Saw this during the 3rd quarter of the Superbowl with about 2 to 3 minutes remaining on the clock.
Google Superbowl Commercial: Parisian Love; File this under 'sweet' and also 'if only it were that easy'. Btw, does anyone else's eyes get drawn toward's "Church's Chicken" during the auto-fill? Yuummmm, Church's Chicken.
Of course it ended for the niners much earlier than yesterday, but winning isn't everything right? (Congrats to the Saints, though)
I went to plenty of 49er games this season, but didn't bother taking any photos except during their Thursday night game against the Bears - the one where Jay Cutler threw 5 interceptions. The night setting made for much more interesting photos.
Pre game introductions, the sun is still setting.
Sometime in the 3rd quarter.
Game over. People leaving.
Looking forward to the NFL draft and the 2010-2011 season.
Ah, Fate-san. Preordered this back in June(?) of 2009, and it finally arrived this weekend!
This box is huge. Larger than either my PS3 or XBOX but about the same size as my 26.5 inch monitor. I'll need to figure out where I have space to put the figure before I can unbox it.
Blame the guy at temetherian.com if you don't find this funny ...
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (PC 2009)
It's been ages since I've played a "point and click" adventure game, but Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition managed to kick start my interest in the genre again. If you're even remotely interested, I recommend you give it a try too.
Read more after the jump.
For those not familiar with "point and clicks", you're clicking around the screen with your mouse to move the character around the settings/maps. When you get close to an object to interact with, you can select one of several actions, like 'pick up' or 'look at' or 'open'. A lot of the puzzles are solved from combining the items that you've collected over the course of the game and using them at the right moments. It's strangely satisfying to solve these puzzles without using any hints. Speaking of hints, for those who get lost, you can hit the 'hint' button and hints will be dropped. First, ambiguous ones, but if you're persistent with jamming the hint button, it'll tell you exactly what to do (but that just spoils the fun).
So what's special about Special Edition? Just about everything: updated graphics, new character renderings, a fully voiced script, and new user interface system. For kicks, you can swap into the classic version at the press of a button. I tried it a few times during the game, but there's almost no point to it other than to satisfy your curiosity.
Clocking in at 5 to 6 hours, this game is a timeless classic filled with challenges, some small decisions to make in the dialog interactions, and lots of laughs. All of the characters, from your friends to your enemies, have their quirks, so it was pretty fun discovering what this world was all about.
Anime Winter 2009 Wrapup
A little bit late, but these were the shows I watched last season: let's see how these did (versus my prediction 3 months ago).
Hits:
Kimi ni Todoke (Right: still the best show of last season.)
A Certain Scientific Railgun (Neutral: fans of Index will like it, and I am a fan of Index.)
Fairy Tale (Neutral: it's good, but not even close to the epic known as One Piece)
Seitokai no Ichizon (Wrong. This show really picked up at the end and exceeded my expectations).
Darker Than Black Season 2 (Did not preview.)
Misses:
Kampfer (Wrong, wasn't as good as I hoped.)
Nyan Koi (Wrong, became a formulaic harem.)
Nagazaki Haruka no Himitsu Purezza (Right: generic romance comedy.)
The Sacred Blacksmith (Right, waste of time.)
Asura Crying Season 2 (Did not preview.)
Dropped:
Kobato (Kind of right, watched and dropped.)
Letter Bee (I wouldn't know, dropped after first episode.)
Kenholic Top 20 Anime of the Past Decade Footnotes
In case you missed it, part one (11-20) here and part two (1-10) here.
So these guys are somewhere in my next tier, ranging from 20-50, but without too much thought, I can't really place them exactly. All I know is that at some point, I had considered them for a top 20 spot, but eventually pushed them off. I had to eliminate a few like One Piece and Great Teacher Onizuka because I discovered they actually aired in 1999.
Honorable mentions and why they didn't beat out any of my top 20 after the jump:
Naruto and Bleach: I like these, and in my mind, they competed with Prince of Tennis and Yakitate!! (all four of these are relatively long series) for 19 and 20, but I wish they would take a break instead of making boring filler arcs. Too much filler ruins those shows, especially with the way Bleach is handling it.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: If I were to just count the first season, it would have easily gotten a spot somewhere between 13-18; however, the second season killed it for me over and over and over.
Gundam 00:Two Gundams in the top 20? Not totally inconceivable, but there's a big reason why Gundam Seed made the list and Gundam 00 did not: the characters. As I mentioned in other post, Gundam Seed takes a more soapish approach to its story telling, and I liked it. Gundam 00, on the other hand, is hardcore mecha porn. Robots beating the crap out of each other repeatedly and doing it in a very in-your-face style. In that sense, it's a much purer Gundam than the Seed series for sure. I'm mostly disturbed at how almost all of the subplots were never mentioned again in this series (which were so few to begin with).
Code Geass: The uneveness of this series hurts it. Lelouch definitely has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, but outside of Kallen and C.C., none of the other characters are even remotely interesting. Suzaku is annoying as a character that I've ever seen.
Black Lagoon: Stylized violence, but ultimately little substance.
K-On & Lucky Star: I was tempted to replace 19 and 20 with these, but I decided that my old school favs should win out since I don't know what the staying power of these are for me. Whereas the others had a more solid footing, I could see myself telling myself 'wtf did i watch these for'. But truth of the matter is, I also compare a lot of what I see these days to these two ...
The list goes on, but I'd rather not ramble on. The whole point of a top 20 as opposed to a top 30+ was to save myself editing time :)
Finally a 2009 darkhorse: Kimi no Todoke. The jury is still out on this one for me. It's half amazing, half stupid. I can't decide how I feel about this show, partly because it's only half over and is more likely to fail than to succeed, but also partly because I'm afraid to admit that I might actually like it that much ... especially the latest episode, 15: Rivals.
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