E3 2006: Act II/Gesundheit!
("Who are you, and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith, and… I'm a locksmith." Man, I have to get those Police Squad! episodes on DVD. I rented the tapes and archived them onto Beta too many generations of media ago.)
▪ PS3 is still ugly, down to the inexplicable use of the Spider-man font, and isn't offering anything to justify its price to someone like me who isn't buying into the evil Chinese plot to sell HDTV and destroy the last of middle-class America, one credit card at a time. About the only good news is that the controller's been kept the same. Another year, another batch of CG movies.
▪ Nintendo's press conference was more successful, by all accounts, and though I generally approve of their approach to the console wars, I can't help but miss a jaw-dropping Factor 5 Star Wars game this time around.
▪ Xbox360? Who cares? Go buy one at Target if you think it matters.
My Second Life avatar. Not much more I can do with it, I suppose, unless completely different artistic sensibilities would reveal a better approach towards the basic appearance sliders. (Like when my roommate in college told me I had been tying my shoes wrong all my life.) I kinda wanted a hoodie, but I guess I can just switch to FFXI and put on my Royal Cloak. And have something to do. Flying's neat, but the way I do it in my dreams, there's more than sparse islands below, and I'm always ascending uncontrollably, passing any hope of a safe landing. Once I hit the ceiling of the universe, and decided to stay.
▪ PS3 is still ugly, down to the inexplicable use of the Spider-man font, and isn't offering anything to justify its price to someone like me who isn't buying into the evil Chinese plot to sell HDTV and destroy the last of middle-class America, one credit card at a time. About the only good news is that the controller's been kept the same. Another year, another batch of CG movies.
▪ Nintendo's press conference was more successful, by all accounts, and though I generally approve of their approach to the console wars, I can't help but miss a jaw-dropping Factor 5 Star Wars game this time around.
▪ Xbox360? Who cares? Go buy one at Target if you think it matters.
My Second Life avatar. Not much more I can do with it, I suppose, unless completely different artistic sensibilities would reveal a better approach towards the basic appearance sliders. (Like when my roommate in college told me I had been tying my shoes wrong all my life.) I kinda wanted a hoodie, but I guess I can just switch to FFXI and put on my Royal Cloak. And have something to do. Flying's neat, but the way I do it in my dreams, there's more than sparse islands below, and I'm always ascending uncontrollably, passing any hope of a safe landing. Once I hit the ceiling of the universe, and decided to stay.
