I feel as though I may have a sick sense of humor, I named the squid pokemon tenticleprn.

What if the Super Mario Bros. movie had been about a DWP worker named (John) Mario, who is unhappy with his life and dreams of better things. One day, while working in a remote sewer system he stumbles upon some, turn of the century, abandoned sewer main, slips falls in and presumably falls to his death. 

Later, he wakes up in a beautiful scenic area; while he admires the view, he hears a woman cry for help. Mario runs the the edge of the area he is standing on and peers over, only to see a woman being attacked by a goomba. Feeling like this is his chance to be a hero he leaps over, accidentally landing on the goomba's head, crushing it. 

Mario is rattled with shock at the sight of what he has just done, but his fear is soon forgotten as the woman thanks him for saving her. She introduces herself as "Peach, Princess of the Toadstool kingdom" and asks for the name of her savior, still reeling from killing the goomba he can only muster "Mario"... 

...The Adventure Begins...

...And played my first Pokemon game, "Pokemon Ruby" and I actually enjoyed it. I somehow managed to put in just 25 seconds short of 60hrs and I beat it in a week, which is odd because usually I can spend a month or two putting in 35 hours as I play to and from work on the subway.

   As I said, I enjoyed it, the whole game is really about grinding and I enjoy building up my characters in any RPG. Having such fun with this only makes me sad that I didn't play any of these games sooner, and I think that if my first exposure to Pokemon hadn't been the cartoon (which put me off so much) then I might have played these years ago.

If playing "Dishonored" recently has taught me anything, it's that I would suck as a supernatural assassin.

The first game for the Oculus Rift is DOOM... prepare to mess yourself.

I went to my local gamestop and the Nintendo store, after asking a clerk at each many questions (the one at the nintendo store was actually helpful, not just hocking for nintendo) I finally decided to buy a Wii, as well as a copy of Legend ofZelda Twilight Princess. Now I have never played a Wii (short of fooling around with a store display for a minute) nor have I actually played a Zelda game either ( I know, I know... bad gamer, no cookie!)

So, I get it home set it up and start playing, at first I was having a tough time, (I kept moving my right thumb around trying to ajust the camera around) after a couple of days I am finally getting better at the controls. Though I think for me I should have gotten the gamecube version of the game so that I could have had a regular controler. I 've had troubles with it, at times it slides in my hand and I hit the menu button while trying to perform a critical strike, and the nunchuck has slid out of my palm a couple of times (ARGH!)

I don't like that when you save it saves your stats only, not where you are as well, example if you are near the end of a level and save the save data will reload at the begining of the location not where you were. Which means that I have to finish a level before saving otherwise I gotta' fight all the minor enemies that I just got done killing.

Overall I am enjoying the game though, the next thing i'll be trying on the Wii is Metroid Prime 3, with the gun shell for the wiimote, wish me luck!

-C_B

Now, I don't play pokemon, nor do I like it, but this weird thought poped into my head a few days ago and I just need to get it out of my system (and surprizingly I think its sound.) I think I may have figured out how a poke-ball would work. Keep in mind that my only real exposure to them is through Robot Chicken and the webcomic Virtual Shackles (both use the same joke, the pokemon are shrunk and live comfortably until called on by their human overlords.) So if this has been explained as cannon in the comix,anime,games or what not keep this in mind: I DON'T CARE this is just a theory from an outsider that can never be proven to be true or false and has no bearing on the real world.

Now, my though is simply this, I think the pokemon are broken down into pure matter, recorded and set in some sort of buffer loop, only to be re-materialized when the ball is open again, like a half realized star trek transporter, for a better explination as to what I mean, watch the Star Trek TNG episode "Relics". I think the pokemon are preserved in the same manner, so that they never know how long they are in the poke ball. Preferable to some sort of hellish nightmare where they are aware that they are shoved into a sphere 1/10th their size.