened today: Then I decided to go see this: After that, I watched the finale of this: I then proceeded to create this: So now that it's midnight and my Xbox is dead, all I have left to do is play this on loop until I fall asleep: Picture blogs... who knew?
The Rock Band: Green Day game has been getting some more advertisements as it's release date inches closer and closer. I'm not gonna lie, Green Day has some great songs on their older albums like Dookie and Nimrod. Sadly there are only three tracks from Nimrod, but better than nothing I suppose. But anyways, all this Green Day talk recently is just making me think of the Pearl Jam Live: Rock Ba...
Alex Navarro, Matt Rorie, and company at Screened.com have been up and rolling for a few days now as most people here know. It's an awesome site as expected being part of Whiskey media. Regarding my parenthetical in the title there, I made what basically amounts to a pact with myself that I will review one movie per day, starting the day the site launched. I chose Zoolander to review the first...
That was quite possibly the greatest title ever. Now enjoy this random photo of my favorite beverage: On a side note, is anyone else mad about the switch from glass SoBe bottles to plastic? Its awful in my opinion. It doesn't even taste quite the same. I still buy it though, I'm a sucker. The one in the picture is the last glass bottle I could find at my nearest store. As you may or may not be...
I finally got the new phone I have been waiting on for a few weeks. It's a myTouch 3G. Nothing special, but it's a huge upgrade from my old crappy phone. Cool White I've been downloading all kinds of free apps for the last few hours. So far I have downloaded: Google Goggles, Shazam, Discovery Channel app, I'm With CoCo app, Google sky app (I think it's called), and a few more. I haven't even to...
If I were to create a video game, I would spend a hell of a lot of time coming up with a great idea for it. But right now I can't get this bad idea out of my head so I'm gonna write it down. Hopefully this will let me forget about it. I don't have a lot of the details nailed down so bare with me. OK, it's called "Darksliders". Its a game about an army of evil (and dark!) sliders. I mean sliders...
Since the Blazers have been letting me down in the NBA Playoffs so far, I've had to divert my attention from them and focus on other things. Except I don't have a lot of other things to focus on right now so I made a video. This is an extremely serious video and it shouldn't be enjoyed by anyone... enjoy: And also, Doofy Crap 2.0! It's new and improved! Oh and thanks to the dude who made the Br...
"Damn you JJWeatherman!" was one of the last things I heard before the last game of Halo 2 I would ever play over Xbox LIVE. It was the very early morning of April 15th and I was playing Halo 2... with Giant Bomb. Ahh the memories! Last night (at the time of this writing) was freakin' amazing. As a lot of you know, The one and only Giant Bomb crew hosted what was dubbed as the "Xboxalypse". The...
As the NBA Playoffs inch closer and closer, I am feeling the need to talk about the Portland Trail Blazers more and more. If you don't like sports I recommend you get out of here while you still can. I live in the Portland area and we all love the Blazers here. They are our only pro sports team after all. This will be the second season they have made it back to the playoffs after a troubling st...
Everyone's excited about the new series of Endurance Runs and for good reason. Freakin' double the action! I'm having a hard time choosing exactly how I will watch this "season" though. Initially I thought of course I would watch both VJ's and BR's Runs as they are released. I have now done this for two days and am thinking of maybe changing it up. I'm considering choosing one Endurance Run to...
I recently downloaded some freeware that is useful for making animated gifs and I have already made a couple cool ones. Since I haven't blogged about anything else recently, I figured I would share these. I want to make some more, but sadly I am lacking ideas. If anyone has a suggestion for something that would be funny or cool, then by all means share. Anyways, here's what I've got: aaaaand th...
Don't you just hate it when the title of a blog tells you absolutely nothing about the actual contents of said blog? I know I do. But I'm also a hypocrite. This was me for 3 hours Well I finally went to see Avatar a few days ago so I want to talk about it while my mind can still remember the majority of the film. I'm not gonna pretend to review this because I'm no film critic and lets be honest...
