This update brought to you by East
February 24th, 2006 |
Because I’ve spent my time playing Criterion’s new FPS Black, which is very good but very very short.
Evening, peoples.
February 24th, 2006 |
Not been up to much, though this is to be expected since I’ve very little to fill my days.
I mean, I’ve been paying attention to the whole hoo-hah about Craig Daniel, or Daniel Craig, or whatever his damn name is. Gist of it is the Bond Fandom (All of them? Hah) are whining because they don’t like him. I mean, after Brosnan has given the guy his support, and so has Christoper Fucking Lee, you’d think they’d maybe shut up. But no, even the Beeb have reported about their bitching. I mean, Christ. The Transfandom I expected this from (Read up on the film on any Transformer forum, I dare you), and any comic book fandom is always going to whine about a film adaptation. Fuck, if they made a Deadpool movie, they would whine and whine and whine. But the Bond fandom? It’s ancient, sophisticated, respectable… And apparently full of whiny bitches.
Christ Guys, Christopher He’s My Fucking Jesus Lee has told you to stop whining. If you won’t listen to a man who can kill you by being three doors down and watching Country File, you’re not going to listen at all, are you? You haven’t seen what the new guy can do. At all. At worst, he’ll be another Lazenby and Casino Royale will flop. At best, it’ll be Goldeneye all over again, and it shall be hotness and glory.
Seems though, the whole function of a fandom is not for a collection of people to get together and celebrate what they enjoy, but bitch about any new devlopments whatsoever. Rather sad, isn’t it?
In other news, I dunno if any of you read Shortpacked!, but if you don’t I suggest you do. Amusing web-comic about life in a toy-store, featuring geekiness by the shedload. Well worth it. Anyway, I read the archives of the prequal to it, It’s Walky!, and it was a decent enough day or so read, but if you can’t stomach dramatic or angsty storylines, you may wish to give it a pass, as the angst could kill a bull elephant behind a lead shield. If you enjoy, or can at least overlook that, it’s a fun tale. And those alien guys? Pure class. Nothing says evil like escaping on a Segway.
Eastwood ~ Tastes like unicorn giggles.
Guest Comic: Chicago-Lollie – Cutlery Killer
February 24th, 2006 |
I need to be stabbed. In the mouth. For this week’s comic, I told myself I was gonna get the drawings done early, and get started on the computer bit on Wednesday, so that I could just quit when I got tired and pick up again Thursday, so as to not cause pain by doing it all in one long session. It’s 11pm Thursday, and I’ve drawn… one and a half panels.
PROCRASTINATE-O-RAMA!
Manyways, it was Lothar’s birthday a couple weeks back, and Chicago “Weird Symbol in the Middle of His Name” Lollie had the above piece of awesome to offer. Since nobody seems to’ve stuck it here on the site anywheres yet, and since it’s the exact right format and everything, he can fill in for my laziness, yay! I ain’t gonna bother trying to finish this comic I started for this week, I’ll just call it a head start on next (Coincidentally, it also involves the consumption of intoxicating beverages).
#138 – OOC: Rogue, What Does The Scouter Say About His Power Level?
February 17th, 2006 |
Evening, peoples.
Been a bizarre few weeks. Well, no it hasn’t. That would be what we call a “lie”.
I could go on at length, but frankly, I can’t be arsed. I’m full and slightly tired, so I shall proceed to not do a lot about it. Transformers – Infiltration is fun, but criminally slow – In two comics (Three if you count the preview issue) we’ve had what really amounts to around twenty minutes of action, all told. Sure guys, I like pacing and all that horseshit as much as the next guy, but barely ten minutes action from a comic that costs me £2.20 is a bit of a piss-take. That said, so is the concept of having a letters page, or the excessive previews. Around six or seven pages, for what? Stuff we don’t care about, we’ve seen online ages ago, or we’re going to buy anyway so why bother showing it to us again?
Though the comment on the Generations trade of Dreamwaves G1 Volume 2 was amusing. “Artist Extrodinare Pat Lee”, I gotta ask them if they were being sarcastic, given the mans reputation throughout the Transfandom for being the biggest twat alive.
Also, due to a variety of problems, we’ve shut down the ability to create new accounts on the forum. We’ll give you a yell when it’s up and running again.
In closing, Empire At War is officially released in the UK in around two hours as of writing, so I’ll be off come the morning to pick my copy up. If the demo is anything to go by, it’ll be a fun game that should vanquish the “Star Wars curse” of strategy games (That they were shit). I look forward to using the Death Star on Tatooine. Or Taris. Or Dantooine. Have some of that, Darth Malak.
Eastwood ~ Shush, Scramble City.
#137 – Clay Feline Shooting
February 10th, 2006 |
Stop abusing the english langauge or we start killing various cute fluffy animals. Next time it’s a baby seal, you have been warned.
First things first, new artwork by my girlfriend Raquel Virus needs a nice long rest. Raquel did the strip for us two weeks ago, as you might remember. Thanks a lot babe, I love you!
We also have two fan works of Lothar by Elizard and Reaper, thanks people.
So, here I was, thinking about what to type for an update this week, while planning my trip to the US in June, when I wander over to my friend Alan Solivan’s LiveJournal and he’s created the meme below.
Go to wherever you keep your video games and either look away or close your eyes and randomly select ten of them. Whichever you grab, you must stick with. The only exceptions are if either the game doesn’t belong to you (i.e. rented, borrowed) or if you didn’t buy the game yourself (i.e. someone else bought the game and you keep it to yourself). I know I do that with a few of the games I got). If you got the game as a gift, it’s accepted. Then post down which games you pulled out, tell us what it is, what system it’s for, and what compelled you to buy/want it.
