Saws; more video games
Fit the First: Do You Not Like My Mouth Words?
Hello there. Today I learned how to use various saws. This was part of a "Safety Seminar," whose completion allows me to use the shop at ITP. Saws are new to me, so I was timid at first, but soon I got swept up in that masculine rush only attainable from loud activities that threaten your digits.
My physical computing course (of all my courses the most likely to require use of the shop) daunts me more than any of the others. There are like wires and stuff. And solder. Tools. This, the realm of the tangible, has been foreign to my sphere of study for so long that now I almost feel it necessary to don some kind of moon-helmet. I'll put on a helmet, breathe canned air, bounce with care across this lunar landscape and hopefully fail to cut my damn fingers off. Or electrocute myself to death.
Fit the Second: On Being Very Late to the Party
Did I tell you that I bought a Gamecube? I bought a Gamecube. At $4.99 used, Metroid Prime is perhaps the best value in gaming of all time (according to my instruments, it registers over four bajillion metric fun units per cent). I'm chipping away at Skies of Arcadia Legends, I managed to get through "Classic" mode on "Easy" with Pikachu in SSBM, I have Super Mario Sunshine but that's kind of on the back burner (simmering there with Animal Crossing, which I can't justify playing much since I spend 30 minutes or more with AC:WW daily). Good stuff.
So anyway, here's my question. Aside from those I've mentioned above, what games are really worth playing on the Gamecube? Is it, for example, worth getting gouged on eBay for Ikaruga and/or Beyond Good and Evil? Which should I play first, Wind Waker or Resident Evil 4?
Here's another, related question: Can someone defend Yoshi's Island to me? I'm playing it on the GBA and am finding no grounds on which to agree with those who claim it's the best platformer of all time.
Hello there. Today I learned how to use various saws. This was part of a "Safety Seminar," whose completion allows me to use the shop at ITP. Saws are new to me, so I was timid at first, but soon I got swept up in that masculine rush only attainable from loud activities that threaten your digits.
My physical computing course (of all my courses the most likely to require use of the shop) daunts me more than any of the others. There are like wires and stuff. And solder. Tools. This, the realm of the tangible, has been foreign to my sphere of study for so long that now I almost feel it necessary to don some kind of moon-helmet. I'll put on a helmet, breathe canned air, bounce with care across this lunar landscape and hopefully fail to cut my damn fingers off. Or electrocute myself to death.
Fit the Second: On Being Very Late to the Party
Did I tell you that I bought a Gamecube? I bought a Gamecube. At $4.99 used, Metroid Prime is perhaps the best value in gaming of all time (according to my instruments, it registers over four bajillion metric fun units per cent). I'm chipping away at Skies of Arcadia Legends, I managed to get through "Classic" mode on "Easy" with Pikachu in SSBM, I have Super Mario Sunshine but that's kind of on the back burner (simmering there with Animal Crossing, which I can't justify playing much since I spend 30 minutes or more with AC:WW daily). Good stuff.
So anyway, here's my question. Aside from those I've mentioned above, what games are really worth playing on the Gamecube? Is it, for example, worth getting gouged on eBay for Ikaruga and/or Beyond Good and Evil? Which should I play first, Wind Waker or Resident Evil 4?
Here's another, related question: Can someone defend Yoshi's Island to me? I'm playing it on the GBA and am finding no grounds on which to agree with those who claim it's the best platformer of all time.