If anyone has Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Fire Red or Leaf Green, I’d really like to borrow it to get some Pokemon. In order to catch a lot of the Pokemon in Diamond and Pearl, you need to have a copy of one of the GBA games in the GBA slot of the DS. It really sucks…but I want to have a game with all of the Pokemon captured.

Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer from IGN

Damn shame that it is an April Fool’s Gag.

NOTE: Fixed the link so it goes right to the trailer.

Check out this awesome Midna cosplay.

Source

Check out any of the links under Featured Video on the YouTube homepage.

I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

NOTE: This was written at 3:31 AM on April 1st, 2008. However, the post was set to appear at 8PM so as not to draw attention to the fact that it was April Fool’s. :-)

My apologies to anyone else who posts this in the interim. I’m not trying to steal your thunder.

We have just entered the glorious month of April, which means that there is less than 30 days until the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. Yes. That’s right. I was surprised too. It seems like only yesterday that Peter Moore - the former Microsoft executive - was unveiling his Grand Theft Auto IV tattoo.

Peter Moore

The Tattoo

Anyway, the game hits retail shelves on April 29, 2008, for the XBox 360 and Playstation 3. Obviously, there is no Wii version. The Wii - sadly - cannot handle GTA levels of awesome. Also, the inevitable computer version will not be arriving until much much later. But still, we will be able to see a lot more choice GTA videos than the ones currently available (although I have scraped together the cream of the crop, links below).

The game looks amazing. The developer promises the same seismic change in advancement between GTA 3 and GTA 4 as we saw between GTA 2 and GTA 3. No, they are not adding an extra perceivable dimension. However, they are ensuring that their open world is more open and more vibrant than ever. The graphics has improved. The gameplay has improved. Subtle variations between vehicles of the same class, more diverse weapons and explosives (ought to please the Binks’ in the audience), and more stuff to do than ever before.

But most importantly: multiplayer. I made a post about the sixteen modes of multiplayer a few weeks ago. The multiplayer looks amazing. If I wasn’t so poor and on such a terrible internet connection, I would run out and purchase this game, an XBox 360 and an XBox Live Subscription just to play this game against other people. For, that is the dream that plagues me. A dream of a Massively Multiplayer Grand Theft Auto experience, where people are cops, criminals, hitmen, or just regular thugs and miscreants, operating within an expansive city filled with car races, explosions, and mayhem. It would be amazing. Rival gangs…law enforcement…stockpiling weapons. Think Second Life meets World of Warcraft meets an AK-47 (and then some). It could be something really special. And this multiplayer is the first step.

But enough of me gushing.

Here is some delicious media to whet your appetite:

As I said above, there aren’t many videos. The best are available on YouTube here and here. The first is of reasonable quality, while the second is typical YouTube fare.

It has been a while since I have made any decent effort toward posting on this blog. Normally, when I post some things on my blog, I have worked myself into some sort of mood or groove or state of mind. Whatever the case may be. I usually have a reason for posting. Lately, I’ve just been bored. Too bored to do anything with this space. Nothing exciting has happened.

Last week was the apocalyptic “three test” week, where I wrote midterm tests for Number Theory, Probability, and Calculus III at 1:30, 3:30, and 5:30 respectively. Number Theory and Calculus went reasonably well, but I tanked on Probability. I suppose it would help if I were able to keep up with the material, but I swear that the people in Statistics and Actuarial Science actually assign a frenzy of variables and terminology to over complicate what is - at heart - a simple breed of math. It seems that test questions use different notation than the examples in the course notes, which use different notation from the examples in class.

Mathematics has never before frustrated me due to the universal standards regarding most mathematical ideas, but probability has begun to sour me on the idea of mathematics. It has always been so simple and so elegant. Now, it is a mess of “X’s and x’s and x’s” that are absolutely meaningless.

When I haven’t been panicking over my math courses (or finishing a Physics assignment and neglecting Sociology), I’ve been playing video games. I’ve beaten most things in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, although Boss Battle Mode on Intense has proven itself to be too difficult for me. I’ve downloaded some Virtual Console games. Super Mario Bros. 3 (which I completed on the first night), Super Metroid, and Star Fox 64. These games will tide me over until another retail Wii game captures my attention.

On the DS side of things, I have a horrible confession to make.

I have been drawn back into the world of Pokemon.

Subject B found a DS emulator for the computer, and he began playing Pokemon Pearl, so I started playing Pokemon Diamond. I made it to the first gym when I got so incredibly frustrated with the emulator speed that I decided to purchase the game at the SLC game sale (ASIDE: They seem to show themselves during the last week of each month, and their prices are easily better than retail.) Subject B bought Pokemon Pearl and my DS Phat, and we have been playing ever since. We’ve logged over 48 hours on the game individually. Oh, yeah, and I only got the game on Friday at noon. So, over the past four days, two days worth of time has been spent playing Pokemon. I’m addicted. I’ve been drawn back in.

All because of this little bastard right here.

Psyduck. He has always been my favourite Pokemon. I remember when Mattie and Glen (back at St. Als) were making a Pokemon story, my character had a family of Psyducks. One that I battled with, and five little babies that I carried around in a backpack. My obsession with Psyducks have only intensified. Currently, in Diamond, I have slightly over 20 Psyducks (enough for three full teams of Psyducks). All of my Psyducks have been specially groomed and bred with powerful Psychic attacks that they would not normally learn on their own (Psychic and Psybeam), and none are allowed to evolve. Psyduck is awesome. And I aim to have 50 Psyducks by the time Pokemon Farm comes out on Wii Ware.

Oh yeah. Psyduck is the King.

If you need to be reminded of the hilarity of Psyduck, check out the Youtube Videos after the jump: