Thursday, July 31, 2003
No money and no ring-ring make Josh something something.
Saturday, July 26, 2003
August 6th 1999
The Mutons made their first appearance today. A tiny Infiltration craft attempted to slip past my Hyperwave network. It was intercepted and destroyed mid flight thanks to Alien technology in the form of Plasma Cannons. I chuckle at the thought of the Muton being ejected from his pilot seat, bashed against the plummeting, flaming wreckage and then being chased through the air at terminal velocity being shot at by my Interceptor.
August 7th 1999
The 'second wave' of Mutons came in the form of a search squad. They are apparently interested in attacking my base. The small craft was also shot down, but landed with crew and equipment intact. My soldiers had orders to shoot to kill; I have obtained all the medical information on Mutons from their useless Floater and Sectoid brothers, so there is no reason to keep any in non-eviscerated form. The soldiers accidently took two Navigators alive. They kindly informed my scientists of the purpose behind Alien Research missions and the technical specs of Battleships. I don't ask how my scientists get this information, nor what happens to the Aliens once they have been interrogated. I pay them their wages and ignore the occasional light-flickers that always occure after a report hits my desk.
August 15th 1999
We still lack a live Ethereal. There have been a few attempts by them to land in small UFOs, but attempts to force them to land have resulted in their deaths. I feel that a live creature of this type will lead us to the secrets of Psionics. My soldiers have been trained in the most dire of combat..as dire as it can get against Sectoids and Snakemen, anyways...but lack the powers of mental defense necessary for the final assault on Cydonia. I will set Plan B (for Boom) into motion.
August 20th 1999
My machine shop reports that the Avenger will be complete in 24 days. The weapons lab reports completion of the Blaster Launchers and Bombs in 8 days. Heavy Strength training has caused all of my soldiers to be quite able of carrying full Flying Armour, an Alien Grenade, MediKit, Heavy Plasma with extra clip (not that they've ever had to use a second clip), Blaster Launcher with loaded round, and two extra Football rounds for the Launcher. This should allow them to gain access to the heart of Cydonia.
In the meantime my soldiers continue to hone the skills on the surviving creatures of downed ships. My patrols to South Africa have returned no sign of an Alien base...which is odd since they signed a pack with the bastards. My Bases in North America report no UFO activity at all, making the USA a giant, easy to please cash cow. There has been no indication of any Alien bases on Earth since the Floater base I cleaned out in May. Where are all the Aliens? They sure aren't putting up a very good fight.
This war will end in September, which is good because then I won't have to tape all my shows when the new television season starts.
The Mutons made their first appearance today. A tiny Infiltration craft attempted to slip past my Hyperwave network. It was intercepted and destroyed mid flight thanks to Alien technology in the form of Plasma Cannons. I chuckle at the thought of the Muton being ejected from his pilot seat, bashed against the plummeting, flaming wreckage and then being chased through the air at terminal velocity being shot at by my Interceptor.
August 7th 1999
The 'second wave' of Mutons came in the form of a search squad. They are apparently interested in attacking my base. The small craft was also shot down, but landed with crew and equipment intact. My soldiers had orders to shoot to kill; I have obtained all the medical information on Mutons from their useless Floater and Sectoid brothers, so there is no reason to keep any in non-eviscerated form. The soldiers accidently took two Navigators alive. They kindly informed my scientists of the purpose behind Alien Research missions and the technical specs of Battleships. I don't ask how my scientists get this information, nor what happens to the Aliens once they have been interrogated. I pay them their wages and ignore the occasional light-flickers that always occure after a report hits my desk.
August 15th 1999
We still lack a live Ethereal. There have been a few attempts by them to land in small UFOs, but attempts to force them to land have resulted in their deaths. I feel that a live creature of this type will lead us to the secrets of Psionics. My soldiers have been trained in the most dire of combat..as dire as it can get against Sectoids and Snakemen, anyways...but lack the powers of mental defense necessary for the final assault on Cydonia. I will set Plan B (for Boom) into motion.
August 20th 1999
My machine shop reports that the Avenger will be complete in 24 days. The weapons lab reports completion of the Blaster Launchers and Bombs in 8 days. Heavy Strength training has caused all of my soldiers to be quite able of carrying full Flying Armour, an Alien Grenade, MediKit, Heavy Plasma with extra clip (not that they've ever had to use a second clip), Blaster Launcher with loaded round, and two extra Football rounds for the Launcher. This should allow them to gain access to the heart of Cydonia.
In the meantime my soldiers continue to hone the skills on the surviving creatures of downed ships. My patrols to South Africa have returned no sign of an Alien base...which is odd since they signed a pack with the bastards. My Bases in North America report no UFO activity at all, making the USA a giant, easy to please cash cow. There has been no indication of any Alien bases on Earth since the Floater base I cleaned out in May. Where are all the Aliens? They sure aren't putting up a very good fight.
This war will end in September, which is good because then I won't have to tape all my shows when the new television season starts.
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Hrm, I seem to be a little mixed up in the brain:
Your Brain Usage Profile
Auditory : 62%
Visual : 37%
Left : 63%
Right : 36%
"Josh, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.
You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.
By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions
When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.
Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.
To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management. "
Mind Media
Your Brain Usage Profile
Auditory : 62%
Visual : 37%
Left : 63%
Right : 36%
"Josh, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.
You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.
By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions
When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.
Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.
To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management. "
Mind Media
Spirit Wars has gotten old. Not being able to see the twisted, wet-eyed faces of the defeated seems to have taken a lot of the fun out of a strategy game like this. Also not being able to collect 'cards' except in weekly tournies (and even then only as top prize) makes it a little repetative.
