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Hey. I’ve started making video game playthrough videos with added commentary.

Here’s the first one of a small indie game called VVVVVV:

Since this set of videos I’ve started in on a playthrough of Serious Sam HD. You can check out the progress on that by visiting my Youtube Channel.

My parents keep scrap books of baby photos, family photos and even pet photos. They had a pair of my baby shoes bronzed. My mom still has that plate I made her one year for Mother’s Day. It has a Stussy logo on it because, really, what are you suppose to draw on a Mother’s Day plate? She also has all the pastels and paintings I made and numerous other arts and crafts type things from my youth.

Stuff like that holds absolutely no meaning to me.

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On May 6th 2009, ezmuze+ Hamst3r edition was released on the XBOX Live Marketplace. The first week that ezmuze+ Hamst3r edition was out, it was able to secure a place as the 5th most purchased Community Game with 800 sales in five days.

The next week ezmuze+ rose to the number 2 spot with 1165 sales. This was the peak though as the 3rd week saw 812 sales and the 4th week 743 sales.

The week after that, ezmuze+ was off the Top 10…

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I’m not interested in racing as a sport. I also have no desire to ever race a vehicle in real life. The components of a car are equally uninteresting to me. Does the car go fast? Yes? Great. That’s all I need to know.

When I play a racing game, what I want is white-knuckle craziness, which is what appeals to me about rally racing. Rally is insane.

The best kind of rally is the basic point to point time trial through wildly varying environments. You start off on a dusty mountain cliff and the next thing you know you’ve gone through a forest and are now ripping up the roads along the beach. The terrain is uneven and unforgiving. The roads widen and thin. Hairpin turns appear unexpectedly, keeping you on high alert the entire time. It’s you versus the road.

That said, I’m really looking forward to DiRT 2, which is coming out in September 2009. I played through the career mode in DiRT 1 and enjoyed it immensely. I have a few concerns about DiRT 2 though. I’ve heard that they have included more closed-circuit races. That’s not what I want, as stated above. The first DiRT game would have been perfect if it completely got rid of all the closed-circuit and endurance races.

Anyways, I hope DiRT 2 delivers and I guess I’ll be reinstalling the original DiRT until DiRT 2 comes out!

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I have an idea for an animation that revolves around a piece of music I wrote titled, “Mode 7”. The title is a reference to a technology developed by Nintendo for the SNES that would allow for 3D-like environments. It was used in games like F-Zero and Mario Kart.

Anyways, this cityscape is a backdrop for the animation:

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