Took long enough, but I finally polished off Suikoden 3. I guess it’s a tribute to my limited time that it’s taken me 6 months to finish. It was one of the first games I rented on Gamefly, and the first one I purchased and set out to complete. After doing all of the chapters with all 6 main characters, I’m sitting at 82 hours. I feel I’m missing out on some of the inside jokes in the game however.

With the fluorescent debate in another person’s LJ, I did a bit of research on if Luxeon soft-white LEDs could be an alternative to the somewhat annoying CFB’s that have been pushed recently. I’m discovering though that they’re somewhat lackluster in the energy savings and cost department. A Luxeon 3300k 1watt bulb puts out 20 lumens. According to Wikipedia, 40 and 60 watt incandescent bulbs put out 500 and 850 lumens respectively.

There was an article in Game Informer this month about how Sony and Nintendo need to add an Achievement like system to their consoles, because it’s an extremely addictive tool to keep people coming back to the console, to brag to your friends, etc. They have a point about the power of being able to show of your accomplishments to the world, but a raw scale of achievement points may not be the best way to show this off.

Found an interesting gaming discussion site on the net today. http://www.gamesey.com/why-we-re-different.htm (Link Dead, moved to www.gameslurp.com)It’s nice to find a place where I can talk about games and consoles without being constantly berated for my choice in console. Even going onto the official playstation forums there would be tons of people trying to attack whatever console I’m discussing and touting theirs as superior. This site doesn’t seem to have any of that yet.

Small political rant about the news media here.Pelosi wants a military jet to take her places. That’s perfectly fine and within the scope of the speaker of the house job. There’s lots of noise being made from both sides about this though. She wants a jumbo jet capable of carrying over a hundred people for just her and a few staff. The military has a number of planes available that are more reasonably sized for the people she wants to bring.

Hearing aids are getting more acceptable because of the proliferation of bluetooth headsets. (Link Dead) It also mentions how they have hearing aid therapies for hereditary tinnitus, something I’ve suffered from for ages. I usually am able to filter it out, but anytime something calls attention to it, I start to hear it again. (like a hearing aid commercial on the radio, or reading this article.) That’s why I usually listen to something.

Mooninite sign found by an ebayer (Link Dead) who promptly decided to sell it for massive profits. $1000 already, the lucky dog…I wonder how many other people have found these signs and hidden them away… Interesting novelty, to say the least.

For quite awhile, I’ve been using anime and game characters for most of my systems. Precis from Star Ocean 2, Ein from Cowboy Bebop, Ruri from Nadesico, Lain from Serial Experiments Lain, Bebedora from Arc the Lad 4. My game systems usually have Final Fantasy related names. Rikku the PS2, Penelo the PS3…When thinking about Bebedora and the reasons for naming it that, I came up with a new naming scheme.

The Very Quick Play-Count MemeHoward posted this, so I figured it was of high enough quality for my dreky lj here.For this little three-question game you’ll need some sort of play-count record on your mp3 library. No guessing!1) What’s the most-played track in your mp3 collection, and how many times has it been played?Interpol - PDA: 152) Divide that play count in half and round up. What’s the nearest song?There are 15 songs on my list that have 8 plays.

Someone did a pseudoscience test of noise levels of various consoles. The problem is, they have several tiny biases in the results.Here’s the guide (Link Dead)I found it through engadget, but I doubt most of the people who read the engadget story went in to look at the pictures and realize the biases present in the way it was measured.First one… Look at the laptop cooler that the Xbox360 is sitting on.