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This album is HILARIOUS. The first song is the best. It drags in the middle, but it's still great.

More proof that Vimeo is hipster YouTube.  And I mean hipster in a good way. I have two kaiten sushi videos on my Japan YouTube playlist (which keeps getting obliterated, see below) which are cute but plain. Just the camera on the conveyor belt, all natural sound. This one on Vimeo is paired with an awesome song that totally transforms it.  The ( Read more... )

So, with my fresh infusion of cash from the auction (I guess I should've said "who wants this" and skipped eBay altogether), I felt more comfortable finally pre-ordering Retro Game Challenge for the DS, which ships tomorrow!  Ray Barnholt and Jeremy Parish have covered the games in far better detail than I can over on the 1UP Retro Gaming Blog, but ( Read more... )

DIE SQUARE ENIX DIE

Or should that be "DIE JAPAN DIE" for having their super cell phones?

Don't you miss the old Squaresoft? The one that made new games. The one that existed before The Spirits Within tanked at the box office and they had to sell themselves to Enix. Who would have thought that Enix would turn Square into a money-printing remake factoryIt's just my luck that a couple of weeks after I finally buy Final Fantasy IV for the ( Read more... )

Phoenix Wright tries to explain both the idiosyncracies of the game format and the Japanese judicial system by tossing the whole thing into the future ("In the year 2000!  Crime is so rampant and the court system so overwhelmed that trials will be presided over by a moron of a judge, and prosecuted by blood-thirsty thugs! Only one man can stand ( Read more... )