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How I spent my Christmas vacation

03 January 06 | 19:12 | Posted by:

(And by "vacation" I mean "tiny bonus check.")

My love of tiny, shiny things and florid art featuring black-lipped girly-men got the best of me and I crumbled. I bought a Final Fantasy IV limited edition Game Boy Micro. I'm sort of ashamed, but it's so rad I can't feel all that terrible. I know, I should have used the money to help subsidize world peace or something. But, oh well, pretty Amano pictures framing dated video games is probably a better investment than some sort of global utopia anyway. A happy world is a boring world!


Also, I should note that in 1UP's end-of-year wrap-up I offhandedly commented that the Xbox 360 power brick is big enough to hold a dozen GB Micros. In fact, I made a comparison today and it turns out it's only big enough to hold eleven. I regret the error.


I should also note that if the above image appears out-of-focus, it's not a reflection on my inadequacies as a photographer. It's, uh, heat distortion from the sizzling-hot adapter warping the images. Yeah.


five comments:

I guess at some point I need to come to grips with the fact that game consoles are no longer "consoles". I miss the days of 2D graphics and A/C adapters. :(
Zach (URL) - 03 01 06 - 19:28

Or is the distortion because the gravity from the adapter is warping time and space?
QPCES - 04 01 06 - 18:11

Speaking of the end-of-year article, you weren't the one who called the Xbox 360 shortage "a carefully-calculated scheme," were you? I was sort of surprised to see a legitimate site still supporting that particular conspiracy theory.
Kevin Cogger (URL) - 04 01 06 - 22:49

A true Paladin...

would sheathe his sword!
Chrisbronze () (URL) - 05 01 06 - 03:10

I've been resisting for so long, but now that you've given in to dark tempation....
where did you pick this sucker up from? So sexy... FF4 = still my favorite.
AoF.Squall - 05 01 06 - 13:00


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