08.23.08 We’re going to need some serious ear bleach. Pajiba, the fabulous and wonderfully snarky movie and pop-culture review blog has the review for the new animated Clone Wars movie here. And there, lovely VGR readers, when you read mid-way down the page at the voice *ahem* talent that’s voicing Obi-Wan Kenobi, your soul will die. Die, I tell you, die, whimpering and screaming and sobbing for mercy. For not only has George Lucus inflicted us with three crappy prequels (the first one only saved slightly by both Liam “Hotpants” Neeson and Ewen “Studboy” McGregor on screen at the same time), he has done grevious injury to us all in the form of aural rape by chosing James Arnold Taylor to voice Obi-Wan Kenobi. Tidus. Playing Obi-Wan. James Arnold Fucking Taylor playing Obi-Wan Kenobi, who lest you forget, was played by Alec Guiness in A New Hope/Episode IV. I’m really hoping the ghost of Alec Guiness is hanging around JAT’s house, throwing things. I know I would. Posted in Uncategorized | 15 Comments » Posted by Kelly at 23:45

08.10.08 Jeanne’s Pokemon Adventures (Part 1) Uuuuuuuuugh…Pokemon;. I kind of hate myself, but I went and got myself Pokemon LeafGreen, Emerald, Diamond, and My Pokemon Ranch. Take a moment to point and laugh at me — get it out of your systems. My main goal in playing all of these soul-draining games is to fill up my ranch. I can’t deny my (platonic) love of watching chibi Pokemon run around acting cute and blasting themselves out of the Poke Rocket (not a euphemism). Of course my ranch would not be complete without a Bulbasaur or twenty, which is why I had to get LeafGreen. I have not yet achieved my goal of getting Bulbasaur on my ranch — I have a fuckbillion hours of tedious level building before that dream is realized. Woe. I share Sam’s discomfort with capturing redundant Pokemon, but it’s kind of unavoidable when trying to fill up the ranch to its limit of 999 Pokemon, or trying to get some of the ranch special events. At least I have an Edgeworth Mii to help wrangle the fifty thousand phallic Pokemon and fuchsia ballsack Pokemon I’ve got inhabiting the place. But the best part of all? After reading about how rare it is to run into a shiny Pokemon in the wild, I managed to catch one in the first fifteen minutes of playing LeafGreen. Yeah, that’s right — a shiny Rattata. Awesome. I might as well catch a piece of crap with glitter sprinkled on it. I commented to John that I need a a shiny Metapod, a shiny Magikarp, or a shiny Zubat to add to my shiny collection of win. And then I caught a shiny Zubat in Diamond. Ha ha, Pokemon gods, very funny. So do any of you have fantastic Pokemon ranches? Does Hayley insist on bringing you nothing but trash Pokemon? Do you have any amusingly pathetic stories of shiny Pokemon you’ve captured? Anyone have a shiny Metapod? Tags: my pokémon ranch, pokémon, pokémon diamond, pokémon emerald, pokémon leafgreen Posted in Game Commentary | 11 Comments » Posted by Jeanne at 19:28

08.06.08 Lunar: Silver Star Story Part 7 I know it’s been kind of slow around here lately, but here’s some new content for you, courtesy of Sam. The Lunar: Silver Star Story Part 7 recap is now up! Yay! Tags: lunar: silver star story Posted in Recaps, Updates | No Comments » Posted by Jeanne at 22:31

07.03.08 Phoenix Wright Part 3 Preview I’ve been working on this one for months. Now that I’m done with school, I have a lot more time to recap. Hopefully it will be finished soon, but in the meantime, here are a couple of excerpts: [You know you want to click for more… »] Tags: phoenix wright, recap previews Posted in Recaps | 9 Comments » Posted by Jeanne at 12:47

06.24.08 On Gay Lawyers and Pokemon Well, “thanks” to Sam, I now have a renewed interest in Pokemon. And not like that — I’m not a pokephile. Against my better judgment, I’ve decided to buy one of the Pokemon DS games. But that’s not what this post is about — I’m sure you’ll hear a lot about my masochistic Pokemon collecting adventures in the near future. Patience, young padawans. This post is all about what happens when my unholy brain starts wondering how to combine the worlds of gay lawyers and Pocket Monsters Pokemon and comes up with the question: what would be Phoenix Wright’s and Miles Edgeworth’s Pokemon dream teams? Since I am lazy don’t want to hog all the fun for myself, I’m letting you guys answer this question. I ran this past Sam, and we came up with some simple rules: *Each of the Pokemon teams needs to contain six different Pokemon. *Explain your choices — boring lists are boring. *All Pokemon are fair game — not just the ones from the DS versions. *You don’t need to create both teams unless you want to. *Bonus points for including innuendo-laden Pokemon Battle dialog between the two lawyers. *Please do not post a link to your super serious Pokemon/Phoenix Wright crossover epic. This is just for fun — I’m not giving out prizes or anything. Hey, where are you all going? Tags: phoenix wright, pokémon Posted in Uncategorized | 26 Comments » Posted by Jeanne at 14:53