Jesus man, that's so sad that we actually knew that lady from New York. :( I sadly tend to tune out those missing/killed children stories so I hadn't heard about this one, but sure enough, once you mentioned it, I totally recognize her from high school. What a fucking horror story.

I will try to see Looper this week. I also hear Sinister is good and I've seen all the other Paranormal Activities in the theater, so might as well see number 4.

Yeah... movies based on video game franchises are not good. For a while Gore Verbinski (guy who did The Ring and Pirates of the Caribbean) was trying to do an R-rated Bioshock and Peter Jackson was trying to make Halo. Those could've been good.

Dark Knight Rises is definitely worth seeing. That's the only other movie I've seen in the theater in the last year.

Another good movie I've seen lately is Looper. Don't know if I've mentioned that one but I liked it. Buy tickets for Looper at fandango.com. See Looper today!

| Oh, also (Minecraft?)

I have no idea if this is something we control or if it has to do with our Minefold peeps.. but I can't seem to get into the world?

| Speaking of movies

Went and saw Silent Hill 3D with the wifey this weekend, which is interesting on a few levels:

1. She has this thing where she gets WAY too personally connected with characters in movies, ergo... she does not do well with scary movies. Like freaking the fuck out, screaming and punching you "not well".

2. This was actually her idea. lol

3. Silent Hill 3D was not really very scary..? Which seems a bit weird to say, because it's, well, a horror film. Outside of a couple of "jump out at you" things which might as well have been ANYTHING jumping out at you with a sudden audio screech... it was graphically a little bit interesting I guess.

4. Sean Bean got to add another scene to his death reel. (have you seen this on youtube? pretty funny actually!)

5. TOTALLY should have driven an extra 10 minutes to the cheapo Starplex to catch The Dark Knight Rises instead.

6. However, then we probably would not have gone to this little neighborhood bar / grill place we've been hearing about "Top of Tacoma"... which was amazingly awesome! Had a dinner and four nice beers for $17! Super awesome deal, plus everyone was super friendly. Great time there, will probably go back if we wind up having a parents' night out again.

7. There was some kind of super shitty B-movie on one of the TV sets and the main guy was an actor that we sat there for a few minutes going... MAN, I KNOW THAT GUY, WHO IS THAT? Only to realize that it was a younger Chairman from Iron Chef America... LOL

8. I should really look up that movie, it was so bad it was awesome. If you took Predator, Alien, and Indiana Jones and BLATANTLY ripped them off to create a B-movie... this would be it.

Check this shit out! Keep in mind this is as GOOD as they could make it look... haha.. it's so terrible. But I completely got sucked in. :(

That video was hilarious, I teared up at several points. Nice work!

I'm home with a sore throat. Probably caused by my hectic travel schedule over the last week. A week ago Saturday, flew to LA, Sunday had the kid's big 1-year birthday bash, Monday flew up and went to work, Wednesday flew back to LA, Friday drove to Santa Barbara, Friday-Saturday was prep for my sister's wedding, sister's wedding, aftermath of sister's wedding, yesterday drove up here. Lots of fun but I'm ready for a bit of downtime. Got to fit in a game with Rude which was nice.

I also squeezed in another viewing of Looper. I LOVED this movie. It's the sort of fun, but smart, R-rated sci-fi movie that I wish they made more of. It's not primarily an action movie, but there are some really good set piece sequences (no shaky-cam!) and the characters and dialogue are great. I REALLY recommend this movie (and going in with as little knowledge about the plot as possible).

If you don't want to be super depressed, don't read this, but the Marina who is the mom in NY that just found her kids murdered by the nanny, is the same Marina from me/Rude/Ja-el's high school class. Poor lady, just unimaginable.

| Skate Hijinks

That was some much needed comic relief. Truly LOL. My manager kept asking me why I was laughing so much in my office. I watched it twice at work, to the detriment of my Friday afternoon productivity :/

D>M>

| Skate, feat. Garry's Mod

Didn't know it was available!


... and I am LMFAO watching it!

| LOLOL Skate Video

| Punch Quest

This is the best new iOs game! It's free too, dig it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/punch-quest/id554223561?ls=1&mt=8

| FTL related

Finally got the Stealth Cruiser... if you can survive the first sector with no shields it's pretty groovy. I'm working on the Type B because it comes with the Glaive Beam standard! Weeeee

| FTL > Artemis

I liked Artemis, I liked the social aspect of the game, I liked sitting in one room together goofing around and playing Star Trek house.  But the piece that was missing from the game to make it more like Star Trek was EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENS NOT ON THE BRIDGE.

Without there being a story aspect to Artemis, it's just not much more that a clunky (and social) version of FTL, but without the RPG elements.  Even if Artemis had some minor text driven missions and 'pause' screens where the players interact with a choose your own adventure-like story component it would make Artemis that much cooler.

I feel like I'm selling Artemis short because we didn't really take it seriously enough or gave it enough attention to get a good feel for what it had to offer, but I suspect it's not THAT MUCH more that we played through.

PS I feel sad for Kickstarter projects that fail miserably.

That's such a weird kickstarter. Those t-shirts make me sad for some reason! Do you guys think Artemis "worked" for us that weekend? I think the technical difficulties we had setting it up sucked a LOT of the fun out of it for me. I'm sure when I was younger I had a much higher endurance for lan-party setup, but now I just want to raaaage. I think the game has a lot of potential though.

Oh hai everyone

Maybe we should fund this for the next ManCon?

Saw Looper. That shit was awesome.

That Discogs site is cool. Man, those 7 inches I bought back in the day are, no surprise, worth barely more than I paid for them. I need to see what I actually still have left and go through them. There might be SOME gem in there, but I kinda doubt it. 

Voodoo Glow Skulls - Rasta Mi Huevos only worth $3.98 :( 

The Offspring cover for Ignition was HORRIBLE! Insert fireplace clip art.

Propagandhi ‎– Where Quality Is Job #1 for $20! (dO I EVEN HAVE THIS?)

hate how copy/paste goes nuts sometimes.

| Argo

Went to see Argo this past week. Pretty good movie! I still haven't seen Good Will Hunting, but I did see The Town, and I'd put it at that level of goodness for me. Not the best movie I've ever seen, but entertaining and well made.