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That was the WORST I've ever seen the freeway system through about 10 years of winter driving. We got fuxx0r3d. Just stay home.
The outerburrows people are offering a Panzram tshirt up on cafe press for xmas. Fun stuff! link
yeah, I'm a hardcore gamer and all, but even waiting in the cold for a few minutes is far too much pain to waste on a PS3 or Wii, especially since typical release titles are all graphics and no gameplay. The incident in west bend (see drudgereport for the link) did make national news and turned out to be one of the more benign injuries related to the ps3 release.
3:30 Eastern Time, Nov 12th on ABC. MLS finals.
This is my goal of (last) week:
West Ham up inside Arsenal.
Potsy, who every time I see him blathers about TeamFortress 2, a Quake/HL mod that was absolute VAPORWARE for almost a decade now, finally had his moment in the sunshine with the release of THIS
On the vid from the last post, listen for the wilhelm all over the place!
Make sure to vote, even you that are brainwashed by your family to vote one way or the other and can't think for yourself. People are dying right as you read this for the right to do it, so if you sit on your ass and don't, shouldn't it be you headless in a shallow grave instead?
One thing to remember is that there is no one side of the fence. You have a choice that goes beyond the party lines, though some would make you believe otherwise. There are a few quality republicans left, though most of the good ones have been drummed out for showing an independent thought here or there. And there are some democrats that don't have their head straight up their asses.
I for one am in agreement that we should be policing Iraq. Calling it a war is propaganda. Calling sets of policy against a non nation 'entity' such as 'drugs' or 'terrorism' is not a War by any definition, but a low intensity conflict, or operation other than war. We are a nation built on an industrial military complex and we must constantly be at war to test the weapons we will soon sell to foreign governments. Unlike most of the other Superpowers, our men, materials and force multipliers have been tested on the ground constantly, and not just in exercises. Therefore, I usually vote Hawk rather than dove.
However, with President Bush and his blast tyranny, it's really impossible to take his Cassus Belli (reason for war) seriously in light of the fact that N.Korea, also in the Axis of Evil, has tested a Nuclear weapon, and yet Iraq had nothing more than some old WW2 mustard gas containers that no one in the Iraqi military even knew about. We're essentially in the wrong conflict. Why? On both counts, China. Iraq and Iran both supply a hungry China with oil, and since the USA has the advantage of being able to embark on foreign war, which China does not, it was an easy choice to tip the scales in the USA's favor with a trumped up charge of WMD by a political tool of the oil companies. In N. Korea, any US involvement in the area to tip the balance between the two states would absolutely widen the conflict and involve the big northern neighbor, so direct intervention is impossible.
Yet the fact remains, the only threat to the USA and G7's hegemony in the foreseeable future is a rogue state's acquisition of a nuclear device: which just happened. I see this as the greatest failure of a very hawkish regime, one that should have taken steps rather than ignoring the problem entirely. Whenever some pointless debate about abortion, gay rights, gun control, Christianity or the death penalty crosses the lips of a politician on TV one should respond, if even in their own minds with: "Shouldn't you be doing something so we don't get nuked?"
Locally? At least Wisconsin has Madison to counter-balance a little bit the baby-boomers giant swing to the far and religious right. We're dealing with a generation of people that attacked the corrupt system in their youth, tried to remake the world in a more socially conscious image, but ended up retreating to their televisions in the suburbs as far away from other human beings or social groups as their wealth could take them. Miraculously, as fucked as local politics is with two of the most virulent and vitriolic right wing radio shock jockeys in the country right here, we have two fine senators, one of which is the very model of what an opposition party senator should be.
Keneda is setting up an OG Quake server in the near future. Check here for further details down the line.
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A gourmet peanut butter sandwich today. The bread was just some italian and the peanut butter of middle range quality. The kicker was that the jam/jelly was made from Wine grapes. Go fucking figure. Go.
Fatty won the costume contest that didn't actually happen. Shorty's was a good runner up and the rest, especially the white trash duo with the loose tooth and boob falling out. No one took pictures except on the macbook in the basement.
