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Monday / 09.29.08 / 12:20AM / Joe / comments: 3

Aeropodcast #51

Man, if I don't take notes during recording, I forget everything I said and then have nothing to tell you about it. On this week's 'cast...

  • I talk about my latest acquisition: an Xbox 360 faceplate.
  • I suggest "Sad Gwydion" as a PC-friendly replacement for my Sad Chao series.
  • I admit to crying at the end of Speed Racer.
  • I rag on Beyond Good & Evil a little. Not much. Not as much as I'd like. But a little.
  • And I am forced to select my "favorite movie." It's not a great moment in the history of podcastdom.

Big failure at Toys R Us.

That damned 4% on the TRU Mastercard has done me dirty again. Yesterday, the Toys R Us staff first tried to tell me that de Blob was not yet out. Then they informed me that they did indeed have Buzz Quiz TV, but could not sell it until Tuesday. Both of those games came out last week. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them.

I have a $10 off $100 coupon. I'll be back later in the week. Want to bet I show up on Wednesday and one or both of those games are still not for sale?

About that 360 faceplate...

Let me explain, as it ties together Items 1 and 2 on this little missive.

Saturday was the Geoffrey's birthday event at TRU, and they had little kids craft stations set up throughout the store, timed to open just as naptime starts for all decent children (noon to 3). As luck would have it, one of these tables was dedicated to LEGO Batman: The Videogame. The concept was this: decorate a 360 faceplate with four tiny LEGO Batman stickers (and crayons, if you're nasty), and "as a reward" we were told, you get a LEGO Batman paper-mask-on-a-stick. Clark performed as such. We were surprised that we got to keep the faceplate.

So now I own an Xbox 360 faceplate, which contains the very clear plastic shields that have lit up red on oh so many 360s.

Incidentally, the man operating the station said the faceplate was for Wii.

Cro-Mag Rally? Seriously?

Hey, what's the best way to instantly grenade any iPhone gaming cred? How about a TV commercial showing an iPhone running Cro-Mag Rally, an ugly seven-year-old Mario Kart 64 ripoff? Yep, that'd do it.

Pirates on Blu-ray.

Bought the boxed set. Thus far, Clark has greatly preferred the first one to the second one. The first one has skeletons; the second one does not.

Spending season has begun.

Last week, LEGO Batman. This week, de Blob and Buzz, if they'll have me.

After that, Sam & Max Season One. Two weeks after that, LittleBigPlanet and Rock Band 2. Mid-November, Animal Crossing: City Folk.

I have two weeks remaining vacation to plan. It will be carefully deployed.

We're always surprised at what he remembers.

Every now and then Clark requests a bedtime story "not from a book," which means he wants us to tell him a story. Usually this is a lights-out affair because he's very, very tired... and usually I fall back on a random super-hero origin story. Some time ago, I happened to tell him a truncated version of "For the Man Who Has Everything." We had not spoken of it since, but tonight he asked for the "story with Batman, and Superman's party, and the sleepy flower."

So I dug out my twenty year old copy of Superman Annual #11 and read him the Alan Moore original.

 

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Author Profile Page http://openid.aol.com/taybalkom / 09.29.08 / 09:46PM /

Wow. Every time I think it's impossible for your Toys R Us to get any lamer, it outdoes itself. Again and again.


Author Profile Page Maikeru Go / 10.01.08 / 02:42AM /

I am astounded at the utter cluelessness of that TRU employee. Then again I once asked for Animal crossing and the employee at a particular store asked if it was like one of the "Imagine" series of games.


Author Profile Page Joe / 10.01.08 / 02:46AM /

Yep, they suck. This is not TRU's forte, although I suspect my local branch is worse than most.


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