World of Meh!

After playing some Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy with Lindsey, she headed off, and I started up Super Mario Galaxy!  I headed back into the Bedroom Observatory, and noticed that the Freezeflame Galaxy had a Cosmic Comet in orbit!  I jumped in and got ready to race!  One quick dash later, I have another star.  I headed back into the Freeflame Galaxy for the third official star.  This star had me experience both ice and lava elements of the Freezeflame Galaxy.  An interesting ability of the Ice Flower is that it turns water into ice whenever you walk over it.  Also interesting is the fact that it can turn lava into ice when you walk over it.  This was handy, as the only way to get to the star was to pass through alternating areas of ice and lava, with a good number of Ice Flowers thrown in at strategic locations.  Having mastered ice skating over pools of lava, I obtained yet another star.  The fifth Freezeflame Galaxy star was waiting for me, so back I went!  This star was very difficult.  Not because of a difficult enemy, but because it required a great deal of timing and skilled jumping.  It took multiple tries to get to the top of the mountain, beyond Baron Brrr, but I was finally able to make it and claim the star!  I had now fully completed the Freezeflame Galaxy.

Progress update 11 is here!  As soon as I started my play file, I noticed that one of the toadstools had a mail icon, meaning I had a message.  I retrieved a letter from Luigi, who was informing me that he had found a new star in one of my previous galaxies.  He included a snapshot of the location so that I could figure out what galaxy he was in.  I also received a letter from Princess Peach, which included 5 1-Ups!

Due to technical issues with my regular laptop, we were forced to broadcast episode 21 of the MehCast from my work laptop.  Fortunately, we discovered this issue well before our start time, so we were able to be prepared!  We ran about two hours last night, but had a lot of fun.  We didn’t bother getting too dressed up for the show; Lindsey swapped her shorts for jeans, and I just stayed in my pajamas.  It was comfortable.  We had sandwiches, chips, khiarmast, gummy bears, and more!

One month since progress update 9 has passed, and we have finally arrived at progress update 10!  I finally sat down and put Super Mario Galaxy back into the Wii.  Last time I checked in, I had completed three full observatories, and was looking forward to entering into the fourth observatory, the Bedroom Observatory.  The Bedroom Observatory, as I mentioned in progress update 9, differs from the previous observatories by having only one one-star galaxy and three three-star galaxies, rather than two one-star galaxies and two three-star galaxies.

Last week, I finally had the chance to play through Fable on the Xbox.  I remember looking forward to this game with great anticipation when it was first announced, but never having the chance to give it a try.  Last week, in a used game store, we saw a clean copy for 7.99, and picked it up fairly quickly.  We got home, and I started my life in Albion.

Episode 20 has come and gone!  21 weeks, 20 episodes (yeah, sorry about that one week).  Unfortunately, however, this week will bring us to 22 weeks, 20 episodes, as we will not be able to broadcast this week due to Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction!  Anyway, we had a decent show, a higher viewer count than the last few weeks (it’s been dwindling), and a lot of fun.

Episode 19 was a good, long, fun episode.  Shortly into the episode, we had to accelerate our migration plans by moving the show over to Justin.TV early.  UStream had been experiencing severe technical issues that resulted in our decision.  Going forward, all episodes will be broadcast through Justin.TV.  We talked about the same kind of thing as usual, and the same range of topics.

I don’t remember a single thing about episode 18!  I have no idea where the show notes are!  Isn’t this an awesome recap?

Once I find the notes, I’ll come back and edit this one!

-Because I said so

Wow, we’ve really fallen behind on our posting.  Sorry about that, but it couldn’t be helped.  I needed a bit of a break from having to think of something every single day.  Hopefully I’m ready to get back into the swing of things!

Almost 12  years has passed since the sequel to Duke Nukem 3D was announced by 3D Realms.  12 long years of screenshots, development updates, and interminable delays.  Duke Nukem Forever has become a vaporware legend for it’s 12 year development period with no playable demo or beta release, and every-few-years screenshot releases.  It seems that the delays may be over, albeit not in the way many of us had hoped.  News has hit today that 3D Realms may be shutting down.  It has been confirmed by some, but not by others, so the news is of questionable veracity.  If it is true, however, Duke Nukem Forever will be cemented in the annals of history as the greatest vaporware title ever to be produced (or not produced, as it were).  It is a sad day for fans of the groundbreaking series.