Also, the xbox is great. That’s what my surprise life-ruining baby turned out to be. Check me out on live I’m the same name as somewhere around here. I am pretty bad at games.
Not that I ever stopped tagging; I just figured I should say it into the darkness.
Mass Effect is one of those games that changes the way you think about games and what they should do for you and what you should do with them. That’s where I’ve been. I didn’t know I had been waiting for the damn thing my whole life. This shit changes what your mind lets qualify as epic.
(and basically every single thing to suck about knights…gone)
Tomorrow could be one of the biggest days in what will be our generation’s history. I talk about it too much already, so I promised I would keep this one brief (I lied). Also please don’t assume I’m jumping on some sort of endorsement bandwagon here, as I totally don’t care about endorsements outside of entertainment and I think it’s important for everyone to talk about this crap with everyone.
It is important that everyone makes time and goes to their polling place and sticks four fingers into the system that has been fucking up their lives for the past few years. The only way to beat this system is to use it; this is a basic fact of American civics.
I want to also note that it is particularly important for anyone under 25 to get the hell off of their lazy asses and just go to their polling places tomorrow and vote. Look up where it is, stop whining about it, and go do it. If you are an older person that cares about the horrors of government and interact with the 18-25s regularly, inspire them. Make it happen.
As for me, I will be representing my home state and the man whose birthday I stole next week (who understood the concept of inspiration as catalyst) by voting for the guy that announced his candidacy in the same place as some of the most eloquently backhanded speeches ever have been delivered.
I have been talking about this quite a lot over there on the twitter, but it’s not about buzzword bingo or hot shit trends or bandwagon bumblefuck. This is about reform that will relieve the poor of the rich’s burden (without empty leftist rhetoric promises). It is about technology not scaring off the elderly Washington geriatrics. It is about SERIOUSLY TECHNOLOGY IT’S THE FUTURE. It is about taking our country back from companies and stockholders by using it against itself. It is about diversity and proving to Negative Nancies™ that our country really has come this far.
I am a skeptic leaning far into the realm of cynicism. That cynicism is a result of the past seven years, and I don’t consider it permanent. I looked into this guy and the whole behind the scenes mess, and I said fuck libertarianism for a couple years if this will actually improve life. I genuinely think it will, and that is after excessive cynical review. I am much more surprised than I am proud to report that the state of Georgia agrees.
It is time to move on and up. This rutwalking can finally end with thinking positive, and I say that with the most respectably desperate tone possible. I already voted for this guy in Illinois, watched what he did after that, and now I’m going to vote for him again. Thank you for listening.
I examined a pamphlet book type thing that fell on my head one day in this video.
This is part one of three. Stay tuned for the rest (the video feed on the right or do your youtube thing on it or whatever), which is a detailed discussion of your options when approaching the arena of electronic games in a manner that doesn’t piss off god.
IN FACT see you tomorrowhere is part 2 and part 3 (it is arguably worth watching all three).
10% of searches that lead to this site: “judy nails porn.” Before now, this phrase did not exist on this site. This is a real statistic, and is actually precisely 10.6%. Judy Nails is a Guitar Hero character. Come on people.
How did you find this site? How do you read it now (if the answer is livejournal, feel free to shame my by replying there)?
Here’s some of my favorite referencing searches, all real:
5.96%: what life doth - Xavier: Angel Renegade.
2.65%: what doth life - Xavier: Renegade Angel.
1.32%: carl brutananadilewski - wow, who knows how to spell it?
1.32%: meatwad does crack - bit of a theme here.
0.66%: adult swim ron paul - ha!
0.66%: current events of lying in advertisement - on topic!
An overwhelming number of Xavier: Renegade Angel searches lead to this site, so I will continue to discuss both it and the rest of pffr’s crap, as well as anything I find that is as sharply ludicrous as Wonder Showzen and the like.
It’s good to see that search engines tend to bring people to this site that might actually want to see it.
Nintendo America didn’t release Super Mario Bros. 2 in the United States because they didn’t think people would buy a game that looked just like the original, and they thought it was too hard (which it is, unless compared to the second half of the first game). Eventually it came along as the Lost Levels in Mario All-Stars, but was it ever really much more than just a damned sequel? Instead, this acid trip got made into a Mario game:
If you look at other Nintendo Entertainment System series, you see that sequels became a commonplace way to get more games out, and in many cases just make some cash for garbage. But those sequels generally had a few things in common.
They sold.
They looked very, very similar to their predecessors: Mega Man, Double Dragon, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Metroid, Dragon Warrior, Adventure Island, etc.
They were almost never an entirely different Japanese game in disguise with very few changes.
They always warranted unneeded items on lists, or even unneeded lists.
Mario’s a weirdo all because they decided to make his first sequel another goddamn game in disguise.
One of the few major exceptions to this rule, which also follows the “logic” behind the Mario Bro decision, is Zelda. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, looked very little like its predecessor, but maintained Zelda continuity traditions that continue today. Zelda II was, however, insanely difficult.
Zelda stories are like a comic book over the years. The stories come from different places and do different things. Link is a bunch of different dudes. Mario’s just one guy. It seems now that he hasn’t changed at all since Super Mario Bros. 3. Instead, the game engines that drew him did. He’s a brutally minimal example of technological evolution, as are the worlds he lands in. Mario is video games.
Enchanted is so stupid that it had to have been written by the small children slaving away in a behind-the-scenes writer’s sweatshop inside the it’s a small world ride.
Millions of people saw it today. Trillions of brains cells melted.
Please leave your change in the cup.
The problem with the Nintendo Wii is that there are so few decent games that the prices will stay stubbornly high indefinitely, even for used copies.
The new adult swim show for this week, Xavier: Renegade Angel is a cd-rom loaded nightmare from 1994. The show looks like cutscenes from all the adventure and puzzle games of the early 90s available on the revolutionary newish cd-rom format, or perhaps even cruder. It appears as if it could’ve been “shot” in Second Life with a shitty digital camera and then digitized (trans-en-re-enconvertificated) again for the internets.
You might recognize the voice of the dumb main character. It sounds like a few voices from one show in particular. The reason is because the show was made by the same folks that made Wonder Showzen, PFFR.
I lost my mind yesterday and made videos of myself playing Guitar Hero 3 to prove I have the most virility of all human beings in the land and slightly beyond:
I finished hard in about six hours straight though, failing only on Raining Blood, thus sacrificing my shit to SLAYER
Also it’s awesome, but I really explain it in the emovideo if you care about that kind of game, including some problems (I forgot to mention the almost unnoticeable ads), none of which really involved SLAYER
HATE THE NEW LOADING SCREEN AND THE LEAD SINGER HATE HATE HATE
Otherwise new art is good and all that mess. Some of the character exaggerations are for the best, and others aren’t. There’s surprises and disappointments (oh, my Judy, what did you do with your clothes!), and a hell of a lot of new crap to break your hands playing SLAYER
I cannot wait to stick all five fingers way up deep all gross into expert.
I was testing Semagic when applied to WordPress. Didn’t work. I will miss my Livejournal icons. Maybe I’ll work something out.
The Internet is so much fun tonight. Maybe I’ll stop capitalizing internet. It’s not novel and who gives a shit anyway.
Time to shoot aliens because the Tabula Rasa beta is over soon. I’ve been having a hell of a time with it, but the slowdown after level 10 is really starting to drag on me. I’m too used to how easy warcraft was. This is like Halo, but twisted with Auto Assault…without the cars. I’d link all this shit up but I don’t care.
