You win! Perfect!
The headlines around the sports world say it all:
ESPN: “What a Halladay Season”, “Halladay Celebration”
Yahoo!: “Mr. Perfect”
CBS Sports: “Perfect Day”
Fox Sports: “Pitcher Perfect”
So many obvious puns, so little space
“Angel May Cry”. “Witch, Please!”. “Wheel of Torture”. Just a few of the rejected ideas I had made for this post about Bayonetta, but even for a guy with my dumb sense of humor, they all seemed too “high-brow”.
Bayonetta demo released: Non-tortured souls need not apply
With roughly a month to go before the game’s eventual release, Sega released a demo of its latest frantic hack-and-slasher, Bayonetta, on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live networks. The demo contains a tutorial to allow players to get used to the controls, as well as the full first level (which can be completed in roughly 10-15 minutes).
The feudal lords of China got beaten by a girl
I’ve been playing Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires (yes, they made another one; shut up) on-and-off-and-on for the last two weeks, and I figured it’d be amusing to carve through Chinese warlords as a female character. I kinda cheated, though…I played the game on Easy in my first run, but I had powered up my warlord (war lady?) up to the point where she could take on Lu Bu and four other generals by herself, and she could run faster on foot than she could on her horse. There’s something for you to ponder…why bother saving up the money for Red Hare when you can dart around the battlefield like Sonic the Hedgehog?
Anyway, the first scenario I finished was “A Land in Chaos”, which is pretty much when the game hits the “random” button and tells you to pick a side and a country. Next, I’m going to go with the tried-and-true “Yellow Turban” campaign, first siding with He Jin and the Han dynasty, and then with Zhang Jiao and the Turbans his awesome beard. For shits and giggles, I decided one day to take my newly-minted level 1 character and take on Zhang Jiao’s army…all by myself. I was even more stupefied to find out that I could actually win the battle.
Thoughtspam
* So, three days after losing Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, we’ve learned that infomercial pitchman Billy Mays died in his home today. I doubt this is going to get half the media coverage that Jackson’s death has (and likely will have for the next few days), but when my brother told me about it, he was in shock.
* At the flea market in Upper Darby today, I managed to score both parts of Kill Bill, the first eight episodes of Cyborg 009 (an anime series about a multinational team of cyborg that reminds me a bit of Astro Boy), and a few PlayStation 2 games, including Silent Hill 3 and Primal (the latter seems to be pretty cutscene-heavy in the first part of the game…I’ll see how that pans out as I play it). I wasn’t able to get any super-duper bargains this time around, but I’ll take what I can get.
