Author Archives: Filemon

Finally.

Beatmania drops stateside tomorrow. It’s only been what, a decade? Now Konami needs to start bringing over the rest of their music game library.

Except for Guitar Freaks.

They missed the boat on that one. That money is lost.

Guitar Hero is a better music game. I’ve played both. Guitar Freaks may have come first, but Guitar Hero has the better music selection, which is the most important part of a music game. There are gameplay options that can use some tweaking. RedOctane would do well to pull a few features out of Konami’s guitar case.

Such as, the option to play Bass.

Let me break it down SAT Style:

Guitar Hero :: Guitar Freaks as Pump it Up :: Dance Dance Revolution

I could use some guitar interpretations of classical music on one of the seven Guitar Hero games they have planned for this year and next.

I’ll just keep playing until then.

*sigh*

Remember Bumpy Trot?

It’s STEAMBOT Chronicles now.

What I want

Blizzard, just give us StarCraft 2 instead of delaying your vaporware StarCraft: Ghost endlessly.

WarCraft Adventures, anyone?

Not so greased

The Lightning extension for Mozilla Thunderbird adds the long missing calendar component into the beloved mail and newsreader app.

It is, in a word, “rough.” However, it does work. It’s functional in the way that a two by four can be used as a writing utensil.

Unwieldy, it’s not very polished, you may get splinters, and there are just some things you can’t do with it—but it is functional as a calendar. I’m just letting you know, in case you wanted a calendar from the Mozilla family that integrates into Thunderbird.

Never realized

I never realized just how many basic kitchen items I don’t have. I’ve been cooking a bit more lately, mainly to save some money and try to eat a little healthier. So far the big successes have been oven roasting chicken thighs, and using the crockpot to cook chicken adobo.

Now I’m starting to venture into the land of actual meals, instead of individual dishes with rice. I’m in the midst of preparing dinner at a friend’s house when I realize I do not own a steamer, nor a pair of tongs.

Both items, which, in retrospect, would have come in handy (and saved myself some “interesting” moments) more than a few times when cooking dinner.