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- GenCon files Chapter 11! Lot's of reasons I have not researched nor really care to know about, but bottom line, it is happening and if they make it out clean a whistle, all the better. If not, dark days for gamin.
- Played my first ACW mini's game with my new wargamin' buddy, Frank. We played Fire and Fury, and it was totally fun! He seriously has 1000's of minis of varying scale, theater, etc. in his house. 100's of military books, an 8 x 15 dedicated wargame table. It is my retirement dream come true. There were 4 of us there, so I only marginally learned the rules, but it was cool none the less. I am thinking very heavily about trying to get him into PBI, as I really wouldn't need to buy an army for two people, as is the norm, and in fact, I might not even need to buy/paint an army at all, because he has SO MANY MINIATURES. Good times.
- Drumming is so fun. I love it.
- Rome on HBO was a good show for the two seasons it was on. Leslie and I watched it over the last few weeks. Good stuff. Sorry it was canceled early, but it lets me see what could be in store for Game of Thrones....
- Not sure if it is better than Nip/Tuck... Apples and oranges I suppose. For those of you judging me for liking Nip/Tuck and have not seen it, I humbly request that you watch the first season, or even the first few episodes, and see if your opinions change. It is a ridiculous show, absurd to the nines, and definitely is not pro pretty people or plastic surgery.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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45 Minute Video Game Reviews!
I joined the rental service GameFly recently (similar to Netflix which I also rejoined and is super awesome) so I'm getting a chance to try out a fuck-ton of video games for my XBox 360. These will be in the order that I've rented them:
Assassin's Creed: Horrible. You play an assassin in Medieval Times, but I've yet to see any jousting. And where the hell is the Rope Girl!? Really pretty game (kinda) but just boring as shit and very little "game" to it. It's just tons of fucking running around and really boring fighting. I did I think 3 missions before sending that pile of poop back.
Beautiful Katamari: Pretty horrible too. I know, it's a nichey weird japanese game, but it just seems SO dated and I just couldn't get into it. You roll a ball around picking up things in the environment until your ball is huge and picking up houses n' shit. The demo was sorta fun, but the actual game was really fucking hard and I hated the interface and stupid load times. I blame that on it being an old game, but meh, didn't dig it.
Mass Effect: Pretty alright. I'll rent it again once I burn through some of the games I'm itching to try. I stopped half-way through the Noveria story-line planet. I liked the combat after awhile - pretty cool mixture of FPS with the awesome biotic abilities and strategy. I played a Vanguard. There was plenty that was annoying about it too, but overall I think it's pretty solid.
Devil May Cry 4: I still have this rented out. I think it's really fun. I never played DMC 1-3 but a quick read of the wiki articles on them caught me up on the story, and really, this is an action game, so even though the cutscenes are super awesome and bad-ass, it's not like you need to know what the hell happened in the other games. I hated the demo for this too, so it's weird that I like the actual game so much. It just makes you feel like such a tough guy just kicking ass left n right. And the boss fights are fun.
Culdcept SAGA: Really fucking fun. It is a boardgame/card game hybrid. So the card element really comes off Magic the Gathering-y, while it mixes in a sort of Monopoly element in that you roll a die and race around a board, placing monsters where you land. I guess it's an update of an old PS2 game so there's a lot of people who were familiar with it. The cutscenes are probably the WORST I've ever seen in a video game (pretty much laughably bad - PATHETICALLY bad even) but fuck all that shit. The actual GAME is really fun and addictive. And as you play and win/lose you get cards after every match that you add to your stash so you can build different decks. Just go rent it, it really is rad.
That's about it! 45 minutes later, I warned ya!
4 second review of games I own:
skate. : Perfect.
Burnout Paradise: Fun then boring.
Assassin's Creed: Horrible. You play an assassin in Medieval Times, but I've yet to see any jousting. And where the hell is the Rope Girl!? Really pretty game (kinda) but just boring as shit and very little "game" to it. It's just tons of fucking running around and really boring fighting. I did I think 3 missions before sending that pile of poop back.
Beautiful Katamari: Pretty horrible too. I know, it's a nichey weird japanese game, but it just seems SO dated and I just couldn't get into it. You roll a ball around picking up things in the environment until your ball is huge and picking up houses n' shit. The demo was sorta fun, but the actual game was really fucking hard and I hated the interface and stupid load times. I blame that on it being an old game, but meh, didn't dig it.
