The Art of Wii

Nintendo of Canada has announced a sweeptake which gives out six Wii with different hand-painted custom skin, painted by different Canadian artists. You know, Canadian s do not see such draw often. (I like the one made by UDON artist Arnold Tsang. The one with coins, 1-up mushrooms, and pipe and the graffiti artist holding the Wiimote and nunchuk.)

As of now, almost five months, Wii (and sanity) is still in short supply. Yea many people will be signing up for the draw instead of waiting in line... whatever.... (Including me.. like I can win it :p)

Confession

A friend who is in the army posted a picture of this notice on facebook:
(Note: A padre is the military chaplain, usually Christian, hence confession)

Confession Waiting Area

Please indicate whom you
are confessing to:

Padre
or
Military Police

Note: Only the Padre will forgive you.

Cooking Mama

A continuation from last post.

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Yesterday I talked about Wii that is popular among females. One of the games that is a must-play is Cooking Mama. Cooking Mama was originally developed for Nintendo DS.

I heard that many females, once tried the game from their friends, immediately got addicted by the game, and eventually bought Nintendo DS themselves. In other words, the game boosted the sale of DS. The game was a sold out for a while, and as Wii was on market, the game was ported to Wii as well.

What is the game about anyway? As the name imply, cooking.

I never played the game, but had seen enough ladies playing in the subway. Saw them writing on the screen with the stylus, and on the screen was vegetables being chopped down.

Another screen was a bowl of hot water. I bet she needed to put the ingredients in at the right time. I thought what was the game so good? IF you wanted to cook, do it in your kitchen, for real.

The reality is that those female friends who are playing the game do not know how to cook. Well, similarly, those males who loves Winning Eleven, probably do not touch a soccer ball.

Femicom

Saw this in a life column in newspaper. Might as well translate it and post it here.

Original author's blog is here. His published columns will be posted there.

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Nintendo's new gaming console Wii is getting popular everyday; it is reported that even the politicians are the Premier of Republic of China, Su Tseng-cheng, is playing it everyday after work. (Source)

More and more of my friend have either bought, or planned to buy Wii. Notice that thise friends are all females. They like the interactive games like playing tennis, bowling, cooking.It can be seen that the Wii from Nintendo successfully opened the gaming market for females apart from traditional male market.

I even have a friend immediately bought stocks from Nintendo after playing Wii, as she thought Wii is definitely a runaway success which means profit for Nintendo.

Back in 1980s Nintendo released its first cartridge console named Famicom, which is short for Family Computer. It successfully put console gaming into family room. The next console, was naturally named Super Famicom.

However, all mainstream console gamers are still dominated by males. Nintendo had hoped to mke a console for everybody through the GameBoy line of handhelds. For this time, Wii has finally paved the way for female market for Nintendo. Perhaps wii should be called Femicom.

DotA

I am never big fan of DotA, or Warcraft 3, for that matters.

but this is really funny, the DotA song.

Chocolate Wii Controller on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Chocolate Wii Controller on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

LOL

Because killed by stingray is funny.

http://thottbot.com/?i=56441
http://www.twinviewturf.com.au/images/stingraylol.JPG

Enough said. Blizzard is pulling out of Australian market by pissing them off.

Q:Who kills Player Killer?

According to Wikipedia: The Player Killer Killer

A player killer killer (PKK) is a player of a game who kills other players who focus on gaining experience or items by killing players of lower skill or level, also known as a PKer or playerkiller.

PKKers generally occur in the MMO style of game. They will often arise from players having a will to help other people or those with a heightened sense of justice believing newer players are unfairly prayed upon by more experienced players known as PKers.

PKKers play a major role in the .hack//G.U. Video game series. Haseo, the protagonist of the game, is himself a PKKer.

This post is licensed under GFDL.

Vista

So Business Depot had a demo of M$ Vista.

So...

• Open up IE
• Go to Google
• Type "Get a Mac" (without quote) in search field
• Click "I'm Feeling Lucky".
• Plays the surgery video.
  

Couldn't resist.

Wiimote as a weapon

This pop into my mind while studying:

The Remote
Binds when picked up
Main hand Mace
55-90 Damage Speed 2.0
(36.25 damage per second)

+10 strength
+3 Agility
Durability 90/90

Requires level 4x

Use: Throws the Remote towards an enemy to cause 112-140 damage and stun it for 2 seconds. You will be disarmed for 5 seconds.
Cooldown: 1 minute

2% Chance to disarm yourself when attacking.
(using a steel weapon chain will prevent this)

Nunchuk
Held in off-hand
Binds when picked up
Equip: add 9 damage per second to The Remote.
The Remote throwing cooldown reduced by 10 seconds.

The next quest will give you a Steel Weapon Chain.

Use: Attaches a chain to your weapon, making it impossible to disarm.
Charges: 1 (Expendable)
3 sec cast

social network site

They don't leave a good impression on me - nothing more than sex and stuff.

For some reason I ended up signing up everyone of those for cyber-squatting those servers (not that I will sell those).....

Walmart and Target Sell Anime Porn - Consumerist

Walmart and Target Sell Anime Porn - Consumerist

They don't sell porn,they sell HENTAI

More Wii madness

Me: When is the next shipment?
EB Guy: *goes under the desk* We have one here. The price is xxx.xx including tax.
Me: ... I am just asking for someone ...

30 seconds later

Someone, to EB Guy: You get the Wii?

***
EB Guy: That last unit took more than one day to sell. A new record.

Scorpion on a Plane

Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the fright.

Another year of vapourware

As expected, Wired ranked Duke Nukem Forver on top of the list.
Also: http://duke.a-13.net/ Stuff that has been achieved after the announcement of DNF.

The Wii

So I tried the Wii at a EB shop today.
In short, it is something that needs time to get used to. "It forces everyone to re-learn how to play vidoe games."

The game displayed was Excite Truck, probably because the game does not use the Nunchuk. I never played Excite Bike back in the NES era, so it was a brand new experience to me. Good game though.


Many of my frineds got the Wii (or trying ot get it). Let's see whether I will get the Wii.

Burger King

Just WTF are Konami and Burger King thinking?

Must resist the urge of buying Wii

So I change my MSN tag to "Must resist the urge of buying Wii" to see how will my friends respond. Here they are:

" just like... put all your money into GIC and throw away all credit card... hey or you can just go out and buy the Wii?" (not buying)
"Why resist?" (bought Wii)
"notice my pic? :D" (bought both PS3 and Wii)
"<:o) I have no urge for a wii. I need power!"(not buying)
"lol" (not buying)
"lol, everyone will have the Wii eventually >=)" (not buying Wii yet)
"dont wanna buy wii eh" (bought Wii)
"give into wii" (bought both PS3 and Wii)
"uh huh" (not buying)
"just go and buy one" (not buying)

Bard

Tellah: You! You're that Bard! Anna ran away because of your treachery!
Tellah: You spoony bard!
Edward: No! Wait!
Tellah: Die!
Edward: P-Please! Lsiten!
Tellah: Shut up!
Edward: Forgive me! Please!
Tellah: Take this!
Edward: Agh!
Anna: Father! Stop!
..
Spoony....

Wii kids Video

Always Gold.... when the kids get a new console...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUeiWX3lGvI

Also see the original one for N64 at here