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Current Song: “Pal Norte (ft. Orishas)” by Calle 13

So just like I said, right after work, I went out and bought that Atlantic DVD Shelf at Best Buy. I have to say that I still really hate Best Buy. The people working there, for the most part, are retarded and don’t know their own store. To give you an example, the guy I got to help me find the shelf I wanted to buy had to go check the back of the store twice to see if he could find the shelf (this was after he took forever looking it up in the computer, mind you) and he still had no luck. After he went for a third time to the storage in the back of the store, I finally decided to look around the store’s anime section to see what was new. I found out that the “Le Chevalier D’Eon” Livre III is out already, so I need to buy that. But anyways, after looking through the store’s anime DVDs, I decided I was fed up with this guy failing at life and went out and tried to find the shelf myself. Turns out that by the time he came back from his third visit to the storage in the back I had already found the shelf and he felt pretty stupid. He then got the shelf box for me and took it to the front so I could pay for it, which was kinda cool.

After getting home and opening the box containing the pieces of the shelf-to-be, I have to say I had my doubts. The pieces were all made of that crappy “compressed wood” that most cheap things are made out of now a days. But after taking about an hour building the thing, I have to say it’s pretty sturdy. It holds way more stuff than I thought it did, that’s for sure. uLTraCarL sure as hell had me worrying with the comments he left in my last post where I talked about getting a shelf because he said “You can probably fill the entire thing with with everything you have in those three pictures as it stands.” and “You’ll be surprised how fast those shelves fill up :O” but it turns out he was probably just exaggerating. As you can tell from the picture up top, I had put all of my manga, some of my video games, my Nintendo GameCube, a bunch of CD-Rs, some video game and anime OSTs, my old phat DS, two of my GBA consoles, my Noir card deck, my RahXephon T-shirt, my Full Metal Panic! T-Shirt, my GBA SP box, my DS box, some of my DS/GBA games, my StarCraft battle chest, my Half-Life Platinum Collection Box and my Family Guy season boxed sets just to make it look like the shelf is full of anime DVDs.

So yeah…crazy stuff. Shelf looks pretty though, I like it. Thanks for the recommendation again CarL. ^_^ More high-rez pictures of the shelf after the jump.

-JaDe
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Current song: “Get It Shawty” by Lloyd

Apparently Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be using the Twilight Princes version of Princess Zelda for the game. All I can say is…that’s awesome! I thought “Twilight Princess” Princess Zelda was so much more awesome than any other Zelda, she kicked ass. And her sword is the shit. So yeah…this is BY FAR the coolest announcement made on the DOJO!! yet. Picture of Zelda-hime kicking Zero Suit Samus in the crutch after the jump.

-JaDe
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Current song: “Don’t Matter” by Akon

Yes ladies and gentlemen, apparently the newest iteration of The Legend of Zelda series in the Nintendo DS is a smash hit with the Japanese people. The Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, known for it’s harsh reviews, gave Phantom Hourglass an almost perfect score. They way it works over there is that they have 4 reviewers, and they each give the game a rating based on a 10-point scale. Then they add each reviewer’s individual score and that’s how they get the “out of 40″ score for the games reviewed in their magazine. Phantom Hourglass’s individual reviews were 10, 10, 9 and 10. According to the Wikipedia article, only 15 other games in history have ever gotten 39/40 from Famitsu.

What does this mean for me? It means I’m going out to buy this game as soon as it comes out! Actually…maybe I’ll wait some time before getting it, since I still have to beat a couple of DS games (Final Fantasy III and the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings that came with my special edition DS Lite) and I’m supposed to be saving money to get a new car also, so yeah…now that I think about it I might hold off on getting this game for a while. Maybe I’ll wait until it becomes a “Players’ Choice” and I can get it for a cheaper price? I dunno, we’ll see.

-JaDe

[Famitsu Scores Zelda DS Almost Perfect via Kotaku]

Current song: “Mala Suerta con el 13 (ft. La Mala Rodríguez)” by Calle 13

I did it again! I fell asleep last night after getting home from work and forgot to do my daily blog entry. I should really try to do my daily blog posts before leaving work, so I make sure I make them everyday, regardless if I fall asleep or not.

Anyways, time to use Smash Bros. DOJO!! as my savior when I run out of ideas again. This time it’s for a good reason, since the stuff posted today in the DOJO!! is awesome and got me really excited about Brawl:
So crates and barrels…they’ve always been a part of the Smash Bros. series but when you think about them, they are not really that exciting right? Wrong! Now crates and barrels are awesome. They adapt to the stage they are on (like futuristic-looking crates and barrels in the sci-fi stafe) and also, the crates  now roll! Yes, they have wheels! So when you think you’re about to break a crate and get your oh so valuable item, you might be in for a surprise as someone might just push the crate away from you and it will start to roll down the stage.

Here’s more pics from the game showing the new crates and barrels  from the blog post over at the DOJO!!:
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-JaDe

Current song: “Down” by Rakim & Ken-Y

Another post about the awesomeness being posted every week over at the Smash Bros. DOJO!! is here. Why do I keep posting about the happenings over at the DOJO!!, you ask? Well first of because I don’t know what to talk about anymore and I want to have a post everyday (lol) and second, because I want to keep reminding you all how awesome the DOJO!! page is and that you should go check it out.

So anyways, today the DOJO!! was updated with pictures of the newly-drawn Yoshi’s Island stage. It’s styled to have a cel-shaded look with I think is awesome. Hope you all enjoy it. Let me know what you think about the style of the stage, okay? Here’s a link to the pics.

-JaDe

Current song: “Party Like a Rock Star” by Shop Boyz

Finally, the moment I’ve been waiting for! Smash Bros. DOJO!! has put up the character profile page for my favorite character in the Smash series, Fox McCloud. Here’s a link to it, enjoy.

If you haven’t been going to Smash Bros. DOJO!!, I suggest you do. That is the official site for the new iteration in the Smash series coming to the Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The website is sort of like a blog, so they update it a couple of times a week. If you don’t have time to check the site everyday or you just forget to (like I do), be sure to subscribe to their feed with your favorite RSS reader. I suggest Google Reader, which is the one I use.

-JaDe

P.S: Don’t forget to watch Ghost in the Shell STAND ALONE COMPLEX Solid State Society tonight on the Sci-Fi channel!!

Current Song: “FOLLOW ME” by ROCKET BOYS

According to IGN, Square-Enix producer Shinji Hashimoto has announced that there will be no Final Fantasy games on the Xbox 360 for a while. Meaning that you people that only have Xbox 360s are SOL because you won’t get to play Final Fantasy XIII or Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

If you don’t know who Shinji Hashimoto is, he’s the same guy that announced that there will be no Square-Enix games in the Wii’s Virtual Console. Yeah don’t worry, I hate the guy too.

-JaDe

[No Final Fantasy For Xbox 360 via IGN]