He actually convinced a woman to marry him and they went through with it! Congrats Chuck, sensless (and sawyer). I want that fucking splif picture and NO ARGUEMENT.
Few little videos that go to show that there can never be too many WW2 games around.
A barrage ends badly
Grenades vs building
A barrage ends well
It has rained three nights in a row straight, yet been sunny during the day? Wisconsin weather is not supposed to be that fucking consistant!
NEW POLICE STORY. Said to be his most serious film yet. "Jackie Chan was looking for a release from his Hollywood prison and a filmmaking experience in which he could once again relive the joys of performing his own highly dangerous stunts."
Review of Fable the Lost Chapters.
And so is sensless who took a beating to the liver area over the weekend and didn't look too good while departing the Dells.
I ran into a barbwire fence, sensless chased some ducks and got yelled at by a fat woman, frieburger was stripped and thrown into the piss-I mean-hot tub, mat was naked and fatty had ass-grease rubbed in his face, mouth had a lie down. Gallack and Burdick smoked cigs and watched.
Gave blood at about noon today. As soon as the needle pierced my flesh I broke out in a cold sweat and had to do the lie down with my feet elevated. They squeezed it out of me and I was trying to figure out if it was physiological or psychological, but they didn't have a definative answer. I remeber sitting there thinking: this isn't a big deal at all and I got scratched up by thorns over 80% of my legs and arms checking to see if they finally tore down the secret church in the wilderness (they haven't!) a couple weekends ago and didn't bat an eye, so why this reaction? My blood pressure dropped like a stone and it's difficult to believe that it was completely psychological. I guess it's all just part of being a scuttling blood-bag.
I got a couple free trial cd's at GENCON and tried last night to play Guild Wars. Yeah, uh you need about two hours to download all the crap you need EACH TIME YOU BOOT THE GAME. Like my initial impression about Morrowind (it crashed instantly) I think this game sucks a fat cock.
With a system that has a vid card with the X after the GT, two gigs of ram and some speedy 80gig HD's, I've devled into a few games of late that I simply couldn't play with any degree of framerate on my old shitebox. Of the three big boys of the new genesis of 3d shooters, Far Cry stands out not with the best graphics or plot, but by far the best gameplay of the three, putting DOOM 3 especially to shame.
With Halflife 3 not even on the radar, and who knows if id software will even make another DOOM/Quake game, CRYSIS by CRYTEK is the single player shooter that will set the bar for all others to follow, and with these screens, who will stand tall enough to even compare?
For those of you still trying to get your hands on the original, grab the new one before it's gone. The game begins with a mother sacrificing her own children to summon a daemon lord so her eldest son can kill it!
This time, I actually got a day to play games other than the usual Final Brawl Shadowfist tournament, and had some warm bodies (some with lady lumps) along to fill in the spots for demos when needed. The place was crowded at all times so it looks like CCG's, RPG's and miniature games are going strong, still riding the wave of popularity that Magic the Gathering started in 1993. One thing I did notice: no Games Workshop booth at all!
Of the impulse buys, I picked up Vortex for cheap, but I haven't tried it yet, and Dungeonville, which we played twice with 4 players. I like the art, but the gameplay to me seemed so very random, and I didn't see the strategy. Since the wife liked it a lot, it will see more play, but it's definitely a short, light game. As colossal Arena is my personal fav in the light, short game region, it really has to be good to compete. Other than Shadowfist, CA was the only game I brought down to play.
Another light game of interest that one of the Shadowfist guys busted out was Fairy Tale. It's a card drafting game with four rounds, where you try to meld cards that match up, while preventing opponents from getting their melds. Pretty interesting, but I couldn't see playing for an entire night. I couldn't tell if ANY of the charaters on the card are were male or female except the ones with beards...
