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Tonight I have been browsing back and forth between the amazingly awesome things written and stated by one Michael Swaim, as well as those by the awesome Steven Novella MD. I have also finished Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and during the credits I searched this here internet for the soundtrack, so that I can play this song on repeat.

Just enjoy that bit of awesomeness while I finish this blog. I have been waiting quite some time for Professor Layton too, along with many other folks I know, and I was definitely not disappointed in the story or the puzzles. The ending was totally spectacular as well. I am still waiting for some awesome folks to go ahead and remix some songs from the series! Get on that!

Nothing really to report over at GM4A currently. LVN is currently on hiatus still as well. The Start Screen though seems to be quite productive as of late! Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the forums and community in general. Now that the site is redesigned, soon I hope we can begin a larger push to get a community under our stead. there are only a handful of posts and threads as of this post. And even fewer comments on articles. It is sad to look at the main page and see that the majority of articles, no matter what their subject have no comments, and when they do, it is usually just one. I will try to remedy it by leaving some comments on some of the other folks posts more often. I have noticed that once one person has left a comment, it tends to get other people to add their two cents as well, and I think it is a good small strategy to start with. Hopefully I won’t lazy about and get to it.

One more thing, I know it is over now, but HAPPY DREAMCAST DAY PEOPLE! GO PLAY/LEARN ABOUT THEN BUY THEN PLAY PROJECT JUSTICE!

Besides that I got some more articles written out today, and hope to get a lot more sorted out tomorrow as well. For now though it is time for ever more Layton. I need to find me those last couple puzzles!

They said it would never happen. Said it couldn’t be done. They set the title in front of me. Said it couldn’t be won. They told me I wouldn’t make it. Now my moment has come. The superheroes are clashing, and the remainder is one.

So I just purchased Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box this past weekend, and needless to say IT RULES! I would actually be playing right now but I am once again stuck on an annoyingly difficult puzzle. So instead, here I am blogging out. Also adding some more new tracks to my iTunes library, tracks that will be included on our next compilation effort. Certainly exciting times! Sadly thanks to Prof. Layton as well as the new Metroid Prime Trilogy release I have not gotten too much work done on my site lately, but hope to get more done starting this Thursday when I have some days off and some free time to myself. With that free time I hope to start several articles, hopefully finish at least one, and keep things moving along for our upcoming compilations.

Besides that I have noticed tons of Drama in one of the boards I frequent (cough *RT* cough). So I am not too enamored with the place currently, I have no idea when it will die down either so I have not been focusing on it much at all lately. The drama isn’t really the problem though, never has been.

There just seems to be a general lack of input or output on the boards lately, which is quite the opposite on the VG rock and chiptune side of things. With stuff like Kind of Bloop, C-Jeff, Armcannon, Metroid Metal and so much more, there is just waves and waves of things happening. Over in the nerdcore trenches, not much at all. Perhaps that is just my perspective though, I certainly hope so, because that means there are some awesome albums in RT that are about to bubble to the surface. One can hope.

One thing I am having a problem with is that the most vocal and active folks in the community seem to be the folks with the least output. Not just that but also the community is so insular. Far and away there seems to be no active promotion by anyone about anything. It’s incredible the lack of promotion these people give others, but especially themselves. It’s times like that where I feel “Why am I promoting these people that couldn’t care less to help anyone else, including me?”

This is not to say that their music is bad, or anything about their music really. It’s just, when I am going around writing, promoting, and telling everyone about these folks music, I would hope that I would get some support in someway.

Basically what all this rambling basically adds up to is that, for how active I am in the nerdcore community, for how hard I work to help them, support them, and just generally be their friends. NO ONE IN NERDCORE READS MY DAMN WEBSITE! Most of them barely know it exists it seems like. To have to remind people of my site’s URL and that I even have a site is definitely exasperating to my spirit as a person who supports this “nerdcore” thing wholeheartedly.

I am worn out though, I am not really going to go into it much more right now. Needless to say that there is a lot to be done in the realm of nerdcore. We will see how things go. For now I sleep! And by that I mean play two more hours of Layton!

I’m sorry to say that I am just a ghost. I’m no super powered human capable of fixing every single problem that could possibly arise.

