Saturday, December 16, 2006

to Jon (and Mike, and some other non-AT members who wrote Leslie and I checks for things):

Apologies, the checks are in an envelope that has just resurfaced this afternoon. We had to get the house ready to show today at noon, and much stuff was moved around, misplaced, lost et cetera. So, the checks are in hand, and they will go to the bank today, no shit.
Nice find! The Dig was the one LucasArts adventure I never played. I've still got my copy of the Monkey Island copy protection wheel around here somewhere! Maybe I should dig that game out again. SO fun.

Friday, December 15, 2006

I'm playing an old LucasArts adventure game called The Dig right now. So far, pretty darn good! Nice voice acting and the graphics are passable (I like the style of these games, so I actually dig the graphics.) I'm running it on ScummVM - also grabbed monkey island 1 and 2, Sam n Max 1, Loom and Broken Sword 2. I had played Broken Sword 1 recently so thats why I nabbed the sequel. Yeah, I recently played that new Sam and Max game and although it was uber-short (they're putting them out as "episodes") it got me back in the old point-n-click adventure gamin mode. Fun times. Don't think I'm motivated to do the Indy games again although I really dug them at the time. I'm sure I'll play through The Dig just cause I know nothing about it and it kinda has a "serious" vibe to it, but I'll definately at least load up and dabble in the other ones I got.
you guys are nuts... trading one game addiction for another.. instead of world of warcrack, your getting into the Worlds of Warcrack, the Collectable Crack game.

sigh. ok. I'll have to detoxify all of you this christmas.

What's up with Deal or No deal... The show is the blurst except for the hot tanned cleavaged ladies holding up the briefcases.

I just got a Sling unit. It's kinda neat. I connect the cable in my house and it allows me to access the unit through the internet in the Philippines and stream it on my computer. Anyway, the concept is cool, but I'll have to try it out this time i go back.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

The game's a pretty decent hit at work. We've played a couple of times and sucked in a new player (the hockey motherfucker, actually, so I might just buy him some boostars $$ez). And there's another guy who's gonna get suckered in.

The cool thing is that the game store in Berkeley, amazingly, is both selling the boosters and starters for MSRP, and has a seemingly unlimited supply of them. EVERYWHERE else in the SF area is out or selling them at ridiculous prices.

Tomorrow there will be four barely constructed starters against Onyxia! The slaughter should be glorious.
damn nows i a wanna buy a box of boosterz! cool they sell "starter decks" for like 6 bucks (so i dont have to be a frackin hunter)
To Jon: OK

For the rest of you, or rather the rest of you that play, or will SOON play, the WoW card game, Star City Games has boosters in stock at list price. More importantly, they sell singles, as well as the starter decks for all the classes without all the guesswork! I think it is kinda cool and am thinking about filling out some cards that appear mandatory for the class (Dispel Magic for 50 cents!). Just thought I would pass it along.

Rudy picked up a starter! Lo and behold, there are now THREE Elendils planning on Raiding Onyxia's Lair this Xmas break! /cry

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Hey Eric, Please Cash the Check I Gave You at GenCon Soon

Trying to pay my bills and shit and having that extra $102 floating around somewhere scares the hell out of me... worried I'll overdraw my account or something... thanks dawg!

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Art, embarassngly enough, I know from where that spam comes. All of the names mentioned are from the Howard Stern Show. I think that it is probably a description of one of their episodes. Not sure why it ended up as spam, but I think the source is correct.

I just saw a commercial for Tony Hawk Project 8, and it looks really kick-ass. That commerical was followed by an add for American Pie: The Naked Mile, which looks really crappy.
Damn That's Cool!

I don't post so much Warmachine stuff lately, but I had to post this. PP is selling an alternate sculpt of the Dire Troll Mauler over their website that is hugemongous, and really cool (although funnily enough, I think it could be painted better). The comparison shot to the original model is cool. Fifty bones! Wow.

Damn I'm Stupid!

So me and three guys at work formed a mini-WoW CCG league today. We headed over to Games of Berkeley and each person picked up a starter deck and one booster. The limit is one booster per week, free trading. They're all super into CCGs and most of them played WoW before so it should be cool.

One of the guys read the rulebook and pointed out an error I'd made that was so elemental, it simultaneously made me feel moronic and greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the game. I'd thought that you could ONLY use a class ability if your character had that talent, ie I thought that Priests with the Holy talent could not use Shadow spells. Suddenly I can use all of my cards! I am chagrined yet pleased.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Wow. You should buy their products in appreciation.

Hilarious picture Rudy... have you done any extra work lately, or has the new job put the brakes to it? Personally, I think you should keep on jugglin' (never gets old!).

This is pretty funny. It's a guy trying to explain on the phone to Verizon customer service the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents. None of the reps believe there's a difference and keep bouncing him to other people. Long but funny!
That's some weird shit. I plugged one of the lines into google and saw it came from a celebrity news site. But those random lines together kinda form their own bizzaro story. Good times.
This may be the best spam content I've ever received. Sorry for the length, but I just couldn't bring myself to edit this piece of artwork down. It just didn't seem right.

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Erica said that her husband just got done working on the Spike TV show
'Blade.
He said he may be the aggressor in the whole thing. Howard heard one
part where Grover reminded him of the Steve Langford prank call the
guys
made.

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Trade Date : 2006, December 12
Company : CHEF SELECTIONS INC
Symbol : CFSC
Today : $0.1
2 WEEK PROJECTION : $1
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He said he doesn't like to cum inside a chick so he probably went all
over her.
She also takes a shower every day. He said that every single person
lost
in this weekend's picks.
Ronnie's Party And Ralph's Strange Behavior Discussed. He wanted to
goof
on Artie about his team losing.
FOX News Discussions And Mumbling JD. He said it was a movie about a
girl who had to be a boy to get on a soccer game.
Howard told him that they may let him drink that morning so he can get
through it.
She said she doesn't pay attention to that stuff but Howard found that
hard to believe.
She said that the guys are usually the ones who keep their underwear
on.
Ralph said that her telling him that just once is too much. Richard
said
he didn't shower today and the last time he did shower was on Saturday
afternoon. Gary said that Ralph is just way too cool for their parties.
Howard told Erica that this is not a good interview because she's not
helping him out by telling him why she does this.
Howard said that Erica Durance was there and he talked about how he was
checking out some nude shots of her over at MrSkin. Ralph said that he
has been in a room with other naked guys but he's never fucked another
guy.
He was just telling everyone how much he loves them. Ronnie said that
everyone was worried about Sal and he promised nothing would go wrong.
Howard said that he beat off to this porn chick Carmen Luvana last
night. She's way into that kind of stuff.
Howard got Blue on the phone a short time later and asked her if she
knows what's going on.
Ronnie said that it's every party they invite him to. He said that's
the
kind of thing Heroin was made for. They have to check with Chris Kanyon
to see when he's available. com last night before he watched
Smallville.
Howard didn't know when they were going to set that up. Howard asked
Gary when they're going to set up the Blue Iris thing with Artie.
There's some nose picking and other stuff that he does that they try to
cut around as well.
In this latest message Richard's dad talks about one of their dogs
getting pregnant. She said she doesn't pay attention to that stuff but
Howard found that hard to believe.
The guys told Richard that it's not the room, it's him.
Howard said that's what he was talking about with Ralph acting really
weird. Howard said maybe that was what jinxed them. Artie said he's
noticed that as well and that's why he likes Ralph sometimes. Howard
played the clip where Richard goofed on him about being nerdy and
having
a huge penis. He was also watching the Steelers game.
Howard said he would get so shriveled up if he did that.
Blue said she'll make sure that doesn't happen. He wanted to goof on
Artie about his team losing.
Howard asked Artie if the Yankees have become that team that makes it
to
the playoffs and will never make it to the World Series again.
The kid cried for hours according to Richard.
Howard talked about what the club is and how Meg called them one time
to
try and save the club. Howard saw some of the Jets game but didn't see
the whole thing.
He did his Steve Grillo impression while saying that he was going to
remain nameless. She said that people don't get weirded out by it and
the people kind of expect it when they come over. She was saying she
would go and she would like to have sex at the party. Ralph said that
he
has been in a room with other naked guys but he's never fucked another
guy. '' like even he wasn't convinced it didn't look like him. She used
the N-word in one song so the guys were thinking that maybe she was
ahead of her time back then.
Howard talked about what the club is and how Meg called them one time
to
try and save the club. and he couldn't eat anything.
He said he's going to be switching over to a movie discussion show
after
the baseball season is over.
He said they should have done that when the DVD was first released, he
doesn't want to do it now. Laura's Larry King Interview Audio Clips.
Artie asked her how her hygiene was and if she brushes her teeth.
Howard
said it looked like she got breast implants but she claimed it was from
weight lifting.
There is flirting going on but no sex. He lives in New York so he has
to
fly out to California to visit her. He said he's going to be switching
over to a movie discussion show after the baseball season is over.
He was also watching the Steelers game.

I was helping Dexter with his latest case. Was exciting.
The main bummer/strike against a Firefly MMO is that it's being developed using a cookie-cutter MMORPG system called Meta-something. It's gonna be a cheap and user-friendly system for would-be designers to make their own MMO. And someone licensed Firefly for it. So, you know it's gonna be poop.

