Benjamin ButtonAlright. Let's give this a shot. I'm in Ubuntu and using Bluefish.

Happy New Year! Yay! 2008 is over with! I don't know.

Anyways I planned on doing a "Games to the Video" this month, but it doesn't look like it will happen. I have nine games that could go on the list, but only two of them have dates attached to them. The rest have like Quarter 1 2009 or Quarter 2 2009. I'm not counting any Q3 or Q4 yet, and I also have 8 games with To Be Announced on the list here. Acutally, I'm just going to paste my list in. I'm not going to put in links, just something that you can have a look at.

  • Damnation: March 2, 2009
  • Madworld March 10 2009
  • Dark Void: Q1 2009
  • Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers Q1 2009
  • Resistance Retribution: Q1 2009
  • Velvet Assassin Q1 (or Q2) 2009
  • The Conduit Q2 2009
  • inFamous: Q2 2009
  • I Am Alive: Q2 2009
  • Section 8: Q3 2009
  • Darksiders: Wrath of War: Q3 2009
  • Borderlands: Q3 2009
  • Edge of Twilight: Q3 2009
  • Brutal Legend: 2009
  • Bayonetta 2009
  • MAG: TBA
  • God of War 3: TBA
  • Starcraft II: TBA
  • Diablo III: TBA
  • Project Hammer: TBA
  • Distaster Day of Crisis: TBA
  • Heavy Rain TBA 2009
  • Sadness: TBA

There's my entire list that I keep updated. Maybe February will bring some solid release dates. I'm thinking beginning of March now, because I noticed "D.I.C.E." is Feb 18. There's also the Consumer Electronics Show this month. But I don't think game developers announce release dates around that. Anyways, I'll touch on that later.

A few years ago, I found something called Pandora Radio. I played around with it a little bit back then, but not too much. It was cool. I put in an artist that you like, and it plays a song randomly by that artist, and then plays two songs from artists that sound like the artist you picked, and the patern repeats. It's internet radio, except it plays music that you like based on the artist you choose. It's pretty accurate. Although I typed "Linkin Park" and it gave me Puddle of Mudd "Blurry". I like Puddle of Mudd but I would not have compared the two to sound similar. Although it was right about me liking Puddle of Mudd. Maybe it's too smart...

Today I started using it because I found out they had an app for the IPod Touch. I was using Flycast for my internet radio needs, but it looks like I'm switching to Pandora again. The cool thing is that my account that I created... hmmm... about 4 or 5 years ago, still works. Sweet deal. I went A.D.D. on what I was going to say. So I'm going to move on.

I saw the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, yesterday. It was an OK movie. It was about three hours long. And it was slow.

Basically they told the story of the life of a man who ages backwards, being born old and dying as a baby. Brad Pitt was a very good choice for the actor. Not that anyone else could not have done it, but just because he's an awesome actor.

Anyways, the movie was too slow for my taste, and it follows the life a person... which is boring when you think about it. He doesn't live an oh-so-exciting life. It's just an interesting movie with several motifs, and themes. So many motifs that I probably didn't catch all.

Later I was thinking back on how they could have made the movie shorter, and therefore better, by shaving off the slow parts, but i soon realized most of them were actually motifs supporting the overall theme of the movie. Which they didn't really need because they had another motif ready to take that burden that people could have caught.

Do I recommend seeing it? I don't know. If you want to see an interesting movie it's worth a watch. Maybe a renter. I wouldn't buy it, or spend another 7 to 10 bucks to watch it again, but it was interesting. So there you go.

I think that's all, so I'm going to stop rambling. Let's have a good 2009, K?