The winner of the new needed game award for me this con was Caylus. Since the game instantly sold out the first english printing last year, GENCON was the first time I've even had a chance to see a copy. I played a demo for about an hour and was completely stumped as to what was going on at first, but after a few turns it became clear as day that this is an absolute gem of a game, very worthy to be up there with Catan and Puerto. Watch for me forcing you to play in the near future.
Games I thought looked lame was Dreamblade for starters. Never got close enough to hear how to play, but I'd bet a ten spot that the game will tank. There's PLENTY of chinese-labor painted miniature games out there (Heroscape and the like), and there wasn't anything exceptional about Dreamblade. With the ghastly failure of Hecatomb last summer, I'm pretty wary of anything that Wizards of the Coast puts out.
Ah yes, Shadowfist. The new expansion has some ripping cards in it, and the new faction, while fairly weak at the moment, look interesting (very ambushy). Only a few of the cards saw play during the tournament (Majongg Parlor and The Willow Bends mostly), but that's because the set was released only the day before. I was not entirely impressed by the art on the cards. Some of the pieces were outright terrible, and most sort of mediocre. The theme--yet another go at then well tread sci-fi/magic Old West path--was less than impressive and seemed far from the mark to what a Shadowfist backstory should be. The critical shift cards (with the relegation of the architechs to the netherworld and rise of the syndicate) are very cool (Personality shard and the love lorn Shaolin Agent for instance), but a secondary storyline to whatever's going on in 1900 magical guns monkeys pirates cyborg kung fu old west...
I think I miss the time when expansions focused mostly on one or two factions (Netherworld 1, Flashpoint and Shaolin Showdown), and the others only got a few cards here or there because they were outside of the immediate conflict. I'm always expecting each expansion to be shadowfist's last, but it looks like they're really gearing up for the new core set for next year, and that's fanfuckingtastical.
RULES!
I really admire very few professional atheletes. In fact, in recorded human history, I know only three players that I feel are worthy of my highest praise, hightes accolades, and deserve to wear the laurel of mayhem wherever they go, even while crossing the River Styx!
Now, finally, a fourth player, who is absolutely worthy to join this group of atheletes has shown himself. A player who, while skilled enough to be considered one of the best in his position, chooses to play with a deep thirst for mayhem and flagrant disregard for other's safety. Zindedine Zidane.
GW has granted the rights to make video games from the Blood Bowl IP to Cyanide, a developer from France responsible for the CHAOS LEAGUE franchize.
link with more info.
Link.
Link
yeah.
Where: 757 N Broadway
When: Sat, June 17, 6PM on.
Why: Beer, Pete's Smurfs vs Snorks, a study in Darwinism
How Much: 5$ oh yeah.
2-0 I could have lived with, but 3-0 is indicative of just how bad TEAM AMERICA was playing this evening in sig-sauerkraut land. Just no cohesion at all, very little teamwork and defense? Yes the Czechs have two incredible strikers, but two of the goals could have simply been avoided with some semblance of D.
Oh well, we are Americans right? Catastrophe keeps us together anyway.
One of the coolest things about living in Wisconsin is the fact that not only did we, WE invent Dungeons and Dragons, but MANY of us live where there is a CASTLE on the fucking horizon. A castle that we see when driving around to Slinger Speedway and the like or those grocery stores on the north side of the metro area that have all the signs in german. A castle that we later find out from our parents is a monestary. It's shocking when you see it for the first time in your life, and awesome times afer. I'm talking about holy hill folks, and on 060606, as most of you know it got vandalized pretty bad. Bad in that they couldn't even spell SATAN correctly and spelled it SATIN. Also bad in that there are many MANY ugly ass churches, no SAM'S wearhouses dedicated to christ that seat 40,000 people and have excellent acustics, but look like a punch-press factory from the outside and cause real fucking gae traffic problems for all involved. Why not spray paint SATIN on their walls, not that they ponied up the cash to build any statues or anything that could be defaced, focusing entirely on the buildings capacity for more worshipers to the Jesus Christ of Walmart.
My sentence on these psuedo-heathen white kids from upper middle class families? Sodomy with a small steel crucifix UNTIL DEATH.
