Saturday, April 25, 2009
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I saw JT1 not too long ago, actually. He's doing pretty well but is job searching (including up here, and there's word he may have given an offer by a company in SF, so the slow migration of everyone I know up to this area continues). Apparently his entire division became obsolete at his company, he has been given some crazy long-term notice, and is just waiting while the axe sloooooooooooowly falls.
I saw Crank 2 last night. It was the most unadulteratedly stupid movie I've ever seen in a theater. Often just in a bad way, but sometimes in a gloriously good way (such as at one point when they cut a scene and put up a title card to cut to the exact same scene "NINE SECONDS LATER"). The amounts of stupid gore, low comedy and volume of T&A reminded me of a Troma movie. Actually if they trimmed a little of the fat from it, it would be a retarded action movie on par with the best of the seagal and van damme era. It's about 15 minutes too long (and it's only 85 minutes).
Who would enjoy this movie?
Aeryk - no
Ryan - no
Art - I'm not sure, but guessing no
Enron - no, but possibly yes if drunk
Enron's brother - YES
Motorbyke - probably not
Rudy - yes
Ja-el - yes
Pumpkin - not sure about this man of mystery's taste in stupid action movies, lots of boobs and dudes in bondage gear so I'm gonna maybe say yes?
Blackheart - no
My girlfriend - not really, she enjoys a dumb actioner but this was too much
Your Mom - was in it
I saw Crank 2 last night. It was the most unadulteratedly stupid movie I've ever seen in a theater. Often just in a bad way, but sometimes in a gloriously good way (such as at one point when they cut a scene and put up a title card to cut to the exact same scene "NINE SECONDS LATER"). The amounts of stupid gore, low comedy and volume of T&A reminded me of a Troma movie. Actually if they trimmed a little of the fat from it, it would be a retarded action movie on par with the best of the seagal and van damme era. It's about 15 minutes too long (and it's only 85 minutes).
Who would enjoy this movie?
Aeryk - no
Ryan - no
Art - I'm not sure, but guessing no
Enron - no, but possibly yes if drunk
Enron's brother - YES
Motorbyke - probably not
Rudy - yes
Ja-el - yes
Pumpkin - not sure about this man of mystery's taste in stupid action movies, lots of boobs and dudes in bondage gear so I'm gonna maybe say yes?
Blackheart - no
My girlfriend - not really, she enjoys a dumb actioner but this was too much
Your Mom - was in it
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
hey man, just wanted to drop a line and say hi. still moving back, but just got delayed until 2nd week of may or so with some work stuff. Hope to see you guys soon though! and that i'll make it back in time for Kubla... haven't been to con in almost 4 years..
Rude, did you really hang out with Jon Tong? how's he?
Dennis, my coach name is "poundrock" and my teams are Picnic Table Riot Squad (humans) and Orks from Mork (orks???) - let me know if you need to be schooled in the way of blood bowl.
Yeah, Johnny got into town early April, we've been to the beach a couple times (hung out at Jon Tong's strand house, when did THAT happen!?)
Yeah, Johnny got into town early April, we've been to the beach a couple times (hung out at Jon Tong's strand house, when did THAT happen!?)
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Woo Hoo!
I got asked to the dance! I got asked to the dance! Downloading my dress.. er tux will take a while though. Too bad they didn't include a 1/2ling team. Oh Otterface, your day will come. Oh yes.
Me and Eric played some Blood Bowl last night, good times. Like FUMBBL but snazzy looking. I had to learn the controls AND remember the rules, thus ending in a 2-1 loss for my human team vs his human team. The rematch I will be Orcs. Also Eric, keep an eye on your inbox because a lot of people are reporting getting multiple beta invites after already getting in, so maybe if we do we can send some off to our pals, thanks.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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ZOMGBB!!!
Let's do it! I'll need to disassemble the podcast booth to get the mic/headset combo back, but we should skype it up and play some BB!
By the way, can you sit still yet and podcast or will you be jonesing too hard for a fag, smoke, grit, cancer stick, etc.?
Text me when you are ready, and make sure you change all your graphic settings in game to the minimum. I had issues when my graphics were high, so I dropped em to lowest of low and had a perfect game after that.
By the way, can you sit still yet and podcast or will you be jonesing too hard for a fag, smoke, grit, cancer stick, etc.?
Text me when you are ready, and make sure you change all your graphic settings in game to the minimum. I had issues when my graphics were high, so I dropped em to lowest of low and had a perfect game after that.
