Blah.

Just catching up on my newz, and BAM! Metroid Prime 3 Corruption: Aug. 20. Hell yeah.

Security checks suck, moreso in America than anywhere else. It went much more smoothly here in Hong Kong...probably 'cause everyone's an Asian here, so we all trust each other :D

Speaking of Asians, God damn it, I've witnessed numerous hot/kawaii Asian chicks since my arrival at the Los Angeles International Airport. I'd provide pics, but I'm less of a perv around my family than when I am when around my friends. That means I wish you guys were here. =[

But yeah...Paris sucks, 'cause we don't have many kawaii females (Filipinos are not as kawaii as Chinese of Japanese).

America sucks. All the airports had password-protected access points and T-Mobile "pay to use" hotspots. Now here I am in Hong Kong, and I've got awesome free WiFi. Whether I'm really supposed to be using it doesn't matter, as long as I CAN use it...too bad my battery is about to die.

So to summarize my trip so far...

- Aivee drove me to Dallas, two hours of nothing particularly interesting
- American Airlines took us to Los Angeles, 2 hours and 44 minutes of boring
- I think we arrive at the Los Angeles International airport at around 5 PM their time...and our next flight was at 11:50 PM. More waiting, and I didn't wanna waste my DS battery life, because the next flight would be...
- 14 hour-long flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. This is where it REALLY sucked. Ugh...I could not sleep for more than an hour on that plane...I surprisingly didn't play much DS, mainly I watched Aladdin and some of The Departed as one of the in-flight services...still sucked, though.

So now I'm at the Hong Kong International Airport. It is May 22nd here, at around 5:46 AM or something like that. So it's kinda like I've spent 2 days without a shower or a change of clothes or a good sleep or a chance to lie down or a chance of non-boredom. And I've got two more flights before I reach our final destination. Then when it's all over, I gotta do it all over again when we go back home. GAHAHHAHAa, suck.

Anyways, I got some Interwebbing to catch up on. Laterz.

I'll be leaving for the Philippines in 7 hours and 30 minutes. First I gotta go to Dallas, then we fly to Los Angeles, then we fly to Hong Kong, then we fly to Manilla, then we Fly to Iloilo. That's 4 friggin' flights! This is gonna suuuuuck.

This could be the last update for a while. My mom says they have Interweb at my grandparent's house, but I'm not sure if it's cable or wireless or dial-up. If it's dial-up or something like that, tough luck. =[ Maybe I'll blog at an airport or something. They're bound to have WiFi.

But I'll be back in three weeks. Apparently June 16th, 4 days before Video Games Live. :D

See ya guys later.

My connection just got super fast...compared to how it is normally. I'm downloading something on Bittorrent at 90 kB/s, and I usually get it at less than 30 kB/s. I'm also watching YouTube videos without having to pause them. WTF WTF WTF. I hope it stays like this. :D

XD @ this + this.

Now, I'm in the process of "obtaining" Starcraft 1, to see what all the hype has been about. Thank God for Blizzard making Mac versions of their games.

(Spoilers for DMC1 and Resident Evil 4)

I just finished Devil May Cry 1, and boy...did everything go downhill from the first battle with Mundus to the end. It was RIDICULOUS. I understand DMC is supposed to be cheesy...but crappy voice acting plus really stupid things happening (the game basically turned into Star Fox at the end...) is just silly!

I'm glad I started the series with DMC3. If I had started with DMC1 when it first came out, I would've been like, "...okay, this is stupid." DMC3 is better in every friggin' way. I don't know how DMC1 spawned something so awesome...well, actually, it apparently spawned something horrible (DMC2), but then that spawned something awesome (DMC3), which will hopefully spawn something more awesome (DMC4).

Though I guess I understand why DMC1 ended up being so silly. Originally, DMC1 was supposed to be Resident Evil 4. A lot of this game seemed very Resident Evil-ish. The ending especially. The whole "turn the game into Star Fox" is very similar to the "turn the game into WaveRace" part of the REAL RE4.

There was very little character development in DMC1. I mean, I already knew who Dante was before I played this game, but if I had played it when it first came out, I'd be like, "WTF?" Dante's history isn't explain. All we know is his dad is Sparda and he had a mom. We don't know about Vergil yet. Blah blah blah, you end up finding this guy known "Nelo Angelo." Of course, after you fight him the third time, he turns out to be some guy named "Vergil" and he has an amulet just like Dante's. Then you hear some lady go, "Happy Birthday Dante and Vergil!" and then that's all the info you get on Vergil. Yeah. Lame. Again, thank God for DMC3 for explaining more about Vergil. Seriously, it really does make more sense to play DMC3 before DMC1, story-wise. That way a few things will actually make sense in DMC1.

