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I Finally Beat Tales of Vesperia

September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tales of Vesperia Yuri and Estelle

A few weeks ago, I beat Tales of Vesperia but got busy so I didn't get it up here on the site.  It is one of my favorite games since Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger. That says something, given that it's been almost 15 years since those two titles were released.  I didn't realize that the Tales of Vesperia game had smashed the release date unit sales record in Japan so, yeah, over here in the United States I was a bit behind the times in grasping how huge of a deal this game was. I … [Read more...]

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The Reason the Video Game Industry Is Bigger Than Hollywood

September 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
Tales of Vesperia

Tales of Vesperia continues to rock my world.  I played for several hours again today after reading wealth reports and working on the upcoming About.com content I've been writing this week (I tend to publish the good stuff over there in big batches because I like for it all to work together and be cohesive).  The rest of my week is going to be consumed by preparing for a Board of Directors meeting with my sporting good company, which will probably be held in Kansas City or Houston, I haven't … [Read more...]

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Why the iPhone Will Continue to Dominate the Smart Phone Market Even if It Doesn’t Have the Biggest Screen or Fastest Processor

July 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
iPhone Versus Other Smart Phones

It All Comes Down to the Existing Investment Consumers Have Made in their iTunes Library of Music, Movies, Games, Apps, and Television Shows It seems that a handful of tech folks and business bloggers - and, in fact, even my own brother - don't seem to understand that the reason people choose the iPhone over other smart phones, even if those other smart phones have bigger screens, more memory, and non-restricted applications, is because tens of millions of consumers now have a vested … [Read more...]

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The View From My Window …

April 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
The View from My Window

This is the view from my bedroom window when I wake up in the morning ... I normally have a cup of black coffee and read.  I normally stay there for a few hours before getting up and starting my day.  That way, I have the reading (sometimes books, sometimes stock reports, or sometimes a finance article I am going to publish) out of the way so I can spend the rest of my time doing whatever sounds enjoyable ... sometimes, that includes writing for 18 more hours or building spreadsheets of … [Read more...]

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The Success of the iPad Will Come Down to App Development

April 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
The iBook Store in iPad

Five days or so into my experience with the iPad and it continues to exceed expectations (by far). I've spent somewhere between $120 and $150 in the Apple iTunes App store, which compared to my previous purchases of apps (read: $0), means there is more cash flowing into Steve Jobs' coffers. The overwhelming indication continues to be that the success of the iPad will come down to the applications that software companies develop for it. We bought our iPads for business purposes. As an … [Read more...]

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It Was an Amazingly Productive Day

March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

We are having an amazingly productive day.  Thus far, we have: Paid a ton of bills for one of the businesses. Submitted the final tax documents to the accounting firm that handles our business and personal filings. Had lunch / dinner at Panera Bread with Aaron. Went to Michael's and got a bunch of our Carl Barks rare lithographs framed for 50% off! Went on a book run to Borders to pick up a bunch of business, psychology, and biography books. Spent a few hours talking politics with … [Read more...]

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I Beat Final Fantasy XIII Tonight

March 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Barthandelus Final Fantasy XIII

Don't worry - I'm not going to give away any spoilers (or the images of the final bosses other than the one everyone has already seen), but suffice it to say, I owned Final Fantasy XIII tonight.  I took a break from going over the insurance policy renewals for the businesses, which are due soon, and reviewing some of our year-end dividend tax reports from the brokerage firms before sending them to our (amazing) accounting firm.  I kept saying, "I'm only going to play for a few more … [Read more...]

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First Impressions of Final Fantasy XIII

March 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Playing Final Fantasy 13 with the Final Fantasy 13 Hardback Collector's Edition Players Guide

I've played Final Fantasy 13 for roughly five or six hours now and it's starting to get good.  The only concern I have is that it is feeling really linear.  Part of the magic of the franchise is being able to take 20 hours and go do side quests, level up and get hidden summons, etc.  I hope they haven't taken that out because it took far too long to get this title on the market and after the utterly forgettable Final Fantasy XII, it would mean that Square-Enix is nothing compared to what it … [Read more...]

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Started Final Fantasy XI on XBOX 360

October 22, 2009 By 2 Comments

Following several attempts to get into the game when it was first launched in 2004 and later, around 2006, I finally began seriously playing Final Fantasy XI about a week ago after beating Blue Dragon.  I'm on the Alexander server and have been building my character as a Black Mage.  So far, I've soloed on my own in the Windurst area and I'm about to hit Level 19.  It's time to get into some plot but I wanted my character to be strong enough to enjoy myself when playing.  Aaron's been … [Read more...]

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Mistwalker Studios Might Just Eclipse Square Enix

August 15, 2009 By 1 Comment
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For a long time, I wanted to be a video game programmer.  When I was still in elementary school, I saved up the $200 or so dollars for an entry-level version of Microsoft Visual Basic, went to trade shows to buy software on 5"+ floppy disks, and worked on creating my own version of the original Legend of Zelda in Microsoft Basic.  At some point, however, my obsession with finance overcame everything and the idea of sitting in a skyscraper, reading stock reports, and compounding money for the … [Read more...]

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