Hmm, a game about picking up chicks
Well, I checked out the game Jon, but I didn't have the patience to build up my chat/strength etc enough to even get one to talk to me. (Maybe it was that attitude that resulted in my early dating failures!) Strange, and I can see how you could waste a lot of time on it - not that I've had a lot of time to waste... ever really. So the news of the moment is that Aeryk convinced to me to come to Kublacon! Actually, I was hoping something of the sort was planned, but now I'll just have to make sure I'm prepared in advance for the next week's lectures and away we go! Should be a blast - can't believe how long it has been since I've been to a con - seems like a lifetime ago really. Ok, that's all the news, I'm back to work again, and No Enron - there was no pee involved in the first lecture. Actually, yesterday's went really well.
My new favourite name (given to me by a student email yesterday):
Professor Michael
Thursday, April 07, 2005
The Doom 3 Boardgame Is Really Fun
I gave it a shot tonight at my Wednesday Board Game Night. Eye-gouging pieces aside, it's great. (And the pieces looked less eye-gouging, for some reason. Moodier lighting, perhaps.) The rules aren't really that much like Space Hulk, but the gameplay has a very similar feel -- small group of jarks with limited resources against unlimited foes, etc.. But the cards and variety of marine abilities add a lot to switch up the game (each marine gets 2 random special abilities -- I was tough and fast as a mofo). Generally, the bad guy player has more mean tricks to screw over the marines, but also the marines are a lot tougher than in Space Hulk -- you have armor and hit points. Also since it's Doom you can "respawn" which makes the threat of dying a little less intense, although the bad guy scores points for killing marines so it's still something to avoid.
Great game. If I have money by the time KublaCon rolls around I'll definitely pick it up.
I gave it a shot tonight at my Wednesday Board Game Night. Eye-gouging pieces aside, it's great. (And the pieces looked less eye-gouging, for some reason. Moodier lighting, perhaps.) The rules aren't really that much like Space Hulk, but the gameplay has a very similar feel -- small group of jarks with limited resources against unlimited foes, etc.. But the cards and variety of marine abilities add a lot to switch up the game (each marine gets 2 random special abilities -- I was tough and fast as a mofo). Generally, the bad guy player has more mean tricks to screw over the marines, but also the marines are a lot tougher than in Space Hulk -- you have armor and hit points. Also since it's Doom you can "respawn" which makes the threat of dying a little less intense, although the bad guy scores points for killing marines so it's still something to avoid.
Great game. If I have money by the time KublaCon rolls around I'll definitely pick it up.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
2D6 Scary Spyyyyders
Jon: that sounds very bad. Something along the lines of the game "Stroker" that Art discovered in his collection of pirated Commidore s/w. Man was that ever a jem, but sounds like your may take the cake for vile early teen sex humor.
Edit: Jon, how long did you play that game for? My lord it takes forever to get anywhere.
MotoByke: Good to hear that the whole lecture thing didnt lead to pools of urine and students with keys.
Anyone played the Counterstrike for half life 2? I have been playing it a bit this past couple of days pretty fun. I still get supAr pissed if I die right away and I have to sit and stew over my mistakes/misfortunes while everyone else has fun shooting stuff. I donno, I never liked the original but I guess this one doesnt get me as agro. I gotta say I suck compared to the other players. Booo...
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Jon: that sounds very bad. Something along the lines of the game "Stroker" that Art discovered in his collection of pirated Commidore s/w. Man was that ever a jem, but sounds like your may take the cake for vile early teen sex humor.
Edit: Jon, how long did you play that game for? My lord it takes forever to get anywhere.
MotoByke: Good to hear that the whole lecture thing didnt lead to pools of urine and students with keys.
Anyone played the Counterstrike for half life 2? I have been playing it a bit this past couple of days pretty fun. I still get supAr pissed if I die right away and I have to sit and stew over my mistakes/misfortunes while everyone else has fun shooting stuff. I donno, I never liked the original but I guess this one doesnt get me as agro. I gotta say I suck compared to the other players. Booo...
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Immediately after reading these posts I typed "retard porn" into Google.
Now I feel ashamed.
No, I didn't find any good links either.
I've definitely been more generally productive since quitting WoW, but my mind always needs a way to slack. I've been downloading emulators lately. Been working my way through the Sega Master System classic Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap. Absolute classic. Also here is a stellar Flash video game -- Alien Hominid. Hard as a mutha, though.
I also spent a shameful amount of time playing this stupid game. It's this weird, shallow Japanese dating sim where you spend all this time wooing a girl and taking her out on dates. You increase her happiness meter by giving her boots and answering multiple-choice questions about her shopping preferences and bust size over and over again.