Yep, now I'm gonna start playing DMC3 again, and go back to see how much more awesome the game really is compared to the first game. Gotta get used to the controls again, though. :P

All that work to make a Japanese account was worth it...though it really wasn't that much work. :P

But I finished downloading the Eternal Sonata (Trusty Bell in Japan) demo and played it last night. I think the battle system is AWESOME. It's kinda like Tales, but in 3D (as in, 3D movement). Also, battle conditions change whether you're in the light or dark. If a kawaii coconut man is hopping around, then happens to hop into the shade, BAM, he transforms into an ugly, giant coconut man with bad breath. Your characters can also equip two different special attacks, one can be used in the shade, and one in the light. Also, it's got some Super Mario RPG in here. Sometimes when you're attacked, you get a chance to reduce the damage with a timed button press.

English voice acting sucks, but that's to be expected of a JRPG.

Oh yeah, and teh graph1x. Pretty.

I didn't finish the demo. Once I got to the town, I wasn't in the mood for an RPG. I didn't wanna talk to anyone. I just went back and fought some more kawaii coconut guys. :D

So here's a video of me playing.

Every once in a while, I'm gonna post one of the videos in my YouTube favorites list. That way, I can say, "Remember that one video?" and you can say "Yes," without having to lie.

I'm downloading the Japanese demo of Eternal Sonata on the 360. The catch was I had to make a Japanese Xbox Live account. So my Japanese gamertag is "desukawaiidesu." ^-^

I know, a lot of people hate Macs...dunno why, but they just. I see people going, "Those Mac commercials are so annoying 'cause they try and make Mac seem superior! LOLZ!" Newsflash: If you know how to use a computer, these commercials are not meant for you.

Take the latest commercial for example. It has the PC guy going, "I GOTS SO MANY VERSIONS OF VISTA! I DON'T KNOW WHICH TO CHOOSE!" Any tech-savy guy can look through all the versions and pick the right one...but what about their mom, who isn't so tech-savy? She'll be confused and be like, "HOW MANY MEGAHURTZ DO I NEED?" The PC isn't meant for her, 'cause she'll probably fsck it up with spyware and viruses. She needs to use a Mac. Apple is trying to reach her with these commercials, saying, "Macs are user-friendly. We've got everything you need in one package, and it's secure." Essentially, they are saying, "You can't fsck this up, biz, 'cause Macs are idiot-proof. Even YOU can use it." And that's true.

See, if all the computer illiterate people would switch to using Macs, they wouldn't be coming up to us, asking if we can fix their PCs that they've bloated with spyware and other malicious programs. They'd happily be sitting at their desks, downloading crap off of iTunes (and actually paying for music. lawl).

So everyone stop dissing on Apple, 'cause they're trying to do the world a favor and rid the PC user base of clueless people. And with that, we won't have PC vendors trying to fool people into thinking that the latest integrated Intel Extreme will be sufficient to run awesome gamez.

The damn Internet kept me up. >=[

Holy ****, this is awesome. 'course, the story is pretty stupid, just like how it was with the second one, but the fight is AWESOME, even more-so than the one in the second one. Just watch it, damn it. And if you haven't seen the second one, watch it before the third one. Don't bother with the first one. It sucks.

In fact, I'm drinking right now...I'm drinking SPRITE! LOLOLOZ. I fooled you.

j/k, i m not.

But I'll talk about that stuff anyway.

Today, this guy on LUE asked if it was a bad idea to go to a bar to pick up chicks if he didn't drink. Obviously, yes, that is a silly idea. If you don't drink, you're not gonna be comfortable with a girl that does. Then I realized...most of the girls I know drink. So I'm like, "Well...shiz, looks like I gotta start drinking! LOLZ!" But nah, I'm not doing that. If anything, I'll wait 'til I'm 21 to do that. Why? I don't know. I still don't feel a desire to get drunk. I'd only be drinking to pick up girls, m i rite? But I'm still not comfortable with this idea.

Speak of the moose, Michelle just called me, inviting me to "hang out" at some kinda get-together thing. I think Dillon told me about it. I assume the subject of my blog post would be involved here, so I didn't care much to come, so I turned Michelle's invite down...plus I have to go get x-rays tomorrow morning, so I can't stay up that late, unless I want to be grumpy while radiation shoots into my body or whatever.

But yeah. Will J.R. start drinking? Probably not, and even if he does, he won't be for two more years.

But c'mon...CHICKS! UGH.

Everyone else in the world seems to use AIM...which would make my life a lot easier, 'cause AIM clients actually work on my Mac (iChat FTW). Microsoft Messenger for Mac sucks.

I couldn't think of anything else to post today, so I'll post something I found on LUE to give you all a biiiiig "WTF" (unless you're into this kinda stuff, then cool. Personally, I found it more "XD awesome" than "WTF").

So if you want one, stop being selfish. You already have one. Seriously, the only people who read this already have/had a Wii.

Right now I'm playing Devil May Cry (the first one) and Saints Row.

DMC1 is sooo hard to play since I'm so used to DMC3. DMC1 just feels so inferior to DMC3. DMC1 feels so much slower, and the controls are all messed up. I also have to go into the menu to change weapons. My combos seem pretty limited thanks to stuff like this. Also, the continue system sucks. There are these items called "yellow orbs." Essentially, they are continues, only you've got a finite supply of them. If you die in the middle of a mission, you can either use a yellow orb to retry from the last room you entered, or you can reset the console and start from the beginning of the mission. What pisses me off is that I don't want to use the yellow orbs! The missions are pretty short in this game (at least so far), so if I die, it's not really that big of a deal to star the mission over again (plus, I get to keep all my red orbs..I think...so I might as well keep going through it to upgrade Dante). You're forced to use the yellow orbs after you die. But you can choose to reset the game without saving after using an orb, but that just takes longer than it should to just restart the mission. If you happen to beat a mission and save after using a yellow orb, that orb is gone for good. It's pretty annoying.

And yeah, I guess the game is pretty difficult, though a lot of the times I take damage because I press the wrong button, since I'm so used to DMC3's controls, and for some reason, DMC1's controls are all switched around. In DMC3, Triangle is attack , X is jump, and Square is shoot. In DMC1, Triangle is jump, Circle is attack, and Square is shoot. So I guess I'm gonna have trouble when I start playing DMC3 again!

I'm thinking that the reason DMC1 seems slower than DMC3 is 'cause I'm so used to playing DMC3 on Turbo mode. :P

Because it was about happiness! :D

If you're looking to flee a zombie invasion or controlling nurses at mental institutes, Canada is your sanctuary.

I just got done watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Neat movie. Old movie, but neat movie. I had to watch it Psychology, and now I gotta write a report for it (and then study for the final, which is tomorrow...plus the History final). But anyway, it's over. Now I can write about it...but I'm not gonna write about it here. No. Too lazy to talk about my impressions on the movie. All you need to know is that Canada is where you need to go, no matter what your problems are.

EDIT! It actually happened AGAIN right after published this post, and I made a mistake posting a HUGE image, but I couldn't go back to fix it. -_-

I guess Google robot AI isn't as advanced as we thought...

I had this nice post all typed up, but once I hit the "Publish" button, I got this:


So I guess we've all got a chance against our future Google overlords. T-800s these are not.

Seriously. It is. I FINALLY finished Thousand-Year Door, thanks to a final boss strategy I found on YouTube. YouTube also seriously helped me out when I tried to master Gears of War on Hardcore and Insane.

So next time I'm stuck on a hard boss battle, YouTube is where I'll look. Maybe I'll start playing Ninja Gaiden Black again once I look up that horse guy on YouTube...

Okay, I'm at the end of The Thousand-Year Door, at the last boss fight. It's pissing me off. It's not just that the last boss is difficult, no. It's that the stupid gameplay mechanics are against me!

'kay, first time I try to fight the boss, I didn't have any healing items with me, so I was kinda screwed there, but I did manage to take 50 HP off of the boss's second form before dying.

Second time, I went ALLLLLLL the way back out of the last dungeon area to get to town to buy some items. That took forever, because there's no warp or anything to the town. You have to go through the dungeon twice: once to get out, once more to get back in. -_-

But anyway, I come back, loaded with healing items, and I feel pretty confident about winning. 'course, I have to watch two long-ass, unskippable cutscenes again: one to introduce the boss's first form, one to introduce the second. -_-

So anyway, I get to the boss's second form. With my healing items, I should pwn this biz pretty easy, right? Well, I would...IF THE FRIGGN' STAGE WOULD STOP ATTACKING ME. At random times, the stage will attack whoever is on it. Of course, the BOSS IS IMMUNE TO THESE ATTACKS, but I AM NOT. So the stage freezes me, causing me damage, and making me lose two turns, and during those two turns, I take more damage from the boss. 'kay, I waste a healing item. OH NOES! Something falls from the top of the stage and damages Mario again. -_- Oh, there we go. I got frozen again. -_- Eventually, I run out of items, and get screwed over and die.

