http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/06/...21791.html

Quote:Viewtiful Joe to grace PSP, GC; more DS details
Viewtiful Joe: VFX Battle bound for PSP and GameCube; DS version named Scratch! Viewtiful Joe.

In the latest issue of Famitsu, Capcom released some details on the upcoming PSP and GameCube game based on the Viewtiful Joe series. Titled Viewtiful Joe: VFX Battle, the game will feature familiar characters from the series, such as main man Viewtiful Joe; Joe's girlfriend, Silvia; Joe's rival, Alastor; and Captain Blue.

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The game will also feature characters from the TV anime series of the same name currently airing in Japan. Captain Blue Jr. and Sprocket, a female labor shark working for the evil syndicate that Joe is pitted against, will both make cameos. This time, Captain Blue begins to produce a new movie, but he can't decide who should star as the main character. To find his movie's lead, he decides to have everyone in the movie fight for the role.

Screenshots of VFX Battle suggest that it will play like Nintendo's Smash Bros. series. However, it is not known how many players the game will support, as life bars for only two characters could be seen in the screens.

Viewtiful Joe series producer Atsushi Inaba commented that the key to winning the game will be to "stand out" more than the rival players--the more stylish the attack, the more points, especially when the screen zooms in on them.

No release date or price has been set for Viewtiful Joe: VFX Battle, but Inaba hinted that the game is already deep into development.

The magazine also updated readers on new details concerning the DS version of Viewtiful Joe. Capcom is tentatively titling the upcoming game Scratch! Viewtiful Joe, according to Famitsu.

Scratch! takes place in a large theme park where the latest movie of Captain Blue is in filming. However, a mysterious syndicate named Madou appears and steals the film. It's up to you as Viewtiful Joe to get it back.

In addition to Joe, the game will feature his younger sister, Jasmine, as a new character. Jasmine is a strong-willed lady who hopes one day to become an actress. It's not clear whether Jasmine will have a role in gameplay or will just appear as a side character.

Scratch! Viewtiful Joe will inherit the same 2D-graphics style as its console predecessors, though the game does make use of the handheld's dual-screen and touch-sensitive panel.

According to the article, players will play the game primarily with the D pad and other buttons, like any standard action game, but the touch-sensitive screen will be used occasionally--with the fingers, not the stylus. Inaba said it would be a burden to switch to the stylus during the game, hinting that actions using the touch-sensitive screen will not require precise controls.

One of the touch-screen moves is called the "split VFX," which divides the screen into two halves. This is accomplished when players pass their finger horizontally across the screen. The move causes objects on the screen to get "sliced" and become horizontally displaced. For example, players can use the split VFX to slice a large billboard on the screen, and then drop it on top of an enemy half a screen away.

The bottom screen will be used for playing the game, while the upper screen zooms in on areas of the game where users are recommended to use the touch-sensitive capabilities. At other times, the upper screen appears to zoom in on Joe.

No release date or price has been announced for Scratch! Viewtiful Joe.

That's right, PMS. The school of PMS is located right down the road from Deanna's house and is populated by 48% women. Here is their scores when compared to the rest of Mississippi

Mississippi Curriculum Test (2002-2003)

About the Tests

* Mississippi uses the Mississippi Curriculum Test (MCT) to test students in grades 2-8.
* The MCT is a standards-based test, which means it measures how well students are mastering specific skills defined for each grade by the state of Mississippi.
* The goal is to have 100% of students meet or exceed grade-level standards on the test.

Scale: % of students meeting or exceeding standards


Grade 6

Language Arts
73% (2003)
The state average for grade 6 language arts was 62% in 2003.

Math
90% (2003)
The state average for grade 6 math was 62% in 2003.

Reading
89% (2003)
The state average for grade 6 reading was 74% in 2003

Grade 7

Language Arts
72% (2003)
The state average for grade 7 language arts was 52% in 2003.

Math
84% (2003)
The state average for grade 7 math was 54% in 2003.

Reading
84% (2003)
The state average for grade 7 reading was 63% in 2003

Grade 8

Language Arts
58% (2003)
The state average for grade 8 language arts was 53% in 2003.

Math
60% (2003)
The state average for grade 8 math was 48% in 2003.

