Swag Sunday: Resonance of Fate (360) [update]

Powering up the ol' N64 with Super mario 64 sticking out. It was unlike anything I had seen before. It was, however, pretty confusing for a 6-year old. When it was my turn (5 brothers), I instinctively perched my left hand on the d-pad. After my futile efforts to move Mario, I proceded to cry: I thought I broke it, and feared the wrath of my two older siblings. After five tear and snot-filled minutes, I learned about the new-fangled joystick, and become one happy camper (for my limited 15 minutes, anyway!).

Watching that video from Resonance of Fate with the jiggling boobies. I haven't been the same since.

one time, as a kid, i was climbing on the basketball goal in our backyard and i fell. my foot was caught in the net and i hung there upside down for a while before my grandpa came outside an cut me down. i pulled a bunch of tendons and stuff in my ankle.

When I was 9, I played R-Type on the Turbo Grafx-16. Obviously, that game was extremely difficult so I taped the fire button on turbo and with one hand for controlling and one hand for the pause button. Even with instant slow-mow cheating, i needed the credit cheat and the whole summer just to beat that game. I don't know if the game was that hard or i was that bad at shmups. =P

I once almost drowned in a swimming pool when I was 5 and my cousin saved me.

The Christmas I got Goldeneye 64. It was such an incredible moment, it made my mom an even better hero

The day the 360 added usb memory support.

When I was younger, I wasn't allowed to buy a slingshot from the store. I attempted to make my own out of a piece of wood I found in a "Y-shape". I also used this rubber tubing stuff and was ready to fire away. I loaded it with a rock, aimed it my parents house and... The slingshot broke on my first attempt, piece of wood snapped off and whacked me in the face, it hurt.

Last Wednesday I had my first child, Leon Fenix. Leon from final fantasy 8 because she wouldn't let me name him squall and Fenix from Gears of War, both of my favorite video game characters. We both love video games and we met each other because of Gears of War.

Meeting Van Halen back in the mid-80's and getting to escort Michael Anthony from the front of the hotel to the tour bus. It was about 15 feet and the coolest moment of my young teenage life. He was very cool!!

September ninth, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six. I was a freshman, attending my first football game as a member of the student band. In the pre-game show, our marching band spells out the name of out mascot; to do this, we charge onto the field in six distinct groups, each of which will become a letter, then when time comes we disperse and run to our spot.

I was to stand at the bottom of the "O," second from the left from the crowd's perspective; just in between the 22 and 23 yard line. It had rained earlier in the afternoon, thus the field was somewhat slick. As I am lunging towards my spot I lose traction, and slide kick the poor flute player beside me, who also comes tumbling down. Right in front of the student section.

i ran over a squirrel once....
my fate is sealed :(

Grade 10 French class. My friends and I did a puppet show called Morman Man: The Superhero.

Well, there was this one time I got the chance to enter a contest to win a game.

I blew up my right hand with a dancing devil firecracker and had to have it bandaged for 3 weeks.

last week i met a girl that thought philadelphia was in new jersey. then i met her family that thought philadelphia was in philadelphia and it wasn't any more detailed than that.

I fell out of a moving golf cart once, it hurt but was also quite funny

I remember April 21, 1999. no particular reason.

I started playing covers of video game songs after hearing the minibosses

I drove a quad up a hill, but didn't go fast enough, so it flipped over on me. It was dangerous, but funny!

A couple years back I did a short historical piece on Nankin Mills in the Metro Detroit area. Since this piece was a homework assignment, I must've spent 40+ hours shooting it, editing it, and doing touch ups. I had the opportunity to send it to the Detroit Chapter of NATAS for the student section of the Michigan Emmy's. Well, they held their nomination dinner in Royal oak and I reluctantly didn't go, but later in that evening I found out that I was nominated....The kicker was that I was the only one that actually passed the nomination process (among other universities in Michigan) which means I won an Emmy...

It was an amazing feeling to actually be around local news/television personalities and actually be announced by two sports broadcasters on Fox Sports Detroit (HUUUGEEE Sports fan) . Not only was that amazing, but also having the opportunity to do a Thank-You speech in front of all these people. :)

Funny and memorable thing I remember was when me, my brother and one of my best friends went to this restaurant for dinner; asked for the bill and paid and stuff... before we left (this place has crayons at the table) my friend grabbed a blue crayon and drew a penis on the bill (not the back of it, the FRONT). While we were walking to the car, my friend said "The waitress is probably saying 'THOSE COCKY BASTARDS'"

Ghost in The Shell, enough said.

