Firstly… Yay! Secondly, if you haven’t seen Venture brothers you really should try and catch an episode or two, or even buy the DVD. If you have seen it and like it, you should definitely consider the DVD. :) I’m probably going to pick up my copy tomorrow if I can find one in town.

According to the headline, OH NO THE WORLD IS GETTING WARMER AND THAT’S CAUSING POISON IVY TO GET WORSE! PANIC! When you actually read the article you find out that increased levels of CO2 are causing Poison Ivy, along with most other plants that use CO2, to grow faster and be stronger. This is kind of a natural balancing mechanism really. Plants not only use less water, but use more CO2 and grow larger when there’s an excess of CO2.

Wii’s Retro Controller is using the traditional PS1-3 dualshock control layout! I wonder how well it will work without the little handles, but at least it’s a step up from the Xbox and Gamecube’s offset analog sticks. Those things annoy the crud out of me.The more traditional button layout (from the SNES) is also a welcomed change from the gamecube.I hope the DPad is based on the Gameboy Advance and not the squishy unstable mess that was the Gamecube’s Dpad.

Wild Arms 4. Only took 27 hours and 40 minutes, counting the ending sequence. It was only $30 at the store so it’s about par for the RPG course as far as value per dollar. The storyline is quite a bit deeper than most Wild Arms games, as is the battle system and puzzles. It’s a refreshing change from the fairly bland battles in Wild Arms 3. The ending is rather a downer though.

Mr. Hugo Chavez (Link Dead) is upset about a video game now. Mercenaries 2 takes place in his country after all. He thinks that it’s the blueprint for invading his country. Never mind that the first Mercenaries game was set in North Korea and we still haven’t invaded there yet. Shouldn’t he be complaining about Front Mission 4 too then? Half of it takes place in Venezuela showing guerrillas and some US mech pilots overthrowing a corrupt greedy dictator much like Hugo Chavez too.

Why I get stressed out whenever someone says the word “gouging” and aren’t referring to eyes. Because I have looked at enough of the economics of the situation to know the truth. Too bad more people don’t bother to do the same.

Looking through the listing at what is and isn’t supported between the editions lead to some interesting results. None of the home editions support SMP. They do support dual-core though.The 64 bit editions of the home versions are restricted to 8-16 gigabytes. Not that home users are likely to max this out within the next year or so, but it’s still an interesting choice where this OS may last for 6 years like XP has.

I commented on this before, but it seems someone has dredged it up and made it a front page news item again. Sony could potentially prevent sales of used games (Link Dead) which in turn would prevent usage of the games on more than one console in the house, and potentially prevent you from taking your game to a friends house to play with them.They’ve had the patent on this… Since 2000.

Dogs find DVDs in cargo. While all the dvds they found were legitimate, it seems like they may be actually hunting after the people who really are costing them money instead of going after the consumers for once. Hopefully they’ll refocus on this and leave us alone in the DRM arena for awhile. (Not likely, but it is nice to dream once in awhile.)One hint that they might possibly be seeing the light is that they’ve delayed ICT Downgrading for a few years.

I’m not feeling up to a full RNTM writeup, so I’ll just post this url here.