tempest in a teacup

I just dropped $700 on new parts for my computer and $24 on all four Prince of Persia games, and then I saw the following offers on our Cyber Monday page:

Uncharted 2 for $40
Planet Earth Blu-ray for $40
Hori Real Arcade Pro 3 SA for $90

…

Dammit.

Went to see Whose Live Anyway this past weekend. I’m a big fan of Whose Line is it Anyway? (both the British and American versions, before you ask) so being able to watch this show was a real treat for me. It’s hard for me to pin down what my favourite part of the show was, so here’s a quick list of greatest hits (no pun intended):

• Drew Carey being a secret guest performer (although I should have guessed he’d show up, given that he’s the part owner of Seattle Sounders FC)
• Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops making a reference to the ‘Africa’s a continent’ incident from Whose Line
• Chip Esten and Jeff Davis taking the song title ‘Home Alone’ and turning it into a song about a prostitute called Malone
• Chip playing ‘The Ghost of Billy Mays’ during Celebrity Improv Jeopardy
• Jeff doing his Christopher Walken impression during the same game
• Ryan’s ‘WTF?’ face after someone in the audience suggested ‘Bangkok’ for the category ‘Names of places in China’

Actually, I don’t think I can remember all of them…it was generally a good time all around. Now I just need to hope that the Colin and Brad Show makes a stop around here sometime soon…

Fallout 3 has finally been evicted from my DVD drive.

(Because I completed it, not because I got fed up with it)

And no, I’m probably not going to buy any of the DLC, since the game itself didn’t impress me that much to begin with. And I don’t think I’ll be missing anything…not with the backlog that I have.

With my router between my modem and my PC:

With my modem connected directly to my PC:

Thee words: What the fuck?

EDIT: Apparently something in the router settings was messed up – I reset it to factory settings and suddenly I can watch 720p streams without buffering. o_o

I seem to have run into a bug that prevents me from progressing in the game without using a noclip cheat. WTF

Well, Doom Classic for the iPhone is a decent enough exception. It’s not perfect, but there seems to be a control scheme that at least approximates the feel of a keyboard and mouse. If you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, like Doom and have $7 to spare, there are certainly worse apps you could buy.

The difficulty select is very well disguised on the menu screen, though – I played through the whole of episode 1 on Normal without realising that difficulty select was even an option.

Nothing of consequence to report, really. Although I will say that I finally sat down and finished Sonic Unleashed this past weekend, and that I was pleasantly surprised to find a reference to a particular Ray Bradbury short story (that I read ages ago for school) while trying to put Fallout 3 to bed.

So right now the backlog looks something like this:

• Fallout 3
• Lost Planet
• God Hand
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
• Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Oh, and I installed Windows 7. Quite happy with it so far, I must say. The upgrade was surprisingly painless, even though I had to do a clean install from XP.