I had to go get a new power supply for the Black Beast this weekend, since its old one went tits-up last week. Fortunately, it didn’t take anything with it.

So while I was at Fry’s, I bopped over to the Wii games to look for a couple of things on my wishlist. I’d planned on getting just one or the other–I knew Ju-On was relatively cheap, but I did not count on The Conduit being all of $17… so I came home with two new games Saturday afternoon!

I’m kind of glad I waited until The Conduit got cheap, because as awesome as it is (good God, the Wii was made for first-person shooters) it’s way too short and its ending is very unsatisfying, and if there is not a sequel that’s going to be a pretty shitty place to leave it. Also, I wish the environment wasn’t so indestructible–playing Ghostbusters has kind of spoiled me on environments where anything and everything can be blowed up real good. It just makes me kind of sad to fling grenades and shoot plasma bolts and strafe a room with a biomechanical hand cannon that shoots EXPLODING BEES, I SHIT YOU NOT, and have nothing to show for it but a few bullet holes in the wall.

Other than that, it’s fucking great. I have not yet tried multiplayer, but I plan to very soon.

As for Ju-On, I played it last night. And finished it. It’s even shorter, yeah. Basically, it’s equal parts “Baby’s First Survival Horror Game” and “long, interactive screamer .gif.” Gameplay consists of walking (very slowly) around your spooky abandoned venue, looking for batteries for your flashlight (if your last battery dies, it’s game over, but batteries are fairly plentiful), looking for keys for locked doors, looking for scraps of pictures and newspaper clippings, and getting the bajeezus scared out of you by Kayako and/or Toshio and/or random shit falling down, making noise, or otherwise acting in ways it shouldn’t every so often.

And now, a meme.

- Take four books off your bookshelf.
- Write the first sentence
- Write the last sentence on page fifty
- Write the second sentence on page one hundred
- Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
- Write the final sentence of the book
- Let your friends guess what book it is.

Originally published at Fire of Unknown Origin. You can comment here or there.

Possibly the best thing to ever float across ONTD_P.

Someone either a) had no idea what that bear means or b) knew exactly what that bear means.

In other news, yesterday I came home from work fighting off a cold or something, played Animal Crossing in a daze for about an hour, went to bed around 7ish, and did not move again till about 8:30 this morning.

I finally caught a fucking blue marlin, at least! Now if I could just get a birdwing butterfly I’d be happy. I have seen one. ONE. And couldn’t catch the damn thing.

Originally published at Fire of Unknown Origin. You can comment here or there.