Animal Crossing: New Leaf - A Hilarious Pikachu Photoboard

One of my favourite new features of Animal Crossing: New Leaf is the Dream Suite - I love being able to visit other towns without actually having to go through the whole faff of friend codes and dodgy Wi-Fi connections. It's also immensely satisfying to run haphazardly through some smug twat's flowerbeds of golden roses, watching the dead petals flying all around behind my character's feet.

The only thing I don't like is the pyjamas - my character looks like me, and thus wears big emo glasses - she doesn't wear them in the Dream Suite. If that was me, I wouldn't even be able to SEE the bloody golden roses to trample all over.

I also like visiting the Dream Suite so I can see how other people have organised their towns, what public works projects they've built and if they've  managed to draw some creative flags/signs/photoboards. I often sit there rather envious at the awesome stuff people have managed to draw on that awkward, fiddly little screen. Sometimes however, I find something piss funny, like this:

This is some dude's attempt at a Pikachu photoboard - it made me ROFL out loud. But random dude, I applaud your efforts and thank you for giving me a chuckle. :)

I'll soon be uploading my Dream Code somewhere on this blog (once I've gotten my town EXACTLY how I want it, that is) - and if you want me to visit your town and criticise your photoboards, just drop me an e-mail or leave me a comment below. :)

(I didn't even design my own photoboard... I nicked it from a QR code site...)

1990s Nostalgia: Super Mario Kart Ride

I'm a child of the 1990s - born in 1991 I was brought up with the Mega Drive during the early 90s and the PlayStation in the last few years of the 90s. Back then, arcades and amusements on the seafronts of practically every British seaside town was packed to the brim with great arcade game machines and lots of little rides for younger kids that usually cost around 20p per ride. As I kid I loved these; in Scarborough there was even a miniature Ferris wheel that lifted you up about 6 foot in the air sitting in a little metal seat.

Looking through some old photographs (you know, REAL photographs that were developed in a proper camera shop which took like a WEEK), I found this gem:

I'm guessing this photo was taken around 1995-1996, so it's likely that this ride was made around the same time as Super Mario Kart on the SNES. I didn't have a SNES as a child; but my big brother Ian did. (I actually didn't own my own SNES until I was 21.) How much do you suppose one of these rides would sell for online now? It's an official Nintendo one too - look at the massive seal on the front!

Children nowadays are so deprived of life's simple pleasures that we were all brought up with. I know these sort of rides still exist, but they take the piss - most of them cost upwards of 50p or even £1! Some of the rides I used to go on, you could get SEVERAL goes on it for 20p!

Gamer's Wardrobe: "I Cried When Aeris Died" Custom T-Shirt

Hey dudes, welcome to my third instalment of my Gamer's Wardrobe collection - this week I present to you a shirt I made myself on Zazzle.co.uk - which is an awesome site, reasonably priced, lots of customisation options and of course, is British, so it operates in ££££s and ships to the UK without having a fanny fit about it. :)

I'd seen a shirt similar to this online before; and I wanted it. But there were two problems: 1) It was £17, and 2) The font style was fucking Times New Roman - WTF? So I used Zazzle.com to make my own:

(Please to be ignoring my awful red-eye and the poster of naked ladies behind me. :P)

 

 

This shirt cost me around £13 and I got it within like 5 days of ordering it. If you want something on a shirt but they don't sell it in a shop - use Zazzle. :)

 

 

Of course I'm a huge Final Fantasy VII fan (in both senses of the word) - so I had to have this t-shirt. Not only is it true, but it sparks numerous conversations with other gamers, i.e.:

 

Dude: "Isn't it AerITH?"

Me: "It is if you're American."

Dude: "Touché."

The Walking Dead: My 400 Days DLC Choices!

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Episode Selection:

SEASON 1:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5] [400 Days]

SEASON 2:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5]

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Here we are, my last blog in my series of The Walking Dead choices (that is, until TellTale Games bring out the series 2 episodes) - the choices I made during the somewhat unrelated-to-the-main-story DLC episode "400 Days". Like before, there will be massive SPOILERS.

Despite 400 Days not fitting in with the other 5 episodes I'd just finished (I was expecting an epilogue-style episode), I actually quite liked each chapter being about one specific character. I'd say about half of them were twats and the other half were the type of people I personally would like to spend a zombie apocalypse with.

This is a screenshot of my results from 400 Days:

During 400 Days, I found I was in the majority for 1 of the 5 choices, the minority for 3 of the 5 choices and a complete 50/50 result for Wyatt's chapter.

Shot Danny's foot: Danny was a fucking RAPIST. I don't get why I'm in the minority for this choice. People would rather save a rapist than a thief?  Are you people fucking RETARDED? He RAPED A MINOR. He deserves worse than having his foot shot off! I bet the reason I'm in the minority here is that the camera started out by pointing at Justin and you twats were too lazy to move your control stick!

Stayed in the car: I needed to win Rock-Paper-Scissors for the achievement. It amuses me that the choice here is a straight 50/50 - that means half of the Xbox 360 players don't have the achievement. :P

Left Nate: Yeah, like I was going to kill old people for no reason. What a tosser.

Honest with Leland: You've probably noticed a trend with the honesty stuff. Besides, it was an accident, give people some goddamn slack.

Killed Stephanie: I went with what Becca wanted. I didn't want to risk getting killed by escaping.

After I got the results for the standard 5 choices, I also found out who stayed at the camp and who went to the refuge: Only Russell stayed at the camp - Fuck knows why. He was my least favourite of the 5 anyway, I hope he gets eaten alive. What, so you stay at a camp and get eaten because I wouldn't let you shoot some old people? Prick hole.

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Episode Selection:

SEASON 1:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5] [400 Days]

SEASON 2:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5]

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The Walking Dead: My Episode 5 Choices!

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Episode Selection:

SEASON 1:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5] [400 Days]

SEASON 2:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5]

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Here we are, the final episode of the main storyline, only the results from the DLC 400 Days episode left to talk about - let's look at the choices I made during Episode 5 of The Walking Dead game on XBLA. Like before, there will be massive SPOILERS.

This episode was full of nice gory bits and some seriously stomach and arse-clenching moments, which may have reduced some players to manly tears.

This is a screenshot of my results from Episode 5:

This time I found I was in the majority for 4 out of 5 choices, with the exception of choice 3; which is the widest gap I found, with 19% to 81%.

Removed Lee's arm: I thought it would help. I didn't think it would stop Lee from turning, but I thought he might live longer or live his last hours more comfortably, minus an arm. Besides, I like to see some gore. :)

Lost temper: Kenny was seriously starting to get on my tits, he needed someone to put him in his place. I would have loved to keep him down that hole and cover it up with boards so he couldn't get out.

Gave up weapons: I assumed if I disarmed, the stranger would trust me more and would be less likely to shoot me or hurt Clementine. I noticed that I was in a very small of percentage of people who think like this however... Gamers are stupid. :P

Killed Clentine's captor: I was trying kill him, but I fucked up the quicktime event, so Clementine did it herself.

Stopped Lee from turning: I just did the same thing I'd been doing through the game - if someone was going to turn, kill them before they do. Clementine is fucking hardcore.

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Episode Selection:

SEASON 1:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5] [400 Days]

SEASON 2:

[Episode 1] [Episode 2] [Episode 3] 

[Episode 4] [Episode 5]

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