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June 28, 2005
In what is probably the most surprising move in the history of the internet, shufflingdead.com has magically garnered a new writer. She goes by Awesomeness Supreme, and this is her first article: Dear Abby, I’m a Whiny Dumbass!
June 23, 2005
Advertise your shit on shufflingdead.com by buying an ad on one of the side banners! Only 1 goddamn cent a day, I must be crazy! This site gets over a hundred visitors a day, if only one of them clicked your ad, that'd still be 0.01 cent per click, by Grabthar's hammer, what a savings! Limited time offer!
Further DS rambling: Mario 64 DS continues to show me how well a touch screen can really work for a game. Having said that, the controls in the Metroid Prime: Hunters demo are nothing but irritating. I've found that the default settings for the game are the most comfortable offered, but still make little sense. Interestingly enough, it's not actually the fault of the touch screen, but simply the way the buttons are mapped out. For some fucking ungodly reason, you tap the screen to jump. Now tell me, in the last twenty years of gaming, has there ever been a game where smacking the joy stick or directional pad made you jump? I think fucking not, unless you include fighting games where "up" is jump, but that does make at least a little sense. So why should things be different just because the control pad has been replaced by a touch screen? It's simple really; the controls would be fine, hell, even spectacular after a little practice, if they simply mapped the jump action to a button.
Nintendo seems to have inadvertently created a system that could probably mimic the computer mouse-monitor relationship in a lot of ways. I'm looking forward to virtually every strategy game for the system simply for this reason, as well as hoping that a high quality, more traditional FPS comes out at some point. Now here's a picture of Mario:
June 22, 2005
As you can see, the site finally has ads again. This is a truly glorious turning point in the storied history of shufflingdead.com! And now on with random rambling about video games...
Only a few days ago I would have told you all about the wonders of Pokemon. How I had rediscovered the series and had my life wholly engulfed in an addiction to Pokemon Gold. Indeed, all of that did happen, but it has been bumped by an even more remarkable event: I have come to possess a DS. It's a major event in the life of a gamer, to get a new system I mean. This system is particularly remarkable of course, two screens, one of them a touch screen, you know how it is. The most overwhelming thing of it all: the system actually works amazingly well. I would argue playing Mario 64 DS is an even more fun experience than playing the original. I'm looking forward to what appears to be an approaching storm of wacky and unique games for the system, my hopes are high.
June 19, 2005
Today I bring you: Screwy: The Gathering
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