Ring ring ring, ba-… rotary phone
Sunday, October 21st, 2007I missed blog action day on Monday, because I like to keep updates weekly(sorta). I got a friend to post about it though. That gets me off the hook, right? Well I put all my required high school community service into cleaning creeks, planting trees, and labeling storm drains - so don’t think I don’t like to help the environment, I really do.
My save clover valley armband, next to my classy rotary phone
Picture transition! Oh yes, just linked two subjects with a picture. I believe my rotary phone is a 70s era Western electric(AT&T), with carbon mic, a hold button, and four line switches. Ooh yea! Unfortunately an analog phone has it’s disadvantages in this modern digital era… no pound key. Whoops. “If you are using a rotary phone please hang up” is what I got on Thursday as I tried to use it in a conference call. Now I know better… yea… dial with the cordless, and then switch back to the rotary. 
I guess I never mentioned it before, but I played most of the Trouble Witches demo a few months back and loved it. It’s a bit on the Otaku side, but a solid, well produced, shoot’em up. Now Studio Siesta(the dev) has announced it will be making an English version called TOMBOYISH ☆ WITCHES(their caps and star, not mine) for us gaijin. Great! But… I liked the old name better. Oh well, I’m so buying it. Speaking of Shoot’em-ups, what’s up with everyday shooter? A lot of the 1UP crew has been talking about it ever since… what, GDC? I know one friend with a PS3 and he doesn’t touch the thing(don’t ask)… so he probably didn’t buy everyday shooter off of PSN. If there was a PC demo I would like test it out because I’m really curious about the appeal. To me it just looks like another geometry wars mixed with elements of REZ and every extend. But apparently it’s more than that. Well, I usually prefer my shoot’em-ups scrolling and vertical anyways(with some exceptions of course).
That’s it for this week I guess, really brief. I now await someone to point out my excessive usage of the word “but” in that last paragraph.