Mass Effect: Pretty alright. I'll rent it again once I burn through some of the games I'm itching to try. I stopped half-way through the Noveria story-line planet. I liked the combat after awhile - pretty cool mixture of FPS with the awesome biotic abilities and strategy. I played a Vanguard. There was plenty that was annoying about it too, but overall I think it's pretty solid.
Devil May Cry 4: I still have this rented out. I think it's really fun. I never played DMC 1-3 but a quick read of the wiki articles on them caught me up on the story, and really, this is an action game, so even though the cutscenes are super awesome and bad-ass, it's not like you need to know what the hell happened in the other games. I hated the demo for this too, so it's weird that I like the actual game so much. It just makes you feel like such a tough guy just kicking ass left n right. And the boss fights are fun.
Culdcept SAGA: Really fucking fun. It is a boardgame/card game hybrid. So the card element really comes off Magic the Gathering-y, while it mixes in a sort of Monopoly element in that you roll a die and race around a board, placing monsters where you land. I guess it's an update of an old PS2 game so there's a lot of people who were familiar with it. The cutscenes are probably the WORST I've ever seen in a video game (pretty much laughably bad - PATHETICALLY bad even) but fuck all that shit. The actual GAME is really fun and addictive. And as you play and win/lose you get cards after every match that you add to your stash so you can build different decks. Just go rent it, it really is rad.
That's about it! 45 minutes later, I warned ya!
4 second review of games I own:
skate. : Perfect.
Burnout Paradise: Fun then boring.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
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superdickery
I've seen pictures from this before (like the Joker "boner" images) but never the whole gallery... it's hilarious. Bizarre, accidentally (or are they?) perverted images from old comics.
Shrek it out!
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No new posts in a while...
What's new and fresh vs what's not
- John Rambo - There seems to be a controversy about the goodness of this movie since it was beaten out as the top blockbuster by Meet the spartans in it's premier week, well, let me remove all doubt! It was great in the fashion of 80's and 90's movies but with a touch of today's special effects. Exploding body parts, unsurgical removal of larynx, intestines, head (___fill in body part), are all there. The movie was pretty action packed, not a lot of dialogue, if you remember Rambo is a Sociopath recovering from his war trama's. And the movie was really short.
- Predator Vs. Aliens 2 - Also pretty cool, but i can't say too much on this one. Just enjoy the fighting scenes and the aliens poppin out of tummies. It's almost like a B rated movie like attack of the killer alligators or something.
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That's my 1 minute movie reviews of the week. Movies out here spawn generally a week after the US premiers.
- Locked myself out of my car! wow... had to break the window and found out it would cost me about 40 bucks to replace the glass. Always carry a spare key in your wallet (tip)
- John Rambo - There seems to be a controversy about the goodness of this movie since it was beaten out as the top blockbuster by Meet the spartans in it's premier week, well, let me remove all doubt! It was great in the fashion of 80's and 90's movies but with a touch of today's special effects. Exploding body parts, unsurgical removal of larynx, intestines, head (___fill in body part), are all there. The movie was pretty action packed, not a lot of dialogue, if you remember Rambo is a Sociopath recovering from his war trama's. And the movie was really short.
- Predator Vs. Aliens 2 - Also pretty cool, but i can't say too much on this one. Just enjoy the fighting scenes and the aliens poppin out of tummies. It's almost like a B rated movie like attack of the killer alligators or something.
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That's my 1 minute movie reviews of the week. Movies out here spawn generally a week after the US premiers.
- Locked myself out of my car! wow... had to break the window and found out it would cost me about 40 bucks to replace the glass. Always carry a spare key in your wallet (tip)
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Herpes Adventure Quest
That is seriously a really good name for a game. It could be kind of serious. Maybe an MMO where everyone is trying to find the cure for Herpes. It'd be like a purple drop from the last boss.
Rudy Riiiiiiot!
My goonskate page - I have a bunch of new vids on there. Latest cool one is the Kenny G Old Town Line.. I'm proud of that one. It's pretty boring if you don't have the game, but now that you have it Eric, maybe you'll enjoy them more cuz you know what goes into it.
