I don't ever use this blog shit because I'm a totally boring dude, but I do enjoy me some YouTubes. I have 600 favorited videos that I could show you, but I'm just going to do one now or then. Today is a video that I discovered while searching for Little Richard (don't ask). I subscribe to Sesame Street, but still managed to miss this for some reason. Luckily all is redeemed now and the song is playing on repeat in my head like it should:
 
  

I've had a couple of videogame related dreams in my time. This latest dream was extremely long with the videogame part only being a small portion of the "ending" of that dream. I had been rushing home on a bicycle with my friend and his brother riding behind me. I then entered a car select screen. I remember some of the car designs and they were not from any real games and neither was the menu design. You could press Y to change what kind of stats were shown a la Forza Motorsport (numbers versus simple bars). As I kept pressing Y and changing cars it got more confusing and eventually I began rotating the car because it got in the way of the stats. Eventually I just went for the car I remembered as being the fastest because I could not see the stats.
 
I think this is from playing a lot of Blur. The car stats are very similar and it can be difficult to choose a car in the online of that game, which I had been playing a lot. I've also always wanted a racing game where the differences were only cosmetic, perhaps this is a result of this as well. However the cars were not licensed like in Blur and felt more like the cars of Burnout Paradise. They also had a weight meter, which is more akin to Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, which I had been playing that day, however that is not really a racing game. As the game began I found myself in a car that seemed like a supercar with hot rod elements; you could see parts of the engine and it was a menacing black, but it was still sitting low to the ground and looked like a customized Ferrari. Perhaps this is from me having a black F40 as my wallpaper on my school computer, but I finished that school a couple of months ago. However, the rest of the dream had a lot of people I knew from that school in it... Another interesting thing is that I felt like I hadn't chosen that car, which is something that happened a lot in Blur as the timer before the race would go down before you could select your car and you would begin in a different car than you wanted. 

I've been fanatically obsessed with Evangeline Lilly lately, but all that paid off, because I just made the best damn Evangeline Lilly article right here on Giantbomb! Check it out here. I've been hesitant to add pictures, if I really wanted to I could probably get thousands of points from the gallery I've been making on my HDD over the past couple of days... Maybe I will do so tomorrow. Right now I need some freaking sleep.
Luckily I managed to spot this and include it in my article. That top is amazing.
 

Hey, it's 2009! I wanted to do a round-up of my gaming in 2008, with some fun facts. On with the show!

Facts:

Timeline:

My friend came over and we traded some games. He was in desperate need of games, and I lend him a hand... He got to borrow Fable II, Ninja Gaiden II and F.E.A.R. Files, while I got back my copy of The Orange Box and got to borrow Rainbow Six Vegas 2. I don't plan on playing it much online, so I like how you get EXP from the singleplayer as well. I'll also use that EXP glitch where an enemy spawns at the same time infinitely... That's why you won't see me playing it online, since the patch fixes it :P It's a cool game.

Remember Yaris? Possibly the worst game on XBLA, but everybody was treated to its awfulness since it was free. I'm sure most people's first impressions were "IT CAN NOT BE UNSEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!"

Far Cry 2 is fun online. Sure, it can be laggy as hell, but god damn. I love that 50 caliber sniper. I made a compilation of kills over the course of four matches. It took me a while to make, but took even longer to upload since I wanted to use YouTube's new HD feature. This is why I urge you to click on the video and click "watch in HD". There's a double-kill, some sweet healing animations (the last one makes me sick to my stomach every time) and I shoot a guy in a hang-glider!

I'm a big fan of Penny Arcade, but back when the first XBLA game came out, I had two major issues with it. For starters, it was a whopping 1600 MS Points. Secondly, it was a turn-based game, which I wasn't quite comfortable with. I played the Pokemon games on GBC, but other than that my experience with turn-based games is limited. The sequel costs "only" 1200 points, and I managed to get a hang of the gameplay while playing the trial again.

My favorite part of the game is the humor. The minute I read the description for OuchiesTM healing items, which "fucks pain up the ass", I began laughing out loud for five minutes. Well done.