G l i t c h y G o b l i n !

I watch a lot of anime, and sometimes, I see a phrase that makes my head tilt, like ‘you’re still 100 years too early to challenge me.’ I get the phrase, saying someone would have to train for ten decades to match your skill, sure, cool. But it’s pretty specific, and tons of people use it. I have to wonder where it came from.

To top it off, it got me thinking about English phrases that must make very little sense to foreigners. If you saw something on TV and a man puts a gun to his foe’s head and says ‘It’s curtains for you, pal.’ Then we get it. Boom, Headshot! Lols and teabagging from the winning player, probably accompanied by a ‘your mom’ joke over the headset.

But, to foreigners translating that episode of CSI, they must be scratching their heads. Granted, plenty of people will still get it (and its connotations with the end of a performance on stage), but others must sit and wonder why the cloth coverings for windows equate to murder, especially if they have different words in their language for window curtains and stage curtains.

I just can’t stop imagining a Japanese High  Schooler who just finished torrenting CSI Miami. A lady in a textile mill got murdered, falling into the drape press. The main guy simply says “Looks like it’s curtains…” glasses go on here, “for her.”

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

And the poor Japanese kid is sitting there, blinking, wondering why those happy window coverings mean a crying former husband at the funeral and a criminal investigation.

FOTL will be here tomorrow, as will the Glitch of the Week. Until then, -GG.

I stumbled upon this today, and had to share it. With new episodes of Glee still more than a month away, I feel myself weakening.

Thankfully, we’re nearly two months into this glee-less terror, and it’ll be over soon. Until then, here’s a new song sung by our favorite misfits.

Yep, you read correctly. Johnny Yong Bosch is going to be in the next Saw film, obviously titled Saw VII, but possibly also calld Saw 3-freakin’-D.

Bosch, whom I’ve met at anime cons for the signing of everything Trigun I own as well as a Power Rangers VHS and to (admittedly creepily) ask him to record my voice mail message, has been in quite a few of this nerd’s favorite things. He was my favorite Ninja Ranger because I loved the Frog Zord, and because White Ranger was never as cool as Green Ranger. Sorry Tommy. Good luck in Mixed Martial Arts! He’s kicking serious tail, btw. Not to divert, but here’s the vid, which I saw on nerd news blog Topless Robot.

Holy crap, Jason, way to earn Tommy’s whopping four Ranger helmets, plus that shiny doctorate he got in the later seasons.

Back on topic, Bosch is also the voice of Vash the Stampede, from Trigun, as well as dozens of other anime, but Trigun is my favorite.

He’s also been in TONS of games and a few movies. His IMDB is worth a look.

It’s there that I saw, thanks to my good buddy Niko, that he is going to be in the next Saw movie.

Holy crap, I think the heroes of my childhood are clashing with the villains of my adulthood.

Jigsaw is going to kill my favorite voice actor, and second favorite power ranger… in 3D.

I think I need to pray. -GG

Been too long, waiting for this game. Too long have I endured since the wonders that were Sonic, Sonic 2 and 3, as well as Sonic and Knuckles. Heck, I’ll even let CD, 3D Blast and Mean Bean Machine slide, and those are PUSHING IT. Since then… well… since then…

For the love of God, and all that is Holy...

And that’s just the GAMES. Let’s not gent into Sonic X, which was the biggest freaking fail since Sonic took the fail train into fail village and shacked up with princess fail at the fail hotel. Even the comics have gone to crap, not to mention Sonic Underground… ugh… I need to go puke…

I know, Jack, that’s how I felt when I played Sonic Heroes, too.

That being said, yesterday we got wind that Project Needlemouse is now, officially, Sonic the Hedgehog 4. It will be a downloadable game that comes in installments, like the Half Life Episode games. It’ll be released on Wii, PS3, and 360, as well as a ’secret 4th system’ rumored to be the Ipod touch and the Iphone, which aren’t gaming consoles, you morons.

