Marcello you may not love Half Life, cuddly kittens, happiness, cheesecake, or breasts but I think that this might just change your opinion of bacon.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/414664
Monday, December 24, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Hey Sam!
Just letting everyone (and by everyone I mean really only Cyrus at this point) that the fantabulous Sam Anderson has joined the blog! Hey Sam! In case you didn't read the first couple of posts I started this thing because I knew that we all had smart/serious/stupid stuff we might want to talk about with our peers and this might be a good forum for it. Also, we can show/subject each other to crazy shit from throughout the interweb. Like that sweet ass Batman-Law & Order pic you showed me. So far only me and Cyrus are really doing any posting, but feel free to chime in whenever. AWESOMES. GO!
-Marcello
p.s. Do you REALLY remember how aweful comics were in the 90's? Here's drawings from the one man I hate most of all to prove it!
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html
-Marcello
p.s. Do you REALLY remember how aweful comics were in the 90's? Here's drawings from the one man I hate most of all to prove it!
http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Worth a laugh
I've been on a YTMND kick of late. This one is popuplar but always worth a laugh:
http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/
http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Spamlarious
I get a lot of junk from my work e-mail, which I usually don't even take half a glance at, but this was too good to pass up sharing. I don't know if it's just incorrect english, but hilarity ensues when taken literally.
Don't let your dick look like a kid from the Philippines. Try this efficient medicine.
Don't let your dick look like a kid from the Philippines. Try this efficient medicine.
You've Probably Already Experienced This But Still...
Stupid Manchu Rock. How dare you influence me to love this awesome song with what is possibly and even more awesome video.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Achievement Unlocked: Too Many Posts
Conversing Seriously: Serious Conversational Stupidity Series
Video Game Achievements and Unlockables: Welcome Addition or Life Ruling Plague?
So, the title is relatively straightforward, I think. For Dan, Cello and I were just talking about this lightly the other day. "This" being whether the new emphasis being given to various unlockables and achievements in video games is a positive or negative addition and how that addition to the medium plays out for us, the players.
If that still doesn't make sense, seeing as I am making a minimal effort to actual write sensibly, the whole discussion was sparked by my volumious opinions on two of the current popular multiplayer FPS games: Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4. I was saying that while Call of Duty 4 is enjoyable, its enjoyability has a sell by date on it. In part due to it being a roughly crafted (though still quite good) experience and in part due to the driving force of achievements and unlockables in the game. In short, I got the gun I wanted, used it a little and got bored with getting a nade in the behind every few seconds. Conversely, I claimed, TF2 is a game which I returned to after playing through COD4, not because I still have to get the hayabusa for my heavy, but because it is actually a fun game in itself and I just truly appreciate the fine tuned finely crafted multiplayer experience it provides. So, my initial thoughts would be, game developers should focus less on making games where you have to work for you pleasure. Basically if any part of the game is describable as a grind, then it needs to be altered or changed.
Thinking more on the subject now, I think it would be a severe generalization to say that unlockables are a detriment. In fact, my beloved TF2 uses achievements as well, even if they are much less central than in CoD4. What I'd say in a more revised statement is that a game should not be a search for unlockable unlocking and achievement achievement. That's just silly. Instead, unlockables are the type of thing which should add to the flow and direction of gameplay. So it's good if, in flow of just playing I might happen upon or accomplish a cerain achievement, even if it is off the beaten path. But when I start having to go from server to server and map to map, throwing myself off of things to try and figure out how to get a certain achievement just to earn extra points so that one day I can finally use the gun I wanted to use in the first place... well its sorta stupid (though I must admit, worth at least 1 laugh). So, after a long rant, not really saying much, I will conclude with unlockables are a good tool for adding or rewarding various directions in a game. But like any tool, they need to be used properly and not overused or abused. Or else you will end up with random holes and broken drill bits everywhere. Stupid drill. Why didn't anybody stop me.
Video Game Achievements and Unlockables: Welcome Addition or Life Ruling Plague?
So, the title is relatively straightforward, I think. For Dan, Cello and I were just talking about this lightly the other day. "This" being whether the new emphasis being given to various unlockables and achievements in video games is a positive or negative addition and how that addition to the medium plays out for us, the players.
If that still doesn't make sense, seeing as I am making a minimal effort to actual write sensibly, the whole discussion was sparked by my volumious opinions on two of the current popular multiplayer FPS games: Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4. I was saying that while Call of Duty 4 is enjoyable, its enjoyability has a sell by date on it. In part due to it being a roughly crafted (though still quite good) experience and in part due to the driving force of achievements and unlockables in the game. In short, I got the gun I wanted, used it a little and got bored with getting a nade in the behind every few seconds. Conversely, I claimed, TF2 is a game which I returned to after playing through COD4, not because I still have to get the hayabusa for my heavy, but because it is actually a fun game in itself and I just truly appreciate the fine tuned finely crafted multiplayer experience it provides. So, my initial thoughts would be, game developers should focus less on making games where you have to work for you pleasure. Basically if any part of the game is describable as a grind, then it needs to be altered or changed.