I have turned to XCOM for now. After hours of slaving getting my old version working on my PC, I gave up and accidently found a windows version. It works but crashes a LOT. So, I can play with no sound, or have it crash a LOT. Gru.
Its June 1999 game time and I almost have all the research necessary to end the game. Silly Snakemen are no match for me. I am amazed I have not seen Ethereals yet. I need them so I can extract their brain juices to teach my own soldiers how to crush minds. Then I will go to Mars and leave it a smoking crater. MMmmmmm
I also found a 2player mod for it that uses all the real game files but allows you to play a single tactical mission with opposing sides. I have yet to install it since I am so busy.
I have so much waiting for a phonecall to do. You may not hear from me for weeks.
I have turned to XCOM for now. After hours of slaving getting my old version working on my PC, I gave up and accidently found a windows version. It works but crashes a LOT. So, I can play with no sound, or have it crash a LOT. Gru.
Its June 1999 game time and I almost have all the research necessary to end the game. Silly Snakemen are no match for me. I am amazed I have not seen Ethereals yet. I need them so I can extract their brain juices to teach my own soldiers how to crush minds. Then I will go to Mars and leave it a smoking crater. MMmmmmm
I also found a 2player mod for it that uses all the real game files but allows you to play a single tactical mission with opposing sides. I have yet to install it since I am so busy.
I have so much waiting for a phonecall to do. You may not hear from me for weeks.
Saturday, July 19, 2003
SO I was bored out of my mind and desperate for a new game. One with some strategy. I looked up some old links and found this: Spirit Wars
If you are familiar with Magic the Gathering, this game will seem extremely similar. Infact, I'd call it a 3rd party attempt at adapting MtG to a boardgame. It doesn't have the same vast variety of 'cards' as I was used to from MtG, but the hex board combat compensates for it.
The premise is that you're a god or a dead viking or something and you're in Valhala. In typical viking mythos, you play little war games with your fellow divine beings. You get a random battlefield and your Castle (the physical manifestation of the player Wizard from MtG) is randomly placed along with your opponent's. Your deck is called a "Dungeon" which you can freely alter to your taste, within some loose rules. Your card hand is your "Courtyard" and is filled with Spirits (monsters of various types), and Spells. You play them by paying their "energy" (same as mana) fee of the appropriate colour and take turns with your opponent. There are various phases, ofcourse.
Monsters come in all different kinds from Melee to Ranged to Casters to Walls and Energy Spirits which are similar to Land cards from MtG. Each hex on the board has a corrosponding terrain (flatlands, highlands, ect) and units of different colours get bonuses for those varied types. Monsters play a MUCH bigger role in this game than MtG since a lot of strat is based around positioning, and that pretty much the only sure way to kill a Castle is to beat it down with some angry spirits.
Spells have some interesting effects, but not nearly so much as MtG. There are very few cards that directly affect a castle, so don't get your hopes up for that 40 pt, game ending fireball. Most spells are healing or buff spells, with a few instant unit killers.
And now for the important info: The game is free (as in beer), and only a 14 meg download (you can pay for a slightly extended version, but it doesn't seem worth the difference). I'm pretty sure you could play it on a cellphone - the reqs are that low. Game matching is done via a chat lobby so its easy to randomly challenge other people, or spot your buddies when they come online. There's barely any sound effects, and no music so make sure to crank up some groovy tunes in you music player of choice.
And hey, if you don't want to wait in line at Fileplanet for the file or want someone to play with (please? I promise I won't be a vindictive ass as I was in MtG........okay, I promise to *try* not to, anyways......okay, at least this way you won't be able to hear me giggle), let me know and I can send you the file or jump in and play.
Side note! The artwork is this strange mesh of various great works depicting mostly greek, roman and norse mythology. It's good in that I haven't seen any I would descibe as 'sucks' (unlike a LOT of the MtG art) but the game lacks a coherent art style of its own. Ofcourse, occasionally you find a good one, like this dragon pic below, and it reminds you that it really doesn't matter since your playing a deep strategy game.
It's totally biting his face. Righteous!
If you are familiar with Magic the Gathering, this game will seem extremely similar. Infact, I'd call it a 3rd party attempt at adapting MtG to a boardgame. It doesn't have the same vast variety of 'cards' as I was used to from MtG, but the hex board combat compensates for it.
The premise is that you're a god or a dead viking or something and you're in Valhala. In typical viking mythos, you play little war games with your fellow divine beings. You get a random battlefield and your Castle (the physical manifestation of the player Wizard from MtG) is randomly placed along with your opponent's. Your deck is called a "Dungeon" which you can freely alter to your taste, within some loose rules. Your card hand is your "Courtyard" and is filled with Spirits (monsters of various types), and Spells. You play them by paying their "energy" (same as mana) fee of the appropriate colour and take turns with your opponent. There are various phases, ofcourse.
Monsters come in all different kinds from Melee to Ranged to Casters to Walls and Energy Spirits which are similar to Land cards from MtG. Each hex on the board has a corrosponding terrain (flatlands, highlands, ect) and units of different colours get bonuses for those varied types. Monsters play a MUCH bigger role in this game than MtG since a lot of strat is based around positioning, and that pretty much the only sure way to kill a Castle is to beat it down with some angry spirits.
Spells have some interesting effects, but not nearly so much as MtG. There are very few cards that directly affect a castle, so don't get your hopes up for that 40 pt, game ending fireball. Most spells are healing or buff spells, with a few instant unit killers.
And now for the important info: The game is free (as in beer), and only a 14 meg download (you can pay for a slightly extended version, but it doesn't seem worth the difference). I'm pretty sure you could play it on a cellphone - the reqs are that low. Game matching is done via a chat lobby so its easy to randomly challenge other people, or spot your buddies when they come online. There's barely any sound effects, and no music so make sure to crank up some groovy tunes in you music player of choice.
