Fresh from my intellectually-deprived mind

So, how 'bout some updates on my life?

1. Which volume of Fullmetal Alchemist am I at now? No. 16. Basically, I own every English-translated volume at the moment. Yes, I am an FMA whore for life. However, vol. 17 is scheduled for release in October! Gumf! That's not cool.
2. "So, you said you like Bleach the manga a lot more than Bleach the anime; how much so?" Enough to buy the first five volumes. "Whoa, no way! You're collecting Bleach now!?" I am, at the moment. It's cheaper than other graphic novels I've collected so far, and, in the shonen showdown between Bleach and Naruto, Bleach barely edges out, for being funnier, and not having a shitload of mostly unnecessary flashback sequences. I like Bleach's more mature tone, also. Although Naruto does have better fight scenes. And its anime adaptation is more watchable than Bleach's anime adapation.
3. Speaking of Naruto, my second cousin is coming to visit me over the weekend. I have challenged him to some duels on my copy of Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3. He's eight, and, last I heard, rents and plays a fuckton of PS2 games. Whether or not he's played UN3, he'll definitely want to play against me. Of course, unless if I handicap myself, there's no way he can beat me, not at first anyways. I'm really good at the UN games, but I wouldn't underestimate him. In earlier visits, we would race each other on my copy of Project Gotham Racing 2 for my original Xbox, and although he sucked at first, after several playthroughs, he got really good. He could actually challenge me on the simpler courses. Now, if he can beat me using someone like Ino, and I using Rock Lee, (my best character in UN3) that remains to be seen.
4. You know what game I used to suck at for the longest time? Tetris. The original Tetris. I played that for the NES, original Game Boy, and SNES back in the day, and I totally sucked at it. Then it was re-released for the N64. Nintendo Power, which I still subscribed to, had a strategy for basic Tetris gameplay. It said this: "Don't make gaps." I rented the N64 Tetris, and guess what? I finally started getting good. I now play Tetris and some of its derivatives on my emulators. By the way, wasn't the original Tetris at one point advertised as, "The Soviet mind game"? Huh. When you put in like that, and considering it came out in the 1980's, it almost sounds like Tetris was a scheme hatched by Gorbachev to make people in the United States and her allies become addicted to Tetris, thus rendering us unable to resist the incoming Red Storm. But, the Cold War's over now, and I prefer not to make insinuations about real-life political figures, so we'll just say Tetris is a fun game . . . so long as you don't make gaps.
5. It's true. I subscribed to Nintendo Power at one point. I don't anymore though. You know why? It was back in 2001. A new console war was brewing. NP said this, "Forget the PS2 and the Xbox! The Gamecube is where it's at!" I looked at the previews and said, "No. I don't agree with you. I don't see anything coming out for the GC that I am interested in. The Xbox looks much more promising than anything you're cranking out." At the time, no game for the PS2 interested me either. I got a 'box in mid 2002, and enjoyed it very much. However, Microsoft switched its gears over to the Xbox 360 by 2005, even before the 360's launch. Still, by early 2K5, there were games out for the PS2 that caught my eye, and now I'm playing it, although I probably won't be buying games for it much longer. By the way, I still don't own a GC. Nor a Wii. Nor a DS. Then again, I don't have a 360, PSP, or PS3 either.

And that about wraps up tonight's entry. Join us next time, where I will say something screwy, possibly.