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Smiles for Today

Just for fun (hey—I had a nice holiday), here’s two things that made me smile today.

First up, more hippity-hype on Nintendo’s Revolution Controller from a developer roundtable:

Tom Fulp (The Behemoth): “I’d like to know just how responsive it really is. I’ve played an arcade game that uses sensors to detect movement of a toy sword. It was fun to swing the sword around and jab stuff, but the translation from movement to screen wasn’t as precise as I would have liked. What I want to know is, will the Revolution let me chop off someone’s hand, carve my initials into their chest then poke out their eyes? That’s the kind of precision I’m looking for.”

(Alien Hominid rocks out, by the way.)

And TV Squad’s Five Ways Veronica Mirrors Buffy which hammers out a few similarities with my favorite show “Veronica Mars” and another favorite “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Most important on the list, in my opinion, are “Hot Chick, Kicking Ass + Baggage,” “The Scooby Gang,” “The Big Bad.”