Destination: Heaven

PROM!! & METAL!!

2007-05-03T13:00:00.000-07:00

Heh, whoa. It's been a cool several days lately. So yeah, I went to prom a couple weeks ago and it was alotta fun. Anyone who says it's stupid or a waste of time and money really needs to get their head out of their ass. It's really good fun.

So I'm the guy with the insane grin on the right and that drop dead gorgeous angel on the left was my date. I figured that proms were a given in getting a girlfriend if you had a date with you but alas, it was not meant to be. It seems she wasn't interested in me beyond friendship. Or maybe I didn't try hard enough. Damn my underachievement! Anyway, were're still good friends and I'm really glad I went. And they played friggin' Peanut Butter Jelly Time and Bohemian Rhapsody! If they played Without A Fight, that would've just completed it. Then afterwards we all headed to Taco Bell with Tuxedos, dresses, and all. Double Decker Tacos FTW!!

About a week after prom I went to see Type O Negative live at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. My friend, Ryan, wanted to see them claiming that they're a "legendary band" and "seeing them live is a once in a lifetime thing." I'm not a fan of metal so I couldn't care less but he wouldn't leave me alone about it. So I eventually went at a cost of a $35 ticket. So the performance was good and the music wasn't half bad. The lead singer was fucking monster though; he's the guy in the bottom right, I think. Ryan and I had front row so this dude was right in front of us. He towered the stage! He made a joke inbetween songs and metioned that he's 6'8". A fucking behemoth, he is. So all in all it was a decent night, but not $35 bucks worth.

ADIOS??

2007-04-08T03:02:00.000-07:00

Well this is really shitty. I just got news of Matt Wilson's latest predicament and it... just downright sucks ass. Anyone who's a fan of his work, Bonus Stage, can understand how this is a really harsh blow. Everyone else probably doesn't care less, which is understandable.

But damn, I've been waiting for The School Show Staring School to start for so long but now, it might not ever see the light of day. It just seems kinda sad to me some how he was doing good work, great work even, and some random douche takes it all away. Just fucked up is all. My best wishes on how he handles his future go out to

2007-04-04T20:48:00.000-07:00

It's awfully fuzzy. Just click the image for a good view or the actual page can be found here.

So it turns out that I placed "Uwe Boll" under my list of "No Likes" and he leaves a comment about how he resents that. Who the fuck does he think he is? It makes me wonder if that's really him or some sad loser posing as him but still, just who the fuck does he think he is??

If you don't know who he is, he's the one who "directed" those shitty videogame movies like House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark.

Well, it's not important anyway. Just crazy.
Spring break has been nice ^^

Videogame review= Game Boy: Donkey Kong

2007-03-14T14:44:00.000-07:00

I recently picked up and beat Donkey Kong for the game boy so I figured I'd share what I thought about it. I'm pretty sure that by now most people have played the original Donkey Kong arcade game which has been ported to the NES, GameCube's Animal Crossing, and Wii's Virtual Console. At the the very least you must, have to have seen a reference or parody of some sort from Futurama. At any rate, Donkey Kong for the Game Boy (a.k.a. Donkey Kong '94) is a sequel or special edition of sorts that got plenty of attention at it's initial release but is fairly forgotten today.

The game begins much as the original did; Donkey Kong captures Pauline and Mario must climb a construction tower to rescue her, all the while dodging Kong's barrels and fighting off living fire. Just like the original, it ends in a showdown where Mario must break the supports of the top floor making Donkey Kong fall, bump his head, and be defeated. Victory for Mario and love from Pauline. At this point, the game would reset and start over on a harder difficulty but for this version, Donkey Kong revives, snatches Pauline, and runs as Mario gives chase. From here on, Mario has to chase down Kong through a series of over 90 different puzzle-action style levels spanning across 9 worlds all leading up to a pretty epic final boss battle.

Most levels have Mario looking for a key, grabbing it, and (without losing it) using it on a door that is the exit of that level. Every fourth level features a boss battle against Kong that requires Mario to repel the barrels thrown at him and thus, throw it back at Kong. The game play is very reminiscent of games like Wario Land in that you'll often need to use the environment and your enemies in order to reach your goal. The boss battles are not bad either and you'll eventually need to make good use out of all the skills you've learned throughout the game. What's most interesting though is that allot of Mario's signature moves debuted here; things such as a triple-jump and side-jump (which returned in Super Mario 64) began here. Other moves were mixed here too like using two vines to climb faster like in Donkey Kong Jr or grabbing enimies and items and throwing them a la Super Mario Bros. 2. There's also handstands, spinning and jumping off wires, and, of course, hammers which can now be thrown and juggled to keep it used past the normal time restriction. This is how all sequels and remakes should be.

The game play and controls are real solid, as is the level design. Unfortunately, the levels aren't that big and most off them wont even scroll off screen. Most levels should take you between one to five minutes before moving on. Maybe ten for the hard ones. The game features a save program which is nice but you probably won't need it since extra lives are virtually limitless and the average gamer should finish it one or two hours. Most boss battles, while fun, are often too similar to be memorable and don't really get good until the last few. You play a bonus game when you pick up three certain items in a stage but all this does is help you get your lives to 99 and keep it there. The music isn't really all that impressive but, then again anything that wasn't Zelda or Kirby back then had a hard time being recognized. Another feature that should have been added is some kinda of replay value. After the game has been completed, you're given no incentive to go back except to beat your own best times. Not even a hard mode or anything. Despite all this though, it's great to go through once.

This game is good. Real good, but not at all great. What it can do is awesome but it gives you too little and too few to work with, not to mention requiring only a day's effort to complete it. All in all, Donkey Kong is worth it at a cheap price (say, five bucks) but keep the receipt and return it when you finish since you won't use it much after.

3/5 AVERAGE

Something new

2007-03-10T21:46:00.000-08:00

So I hear blogs are cool and hip and all that stuff. I also want to have a journalistic career of some sort so a blog could be good writing practice. I think I'll rant about how much video games suck now days. Cause, you know, that's so original. I guess I'll see how long I care to keep this thing going. Just for the hell of it, y'know.