Thanks to Stan and his lovely wife I was in attendance at the Duke Rufus bi-annual Kickboxing/MMA tournament down at the Radison this Saturday. The venue stunk and power to the lights went out a few times, as well as horrible sound problems and ghastly representations of the female gender foisted upon us all by a nearby strip club, but the fights were awesomeness incarnate! There are some highly skilled MMA fighters in this region, mostly due to the fact that the midwest has such a strong wrestling background with the ju-jitsu cherry on top. Kickboxing, not so much.
If tomorrow does turn out to be the day of the beast after all: hail satan.
Spike has officially given up the ghost. For those of you that remember he was the fatty of the bunch (and the only one that got is nuts clipped). At 21 years of age, he was still eating heartily, but had a stroke about a month ago that disallowed the use of his back legs.
Damn. Damn. Damn. We look forward to Fall every year because that's when all the good games are supposed to come out, but you know what? Fall/early winter is to take advantage of the Xmas rush, where old ladies and clueless parents go to the mauls of america to shop for "a computer game" or a "TV game" and buy whatever the sales associate thinks is good that week. publishers know this, and foist all their shite on the world at this time of least dicernment. Yet it's the good shit, the games that will sell well regardless of the capitalistic rush that we perform to celebrate Baby Jesus, that tend to hit right at the worst time possible: Early summer. Early summer games are a kick straight up the crotch as they reduce to nothing the motivation to go outside, hike across the state, fornicate outdoors or do anything but what you've been doing all winter: sitting in a darkened room staring into a monitor as your ass turns into rocotta cheese in a plastic bag. Be that as it may, with E3 going down, you're going to see a mess of great stuff that won't hit until late 06/early 07, but there are some juicy, dainty bits coming fast or out now. First off, Rise of Legends, sequel to Rise of Nations, has hit the streets, and while not as fucking amazing as these Supreme Commander E3 vids, it's got some excelent animations and a solid foundation from RON, with a lot of Warcraft 3 added in (you NEED the horses under the hood to play it, however). Secondly, SNK Playmore is going to be releasing King of Fighters 2006 for the PS2, Metal Slug Anthology for the PSP, and, lo and behold, Card Fighter Clash(!) for the Nintendo DS (who said this system had no use at all?)! Powerstone AND Powerstone 2 are coming to the PSP (damn those awesome handhelds). It's about friggin' time KOEI threw their hat in the ring for troop-based tactical combat games along side the Total War series. The fact that KOEI was able to pump out 11 Romance of the Three Kingdoms games does NOT mean they are anything much different from each other, and certainly cannot compare to Total War at all in the tactical battle department (especially Rome). Bladestorm seems to be moving in the right direction, cheesebag crying girl cut-scences aside. Not to be outdone, how can one not weep with joy at the visions of wholesale slaughter that the video of Midieval Total War 2 left dancing in my head.
From 060606! Just thought you should know.
The demo is out (the second version apparently) and I would describe it as the Warcraftthree-ization of Rise of Nations. That should make sense to a few of you at least. For the rest, here is the link
Richard D. James released a CD compilation of his favorite tunes off the 11 Analord "12 records released last year. It's available from Rephlex Records and is appropriately titled "Chosen Lords." I did not see it down at Atomic last weekend, but it might be there by now.
You can enter!. Pete will be there with something awesome.
For all the wrong reasons.
Shrapnel Games announced DOM3 will be out in June. Whew, there is a bit of a breather between that and Oblivion, I was worried there I would have to quit my job and run off to some gaming camp in South Korea where they serve a breakfast of starcraft every morning.
Ice Fortress
It made me do it. Been saving dough despite of events and finally got a new rig on the way sporting an XFX 7800GTX, Asus Premium SLI mobo, and 2 gigs of fucking ram. There were moments, a few actually, where I thought to myself: "The consoles are getting competative with high end PC's as it is, why splooge all this dough? Why not just give up on keeping up with PC games anyway?" But the fact is: RTS on consoles suck, Console games don't get Mods, and the Indy game developers (like those folks responsible for Strange Adventures in Infinite Space or King of Dragon Pass for example) keep me splooging as much as the DOOM 3's and FEAR's do.