So I figure “why the fuck not?” and decide to use it for my EN update as well. Take note 95% of the games I own are for Xbox, because while I have owned as PS2 (up until two years ago) and a GameCube (up until six months ago), I got rid of them because everything I really wanted was either multi-format or Xbox exclusive and I never played the fuckers. Though the odd PS2 title keeps tempting me to buy one (DAMN YOU WE LOVE KATAMARI). The other 5% are DS games. For no particular reason I’m doing this in alphabetical order.
1) Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Xbox). I purchased this because I’ve always wanted a go at the Battlefield games, but I simply detest PC gaming. Plus it was only £19.99 at the time. Little known fact is that the single player portion was developed by EA, while the multiplayer was developed by Digital Illusions, the creators of the franchise. Guess which part sucks complete and utter donkey testicles (tip, it isn’t the multiplayer).
2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Xbox). My sister bought me the Grand Theft Auto Double Pack on Xbox for Christmas, and I obviously had to test it out to make sure it worked. Got completely hooked on Vice City, but then it went away for two weeks before Christmas. So I bought San Andreas to keep me amused in the meantime.
3) Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox). Had every other system, decided to get Xbox. Everyone and their grandmother recommended Halo, so I got it and was completely and utterly blown away. It has since become my favourite game of all time.
4) Halo 2 (Xbox). Bought this because I thought it would be an improvement over Halo, but now with online play. At least I was right about the online play.
5) Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack (Xbox). Look it seemed like a good idea at the time alright! Leave me alone.
6) Mario Kart DS (DS). I wanted a DS and Sonic Rush, plus another game. Kirby: Power Paintbrush (Canvas Curse to our American audience. No I don’t know why the hell they changed the name either) wasn’t out in the UK yet, so I got this with it…no other reason.
7) Ninja Gaiden: Black (Xbox). I got this because I got my arse completely and utterly fucking handed to me on the regular version of Ninja Gaiden, and never completed it. So I thought the Ninja Dog (Easy) mode would let me do so. Instead, what actually happened was I got bored of playing it and played through The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction for the seventh time. Big, green, half-naked men beat ninjas any day.
8) Project: Snowblind (Xbox). There was an offer on Xbox Live! Kits, £19.99 when bought with anything else at work. This was £4.98 in the sale. True story!
9) Sonic Mega Collection Plus (Xbox). Because it reminds me that once, Sonic Team were capable of making GOOD Sonic Games. Sonic Rush was developed by DIMPS, not Sonic Team, so it doesn’t count.
10) Yager (Xbox). I wanted a combat flight game on the Xbox which wasn’t Crimson Skies (which is fucking fantastic and everyone who owns an Xbox should get it). This was £4.97 second hand and got some good reviews.
Well that killed a few minutes, but now I’m going to go ninja kick the world. See you next week.
Oh and I’m 21 tomorrow…FUCK! I’M OLD!
Addendum, as worded by forum member Master_Shake:
February 4th, 2006 |
The following are not valid words/word substitutes: “2″, “4″, “u”, “r”, “y”, “c”.
In a perfect world, the following sentence would get you hanged: “y r u here 2?”
Spell it out, people. Your parents threw money at the public education system for many years for a reason. That reason is NOT so you could abuse the English language, a language which has done nothing to you personally and thus does not need your abuse.
Thank you.
Here’s a little lesson
February 3rd, 2006 |
For all of you who seem to be unable to handle the English language properly.
“THERE” is used when talking about a location. EXAMPLE!
“They went to the pie shop over there.”
“THEIR” is used when talking about something in the possessive. EXAMPLE!
“That is their pie.”
“THEY’RE” is used as a shorter way of saying “they are”. EXAMPLE!
“They’re stealing the pie!”
And here’s another lesson.
“YOUR” is when you’re ascribing ownership of something. EXAMPLE!
“That is your pie.”
“YOU’RE” is used as a shorter version of “you are”. EXAMPLE!
“You’re stealing the pie!”
GOT IT YET YOU ILLITERATE FUCKERS!?
#136 – One Arm Larger Than The Other
February 3rd, 2006 |
‘Lo. I are back and I bring comic. I spent preeetty much the entire two weeks off watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Got the boxset. Had myself an All-you-can-eat Buffay. …Holy sweet gods, that was a lethally bad pun.
Guest Comic: Raye – Lothar’s Third Law Of Motion
January 27th, 2006 |
This week’s comic is provided by my girlfriend Raquel, and is based on a true event that happened while she was staying over here for two weeks. Sharing the bed, I rolled onto her side, which woke her up. She then attempted to push me over to my side of the bed, but because I’m too heavy with manly muscle (read: mostly fat and being 6’4” high and 1’11” wide at the shoulder) I wasn’t budging. So through the laws of physics (which I barely passed in school btw), which teaches us that every action has an equal and opposite reaction (basically the only thing I remember from the class, and that whole ‘why snowshoes work’ thing) the force she exerted was great enough to send her flying off the bed and onto the floor.
She then proceeded to try and poke me awake, for 15 minutes. Did I feel ANY of this while sleeping? Hell no, because when I fall asleep I’m out for the count, but eventually I rolled over on my own accord. Which I paid for in the morning, but in a fun way.
People enjoyed the audio rant last week, so I’ll probably do another one if I can be arsed. But since I can’t think of anything to talk about except my shiny new HP printer/scanner, which won’t stop working after six months like the shite Canon ones I used to have, I didn’t think you’d wanna hear me talk about me scanning stuff just for the hell of it (I swear I’m like a three year old kid with a new toy with this thing, except with less chance of me putting it in my mouth, but only just) so I didn’t bother.
Cya next week.
