these should be watched with a big bowl of cereal.

the tv was my babysitter, teacher, and best friend...

samurai champloo, smurfs, she-ra, family guy...there's more but i dont wanna overrun this joint with pics.

tetris anyone???

here i stand head in hand

click on the image.

Phantom Hourglass

Can't wait for this to come out for DS!

The Philippine Islands, Taiwan

For me, I don't think anything beats "The Countries of the World" and "Anvilania" episodes of...







[update: Season 1 is coming out! Finally! While it does not contain the aforementioned favourite episodes, it's a start.]

Our New Prophet

Okay, so Manami Suzuki isn't a religious figure... but the way she talks is... ultra important! Or the way Google translates her anyway. This has been agreed upon by Niko and myself, so "NOW IT'S LAW!!"

Here's the translated, ultra important blog I speak of:

Manami Suzuki (NSFW)



NIKO (8:33:39 PM): Scroll down to where it says Trouble of man all solutions!
EROS (8:35:18 PM): dude
EROS (8:35:30 PM): this translation makes her posts seem ultra important
NIKO (8:35:34 PM): WTF is this
NIKO (8:35:39 PM): I KNOW
EROS (8:35:40 PM): C.I.P the encounter type sight of the absolute relief which is introduced with self-confidence! Rice cake no charge!
NIKO (8:35:43 PM): AHAHAHA
NIKO (8:35:59 PM): RICE CAKE NO CHARGE
EROS (8:36:00 PM): absolute relief!
NIKO (8:36:16 PM): But what is that banner
NIKO (8:36:21 PM): On the bottom left table
EROS (8:36:45 PM): chestnut thornback tar bu log?
NIKO (8:37:10 PM): Trouble of man all solutions!
EROS (8:39:29 PM): dude
EROS (8:39:39 PM): she sounds like... a prophet!

Hey big man, turn around. Oh you can't hear me now. I was going to watch the movie, but forget it. For the next 5 hours, you're my bitch.

i'm gonna have to go w/ family guy too.

i also used to like dexter's lab.

as a kid, teenage mutant ninja turtles, g.i. joe, mask & beverly hills teens.

TOPIC ANNOUNCEMENT: 03-20-2006

After a bunch of rain after some heat after some cold but really lukewarmness... spring time.
As Iron Mike has put it, "Spring is for boning."

But speaking of heat.... the new topic:

Favourite Cartoon/Anime.


Whether it be current and/or childhood, what is it? Let it be known.

Flap Art

Saw this on the Freakonomics blog:

"When was the last time you played with a stranger's mind?"

PS3 news for the game nerds

Sony delays PlayStation 3 launch

oh and that was me talking about animal crossing and tiger heli

Rza wants more closet space

Jeans with Chancletas Pt 2

In case you ain't seen it yet:

Touch It or Not/Wet Wipes

dream collabo?

Rickey Smiley - Precious

Just uploaded this:

Rick Klotz

Owner of Fresh Jive. He got some hatorade: Digital Gravel Interview

Crackhead Dance

Thanks, Apple.
Crackhead Dance:

I'll Shank Yo Ass!!

...or rather, she will:

Screen Bape-ing

saw this at shift.
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GOLDENEYE...

proximity mines in the facility. what more is there to say. this game defined my high school years. ahhh. the memories.

Favorites NOW but NOT ALL TIME

no soy otaku

this game was hard as hell. i like adventure games a lot and this one was pretty cool because it was all claymation and had cool sound effects. plus the bonus stages were fun. wackiest game ever.

i was not as obsessed w/ this game as i was ffviii. my roommates hated me. i hogged the psx for a month while i tried to finish it (i did - in a month). and that includes waking up and hitting the 'pause' button to continue my game, ala brody.

as for childhood games, the cabbage patch and smurf ones on colecovision were fun. and also burger time. woowoo.

must sell fruit...

i still am playing this game. i feel the need to shake trees for non native fruit to sell to nook and pay off my mortgage. i think i owe 798,000 bells. my house has an upstairs and additional rooms. i've only time warped once and i don't feel like i can do that anymore because that would mean maaaaaddd weeds in my town and too many cockaroaches.







TIGER HELI - this was one of my favorite nintendo games. i could never beat it because i didn't own it and my cousins never let me borrow it even though they were too busy playing teenage mutant ninja turtles...fuckin bastards

Mr. T on Styling

Thanks, Wendy, for this fashion gem:

favorites

All of my favorite games were on the greatest system ever, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And they were all RPGs as well. Let's see

1. Final Fantasy II (IV, in Japan)



This game is EPIC. Through the course of the 40 or so hours it takes to finish this game (okay maybe less than that, but i take the time to talk to every single charcter you can) villages are destroyed, lives are ruined, love is lost, found, lost, and found again, and you even go to the moon. THE FUCKING MOON. It completely blew Final Fantasy I out of the water. I mean, the old one was alrite, but that game was like the first hit off a freshly rolled J. Final Fantasy II was like spending a week in a jacuzzi full of LSD.


