Dragon Quest IX talk about some crazy stuff (Puff-Puff)

Destructoid discusses Dragon Quest IX, and some of the crazy things that are in the JRPG.

But the point is that I’m hardly an expert on the entirety of this crazy Dragon Quest thing, and that’s especially true of a little thing called the “puff-puff.”

What the hell is the puff-puff? I’m glad you asked. Just last week, I found myself asking that same question — around the same time I was writing that two–part thing. When all was said and done, the puff-puff just wasn’t relevant to what I was saying in those two pieces. So now it’s time to answer once and for all, “What is the puff-puff?”

…….

One of my favorite things about Dragon Quest IX is the DQVC service, a specialized store offering new items and quests. A couple of Fridays ago, I unlocked a quest called “Puff-Puff Performance.” To any trueDragon Quest fan, this would have immediately meant something quite glorious, but as for me, I simply wandered over to the quest giver expecting a fairly typical mission, perhaps one involving dancing.
However, the quest giver asked me to find an herb called “cheer-me-up.” Hmm … something called a “puff-puff” that involved a magical herb? I thought I had an idea of what was going on now. This silly little JRPG with an E10+ ESRB rating was going to get me high as fuck. Ah, the perks of being an angel. Innocence? Ha!

The rubbing of breasts on faces in Dragon Quest IX- Destructoid.

What are celebrities doing these days?

Here’s some famous celebrities and what they have been doing since they dropped off our radar…

  • Danica McKellar, who played Winnie in The Wonder Years, turned into a hot math geek who now teaches teenage girls that math is cool (and still does some acting on the side)
  • Mayim Bialik – once better known as “Blossom” – has a PhD in neuroscience and is writing a book on parenting. (Though she still does some acting as well; you might have seen her on the season finale of The Big Bang Theory.)
  • Charlie Korsmo, who I remember best as the kid in Hook, is a law professor at Brooklyn Law School and teaches torts, corporate law, and land use.
  • Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen, is an astrophysicist. And he’s currently the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
  • Ilan Mitchell-Smith, known for his role in Weird Science, has a PhD in English and teaches at California State University Long Beach.
  • Greg Gaffin (lead singer of punk band Bad Religion) got his PhD at Cornell. He teaches life sciences and paleontology at UCLA
  • Peter Weller, best known as Robocop but more importantly as Buckaroo Banzai, either has or is working on a PhD in Roman Architecture and teaches at Syracuse. He was featured in a History Channel documentary on the same subject.

Happy Birthday, HP Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) – the finest and most inspirational horror writer of the 20th Century.

To learn more about one of my favourite authors check out his Wikipedia entry or The HP Lovecraft Archive.

To discover his impact on role-playing games, and the evergreen Call Of Cthulhu game, there is no better place to start than Yog-Sothoth.Com.

For more Lovecraftian goodness – including one of the finest fan films ever produced (and progress reports on a second) – it’s also worth visiting The HP Lovecraft Historical Society.

And all these sites have a multitude of sanity-busting links that should more than satisfy your hunger for arcane knowledge of things man was not supposed to know…

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 – World of Apple

According to World of Apple, Apple has released to developers the second build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The release comes just five days after the first release of Mac OS X 10.6.5.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H529 weighs in at 558MB for the delta update and contains six focus areas, no known issues and no listed fixes.

Known Issues

  • None

Focus Areas

  • 3D Graphics
  • AFP
  • Mail
  • Printing
  • QuickTime
  • X11

Of note, Apple has indicated that the Snow Leopard graphics update that was released several days is incorporated into 10H529 (& later builds).  No mention was made of 10H525.

Steam Client updated…

Vavle has released a Steam client update. As always to apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. The changes listed include:

New Features

  • Updated friends chats to use new tabbed chat interface (see Friends tab in the Settings dialog to turn off opening in new tabs by default)
  • Updated in-game overlay browser to use new tabbed browsing interface (Use Middle click on links to open-in-new-tab)
  • Tabbed Browser/Chat HotKeys: Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to switch tabs. Ctrl-W, Ctrl-F4 or Middle click to close tabs.
  • Updated WebKit code for client/in-game browser (improved stability and performance on OSX, various browser fixes)
  • Windows: 64 bit build of the in-game overlay (useable now with any 64bit non-Steam game you may add)
  • Windows: 64 bit builds of Steamworks DLLs (for upcoming titles)
  • Fixes
  • New non-blocking game uninstall dialog
  • Improved client shutdown times
  • Fix some cases of Steam becoming unresponsive for 5-10 seconds when new game updates are released
  • Fixed unused game tags still showing up
  • Reinstalling from a goldmaster triggers a content verification if the game is already installed
  • Fixed sometimes needing to restart Steam after installing PhysX
  • Changed overlay hot-key detection to not consider ctrl-shift-tab to be the same as shift-tab, thus allowing its use in tabbed chat/browsing in-game
  • Fixed “hidden” achievements showing up in the game details page and overlay “so close…” ui
  • Fixed a crash on shutdown
  • Fixed an issue with input tab ordering in group chats
  • Increased timeouts on Steam Cloud file uploads
  • Fixed Rabobank payment page for iDEAL checkout not showing correctly in the Steam Client
  • Fixed a bug parsing certain HTML tags inside News bodies
  • Fixed top half of avatar images in chats not being right clickable for context menu
  • Fixed a potential crash when failing to parse new stats/achievements data for a game
  • Fixed bug/exploit with malformed www. URLs in chats
  • Windows: Fixed the “alt” key sometimes sticking in the in-game overlay after an alt-tab event
  • Windows: Improved overlay compatibility with some previously conflicting third party applications
  • Windows: Fixes to progress bar on win7 task icon in handling paused downloads as well as finished downloads
  • OSX: Fix several memory leaks
  • OSX: Fix copy/paste resulting in extra random string data

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