So I have been moving foward with getting the next compilations under way and I am very excited! That plus F-Zero plus Iwadon plus some other projects make for so much awesome. Also back to work on one West Coast Wig Out, think I’ll have to buy the domain name for that one too, we’ll see. Oh yes, I also have a new post over at the start screen about C-jeff. I think the next article I will be writing will be about Kenley and his Into The Score Podcast.

Having just finished Earthbound at the request of my friend, I went back and listened to his podcast about the soundtrack, and it provided a ton of extra tidbits that helped me enjoy the game even further after the fact. Earthbound was such an amazing game in so many ways, I am incredibly glad to have played it from start to finish. It was definitely worth it and now I understand the attachment so many people have had to it over all these years. The game and the music are both incredible, and tough to get out of my head.

I just went and did a huge review for the one and only Armcannon, sadly I don’t think anyone read it (YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT NOW THOUGH!). I will bug Danimal about posting about it when he gets back from rocking the shit out of PAX with Metroid Metal. Too bad I sadly had to miss out. I hope some good fortune lets me head out to MAGFest though, as Metroid Metal was announced as a performer just recently for that!

I have a bunch of other stuff to review too, so hopefully I can work that out tomorrow and not slack of as is normal for a loser like me. So with that I get some sleep!

OH FUCK, I also forgot, my awesome pal Marcos Was kind enough to interview me! Check it out for a cool interview where I ramble on too much and plug everyone I can!

The battle is ending, true war is just beginning. I’ll learn from this disaster, I’ll build eight robot masters.

So recently The Start Screen underwent a redesign from I don’t remember what kind of annoying format over to wordpress. I think the site looks fantastic (besides the blue link text) but the site seems to load faster and be more organized and looks just simpler and more streamlined. PLUS it is under wordpress and it is so much easier to write under that than the weird approach the old blogging tool they used handled things over there which would sometimes crash, not read html correctly, and do weird things between writing and posting a blog. NOT TO MENTION NO SAVE DRAFT OR PREVIEW ARTICLE FEATURE! That was particularly annoying, as I had to write out the post somewhere else and then transfer it to The Start Screen.

I would write more but I got me one of them radio shows to show, well broadcast anyway. I have failed to mention the radio show anywhere yet, but once I have some bad ass art from my amazingly artistic friend Kate I should be good to announce it! Well for now, unofficially, let it be known that I have a radio show over at areciboradio.org and it is known as Ballad of the Wind Fish! Every Tuesday and Thursday from 12-2 PST. Listen in at that link at those times to hear me share with you all the sweet VGIM that I have been listening to lately!

So much has happened since I last wrote in you. There was of course Nerdapalooza in July, there was also the Comic-Con shows in San Diego. There has been much of sitting around not doing anything particularly amazing. There have been piles and piles of new albums practically. From Dual Core to Armcannon, compilations like Kind of Bloop and Chronotorious. And many more to come as well! Hopefully I can get back into the grind of posting in here. It’s not that I have nothing interesting to say but I just got out of writing in this blog, and every day that passes I become less interested in posting in it.

Anyway, there is plenty of stuff happening, so I will update this blog soon with that info soon!

You helped our music grow, this one’s for you! You purchased and believe in it, this one’s for you! You ripped it and seeded it, this one’s for you!

So yeah I was lying down. Listening to episode 203 of SGU and playing some classic Advance Wars Dual Strike. Finished the battle on AWDS (got an A again, but aiming for an S rank, so frustrating…but so fun!). Well after setting down the DS, I finish listening to the podcast, and here we are. I am less tired than I was earlier. Dang. I hate when that happens.

I figured I would just update this blog a little whilst being unable to sleep. I Don’t really have anything to report or share with anyone though. Looks like you are quite the chump for even reading this far. tsk tsk.

Actually, I should mention that there is an awesome concert this saturday in LA. Here’s the link. I get to see Z1 play for the first time in nearly a year, not to mention seeing Dr Awkward perform as well, which I am interested in because I would dig booking him for more shows in the future.

Oh also, man, Nerdapalooza is less than a month away now. Geez, it just came out of nowhere! It is really happening wow. I am buying my plane ticket soon and can’t wait! The one time of year where I don’t have to shut up about video games and science and vg history and the direction of nerdcore hip hop and the third generation of VGrock and blah blah blah blah blah…

So you’ve canonized some shit that didn’t happen in the series, that’s some fucked up shit. I think you need to take an english course.