Cat Whisperings...

If I wasn’t gay enough for this game yet, I am now… OMFG… *drool*

Some people don’t understand how a grown man can look so forwards to a game.  Well, if you don’t get it, you don’t get it. 

At least I didn’t skip work for the Halo 3 launch

PS: There’s a wicked deal at dell.ca’s Small Business site for "Viva Pinata" and "Perfect Dark", they are $4 each, with free shipping.. together, they cast $9.12 (tax in)… I also threw in a play & charge kit…

PS: in case the creepy Japanese pillow wasn’t ban enough.. here’s more Japanese creepiness from Kotaku: How Haruhi Was Wrapped In Porn Plastic (NSFW - well, sort-of).

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All right.. I’ll get to the creepy Japanese pillows in a second.  First though, I’m on Disc 3 of Blue Dragon.  When the game first asked for Disc 2, I almost freaked out.  I never even knew it had three discs, and didn’t notice that when I took out the first disc there was another one, two in fact. 

So my first impressions I’ll keep short… The game is fun, goofy, a bit too cartoon-ish, but fun.  The storyline is average, a little weak in places, but again fun.  I’m thinking the art director for Dragon Warrior 8 worked on this game extensively, there are blatant rip offs of characters (models) and textures, etc.  I’ll put more about that in my full review, coming soon.

I’ve already made a number of notes and an outline.  So it shouldn’t take too much effort to write it up when I’m done.

Okay.. now on to the creep Japanese pillows:

I kid you not… This is a "child sized" pillow, sporting a character from the game "Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!", who besides the well developed breasts, looks a little too child like for my comfort. 

The game the character is from, is creepy in itself.. your objective is "…to locate a witch that has snuck into [your] school. In order to find the witch [you] must search the suspects’ bodies for a "witch mark". The preferred method is by using touch…".

To be fair, this is likely not representative of all or even a majority of the Japanese public’s tastes, but it is still creepy.  Read the comments in the Kotaku article to get even more creeped out.

Kotaku.com article: Child-Sized Doki Doki Pillow

PS: I forgot to "publish" this yesterday… oops…

Update: According to the Wikipedia Article on Blue Dragon: "The game features art from Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball and visual, character and monster designer and illustrator of Dragon Quest." 

So I was right, except I know some of the character art is used in both games.  If my PS2 wasn’t fried, I’d take a couple of screen caps to prove it.

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I kid you not.. read this article for further details:

The 10 Best Animated Movies for (Traumatizing) Kids

I’ve never seen half of these movies.. including "Transformers: The Movie".. I know, I know.. what kind of geek am I? 

Personally, I don’t think I’d let my kid watch most of these, but mostly cause they look like they suck.

In other news, there’s been another school shooting in the states.  I’m waiting for Jack Thompson to appear and blame video games.

And in case you were wondering if the world has gone to hell yet: "YouTube Britney Spears fan to get own show"

The end is nigh, and I don’t even believe in God.

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Ok, so this isn’t a surprise to me, I’ve known for about 10 weeks or so.  We’ve announced it to much of the family (I still have to get a hold of my sisters).  God they’re gonna be pissed at me for blogging about it before I told them… oops

Anyway, so yeah!  Rhonda and I are expecting our first on or about March 29th!!! 

Truthfully, I thought I’d be terrified, but I’m not.  Not even a little.  I am anxious about the delivery, but that’s still about 6 months away. 

We are going to turn our office (Den) into the baby’s room in January/February and move the office into the guest room.

People have already started giving us stuff, and Rhonda had purchased a stroller months ago in anticipation.

We keep wondering if it’ll be a boy or a girl (we don’t care which it is as long as it is healthy).  We have names picked out for either.  It took us a long time to choose names, omg that was a trial

FYI: this was a planned pregnancy, we started trying in march and it took in may, which isn’t bad at all eh?  Yeah, my boys can swim

So far Rhonda hasn’t been doing too bad.  For about a month she was really noxious, and now she’s a bit irritable and can cry at the drop of a pin.  But I’m trying to be as supportive as possible.  I still have a bit to do in that department.  I’m irritable when I’m normal, so trying to be the non-irritable one is a bit of a switch.  Usually it’s Rhonda who is the happy-go-lucky one and me who’s all cranky and stuff ;)  She is tired a lot, and can sleep any time, anywhere.  That just means i get more time to play video games.  I’ll have to get it out of my system, cause for the first while, I’ll prolly have little to no time to play them when the baby comes.  Oh well, it’ll be worth it.  Everyone keeps telling me that I won’t care because I’ll have a baby to keep me amused.

Anyway, I just thought I’d share our happy news with everyone.  I’ll keep you all up to date on the progress as time goes on.

Yay for us!!!

PS: I thought the above image was cute.  I was trying to find an image that would go with the post…

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Holy crap, How’d I forget one of the most holy days of the year?!?!?

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

A short tutorial on how to talk the sacred language:

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