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Spatula Clarke
17:21 / 05.12.07
I know we had a thread somewhere around here for posting up the most recent happy-making crap that you'd bought, but I can't find it and am a lazy bastard.

I am also, as is about to be shown, a shallow bastard.

Our own lovely grant halped me to get hold of this little beauty by being the stand-up kind of guy he is and ordering it for me, getting it sent to his house and then sending it on to me himself. Lovely grant. And it had arrived here when I got home from work tonight.

It is, for those wondering, a limited edition release of a Korean music game for the PSP. I will now explode this page with a picture frenzy.

The box (huge, weighs a ton):



Open up the magnetic (!) flap. Inside:



Underneath the presentation paper thang:



That photo's not come out too well. What you're looking at there are a beautiful card DVD case (the text is all slightly different coloured shades of black and looks fantastic in certain lights), held closed with an elasticy cotton band thing with a metal clasp at the end, the game box itself (with a holographic pattern effect missing from the regular release - you can just about make it out on the pic) and a big box containing a jigsaw puzzle.

Inside the DVD case:



Three soundtrack CDs - two regular, one containing remixes. The two DJ MAX Portable games contain the greatest soundtracks ever, as far as I'm concerned, and this was the main reason I was so desperate to get hold of this package - I'll most likey take copies and chuck them your way, g. Korean pop and hip-hop stuff, which is all massively tastytasty and seems to mix up the widest range of influences and genres possible, yet still manages to sound fantastic (there's also some dead interesting stuff going on with rhythm in some of the hip hop tracks). If this is what the charts sound like over there, I think it might be time to emigrate.

The book fixed into the first flap contains:



.. artwork, lyrics and other info on the music.

Inside the jigsaw puzzle box (which is also opened by a magnetic [!] flap):



The jigsaw puzzle itself, a load of great art cards and a super-high quality (the paper's got this really thick plastic quality to it) poster.

And that's it. But hang on:



What's this hidden underneath the DVD case/game box containing unit?













It's only a gorgeous art/lyrics book, including a load of design sketches.

This, friends, is possibly the greatest videogame limited edition ever. Now I just need to find a copy of the one for the first game...
 
 
Lama glama
17:31 / 05.12.07
That's lush. Most special edition games just come in a crappy tin box, maybe with some post-cards, but that's obscenely ornate, isn't it?
 
 
Essential Dazzler
17:31 / 05.12.07
Bloody hell.

That's incredible.
 
 
grant
17:41 / 05.12.07
I couldn't understand how a videogame could weigh so much... man, that's like Christmas, it is.

Glad to send it along.
 
 
Spaniel
17:47 / 05.12.07
Mighty.

Packed with stuff in a Black Dossier stylee.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:51 / 05.12.07
That's just...

...wow.

Fucking WOW. (As opposed to WoW, which, much as I love it, isn't really known for its sumptuous packaging).
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:34 / 05.12.07
Yes - sumptuous is exactly the word.

Most special edition games just come in a crappy tin box, maybe with some post-cards, but that's obscenely ornate, isn't it?

Welcome to the world of importing. Admittedly, this one's a special case, but limited eds of Japanese releases are often hugely desirable. Metal Gear Solid 3, for example, came complete with a model of the big robot menace from the game in a box that was designed to look totally 1960s toytastic.



How cool?

Even smaller, more niche releases get the special treatment - my LE copy of the Cave shmup Mushihimesama came with this and anybody buying a copy of the just-released R-Type Tactics got a super little snap-together model of the classic R-9A ship. Both of which shame the fucking horrible, shit-smelling and terribly modeled and painted Big Daddy that formed part of the Bioshock Collectors' Edition.

First time I've ever bought a properly-packaged, commercially-released Korean game, tho. Given how seriously videogames are apparently taken in the region, I'm wondering if this is a rarity or if loads of their games get this kind of treatment.
 
 
This Sunday
23:42 / 05.12.07
Unexpected holiday-type bonus FTW! No more dumpsters for pretty Anna!

It came with a clause of 'we can't tell you to do more work, but we hope...' but, really, I like the project, so I'd probably do a bit more work than usual, just because. Which they don't need to know, seeing as how thinking otherwise netted me some cash.
 
 
Proinsias
01:14 / 06.12.07
I have a wooden dummy!


I think this may be a present from above as it is the tenth anniversary of me desiring one.

I nearly bought a shitty one for two hundred quid and then found someone selling this, never used, five hundred quider, for two hundred.

Then I found out my kung fu instructor wanted to buy it, I beat him to it, and I felt even more joy hitting it.

The next day Iamus messages me and tells me his kung fu instructor, who I studied under briefly, was on his way to pick up a dummy and someone took it from under his nose.

I am deriving joy from the loss of others and feel no shame.

(the leg will be attached when I arrive in my new house next week, with the help of a blacksmith who owes me ( specifically my brother in-law) a favour.

I have a happy!
 
