Questions and Answers

I always think it's more interesting to know more about the people that are behind the blog so I thought it would be great to do a little Q/A with me and Patrick. Here are a few things about us that you might find interesting.

Where did you go to college?
She said: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (say that three times fast), a lot of people I know just call it cal poly, SLO (pronounced slow).
He said: University of California, Davis (or just UC Davis). Go Ags!

What did you major in?
She said: Computer Engineering. It was great. I liked it a lot. Though it was sad to be one of 2-5 girls in all my classes (class sizes were about 25-32 people)
He said: Computer Science and Engineering.

What is your job?
She said: I am a software engineer at a big company doing satellite programming. It sounds fancy... oh and it is... j/k, it's like normal coding and testing and stuff.
He said: I'm a network engineer at a big company. I don't use my computer science engineering skills at all.

What do you do in your free time other than video games, watching anime and eating?
She said: Wow really limits my answer... all I have left really is sleeping? J/k! I like to sew and make quilts (weird I know), I also do a lot of other crafts but sewing pretty much takes up most of time right now. I also go Santa Clara University part time to get my masters degree in software engineering but that's not really something I do for fun, though it could be fun at times. I also like to travel and hang out with my friends. I have a personal blog that I kept for 4 years now but this blog has taken up most of time so I haven't been saying much there. Also right now me and Patrick are working out so we can look great for our wedding. ^_^
He said: I like to hang out with Melody and sometimes play racket ball. I also build my own business through Amway Globe (if any of you guys are interested in this let me know).

How long have you two been together?
We said: We have been together for over two years now.

How did you two meet?
We said: Actually we met on eharmony, there is actually a pretty good story to this but maybe that's a blog for another day. ^_^

When is the wedding?
We said: We are hoping for next year in October.

Do you have any siblings?
She said: Yes I have one older brother who is in the video game industry in fact, he has influenced me all my life, and probably is the reason why I like video games and anime.
He said: Yup I am the oldest of 3 boys, my middle brother is going to be a helicopter pilot for the army and my youngest brother just graduated college and is a waiter currently.

Well that's all for now if you guys have any questions you want to ask, we will try to answer them in the next Q&A, unless of course they are inappropriate =P

What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver

She said :

We got this game at Fry's last month during that massive let's buy games moment I had. Well I popped this into my DS. I wasn't sure what to expect... I was hoping it would be sort of like cooking mama but different.

Well it seems the first part of it is just a recipe book. Which is cool I guess.

Then there is something called the cooking kitchen which is kind of like cooking mama but way more difficult to figure out and play.

Actually what comes to play here is that I really don't "read" instructions so I kind of think that a game would just be easy to figure out, which is why it was so hard for me to play with the cooking kitchen part of the game because I didn't read all the little things you had to do to make things work. Patrick showed me it later but by then I was already over it.

All in all I wouldn't recommend this game... good thing we got it for 10 bucks because really if I had paid more for it I would be really sad right now.

He said :

I'm not sure I should even call this a game. I THINK it's supposed to be a simulation of cooking, on the Nintendo DS. Melody picked up this "game" because she liked Cooking Mama. I, on the other hand, have never played Cooking Mama, so have no point of reference, but I'm pretty sure it's not like What's Cooking with Jamie Oliver?

I played through the tutorial . . . I think. I'm actually not sure what exactly I did. The setting consists of a virtual kitchen in the DS. The kitchen has several different sites you can visit, like a stove, a refrigerator, a cutting board, and so on. You can take ingredients from the pantry or fridge. You take pots and pans and various utensils from the pantry. You take food items to the cutting board and cut them with a knife using strokes of the stylus. You can stir things in bowls using the stylus. I don't think you can measure exactly . . . but I'm not sure. I think I made a cake. Yeah, it was a cake.

A went to another section of the game and it had recipes that I could read through. Fun!

You know, I watch food network. I actually kinda like cooking. It can be fun. This was not. Don't get it.

Breakdown :

She said : Nay
He said : Nay

If you want this game :

Amazon : What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver

Internet Channel for the Wii is now FREE!

Hey everyone so if you got the wii like when it first came out the internet channel was free... and then that changed to 500 wii points soon after.

So when we got our wii the internet channel was not free anymore and we are too lazy to pay for stuff on the wii, they really don't make it that easy to buy stuff.

Turns out right now the internet wii channel is free again! Yay us.

Also if you happened to pay the 500 wii points for it, in October Nintendo will let you choose a game at the same value to get for free. Isn't that nice? ^_^

For more info you can read it at cnet news.

Rhapsody, A Musical Adventure - bug and fix

This isn't a review... because Patrick hasn't finished the game yet.

I actually finished the game but more on that when we write our review for it.

As Patrick was going through the game, there is this one part where you are in a contest and at the end of the contest (which is at end of the 2 chapter I believe) the game should ask you if you want to save or not, anyways for Patrick when he gets to the end of the contest, it just turns black and he waited a long time and nothing happened…

He restarted the game and played the last part of that sequence again and again it turned black and didn’t do anything. Then he took the game out of the DS and wiped it down thinking it might be dust and tried again… it still turned black. Then he tried playing it on my DSi and it still did it. He gave up for the night.

Well that was a few days ago, and I thought hmmm… I bet this isn’t happening to just us.

So I googled it and it seems you have to do two things
1. L-kun out of your party
2. Do something (like talk to someone or re-filling your stats by looking at a statue)

Then try again. That totally worked for Patrick and now he can move on to finishing the game so we can review it. ^_^

The reason this didn’t happen to me because during this part of the game you lose one of your party members temporary and I didn’t think of replacing that person with L-kun which is the only member you can fill that spot with. I think I was just lazy to rearrange my members, Patrick on the other hand thought oh an empty spot in my party, and I should fill it!

Goes to show that laziness triumphs again. If you haven’t notice I’m a lazy gamer where as Patrick really wants to do everything. For me the main story and maybe a side quest or two is good enough, so I can really blast through games. Patrick needs to get every little things so it will usually take him twice as long if not more to go through a game. Another opposite we have.

Amazon - Rhapsody, A Musical Adventure

Most Awesome Tea Pot EVER!

I stumbled upon this tea pot... I looked everywhere to see if I can buy because I totally want one of the space invaders ones. It seems I can't find it but this website has a lot of info about it and how it works... just not where to buy it!

Oh well I thought this was interesting check it out.

I mean who doesn't want a space invader tea pot?

For more info click here