Anyway, one of the goals listed is "have sex with her" but given the innocuous nature of the game I figured it was just one of those things where you would see her panties or something or even a little T&A (this is Japanese after all) and then fade to black.
Nope. After taking her out on all the dates it cuts to a closeup of her bizarre anime vagina and then there's an "orgasm meter" which you press the up arrow to increase. At first I thought this meant repeatedly hit up like in Track & Field or someething but actually, it just meant hold the up arrow down for a few seconds. You see your guy's wet fingers jamming in and out for a few minutes. When the orgasm meter fills up then she spews a bunch of white liquid out of her vagina and for a few minutes you know what it is like to be Something Awful's hentai reviewer. I was bemused.
(PS How 'bout a Rico update so I can live vicariously through you? Also did you guys see Blizzard's parody of EQII's /plzza command?)
Now I feel ashamed.
No, I didn't find any good links either.
I've definitely been more generally productive since quitting WoW, but my mind always needs a way to slack. I've been downloading emulators lately. Been working my way through the Sega Master System classic Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap. Absolute classic. Also here is a stellar Flash video game -- Alien Hominid. Hard as a mutha, though.
I also spent a shameful amount of time playing this stupid game. It's this weird, shallow Japanese dating sim where you spend all this time wooing a girl and taking her out on dates. You increase her happiness meter by giving her boots and answering multiple-choice questions about her shopping preferences and bust size over and over again.
Anyway, one of the goals listed is "have sex with her" but given the innocuous nature of the game I figured it was just one of those things where you would see her panties or something or even a little T&A (this is Japanese after all) and then fade to black.
Nope. After taking her out on all the dates it cuts to a closeup of her bizarre anime vagina and then there's an "orgasm meter" which you press the up arrow to increase. At first I thought this meant repeatedly hit up like in Track & Field or someething but actually, it just meant hold the up arrow down for a few seconds. You see your guy's wet fingers jamming in and out for a few minutes. When the orgasm meter fills up then she spews a bunch of white liquid out of her vagina and for a few minutes you know what it is like to be Something Awful's hentai reviewer. I was bemused.
(PS How 'bout a Rico update so I can live vicariously through you? Also did you guys see Blizzard's parody of EQII's /plzza command?)
Creepy!
Yes, I think I would have found that wierd too, and agree that it's mainly the ANAL lettering that makes it so; for instance if he'd been holding a Playboy mag, you probably wouldn't have been so disturbed by the scene. Society seems to be going through a real love-hate-love relationship with that particular kind of sex... it's so strange, hearing 18 year old, g-string-popping out above the waistline girls talk about it when the idea has the same effect on me that it would seem to have on you guys, but then, can't say I've got any experience in that regard, so maybe I should just shut it.
So, two lectures down now. First was a bit flighty and disorganized, but the one just now, really good (except at the end when I got rushed by running out of time)... It's sooooo bizarre to hear the phrase 'professor Anderson' - just not me, no way. So, Aeryk, you up for getting together this weekend? I think I should have time, as my system seems to be working - just so long as you don't get slappy drunk BEFORE I get there...
Enron, sorry to hear that you're still on the temp circuit like me, but then, I guess it means we don't have any real commitment to the institution - makes taking crap a bit easier I always think.
Greetings Johnny, I've been out of it for a while - where are you and why? I second the motion that Johnny has to make after dinner speeches always now, and further it buy saying that port must always be served for the speech. Hello to everyone else too, sorry if you didn't get a specfic mentions (might make you glad to know that you appeared in my acknowledgements in the front of my thesis!
Prof. Myke.
Yes, I think I would have found that wierd too, and agree that it's mainly the ANAL lettering that makes it so; for instance if he'd been holding a Playboy mag, you probably wouldn't have been so disturbed by the scene. Society seems to be going through a real love-hate-love relationship with that particular kind of sex... it's so strange, hearing 18 year old, g-string-popping out above the waistline girls talk about it when the idea has the same effect on me that it would seem to have on you guys, but then, can't say I've got any experience in that regard, so maybe I should just shut it.
So, two lectures down now. First was a bit flighty and disorganized, but the one just now, really good (except at the end when I got rushed by running out of time)... It's sooooo bizarre to hear the phrase 'professor Anderson' - just not me, no way. So, Aeryk, you up for getting together this weekend? I think I should have time, as my system seems to be working - just so long as you don't get slappy drunk BEFORE I get there...
Enron, sorry to hear that you're still on the temp circuit like me, but then, I guess it means we don't have any real commitment to the institution - makes taking crap a bit easier I always think.
