Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – Episode 2 (Wii)

Hurrah! I convinced both The Cheat and Strong Sad to join my country! Turns out all The Cheat needed was pilot’s badge, and then he gave me his lighter, which I used to torch everything Strong Sad owned, pretty much. Now I’m stuck again, having no idea how to impress Pompom, or how to converse with Homsar.

Our first anti-natal class

Well, it wasn’t quite as I was expecting. First of all, due to the area we’re in, I thought it was going to be full of 15 year old pregnant girls, but in fact, it was a mix of people, around 6 pairs in all. It was a bit cringeworthy in parts – the “fathers to be get together and talk about your feelings” just felt wrong, and the video we were shown was full of large-mouthed 1980s Americans being …

Subscribing to WMV podcasts

A couple of days ago, I was asked, again, to download more Teachers TV programmes for staff at work. I don’t mind doing it, and it doesn’t take long, but I did wonder if there was a way of automatically downloading them.¬¨‚Ć Looking on the site, it seems they publish all new videos in a podcast. You can find out more about that here. So I fired up iTunes, and subscribed to the new videos RSS feed. And then the …

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – Episode 2 (Wii)

Yes, I downloaded Episode 2. After Episode 1, I couldn’t just leave it, could I? No, of course not. The plot of this one is that everyone in town has set up their own country. It seems that I have to get them all to become part of Strong Bad’s empire – Strong Badia. I’m yet to manage this though, having not persuaded anyone to join. It’s still funny though!

Mega Man 9 (Wii)

I beat another boss! After $hlmun attempts at Tornado Man’s level, I finally got to the boss. Then promptly lost all bar one of my lives, before managing to beat him on my final life with just two bars of energy left. Phew! Oh, and Galaxy Man’s weapon on him is more than useless.

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – Episode 1 (Wii): COMPLETED!

Um, yes. I would say “already”, but it did take about 5 hours. It’s just I’ve played it a lot. And excellent it was too. I finally figured out how to beat Pompom, and the section in the castle was all sorts of amaze. And the snake game is fantastic in its crapness.

Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – Episode 1 (Wii)

I love point and click adventures, and I had a load of spare Wii points from when I bought Mega Man 9. So it was only a matter of time before I bought SBCG4AP (as the game refers to itself as). And? It is amazing. Very few games are genuinely funny, and fewer still are actually hilarious, but this? This is real actual side splittingly funny. I was aware of Strong Bad (the web “thing”), but knew very little about …

Fillum review: Twelve Monkeys (1995)

When this first came out, I watched it three times in a single weekend, as it seemed necessary to do so in order to make sense of the story. This time around, however, despite not having seen it in more than ten years, I didn’t have to. I don’t know if that’s because I subconciously remembered the bits I needed to pay attention to, or whether I got lucky, but still – you have to concentrate or things really do …

de Blob (Wii)

That’s 5 levels down now (and another couple of “secret” ones). I still can’t get over how much fun this is to play. There have been a couple of slightly challenging bits so far, but even when you fail a challenge you’re not punished – you just have to start them again, only anything you’ve already done is saved: e.g. You have to paint 20 buildings, you paint 19, then run out of time. You restart and 19 are still …

de Blob (Wii)

Amazing! An absolutely amazing game! Fun to play, original, funny and excellent! I’ve completed the first three levels, and one of the “secret” levels so far, and the difficulty ramping is perfect so far. It’s still easy, but it’s certainly getting trickier. I’ve spent ages longer on each level than necessary, simply because it’s so much fun to colour everything in. It’s almost a shame to go through the exit at the end of each level.

Mega Man 9 (Wii)

So! Very! Hard! I know Mega Man games are supposed to be hard, but this? This is impossible. Maybe. I did, after many, many attempts, manage to beat Galaxy Man. Actually beating him wasn’t an issue – I did it first attempt. No, the difficulty was getting to him in the first place. Hard? Like a diamond.

Low IQ Genius

You know that there iTunes, what recently got an upgrade to version 8? I finally got round to installing it this morning. The “big thing” with this release is Genius, iTunes’ way of looking at what songs you’ve got, and using that information to recommend other songs and artists. It’s been well documented that it makes some slightly… confused suggestions. Perhaps recommending Sepultura when the majority of your library is Kraftwerk or something. But I’ve not heard of it being …

Duke Nukem 3D (360)

Episode 2 COMPLETED! Hurrah! The last couple of levels were pretty short – the boss one especially. The boss himself was somewhat easy too, thanks to run-mode circle-strafe and a full compliment of rockets and devastator ammo. Excellent, though.