.tiff @ E3

Can't talk much as I have plenty of posts to write up for Destructoid, but things are pretty alright so far. This morning I woke up at 6 to be ready in time for the Nintendo press conference at 9, which sadly was pretty disappointing. Their biggest announcement was the introduction of the WiiMotion Plus, which essentially just makes the Wiimote work the way it was supposed to in the first place. The end all announcement was WiiMusic, which as you can tell, I did not have the most riveting impressions of.

Since then, I've been running around to various meetings... rapidly taking notes and trying to maintain a clam sense of sanity. I have yet to make it to the showroom floor to try any games hands-on, but all in due time I'm sure. Oh, and I'm also trying on Bionic arms. Pretty cool right?

p.s. I got a haircut :D

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Seems like this Monday was the day for .tiff to make some random appearances around the Internets. While my cameo at the WWDC '08 Keynote  pales greatly in comparison to Mr. Sippey's stellar onstage presentation of our TypePad iPhone app, if you look carefully at timestamp 1:22:47 you can catch of glimpse of myself and Chico when we were waiting in line for the iPhone launch in NYC last year:

o hai thur steve

.tiff & kat by Shannon Corr

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The Destructoid community wins again.

There are two podcasts that Destructoid records weekly: Retroforce Go! (Retro Gaming News) and Podtoid (Gaming News and Criticisms, the one I am on). Be forewarned that both are as explicit (not necessarily from yours truly, but some pretty crass stuff is said) as they are intelligent, informative, and entertaining should you care to listen.

Retroforce Go! has managed to convince their fans to write game-related haikus, allotting many a chuckle-worthy 17-syllable poetic moments. Half joking, Anthony suggested that podtoid fans write Shakespearian sonnets to one up the Retroforce crew. Not joking, community member Brilliam wrote the following sonnet (along with other poems dedicated to the various members of Podtoid) for me.

Many harts for Mr. Brilliam! You made my evening!

DOT THE TIFFS BUT NEVER CROSS THEM

I found an image file the other day,
Dot-tiff, the file extension that it bore.
I smiled a bit, as I thought of the way
It always seems she really knows the score.

I'm jealous, I am saddened to admit,
Of how she gets to write on gaming's joys.
I'm also quite impressed by all the shit
She seems to put up with the podtoid boys.

And then she wrote that article on chicks
And how they're represented in this scene.
Despite most of the comments made by dicks
She highlighted a trend that's turned obscene.

Soft-spoken, but a font of poignant words,
She's like the El'nor Roosevelt of nerds.

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Amidst the wrapping up of a dinner party, Charlie, Apple, Ross, and Husky showed up at my house. My friends and I were heading out for a bar, but my roommate had a bit of work to do so we had some dead time. So, naturally, I busted out the Tako King mask (soon to be a Tako King plush for my number one horndog CTZ).

And thus ensued many a hilarious photograph of the Tako Kids that night:

Tako Charlie

Tako .tiff

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But freezing in the meantime.

a warm bear head

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everyone else is weirded out

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With all these drastic transitions in my life as I ween away from the cozy pre-graduate years into the real world, it seemed necessary that I'd need a do-altering haircut from BoyLuvGirl in Brooklyn to seal the deal. So it's short now, shorter than it's ever been with the exception of a momentary .tiff-cut from an era long ago. 

baby .tiff

bare neck

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not .tiff but dot.tiff

I can safely say that I may be a bit behind the times at this, but tonight I signed myself up on Habbo.  Unfortunately, I had little patience this evening to do too much exploring so I only got around to registering an account and creating an avatar (which coincidentally looks a lot more Asian than myself).  I'll admit I'm already quite partial to the isometric pixel environment, but I'm absolutely livid that someone had the nerve to take the user name .tiff.  I mean, come ON.

*blows off steam*  Anyway, any Vox users out there use Habbo?  How the hell do I get started?  Am I mistakingly entering a world of Second Life-esque pain?  Please let me know!

p.s. My username is dot.tiff. Close enough.  I guess.

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Casino Arcade

Last weekend my little sister and I hopped in the car for a long two hour drive to Santa Cruz with little planning other than a few minutes out in the sun and a visit to the old Casino Arcade.  I had originally been to the arcade when I went to SC with pixel7 in the spring, but it was late at night when we went and we only had a few minutes to stop in. 

This time the large room full of arcade cabinets, pinball machines, dance/music games, and laser tag, was filled to the brim with salty tourists from the boardwalk.  I couldn't necessarily tell whether people were just milling in and out aimlessly or whether they were actually playing, but it seemed like there was a good amount of people gaming around.  Along with you're expected DDR's, Time Crisis, and racing games, Casino has a large collection of old pinball machines as well as a pretty large collection of retro gaming cabinets. 

Centipede

After many a photo was taken, my sister and I played House of the Dead 4 for a few rounds and then proceeded to get our photo taken in a revised version of the old-timey carnival photo booth.  While walking to the photo section, I noticed this mammoth computer that would calculate your love.  I didn't have anyone to try it with, but I'm sure it's calculating capabilities are as massively successful as it's size.

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