Greetings Johnny, I've been out of it for a while - where are you and why? I second the motion that Johnny has to make after dinner speeches always now, and further it buy saying that port must always be served for the speech. Hello to everyone else too, sorry if you didn't get a specfic mentions (might make you glad to know that you appeared in my acknowledgements in the front of my thesis!
Prof. Myke.
Yup
I think I would have to agree with you Eric. I mean it just seems a little wierd and awkward. I think the sexuality + down-syndrome is a bizarre concept, not that my view isnt wrong. I mean I never have really put much thought into whether or not they do have the need for that type of release. Maybe it is a poor view of things from my/our persepctive. I mean I think I may wrongly associate those with down-syndrome with being undeveloped mentally. Besides the whole Pokemon thing reinforces that view. Thus the whole pr0n + child association which is definately a taboo scenario. Then again I guess kids with normal pr0n is not such much of an evil thing. I mean when I was young I certainly didnt see it as unhealthy when I got my hands on magazines (Thanks to Rich usually). Maybe it is the whole ANAL thing which is sort of something that is more adult and less acceptable to be associated with kids.
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I think I would have to agree with you Eric. I mean it just seems a little wierd and awkward. I think the sexuality + down-syndrome is a bizarre concept, not that my view isnt wrong. I mean I never have really put much thought into whether or not they do have the need for that type of release. Maybe it is a poor view of things from my/our persepctive. I mean I think I may wrongly associate those with down-syndrome with being undeveloped mentally. Besides the whole Pokemon thing reinforces that view. Thus the whole pr0n + child association which is definately a taboo scenario. Then again I guess kids with normal pr0n is not such much of an evil thing. I mean when I was young I certainly didnt see it as unhealthy when I got my hands on magazines (Thanks to Rich usually). Maybe it is the whole ANAL thing which is sort of something that is more adult and less acceptable to be associated with kids.
D>M>
Unsettling... Strange...
So, I don't know how to say this, but it was weird, strange and somewhat unsettling to behold at Fry's a few weeks ago:
Probably an adult, but no taller than 5'3", with Down Syndrome, in what I remember as wearing a St. Louis Cardinals jacket and cap, with a Pokemon Strategy guide in one hand, and with the other hand, holding a few inches from his thick-glassed face, a pr0n movie with a title including in big red letters "ANAL". Eventually I saw him later in my visit with a stack of pr0n and the strategy guide making his way to checkout.
Now, I know inherently there is nothing wrong with this whole picture. But the fact that I thought it was a kid at first, coupled with the Down Syndrome, and the ANAL title SO close to his face, was just tough to swallow (no foul pun intended).
Call me whatever, but man, it was odd, and apparently blog-worthy.
Hi Johnny!
So, I don't know how to say this, but it was weird, strange and somewhat unsettling to behold at Fry's a few weeks ago:
Probably an adult, but no taller than 5'3", with Down Syndrome, in what I remember as wearing a St. Louis Cardinals jacket and cap, with a Pokemon Strategy guide in one hand, and with the other hand, holding a few inches from his thick-glassed face, a pr0n movie with a title including in big red letters "ANAL". Eventually I saw him later in my visit with a stack of pr0n and the strategy guide making his way to checkout.
Now, I know inherently there is nothing wrong with this whole picture. But the fact that I thought it was a kid at first, coupled with the Down Syndrome, and the ANAL title SO close to his face, was just tough to swallow (no foul pun intended).
Call me whatever, but man, it was odd, and apparently blog-worthy.
Hi Johnny!
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
You know you are a nerd when...
Okay I was watching a classic Star Trek episode, "Errend of Mercy", this afternoon and I recognized a sound bite. The Phrase "Pure Energy" as said by Spock is the sound sample they use in the song Pure Energy by Information Society. Learn somthing new everyday.
Well, in other newsw I have a four week long job. Crap Admin work, but I will get some bones out of it.
Ja- EL I hope all is going well for you. A little third world livin' is good for remembering how good you have had it in the US.
D>M>
Okay I was watching a classic Star Trek episode, "Errend of Mercy", this afternoon and I recognized a sound bite. The Phrase "Pure Energy" as said by Spock is the sound sample they use in the song Pure Energy by Information Society. Learn somthing new everyday.
Well, in other newsw I have a four week long job. Crap Admin work, but I will get some bones out of it.
Ja- EL I hope all is going well for you. A little third world livin' is good for remembering how good you have had it in the US.
D>M>
Monday, April 04, 2005
Don't sell yourself short Johnny, you brought the best element of the night. See, Jael came to dinner prepared with a speech. He actually wrote an after-dinner speech. And actually delivered it.
