The best kind of to-do list
6:45 PM - May 16th, 2005
Thanks for the E3 updates, Xero. In past years, I’d spend hours reading all the gaming news sites. Now I can just look here. =)
For those of you interested in the here and now, Toys R Us has a couple nice coupons: save $10 on any purchase of $50 or more; and save 20% on any one item. Both coupons exclude hardware, so stop dreaming about $110 DSs and $190 PSPs. The coupons can be stacked though, so you can save a good bit on games.
I, personally, picked up five games today for ~$115. Devil May Cry 3, Pikmin 2, Alien Hominid, Namco Museum, and Midway Arcade Treasures 1. Looks like I’ll have plenty to do in the coming months. =)
(Yes, I did a suboptimal split. I should’ve been able to get the games for ~$105. I didn’t plan on getting that many games. It just kinda happened…)
May 16th, 2005 at 7:48 pm
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that you have a DS game, yet no DS?
May 16th, 2005 at 7:54 pm
Oh yeah, and if you like the itchy-trigger-finger gameplay of DMC3, go get God of War…amazing ;)
May 16th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
Between DMC3 and God of War, I’d choose DMC3 just because I know it’ll kick my ass. God of War just can’t match the difficulty of DMC3 (or 1, for that matter).
May 16th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Have you played it on God mode? You have to first beat it, then you get God difficulty…wow…hard. Especially towards the later levels.
May 16th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
(this is for everyone else, I told you via AIM already =))
It took me like 20 tries to beat the first boss of DMC1 on Normal. That’s the difference between GoW and DMC. GoW gets hard; DMC starts hard and gets harder…
May 16th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 for the NES was hard. These games are easy :D
May 17th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Spellunker (sp?) for NES was hard.
have any of you even heard of that game?
May 17th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
ok, a google searched told me that it’s spelled “Spelunker”
May 17th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
i mean a “google search”. i spent 3 posts to post something i oculd’ve posted in 1 because of typos and spellos.
May 18th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
and in that last post i meant “could’ve”. i just didn’t want to correct it again until i had something new to say, because otherwise it looks really bad, by the 4th post.
so yeah. i just noticed that (with the recent overwhelming of images on Xero’s side) that those images are actually cutout version of the actual image — in fact, they display the image file itself except only a portion of it. how do you do this in XHTML/CSS? and does it always take the very center piece from the image?
btw i think i’m bored enough to start playing games at work now.
May 18th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
They’re not all the same image. Some are smaller thumbnails we can make. Otherwise, I get lazy and just let it center itself. Ask Quad for the code, I only copy and paste ;)
May 18th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
^ Whoa, I would have never noticed that if Bigi didn’t mention it. That is awesome. I’d like to know as well :).
May 18th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
? The images are all cropped… hey, Xero, how come the MP7 and MGS4 pics don’t have thumbnails? You’re lucky our readers have broadband. =)
So, the thumbnail images are divs with a set height/width and an inline-defined background image. View source and find “entryImage” to see.