2. Earthbound (also known as Mother II)



It took me awhile to warm up to this game, but now its one of my favorites. It's sorta like Final Fantasy, except you can actually see your enemies before you fight them, which makes it kind of like The Legend of Zelda. But then the fighting scenes are like the ones in Dragon Warrior. And then the graphics look like something made with Mario Paint. But trust me, this game is fun as hell. It's the little things, you know? Like how when you're walking around, if you walk to the right spots in the game, this guy will come down from the sky to take your picture. Which seems dumb and even annoying at first, but then you realize that, once you beat the game, all those pictures show up as the credits roll by. And then you want to play the game all the way through again just to find all the photo spots. Or like how it asks you what your favorite foods and things are before you start playing for the first time. I put "Adobo", not knowing that later on in the game, when you get homesick, all you have to do is go home for some adobo. Things that mean absolutely nothing to the game itself, but then again, it means everything. No wonder the game has such a huge cult following. When a genuine Earthbound Zero prototype cartridge (basically Mother I translated) for the NES showed up online, it went for quite a bit on eBay, and someone even paid the winner of that auction to make a ROM file version of it to put online. People were clamoring for Earthbound II, and I think one almost came out for Nintendo 64, but it never happend. But now it looks like its coming out for Gameboy Advance, and you besta believe I will cop that.

Close runner-ups (all on the SNES as well):

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
SimCity
Super Metroid (regarded by quite a few people as one of the best games of all time)
Street Fighter 2 Turbo (down R up L Y B = TEN STAR MODE!!!! insanity ensues.)
Chrono Trigger (yeah i know RPG motherfuckers think this game pw0ns all, but its not as good as its predecessor....)
Secret of Mana

Damn, this is making me want to pull my SNES out of the closet...

Bar Check Brr Check

That's what my cousin used to call the 'hurricane kick' that Ken and Ryu did.



This game HAS to be my favourite. As much as I got caught up in FFVII and Super Mario Bros 3, this game actually affects how I think of currency. When I look at prices of items I contemplate purchasing, I STILL to this day think in terms of how many games of Street Fight II that will buy me. I remember waking up during the summer this game first was out, all excited to ride my bike down to the local pizza shop that I knew had this game. Food? Shit, that's like 10 games of SF2, dude! I'll pass!

Guile's handcuffs, air throw.... shit, even his hair! Quarter-circle isn't quarter-circle anymore; it's "fireball" motion. Play fighting with my friends, doing fireballs and shouryukens and shit. We couldn't really do hurricane kicks... heh. Saying though, I remember going to family parties playing this all night. Folks who were good got mad respect. Then when people start cheezing by like jumping in and throwing, everyone would get mad heated and started just HATING. So emotional!

I don't know too many combos that give the some pleasure as a well-executed jumping fierce, fierce, fireball/shouryuken/sonic boom. Then the slow-mo groan and flying laid out when you finally KO your opponent. The shame of getting beat with a leg sweep or a jab... The guessing of which celebration your character will do, and then subsequent mimicking of said celebration.

So good. SF2, my favourite game.

Espers and what not..

Hands down, my favorite game of all time is Final Fantasy 6 (3 in the original US release).
I rate it better than even the games that came out afterwards for the PSX and PS2.
Way back when it originally came out, this thing cost me $80. It was practically an investment. Hironobu Sakaguchi directed, Yoshitaka Amano character designs, and Nobuo Uematsu music, even Tetsuya Nomura who would figure prominently in later Final Fantasy installments was involved with this game.
Theres way too many things to like about this game, the graphics which were at the time pretty top notch even with the characters running around super deformed style. The characters themselves are still some of the coolest, I mean theres even a ninja called Shadow who has a pet dog named Interceptor whose theme song sounds straight out of some western movie. If western movies were about ninjas. One of the characters can use a chainsaw attack where he comes at you wearing a jasonstyle hockey mask. And if you played this game, you'll know the Opera House scene..the list just goes on and on..
It also has one of the most satisfying endings to a game. Although there is literally nearly a dozen characters they all get their shine time in.
I think the first time I played this game through it took about 50 some odd hours to finish..and I think i'd probably be ready to do it again..

TOPIC ANNOUNCEMENT: 03-01-2006

Greetings All,


For all you who put the "ANGST" in GANGSTER, the new topic is this:

Favourite Video Game


This can be your favourite game of the moment or your favourite game growing up or an all-time classic in your heart that can't be defined in either of those. Either way, let's have it. And please mention a few reasons why it's your favourite, e.g. the best parts of the game to you.



It's already March, folks. You do realize what that means, don't you?
In the immortal words of "Iron" Mike Tyson: "Spring is for boning."



CHAKA KHAN!!!

Chin Up, Chump

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