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Bought a 37" LCD TV to make my Xbox 360 feel better, it’s pretty sweet. Also had my first Xbox Live Halo experience tonight and it lived up to my expectations: I got brutally destroyed by some kid yelling racist stuff at everyone. Ah, the future.

I turned 31 yesterday. I’m old as hell! My girlfriend gave me an Xbox 360 though so I’ve got a lot of game-playing to do. I’ve got Halo 3 and I believe I shall be subscribing to Xbox Live — anyone out there playing? What are the good online games?

The history of Vinyl Data has some surprises. I didn’t realize there were artists encoding Sinclair ZX Spectrum programs into their records as far back as 1983 such as Pete Shelly from the Buzzcocks and the Thompson Twins. That’s awful hardcore for 20+ years ago. I would say it beats the crap out of manipulating spectrograms.

Even more awesomely The Thompson Twins included an adventure game (called The Thompson Twins Adventure) where you wander around beaches and caves for no real reason:

You can actually play it online here. OH GOD I FOUND A BOTTLE OF SPICE.

My favorite of course is Urusei Yatsura’s ‘Everybody Loves Uresei Yatsura’ album:

Examining the source for the program reveals the following comments:

“Hi Nick, is Robin there?”

“Judas Priest Satanic Message #3”

“What is sadder: a.) finding this b.) writing it”

Lick his cloven hoof.\m/ (via kotaku)

So I got a Wii a few days ago and it’s great of course. But I think the best part is watching other people play it for the first time. I took it over to my parents’ tonight and watching my mother beat the hell out of a boxer, well, it just about brought tears to my eyes.

If I have a complaint it’s the lack of online multiplayer. I’m pretty good at tennis now and I desire to kick international ass.

I guess I should “camp” more on my “credit card statements” as Blizzard has been conducting “raids” on my “money” for the past “year” since I quit “World of Warcraft”.

Anyway I’m like a level 20 complainer now. At 30 I think I finally get to talk to a manager so I’ve got a lot of grinding to do.

WFMU has an awesome overview (with mp3s) of Atari Music — “quickie albums released to cash in on the booming video game craze” during the Eighties.

I have Guitar Hero on the brain. Here are some videos:

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Freetar Hero – a fella from my hometown is working on a free version of Guitar Hero that you can use any music with. I still need to try that game.

A few people have asked me about how World of Warcraft is going. Well, I quit playing it. I got about three or four weeks of nicely addicted fun out of it where I needed to play it every chance I possibly could, but then it wore me out and I never logged back in. I didn’t make a decision about it, there was no particular angry quitting moment. I just got tired. Here’s my boring story:
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