God...the random crap in battles just piss me off to no end. Who the hell thought up that crap? I bet next time, I'll be screwed over by the "three poison mushroom" roulette thing. -_-

I just wanna get this game over with...

'kay, I saw Spider-Man 3 a while ago. I bet people are gonna be like, "ZOMG, you posted this RIGHT after you saw it." That's untrue. It's been like...an hour+ since I finished seeing the movie.

SPOILERS, obviously.

But anyway, you all know me. I'm not a big fan of Spider-Man, so, obviously, I really wasn't expecting much with this movie. Boy, was I pleasantly surprised (at certain times).

The normal Spider-Man movie stuff applies to this movie. By the normal stuff, I mean:

1. Peter Parker is a boring, wussy dork
2. Mary Jane is a bitch and a slut
3. Fight scenes are awesome
4. Any dialogue between a male and a female is boring and stupid

HOWEVER, there is a suspension of item #1 for a brief time in the movie. When Spider-Man becomes dependent on the symbiote/black suit, Peter Parker suddenly becomes awesome (or at least, entertaining). I know many will complain about his "emo" look. While Peter may have the emo look, he definitely does not act like one. He comes off more as a pompous jackass, which is a good quality when it comes to fictional super heroes (you know, like Batman, Superman, House...). Sure, Parker is still dorky, but dorky in an "LOL XD" sort of way, not dorky in a "pathetic wuss" sort of way. This part of the movie is the best part (that actually pertains to the storyline. Bruce Campbell's part isn't a crucial plot point). As "Pimp" Parker, Peter does all sorts of awesome things. He bosses around women to make him cookies, he beats the crap out of that daddy's boy Harry, he beats the crap out of that slut Mary Jane, and he taps some of that fine Gwen Stacy. Only thing he didn't do was tell Aunt May to shut the hell up.

I've got reason to believe that this part of the movie is awesome because Mary Jane isn't involved. The minute she does get involved (when Pimp hits her), Peter goes back to being lame-o Peter Parker. THIS is where he actually gets emo and crap. -_- Damn Mary Jane, ruining everyone's fun.

Most people are gonna be praising the "Venom" part of the movie (and the Bruce Campbell part). Venom, while cool, didn't really do anything. Sandman got WAY more screen time, and way more action. Eddie Brock was cool, though. He was very entertaining.

Plot? Who gives a crap about the plot? It's an action movie! Speaking of action movie, fight scenes were great (and were present, unlike in Ghost Rider). Speaking of speaking, speaking scenes were boring. Item #4 still holds true here. Aunt May and Mary Jane need to STFU. But, yeah, back to plot. A lot of things were just stupid, like the Alfred-wannabe talking about Harry's dad's wounds were made by his kite, so obviously the wounds were self-inflicted. I mean, it's not like someone else can take the glider and stab him with it, or trick it into hurting himself or anything. Sarcasm, btw.

Ending sucked (mainly 'cause Peter ended up back with Mary Jane). LAAAAME.

Kirsten Dunst said something like, "Spider-Man 4 wouldn't be good without me and Tobey." I'm like, "LOLZ, it'd be better." Actually, it'd just be better without Mary Jane. Dunst can still be in the movie if she plays someone that isn't annoying. Preferably she'd play a guy, so she wouldn't have some stupid boring dialogue with Peter.

But yeah, I enjoy more parts of Spider-Man 3 than parts of Spider-Man 1 and 2. So I give it a "I like some parts of it"/10.

I did it...I finally did it. I just beat Ouendan on Insane. There's nothing left to say. Just check out how I did on my final song: Ready Steady Go.

A champion for too long...WHY THE HELL IS JOHN CENA STILL WWE CHAMPION!? Cena = lame. I even stopped watching wrestling a few years ago...and then I start watching again, and he's STILL champion. -_-

Well, looks like I need to buy some flame decals for my cane.

Let's hope there isn't anymore crappy weather to interrupt my viewing...

There was this one topic on GameFAQs that asked "If One of the "Big 3" [Wii games] Had to Be Cancelled, W[hat would you pick?]" The three games, of course, were Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Majority of the answers were Metroid. WTF? Of course, majority of them were fanboys who don't believe in 3D Metroids and hate the first-person perspective. Lamers. I'm also thinking that a lot of them were Smash Bros. fanboys since I saw few people voting for that to be canceled.