And hey, if you don't want to wait in line at Fileplanet for the file or want someone to play with (please? I promise I won't be a vindictive ass as I was in MtG........okay, I promise to *try* not to, anyways......okay, at least this way you won't be able to hear me giggle), let me know and I can send you the file or jump in and play.
Side note! The artwork is this strange mesh of various great works depicting mostly greek, roman and norse mythology. It's good in that I haven't seen any I would descibe as 'sucks' (unlike a LOT of the MtG art) but the game lacks a coherent art style of its own. Ofcourse, occasionally you find a good one, like this dragon pic below, and it reminds you that it really doesn't matter since your playing a deep strategy game.
It's totally biting his face. Righteous!
Friday, July 18, 2003
Definition: "Spiritual Sequel"
In this case a game of which someone wanted to make another XCOM game but the people with the XCOM licence (re: Infogrames) has decided to sit on since they shelved and excellent sequel years ago. Thus it is not XCOM, but its as close as possible without the law crushing them.
UFO: Aftermath is looking much better than the last time I checked in on it. Previously it looked way too much like Fallout for me (I know Fallout is good, I mostly didn't like the way it looked), but recently it has taken on a 'dirty xcom' feel. Delicious.
However, I am still hesitant since I've never heard of this company before, and still have vivid memories of just how much XCOM rocked. It will be hard for them to surpass that. But, these movies make me beleive that the game will be awesome (and have AWESOME music).
Man, I hope its awesome. Awesome.
55 days until its released.
In this case a game of which someone wanted to make another XCOM game but the people with the XCOM licence (re: Infogrames) has decided to sit on since they shelved and excellent sequel years ago. Thus it is not XCOM, but its as close as possible without the law crushing them.
UFO: Aftermath is looking much better than the last time I checked in on it. Previously it looked way too much like Fallout for me (I know Fallout is good, I mostly didn't like the way it looked), but recently it has taken on a 'dirty xcom' feel. Delicious.
However, I am still hesitant since I've never heard of this company before, and still have vivid memories of just how much XCOM rocked. It will be hard for them to surpass that. But, these movies make me beleive that the game will be awesome (and have AWESOME music).
Man, I hope its awesome. Awesome.
55 days until its released.
Thursday, July 17, 2003
I hope my boredom and anticipation delight you.
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
"College Math" is also known as "Grade 10 and 11 Math". But, easy math is STILL math.
I accidently found this great sounding program which is available in an online format. Unfortunately it involves taking math courses as part of the program. I hate math. Secondly, a lot of the general electives are classroom, not online. At this time there is no Campus outside of the States (there is one being built in TO in the future, that's how I found out about the site) so going to classes is impossible. The third problem deals with the software necessary to do the course. I'm pretty sure my crap ass machine couldn't handle it. So that gets back to the chicken and the egg thing: I need money to upgrade my PC so that I can take a course to get in a better position to make money and pay for a new PC. Plus books and other physical materials for a new media course like this are all brand new and deadly expensive...and they'd have to be shipped from the US.
So I guess in a few years when I have steady income, a new PC and everything besides my dream job, I can take this course. By the time I graduate and get hired, I'll be older than most CEOs.
*grumble*
ARG. Not that I'd want to take the electives anyways. Being an American course, the list goes from "Western Civ" (meaning US history) to "American Literature" to various Art Appreciation and Architecture courses which only focus on AMERICAN contributions.
I hate them so much.
So I guess in a few years when I have steady income, a new PC and everything besides my dream job, I can take this course. By the time I graduate and get hired, I'll be older than most CEOs.
*grumble*
ARG. Not that I'd want to take the electives anyways. Being an American course, the list goes from "Western Civ" (meaning US history) to "American Literature" to various Art Appreciation and Architecture courses which only focus on AMERICAN contributions.
I hate them so much.
Monday, July 14, 2003
I hope Shane's kin don't follow any links to here. I'd be so embarrassed.
But, if they do:
HI SAM!!
*cackle*
But, if they do:
HI SAM!!
*cackle*
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Dear Blog,
This kinda embarrassing since I make myself out to be such a movie geek, but today I finally saw Wayne's World 2 from start to finish. It was delightfull in the various ways that it was and I feel truly enlightened for finally seeing it. The damn thing had eluded me since it's release, allowing me to only catch glimpses of it for about 5 years. I will now strike it from my list of wiley things that have eluded me.
Here is the revised list of Things That Have Eluded Me For a God Damn Long Time:
1. Warcraft II: SLAIN (Thanks to Vorgo and his HD mind-meld)
2. Sex: SLAIN (Thanks to Caitlin)
3. Math: ONGOING
4. Wayne's World 2: SLAIN
5. A Freaking Job: ONGOING
Remember, Blog, this is my secret stuff, so don't tell anyone. Kissu!
This kinda embarrassing since I make myself out to be such a movie geek, but today I finally saw Wayne's World 2 from start to finish. It was delightfull in the various ways that it was and I feel truly enlightened for finally seeing it. The damn thing had eluded me since it's release, allowing me to only catch glimpses of it for about 5 years. I will now strike it from my list of wiley things that have eluded me.
Here is the revised list of Things That Have Eluded Me For a God Damn Long Time:
1. Warcraft II: SLAIN (Thanks to Vorgo and his HD mind-meld)
2. Sex: SLAIN (Thanks to Caitlin)
3. Math: ONGOING
4. Wayne's World 2: SLAIN
5. A Freaking Job: ONGOING
Remember, Blog, this is my secret stuff, so don't tell anyone. Kissu!
