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So we can see giant planes flying around and Jedi slashing heads off of robots. We wanted 3 more Star Wars films because LucasFilm sells oodles of merchandise and thus funded George Lucas to create 3 more star Wars films.

Since directly funding more Firefly seasons is highly unlikely, why not buy all of the Firefly comics, videos, merchandise, toys, candy holders, ecetera. The possible backfire is that the show would be a giant toy commercial (I doubt Joss Whedon would do something like that except in parody).

In Japan there was a simular concept with the funding for two version of Tokimeki Memorial funded entirely by shareholders (please scroll down a little bit until you see a "February 26, 2004" headline). Shame that didn't go out well but I wonder if somebody has the stones to pull off this kind of project.

tsr is fenegi now.

This is his blog:
http://www.video-fenky.com/

He writes for gaming magazines these days.

The Maniac Mansion Map sure beats the ascii map I drew in the FAQ I wrote for the game back in '96.

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/nes/file/maniac_man sion.txt

It was really tricky trying to create a representation of the Mansion limited to the width of a page and still make it somewhat readable.

Now if only I could get my hands on the prototype of Maniac Mansion that recently surfaced.

http://www.video-fenky.com/features/rg/maniac.shtm l

What's even weirder is that some people are starting to worship her.

http://www.video-fenky.com/archives/000229.html
http://otakubooty.bootyproject.org/show_article.as p?id_article=4896

This is a phase that everyone goes through. Either because of something in your life (often something subtle) or just a batch of mediocre games that temporarily sour your opinion of the entire medium, you stop playing games for awhile. I did the same thing when I was around 17. I stopped playing games for about a year or two straight and missed out on most of the interesting games that were released for the original PlayStation. But it wasn't a part of "growing up", "putting away childish things", or some other moronic platitude that non-gamers would give you. It's just a temporary change in the way you choose to entertain yourself.

This is something that we all do on a regular basis, but we don't really notice it until it strikes a medium that we actually care about. Personally, there was a time when I watched at least a couple of movies on DVD every week, burning through them at about the same rate as most regulars buyers/renters do. But now I haven't watched a movie on DVD in a good three months or so, but I haven't even noticed it. Why? Because I don't visit six or seven movie sites a day, but I do visit Insert Credit, GameSpot, Video Fenky, GAF, The Magic Box, Penny Arcade, and Slashdot Games just about every day. If you're actually posting on this site, then I'm guessing that you have a pretty similar set of sites that you visit.

I'm guessing that you'll pick up something really good in about a year or two and then you'll be addicted again just like the rest of us. But then again, if you really are of the mentality that "games are kids stuff", then maybe you'll deprive yourself of them forever. I really don't see how Metal Gear Solid or Knights of the Old Republic are any more childish than any of the TV shows or movies that I watch, but that's just me. Maybe that's why I really don't see myself abstaining from video games as I grow up any more than I see myself suddenly abstaining from television, movies, or music.

Please explain to me how to glitch. I want to go outside tonight and glitch. What does glitching look like?

This is what glitching looks like. So go glitch to your heart's content tonight. Beware of mean ninja cuties.

The real reason is this.

Heh, I remember when this news first broke last night.

One true industry insider said it was a step towards Nintendo taking over Bandai. But...we had to wait for fenegi-. Fenegi-, of course, is the owner of Video-Fenky. Also great is the fact that the same fenegi- goodness seen in Video-Fenky is dripping over to 1up.com like juice off of a rotissered ham. So visit both, guys, and support good gaming journalism.

Okay, fenegi-, I want my ten dollars now.

Apparently this article is part of the return of tsr, which rocks. tsr did tsr's NES Archive until he put it on hiatus in January 2000. He hasn't touched it since and it looks like this site is like the second coming. Very cool.