A classic from the early months of Action Theater.

Just wanted to let you know I’m still here. Just been a long day and I haven’t been able to get back to the site after I got everything upgraded. I’m postin a “classic” RE today (heh classic…) and I hope you enjoy it. It is 11 pm monday and I’ll get back to the regular swing of things tomorrow.

- Warren

I’m going to be working on the back end of this website for awhile. It might be up and down, so don’t fret. I’ll be posting new material and comic a little later today.

- Warren

Ah yes..Odin. A spell/person/thing that is both loved and feared in the Final Fantasy universe. Wether it is a boss to beat or a spell to lay the smacketh down on the populous, Odin has been in many a Final Fantasy and will probably be a staple in it forever.

- Warren

Just wanted to say this picture reminds me of my neices, once upon a time.

Click here to see more of the artists work.

- Warren

There is this prevailing idea that gamers can’t do anything but play games. In the mass media, you seem to have this continued association of gamers with people that live with their mothers into their 30’s and beyond, siphoning off society and basically being Losers with a capitol “L.”

The Reality of this is totally different then the perception. I know very few gamers like the stereotype, yet it still persists. So I thought I’d take a few posts and show some gamers that do things outside, but often related, to the field of gaming.

First up is a video I saw via Kotaku. A really good drummer who is playing along and adding to the much beloved musical classic, Super Mario Brothers 3:

Very Cool eh?

This shows that he has had to spend time learning to play drums, outside of the gaming world. Just realize that not all people that are influenced by gaming are worthless piles of man flesh

- Warren

Did you know that DS can be used as a synthesizer? Seriously. The DS Korg app allows it to, it seems, do some serious work. And you can link several DS’ together to make a bigger synth instrument…

Click here for the official site and click here for the wiki article on the device.

Here is a cool video of someone playing a song through the application…a cool sounding trance song. The type I sometimes write to:

And here is a place to download an MP3 four different people made using the DS and the app. Not to in to to the song, but it is awesome it came out of a DS.

I am very excited about this product and plan on getting it. Yay for finding new ways to use the DS!

- Warren

Starship is the evolution of the band Jefferson Airplane. They did some great music in he Sixties and Seventies. However I grew up listening to Jefferson Starship (or just Starship) in the 80’s: That is what i remember. This song is voted the worst in the 80’s by some people, but I have to disagree. There is a hit of hopeful rebellion in the lyrics, something you don’t find much of anymore.

Well the hopeful part anyway.

Check out the video:

- Warren

I’m not the biggest fan of ABBA, in fact I don’t like a majority of their music. However I do like this song and as a shout out to my friends new wife (Waves) here is a song from the 70’s:

- Warren

Wall Street Journal (A publication I read all the time of course, heh) has an interesting article. It details a book by some of the insiders at IBM while they were designing the PS3 AND the Xbox 360 chipsets.

Wow that must’ve been nuts.

Check this out:

When the companies entered into their partnership in 2001, Sony, Toshiba and IBM committed themselves to spending $400 million over five years to design the Cell, not counting the millions of dollars it would take to build two production facilities for making the chip itself. IBM provided the bulk of the manpower, with the design team headquartered at its Austin, Texas, offices. Sony and Toshiba sent teams of engineers to Austin to live and work with their partners in an effort to have the Cell ready for the Playstation 3’s target launch, Christmas 2005.

But a funny thing happened along the way: A new “partner” entered the picture. In late 2002, Microsoft approached IBM about making the chip for Microsoft’s rival game console, the (as yet unnamed) Xbox 360. In 2003, IBM’s Adam Bennett showed Microsoft specs for the still-in-development Cell core. Microsoft was interested and contracted with IBM for their own chip, to be built around the core that IBM was still building with Sony.

Crazy.

Click here to read the article. The book is coming out tomorrow..I believe.

- Warren

Okay never understood the whole dressing up like a woman thing…but I did like this song. Loved early to mid 80’s rock.

Check out Round and Round.

- Warren