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Trigames.NET Podcast Ep. 104 - Gumball de Slunk

• 11Oct 08

  Anyone wanna multiplay Tenchu Shadow Assault with me?

  The good folks over at the Spot for Games assigned me Tenchu Shadow Assault (XBLA) for review, but it has a multiplayer mode too. Now, I -- at times -- detest online play. The reason is almost entirely due to the prospect of playing with people I don't know. But if you fine folk were willing to get online with me to try out this multiplayer mode, I'd owe you all sorts of cookies. Choco chip. Rainbow M&Ms. Terrible, rotten cookies. All kinds, like I said. So, please let me know. I'm plowing through the single player today, and since I have an Open House to administer, I might not have time to multiplay, but perhaps next Friday.
  
  • Posted Oct 11, 2008 9:57 pm PT
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• 8Oct 08

  Trigames.NET Ep. 109 Be Up.

  You know where it is. No blurb. Too tired. Had to study. Brain dead. Over 3 hours because we recorded without Al Saturday then he wanted to contribute so we did another one on Sunday and yeah I am so friggin' tired. No RSS til tomorrow. Go away. Oh yeah and unlike what we thought -- and what I say on the episode -- when we began, Alex Navarro won't be on this coming week so save your questions. Something came up so we're going to plan for later.
  • Posted Oct 8, 2008 10:28 pm PT
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• 8Oct 08

  Is "pixilated" correct?

  For as long as I've been writing about videogames -- as a fan, as a co-founder of a hobbyist site, and as a freelancer, counting all the way back to the days when I wrote terrible reader reviews for RPGamer while Paws was running things on that part of the site -- I've tried to remember to type the word "pixelated" and leave it at that. It's not a real word in the dictionary. It gets the red-line stink-eye from Microsoft word. Hell, I don't even see it in the Videogame Sty1e Guide. Nevertheless, I've used it to describe game visuals in which pixels -- the dot, the fundamental element of a digital image -- are especially prevalent, for better or for worse.

  Of course, I couldn't "just leave it at that." All of the indicators that pointed to "pixelated's" non-existence (Word, dictionary, sty1e guide) have -- at least as long as the sty1e guide's been out -- made me go back and begrudgingly change the word to "grainy". Only this isn't entirely accurate, since it carries a negative connotation and doesn't entirely carry the same meaning of what I try to emphasize when I mean "pixelated" -- Mega Man 9 is pixelated but it ain't grainy. Nevertheless, I'd change the word more often than not.exi

  Now, this post isn't a complaint or a plea or whatnot -- the situation is just a little curiosity of mine. Today, I saw two separate instances of the word "pixilated" in place of where I'd use "pixelated" instead. Running the spell-checker in Microsoft Word to give me some assistance with regards to "what is the correct spelling then, Mr. Gates?" would return "pixilated" too. But, I never used it because -- despite it being a real word -- it doesn't fit the definition:

  Main Entry: pix·i·lat·ed Listen to the pronunciation of pixilated
  Variant(s): also pix·il·lat·ed Listen to the pronunciation of pixillated ˈpik-sə-ˌlā-təd
  Function: adjective
  Etymology: irregular from pixie
  Date: 1848
  
  1: somewhat unbalanced mentally ; also : bemused
  2: whimsical
  

  Given the definition of the word, I don't believe that it fits the context of either of the articles I saw -- though in a certain light I might be able to justify its usage in Kotaku's Cave Story post (in which I'd imagine it would use the second dictionary definition -- "whimsical").

  The funny thing is, if you plug "pixilated" into Google, the engine offers a correction (as it usually does before the first search result):

  Did you mean: pixelated

  Word. Sergey and Larry know whassup.
  

  • Posted Oct 8, 2008 4:25 pm PT
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