My cousin stopped by my folks house yesterday just after our big weekly Sunday lunch. He mentioned that he’d gone to the midnight launch party for Super Smash Bros. Brawl (for the Nintendo Wii). Later that afternoon I decided to call up the local GameStop on the off chance they had a copy. They did and I was there within 5 minutes with credit card in hand.
A friend came by in the evening and helped me give it a work out. My thumb is rather sore this morning. Great game.
Librarians rejoice! Now you can practice shelving books even when the library doors have closed for the day.
I used to have a job shelving books at my local library. My experiences there inspired me to eventually get a degree in Library Science. This game is a little rough around the edges, but just the idea warms my geeky heart.
Lately, Bridget and I have been playing lots of Lego Star Wars on the Xbox 360. There is a hidden red brick on each level which once acquired allows you to purchase extra features (like invincibility) with the in-game money. I’ve been shooting for the 10X money extra and for the most part ignoring everything else I could buy.
Well with Bridget’s help we got the insane amount of Lego money to get the 10X thingie, twenty million credits! What helped is that along the way we unlocked and purchased the 2X and then the 4X money doodad. They actually multiply together, so it now collects at 80X the normal amount of credit drops. I did a quick run of a level that at the start yielded maybe 50K to 100K credits… yea, now I’m pulling 5 million on the same run. MwaHaHa!!!
Now we can unlock everything else in no time. So much fun!!!
If only there were an 80X money thingie in real life…
I have an Xbox 360 because my cousin is awesome and has a cool job. So I now have a cool geeky toy, but I’ve discovered a few things by getting this gift. One is that I spend way too much time trying to force this contraption to work the way I want it to, instead of changing my activities to match the way it works. The second thing is that I don’t have any time to play with it anyway, and don’t even know what to use it for if I did.
There was an update yesterday to allow the 360 to play even more movie files, music, etc… I was hoping to just stream some video podcasts over from my computer. Hasn’t been working for me. Besides that I could use it to watch some movies, but then the home movies don’t seem to work and I don’t have time to watch movies much.
That’s the thing though, I don’t have time for such things anymore. Katie takes up time when I get home, then the wife usually has control of the TV, and what time left I spend on the computer (playing Guild Wars mostly) or reading a book. No time for media playing. Figure that in the end I’ll mostly use it for playing music when I’m cleaning the house on weekends.
Oh, and as far as playing games on this game console… they cost $60 a pop and again I have no time. Not only that, but I’ve gotten so rusty that they’re almost no fun. I’ll have to stick with the classic games on my Wii, or some of the Live Arcade demos on the 360. Of course the most fun is to find a night to visit my awesome cousin and watch him play games… just more entertaining.