The plot, btw, is following the original, taking place just after the rescue of angel island and the destruction of the Death Egg.

The first chapter is now slated for later this year, expect spontaneous updates from me here, or you can go to more official sources, like SEGA or Wikipedia. -GG

Ah, terrible video game voice acting. Almost as damning as poor writing and crappy gameplay. Here, we have some shining examples of voice acting tom foolery.

There were a few missing, for me. Like Dante’s “I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE TO FILL YOUR DARK SOUL WITH LIGHT!!!” Even still, quite entertaining.

So, as a lot of you know, or SHOULD know, we’ve got info on a new sonic game today.

If you somehow missed the funbus, get your ticket to ride over at SEGA’s blog.

So far, we know ONLY SONIC is playable. Thank you, merciful rainbow Obama Jesus. Will the others appear? Who knows, but if I had anything so say about it, most would die in terrible fires. Why? Here’s a bulleted list.

• Sonic, he can really move (but not in 3D)
• Sonic, he’s got an attitude (in the comics and pre 2000)
• Sonic, he’s the fastest thing ali-ee-ive (but not when next to ANY OTHER CHARACTER BECAUSE THEIR ALL THE SAME SPEED NOW.)

Here, I’ll even give you the Needlemouse teaser.

Sweet, huh?

Well, today we get the full details, like come new concept art and the true title. Brace for fail, pray for Sonic the Hedgehog 4, only on the Sega Genesis.

In honor of the next probably terrible game’s birth, I bring you a look back at better times, just funkily remixed.

I’ll hit you guys up later with details. Until then, -GG.

Because they released the opening to his anime favorite. I am amazed and confounded that they actually animated the intro to this show, which does not exist. Amazing.

via No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Video Game, Bizarre Jelly Cutscene | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com.

Thanks also to FredEx919.

Ah, the good old Dreamcast. A wonderful system that wasn’t supported properly and thusly fell to an early, undeserved grave. That being said, it had some amazing games, and (unfortunately) pushed Sonic into 3D. Here we go.

Now, in this game, it was more than easy to fall through the stage, have audio cut out or skip, live while standing where you should have died, so on and so forth. But there was one instance of falling through the level that stood out.

It was in Station Square, the over world level. One of the locales is a hotel, with big, blue automatic doors. Me, being a sonic fan, decided to speed roll and shoot through the doors, in classic Sonic fashion. The game hated this, and I fell into the water below, and to my death.

I also stood on the back of the final boss as Sonic, got stuck underground as Knuckles, got caught in the air as Amy… the list goes on and on.

This is the only time I’ve been able to fall through a stage in a non-combat level. Impressive. Here’s some other Sonic Adventure glitches, courtesy of Snakeman123456. Check out ALL his videos, he’s had TONS of Sonic Adventure Glitches.

I’ll be playing catch-up today. There’s no Sunday Mattinee this week, but You’ll be getting my review and music as soon as I finish salivating over this week’s movie. Til then. -GG

Yo all, here we go for TOT!

First up, we’ve got a Mirror’s Edge remix, thanks to my room mate.

Next, we’ve got a remix of Torgo’s theme from Manos: the Hands of Fate. It’s terrible and yet… wonderful.

Thanks to frankiefahrenheit, Lisa Miskovsky and rainbowcemetery. -GG

Well, my long work hours with huge expanses of empty time combined with a DS that has a broken top screen has lead to one thing for the Goblin: Advance Games Gallore.

One of my current favorites is the fan favorite GBA RPG Golden Sun.

Well, while playing this game, I was just north of Tolbi, in the Altmiller Cave. I was fumbling around in the darkess, and used Reveal to light my path. I then moved towards a door and boom. I walked through the wall. I was still bound by the wall’s boundry, I was half behind the wall, half on the floor connecting to the wall. I walked aback and forth a few times, the game lagged, and then all was suddenly right.

Weird. Here’s another fun one for you. Thanks to kreation893.

See ya next week, Goblinites. -GG