A while back there was a kinda cool game for the PS2 called Dark Cloud. You basicly were running around dungeons and killing things and rebuilding cities. It was pretty fun, though it wasn’t perfect. Just a week or two ago Dark Cloud 2 came out. Currently this game owns my soul. It’s like an rpg with a whole bunch of other things. You learn to invent new things to use, you go fishing, you get to transform into various monsters, you can breed your fish, you rebuild villages. There’s just so much there. If you are a PS2 owner and liked the first game at all, or are looking for something interesting to try out I highly recommend it.

From the review from over at GamesDomain.com.

Dark Cloud 2 is also responsible for one of those all-too-rare gaming moments you just never forget. You know the ones. Things like your last rookie taking out all the aliens in X-Com, the thing jumping through the window in Alone in the Dark, the opening sequence of Half-Life, when you first stayed up all night because Civilization was so good, stuff like that.

It’s 5pm, and it’s not dark out (even if it is still snowing). Yet another sign that spring is just about to go SPRONG.

I am 77% Evil Genius

I am pure evil. I lie awake at night devising schemes of world domination, and I will not rest until all living souls bend to my will.

Take the Evil Genius Test at fuali.com

Did you ever wonder “Who owns snow?”. [ via Ernie the Attorney ]

I echo everyone else in saying ‘stop with the snow already’. I had a bunch of errands I wanted to run this afternoon, and it looks pretty messy out there so I’m no goin anywhere. Time for an afternoon of DVDs or something.

Anyone got any cool plans for the weekend?

Maurice Sendak: “There must be more to life than having everything.” [Quotes of the Day]

My friend selma just IM’d me a link and so of course I blindly clicked and read. A few moments later I had to stop for a moment, I was laughing and coughing so hard. Finally, proof that blimps are evil.

When 50 million years worth of evolutionary survival instinct hits you all at once flat in the gut at 200 mph it is not a pleasant sensation.

“If sex is a full-course meal, then masturbation is like a snack,” Wako University sexologist Kim Myung Gan tells Shukan Jitsuwa. “Of course, some couples may find a full course a bit too deep or a bit too painful at times and instead find it easier to go out for a snack. It’s a better idea to decide on whether to have sex or masturbate depending on how you feel at the time. That way, couples can avoid problems that could otherwise ruin their relationship.” [MDN:WaiWai]

I quoted this to a friend online and the following brief exchange ensued:

You say “Is there something wrong with their simile there?”
You say “I haven’t often found a full course dinner to be too deep or painful”
friend giggles
friend says “depends on where you put it…”

Another Boing Boing link (sometimes I feel like I should just point at them and say ‘just go here, there’s cool stuff’). Here are some of Jack Kirby’s designs for a science fiction theme park that was never built (along with some for a film project). I’d have gone to a theme park that looks like that.

For me, many of the best parts of the rave scene were the early ones. I wasn’t really there at the beginning, though I’d been trying to actually find it for a while at the point I did. It wasn’t quite as easy back then. Things were still fairly underground, with a few massives poking their nose out now and then. While following a link from BoingBoing, I discovered this wonderful bit of writing that helped remind me how things felt back then.