I may subtitle this post: “Things That Happen When You Have Nothing Planned”.
I love the conversation when you meet up with a friend: “so what do you want to do?”, and the reply: “ehh, nothing, you”, “yeah, I don’t know”. With my group of friends this conversation invariably ends in one of several ways: TV, Videogames, or Jam Session. It was after one of these conversations with a larger assembly of my friends we began to play beats from a keyboard and battle rap each other. This may seem like a totally legitimate course of action for some people, but a closer look at the social make up and musical taste of our group would reveal, without a doubt, that rapping is not on the top of our “fun things to do” list.
However, we ended up rapping against each other, with each other, and around each other. It was hilarious. We rapped about school subjects like geography and science as much as we rapped about the funny growth on my nose or each other’s sexual preferences.
So, to that unexpected fun burst of creativity i have found some fun links for improving the battle rap skills of those around me. Read these and take heed. Though it may not happen often, battle rapping may soon become a regular member of our “bored-time” repertoire.
- How to SURVIVE a Battle Rap
- Learn your flocabulary
- Wiki on freestyle wrapping
I feel like I’m getting old. Well, at least out of touch with older gamers and younger gamers. I just read an article here in ars pointing out how freaking awesome nintendo wii is doing in sales against other platforms. Now I know it’s a stretch to take an article about game and system sales and relate it to age. I’m a little too lazy to go into all the facts and figures, but essentially I see the Wii as the system for kids and adults who missed the original gaming “thing”. So when I see all these people buying rehash games like Smash Bros and Mario Kart, I think dang, I’ve really been there done that. My experience with those games was “screw it, I’m sticking with the game cube controller” (well, Mario Kart might be the exception to that, but seriously, EVERY GAME THAT DOESN’T USE THE WII MOTE IN A SIMULATIVE WAY HAS BORED ME TO DEATH AND I’VE RETURNED DIRECTLY TO THE GAME CUBE CONTROLLER). Not to mention games like Mario Party that I’m positive will cause rampant wrist problems due to meaningless repetitive motion. And then I think about my dear, sweet XBOX 360 that I’ve had for little over a year. Let me just point out what I love about it. (in no particular order, enumerated for counting purposes only.)
- XBOX Live and the multi-player frag fests that ensue
- XBOX Arcade (I’m a sucker for N right now)
- XBOX media downloads, for you know, when I’m REALLY REALLY FREAKIN LAZY.
- The possibility that that thing is the only box I need under my TV
- Gears of War
- Katamari Damashi
- GTA (I have all of the old ones for XBOX as well as IV)
- Midnight Club
Though I have to admit some of these are not unique to XBOX (but some of them are not on the Wii at all, though Damashi SHOULD BE)
So in a much needed conclusion, the Wii has yet to offer a series of games that would make me give up my 20 button controllers, and I feel like I’m in a strange Generational loop caught between the young and the old.
Well, Kucinich has brought 35 articles of impeachment against President G.W. Bush. It happened last night and could be seen on c-span. But while it was happening I was listening to news radio and there were no “special announcements” to interrupt the really awesome headlines of the moment. Nor was there any mention of the event this morning on my commute to work. Finally I was able to find Kucinich’s site (I had been typing it in incorrectly) to see the articles he introduced for myself. All should read and weap, or rejoice as it were. However I fear that with the total lack (so far) of mainstream coverage, this move may be too little too late.