Ummm... when I won this contest!

First time on a plane. Was so excited.

When I was 6 or 7 my dad used to take me to school on his triumph. One day I decided to feel the exhaust with the back of my hand. I got burned of course and its still there over 20years later but it made me respect bikes. Now for some reason I live bikes too, never had a car.

I bought the 2008 Turok game thinking it would be like Turok: Evolution :(

Goldfishes have a longer memory than me.

The birth of my two daughters.

While in dental school a friend of mine started working on a patient of mine that was a child, when I got to my chair I hear the kid screaming since they took out his tooth without ANESTHESIA!

In the 6th grade, this kid told me you get mono from eating dog poop. Then in the 11th grade he said he had mono and I asked him why he was eating poop. Judging by the beating afterward he did not remember that conversation.

Getting to see They Might Be Giants in concert.

I was walking down the soda/snacks aisle at a local Safeway one day and decided to flick a dime all the way down the aisle to hit my friend in the back.

It was the kind of throw where you squeeze the coin between you thumb and ring finger and then snap...anyway...I flicked the dime and it veered to the right, hit a can of soda and it exploded on impact....craziest thing I've ever had happen to me

Band Camp

What resonates with me is a chance to win this sweet game

I won a dynamo-powered radio out of the "Lights Out" arcade game. My friend saw me trying to concentrate and hit the button. Technically HE may have won the thing, but it was my dollar, so I kept it.

One story that always gets told now and again is about the time I broke both arms during gym class, from running exercises, going backwards, then having the guy after me trip as I lay there in agonizing pain. :D

I once swam across a freezing mountain lake for a slice of lemon pie.

One time, my fiancee threw up on her cat.

The day I discovered Bacon Salt.

Wait... what is this "life" you're talking about? Where do I get one of those?

All my memories are of TV shows and video games.

Back in college, my roommate Dan had his sister over to experience the college party scene. They got home at about 3am. I was already in bed. Later that night, I heard the words "DAN, WHAT THE **** ARE YOU DOING!?!!" That caused me to open my eyes to see my clock showing exactly 5am.

And then I felt warm....

I look up, and there's Dan, big stupid smile on his face, peeing on my bed. Since I was in a state of complete disbelief, I calmly remarked, "Dan...you're peeing on me."

He smiled and said, "YEAAAH!"

At this point I was evaluating my options. I was in a very good position to punch him; however, this came with the unfortunate side effect of the highly probable situation of him peeing everywhere. This "everywhere" included my face and my computer, and I'm not entirely sure which I'd be more upset about.

That said, after what seemed like an eternity of pee, he calmly went back to sleep as his sister looked at me like a deer caught in headlights. That's when I realized it would be kinda low of me to beat a drunk man to death in front of his sister, so I spent the rest of the morning rotating between the shower and the laundry room. When I got back to the room from my 8am class, I opened the door to find Dan well hung over as his sister explained what happened. And that's when I said the words,

"You and I are never speaking of this again.....and you owe me big time."

Reliving my youth through my son. He is a HUGE Star Wars and Batman fan (thank you Lego games) and I am loving talking with him about every little detail of these worlds.

I once found a big stack of pokemon cards in my desk in grade 4, so I kept them. But then I was caught and gave them all back. But the kid who owned them was nice enough to give me a Rattata... my first pokemon card!

So this one time I went to go down the slide in my backyard as a kid, my uncle was egging me on to go head first. Little did I realize as I started to descend was that he throw an entire backyards worth of dog crap at the bottom of the slide. Good ol Uncle Jack.

It would have to be the day Joysticq came into my life been checking in every day!

Working out at a local gym and at that time I was using my old v710 as my mp3 player. As I was on the treadmill my arm caught my headphone and my phone got zinged across the gym. I wanted to hide under a rock.

I was the best man at a wedding last night and I didn't cry.

One time I stayed up all night playing Goldeneye with a friend. The next day, I was barely coherent. My mom kept telling me to get on my bike and go pick something up from my grandma's, but I couldn't ever understand what she wanted me to do, so she finally got sick of it and made me go to bed.