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Threat rating: Medium. Your total lack of decent
family values makes you dangerous, but we can
count on some right wing nutter blowing you up
if you become too high profile.
What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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Wow. Not what I was expecting at all. They need to add "Sarcastic Foreigner: Low Threat; The USA just ignores any country they aren't attacking anyways. You are probably French, German, Canadian or the UN. You watch the stupid exploits of the Government from the safety of your home and make sarcastic comments out loud or post them on your blog."
Ugh. I hate Saturday Sluggy. I'm not sure if I should call it "What a comic done by me would look like" or "The comic that you can't read most of because they use impossible to read fonts". I'm gonna go for the 2nd.
Watched Twin Warriors today. It's a 1993 Jet-Li martial arts movie. Has a fair amount of action with nice fights and a couple really good seqences. It's all typical Asian rop&pulley combat but that's what I was expecting. Nothing really spectacular accept for a couple plot twists (one was good, the other was strange). It was a good waste of 1.5 hours anyways. Much better than damn Star Trek reruns.
I was watching both Rumble in the Bronx and Backdraft earlier - at the same time. Watching all those firefighters being burned alive to the theme song of Iron Chef made me hungry.
Hypaspace (geek news on Spacechannel) reports that James Cameron (Director of Aliens among a LOT of other good shit) has hinted that he will be fixing the shit that was Aliens 3 and is interested in getting Arnold in on it. Yeah, so WOOT!! I PRAY they'll make him a Predator who is in the buisness of hunting down Alien-Ripley and possibly her offspring. I think most of you will agree that would be the shit.
Maybe I should write a script and send it to him!
Scroll to the bottom image. That's my favorite. Between that and stupid-ass Yu-Gi-Oh I'm getting a hankerin for some card spankerin. I miss the convoluted days of buying masses of cards, spending hours in my devil-card-lair designing extremely bitchy decks with which to torture infidels at school. Ahh, the good old days of 2nd turn Baron Sengirs, hand fulls of Dark Banishings, and being reamed by a lot of steroid-hyped, meth-popping, mouth-foaming faeries. The online game just isn't the same since you can't see who you're toying with.
I just realized I might be sadistic.
So....I guess it's time to find a new game...one with multiplayer. It can't be a Blizzard game since I vowed never to play on Bnet again vs random people. Too many fuckers. It's like all the people that I quite Counter-Strike because of have flocked to Warcraft3. I have WBC2 here but no one plays that so there's no competition. Planetside was fun but its too hard to play without buying (60$) then paying for monthly (25$). Maybe when I get a job. And a PC upgrade. And a job. Hmm. Age of Wonders Expansion is out in a few weeks so I'll get some play time with Pete one way or another, but I can't get a gluttonous amounts of slayage without weeks of toil.
Seems to be a bit of a lull in games right now.
Lack of job and lack of games make Josh something something.
Watched Twin Warriors today. It's a 1993 Jet-Li martial arts movie. Has a fair amount of action with nice fights and a couple really good seqences. It's all typical Asian rop&pulley combat but that's what I was expecting. Nothing really spectacular accept for a couple plot twists (one was good, the other was strange). It was a good waste of 1.5 hours anyways. Much better than damn Star Trek reruns.
I was watching both Rumble in the Bronx and Backdraft earlier - at the same time. Watching all those firefighters being burned alive to the theme song of Iron Chef made me hungry.
Hypaspace (geek news on Spacechannel) reports that James Cameron (Director of Aliens among a LOT of other good shit) has hinted that he will be fixing the shit that was Aliens 3 and is interested in getting Arnold in on it. Yeah, so WOOT!! I PRAY they'll make him a Predator who is in the buisness of hunting down Alien-Ripley and possibly her offspring. I think most of you will agree that would be the shit.
Maybe I should write a script and send it to him!
Scroll to the bottom image. That's my favorite. Between that and stupid-ass Yu-Gi-Oh I'm getting a hankerin for some card spankerin. I miss the convoluted days of buying masses of cards, spending hours in my devil-card-lair designing extremely bitchy decks with which to torture infidels at school. Ahh, the good old days of 2nd turn Baron Sengirs, hand fulls of Dark Banishings, and being reamed by a lot of steroid-hyped, meth-popping, mouth-foaming faeries. The online game just isn't the same since you can't see who you're toying with.
I just realized I might be sadistic.
So....I guess it's time to find a new game...one with multiplayer. It can't be a Blizzard game since I vowed never to play on Bnet again vs random people. Too many fuckers. It's like all the people that I quite Counter-Strike because of have flocked to Warcraft3. I have WBC2 here but no one plays that so there's no competition. Planetside was fun but its too hard to play without buying (60$) then paying for monthly (25$). Maybe when I get a job. And a PC upgrade. And a job. Hmm. Age of Wonders Expansion is out in a few weeks so I'll get some play time with Pete one way or another, but I can't get a gluttonous amounts of slayage without weeks of toil.
Seems to be a bit of a lull in games right now.
Lack of job and lack of games make Josh something something.
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Thanks for the review, Ian. It was good and all, but I think I could have done without the last 2 very graphic paragraphs.
I played the original game several years ago and it was pretty dumb. The reviewer likely isn't exaggerating about the sex/rape scene frequency. Infact, not 2 minutes after the character is changed into a girl, you have a sloppy scene with your older sister. It's pretty sick...but it's your own fault for playing it ahaha
Hentai games with humour are the best. "Do You Like Horny Bunnies?" is probably the funniest I've played with some really twisted humour and hilarious voice acting and overall is a pretty light and bubbly game. Beware, though, some of the girls have certain...habits...but even those are handled with jaded comedy.
