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Today I’m going to provide some pro-tips. When you go out to a bar, at which there may be karaoke, you should be sure to choose a song that you know the lyrics to quite well. The karaoke machine at the bar I was at was this small handheld touch device, which changed the monitors/tv’s around the bar to the song you select, wirelessly. The microphone was a small wireless thing too. Convenient and simple! Not a big fuss to be made like there would be for getting up in front of a crowd or something.

I was cruising along to a nice song, I knew most of the words, and then I hit a section I was never really aware of, despite listening to it alot.

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So there was a nice link on slashdot today, where Trent Reznor was telling people to steal his music because the media corporation that owned it were charging excessively high prices in australia. It’s in the first few minutes of this video.

I’ve noticed that video games are also becoming excessively expensive in australia, it seems that although the value of the US dollar is plummeting faster than a bad analogy, the prices for products from there seem to stay the same here. Typically you can buy a video game for roughly 50USD (65AUD~) and yet it is 100AUD in EB stores around here. What a rip-off. It’s still cheaper for me to import Wii games from the UK (by about 10-15AUD, even after shipping) because of a similar excessive pricing — and all without having to even get up and go to the store. Yay internets.

The most awesomely named wii game is being developed: Ninjabread Man. So awesome. Seems like the game was out on PC in 2005, but the wii version will no doubt be more cool. There’s a lack of cool sword games on the Wii, and definitely a lack of light saber games. I’d still love to play Bleach, but thanks to region locking *shakes fist*, that won’t be happening for a while, until the mod community can free my console. If you buy a wii now, I recommend purchasing an NTSC region wii from the US or Japan, and modding that, because it will be able to play PAL games. Purchasing a PAL Wii and modding it will get approximately 70% compatibility with NTSC region games. Blech.

Ninja Gaiden DS looks extremely impressive, this gametrailer video on kotaku has some footage of the fighting.. it looks quite like the XBox1 version of Ninja Gaiden, which was awesome to the max.

Lots of EB and Harvey Norman stores seem to have fury stands, keep an eye out!