good quote

The present does not feel the desperate gaze of the future.
- Vernor Vinge (paraphrased, from A Deepness in the Sky)

a study in fail courtesy of paycheck

brutal beatings press photo

sneak peek at the next xyzr_kx album cover!

another achievement

i can't find the link now, but there was a kotaku post a few weeks/month something ago about how sports game moments are as real for the player as actual sports moments (ie your fantasy 2013 pirates winning the world series etc). i can share the feeling as it was quite elating to help derrek lee, with the cubs down 3-2 in the bottom of the 14th, score a 3-run walkoff homer in my spring training opener of my fake 2009 cubs season in mlb 09 the show.

and then the next game i left ryan dempster in for too long and he gave up a grand slam. 5-1 brewers.

a two-months-later addendum to previous post

i busted out ffx one more time, telling myself "let me hit up that optional dungeon, that'll be something i can amuse myself with slowly with a few 90-minute sessions over a month or so." however, omega ruins is a total joke with no encounters and the magus sisters. although having one of three characters survive grand malboro's bad breath not confused, twice, was a stroke of very good luck. (it was a different character each time and i think they had confuse wards, not confuse proofs.)

question now is, do i do the monster arena? it's that or another game, but i confess to story burnout from playing too many games for story. it's diminishing returns basically; the faster you try to blitz through a game to get the story, the less you get out of each successive game's story, and thus each game.

what happens when you stop counting.

This is from the notorious "Dodge 200 Lightning Bolts" challenge in FFX. I found the spot where you can predict the bolts coming off a video on youtube, but counting to 200 I found myself under a lot of pressure around 125 and blew it. So I threw on a Maddow podcast and got into a rhythm with Tidus's steps: two right, two down, four across, and three back into the pit. During the eleventh step the flash would almost always occur so pressing X was a cinch once I had the "beat." Not counting took the pressure off, but I had no idea I had done that many consecutively. For the record, it only took about 40-50 mins (the length of Maddow and I think the tail of Countdown too).

a good quote on why originality is for losers

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.”

- Jim Jarmusch, THE GOLDEN RULES OF FILMMAKING

jon and carly video

cold chillin.

Jon and Carly - New New Song from Jon Monteverde on Vimeo.

embedded magnatune player of some of the braid soundtrack and other awesomeness.

Artist is Jami Sieber. It's great.

EDIT no longer embedded cuz I can't turn off the autoplay. thanks magnascrewn. i did throw in a link to ms. sieber's page on the site though. it's good.