Hentai! :D
I played the original game several years ago and it was pretty dumb. The reviewer likely isn't exaggerating about the sex/rape scene frequency. Infact, not 2 minutes after the character is changed into a girl, you have a sloppy scene with your older sister. It's pretty sick...but it's your own fault for playing it ahaha
Hentai games with humour are the best. "Do You Like Horny Bunnies?" is probably the funniest I've played with some really twisted humour and hilarious voice acting and overall is a pretty light and bubbly game. Beware, though, some of the girls have certain...habits...but even those are handled with jaded comedy.
Hentai! :D
It's Story Day!
December 7th 1941. CIA has been aware of impending attacks from Japanese forces and has advised government to be on alert. "But why?", says the Government. "The Japanese Ambassador is here right now having a nice polite conversation with us. Why would they attack us?".
BLAMO. Pearl Harbour gets raped by Japanese aircraft. Twice. They sink almost the entire Harbour, kill hundreds of men who had no warning and had thus been sitting on their asses reading Playboy. Japanese Commander decides not to make 3rd run (minutes apart) on the Harbour repair docks, Submarine docks, and Fuel Depot. The reason for that was simply because they were so amazed that the U.S. had put up no resistance and expected their luck to run out. Or maybe the guy didn't like exploding defenceless suckers.
Commander of Pearl forces stands in awe at destruction. He knows he's fucked and there's nothing he can do about it. Shortly afterwards he is made the scapegoat of the Government. Afterall, you can't have the masses knowing that your leaders are fucking retards, so they blame the giant fuck up on a guy who was a good soldier and thus put a stop to any massive impending investigations.
MEANWHILE, six hours after the attack, some dumbfuck three-star General commanding a U.S. aircraft base in the Philippines is made aware of the Pearl attack. His orders: Send out his massive force of 100 B-17s (Heavy bombers) and 200 lighter attack planes to the preordained targets on the Japanese Formosa Island. What does he do despite constant badgering by his officers? Nothing. Later he orders his planes into the air while he decides his action. He then lands the planes for lunch.
An hour later a massive force of Japanese planes attacks, once again raping the U.S. forces, mostly grounded aircraft and pilots. They defend themselves with handguns and hide in trenches. Almost all of the U.S. aircraft are destroyed, a few hundred more soldiers killed. The Japanese are amazed again. The General, at his secure home a few miles away gets the news.
FORTUNATELY for him, he knows a few people in the government and there is no inquisition. Infact, they award him a Medal of Honour and give him another star. He is never asked why he didn't follow his orders. His fuckup and loss of planes results in massive attacks and conquering of U.S. forces in the Philippines. The Japanese take thousands prisoner and subject them to prison camps for the length of the war. He caused the death and suffering of thousands of his own people...and you know what? He ends up being the U.S. leader assigned to Japan once they surrendered. He was the fucking American Emporer.
And what happened to the Commander at Pearl? Oh, he spent the rest of his life branded as the reason the U.S. was attacked and why they were forced into war. He died fighting to have his name cleared.
Parallels? A few, but I'm ranting! No time to point them out! Back to the Future!
A few years ago, a U.S. Pres lied to the 'world' (his country really, since no one else cares except to use Pres speaches as ammo for making fun of the U.S.) because he had sex with some uggo (IMO that's his own buisness and the 'world' didn't need to be informed). It's not the first time a Pres went on TV and told a lot of people a flat out lie and it sure as hell wouldn't be the last.
So, what does Mr. Bush say? "Iraq is evil". Why? "Because they are importing alluminum tubes!". Wow, and those could ONLY ever be used for refining uranium. "Yeah and they also tried to buy uranium!". Actually, someone, probably the CIA tried to SELL them Uranium and they refused to buy it. We found this out BEFORE you went to war with them. It was on the NEWS, so why didn't you hear about it? "But he's been evil in the past!". Oh. Well, let's go attack Castro then. And the Germans, too. They've been 'evil' in the past. "He has links to terrarists!". For fuck's sake, its TERRORIST not TERRARIST. And where is your proof? I bet you can find a lot of links to terrorists in the U.S. too. Why don't you bomb yourself a bit? "They already have weapons of mass destruction!". WHERE? HOW? You've sanctioned them so much that they can't get fucking Aluminum TUBES let alone anything that might be used to make a weapon more powerful than a firecracker. You sent in all kinds of Inspectors and they have found nothing. Iraq has cooperated with you despite your insanely insulting attitude. Then what? You ORDER the LEADER OF A COUNTRY who has COMPLIED with you to EXILE HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY or you will KILL HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE and come after him!
Who is the villain here? Either Bush was incredibly misinformed (and is thus a retard) or he is a fucking puppet for some maniacle mastermind (Stalin?).
"Oh, uh, it appears that I was misinformed...by....."
We all know that he lied. But they can't have the U.S. Pres, the most powerful man in the universe (ha), exposed as a fucking moron. So, prepare for the scapegoat. Example: right now the American Channel (CNN) is saying that they think the problem was in the CIA. Right now it's the CIA's fault. The CIA also knew that Terrorists were planning something bad back before 9/11 but that 'probe' never turned up any specific cause. More recently the story has changed to "The CIA couldn't have done anything to stop it." Which is probably true but just as likely means that all the necessary scapegoats have been implicated and have had all their lives ruined.
The President is convienently out of town while all this shit is happening. He's off talking about peace in Africa while eyeing up their oil. So it will be some time until he gets back, at which point they will have figured out who they are going to blame for not finding weapons. Then he will make a speech, maybe apologising, but I doubt it. He will find someone to blame and ride them all the way down.
MEANWHILE, the mother fucker will still condemn his 'Coalition' soldiers to ambush and torture deaths in an country he shouldn't have fucked with in the first place, regardless of what 'proof' he had. Every few weeks he'll increase the bounty on Saddam's head.