Rudy Riiiiiiot!
My goonskate page - I have a bunch of new vids on there. Latest cool one is the Kenny G Old Town Line.. I'm proud of that one. It's pretty boring if you don't have the game, but now that you have it Eric, maybe you'll enjoy them more cuz you know what goes into it.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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My eyesssss!
Cthulhu would surely be pleased at the anguish and madness this has caused me today.
I've lost the will to live
I've lost the will to live
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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Pew! Pew! Pew!
Mmmmmmmm... Warhammer 40K RPG. Can you play an Eldar bondage pirate character? While not Metal, it's certainly very Thompson Twins.
Embrace the future! NOW!!!!
eat me!
Embrace the future! NOW!!!!
eat me!
Monday, January 28, 2008
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40K RPG rocks! Games Workshop is teh sux0rs!
Even for Games Workshop, this is pretty impressive:
1. On Friday, GW (well actually Black Industries, their RPG arm) released Dark Heresy, the long-awaited Warhammer 40K RPG (based on the WFRP system).
2. This game sold like fucking hotcakes. I mean... it's the long-awaited Warhammer 40K RPG! Of course it's gonna sell. The guy at Endgame said it's one of their best-selling games ever, and it's already out of stock from all the online vendors already.
3. But in addition to selling like crazy, just because it's 40K, this game looks awesome, both in terms of physical print quality and (so far) in content. I don't know how exactly to put it except that by my admittedly non-scientific criteria it appears to be fucking metal. I want to play this game with, like, Napalm Death and weird electronic music in the background while ideally eating Taco Bell. I mean, your central job in the game is to violently hunt down mutants and aliens and stamp out insidious demonic forces, while praying that those same insidious demonic forces haven't corrupted your friends or colleagues, which they probably have, all in the service of a ten thousand year old cannibalistic God-Emperor. It's Call of Cthulhu meets boltguns meets "guilty!" That just sounds fucking great to me.
4. Today, GW announced that they're closing down their role-playing arm.
Go Games Workshop! They are notorious for breaking hearts (ex: WFRP, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Necromunda, Warhammer Quest...) but this is a spectacular example of pissing on your own parade, even for them. One full business day from opening up what by all appearances is a watershed new RPG, to shutting that shit right down! I mean jeez guys. The RPG arm was profitable, even if it wasn't huge. And it probably would've sold, I dunno, at least a few Daemonette miniatures or something.
On the plus side... the game is in my hands anyway, and it still looks metal. (Note: I have never used this phrase as praise before, please let me know if I'm using it right.) And they are still releasing the three completed expansions for the game. Even if they fail to do so, it doesn't matter that much. This is a big-ass, 400-page book that can definitely stand on its own. One thing that WFRP 2nd ed was kinda lacking was in world information and this game seems like a conscious effort to correct that (and it's got a huge adventure too).
So, three cheers to Games Workshop for doing what they do best... producing masterpieces and then utterly failing to support them when they suddenly realize they don't require customers to spend hundreds of dollars on Space Marines!
1. On Friday, GW (well actually Black Industries, their RPG arm) released Dark Heresy, the long-awaited Warhammer 40K RPG (based on the WFRP system).
2. This game sold like fucking hotcakes. I mean... it's the long-awaited Warhammer 40K RPG! Of course it's gonna sell. The guy at Endgame said it's one of their best-selling games ever, and it's already out of stock from all the online vendors already.
3. But in addition to selling like crazy, just because it's 40K, this game looks awesome, both in terms of physical print quality and (so far) in content. I don't know how exactly to put it except that by my admittedly non-scientific criteria it appears to be fucking metal. I want to play this game with, like, Napalm Death and weird electronic music in the background while ideally eating Taco Bell. I mean, your central job in the game is to violently hunt down mutants and aliens and stamp out insidious demonic forces, while praying that those same insidious demonic forces haven't corrupted your friends or colleagues, which they probably have, all in the service of a ten thousand year old cannibalistic God-Emperor. It's Call of Cthulhu meets boltguns meets "guilty!" That just sounds fucking great to me.