It's his day!
A week away and holy crap
Finally got this game reviewed and it's a fucking winner. If I could take screenshots/vids myself I would, but words will have to suffice. Link. Absolutely in my top five PS2 games.
Bethesda announced that Oblivion was now gold and on to manufacturing. As nice it was to spend some time with friends, family and loved ones, and to play games face to face or online together, all that will be ending during the week of March 20th, probably for good. So good night, and good luck.
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I promised to post these from the December LAN and kept forgetting. These are two replays where I, with the assistance of an Easy computer teammate, took on Sensless, Mouth and Shitsword. This is not to toot my own horn and display how good I am at the game, but to show just how EASILY I could have been beaten in both games had anyone realized how fucked I was at least three times during each game! Just place the files in your Warcraft3/replay folder and view away.
Game 1
Game 2
A good article about Street Fighter, Learning from games, the definition of fun, more street fighter and World of Warcraft. link
4 meg MOV file.
If you haven't played Space Empires IV before, this might be your chance for 20 ducats for the download. Just remember to turn the tactical combat OFF.
link. Look at the screens.
I just don't buy this crap at all coming out of the mouths of western politicians, here put by the British most elequently, it's still unbelievable that anyone professing to be a believer in democracy would actually say this sort of thing:
"The whole of the international community has the responsibility to accept the outcome of any fair and democratic election," said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. "But in this case Hamas has a clear responsibility to understand that with democracy goes a rejection of violence."
No Jack, it doesn't. The Greeks would argue the exact opposite. The founding fathers? How can you have democracy without accepting the consequences of democracy? I.E Empowering the people. The people of Palestine have been fucked by just about everyone, they FAR outstrip Israel in terms of population and will continue to grow and grow population wise while their economy limps along. This has always been a clear battle between the haves and have nots in the region, irrespective of the religious and cultural differences. If the people of a country in fair and clear democratic elections vote for a party that, as part of it's platform, desires the destruction of another country, how is that different from running on a plank requiring a war on terror, or war on drugs? It's not, therefore Hamas in power is one step closer to getting what the people of Palestine want, and who are we or anyone else to say that it is wrong to desire? The use of violence is only legitimized when done by the state in our current systems of government, and in this way, the people have VOTED for violence to take place, and empowered their leaders to enact a policy of legitimate, state sponsored violence against another country. As shocking as it sounds, I for one think this is the first and only possible step for Hamas to become a legitimate party in government while integrating with the existing security forces. How else could it have happened? You're not going to disarm 5000 hardcore, heavily armed fighters without taking their supporters with them, and this isn't ancient Rome, no country in the west has the stomach for wholesale slaughter necessary to actually do something to disarm Hamas, legitimizing the party was and is the only way.
alea iacta est
chiho aoshima.
Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Last night I had the opportunity while stacking now empty boxes to the ceiling for disposal to veiw as much as I could stand of the recent Alexander movie. Oh the cultural pretentions we must have to take the 60's mega-movie route to doing historical films. It's an arrogance bleating out over the mountain tops that we here in the early oughts have a better grasp than ever on how the ancient world looked, and maybe we do, but then we coat the entire thing with some misplaced social or cultural message (ie braveheart's 'freedom' speech which was repeated verbatim in Alexander). Arbela was very fun to watch, even with the CGI nightmare abounding at every turn, but as soon as Angelina Jolie got on the screen the film went entirely downhill. Completely miscast in her role just like she is for every other role including that of brad pitt's fiance and mother to two children. Needless to say, they made a ghastly mistake in that one cast member that simply broke the film, and while not as laughable as Troy, it's basically unwatchable straight on, though possibly a good backround movie when you're doing other stuff.
If you need a computer upgrade, time is running out!
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