Due to my parents demands as a kid, I didn’t get involved in the golden hey-day of gaming that was the 8 and 16 bit console generations. While I do feel bad that I wasn’t able to join in those conversations about the -1 world or talk about how badass Chrono Trigger was, I still am a little grateful that I was given some time to develop without them. Now, by choice and not through grade school pressure I have really taken to the gaming lifestyle. I have really enjoyed some of the titles that the modern era has provided, but I will always feel a little bit of regret for not having played those key legendary titles that came in cartridge form.

That is… until now.

Some of my internet comrades at Team Fremont have started a retro gaming club. Every month a title will be picked, and then we each play through it simultaneously. During this time we can ask for tips from other community members, update our progress, etc. This is simply a brilliant idea, and I cannot wait to start playing Earthbound this Saturday. While I was perfectly capable of going out and playing these old, available games prior to this clubs establishment I always found it too hard to go back when everyone was talking up their new experiences in recent titles like Rock Band and Mario Galaxy. This is the extra incentive I needed to finally make that trip back to yesteryear.

I hope this sort of idea makes it to a wider audience of gamers, as it is a much more fruitful activity for a forum community than simply flaming everyone else back to the stone age for talking shit about Master Chief’s armor.

As you will note from the time of this posting, I don’t sleep on a regular pattern. It keeps things interesting for me. As I performed the usual sleep-delay tactic of perusing through the channels on Canadian basic cable I finally came to CNN.

It was another short little report on the increasingly tense fight in the Republican primaries which is now a quarrel that apparently needs to be stretched out over a full year, because Iraq appears to have lost its appeal and LA trials aren’t involving washed-up celebrity murders anymore….. but I digress.

Mitt Romney and McCain are the new appointed front runners now that the guy who has firefighter blood on his hands dropped out.

This means the insult slinging has stepped up and they are even using the L-word. Apparently both of these contenders in this battle of empty rhetoric seem to think that the definition for the word “liberal” is “motherfucker”.

The Republican Party appears to be running for election in an America that has forgotton those history classes they took in their sub-par public education system. One of the most revered Republican presidents, Abraham Lincoln was a liberal. The last president to serve three terms and fight a world war, FDR, was a liberal. Even Eisenhower was a moderate on the spectrum with many liberal policies (civil rights work, massive social spending, etc.).

Why aren’t candidates proud to admit to their liberal leanings, and attempt to draw comparisons to what are arguably some of the greatest leaders the nation has ever seen.

I spend most of my time in classes like anatomy and psychology applying my new-found knowledge to the universe of comics. Superman being photosynthetic, Wolverine having perfectly functioning DNA replication/telemorase, and the Joker having a numbed left hemisphere, etc. Comics seem to have the same inspiration on biology for me that Star Trek had for technology. I’ve actually been hoping to find a franchise that is more solidly based in science than the usual comic.  I don’t expect  anything completely realistic, since I do like fiction and can suspend my disbelief I just would like to read something a little more believable than carcinogenic levels of radiation creating a super-strong, angry green giant, who then fights dogs in the darkness of the Appalachian Mountains.

 

 

In other news Alan Alda needs to find work and stop scaring newborns.

There are a great deal of thoughts that will always be floating around deep in the axons and dendrites of my frontal lobe. This is my attempt to record some of them. While my ability to express them might be…. interesting, I assure you that they will be genuine (for whatever that is worth). While I expect that this will only have one reader, I will strive to make this somewhat legible and for an audience; mostly because I crave one.

 

While this should be a good place to introduce you to who I am by pressing CTRL+V and scouring your screen with the contents of my Facebook profile, I will just assume you can read the forthcoming entries and judge me accordingly. Besides, it’s really hard to categorize your life through entering data into fields and lists on a web site.

 

I hope you all enjoy my thoughts as much as I do.