Lightmare's Blog

A Plea.

Will those Pokemon and Digimon obsessives please, for the love of god, KEEP OFF ANYWHERE WHICH ISN'T THE FUCKING WI-FI TOPIC AREA.

I am SICK of having to wade through countless amounts of Digi-Crap and Poke-feces to get to any decent blog or thread.

Please, hear my plea.

I am EMP man!!!

That's right...I've gained the mystical ability to screw up anything that has so much as a battery without so much as a thought.

In the space of 24 hours, I've...

(a) Killed my standalone Ubuntu machine with a combination of overheating and crap drivers...

(b) Killed my laptop with a dodgy graphics card problem

and to make it all so much more fun

(c) Sky refuses to let me watch it...I missed a Futurama marathon because it wouldn't load the bloody channel...

So, after lots of tender love and care, my Ubuntu machine is in an almost workable state, so I can browse the net and that's about it...

Great...

However, I should feel lucky, given my latest luck with PCB based forms of existence, the fact that my Wii is at Sprite's is, for once, a bonus...

However, on a lighter note, I've had plenty more guitaring time than normal, and a MASSIVE incentive to get a job.

I recently heard Bloc Party's "hunting for witches", and I'm impressed. I love the main guitar riff. This is kind of new territory for me, I'm normally nowhere near this Indie.

Sorry about the massive rant, I just had a shedload of steam to let off...

Incidentally, does anyone know what the Handle operated instrument that Arcade Fire were using on Jonathan Ross' show is called. It's an intriguing thing.

It's been a long time baby.

Hi there, I thought I'd post another blog, just because...

hmmm...where to start.

Best start with the Wii, I recently completed Sonic and the Secret Rings, (final boss), and now need to Gold everything. (I'm like that with Sonic games, even Heroes.) I appear to be alone in thinking it looks bloody amazing. I had it put through Ma and Pa's big ass LCD tv (they are in Vegas), and I couldn't help gawping at the final level. It may not be HD, it wasn't even Progressive scanning. But it was still beautiful... I live in hope for the Wii.

My next door neighbor brought along WarioWare : Smooth Moves, and I must say I'm impressed. Given the amount of scope for error with something like the Wiimote, it is wonderfully programmed for. The only exception is the "Trap Him" microgame, which consistently doesn't work. The 9-Volt boss leaves both myself and Sprite with a longing for Starfox Wii.

Speaking of longing...I'm busy longing for a certain Metroid Prime 3. I appear to be the only one not worrying about the graphical capabilities of said game. Retro have proven themselves capable of driving the best from a system, as proven with Metroid Prime 1 & 2. I jumped for joy when I heard it was delayed. For once corporate greed of "get it out early" was misplaced for the sake of actually making a good game. Nintendo apparently realise that they must get this one out. I don't think we'll have a Duke Nukem Forever on our hands.

On other consoles, I've been scheming to get myself a DSlite. Now that Diamond and Pearl are in English Speaking territories, I feel I need to start saving. I may also seek out a Shockii DSlite case, the thought of a chrome DS just makes me drool.

And on that note, I point out that Wii Replacement Cases are out in the market.

XCM have released the iCase for Wii, currently in Chrome and Black. Divineo have it at a reasonable

Sprites Party

As you probably have gathered, Sprite turned 18 on Thursday, and as such, we, as avid gamers, had a gaming night. Present were Myself, Sprite, Rabid_wolverine, and Phi. As well as non C3ers Banjoman and "the Git".

It started without me and Rabid, with a round of Donkey Konga, in which it was proven that self-proclaimed retro freak Banjoman was probably so because of his inability to show anything resembling competence. In the words of Sprite, "He was the epitome of Sucktitude."

At this point Rabid and Myself arrived and with a Wii and 4 controllers now present, we began to set it up in a fashion that would make even the most abnoxious of Generals proud. 10 minutes to create new Mii's and the fun and games began.

First up was Wii Sports, a game of Bowling, (results:Rabid,Me,Sprite,Phi), followed by Golf(results:Me, Banjoman, Phi, Git) and then a helping of tennis (Me and Phi vs. Banjoman and Rabid.)

Before long we were knackered.

Next we decided to take Red Steel multiplayer for a spin, and I must say I was impressed. The Killer mode was plagued with one difficulty, (people couldn't hear the objectectives) and before long we scrapped that for standard 4 player deathmatch. This was again scrapped (Rabid and Myself kept on owning Phi and Banjoman) for 2v2 team DM, which was a ball. Highlights included Phi attempting to nail her teammate and Myself accidentally activated the Melee attack, which sent me hurtling towards Rabids shotgun blast.

After that, we hauled out the Donkey Konga again, and this time attempted to see who was the best out of Phi, Rabid and Myself on single player (Me, Phi, Rabid), whilst gorging on the food which had magically appeared somewhere between golf and tennis.

After the Git said his fairwells, Phi went home to grap the gamecube classics, and thus the second part of the night began. At this point I'll mention that Rabid was getting steadily more and more inebriated, (free beer will do that to a guy), which can only explain what happened next.

In a twisted clash of Gladiators and Drunken stupor, rabid and Banjoman began to engage in some sort of ritual which involved much screams of pain and damaged genitalia. We couldn't help but laugh.

And so it was to Wii play, where simple minds could enjoy the throes of Cow racing and Ping Pong. Sprite and Phi (with a combined mental age of 2), were exceptionally amused. ("but they're racing cows!")

And finally, we went over the Gamecube Classics. Warioware, Smash Bros. and Mario Kart all showed an appearance, and the dominant forces were Phi (as she owned the games), and Rabid (despite the large quantities of Alcohol.)

Finally, in the small hours of the morning, I was the first to crash, citing mental problems. Next was Rabid, then Phi, leaving Banjoman and Sprite awake into the next day.

Moral of the story, if it's a party, you can't beat nintendo.

Nintendo's Secret Plan...

In a rather obscure conversation between myself, sprite and Fisher, an old friend. It became apparent why the Wii-mote is like it is.

::Lightmare picks up the T.V. remote by accident, and thus finds it unconductive to Wii playing.(He was tired.)::

Fisher - "It looks far too much like a remote control doesn't it."

::Unanimous agreement in mumbling form::

Fisher (With a tone of frightening realisation) - "Oh god, I'm going to lose it aren't I."

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Yup, I reckon there are going to be around 30 wii-motes sold for every Wii. At least. Television remotes are infamous for getting lost.

In other news, the Wii itself is awesome. I took it over to Sprite's, where we played from half past midnight until half past 5. Even then, it was only my Red Steel suckage which stopped me from continuing. I really havn't enjoyed games as much as these in a long time.

And now my parents want to play it...

Not a chance. 1 2 3 Next