Reading
59% (2003)
The state average for grade 8 reading was 57% in 2003.


MCT Results by Subgroup (2002-2003)

The test results by subgroup show how the designated group of students is performing in comparison to the general population. The goal is that all students will achieve at high levels.

Grade 6

Language Arts
73% (Total)
63% (African American)
71% (Economically Disadvantaged)
80% (Female)
67% (Male)
74% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
20% (Students with Disabilities)
78% (Students without Disabilities)
74% (White)
The state average for grade 6 language arts was 62% in 2003.

Math
90% (Total)
87% (African American)
80% (Economically Disadvantaged)
89% (Female)
90% (Male)
95% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
92% (Students without Disabilities)
90% (White)
The state average for grade 6 math was 62% in 2003.

Reading
89% (Total)
81% (African American)
86% (Economically Disadvantaged)
95% (Female)
84% (Male)
90% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
46% (Students with Disabilities)
93% (Students without Disabilities)
90% (White)
The state average for grade 6 reading was 74% in 2003

Grade 7

Language Arts
72% (Total)
59% (Economically Disadvantaged)
87% (Female)
53% (Male)
78% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
75% (Students without Disabilities)
74% (White)
The state average for grade 7 language arts was 52% in 2003.

Math
84% (Total)
78% (Economically Disadvantaged)
91% (Female)
75% (Male)
87% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
85% (Students without Disabilities)
85% (White)
The state average for grade 7 math was 54% in 2003.

Reading
84% (Total)
73% (Economically Disadvantaged)
83% (Female)
84% (Male)
88% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
85% (Students without Disabilities)
86% (White)
The state average for grade 7 reading was 63% in 2003

Grade 8

Language Arts
58% (Total)
59% (Economically Disadvantaged)
59% (Female)
56% (Male)
57% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
60% (Students without Disabilities)
56% (White)
The state average for grade 8 language arts was 53% in 2003.

Math
60% (Total)
62% (Economically Disadvantaged)
60% (Female)
59% (Male)
58% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
62% (Students without Disabilities)
60% (White)
The state average for grade 8 math was 48% in 2003.

Reading
59% (Total)
61% (Economically Disadvantaged)
65% (Female)
51% (Male)
58% (Not Economically Disadvantaged)
59% (Students without Disabilities)
60% (White)
The state average for grade 8 reading was 57% in 2003

Here is their stats:

% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch

This school State average
49% 62%

Students per teacher 15.2

Student Ethnicity

Ethnicity This School State Avg.

African American 10% 57%
American Indian 1% 1%
Asian 0% 1%
Hispanic 3% 1%
White 87% 40%

So in other words, any young men attending this school are up shit creek. Middle school is when young girls start to become women (read: bleed for 6 days straight and tear heads off people for no reason). Images of young men wearing "PMS" jackets while young girls get their "I GRADUATED P.M.S." bracelets. I would lower my head in shame every day that I would have to attend that school. Every damn day.

This is seriously one of the most bizarre movies that I've ever had the misfortune of watching twenty minutes of. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, it uses tons of stock footage from Star Wars spliced together with a story about Earth being protected by a shield made of human brains and nuclear weapons and...I don't know, it's crazy, and it has music ripped from Indiana Jones. It also has mummies. Yes. Mummies. I kid you not. All of the stock footage is edited and abused in the worst possible ways and the rest is so incredibly low budget and insane that's it's hilarious. These people couldn't even afford lasor beams and all their own effects consists of horribly drawn matte-paintings and robots made out cardboard boxes. But, despite that...everyone should watch it at least one, because it's so bad that it's funny.

Quote:TOKYO, April 6 (Reuters) - Japanese videogame maker Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday raised its net profit forecast by 17 percent on foreign exchange gains and said it would pay a record270 yen dividend for the year just ended.

Nintendo, known for game characters such as Mario, Donkey Kong and Pokemon, said it nearly doubled its dividend payment because it now expected to post a net profit of 82 billion yen ($757.4 million) in the year ended in March, compared with its previous forecast of 70 billion yen.

