Neon is my bitch

The day I got my Xbox 360, I remember looking around my crowded lounge at my friends that had come to be wowed by its incredible visuals and saying "wow.....looks pretty good eh...?" and receiving a more than limp "yeah.....pretty good" in response.

Granted my 50cm standard def didn't do to much more the reasonably weak looking Saints Row, but they were right. What was the game that made me believe? Geometry Wars Retro Evolved.

So now Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 is out and man, I believe again. Its back, and this time its an even more of a frenetic glowing vector neon aneurysm, bursting all over your 1080p panel (amount of Ps in your panel may differ than that described)

So what's new this time? MODES! Yes, that's right, modes. Each one of these is unique in its own way and really changes up the gameplay. This is SO welcome for a game that can and will savagely punish you. After a nerve wracking pummelling, you can now just have a crack at something a little different with a different play mechanic, and that's more welcome than Nathan Fillion at an "I'm fucking awesome" convention.

-Brother N-

iPhone resurrection.

It's been touted as the Jesus phone, and it has resurrected my poor dormant blog.

Hurrah!

It has been neglected of late, but I got plans for this sucker...

Back to the phone. My good friend B Money and I decided a while ago that this was the phone to get and after some work wangling and a face-splitting 4am wakeup, we managed to get one day one.

So what's so good about it? 'MY PHOEN HAZ GPS TOO!! ITZ NOT EVUN THAT GOOD!! NO RINGTONEZ LULZ' I hear the angry forum posts bubble. You know what? You're right. It does just do the same shit as every other smartphone (is that term outdated? It sounds outdated), it just does them better. And not even on a technical level, I'm talking on a purely superficial level.

Nothing is buried in menus, everything has big text, SMS works more like chat and on and on and on. Removing the shitty user interface barriers mean people actually using the stupid amount of features most mobile phones sport.

Is that a bad thing? Fuck no. I think use of your phone SHOULD focus on superficiality. Do you concentrate on your phone for hours on end? No, you get in, do a thing, and put it down again.

This thing is built for that style of use.

And thats before we even got to the cavalcade of applications we have coming out daily.

On the downside...I'm now compelled to Twitter my every ridiculous thought.

-Brother N