Rudy's Weekend Moviethon Wrapup!
1. Cars - Was pretty good. Least fave of the Pixar ones so far though. Kinda burnt that it was ALL cars and no animals or anything, but still a billion times better than any Shrek-type of movie.
2. Hostel - I actually liked this one. Wasn't EVEN as gorey as I remember hearing it was gonna be. Way better than friggin Saw, and I'm glad *minor spoiler* that it didn't really take place too long in the torture rooms like I thought it would. Liked the whole ending-section quite a bit.
3. The Descent - Cool spelunking-horror flick. Didn't live up to the hype for me of being "SO TERRIFYING OMG" but it was well-done and looked great (for what I'm sure was prolly a low budget.) Very little actual scares for me. I think John Carpenter movies freak me out more. Religious imagery and shit like that always scares me more than mole-men.
4. Green Street Hooligans - Oh, pretty bad. I just wanted to break up the horror-fest, but instead got a whole nuther kinda horror. Frodo is an weird dude.
5. Miami Vice - Mixed reaction. Sunny had a DISGUSTING mullet and mustache - have NO idea why they did that. Ugh. Rico was cool but hardly in it. Was WAY too much globe trotting, maybe shoulda stayed in Miami. BUT, was still pretty quality. Actually had a "big boss fight at end of movie in nighttime setting" that didn't make me sick. I dug the last shootout. You guys notice that though, how in MOST movies it seems the main fight at the end is at fucking night and its drawn out and boring? My thoughts at least. This one was good though.
On Deck: Munich and History of Violence.
Oh yea, if the Firefly MMORPG ever comes out, i get dibs on the HOT companion character, oh wait psycho elfy ninja girl... mmmm psycho elfy ninja girl.
Jon, the game is a horrible money sink like Magic! It's the devil's tentacled spawn. Mmmm tentacles... Run for your life!

I assume, you're only playing with the starter deck. The play won't be as varied and focused. So like Magic, the game forces you to spend your grandchildren's inheritance on boosters like sweet, sweet heroin. Good thing the shortage is keeping a rein on my spending. Once you customize your deck though, playstyle should be different.

I like the fact that there is a wide variation of deck construction based on the classes. The only problem is that many of the class specific abilities are uncommons and rares. This is basically an open invitation for Upperdeck to slip its hand into my back pocket and tenderly cup my left butt cheek as it empties my wallet.

I originally tried making an all night elf deck with the hunter. Unfortunately it didn't do too well, so I was forced to put some dirty, dirty dwarves and gnomes in the deck. It's a weenie deck with mostly cheap allies and abilities filling in the rest (not many hunter specific ones though). No equipment (I don't have enough copies to make it worthwhile). My deck is too big (80ish cards) so results have been hit or miss depending on luck of the shuffle.

Eric and I tried the raid deck last night with our regular PvP decks. The results were just like the video game; that is a two-man raid group versus Onyxia. It wasn't pretty. I think at the end there were around eighteen dragon whelps feasting on our carcasses. The interesting thing about raid play is that deck construction has to be modified to work as a group. So cards that one wouldn't normally find useful are seen in a different light. Bringing us back to the fact the Warcraft has found another way beat me up for my lunch money.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Damn it's cold in my apartment. Is it bad when your toes are purple?

Did you guys hear they've announced a Firefly MMORPG? All there is right now is a press release, so there's no exciting pictures to show. Could be neat though. One thing I am worried about is what kind of roles everybody will play. I mean there are only nine characters on the show, and there will be at least twice that many players.

Aeryk and Denis, what are your takes on the strategic variety of the WoW CCG? So far I have only played one game. It seems that the way it plays is that in the first few turns not much of anything happens, then eventually one player builds up a mammoth wave of allies and crushes the other player... have you seen a lot of complexity outside of this? I'm not complaining, it is a fun and hassle-free type of game, I'm just interested in learning how the experience fills out as you add cards. I picked up the raid deck (phat loot w00t) and will bring it down for Christmas if you don't already have it... it'd be fun to get a group together and try to put the whuppin' on Onyxia!
Yeah, the Raiders are a sad sight. I'm not into football (American or Everywhere Else-ian) but I work in the East Bay and all the Raiders fans have been bummin' the whole year. I don't know what the problem is but it sounds like they need to follow that old adage, "the best offense, is some offense."

So, in the move, my girlfriend's ancient stereo finally bit the dust and I am mulling over options for a replacement as an Xmas gift. I'm considering two options. The first is to just buy a new stereo with CD changers and shit. We actually do listen to CDs pretty often (how quaint) so that's workable. That's option 1. I don't know a lot about stereos/music equipment though, anybody have some good links or advice? A lot of the sites I Googled up seem suspicious or biased.

The other option is to get one of those fancy-pants units that you dock an iPod into. They're kinda expensive, but they're oh, so hip. I don't really know much about them besides, they seem cool and they are conveniently compact.

Advice?
I know I'm the only person that's into football.. but there's a real possibility of my beloved Raiders having the #1 defense (they already have the #1 passing defense and #8 rushing defense for #3 overall) and the worst *offense* in the league when the final game is played. That's never happened before. This has been a year of many firsts and 'recent' records.. when we played the Texans with their impressive passing attack last week, our defense held them to NEGATIVE passing yards (32 total minus sack yards) but we still managed to lose the game because the offense gave up 5 turnovers and had two of them returned for touchdowns. Feh.