Jonbu the baker

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.

I have to post to make the deadline I set three weeks ago. One can also argue that I wanted to fulfill the prophecy I made three weeks ago, so I resisted blogging for three weeks.

I’ve been watching 24 season 2. Few years ago, one of the slashdot featured articles mentioned (Spoiler Alert (?)–>) that in 24, all good guys use Macs, and all bad guys use Dell. So that was that. They’ve ruined it for me. I knew the terrorist suspect was a good guy cuz he had a Powerbook. But it’s ok, there’s more mysteries that can’t be solved with laptops, and I’m not done watching yet.

If it weren’t for the harddrive speed and space limitations, I think I could easily just get a laptop and use it as my main computer. Saves a lot of money not needing a desktop all the time. Right now I still need a place to “settle”.

I got new tires and new spark plugs, and a new antenna. It feels good. It was so much money that I’m feeling a little numb right now. Best time to buy more stuff. The car servicing industry is still an old one, so unlike online-shopping, where you can usually comparison-shop and find the best deals without any compromises, you pay dearly in exchange for convenience when it comes to cars fixing. $100 per hour of labour. All I could do was sigh and sign the receipt.

Pirates of the Caribbean. All three are so good, for slightly different reasons. The goods out weights the bads.

My DS hinge cracked. Had no idea when it happened. I thought I got one of the good ones.

I got bored today and almost wanted to buy some VC games on the Wii.. Resident Evil 4 Comes out later this month. Maybe I’ll get that instead.