I personally would prefer Smash Bros. Brawl to be canceled (if it absolutely HAD to be). Why? From what we know, Brawl is going to play exactly like Melee. It won't even use the Wiimote or nunchuk. We've only heard that it will use the Gamecube controller. So it might as well be a Gamecube game, but we already have a Gamecube Smash Bros. game...a game called Melee. Brawl, from what we know, is going to be Melee with different characters (it hasn't even been confirmed if it'll be more characters, with talk of taking characters out) different levels, and different items. The gameplay will essentially remain the same.

It WON'T be taking advantage of the Wii's unique controller. That's kinda the whole reason the Wii exists, you know? The Wii remote. The controller that CAME with the system. Metroid and Mario WILL use the Wii remote, and let us play the games in new ways. They are TRUE Wii games. Brawl would only be a Wii game in that it's on the Wii. Even the Godfather, a port of a PS2 game, would have more "Wiiness" to it than Brawl!

True, Brawl will have other new features, like online play (hopefully), and better graphics, but they could honestly do the game on a Gamecube and it'd play exactly the same.

Don't get the wrong idea, though. I'm looking forward to Brawl, 'cause I know it'll be lots of fun. How do I know that? Melee was a lot of fun. And I also acknowledge that anything could change with Brawl. There's a lot of stuff we don't know about Brawl. I'm just drawing conclusions from what we do know about the game.Stuff can change. Remember when Twilight Princess used the B-button to swint the sword in the Wii version? Hell, remember when Metroid Prime 3 was a launch title? Knowing Nintendo, something is gonna change with the game.

So, really, the main reason I made this post is to let people know that Metroid Prime 3 is going to be awesome, and it's going to be a better "Wii game" than Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Inspired by my positive experience with DarwiinRemote, I decided to go back and try GlovePIE. It works now. Nice. So now I've got wireless, bluetooth controller for my emulation needs. I'm too lazy to create my own scripts, though, so I'll let other people do that for me. :D

I decided to test out DarwiinRemote for OS X today. This application allows me to use the Wiimote with my Mac in a variety of ways. It can detect motion, it can use the IR sensor for a mouse, and you can use the buttons in a number of ways. Unfortunately, nunchuk joystick support isn't there yet, and neither is support for the classic controller. The keymapping feature is also very limited to only certain keys.

I was able to come up with a neat configuration for Star Fox on the SNES, but the only SNES emulator for Mac I know of sucks (at least it does on an Intel machine), so the game ran like poop.

Previously, I tried using GlovePIE, which is a Windows driver, but I had a lot of trouble with that program, mainly in the area of syncing the damn remote up with Windows. In OS X, the syncing was essentially automatic and frustration-free. Too bad I can't really do crap with OS X and DarwiinRemote. GlovePIE has more features...but Darwiin ACTUALLY WORKS. So here's a video of me screwing around.

I don't get the hype with the supposed "Wii game" known as "Sadness." We haven't seen any screenshots of the game. No videos. No details on gameplay. Just a few character sketches and some words that really mean nothing without gameplay details. Yet, fanboys are already calling it a "most anticipated game." WTF? Maybe anticipated to know WTF this game is about.

So today we get some new "information" on the game. And we still don't know anything. Yet the fanboys continue to say stuff like ""it amazing to see a small company make asuch a ground breaking game." Ground-breaking? Maybe it's ground-breaking in a sense that it's the first Wii game that's been hyped to hell without any real information on it. I mean, even Duke Nukem Forever had screenshots and videos!

So I'm thinking "Hey, if Nibris, some no-name developer, can announce a game without any actual proof it exists and get all this hype, J.R. can, too!" So, here you go. Today, I announce my new Wii game: Gladness.

Gladness: Total Warrior is an epic game from small-time developer "Dizon Design." At least, it's GOING to be an epic game.

The game will feature:

- Gameplay.

- Characters. You get to play as a guy with a cane who kicks ass.

- Also, it's set in World War I and the main character is from the future.

- Enemies.

- 20 hours of gameplay, which includes gameplay and enemies.

- Voice acting. Not good voice acting. Not famous voice acting. But the fact is that there will be voice acting.

- Soundtrack will be performed by popular band ASDFLL..ka;k23

- IT'S A REAL GAME

- Epicness.

- REAL GAMEPLAY THAT YOU CAN PLAY

- Game will not load. Ever. That means NO LOADING TIMES!

- Cars. VROOM VROOM!

- Will make unique use of the Wiimote and Classic Controller (no nunchuk!)

- Will be presented entirely in shades of blue, because that's unique, too.

And there you go. Now, you even know more about Gladness than you do Sadness. How stupid.