http://www.smilingpolitely.org The third iteration of the politest blog in town Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:35:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey, I still have a blog! I know what you're thinking: Nathan stopped updating because he's all busy now, what with living in a new city and starting a new degree program which involves things like new classes with new projects and comprehensive exams and whatnot.  Well, actually you're probably thinking: ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/60 Not only do I get to export Rock Band tracks for use with RB2, I don't even have to take Run to the Hills with it! http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/57 I can personally vouch for this one. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/55 While Braid is a fine puzzle game, I still gotta give the edge to DROD as far as pure puzzle satisfaction goes. Not that it's really appropriate to compare them. With Braid, my experience was (for the most part) that of studying the network of platforms leading to some puzzle ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/51 Braid came out, and despite my earlier cynicism, it is indeed garnering tons of critical praise and appears to be selling pretty OK, at least for an XBLA game.  Shows what I know, I guess. My Braid experience was similar to my Portal experience: almost immediately after release, all in one ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/48 Apparently the comments have been messed up (mostly my own fault) for quite a few days now.  Things should be fixed now, so you can continue to comment or not comment as you will. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/46 Moving to Ottawa just justified itself as I got to go see Wolf Parade last night.  The ticket was a bit pricey, but basically Wolf Parade will have been the favouritest band of mine that I've seen live now, if that makes any sense.  Mrs. M. had to go to ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/44 When I first acquired my 360, I quickly hopped onto the Xbox Live Arcade train and snapped up a handful of titles, all of which have treated me well more or less. I probably would have traded Puzzle Quest for something different as it wore out its welcome after ... http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/39 Nintendo fixes their broken controllers.  Allegedly. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/38 It's E3 time, and nobody really cares any more but there is at least one bombshell that has gone off: Final Fantasy 13 coming out for the 360 (in the States at least.)  Kaboom. Oh, and there is a ton of awesome Rock Band news, but I'll get to that later. http://www.smilingpolitely.org/archives/37