Destroy All Humans!

No, I'm not going to talk about that game.

I just checked out a new video game show called Destroy The Humanoid. It seems to cover just retro stuff, with a British angle. So that means less NES, and more Spectrum. But you should check it out, it's got a good sense of humour, though the Space Invaders gag got old after the nth time it was repeated.

While I'm here, here's one of my latest photos with Japlish. It's not rude or anything, but it makes me smile (^_^).



It's a bit blurry, but if you look carefully, you might just see that the Ku Klux Klan have started exporting coffee pots to Japan...

Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly

Sorry for the lack of updates. I'll be back soon with a few decent things to post, such as a translation of a Famitsu staffer's opinions on GTA.

It's gonna be a lot harder to update my blog from now on because I won't be able to do it during free time at work anymore. Bloody work servers and their evil new goofing off internet filters! A curse on thee, I-Filter! Especially as I can't even check my Gmail thanks to this new filter evil spawn of the Interwebs Devil himself!. Seriously lamerific.

Well back soon. Anyone catch E3? What did y'all think of it?

"It's over, Prime."

Hey, there everyone.

As you may have noticed from my 1UP page, I like Transformers. Have done since I was in primary school in the 80s. I was the sad Transformers guru/otaku who knew all the profiles of all the Transformers and everyone else consulted to know what their Transformers could do when we played at school. A sort of Transformers DM, if you will. So otaku, but hey, I was a kid, ya know? Do you remember tech specs, those little pieces on each character's personality on the back of every box? Here's a reminder (^_^):



I've since forgotten all that incredibly useful knowledge now and I'm not such a hardcore fan and collector as I was back in the day. But I'm still one of those guys who gets excited when I hear the line, "Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost." You've got The Touch. You've got The Powwweerrrr... YEAH! (^_^)

Actually, therealpidge05 just sent me a copy of the new edition of Transformers The Movie (as opposed to the new movie which is just called Transformers) on DVD for my upcoming birthday (Thank you very much, by the way!), complete with awesome lenticular cover. Shame it's separate from the case and therefore falls on the floor all the time, but it's still great.







Here's what the cover looks like... which transforms (narf!) into this one...











I think the movie has been hitting cinemas in the US recently, but Japan has to wait till mid August to get their giant robo on. I'm not too optimistic about the movie because I've been disappointed a zillion times before by hyped up movies. And this take on the TF universe doesn't look very faithful to the original - how could it be, considering the original movie bombed big time at the box office? And with a mega$bucks budget comes mega$bucks risk, so the producers have to fuck up my childhood memories adapt the concept for a wider audience. I get that. But that's what makes me not so optimistic about the upcoming movie. I hope it'll be good. But Megatron. *sigh* Meggy, Meggy, Meggy. You will always be a Walther P-38 to me...

Speaking of ol' Megs, I read on White Fang's blog that there's a remade version of Megatron (Masterpiece Megatron)! I have a Masterpiece Optimus from a couple of years back, and wondered at the time why there was no equivalent version of Megs. About bloody time! Shame the US version has to have a smeggy orange barrel tip added because of US gun laws, but that's what you get when people rob 7-11s with a Megatron in gun mode. How anyone could fall for that is beyond me, but there you go...


Masterpiece Megatron. He pwns Starscream's whiny arse, and you know it!

Would love to hear some comments on the new movie from anyone, positive or otherwise. But no spoilers please! Any spoilers and I'll go Hulk Smash! on your ass (^_^).

Royd Rage and More WTF!!?? DS Software

While shopping in a local game shop here in sweat-just-dropped-from-my-balls-it's-so-humid Japan last weekend, I found this:



Gotta love that Japlish. I know I do. Hours of fun entertainment looking for stuff like that (^o^)

In the same shop I also saw a display for an upcoming series of DS software. Maybe you've heard of the Oryori Navi series on DS here, which is basically a series of cookbooks on your DS. In the same style, I give you:

Bartender DS!

Not just one, not two, but three different "games" for your DS. Bartender DS is for cocktails, you've got Sommelier DS for wines, and Sakashou DS for shouchu, a kind of sake.

Don't believe me? Well lookee here...



I certainly won't be buying them, but I'm sure you've got your preorder in for the shochu one already, right Shaolinsteele? (^_^)

The Cocktease

Well, I guess I've left it a bit long to tell you guys whether my baby is going to be a little Mario or Peach.



Let's just say... he's gonna be wearing the red cap and blue dungarees(^_^) Yep, it's gonna be a boy! WEEEHAHH! Not that I minded either way, of course. I'll take him to do all sorts of manly things like camping, hunting, fishing... on the TV with a Wiimote in hand (^_^;

Haven't had a lot of time recently to blog because I've been tired from work and I've had to spend a lot of time rearranging my cable jungle here at Nerfbuster Video (that's what therealpidge likes to call my apartment 'cos there's so much gamer and DVD awesomeness here!) to accomodate the baby's stuff that my wife's sister just sent us. We got 4 boxes of all kinds of like new 2nd hand baby stuff. Which'll save us a Jeffing fuckton of money. Also finally went wireless and got an Airport card and Extreme Base Station in the last week. It's great to have my Wii and PSP finally online over Wi-Fi! There's a ton of videos and other downloadables from the official PSP sites, which is great. I didn' t expect that from Sony at all. Messing about swapping Miis with therealpidge, Everybody Votes (Or Minna de Touhyou as it's known here) and all that other online Wii fun-osity has been great, too. I'll pop up my Wii Number later so anyone willing can swap Miis with me. The weirder the better! (^o^)

Have to say though, I've been having a lot of problems getting my DS online. DS having only WEP security sucks my big sweaty balls big time. I don't want to leave my network on WEP all the time as WEP ain't worth a damn, according to the Feds. I've tried some workarounds on my Mac, but couldn't get them to work. Temporarily switching down to WEP or trying to use one of these workarounds (if they actually worked on my DS) only ends up fudging up the rest of my network that's set to WPA. So, boo, Nintendo, boo. And while we're spreading hate around, a big raspberry goes to Buffalo and your frigging Linktheater that only uses WEP, too! :p PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!