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Cal Band Halftime Show 11/4/07

by @ Friday, November 30th, 2007. Filed under dot entertainment, dot games

THE most Awesome halftme show I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately filmed from the “visitor’s side” of the field, so everything’s upside down.In order, the homages:

Pong
Tetris
Mortal Kombat
Pokemon
The Legend of Zelda
Mario Bros. Theme
Mario Underground Theme
Super Mario Theme
Mario Water Theme
Mario “hurry up” Theme
Mario “Completed level” theme

Multi-link for 11/16

Marie has a round-up of alt-media looking at big media. Neat. I LIKE the idea of alt-media, though the execution is usually… lacking.
Kate’s got a write-up of some ugly browser advertisment behavior. Here’s the answer: the Firefox browser, with the Adblock Plus and NoScript extensions.
The UN worries about US control over the [...]

Finish the Fight: Halo 3

by @ Tuesday, September 25th, 2007. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under dot entertainment, dot games, dot internet

This morning, there was a disturbance in the world, as if a million cash registers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Halo 3 has been released.
I don’t have it yet… I’m just passing the time until Eldest gets home to watch Emma. However, a peek at my XBox Live friends list:

And this [...]

Gears of War vs. Halo

by @ Tuesday, February 13th, 2007. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under dot games, dot stuff

As previously noted, We picked up an XBox 360 a couple of weeks ago. I’ve gotten a few games since then, notably Gears of War, which has been the “Killer game” of the 360, and Halo, which was THE game for the original XBox.
Gears takes the cake.
I won’t compare graphics in this one. [...]

Home entertainment

Over the Christmas holiday, as a family we somehow acquired a metric buttload (a VERY scientific term) of Target gift cards. We had a couple of quick discussions as to what to do with the money, and were deciding between the XBox360 and the Nintendo Wii. More logical heads (ie, Angela) prevailed and [...]

Military/Geek Humor of the Day

by @ Sunday, January 21st, 2007. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under dot games, dot tech

For those not “in the know,” the reference is from the game “Quake.”

Super Smash Brothers: Melee

by @ Saturday, July 29th, 2006. Filed under dot games

Moments of gaming greatness… Super Smash Brothers Melee Home-run derby.
What you have to do is hit the bag as far as you can.
Here’s someone maxing out the meter with Ice Climbers.
Here’s one using Gannon that actually broke the game, it went so far.

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