 
Bear
01:32 / 06.12.07
Sweep the Legs!

Thats really cool.
 
 
Proinsias
01:54 / 06.12.07
New idea!

I always thought 'break the legs'

Cheers
 
 
Essential Dazzler
12:38 / 06.12.07
YUUUUSSSSSS!

Fianlly, after another 5 hour session in front of a mac, my Flash project is done.

*Fistpump*
 
 
iamus
15:33 / 06.12.07
*Fistpump*

You had a wank to celebrate?
 
 
Essential Dazzler
15:47 / 06.12.07
Is there a better way?
 
 
iamus
16:01 / 06.12.07
Not that I can think of...
 
 
iamus
19:48 / 06.12.07
...offhand.
 
 
iamus
22:05 / 06.12.07
BOO-BOOM, TSCH!
 
 
petunia
23:15 / 06.12.07
^
|

THAT just gave me a happy.

The gaps of multiple hours between each post make it for me.
 
 
Triplets
23:26 / 06.12.07
He's like a comedy glacier.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:27 / 06.12.07
I actually liked Beowulf. "I'm heah ter kiww yer monstah!" gives me a happy.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
23:31 / 06.12.07
It's like everyone on Barbelith stopped having a happy, just to give iamus the room he needed to shine.
 
 
iamus
01:58 / 07.12.07
It's all in the...
 
 
HCE
02:15 / 07.12.07
(wait for it)
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:29 / 07.12.07
(wait)
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:35 / 07.12.07
I see you shiver with antici...
 
 
Axolotl
14:45 / 07.12.07
Sorry to bust up the slow comedy stylings, but positive interview feedback = teh happy. This is probably counting my chickens before they've hatched but maybe I won't be forced into the poorhouse over Christmas.
 
 
petunia
15:25 / 07.12.07
I work in the planning department at my job in a call centre - I arrange people's schedules, sort out their holidays, extra hours etc etc.

I got told by one of the call centre agents that 'everyone's been saying you're the nicest one in planning'. This made me happy.

I can remeber how shit it was trying to get time off or sort out shift changes to be told 'nope.'

It's a bit silly really, but it makes me happy that I get to be the person that people want to ask for help or favours. It seems pretty natural to me to try to accomodate people's time requirements (as opposed to my boss's rather stern 'well I don't get time off for Christian holidays' when asked if someone can get Eid off...) and... aww.. you know...

Just happy.

It's the small things, innit?
 
 
Triplets
17:21 / 07.12.07
You rock, petunia. I wish we had one of you in every company.

Glad to hear things are looking better, Axo. Gills up!
 
 
Lama glama
18:09 / 07.12.07
This video featuring the song from the end of Portal by the wonderful Scott Ramsoomair (VGCats) is currently giving me a happy. Didn't the song give another 'lither a big happy recently too? Think it might have been Stoatie.
 
 
Feverfew
18:13 / 07.12.07
Twas Stoatie. And because of that, the Happy was passed down to me, for it is a happy-making thing.
 
 
Dead Megatron
18:19 / 07.12.07
I actually liked Beowulf. "I'm heah ter kiww yer monstah!" gives me a happy.

Me too! Did you watch it in 3D? I would have found it bettah if they didn't go all Austins Powers with Naked Beowulf and Grendel was a little less simpathy-"inducingly" pathetic, but the Golden Dragon in the end was, wow!, the stuff of dreams...
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
18:03 / 09.12.07
Writing with sloppy ballpoint pen in my moleskine before work makes me happy, particularly when I get to spend some time on the couple in the taxicab to get their story going a bit. The library is absolutely quiet with nobody in here yet, and I've done the major opening stuff early to give myself a few minutes to write before people start to arrive.
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
18:33 / 11.12.07
Cross-posted from a thread in FTVT that has given me great pleasure this year, the best news for disillusioned patriots EVAH.



The Norwegian designer, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he intended the flag to represent the union of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in a modern, cool light.

The dragon itself was inspired by a Japanese anime television series.

"It represents shouting "UNION!" and joining together; kicking reason to the curb and doing the impossible; fighting the power, and piercing the heavens," he said

And what impact does he think the new flag would have on foreigners like himself?

"That the UK is awesome. I just hope they don't think it's a pirate flag.

"Actually, if this design is rejected as a common flag perhaps the Crown might file it for future use as a privateer ensign on the high seas or in outer space."


I have the biggest fucking grin on my fat weeaboo face right about now.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:57 / 11.12.07
Actually, Megs, Grendel's pathos was one of the things I liked about the film. Always did feel a bit sorry for Grendel.
 
 
grant
19:11 / 11.12.07
You should see the Canadian/Icelandic Beowulf & Grendel, then. Sarah Polley is in it. You weep for Grendel.

And it has a Real Viking Ship in it, sailing around the Icelandic coast and when you see it, you grunt and squee in approval, for it is brave and good.
 
  

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