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Just right off the bat, no I won't be discussing anything related to Jersey Shore this evening. Now that half of the potential readers have been filtered out, down to business. :P I want to talk some about achievements. I also want to say something about all the community crap going on recently, but I'll keep that short and save it for the end. So achievements are in my opinion one of the singl...
I've wanted to write a quick blog about my new and improved Rock Band drums since I got them. Sadly, I have been delayed, until now. I finally got some decent pictures taken a little while ago so I figured now is a good time to write something. A couple of my Christmas gifts this year were 2 awesome cymbals to go with my ION Drum Rocker. I decided to go for the Pintech cymbals after seeing Davi...
A bad quality pic I took from my seat I finally got to go to my first Blazer game of the season last night. It's always exciting going to watch the Blazers in the Rose Garden Arena. The fans here really have no other major sports teams to root for, so pretty much everyone supports the Blazers. The game I was at last night was the 90th consecutive sell out at the Rose Garden, and that goes back...
As stated in a previous status update by yours truly: "I have an addiction... to Assassins Creed 2". Badassery at it's finest Very few games manage to get me to actually want to collect every last hidden collectible--whatever they may be--in a game. Assassins Creed 2 really is one of those games. There have actually been three games this year that have done this to me. The first being Resident...
Whenever I find myself exploring the painting aspect of Forza 3, I always seem to find myself making ridiculous things that just seem to come to me and infiltrate my mind. I'm often held against my will by some mysterious force that wants me to make the most terrifically terrible designs. Once an idea pops into my head I am held hostage by that mysterious force and cannot stop until I have comp...
Have you ever wondered how to stuff a thanksgiving turkey with with several leather shoes? Have you ever wondered how much you could save on car insurance by switching to Gieco? Have you ever needed to know how to hide a dead body from the police? Do you ever wonder what would happen if you microwaved an unopened box of Twinkies on high for 10 minutes? Well if so, you are definitely in the WRON...
That's the reason Alex's twitter feed is so awesome. You never know when you're gonna get crazy/awesome shit like this. I thought this was worthy of it's own special place in my list of blogs, so there you have it. Special thanks to El Vampiro Jun.... I mean Alex Navarro again for his awesome pic. I just wish I would have thought of this before last Halloween.
Basketball talk As witnessed in the prior video, Greg Oden had a heck of a game Monday night. In combination with a few other Blazers nice nights lead to an easy win over Chicago's once great Bulls. Greg had 24 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks if I remember right. Likewise, LaMarcus Aldrige put on an All-Star performance with 24 points, and 13 rebounds. These two in combination really took cont...
It's been a while since I have posted a blog so... ta-da! Of course I have been keeping up with my non-stop Rock Band-age lately. I like to call it Rock Bandito, but that's neither here nor there. I recently bought Pearl Jam's Backspacer DLC album and it's pretty awesome. Some of those songs are a lot harder on drums than I would have expected. Also, "Just Breathe" on guitar is really tough for...
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I got home from my trip to Vegas a while ago but have been being lazy in blog writing as usual. Well I have wanted to blog about other things so I thought I better get this one out of the way. The road looked like this most of the time The road was long... with many winding turns (stupid song reference). But yeah, the road was long and very boring for the majority of the ride. At times there we...
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. At least that's what I'm told. This will be my first trip to Vegas so I'm pretty excited. I'm going down for a wedding so time to mess around will be fairly slim, but I'll make some time. There's a lot to do there though so I doubt i will see everything I want to. I'm driving down from Oregon, so that kinda sucks. The drive will be long and it will just ge...
Well I just was given an Xbox Live account from my friend that has lots of Rock Band DLC and XBLA games on it that I can now play, so I thought I would write about it. Basically my friend is selling his Xbox 360 and all his games and accessories. So instead of wasting all the DLC and everything he has spent points on, he just gave it to me. Officially the coolest thing ever. Anyways, after down...
