Friday, March 26, 2010

PAX

I'm just about to head out for the Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston. Looking forward to this. Just gotta print out directions and get on the road.

Let's just hope I'm not committing some gamer faux-pas by bringing the wrong DS games. I don't want to pull out Mario Kart when everybody has moved onto Dragon Quest or something. That would be embarrassing.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

3DS

Hey look, Nintendo announced a new DS! It's coming out in Japan within the next year! It's backwards compatible with all DS and DSi games. It's going to have some sort of 3D display capabilities without requiring 3D glasses!

And that's all we know.

Obviously, the most interesting thing mentioned so far is having 3D on the handheld. How is this going to work?

The big money is currently on Nintendo using Sharp's new "Veil View" technology, which allows for the screen to display different depending on the angle it's viewed from. My guess is they could use this to better simulate depth, but the effect won't be the traditionally-thought-of "pop-out" 3D you see in movies these days.

But then again, I'm not really in any place to know these things.

PAX this weekend! PAX East, that is.

Still not sure where I'll be spending all my time, but it should be fun.

(Hopefully I get my netbook before then. That would be nice.)

Monday, March 22, 2010

Pointless internets

I just tried linking a newly-created Formspring account to my blog.

Have you heard of Formspring? It's a site where people can go to ask you random questions.

It's perfect for somebody like me who has a huge ego but doesn't like to talk about it. I can pretend that people actually value my opinions on certain topics while claiming they're the ones who are reaching out to me!

Everybody wins! (Except for the people who actually bother asking me questions or reading my answers. They're clearly losing.)

So, the issue is that Formspring automatically posts to your "most recent" blog. In this case, my answers were going to Our Proposed Failures - a record of wasted life first planned out when Ted and I were living together. Until I can get that fixed and get those answers posting to this blog (assuming there are additional questions in the future), I'll just post a link here and call it a day.

And Our Proposed Failures, just for the heck of it: http://proposedfailures.blogspot.com/

Oh, and my work computer had to be wiped clean today! It was equal parts frustrating and liberating.