more on 3D dot game heroes

I can't get over this game.  I stumbled across a video of it about a week ago and now I can't get it out of my head.  I want this.  I need this.  I need to find a way to live in a world where things like this don't only exist in Japan, or to find a way for me to exist in Japan concurrently with this game and the playing thereof by me.

UPDATE: apparently, this game IS coming to the US!  Awesome.  That gives me 2 reasons to get a PS3...

pop-up lego kinkakuji

This is probably the coolest lego-related thing I've ever seen.  This guy built a lego version of Kinkakuji (the Temple of the Golden Pavilion) encased in its own awesome lego box.  You should watch the whole video, or at least keep watching until you crap your pants from the sweetness of this super-neato thing.

And to tell you the truth, I don't know how he does it.  I understand Japanese, I understand Legos, he explains it, and he shows how it works, and I still don't get it.  It's some kind of special physics and maths that are beyond my ken.

I imagine the construction of this would qualify as a megatask.

i've been rendered utterly speechless

I have no idea what to make of this, it's just, it's just...completely ridiculous.  I don't know if I'm repulsed or horrified or impressed by this.  While I'm not rushing out to buy a Wii just to play this game, it has me strangely mesmerized, like a train wreck.  Cant...look...away...

a legend of zelda remake of super mario world

This is a megatask if I ever saw one.  I found this a few months ago.  There's a group of people who make hacks of Super Mario World, and this one is my favorite.  There's a whole series of these videos where this person has hacked just about every aspect of Link to the Past into its own game using the SMW engine.  Unfortunately, it looks like the project was abandoned half a year ago.

Still, if it's ever finished, I'll be first in the queue to check it out.

hello, people of the internet

Actually, we've already met, you and I.  I saw you last week when I was at the post office.  You were picking your teeth with an envelope while you talked on your hands-free headset.  Do I think you were attractive?  I don't know, maybe.  Maybe a little.

Today's progress involved tooling around with the colors and settings a little bit and making a placeholder logo for the page.  As things progress, keep in mind that anything you see on the page now is subject to change, and probably will.

the death of peachycomics (sort of)

I'm sure you've noticed just how sporadic peachycomics posts were getting. There were multiple reasons for this: Edgar (my computer) getting older and taking longer to handle FrontPage, the sheer magnitude of junk on peachycomics making updates take longer, and the increasingly complex hassle of formatting everything. All of this made for a hellish 30-minute process for me every time I wanted to throw a few words onto the 'net.

Couple that with advances in internet technology that have occurred in the 6.5 years since I started the site and you can see that it couldn't go on like that forever. It just couldn't. So in order to save time and hassle all around, I've decided to phase peachycomics out. Starting today, I'm going to start cannibalizing the useful site content (which I'd estimate was only about 10%, overall, anyway) and putting it in back-dated posts on megatasker.blogspot.com.

Really, though, peachycomics was kind of a dumb name for a website, to tell you the truth. After trying dozens of domain names, it was the only simple name I could think of. When I stop renewing the domain, I imagine it will fade into search-spam oblivion.

Am I sad about it? Hell yeah, but we've gotta move on, gotta embrace the future with outstretched arms so as to not become obsolete. There will be benefits to the new page, to be sure. For one, I'll finally be able to post at work, where I have the most free time and motivation to do posts. And without having to spend hours and hours resolving technical issues, I'll have more time to focus on writing, which was the point of all of this in the first place.

So, in short, it's time to look forward. If you've got questions, send them to jbaugher@rocketmail.com or post them in the comments.