2010-03-10 02:00 UTC by Desire Campbell
So Rock Band 3 announced for end-of-year, some predictions:
- Basic stuff: slightly updated instruments, importing songs from RB1 and RB2.
- Mainly updates from Beatles RB: harmonies, pause countdown, etc.
- What I’m most interested in is a closer integration with Rock Bank Network. Back when Guitar Hero World Tour came out with a music creator as its big selling point, Harmonix responded that it wasn’t good enough to include in Rock Bank, not until they had improved the mechanics presented in GHWT. That RB3 is announced on the heels of RBN going public is probably not a coincidence.
- I hope for better character creation stuff. Better Body modification, more/different clothes.
- No Beatles RB song imports. It won’t happen.
- No stringed guitar controller. No matter what rumours you’ve heard, it’s to fundamental a change and too difficult to keep simple.-edit: Apparently it’s not that hard.
Also, listening to Anthony Burch’s UC Berkly talk about character development and player identity. Awesome stuff. I may not have mentioned Burch before – he is a fantastic, cleaver man. Check him out.
And, if you’re in the Ottawa area, my friend Matt has a band. I think they’re great. You should check them out.
Tags: Anthony Burch, HAWP, kids+cars, rock band, Video Gaming
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2010-03-05 16:16 UTC by Desire Campbell
Back in the mid-90s Buck 65 hosted a radio show about underground and b-side hiphop. DJ Moves is digitizing some old tapes of it, you can grab almost a dozen from his website. [Via Skratch Bastid]
Tags: Basement, Buck 65, Halifax, Music, radio
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2010-01-03 21:54 UTC by Desire Campbell
You should all know Hillary by now, and she’s started her own proper blog. For your consideration: the sword in the stone and fascist ants.

Tags: blog, book, Hillary, World of Pretention
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2010-01-02 22:17 UTC by Hillary
This year, for the first time, I tracked what I read this year. If you’re interested, here are the results: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blog, book, Hillary, World of Pretention
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2009-01-03 04:24 UTC by Desire Campbell
Hey! It’s released! [TokyoToshokan page]
Also, Hillary just taught me to knit in five minutes.
Tags: fansub, kanzentai, knitting, project
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2008-10-21 12:26 UTC by Desire Campbell
@ http://www.kanzentai.com/
As some of you may know, Daizenshuu EX (another awesome DragonBall site) typically releases a DragonBall podcast every week. However, due to a certain marriage that took place yesterday between two of the shows hosts (Michael “VegettoEX” LaBrie & Meredith “Meri” Cantoni), no episode is being released this week. So, to honor these giants of the DragonBall fandom world, and as a special geeky present, Desire Campbell, Herms, and myself (Hujio) got together and recorded a little Daizenshuu EX “Secret Wedding” podcast of our own! We had an absolute blast doing it; in fact we recorded for well over four hours, but had only an hour worth of actual material to show for it since we quickly learned that none of us could stay on topic.
Well, it’s funny how these things sometimes don’t always work out exactly the way you wanted them to. We had originally planned to release this yesterday (Sunday), but the dreaded podcast curse snuck up on us. While editing the podcast, the program started crashing, and then it wouldn’t save anything. Desire was “elated” (read:sarcastic) to find out that over two hours of work he had done was lost! Now I am partially to blame for bringing this curse upon us, as I “accidentally” mentioned the live-action movie while we were recording. Apparently, the “DragonBall Gods” don’t want anyone to speak of it, and those that do must pay the price. Anyway, the Daizenshuu EX “Secret Wedding” podcast is finally available for download here, or you can listen to it over at Kanzentai. Enjoy!
Tags: daizenshuu, DaizEX, Dragon Ball, ex, herms, hujio, kanzentai, meri, mike, Podcast, secret, VegettoEX, wedding
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2008-09-23 00:51 UTC by Desire Campbell
Ha, Kam’s doing a live show. Check it out.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kahmzshow
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