Can you Digg it?
Thursday, November 19, 2009I’ve added a new feature: now you can Digg my blog posts. Or so I hope. I’ve never really worked with Digg before, so I hope I’ve implemented it properly.
Anyway, give it a try and see if it works; we’ll find out together, won’t we?
Let butterflies spread until the dawn…
Monday, November 16, 2009I’m aware that this is the second PSP-related article I’ve done in a row. Also note that I’ve used normalized caps for the title. Don’t know what I was thinking in the past; hopefully I can break that habit.
So anyways. Our story tonight - or morning, or afternoon, or whenever - started a little over 13 years ago with an experimental game in a face-meltingly popular RPG franchise. No, I’m not talking about Final Fantasy. It would be another year before Final Fantasy VII would finally convince the suits that American gamers could accept an unadulterated Japanese RPG without their heads imploding.
The game I’m talking about is Megami Ibunroku Persona - Be Your True Mind for PS1. If the word Megami in that title tipped you off, yes, this is a Shin Megami Tensei game we’re talking about here, and if you spotted the word Persona in there as well, you’ve probably figured out that this is the Persona, as in the prequel to the frustratingly Japan-only (but recently fan translated) Persona 2: Innocent Sin, the famous Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, the much-discussed Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 and the truly epic Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.
It’s back. It’s on PSP. And it’s better than ever.
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Do not PSP Go. Do not pay 250 dollars.
Thursday, November 12, 2009Do you believe in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics?
According to that theory, every outcome that could happen does happen, but in a parallel universe. Decided to turn left at that fateful intersection? There’s a parallel world where you turned right, and the world got invaded by aliens. There’s a world where you were born the other gender, one where you weren’t born at all, one where a charismatic figure with a magical eye made Ben Franklin turn traitor and helped establish the Britannian Empire…the possibilities, and therefore the multiverses, are endless. If you’ve ever watched Sliders, you’re familiar with the general idea: it’s also a prominent plot element in Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, which you really should give a read if your brain is pliable enough to avoid snapping violently at the clever temporal loop the book also presents. (And DeceasedCrab would have you think that Choose Your Own Adventure books are only good for a MSTing.)
There’s also a parallel world where every captain of industry isn’t fundamentally a Luddite, where new technological advances are embraced instead of ruthlessly quashed by those who see them as a threat, and my parallel-world doppelganger looks forward to getting a PSP Go.
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