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BB
Got the beta invite last night. :) So, Eric, let's get some games in this week! I'll install it tonight and see if it even runs on my POS computer.
Also there's some free DLC for Left4Dead that came out yesterday. A new mode called Survival (sounds like Horde mode from Gears 2 -so just waves of zomboids, last as long as you can?) and then they turned the remaining 2 maps into versus versions. Don't know what else, but whoever's down for that this week, oh yeah.
Also there's some free DLC for Left4Dead that came out yesterday. A new mode called Survival (sounds like Horde mode from Gears 2 -so just waves of zomboids, last as long as you can?) and then they turned the remaining 2 maps into versus versions. Don't know what else, but whoever's down for that this week, oh yeah.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sweet, glad it sounds like Blood Browl is pretty good. I don't know what platforms I'd go for (DS because they cost me NOTHING AHAHAHAHAH) but either PC or XBLA. Probably PC because now that I have no car payments I'm itching to build a new rig, yay! :)
You guys ever heard of this table top game, Brikwars: LINK2RULES ? Sounds interesting I suppose. Also sounds like a lot of work, I hate building lego shit, but still thought I'd share.
You guys ever heard of this table top game, Brikwars: LINK2RULES ? Sounds interesting I suppose. Also sounds like a lot of work, I hate building lego shit, but still thought I'd share.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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Bloody Bowels
Which is I believe the most used synonym for BB on the AT website!
I have not poured over all the possible rules yet, but from what I can tell, it is a 100% completely faithful version of the turn based game. The beta is only multiplayer, so I have only played 2 games of it so far. Initial thoughts:
1) TOTALLY AWESOME league tracker tool with league options and SUPER AWESOME stat tracking! Not only do you track the stats for your standard star player points, but you track yards gained from passing, rushing, times ko'd, failed armor saves, etc. That alone makes this a must buy for sports nerds (I'm looking at you Ryan and my bathroom mirror).
2) nice graphics, and a perfect aesthetic throughout the game.
3) I don't ever see the use for different camera angles. Who would ever thing to play BB isometrically? It just doesn't make sense when so much of the game is calculating exact moves, spaces, distances, tackle zones, etc. I moved my camera to be probably 80 - 90 directly overhead, with a little angle behind my players for that nice 3D-looking across the board view. This will not change my decision to buy the DS version, but the bummer about the DS is it is ONLY isometric, no camera changes, whereas the PSP/PC/360 can all change the view.
4) I am buying at least two versions of the game, one static and one mobile. Which combination remains to be seen. DS is the DS so it is awesome, PSP has camera angle changes, PC will be faster to navigate with the point and click and possible downloadable patches/add-ons, the 360 will be awesome for integrated chat and the method of controller choice if the real-time version is any good.
I could ramble on, but most of what I say will not be interesting, so I will stop here and hope that I am not kicked out of the beta because of the AT intellegence leak....
I have not poured over all the possible rules yet, but from what I can tell, it is a 100% completely faithful version of the turn based game. The beta is only multiplayer, so I have only played 2 games of it so far. Initial thoughts:
1) TOTALLY AWESOME league tracker tool with league options and SUPER AWESOME stat tracking! Not only do you track the stats for your standard star player points, but you track yards gained from passing, rushing, times ko'd, failed armor saves, etc. That alone makes this a must buy for sports nerds (I'm looking at you Ryan and my bathroom mirror).
2) nice graphics, and a perfect aesthetic throughout the game.
3) I don't ever see the use for different camera angles. Who would ever thing to play BB isometrically? It just doesn't make sense when so much of the game is calculating exact moves, spaces, distances, tackle zones, etc. I moved my camera to be probably 80 - 90 directly overhead, with a little angle behind my players for that nice 3D-looking across the board view. This will not change my decision to buy the DS version, but the bummer about the DS is it is ONLY isometric, no camera changes, whereas the PSP/PC/360 can all change the view.
4) I am buying at least two versions of the game, one static and one mobile. Which combination remains to be seen. DS is the DS so it is awesome, PSP has camera angle changes, PC will be faster to navigate with the point and click and possible downloadable patches/add-ons, the 360 will be awesome for integrated chat and the method of controller choice if the real-time version is any good.
I could ramble on, but most of what I say will not be interesting, so I will stop here and hope that I am not kicked out of the beta because of the AT intellegence leak....
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