Holy Allergens, Batman!

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Jun 012007
 

My summer vacation has not started off well.

Spent the past few days sick. Flopping around bed with various ailments. Totally pleasant stuff. Much to my dismay, my beautiful Mac Book Pro power supply decided to die last night. Meaning I had to truck the good half hour drive to the Apple store today to get it replaced. Someone remind me to buy an extra power supply before I go to Japan. Shit, who knows how far an Apple store will be then.

Anyway, so on my drive back, I was accosted by a scene that made me blink a few times too many. Huge white chunks falling from the sky. This bullshit, although, was not Rochester dumping one final glorious mountain of snow on my ass, but rather large chunks of pollen just waiting to get all up in my respiratory system and cause me ill.

At least I didn’t run into any bears in my daring visit to the outerlands.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 10:24 am

On Cereals Containing Neither Grapes Nor Nuts

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Apr 042007
 

What the fuck is this Grape Nuts bullshit? The entire title of the cereal is a lie.

I thank my parents for raising me in a safe, stable environment. But parents must also warn their children of potential dangers. Grape Nuts was not something I was warned about.

Grapes and nuts. All I was really expecting. Just some freeze dried grapes and nuts sprinkled through some kind of whole grain cereal. Instead I get a box of supposedly edible gravel.

I am not happy right now.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 6:50 pm

Fuck, Best Buy Is On To Me!

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Mar 302007
 

Best Buy used to carry these “Gamer’s Gift Cards” which let you give your favorite gamer a sizable sum of Best Buy spending power along with a $5 coupon off of any video game $19.99 or more.

Now, if you think for a minute, what stops you from buying a bunch of these and using them on every game you purchase? Hell, why not buy one before you buy a game you’re about to buy and then buy said game with $5 off coupons? (How many times can I say “buy” and “game” in a sentence?)

It’s what I did for months. But now, after a few separate trips to Best Buy, I haven’t seen a single gawddamned one of them.

You make me sad Best Buy. Very, very sad. But, I got Puzzle Quest, so it’s all good, as they say.

This is the end of an era.

Note: I really can’t take credit for this “trick” but damn if it wasn’t nice while it was still available.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 5:20 pm

Symphony of the Damn-You-360-Controller!

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Mar 252007
 

To say that Symphony of the Night is my favorite game of all time is an understatement. Tell me that I can only play one game for the rest of eternity and I’d say “Okay,” and then snag my PS1 and my copy of SotN and be happy. Anyways, this past Wednesday it was released for XBLA.
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 Posted by revenantkioku at 12:20 pm

The Results…Are In…

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Mar 192007
 

No, not JET. The sausage.

You know your life is a tad fucked when the most exciting thing going on is breakfast sausage. That said, I just cooked it and it is sitting next to me ready to be eaten.

That’s right folks – quasi-live blueberry-sausage taste reporting. Only here.

And the first bite.

What the fuck is going on here? That’s definitely chicken sausage. Poor quality chicken sausage. There are hints of blueberry and maple syrup all throughout the sausage, but neither very strong or good.

Yeah. That was the worst sausage I have ever eaten.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 7:53 am

For Her Clipping Pleasure

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Mar 122007
 

What you are looking at is the only pair of toenail clippers that WalMart had in stock.

That’s right. I checked.

I can’t even begin to understand what makes them “for her” other than the purple packaging and the bump in retail price. You just know that they charge extra for these “specialty products”. I mean, shit. It cuts my damn toenails just fucking fine and I don’t even have a vagina. I was hoping it would at the very least make my toes smell of lavender when I cut them, but nothing. Not a goddamned thing.

It is the nicest toenail clipper I’ve ever used, though.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 10:55 pm

Thanks, Automation!

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Mar 022007
 

I got this from TigerDirect today.

“Thank you for your recent order. Our records indicate your order was completely shipped approximately 7 days ago. At this point, you should have received every item of your order. “

Now, I have already opened, hated and returned the product in question. They know this, as I have my money back. And yet, I still get emailed asking how I’m liking my product.

That, bluntly, is stupid awesome.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 6:14 pm

I’m Not Passing On The Savings

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Jan 242007
 

I got an email notifying me about a comment on one of my posts, as I should, and when I went to approve it, I see thirty-three spam messages.

I had no idea I was so popular.

I’m going to go get some Viagra on the cheap now. Be on the lookout for awesome priapisms.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 12:56 am

Passing the proverbial torch

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Nov 032006
 

Convinced my roommate to pick up a 360 tonight. Well, $100 also helped his decision but I don’t think I have much more than that vested in my 360 life span. $100 to let me ride out the next year with being able to play the system seems more fair than the cost I’d have to pay to reinsure the new system I’d purchase. Plus now when I get my $400 Best Buy gift card I can go hog wild and get a Wii or some shit.

I’m getting quite fed up with this “WE NEED THE POWER” hype coming into the gaming world and I end up with broken gaming systems. Hoorah. I’m sure I’ll end up with another 360 in the future, and probably a PS3 and a Wii, but if they all break I might just pick up a few cheap PS2s and live of the PS1/2 RPG backlog for the rest of my gaming life. This shit’s getting annoying. I don’t think I have to repeat the exploits of my five dollar trash bin SNES.

Oh yeah, and I’m hocking Dead Rising. Game’s not worth the alleged trouble it’s caused me!

 Posted by revenantkioku at 12:07 am

Oh yeah, and it cost me five bucks. (Not the 360.)

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Oct 242006
 

My 360 died.

Well no, that’s not entirely true. See, the 360 has some sort of motion sensor to tell whether it’s set vertically or horizontally in order to properly display the 3/4 red circle of death. That is still functioning.

You know, the fact that my six month old piece of hardware is already dead doesn’t bug me as much as the fact that while it lies there functionally a failure, my Super Famicom picked out of a dirty cardboard box at a flea-market in Japan functions as well as the day it was made. Frankly, I’m not even sure if I want a 360 anymore. I’ve still got some SNES games I haven’t played yet.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 11:42 pm
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