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Good news: I managed to sell my Supercard DS ONE with memory card at MAGFest, so you can take that off the list. I still have my black DS Lite and Supercard Lite flashcart available. PM me for more info and to make an offer. I also managed to find a copy of Ikaruga for the GameCube, so you can take that off the list too, Prophet

*sigh*, with so much going on with panels and gaming, not to mention good ol' socializing, it's always inevitable that I miss some of the best of JamSpace... But at least it's on the Internet for all eternity In any case thank you all for making this my 3rd MAGFest the best one yet! Definitely had some great times and got to get to know all of you a little better. Thanks also for tolerating the DJs in JamSpace Saturday night; it was all very last minute and as it's been said, after the big JS events move into the concert hall next year there will be a lot more jamming. As for my 15-odd-minute set, I'll probably do what I did last year and re-record and host it within a week. I promised BGC that I'd have my pictures up soon so look for them this week too, probably on Facebook. I hear ya... I saw the countdown scroll in the JamSpace room listed some obscene number of hours until the next one... Not maybe; you WILL be there!

Yeah, stay with the engaged couple, that'll be fun... Anyway, I finally got my new toy, a KORG NanoPad, in the mail today; just in time! Anyone know how to work it? Because I sure won't have the time to read the manual between now and then; I haven't even packed yet!

Don't worry, it's indoors.

Which reminds me: bring your bathing suits b/c there's a swimming pool there! Edit:

YAY! But rather than pictures of said meetup, I can do one better (thanks Jose for editing for YT):

Yes, one of his best reviews IMO. But Re: the not-so-bonus end video: "Look at us! We're being crazy with guitar prephrials! And destroying videogame systems! Yee-ha! Let's show some random FPSs (of the shit-gray variety that Yahtzee hates)! With BLOOD everywhere! You kids like blood, right?" ...I'm tempted to watch that show (if it's out yet), but then again not really. Looks like someone's been watching too much G4 & Spike TV. Edit: So true what he said about Sonic being an aging rock star; lol.

What? Kanye ego-less? Who would have thought? j/k Anyway, I may have already mentined this, but when I first heard the singles "Love Lockdown" & "Heartless" in 30-second-previews on iTunes I was all WTF? But after I got to hear the whole song I do agree with zircon that it's creative & good production. I really miss getting to preview a whole song in stores like the Virgin MegaStores, but that's another story. The album reivew in the Village Voice really put it in perspective I think: BTW, who saw Kanye West's performance on SNL last night? Weird, no? With those giant video screens, silhouettes and crazy dancing... I liked it.

You guys better be! Looking forward to it.

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I remember finding your song "Hello Daddy" by chance like 5 years ago and I still love it I'm sorry to say I haven't heard anything else until now, but it's cool to hear your various styles. Yes'm! twitter maybe?

Well, Grammy nominations are out and guess who's on top. Lil' Wayne--whom I still don't understand why he's so great; decent maybe but not classic--has 8 nods, including Album of the Year. He's competing with, among others, Jay-Z's "American Gangster" (which wasn't bad IMO, thouhg I still prefer this) and Lupe Fiasco's "The Cool," for Rap Album. Coldplay has 7 nominations; make of that what you will. Oh, and "Paper Planes" was nominated for Record of the Year...

I liked MIA's first album (2005's Arular) a lot. Electro-meets-dancehall style and creative all around IMO. Her current one has a few good tracks ("Bamboo Banga" and "Jimmy" are my favorites), but it has more filler that didn't move me and I don't like "Paper Planes" much at all. Gives people the wrong idea about her... Add I will agree with you that the emphasis on her voice in that track is annoying.

Yes. Although I'm afraid it'll be like the boyband craze and once it's over be replaced by something even worse out of the blue (in this case, rap as pop music). I hate auto-tune because it killed the last of any sense of emotion from the songs. Just listen to 70s R&B (I like Stevie Wonder particularly) and you'll see how big the contrast is. Not all songs have to be raw (anyone who knows me knows I love electronic music), but songs that formerly would have had it now don't. Kanye's newest work is listenable to me because he still manages to infuse emotion into it. I still wouldn't buy it the way I did The College Dropout and Graduation, but, let's just say I listened to these songs all the way through. Hey, he sang on "Slow Jamz" on The College Dropout and was halfway decent--for a genre parody anyway. It just occurred to me that you should have RickRoll'd them At least I would have ROFL'd. HAHAHA So true...

Selling the following lightly-used Nintendo DS flash carts: SuperCard DS-One In box + 2GB SanDisk MicroSD (the maximum size you can use with it) SuperCard Lite (for DS Lite) (white) + 1GB SanDisk MicroSD For more info, see http://eng.supercard.cn/manual/dsone/ and http://eng.supercard.cn/manual/sc_lite.htm respectively I'll sell them either individually or together. I may even throw in a MicroSD USB reader The SuperCard Lite will require the patching of GBA (DS too if you have a PassKey) Roms to work, but the DS-One takes files directly and works like a charm. The SuperCard name isn't as big as the others (R4, Cyclo, etc.), but I really liked my set. Homebrew ftw! Edit: Okay, I'm selling the black DS Lite too--either separately or included with one or both of the cards. The left button is a little stuck and needs to be pressed firmly, but otherwise works fine! It's already got a screen protector and I'll throw in a carrying case free.

Sweet! Maybe we can do some crazy, messed-up jamming after all! (it was you who proposed that, right...?) Edit: Sorry can't help you on the room; still looking for one myself.

Hey all. Benzo and I are trying to carpool since we're both in Pittsburgh, but I'll be down there for New Year's Eve and he doesn't know if he'll be yet. We'll hopefully work something out. But more importantly, I'm still looking to secure a room/floorspace and --this just in--I'll likely have a guest with me for the weekend (Friday night-Sunday). --And it's a GIRL! Can anyone accommodate us?

You also have Punch-Out. I played it at your apartment when I was over for a meetup. Also, SMRPG Song ftw.

Congrajamalations! I hope you guys have a room to yourselves at MAGFest!

Holy fuck, I didn't think there were any kind of OcReMix presence in Pittsburgh (last time we tried a meetup it crashed and burned...) I'll be there and wearing my OCR shirt for sure!

Hey, I've been thinking for awhile: I have access to a few good used videogame stores in my area. I've recently seen Okami (PS2) for $20 and various NES MegaMans for $10-15, among other deals. I'd be willing to buy and mail whatever I can find to anyone provided they pay the price of the game and shipping. Should I PM people who want games that I have access to? Also, something I'm looking for: Ikaruga for the Gamecube. I've heard so much about it, yet I have yet to see a physical copy anywhere.

Ha... ha... HAAA HAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAA!! This is Microsoft we're talking about here, right? Yeah, as a Mac user myself I never did like the "Mac vs. PC" ads. If you want to make your point, make your point, but don't be smug about it and don't belittle the competition...

Sooo... Yahtzee liked the game? He didn't explicitly say so, but he seemed abnormally positive about it.

I lol'd (kind of) at the end.

Wow, how could I have POSSIBLY forgotten The Neverhood soundtrack?? That soundtrack was the first thing I ever bought online and I love almost every song on there...