But really, what right does he have to do that? What allows him to capture and detain the Iraq government? There's NO weapons, evidence...nothing. You can arrest someone in the States for a brief period of time for questioning, but you have to charge them with something or you are abusing the Law. But that's in the States. Who's to police the leader of the most powerful country in the world? The UN? He's alread told them to fuck off and the UN did.
The world is letting a lying, abusive bully to walk all over them.
The UN needs to get in gear and step up to the U.S. and make them follow the rules that the UNITED NATIONS of EARTH have made, or expell them. The fact that an organization like the UN is letting a bigger country beat the fuck out of a country who has been PROVEN to have done nothing wrong, is ghastly. It confuses the FUCK out of me how the U.S. is getting away with this. I realize that most leaders are happy to see Saddam removed, but at what cost?
The U.S. KNOWS they were/are doing wrong. That's why they threw so many cheap shots at Canada and Germany. Like a school-yard bully, they find the weakest victim they can and pummel them. France got the brunt of it this time, once again turning the eye on politics at what France was doing to oppose the U.S. instead of what the U.S. was actually doing. Canada and Germany and other countries were opposing the U.S. just as much, but the U.S. simply couldn't find a way to politically attack us like France. Well, besides declaring Britain their new best friend (more like Hench-Goon. "Hrm, these Canadians aren't as pliable as in the past. Let's ditch them for a country with a stronger military!"). Good riddance, I say, they can take the Brits down with them.
I pity every dumbass U.S. and Brit soldier that thinks he's giving his life for their country. I'm extremely happy that no Canadian's are there wasting their precious time, energy and lives because of the leader of the most powerful dictatorship in the world.
I really don't think of myself as Patriotic, but some events trigger surprising feelings. I am so PROUD to be a Canadian. A citizen of a country known as America Jr., but a citizen of a country who's leader stood up to a giant power, ignoring the financial and political consequences, and told that country flat out that we would not help them. We are our own god-damn country, and we have our own leader who reflects our values and way of life and shows the world that we are NOT a country of U.S. Yes-Men.
December 7th 1941. CIA has been aware of impending attacks from Japanese forces and has advised government to be on alert. "But why?", says the Government. "The Japanese Ambassador is here right now having a nice polite conversation with us. Why would they attack us?".
BLAMO. Pearl Harbour gets raped by Japanese aircraft. Twice. They sink almost the entire Harbour, kill hundreds of men who had no warning and had thus been sitting on their asses reading Playboy. Japanese Commander decides not to make 3rd run (minutes apart) on the Harbour repair docks, Submarine docks, and Fuel Depot. The reason for that was simply because they were so amazed that the U.S. had put up no resistance and expected their luck to run out. Or maybe the guy didn't like exploding defenceless suckers.
Commander of Pearl forces stands in awe at destruction. He knows he's fucked and there's nothing he can do about it. Shortly afterwards he is made the scapegoat of the Government. Afterall, you can't have the masses knowing that your leaders are fucking retards, so they blame the giant fuck up on a guy who was a good soldier and thus put a stop to any massive impending investigations.
MEANWHILE, six hours after the attack, some dumbfuck three-star General commanding a U.S. aircraft base in the Philippines is made aware of the Pearl attack. His orders: Send out his massive force of 100 B-17s (Heavy bombers) and 200 lighter attack planes to the preordained targets on the Japanese Formosa Island. What does he do despite constant badgering by his officers? Nothing. Later he orders his planes into the air while he decides his action. He then lands the planes for lunch.
An hour later a massive force of Japanese planes attacks, once again raping the U.S. forces, mostly grounded aircraft and pilots. They defend themselves with handguns and hide in trenches. Almost all of the U.S. aircraft are destroyed, a few hundred more soldiers killed. The Japanese are amazed again. The General, at his secure home a few miles away gets the news.
FORTUNATELY for him, he knows a few people in the government and there is no inquisition. Infact, they award him a Medal of Honour and give him another star. He is never asked why he didn't follow his orders. His fuckup and loss of planes results in massive attacks and conquering of U.S. forces in the Philippines. The Japanese take thousands prisoner and subject them to prison camps for the length of the war. He caused the death and suffering of thousands of his own people...and you know what? He ends up being the U.S. leader assigned to Japan once they surrendered. He was the fucking American Emporer.
And what happened to the Commander at Pearl? Oh, he spent the rest of his life branded as the reason the U.S. was attacked and why they were forced into war. He died fighting to have his name cleared.
Parallels? A few, but I'm ranting! No time to point them out! Back to the Future!
A few years ago, a U.S. Pres lied to the 'world' (his country really, since no one else cares except to use Pres speaches as ammo for making fun of the U.S.) because he had sex with some uggo (IMO that's his own buisness and the 'world' didn't need to be informed). It's not the first time a Pres went on TV and told a lot of people a flat out lie and it sure as hell wouldn't be the last.
So, what does Mr. Bush say? "Iraq is evil". Why? "Because they are importing alluminum tubes!". Wow, and those could ONLY ever be used for refining uranium. "Yeah and they also tried to buy uranium!". Actually, someone, probably the CIA tried to SELL them Uranium and they refused to buy it. We found this out BEFORE you went to war with them. It was on the NEWS, so why didn't you hear about it? "But he's been evil in the past!". Oh. Well, let's go attack Castro then. And the Germans, too. They've been 'evil' in the past. "He has links to terrarists!". For fuck's sake, its TERRORIST not TERRARIST. And where is your proof? I bet you can find a lot of links to terrorists in the U.S. too. Why don't you bomb yourself a bit? "They already have weapons of mass destruction!". WHERE? HOW? You've sanctioned them so much that they can't get fucking Aluminum TUBES let alone anything that might be used to make a weapon more powerful than a firecracker. You sent in all kinds of Inspectors and they have found nothing. Iraq has cooperated with you despite your insanely insulting attitude. Then what? You ORDER the LEADER OF A COUNTRY who has COMPLIED with you to EXILE HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY or you will KILL HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE and come after him!
