A Holiday Celebration Board.

[Necromancer]

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Unfortunately I'm not a bank or gubmint employee, so no three day weekend for me. 

[Turbo D]

I too would like to wish everyone a happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! The skool campus was closed today, but since I'm not attending winter intersession, I could care less.

[Game and Watch Kirby]

I've had quite the nice Martin Luther King Jr. today myself. With my father, I went to Target, as I had a gift card there that he gave to me, and Best Buy, as a few Reward Zone program coupons came in the mail being vaild from 1/16/2009-1/22/2009 the day after I bought Kirby Super Star Ultra and WarioLand: Shake It! from one of the Best Buy stores around my area. At Target, I had purchased Super Smash Brothers Brawl, a game I highly anticipated getting for Christmas, and at Best Buy I bought Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 along with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, two other games I wanted for the holidays but didn't get. Later, my father and I ate at the Feast Buffet at the Red Rock hotel and casino, which a lot of people were in the lines in the time we were waiting and left. I also had the chance to start Kirby Super Star Ultra today, as so far, it's been a pretty fun title for me (and with some decent challenge, too).

[ceti alpha]

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Unfortunately I'm not a bank or gubmint employee, so no three day weekend for me. 

I know your pain. You can add "not being American" to my list as well. Here in Nova Scotia, after New Year's, we don't have a holiday until Good Friday.  It's bogus. Basically January, February, and March (depending on when Easter falls) without a holiday. Other provinces have added a holiday in February, but in Nova Scotian fashion, we're the last to get on these things....but we do have a world class recycling program....

[Nintega]

I've had quite the nice Martin Luther King Jr. today myself. With my father, I went to Target, as I had a gift card there that he gave to me, and Best Buy, as a few Reward Zone program coupons came in the mail being vaild from 1/16/2009-1/22/2009 the day after I bought Kirby Super Star Ultra and WarioLand: Shake It! from one of the Best Buy stores around my area. At Target, I had purchased Super Smash Brothers Brawl, a game I highly anticipated getting for Christmas, and at Best Buy I bought Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 along with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, two other games I wanted for the holidays but didn't get. Later, my father and I ate at the Feast Buffet at the Red Rock hotel and casino, which a lot of people were in the lines in the time we were waiting and left. I also had the chance to start Kirby Super Star Ultra today, as so far, it's been a pretty fun title for me (and with some decent challenge, too).

Loved the SNES KSS

The DS version added new stuff?

[Game and Watch Kirby]

I've had quite the nice Martin Luther King Jr. today myself. With my father, I went to Target, as I had a gift card there that he gave to me, and Best Buy, as a few Reward Zone program coupons came in the mail being vaild from 1/16/2009-1/22/2009 the day after I bought Kirby Super Star Ultra and WarioLand: Shake It! from one of the Best Buy stores around my area. At Target, I had purchased Super Smash Brothers Brawl, a game I highly anticipated getting for Christmas, and at Best Buy I bought Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 along with Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, two other games I wanted for the holidays but didn't get. Later, my father and I ate at the Feast Buffet at the Red Rock hotel and casino, which a lot of people were in the lines in the time we were waiting and left. I also had the chance to start Kirby Super Star Ultra today, as so far, it's been a pretty fun title for me (and with some decent challenge, too).

Loved the SNES KSS

The DS version added new stuff?

Yes, there are some enhancements present. The visuals in this remake have been updated to the style to the Game Boy Advance and the other DS titles (Kirby's sprite retains the original design, but is of a dimmer pink and is less shiny). The cutscenes are in FMV in Kirby Super Star Ultra, though they only play on about 1/2-3/4 of the portion of the entire top screen, and do look quite lovely. A few new (unless they did appear originally) enemies have been noted to appear in this, which include a snapping alligator enemy (I do not know of its name) and a miniboss named Iron Mam that gives you the Fighter ability. There have been a few multiplayer games added for this version, which are available at the start of the game. Though most of the music has been remixed, a few of the original Super Nintendo tracks have remained the same in this game (such as Milky Way Wishes's intro and the boss fight against the Computer Virus).

The only bad circumstances I've come across are that the music is quiet, regardless of setting the sound to surround, stereo, or mono, and no sound volume dial is available in this game in order to adjust the output. Also, as I suspect to be due to the size of the touch screen portion useable for them, the in-game icons have been altered to a simple, round-shaped design, meaning that for the ablities, they are no longer represented to be of small icons of Kirby with the ability, but of only a simple representation of the power (the bomb ability, which had Kirby panically holding the bomb in the original verision is merely a bomb in the remake). There may be more general differences present between the two, but I do not know enough about the original to determine them, nor have I yet fully completed Kirby Super Star Ultra at this point.

[Keranu]

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  Unfortunately I'm not a bank or gubmint employee, so no three day weekend for me. 

I know your pain. You can add "not being American" to my list as well. Here in Nova Scotia, after New Year's, we don't have a holiday until Good Friday.  It's bogus. Basically January, February, and March (depending on when Easter falls) without a holiday. Other provinces have added a holiday in February, but in Nova Scotian fashion, we're the last to get on these things....but we do have a world class recycling program....

The best television show of all time, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, describes this long drag in the epsiode Sick Day.

[Digi.k]

Chinese New year on the 26th jan

China town - soho london this cold cold Friday evening

[Keranu]

Happy Casmir Pulaski Day!

He was Polish and, uh, did something historic enough for us Chicagoans to get a day off school.

[guyjin]

happy easter, everyone! gorge on Cadbury eggs (or kinder eggs, but try not to choke) 

[ceti alpha]

happy easter, everyone! gorge on Cadbury eggs (or kinder eggs, but try not to choke) 

Haha. Who'd ever cho..oo...k........

[Turbo D]

happy easter everyone! choke down sum eggs. haha, j/k. I hope everyone has a good one.

[Necromancer]

Happy belated Easter to everyone.  I hope y'all had a good day of peep/creme egg/chocolate bunny eating.

[Turbo D]

[guyjin]