Assaulting the Spire

I gotta say…i’m kinda pissed off at the moment. Being an avid RPG player I search day after day for console games to satisfy my need for role-playing game goodness. Final Fantasy XIII is a long ways off, so imagine my giddy surprise to hear back during Tokyo Game Show 2007 when Namco-Bandai had finally announced that they were bringing Trusty Bell (Eternal Sonata) to the Playstation 3.

They even crossed their hearts and whatnot on it. They showed pictures, videos, gave a little press conference on the game and even Famitsu had an article premiering the game and confirming that it was coming to the PS3 with extra content and was expected to be released in early 2008.

Well…IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when I checked the Namco-Bandai website and found that all of the information regarding the PS3 version had vanished, so I then checked the ratings board website also had removed all information regarding the PS3 version. So, I did what every confused consumer would do….I emailed Namco-Bandai themselves and here’s the little nugget they sent back:

Thank you for contacting Namco Bandai’s Customer Support Department.

Eternal Sonata has already been released and is available for purchase for the Xbox 360. We have not made any official announcement about other platforms and apologize for any confusion caused by the erroneous web site listing.

Please feel free to contact us again in the future as the need arises

O_o….WTF?

Now, I would have been convinced that this letter was speaking the truth if it hadn’t been for the screenshots and videos that were shown at TGS07 of the Eternal Sonata PS3 version. Hell, they even confirmed it AT THE SHOW, so….what gives NB? Are we getting the game or not?

I personally feel that some people from the Xbox 360 camp called up the people at Bandai-Namco and gave them a good scolding and them mailed them envelopes full of money to stop making the PS3 version. Just like Microsoft paid 2K games to drop the PS3 version of Bioshock, and I’m pretty sure that MS was behind the little incident regarding Patrice Desrilets and his comment on the 360 DVD not having enough disc space.

I could always be wrong about any of this considering people paying off who and dirty business being done behind the closed doors of the conference room, but Microsoft already has a history of being a bit underhanded and shady when it comes to competitors so why would I not assume they have their hands in this.

Either way: Bandai-Namco….would you please get your act together? Either release the game or not because the PS3 user base is kinda sick and tired of you jerking us around regarding what games your going to make. Confirm it or debunk it but don’t bullcrap us to death.

I know. I know…..when isn’t it dirty right? Well, sometimes they even do things that amaze me.

Like this for example

Here’s a little snippet of what is actually going on:

The Portland School Committee is poised to take up a proposal that would enable students at King Middle School to obtain birth control prescriptions from the school’s health center.

Under the plan scheduled for consideration Wednesday night, King would become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students in grades 6 through 8, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.

Oh yay. Instead of trying to impose some type of moral sense upon the youngsters they are just going to give them birth control. Is this an actual idea of progress? Really? I’d actually like to meet the person who actually thought that this was a good idea so that I could unleash an army of small dwarfish people who could pound them with their tiny fists. Humor and Justice in one single swoop!

But I digress, this is actually pretty appalling when you get right down to it. Middle school kids don’t have any business partaking in sexual acts let alone being given access to birth control by their school officials.  The parents are actually outraged by what the school is doing and have begun to protest and good for them. However, considering this school has made it a school board issue and have PASSED IT they can do this, or at least try too, without the parents consent.

Since when was raising a child the states responsibility as opposed to the actual parents? Oh, thats right. When you had people like “It takes a village” Hillary Clinton spouting off nonsense and liberal tripe.

I hope this whole thing gets squashed.

Aside from my debates with a commenter I have mostly been on a large break due to being overworked, BUT I am going to resume my posting again soon. So, liberal or conservative do please enjoy the music.

Love me or Hate me you can’t stand there with a clear heart and mind and tell me that song doesn’t just make you tap your foot. Cute, quirky, and a little bit deranged…..a wonderful combination in music.

The Cake Is A Lie.

Here’s a quote that I found thanks to Neal Boortz

“What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence — moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how ‘democracy’ (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be ‘undemocratic.’ Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval’s [of the same age] attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when ‘I’m as good as you’ has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers — or should I say nurses? — will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.” C. S. Lewis

Yup, that pretty much sums up the way government schools (public schools to most of you) are being operated these days. The progressive liberal agenda has always been to keep the excellence in knowledge a stagnant and hindered mindset. They do not wish people to excel at anything because that doesn’t fit their socialist and communist agenda. To liberals/socialists/communists there cannot be social unity if one person out does the other and therefore they seek to destroy those who would leave the weak and stupid behind.

You must remember that liberals are actually apart of the group of people that were left behind by those who are BETTER THAN THEM. They envy the strong so the liberals (the weak) have sought to hinder the progress of successful people, and it seems Hillary is leading the way this time.

Do please answer all of the questions before you scroll all the way down to see the answer key. Good luck and here’s to hoping that you all learn something from this quiz.

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few…and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”

A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) “(We)…can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”

A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own…in order to create this common ground.”

A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”

A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

If that isn’t proof that Hillary Clinton is a dangerous person trying to destroy this society then I guess i’ll have to dig a litle deeper to prove it wont I!

Just so that I can play Doodlehex

Art style, music, gameplay, and storyline just seem really REALLY engrossing so I think that everyone who comes here should CLICK THE LINK and check it out. Plus, the theme song on the website is just mega groovy. Yeah, groovy. I said it. I can steal retired era phrases if I want to.

Shut up.