Who is the villain here? Either Bush was incredibly misinformed (and is thus a retard) or he is a fucking puppet for some maniacle mastermind (Stalin?).
"Oh, uh, it appears that I was misinformed...by....."
We all know that he lied. But they can't have the U.S. Pres, the most powerful man in the universe (ha), exposed as a fucking moron. So, prepare for the scapegoat. Example: right now the American Channel (CNN) is saying that they think the problem was in the CIA. Right now it's the CIA's fault. The CIA also knew that Terrorists were planning something bad back before 9/11 but that 'probe' never turned up any specific cause. More recently the story has changed to "The CIA couldn't have done anything to stop it." Which is probably true but just as likely means that all the necessary scapegoats have been implicated and have had all their lives ruined.
The President is convienently out of town while all this shit is happening. He's off talking about peace in Africa while eyeing up their oil. So it will be some time until he gets back, at which point they will have figured out who they are going to blame for not finding weapons. Then he will make a speech, maybe apologising, but I doubt it. He will find someone to blame and ride them all the way down.
MEANWHILE, the mother fucker will still condemn his 'Coalition' soldiers to ambush and torture deaths in an country he shouldn't have fucked with in the first place, regardless of what 'proof' he had. Every few weeks he'll increase the bounty on Saddam's head.
But really, what right does he have to do that? What allows him to capture and detain the Iraq government? There's NO weapons, evidence...nothing. You can arrest someone in the States for a brief period of time for questioning, but you have to charge them with something or you are abusing the Law. But that's in the States. Who's to police the leader of the most powerful country in the world? The UN? He's alread told them to fuck off and the UN did.
The world is letting a lying, abusive bully to walk all over them.
The UN needs to get in gear and step up to the U.S. and make them follow the rules that the UNITED NATIONS of EARTH have made, or expell them. The fact that an organization like the UN is letting a bigger country beat the fuck out of a country who has been PROVEN to have done nothing wrong, is ghastly. It confuses the FUCK out of me how the U.S. is getting away with this. I realize that most leaders are happy to see Saddam removed, but at what cost?
The U.S. KNOWS they were/are doing wrong. That's why they threw so many cheap shots at Canada and Germany. Like a school-yard bully, they find the weakest victim they can and pummel them. France got the brunt of it this time, once again turning the eye on politics at what France was doing to oppose the U.S. instead of what the U.S. was actually doing. Canada and Germany and other countries were opposing the U.S. just as much, but the U.S. simply couldn't find a way to politically attack us like France. Well, besides declaring Britain their new best friend (more like Hench-Goon. "Hrm, these Canadians aren't as pliable as in the past. Let's ditch them for a country with a stronger military!"). Good riddance, I say, they can take the Brits down with them.
I pity every dumbass U.S. and Brit soldier that thinks he's giving his life for their country. I'm extremely happy that no Canadian's are there wasting their precious time, energy and lives because of the leader of the most powerful dictatorship in the world.
I really don't think of myself as Patriotic, but some events trigger surprising feelings. I am so PROUD to be a Canadian. A citizen of a country known as America Jr., but a citizen of a country who's leader stood up to a giant power, ignoring the financial and political consequences, and told that country flat out that we would not help them. We are our own god-damn country, and we have our own leader who reflects our values and way of life and shows the world that we are NOT a country of U.S. Yes-Men.
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
FYI Day!!
Did you know that the VW Beetle was orginally commissioned by Hitler as a vehicle for the everyman?
Did you know that they still don't know what originally caused SARS and that over 8000 people have been reported infected and 700 have died from it?
Did you know that the 'Coalition' still has not come up with any evidance leading to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Did you know that they still don't have Saddam, even though they really don't have a valid reason for arresting him and his government?
Did you know that 1 in 5 deaths worldwide is due to a car accident?
Did you know that children/teen's school and social lives are affected by Migraines as much as they are by cancer and other diseases? (Yet another excellent Study brought to you by CNN)
Did you know that this is in no way overstating the U.S media on the state of SARS in Canada?
Did you know that the VW Beetle was orginally commissioned by Hitler as a vehicle for the everyman?
Did you know that they still don't know what originally caused SARS and that over 8000 people have been reported infected and 700 have died from it?
Did you know that the 'Coalition' still has not come up with any evidance leading to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Did you know that they still don't have Saddam, even though they really don't have a valid reason for arresting him and his government?
Did you know that 1 in 5 deaths worldwide is due to a car accident?
Did you know that children/teen's school and social lives are affected by Migraines as much as they are by cancer and other diseases? (Yet another excellent Study brought to you by CNN)
Did you know that this is in no way overstating the U.S media on the state of SARS in Canada?
Monday, July 07, 2003
HOLY SHIT! Its the end of the world! Its funny how someone wasted time and money to do a study on this. What did they expect to find? All people who play computer games are cultist psychopaths just itching to put bullets into their classmates?
Study shows CNN is USA biased. Study shows not all people who use computers are nerds. Study shows that breathing prevents people from dying.
Actually, that reminds me of the extremely brief tech section they have on CNN during the weekends (when there's so little news that they need filler). It's this fairly average guy who knows about the gaming industry. He comes on, takes a lot of shit from the news anchors, tries to explain something about games, then gets sent away. It's like he's there so that the rest of the news people can make fun of him.
So, I suppose that they really do need this study.