4. Today, GW announced that they're closing down their role-playing arm.
Go Games Workshop! They are notorious for breaking hearts (ex: WFRP, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Necromunda, Warhammer Quest...) but this is a spectacular example of pissing on your own parade, even for them. One full business day from opening up what by all appearances is a watershed new RPG, to shutting that shit right down! I mean jeez guys. The RPG arm was profitable, even if it wasn't huge. And it probably would've sold, I dunno, at least a few Daemonette miniatures or something.
On the plus side... the game is in my hands anyway, and it still looks metal. (Note: I have never used this phrase as praise before, please let me know if I'm using it right.) And they are still releasing the three completed expansions for the game. Even if they fail to do so, it doesn't matter that much. This is a big-ass, 400-page book that can definitely stand on its own. One thing that WFRP 2nd ed was kinda lacking was in world information and this game seems like a conscious effort to correct that (and it's got a huge adventure too).
So, three cheers to Games Workshop for doing what they do best... producing masterpieces and then utterly failing to support them when they suddenly realize they don't require customers to spend hundreds of dollars on Space Marines!
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The Streets of Rain Francisco
Did it rain last week? Yes, almost the entire week. Did it rain the week prior? Yes. Will it rain the balance of this week? Supposedly with today being the sole exception. I guess that is better than drought mania.
I really would like to see There Will be Blood. I have heard/seen quite a good bit of positive reviews. Congrats on your team making CIF. That was always such a big deal. That feels so long ago now. Sometimes when I see High School students or hear them talking on public tranny, I feel so old and disconnected from them.
eLzar, I think O rugs job is to be a dedicated comedy filter 80 hours a week. That BS about hospitality management, all made up to cover his true degree.
D>M>
I really would like to see There Will be Blood. I have heard/seen quite a good bit of positive reviews. Congrats on your team making CIF. That was always such a big deal. That feels so long ago now. Sometimes when I see High School students or hear them talking on public tranny, I feel so old and disconnected from them.
eLzar, I think O rugs job is to be a dedicated comedy filter 80 hours a week. That BS about hospitality management, all made up to cover his true degree.
D>M>
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There Will Be Blood = Fine Film
I have been going to the movies a lot lately. If I have an especially shitty day at work, I will find my way over to the movie theater and watch a movie solo. It is a very cathartic thing to do. During the week, there is hardly anyone there, and it's really mellow. Here are two films that I particularly enjoyed...
There Will Be Blood:
Watching Daniel Day Lewis act is like watching Michael Jordan play basketball or Wayne Gretzky play hockey. He is just a cut above the rest. He seriously made There Will Be Blood amazing just like the way he made a kind of so-so movie like Gangs of New York amazing. It is a little long, but go see this movie.
Kite Runner:
I loved this book, and unlike most adaptations, the movie was very true to it. It is about the bonds of friendship and how something as powerful as the Taliban can't keep family apart. Go see this movie. Super intense.
On another note, it looks like my girls' water polo team is going to go to CIF. We just have to win 3 more games which we should win anyway. We will finish 13-14 and 6-4 in league (third place). This is Torrance's first trip to the playoffs since 2003-2004, which is a big deal. Just thought I should brag.
Did it rain last week?
There Will Be Blood:
Watching Daniel Day Lewis act is like watching Michael Jordan play basketball or Wayne Gretzky play hockey. He is just a cut above the rest. He seriously made There Will Be Blood amazing just like the way he made a kind of so-so movie like Gangs of New York amazing. It is a little long, but go see this movie.
Kite Runner:
I loved this book, and unlike most adaptations, the movie was very true to it. It is about the bonds of friendship and how something as powerful as the Taliban can't keep family apart. Go see this movie. Super intense.
On another note, it looks like my girls' water polo team is going to go to CIF. We just have to win 3 more games which we should win anyway. We will finish 13-14 and 6-4 in league (third place). This is Torrance's first trip to the playoffs since 2003-2004, which is a big deal. Just thought I should brag.
Did it rain last week?
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Two-Second Movie Reviews
In the Mouth of Madness: Fun, although not scary anymore. Kid On Bike!
Cloverfield: Decent first half, weak second half.
Juno: Weak first half, decent second half.
Blade: Sweet Jesus this movie is awesome!
Cloverfield: Decent first half, weak second half.
Juno: Weak first half, decent second half.
Blade: Sweet Jesus this movie is awesome!
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