January 31, 2001

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Today is a sad, sad day. The Dreamcast has officially died. Sega will no longer be making any more Dreamcasts, and they are lowering the price of them to $100 in an effort to get rid of inventory. Sega was losing too much money to continue making the hardware, so they are going to have to call it quits on that front. However, on the bright side, the Dreamcast will still be well supported for the rest of the year with some awesome software titles from Sega. And Sega will also continue to make games, so expect a Sonic game on the Gameboy Advance and Space Channel 5 on the PS2. Sega is also in talks with Nintendo and Microsoft about bringing software to the Gamecube and X-Box respectively. It's unfortunate that the Dreamcast has not done too well, it really is a great little machine with a ton of good original games on it.

We're doing poetry in English now, and boy do I hate it. Some poetry is decent at least, but most of it, including almost everything we have to read in school, is terrible. It makes no sense to me for some reason. And then since I'm in AP English, I have to analyze these poems to death, so that's no fun either since how am I supposed to analyze what I don't understand? Thank goodness this is the last year I'll ever have to take an English course.

I found a cool video of this guy playing Para Para Paradise (Update: Which is no longer on the server). PPP (for short) is a music game where you break sensors located to the left, right, front-right, front-left, and front of you with your hands or feet (or anything else for that matter). Unfortunatly this game is even harder than DDR to find, so needless to say I won't be playing it anytime soon. But it's popular over in Asia. Why oh why do Americans have to not like beat-mania games?

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