Mysterious QUARTER POUNDER store in Tokyo selling burgers. Complete with raving customer testimonials on the site. Looks like it’s worth a visit. The packaging looks stylish yet oddly familiar… HMMMM…
Just finished Fallout 3 unexpectedly. Unexpectedly because I thought I was just playing one of the quests, and all the sudden the ending showed up. Not very happy with the game, but I think I’ll go back and play some more.
One thing I didn’t like from the early screenshots of SSBB was the material they used to make Mario’s blue overall. He was a pixelated man (NES), and then a cartoonie man (N64), but he had BLUE overalls. Blue as in, RGB blue. 8-bit color blue. In SSBB, tho, He wore texture mapped jeans. That’s just wrong.
I was hoping they’d come to their senses and change it. But it never happened. Now he wears jeans. And he has more fingers, apparently.
Other than that, I was fortunate to have tried the game itself. They kept the same system, same announcer, and same “Giant Glove” boss at the end of single player mode. Bunch of new characters, many are new to me. More are waiting to be unlocked. The story mode tho, was really different. And I was happy to find that the story-telling cut scenes were all speech-less, no language barriers. Sometimes things happen while fighting that require some reading tho, and my Japanese reading skill is too slow to make sense out of those. During one fight a guy called “Mr.Restart” (I think) came out of nowhere and said something. I had no idea what was happening, plus the fight was still going on. Maybe next time I’ll try to pause or use the in-game camera.. if possible.
That blue dragon picture looks nice on the front page, so I kinda wanted to leave it there for a while by not blogging.
Update: I just progressed onto disc 3.
Update 2: I decided to be done with the game w/o finishing it. It’s getting too repetitive.
I’ve always (mistakenly) used categories as tags, so it’s an easy transition for me to go to tags. Got my tag cloud set up and “japan” is so big! It will always overshadow whatever else I write on this blog.
Was browsing around for cameras for my next trip, and saw this: Sony’s Smile Shutter
Basically the camera takes the picture whenever it detects a *smile*. Pretty neat. You can adjust the “strength” of the smile so that it takes the picture on a slight smile, or have it be strict and only take pictures when it sees a strong smile. So with this camera, you tell a joke instead of getting the person to say jeez.
I think it’s great for happy people.