It was around 3am and I heard something rattling around in the kitchen so I decided to check it out. We just recently had a raccoon come in the other day so that's why I pretty much already knew it was another one. If you are wondering why I am taking so long to get to the kitchen it's because I'm SCARED! :P Check it out:
This will be my 1000th post on Giant Bomb and for some reason I find it kind of exciting. It's a milestone in my dedication to the site in a way. But enough about that, just wanted to throw that out there. Neku, the main character Something actually worthy of a blog is me finally getting around to playing The World Ends With You. I had always heard good things but it seemed like one of those we...
Apparently I have been living under a rock for a year or so because I was lookin around on Hulu and found some trailers for "The Cleveland Show" which is a spin off of Family Guy. I have one question to ask Seth McFarlane: "WHY?!". Honestly, why does a show even need to exist that involves Cleveland, his new "Family Guy turned black" family, and two bears as neighbors. Yeah, two freakin bears....
I was playing Condemned 2 again last night to finally try and finish it, I have put it off for so long. But then I ran into this level that was just too good to pass up. Basically it involves torture and there are dogs involved. I'm sorry world, I couldn't resist making this video:
Alright, I am gonna have to buy me some Burnout, now. I rented Burnout Paradise back in the day and liked it a whole lot but figured I was done with it after nearly a week. Well clearly with all this DLC that has come out since launch that I have missed out on, I should have bought it in the first place. Looking back on all the videos here on the site about burnout DLC is kinda incredible, ther...
Wall of text powers, activate! Alright this is a follow up to the blog I wrote yesterday entitled “Shortest blog ever…”. Well It’s sort of a follow up, I just didn’t have time to write yesterday so I am going to do it now. YAAAY! The topic I will try and focus on is E3. I know, I know, everyone is talking about E3 this time of year. Well I want to document what I’m thinking pre-E3 for a fun com...
I had to write a new blog because I couldn't stand having to look at my Blazers blog anymore since they have been out of the playoffs for a while now. Anyways I actually did plan on writing a real blog but I have things to do today. I hope I get to it soon though. OK maybe a little about what I have been doing... pretty much playing this: (I loved it, see my review)
Thank god. The Blazers came out and put up a great fight tonight against the Rockets and came away with their first playoff win in 6 years. The Blazers have far exceeded my expectations this year and even if they go on to lose 3 strait to lose the series, it wont matter. They have already achieved an amazing season with the youngest playing rotation in the entire league. How amazing is that?! J...
OK I'm not literally crying but I want to, lol. The first game of the Playoffs was complete misery for the Blazers and I was just sitting in front of my t.v. thinking, "Are you serious?". Ugg. From the first five seemingly instant points by Yao, I knew this game wasn't going to be pretty. Sure enough it turned out downright awful. We ended up down by about 25 points for the entire 2nd half. Eve...
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Ode to Funky Student: Oh, Funky Student how you puzzle me, you stand here waiting for someone to say, "hey", I'll accept your challenge, quest 23, You start it with a shout that goes, "Yayay!", Deductive reasoning like whoa, son! Lets see if your mind can vibe to this, He feeds me a question in exchange for some keys, I just hope he doesn't pull a gun, I answer... "correct!" we bump fists, "You...
I was just watching the new MLB 2K9 video put up by vinny and it looks (and sounds) great! Anyways I was just thinking that even though I'm not a baseball fan, I love to play baseball video games. And it's not just baseball, if I go through all the sports I don't like in real life, for some reason I love to play them in video games. For example, baseball, hockey, and soccer are three huge sport...
OK, i'm not exactly new to giant bomb but ever since I joined the site way back in the day, (actually when it was just a blog I think) I have planned on doing some editing and writing some reviews and such. Well I think i'm finally gonna get around to that. I always listen to the bombcast and check the site for news but other than that I haven't done a whole lot. So i'm just sayin what up and y...