Study shows CNN is USA biased. Study shows not all people who use computers are nerds. Study shows that breathing prevents people from dying.
Actually, that reminds me of the extremely brief tech section they have on CNN during the weekends (when there's so little news that they need filler). It's this fairly average guy who knows about the gaming industry. He comes on, takes a lot of shit from the news anchors, tries to explain something about games, then gets sent away. It's like he's there so that the rest of the news people can make fun of him.
So, I suppose that they really do need this study.
Friday, July 04, 2003
T3 was much better than advertised. The impression that I got from the previews was that it was going to be an over-cg-overacting 2 hour special that would make me HATE Holywood just that extra little more. What it was, however, was a fairly witty and sarcastic crash-a-thon with a LOT of REAL smashing and exploding things. There was still a lot of cheesy CG, specifically the new terminator (which at various points is 100% crappy CG that didn't really fit with the rest of the CG - like two different studios did the special effects). The first chase sequence I think is one of the coolest I've seen in ever. It totally reams the Highway scene in the Matrix2 and it lasts longer.
I was worried about the new Terminator because of the ads, but she does a pretty good job of portraying an intellegent, pissy, soulcrushing machine, much like whatshisname from T2 and Arnold from T1. I could do without all the excessive CG and the stupid hand morphing was just too cheesy even for a movie with robots, time travel, and cars that mysteriously explode straight up.
I didn't really care for the main character. IMO he should have been a little more hardcore, a little more pissed that he was condemned to his fate. If you survived a killing machine from the future and you lost your parents in several incidents beyond your control but still one day knew that the future would happen and that you would be the only guy to stop it.....I would personally be a little more reckless and desperate. He really didn't get to that point until near the end of the movie. It wasn't really the fault of the actor so much as the direction, I feel. He was the reluctant hero, but he should have been the reluctant hero who HATES having to be the hero and thus uses that hate as his fuel instead of complaining.
The story had the feel of those creepy sci-fi short stories - like a good old Twilight Zone episode. There's quite a few themes of Fate and Destiny and just how much control poor mankind has over its own destruction. Needless to say, there is NO happy ending.
So, go see it for the action and for that delightful futility feeling if you decide to think about the lesson the story is trying to convey. I think its a worthy third movie, but the CG villain still pisses me off :)
I was worried about the new Terminator because of the ads, but she does a pretty good job of portraying an intellegent, pissy, soulcrushing machine, much like whatshisname from T2 and Arnold from T1. I could do without all the excessive CG and the stupid hand morphing was just too cheesy even for a movie with robots, time travel, and cars that mysteriously explode straight up.
I didn't really care for the main character. IMO he should have been a little more hardcore, a little more pissed that he was condemned to his fate. If you survived a killing machine from the future and you lost your parents in several incidents beyond your control but still one day knew that the future would happen and that you would be the only guy to stop it.....I would personally be a little more reckless and desperate. He really didn't get to that point until near the end of the movie. It wasn't really the fault of the actor so much as the direction, I feel. He was the reluctant hero, but he should have been the reluctant hero who HATES having to be the hero and thus uses that hate as his fuel instead of complaining.
The story had the feel of those creepy sci-fi short stories - like a good old Twilight Zone episode. There's quite a few themes of Fate and Destiny and just how much control poor mankind has over its own destruction. Needless to say, there is NO happy ending.
So, go see it for the action and for that delightful futility feeling if you decide to think about the lesson the story is trying to convey. I think its a worthy third movie, but the CG villain still pisses me off :)
This looks so funny! It would be the funniest thing ever to watch a person trying to play those games.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Ah, yes. Sweet murderous victory. I slaughtered enough provinces in WBC2 to get the few remaining Warlords to band together to offer me things in exchange for peace. They originally offered pathetic heaps of Crowns (the Kingdom currency, like gold to you commoners) but I wanted to make them all suffer for my first few defeats at the hands of unruly AI. After each new conquest they would come back and offer me something a little more worthy, but still silly. What use does an undead necromancer have for a Royal Marriage (after I annhiliated another castle, that changed to 'a Royal Marriage of Your Choosing')? Well, okay, I can think of a few disgusting things, but I still declined. They eventually started offering the greatest warriors of the realms to me as servants. A Minotaur King was interesting, as was their final desperate barter of an Ancient Dragon (where did they get one, anyways?). But, I slew them all, making my rule of the world complete. It was delightfull. The victory CG was nice, considering what I was expecting.
I also played a bit of Tron 2.0 (the demo). I played some scenarios vs CPU opponents with Light Cycles. Now, as fun as it is, I can't understand how long its taken them to make this game, nor the sheer size of it. I can play this demo with full graphics and 8 players and it runs fine in the Cycle arenas. The game is so simplistic that I would expect to see it from a highschool student. The AI is pretty tough, not necesarrily out of intellegence so much as that it can make moves that are impossible for a human to do with a keyboard. I also notice that the keystroke speed is painfully slow - and in a game like this, that's STUPID.
I also played a bit of Tron 2.0 (the demo). I played some scenarios vs CPU opponents with Light Cycles. Now, as fun as it is, I can't understand how long its taken them to make this game, nor the sheer size of it. I can play this demo with full graphics and 8 players and it runs fine in the Cycle arenas. The game is so simplistic that I would expect to see it from a highschool student. The AI is pretty tough, not necesarrily out of intellegence so much as that it can make moves that are impossible for a human to do with a keyboard. I also notice that the keystroke speed is painfully slow - and in a game like this, that's STUPID.
Arnold was on TV talking about his movie. He mentioned how he sent a copy of T3 to the White House and that the only place Bush was going to find any weapons of mass destruction was in his movie.
And then I laughed and laughed and laughed.
And then I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Canada is fucking awesome.