Thinking more on the subject now, I think it would be a severe generalization to say that unlockables are a detriment. In fact, my beloved TF2 uses achievements as well, even if they are much less central than in CoD4. What I'd say in a more revised statement is that a game should not be a search for unlockable unlocking and achievement achievement. That's just silly. Instead, unlockables are the type of thing which should add to the flow and direction of gameplay. So it's good if, in flow of just playing I might happen upon or accomplish a cerain achievement, even if it is off the beaten path. But when I start having to go from server to server and map to map, throwing myself off of things to try and figure out how to get a certain achievement just to earn extra points so that one day I can finally use the gun I wanted to use in the first place... well its sorta stupid (though I must admit, worth at least 1 laugh). So, after a long rant, not really saying much, I will conclude with unlockables are a good tool for adding or rewarding various directions in a game. But like any tool, they need to be used properly and not overused or abused. Or else you will end up with random holes and broken drill bits everywhere. Stupid drill. Why didn't anybody stop me.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
This is what the Starwars Kid felt like before the world butted in and fucked up his good time
I just think everybody are jerks for laughing at th Starwars kid. He was just doing what we have all done. In my case, what I have done on numerous occasions probably. I say we should look at him not as something to be ridiculed but as a sort of cultural hero representing the reality that everyone in the universe needs a little time to himself every once in a while to imagine that he is this guy:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1757260
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1757260
Friday, December 14, 2007
Girl Sympathy
I didn't know the Whitest Kids You Know cam out on the internet. I am gonna have to check it out.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1793794
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1793794
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Palette
The color scheme was depressing me so I changed it to another standard template. It's meh but not rainy, sad day anymore.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
"Who will survive after the bombs drop?"
There is a new Prof. Bros. up. Check it: 1, 2. 1,2,1,2.
Also, I think that we should use this blog for its real possibilities: a) world domination and b) stupid conversations that no one else is willing to flesh out but still are totally worth fleshing. I call it "The Serious Conversations: Stupid-Serious Conversation Series." Basically one of us will pose a question to the other 2 (3 if Peta gets her life together) and then a conversation on the topic will ensue in the comments section of that topic. Each topic will be something that we are too embarassed about to ask "outsiders" or, conversely, something which has been dubbed, by the filthy out-people, as too stupid to discuss. Just to make sure that we are all aware that the question being posed in the post is indeed stupid-serious, it should have "the Stupid Conversations: Seriously Stupid Conversational Series," or some rehashing of said title, at the top. Thus we all know how seriously and stupidly it should be treated. As an example of said question type, I shall pose one now.
Going parallel with an earlier "convo" Marcello and I had: when has porn gone too far? And I don't mean for you personally, I mean in a worldly everybody and everything sense.
I say we take these conversations as seriously or as stupidly as we feel at the moment. I think this has some real possibility for a) erudition AND b) not-so-smarty...ness. GO!
Also, I think that we should use this blog for its real possibilities: a) world domination and b) stupid conversations that no one else is willing to flesh out but still are totally worth fleshing. I call it "The Serious Conversations: Stupid-Serious Conversation Series." Basically one of us will pose a question to the other 2 (3 if Peta gets her life together) and then a conversation on the topic will ensue in the comments section of that topic. Each topic will be something that we are too embarassed about to ask "outsiders" or, conversely, something which has been dubbed, by the filthy out-people, as too stupid to discuss. Just to make sure that we are all aware that the question being posed in the post is indeed stupid-serious, it should have "the Stupid Conversations: Seriously Stupid Conversational Series," or some rehashing of said title, at the top. Thus we all know how seriously and stupidly it should be treated. As an example of said question type, I shall pose one now.
Going parallel with an earlier "convo" Marcello and I had: when has porn gone too far? And I don't mean for you personally, I mean in a worldly everybody and everything sense.
I say we take these conversations as seriously or as stupidly as we feel at the moment. I think this has some real possibility for a) erudition AND b) not-so-smarty...ness. GO!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
CYRUS, this post.....is for YOU
http://kotaku.com/gaming/media/double-feature-to-make-you-laugh-then-make-you-hate-us-332482.php
Monday, December 10, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
EON KID
Good lord this series has some choice concepts. I wonder if I should bother trying to find it or just imagine how good it is...
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/toyfare/006609859.cfm
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/toyfare/006609859.cfm
MOOSE
This involves a moose and an awesome scandanavian kid.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/game-smarts/wow-helps-boy-triumph-over-moose-330981.php
http://kotaku.com/gaming/game-smarts/wow-helps-boy-triumph-over-moose-330981.php
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Gotta love this video
I have actually seen this video before. But I just love it and the song. Its just such a simple video but awesome. Check it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSkLfVp2fQ&feature=related
p.s. I have found next years halloween costume
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSkLfVp2fQ&feature=related
p.s. I have found next years halloween costume
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
I love streetfighter everything
http://www.collegehumor.com/tag:street-fighter-the-later-years
The name says it all. The series isn't complete, but totally worth the wait. They just came out with the most recent one. Check it out.
The name says it all. The series isn't complete, but totally worth the wait. They just came out with the most recent one. Check it out.
Amazed and Fearful
Not only is this cool for the act itself, but also, the shear sense of dread and fright you get from the audience watching it. It's work safe or whatever. I just love the reaction
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764798
Also who is wingfacechompman or whatever. Not that I have any problem just curious. Welcome also... to wingmanchompface. Sorry, I can't remember what your actual tag is.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1764798
Also who is wingfacechompman or whatever. Not that I have any problem just curious. Welcome also... to wingmanchompface. Sorry, I can't remember what your actual tag is.
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