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Feb. 14th, 2010 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedMom asked me yesterday whether or not I asked whether the Eon Ticket card was actually packaged with the magazines that I bought. I looked at the item description, and it turned out that the item was misrepresented. The auction title said that volume 173 contained the Eon Ticket itself, not instructions on how to download it and find it within the game. Mom instructed me to complain to the seller about it, and the seller offered to buy them back for a full refund.
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I started reading this book that Mom recently got me, called Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me). The whole point of the book is reasons why people tend to deny that they made a mistake and try to rationalize said mistakes, even though many of us teach others to take responsibility for their errors. There is just too much stuff to compare this to, but one thing unrelated did grab my attention. Namely, the name Ingrid Bergman, when someone asked which choice she would have regretted when she decided to go back to America to help her husband or stay in Morocco with someone else towards the end of the movie Casablanca. The answer is that either choice would have made her happy, because she would have found reasons why it was the better choice while ignoring the downside of the choice she made.
But anyway, this is the second time recently that I've recognized a name from somewhere. Ingrid Bergman was Saga's mother in A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, which takes place in Germany. In that series, she was a piano player who had died in a car accident. However, according to Wikipedia, the real Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish Actress who died of breast cancer in 1982.
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James Rolfe recently showed us quotes from this movie called American Movie, which he based certain AVGN quotes on since it's one of his all-time favorite movies.
http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/02/10/american-movie-quotes-referenced-by-avgn-2/
I watched the video just yesterday, and with that said, I think this would be a good time to link to some stuff that I showed Mom and Brian two years ago, after Jake questioned me about thinking I'm a nerd like Rolfe.
1) http://dmxrated.livejournal.com/139543.html#cutid1
This is where I one time spoke of the Makendou series and some trivia about it, such as Mai's hair color and the differences between the first game and its American counterpart Kendo Rage. The third site linked to does not exist anymore, but it's the reason I once mistakenly referred to Mai as Hikari when I was writing SMW2: Yoshi's Island rewritten.
(Oh, and it was confirmed later on that Mai's outfit was different in the third game than in the other two games and the OAV.)
http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Chronologically-Confused-about-Titles
What I compared that entry to was the Nerd's description of the Rambo movie series, at 6:26. Similar to how the first game in the Makendou series was re-titled "Kendo Rage" upon U.S. release, the first movie in the series was titled "First Blood", and some more stuff happens.
That's all I showed Mom and Brian two years ago in that video, but also noteworthy of it is 4:21, where Rolfe states that if movie producers continue to create non-numbered movies, future generations are gonna look back and wonder what order each film came in. On a similar note, until I watched the ever-hard-to-find Makendou OAV, I thought that it had taken place between the second and third games, but then learned that it had actually occurred between the first and second games. That's what comes with failing to number franchise installments.
2) http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Chronologically-Confused-about-Titles
This is where I copied a VGMusic forum thread where I brought up the topic of anime-style games that never made it to the United States, and mini-reviewed some which I played as ROMs during the summer of 2003. (All of them are Super Famicom games that I played on SNES9X, though one of them is actually a hack of a certain puzzle game originally designed for the Sega Genesis.)
http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Sega-CD
The fuckin' Nerd's review for the Sega CD, which mainly consists of mini-reviews for a whole bunch of its games.
3) http://dmxrated.livejournal.com/2008/01/03/
Three paragraphs below the lj-cut, I explained the differences between the PC Engine (known here as the TurboGrafx-16) and the PC-FX.
http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Sega-32X (1:50)
The Nerd explains what the Sega 32X does when attached to the Genesis.
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Lost that first Ebay auction for the Eon Ticket e-card last night. Now I have to bid on one that will end at 11:00 PM tonight, and has already reached $10 last time I checked. If I lose that one, I'll probably have to buy a buy-it-now one which will cost around $60. Good thing I've been given a chance to refund my magazines, although I'd already be done with it if the card was actually inside one of the magazines. I also hope that GameStop will accept the e-Reader that comes with the card for store credit (if I even win the auction ending tonight), since I'm already getting one of those.
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I started reading this book that Mom recently got me, called Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me). The whole point of the book is reasons why people tend to deny that they made a mistake and try to rationalize said mistakes, even though many of us teach others to take responsibility for their errors. There is just too much stuff to compare this to, but one thing unrelated did grab my attention. Namely, the name Ingrid Bergman, when someone asked which choice she would have regretted when she decided to go back to America to help her husband or stay in Morocco with someone else towards the end of the movie Casablanca. The answer is that either choice would have made her happy, because she would have found reasons why it was the better choice while ignoring the downside of the choice she made.
But anyway, this is the second time recently that I've recognized a name from somewhere. Ingrid Bergman was Saga's mother in A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, which takes place in Germany. In that series, she was a piano player who had died in a car accident. However, according to Wikipedia, the real Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish Actress who died of breast cancer in 1982.
-----
James Rolfe recently showed us quotes from this movie called American Movie, which he based certain AVGN quotes on since it's one of his all-time favorite movies.
http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/02/10/american-movie-quotes-referenced-by-avgn-2/
I watched the video just yesterday, and with that said, I think this would be a good time to link to some stuff that I showed Mom and Brian two years ago, after Jake questioned me about thinking I'm a nerd like Rolfe.
1) http://dmxrated.livejournal.com/139543.html#cutid1
This is where I one time spoke of the Makendou series and some trivia about it, such as Mai's hair color and the differences between the first game and its American counterpart Kendo Rage. The third site linked to does not exist anymore, but it's the reason I once mistakenly referred to Mai as Hikari when I was writing SMW2: Yoshi's Island rewritten.
(Oh, and it was confirmed later on that Mai's outfit was different in the third game than in the other two games and the OAV.)
http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Chronologically-Confused-about-Titles
What I compared that entry to was the Nerd's description of the Rambo movie series, at 6:26. Similar to how the first game in the Makendou series was re-titled "Kendo Rage" upon U.S. release, the first movie in the series was titled "First Blood", and some more stuff happens.
That's all I showed Mom and Brian two years ago in that video, but also noteworthy of it is 4:21, where Rolfe states that if movie producers continue to create non-numbered movies, future generations are gonna look back and wonder what order each film came in. On a similar note, until I watched the ever-hard-to-find Makendou OAV, I thought that it had taken place between the second and third games, but then learned that it had actually occurred between the first and second games. That's what comes with failing to number franchise installments.
2) http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Chronologically-Confused-about-Titles
This is where I copied a VGMusic forum thread where I brought up the topic of anime-style games that never made it to the United States, and mini-reviewed some which I played as ROMs during the summer of 2003. (All of them are Super Famicom games that I played on SNES9X, though one of them is actually a hack of a certain puzzle game originally designed for the Sega Genesis.)
http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Sega-CD
The fuckin' Nerd's review for the Sega CD, which mainly consists of mini-reviews for a whole bunch of its games.
3) http://dmxrated.livejournal.com/2008/01/03/
Three paragraphs below the lj-cut, I explained the differences between the PC Engine (known here as the TurboGrafx-16) and the PC-FX.
http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Sega-32X (1:50)
The Nerd explains what the Sega 32X does when attached to the Genesis.
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Lost that first Ebay auction for the Eon Ticket e-card last night. Now I have to bid on one that will end at 11:00 PM tonight, and has already reached $10 last time I checked. If I lose that one, I'll probably have to buy a buy-it-now one which will cost around $60. Good thing I've been given a chance to refund my magazines, although I'd already be done with it if the card was actually inside one of the magazines. I also hope that GameStop will accept the e-Reader that comes with the card for store credit (if I even win the auction ending tonight), since I'm already getting one of those.