I wish I'd snagged the text because it was brilliant! I was laughing so hard I can't remember it very well. There was something about... oh I don't know, I can't remember any of it. Wish I'd had a tape recorder.
Anyway Johnny you are required to deliver speeches at every dinner party now.
I wish I'd snagged the text because it was brilliant! I was laughing so hard I can't remember it very well. There was something about... oh I don't know, I can't remember any of it. Wish I'd had a tape recorder.
Anyway Johnny you are required to deliver speeches at every dinner party now.
Chinese, Japanese, Phillopinonese???!
Friday night roast beef dinner at Janice's was wonderful. Sharing a good meal the day before parting to the philipines, with 5 good friends was more than anything to ask for. Aaron brought over a nice white zin called "obsession" that had a nice fruity blend with a little wine zest. It had a perfumy taste as well, staying true to the name, maybe... it was perfume. Had a little wine and cheese for appetizers (jazz musac in the foreground). Good ol Jon brought the party games and Amy and Janice brought the flare. I, of course, brought nothing, except good wishes and will, which sufficed. All is well in the world.
Today, April 4th, all is hot and musty in Cavite city. I visited the place that I will be staying in. The place was monikered "Casa Blanca" but i'm not really sure whence the name came from or occured. There were no "white" anything in sight of 50 miles, except perhaps those on white panties hanging on clotheslines. And the sight of clotheslines, visible in the driveway did not bode well in my mind while our car drove into the gated community. I think if they renamed it simply "casa" would have been more appropriate. Anyhow, they are having air conditioning units installed. The interior was okay, a little better than what I expected. It's a middle class community I guess. So anyhow, no dryers or washers, so I guess it's the ol paddling board and clotheslines... (crying) but luckily we also employ a maid in our service. Doh.
Okay... that's all for now. I hope the experience is worth the suffering I will endure for the next 3 months.
over and out.
Jonny
Friday night roast beef dinner at Janice's was wonderful. Sharing a good meal the day before parting to the philipines, with 5 good friends was more than anything to ask for. Aaron brought over a nice white zin called "obsession" that had a nice fruity blend with a little wine zest. It had a perfumy taste as well, staying true to the name, maybe... it was perfume. Had a little wine and cheese for appetizers (jazz musac in the foreground). Good ol Jon brought the party games and Amy and Janice brought the flare. I, of course, brought nothing, except good wishes and will, which sufficed. All is well in the world.
Today, April 4th, all is hot and musty in Cavite city. I visited the place that I will be staying in. The place was monikered "Casa Blanca" but i'm not really sure whence the name came from or occured. There were no "white" anything in sight of 50 miles, except perhaps those on white panties hanging on clotheslines. And the sight of clotheslines, visible in the driveway did not bode well in my mind while our car drove into the gated community. I think if they renamed it simply "casa" would have been more appropriate. Anyhow, they are having air conditioning units installed. The interior was okay, a little better than what I expected. It's a middle class community I guess. So anyhow, no dryers or washers, so I guess it's the ol paddling board and clotheslines... (crying) but luckily we also employ a maid in our service. Doh.
Okay... that's all for now. I hope the experience is worth the suffering I will endure for the next 3 months.
over and out.
Jonny
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Elzar!
You must do some research. Find Dr. Futbol's class and show up with a video camera. You won't even need to turn the key to watch Dr. Motorbyke pee. Seriously Dr. Futbol, I wouldn't fret. I mean how many classes did you teach under the auspice of TA. Shit you basically taught those classes. Your golden. Kick back and enjoy the ride from here.
How is it that I work for a temp company to do administrative office work and I still get a two day job that is for all intents and purposes a moving job? I mean I got some cash and all, but I am a sore Mo Fo today. I was working for GolTV. As in futbol TV. The whole time I was working there that guy saying, "Gooooooooaaaal" was running through my head on a loop.
D>M>
You must do some research. Find Dr. Futbol's class and show up with a video camera. You won't even need to turn the key to watch Dr. Motorbyke pee. Seriously Dr. Futbol, I wouldn't fret. I mean how many classes did you teach under the auspice of TA. Shit you basically taught those classes. Your golden. Kick back and enjoy the ride from here.
How is it that I work for a temp company to do administrative office work and I still get a two day job that is for all intents and purposes a moving job? I mean I got some cash and all, but I am a sore Mo Fo today. I was working for GolTV. As in futbol TV. The whole time I was working there that guy saying, "Gooooooooaaaal" was running through my head on a loop.
D>M>
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