The Celestial Brush in the Wii version of Okami is unwieldy? People who haven't played Okami before will just think it's oddly difficult to use (I'm looking at you, Nick Suttner)!?

Really?

Pfft. Give me a break. It's harder to work a toaster oven.

We've moved the recording of the Trigames.NET Podcast to Saturdays instead of Sundays, hoping to alleviate (1) the rush to finish up an episode before the_antipode has to leave for work and (2) potential late starts that come about because of Saturday-night-related activities, which also had an impact on item (1) in the past. We haven't quite settled on a time yet, though -- so I guess just as a general guideline, if you have questions and/or comments send them in before you go to sleep on Friday just to be safe.

Episode 91 is in the editing room. I've gotten staffed a new project so I'm no longer in "self-training and thus I have more time and flexibility" mode, so unfortunately this doesn't mean that the episodes will necessarily come earlier but I'll try. Computer disasters pending, of course.

Finally, Richard Ball, we got your audio question last week but because we were rushing into doing the episode we didn't get a chance to listen to it. However, we've answered it this week for you -- well, as best we can, since none of us own GTA IV to know what the PS3 multiplayer is like.

Random comment for any NBA fans: New Orleans. Wow.

I can't vent about this experience as I really want to, as it involves mean and moderatable words, so I'll just make it short and then also direct you to my non-gaming blog where I detailed it in full (see the Chupporitos link up at the top of this profile page).

I went into a Gamestop at 33rd Street and Broadway in New York to spend a gift card I had gotten from Tony. I had my Edge card with me which takes 10% off Used product, I got dinged with my taxes, I'm saving up to go back to school and I'm just trying to save as much as I can in general, so making a gift card go as long as possible is important to me. As such, I decided to grab Super Mario Galaxy used. The disc had a tangential scratch in it, which I explain in my other blog; in short, it's the worst kind of scratch you can have because it goes around the spiral of the disc instead of just being a straight cut. When I explained the situation, the dude told me that it was ok and almost made me leave with it. I explained that the_antipode had a problem with a Dreamcast disc with this exact same scratch, and he told me that Dreamcast and Wii games are processed entirely differently by their respective machines.

WHAT?

Needless to say, I was amused and pissed at the same time, but I bit my tongue and just kept insisting that I be given a different disc. You can read the FULL anger and vehemence of my experience in that other blog, but be warned that the language used within is not for the faint of heart.

Oh yeah, Episode 90 of the podcast is up. It's what we call our Worst Ever since we were exhausted from a Rock Band party that went til almost 5am the night before, but Slunks seems to like it ^_^.

So, the podcast with jimb0 and Slunks will be a little delayed. One of the sound files was warped so I'm doing some fine-tune editing. Hopefully, I'll have it ready by late tonight. Otherwise, it'll be midday tomorrow. In the meantime, check out this odd but cool little gift from Capcom for ordering Okami on capcom.com:

A plantable card? Pretty neat in that Okami way. Did you order Okami for Wii?

Well, here is the video I mentioned before. I still think this song is easier than Jordan if only because of how lenient the Hammer-On/Pull-Off mechanics are in this song. Plus, the fact that I can pick out a distinguishable melody from TTFAF as opposed to Jordan's hell section helps my brain translate what I should be doing for my fingers

the_antipode and I appeared on episode 50 of the Gameslaves Radio podcast. Please give it a listen when it goes live on Monday or Tuesday -- and please give Gameslaves.net some support. Review them on iTunes :P And speaking of podcasts...

We record tomorrow at 11:30AM EST. Slunks and jimb0 may both be joining us. Send in questions to the usual: mailbag AT trigames DOT net -- or use the form here. We try to get the mailbag set before we begin the episode, but if you email us before 1PM EST we might be able to squeeze your comment in. Anyway, GH3 video below.

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