Recently my old Toshiba laptop finally kicked it, which seems like a good excuse for why I haven’t been updating all that often if not for the fact I was really just computerless for maybe half a week.

So, uh… NAHN-ELEVEN NAHN-ELEVEN, TURRISTS, etc.

It left me with a bit of time to screw around with the Internet capabilities of the other portable games and junk I have with net access. The Wii’s recently made its Internet Channel a free download (and added USB keyboard support, a must because as I can testify from responding to a comment on the last entry punching in text letter. By. Letter, with the fucking WiiMote is torture. The DSi’s stylus and onscreen keyboard are at least a little more reasonable since it’s right there in your hand like a PDA, and not clumsily aiming a remote control at the idiot box from across the room. (Incidentally, totally saw the free Wii Internet thing coming a mile away when they made it a free download to the DSi at launch.)

And, though it took an excavation project to get my PSP out and in working order again, it’s back online and I’ve messed with its capabilities some. It’s sort of become my backup browser for when I’m too lazy to drag my computer out since it displays pages relatively well, but sucks on anything remotely dynamic.

I guess the short version of all this is that I’ve turned my Wii into a Play-Youtube-Videos-On-My-TV-Machine while I Photoshop and whatnot on the laptop.

…god, this is the most pointless thing I have ever written. TUNE IN NEXT WEEK FOR “GUESS WHAT MY CAT DID!?!?!”

(actually in all seriousness I’m probably going to bitch about Dissidia)

AAAAAAHHHH AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I’M FREE!

TIME TO CONQUER ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF OBSCURE PLATFORMING TITLES

(I don’t give a shit if I’m the only one who gives a shit.)

Half-Minute Hero(AKA: Yuusha 30) (PSP)
Marvelous Entertainment

The Short Version: A retro RPG shortened to the point it’s a complete joke. You arrive on an island, are tasked by the goddess of time to stop a warlock from unleashing his doomsday spell, and must accomplish all your level grinding and fetch questing within 30 seconds.

The Long Version: Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

A ConAgra plant apparently exploded or something, and no store in the area has any Slim Jims left.

In a related(?) story, I was nearly hit by a pickup truck painted in the colors of the confederate flag walking home from work today. GO AMERICA.

GREAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN GAMING:

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor posits that the Japanese equivalent to the FCC has been planting small electromagnetic chips in all electronics since 2006, designed to simultaneously emit a wave on remote command in case of invasion that would turn major metropolitan areas into GIANT MICROWAVES.