Author Archives: baudattitude

Firmware frustration

Posted on November 13, 2008 by baudattitude

I’m letting my PSP annoy me lately. See, here’s the thing:  I have a Ceramic White Japanese PSP-1000, hand-imported from Akihabara back in August of ’06.  I rather like having the Japanese firmware; it means that when I go looking … Continue reading →

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Smith, Party of Eight?

Posted on November 12, 2008 by baudattitude

As often as I see the topic come up on forums and blogs, I think it’s safe to say that most – if not all – gamers have a list of games that they loved and that they think got … Continue reading →

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Former employer fail

Posted on November 11, 2008 by baudattitude

About fifteen years ago, I worked for the Peter Norton Computing Group down in Santa Monica, CA – specifically, on Norton Antivirus. At the time, Norton was The Name when it came to PC utilities, and the team I worked … Continue reading →

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Rub IS Love

Posted on November 11, 2008 by baudattitude

I didn’t jump on board the DS bandwagon until a couple of years after its release.  Honestly, when it was announced, I thought that Nintendo had lost its collective mind, and by the time it became apparent that they’d actually … Continue reading →

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More dead electronics.

Posted on November 11, 2008 by baudattitude

There’s a Hole in Our Entertainment Center (Where Our DVD Player Used to Be) isn’t nearly as good of a country song title as the Xbox one, but I’m singing it today anyway. See, a couple of years ago, we … Continue reading →

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LittleBigPlanet – It was worth the rental.

Posted on November 11, 2008 by baudattitude

I came extraordinarily close to falling for the LBP hype and dropping the sixty bucks. Thankfully, I didn’t.  I rented it from our neighborhood video store instead.  This was $7.99, and the game was definitely worth that. Let me be … Continue reading →

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Measuring progress

Posted on November 7, 2008 by baudattitude

The nice thing about a stationary exercise bike of the sort we have in our apartment’s exercise room is that it gives me quantifiable progress. See, the thing has twelve resistance settings, 1 being awfully lightweight and 12 being, I … Continue reading →

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Enhanced vocabularies

Posted on November 6, 2008 by baudattitude

So, Tuesday, in the space of about 60 seconds, I found out way more about a Japanese classmate’s vocabulary, fetishes, and imagination than I ever expected to. See, we were covering a new grammar point, basically “Have you, in the … Continue reading →

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Fatal(er) Frames

Posted on November 6, 2008 by baudattitude

After finishing Fatal Frame 2 : Crimson Butterfly : Director’s Cut at the Normal difficulty, I had two endings unlocked in the game’s gallery mode, with two endings still locked. Since the normal mode ending is a little depressing – … Continue reading →

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Exercise mixes, accidental:

Posted on November 5, 2008 by baudattitude

I made a happy discovery last night, and repeated it tonight: If I select “Mosaic.wav – めがねでねっ！” in my PSP’s “Music” folder and let it play sequentially from there, I get a half-hour of Mosaic.wav, Hamada Shouko, SweetS, and Round … Continue reading →

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