Quote:The story will be much the same at Nintendo, which is expected to highlight new games for the DS, along with the highly anticipated "Legend of Zelda" for the GameCube. The company will, however, give the first details on its next generation home system, currently code-named "Revolution". As with Sony, though, don't expect to know all of the answers. <!--startclickprintexclude--><!--endclickprintexclude--> "This year's E3 is not Revolution's coming out party," Reggie Fils-Aime, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Nintendo of America told me last month.

From Nintendojo:

Quote:New Demasked & Warp Pipe Info Our contact over at Warp Pipe gave us a "heads up" a couple days ago, notifying Nintendojo that their new corporate site is online, with a couple previously unreleased tidbits about their Demasked venture. As well, though we couldn't publicly state so before, a recent newsletter to the site's subscribers has confirmed that the team will no longer support their original GameCube tunneling project, "Warp Pipe", which allowed LAN-enabled GameCube games to be played "online". From this point onward, Warp Pipe refers to the company alias in general. Here are the full transcripts from both the recently relaunched site and aforementioned newsletter.

This is either one hell of an April Fool's joke or I don't know what to think.

From The Tool Page:

Quote: [04/01/05] - Completely unexpected

I have no idea how to introduce this, so I'll just post it. This is an email Maynard (the real one) sent in moments ago:
[indent] "hi, kabir. i thought it only fair to inform you first, before you hear it second or third hand. some recent events have led me to the rediscovery of jesus. tool will need to take the back seat. this may come as a shock. i just thought you should know considering all the support you given us over the years. all my faith. maynard."

[/indent]This is an actual email from actual MJK. I was going to type up a post about how the RIAA had sent us a letter shutting down The Tool Page (as this year's annual April Fools' Day joke), but now I just don't think it seems appropriate. More on this as it develops. [size=3]§[/size]

Quote:

Has Maynard James Keenan, the frontman of both the dark, heavy-metal art band Tool and the somewhat lighter A Perfect Circle, found Jesus and been born again? Well ...

Recent postings on two Tool Web sites — one of them purportedly by

Keenan himself — contend that the singer has found religion and has left Tool. Could this really be? On Tuesday afternoon (April 5), MTV News' Kurt Loder e-mailed Keenan for confirmation, and this is what he e-mailed back: "I did, in fact, find Jesus. More news to follow. God bless ya."

Keenan's letter to fan site toolshed.down.net explains that "some recent events have led me to the rediscovery of Jesus" and that "Tool will need to take the back seat." A posting on Tool's Web site alludes to Maynard's newfound Christianity as well, but who wrote the post is unclear. It reads, "I went to the studio to give Maynard a bottle of wine ... [and] not only wasn't Maynard there, but ... I was told Maynard has indeed 'found Jesus' and that, for this reason, he's abandoned the project for the time being, if not entirely."

But given their timing (one dated March 31, the other April 1), both posts were dismissed as April Fools' pranks, leaving fans wondering whether Keenan and the rest of Tool were just having a little fun with everyone.

The band's management could not be reached for comment or confirmation on the matter.

I gots a new apartment! we're all moved in, but now the unpacking nightmare begins. I see an ocean of boxes with mismatched contents whispering my name in a thousand hues of ass. But the good news is, the computers are online, God's TV is up and running (no suround sound yet) and I just had a sandwich! Now... if I could just get someone to unpack for me... oh and I get free cable! Reality TV a go-go, baby in 16x9 HDnessity! I drank coffee this morning and watched CNN and cartoons at the same time. It sound like this:

The pope's body is now I will crush Smurf Village! Iraq today, where it looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!!! In finacial news, PAPA SMURF ALWAYS SAYS *gets thrown out of the village* global economics taking a downward rooby rack? tehe hehe hehe he! I dunno, scoob... it looks dark in there, oh man! expect a low of 78 tonight with a 75% chance of USE RAZOR LEAF!!!!! in entertainment news, who's that pokemon? and Jennifer Aniston are calling it quits MUCHA LUCHA, MUCHALUCHA, MUCHA LUCHA, MUCHALUCHA drops to 9 this weekend

you get the idea

Perry Bible Fellowship

I found this flashgame on Fark and it's pretty cool. You go down a corridor grabbing powerups and shooting albino, midget vampire things. So play it!

http://www.gskinner.com/games/puki/

My highscore: