Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hmm

Yeah yeah, "blog all your PAX stories" I'll get to that later, I have something stupid and pointless to get to right now.

I just corrected a typo that was phonetically accurate. It wasn't even really a typo, it's more like I was typing phonetically. sympel. If you were to try and pronounce that it would be the same as the word simple right?

For some reason it seems profound. There's probably a whole lot you could say here. It could be a grand metaphor on religion, different paths to enlightenment etc, but really it's just a typo. Which in itself is a profound statement, how many pieces of new age artwork could be easily mistaken for trash. If I signed the fire extinguisher that was already in place could I call that part of my collection? Would the museum be willing to sell that extinguisher? Would the fire code make way for art?

A lot of potentially profound thoughts are there, but really it's just a stoner-esque bit of "Whoa!" I'll let you decide for yourselves whether or not reading this was a waste of your time.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Scrawl

I'll write out this full story later, but I have to record this bit of dialogue first.

PAX R6 Teammate: "I guess getting slaughtered by a bunch of hot girls isn't that bad. It's a nice sight before you die"

Max, lost in thought "Hmm."

PAX R6 Teammate: "Well what you you rather see just before you died."

Max, smiling: "Achievement Unlocked."

Saturday, August 25, 2007

PAX Summary, day 1.

-Rained frozen doom at the Fury table, held the lead for a good five minutes.
-Got an autograph from Roulette, captain of the Frag Dolls.
-MC Fontalont preforming with Optimus Rhyme.

Awesome.

*thud*

Friday, August 24, 2007

Busy

You may not be able to contact me until Tuesday, and if you can't don't worry. Starting in about an hour I plan to go on a spree of nerd revelry and caffeine abuse, the last hurrah and the closing ceremony to Project Exodus.

On Tuesday I'm going to an academic counseling session.
On Wednesday I'm going to a therapist.
On Thursday I plan to begin buying school supplies.

My world is about to become a very different place, but for the next few days none of that matters. Soon I will once again bear the harsh burden now I am free.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

What Now Einstein?

More proof that giant doses of Quantum can be used to screw over any aspect of normal physics. For now even they say they don't know, but I remain adamant in my theory. What keeps us from going faster then the speed of light?

Æther Friction.

Justification

I'm not a fan of Tim Buckley. The reason I'm not a fan is because his webcomic is routinely preachy, lacks any real character development, and reveals itself over time to be highly formulaic. I forgave most of that. The same point that prevents webcomics from ever becoming an industry frees them from the burden of merit, but I also bought the book of his webcomic in order to see his commentary on his own work. In the Penny-Arcade books the commentary shows the genius of the author, and is at least as entertaining as the comics themselves. The picture painted by Buckley's commentary is that of an arrogant tool.

It turns out that Scott Kurtz, creator of PvP, also has a bone to pick with him, and wikiscanner has finally produced a truly interesting story. The following is a post by Kurtz, you can find it here.

This is so great.

A fan sent me a condolences gift yesterday to try to lift me up. Boy did it ever. Apparantly there is a site called Wikiscanner, where you can look up someone's IP address, enter it into the site and it will show you every Wiki entry and edit they have ever made.

This fan had an email from Tim Buckley and used his IP address to wiki-search him.

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/list_edits.php?ip1=68.60.213.27&ip2=&ip3=&ip4=#

My favorite: Tim deleted the enitre wiki entry for PvP and replaced it with "pvp sucks."

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=32072999

If you look, you'll see that at various points, Tim vandalized his own page anonymously, then posed as CAD fans admonishing the vandalism. This was like Christmas, and my birthday all rolled into one email.

Dear fan who wished to remain anonymous. One thing Mike Wieringo LOVED to do with me was gossip like a fucking bored housewife. He would have FUCKING LOVED THIS SHIT!

Thank you for this. It made a difficult day better.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Nothing To Do

Without an escapist RPG addiction to go on, and without a volt shift, I'm becoming extremely bored. I tried playing housewife for a little while, but I'm really bad at that. Once I wasn't running on spite I found that I wasn't running at all. These games may be a real dependence for me.

I really wish that thought bothered me more.

A New Game

I think the creator of this comic just created a new game. Check your auto complete, where are you tied to? I got nothing for most of them, the ones that did turn up are listed below.

B: Blogger
E: en.wikipedia.com
F: forums.evilavatar.com
G: Google
P: www.Penny-Arcade.com
Q: www.Questionablecontent.net
U: www.UnleashtheFury.com
W: www.WorldofWarcraft.com

Monday, August 13, 2007

Critic

I watched most of face off tonight, and it bothered me for the wrong reasons. It's strange what my mind is willing to accept and what it's not. The whole "switching faces" thing was airbrushed into reality just fine, but during the entire last fight scene, at the point where they're supposed to be dealing finishing blows all I could think was "Spear to the gut, non-fatal, keep fighting." I couldn't deal with how little actual damage was being dealt by their combat, and when the antagonist passes out I was upset because he hadn't even really been injured.

I don't know what it is but ever since I got a full understanding of how much damage you can take while fighting I haven't had a very high tolerance for action movies that don't show anything borderline lethal going on before someone gets killed. My brothers tip that if I have a flail and my opponent has a Katana and I get stabbed in the rib cage I should keep fighting because a collapsed lung is okay if it means I can get in a good swing to the head keeps coming to mind. That and the advice of a scuba trainer at Sea Base. He made the mistake of mentioning sharks to a bunch of teenaged boys, and we were instantly fascinated by the idea. The defense he taught us is simple: if you see a shark coming at you, punch it in the nose. I brought up the key question "what if keeps coming?"
"Punch it again."
"What if you get tired?"
"It's pretty simple kid. If you don't punch the shark you're gonna die. Just remember that and think really hard about how tired you are. "

Thursday, August 09, 2007

YTMND (NSFW)

YTMND has been in rare form recently.

Mocking Tragedy:

YTMND - SimTragedy (2007 Edition)
YTMND - Lost Super Mario Brothers Level

Generalized Hilarity/Douchery

YTMND - Reynolds Wraptmnd
YTMND - That's not a shortcut
YTMND - Daddy's Special Bathroom Privacy Time

A couple that are a bit of a stretch, but still funny.
YTMND - Come on Islam
YTMND - In Your Rice

And an Epic Rap Battle. M$ Sam vs AT&T Mike. That's just the initial exchange though, all battles have to end.

A Profound Thought

Things that work because of the placebo effect still work.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Screwed

I haven't played WoW in a few months now, and I'm not having any issues with that. However, I've been sitting next to a Tier 7 WoW addict for the last few days, so I've had to explain over and over again that as the game is now I'm just not interested. Until they add something that really interests me, I'll keep console gaming, IRC chatting, and hoping I can get a better video card before Fury and Age of Conan come out.

A quick note to my stalkers. You are correct, until now there were only six tiers of WoW addiction. My exposure to this young man has prompted me to make a seventh. I'll discuss this at length later.

Changing topics again. Anyone here ever group with my Paladin? Maybe part of a 40 man raid with Inquisition? Well, for those of you who who didn't I had a couple of interesting distinctions about my character. For one thing I kept an alternate set of gear on me that made me look the complete antithesis of the Paladin. It was dark and spiked, and the sword had an unholy purple glow along a pale metal blade extending from the demons skull that was it's pommel. The shield had the image of a skeletal human face locked in an eternal scream set upon it. Even if you didn't see me in my decorative gear, since I usually jumped quickly back to either my healing or my multipurpose gear, you almost certainly heard my rez macro.

Those players who can resurrect others sometimes have a macro set up, which makes them announce who they're resurrecting. This prevents the loss of time and mana that you get when two people try and rez the same fallen ally. These macros can be as simple as "Rez inc [Target Name]" but they're usually more in character, something like "The light calls you back from the twisting nether [Target Name]" or "May the elements breathe new life into [Target Name]"

Mine was in character too. It's just that it was in the character that I so deeply wanted to be, but couldn't. Mine was "Arise [Target Name]! Rise up in the Lich King's Name!" The macro wasn't called resurrect either. It was called Animate Dead.

I wanted to be a Death Knight. Since WoW Beta I wanted to be a Death Knight. I use to campaign to make the Scourge a third playable faction with Death Knight as their faction class. I routinely mentioned that as soon as they gave me the opportunity my paladin would forsake the light, embrace the shadow, and become a champion of the Lich King.

That opportunity has been given.

I think I have until at least fall '08. In the meantime I'm upping my dosage of Fury trailers in what I know will be a futile denial of my dark ambitions.

Glory to the Scourge

Mandatory 1 Hour Lunch

I'm bleeding potential right now. My brain has gone dull as I sit idly wishing I could fast forward through this waste. There is a great deal that I should do, an even greater amount that I would like to do, and even after applying the harshest of all collars there is still a great amount that I could do. Still, there isn't a single item on that list that I could do here. The quintessence of time bleeds from the mortal wound in my mind.

Still another 20 minutes to go.

Life in VMC

Something occurred to me. I have never once come in to VMC and not heard at least one complaint of sleep deprivation and one conversation about WoW. These things are usually related. We are a strange and self destructive people, and we should be glad that this form of employment is available to us. Many of us could not function well in the outside world.

Noteworthy

I'm multitasking, so I'm free to write pithy little pointless blog posts like this one while doing the even less productive things I do on the internet.

I'm amazed at what I'm seeing right now. on 4chan, which isn't a link because you probably shouldn't go there. On 4chan, there is an add for CatholicMatch.com.

Epic Spoiler

This is the single greatest spoiler I have ever seen. The text has been colorized to match the background, and must be highlighted to be read.

HARRY IS A HORCRUX
TOM RIDDLE'S DIARY, MARVOLO GAUNT'S RING, SALAZAR SLYTHERIN'S LOCKET, HELGA HUFFLEPUFF'S CUP, ROWENA RAVENCLAW'S DIADEM, AND NAGINI ARE THE OTHERS
DUMBLEDORE WANTED THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
BURBAGE DIES
HEDWIG DIES
MAD-EYE DIES
SCRIMGEOUR DIES
WORMTAIL DIES
DOBBY DIES
SNAPE DIES
BELLATRIX DIES
FRED WEASLEY DIES
HARRY GETS FUCKED UP BY VOLDEMORT, COMES BACK TO LIFE, AND THEN KILLS VOLDEMORT
TONKS, LUPIN, AND COLIN CREEVY DIE
RON MARRIES HERMIONE, THEIR CHILDREN ARE NAMED HUGO AND ROSE
HARRY MARRIES GINNY, THEIR CHILDREN ARE NAMED JAMES, LILY, AND ALBUS SEVERUS
DRACO MALFOY HAS A SON NAMED SCORPIUS
DUBMBLEDORE DIDN'T WANT TO BE A PUSSY AND DIE FROM A CURSED RING, SO HE HAD SNAPE KILL HIM
L DIES
SPIKE DIES
NEO DIES
TRINITY DIES
AERIS DIES
JACK SPARROW DIES
OBI-WAN DIES
QUI-GON DIES
YODA DIES
PADME DIES
BOROMIR DIES
GANDALF DIES
DUMBLEDORE DIES
EVERYONE IN EVANGELION TURNS INTO ORANGE JUICE
BAMBI'S MOM DIES
EVERY MAJOR CHARACTER IN FFT DIES
GOKU DIES
GOKU DIES AGAIN
GOKU DIES FUCKING AGAIN
GOKU DIES, THIS TIME FOR REAL, AND THEN DIES AGAIN
PICCOLO DIES
KRILLIN DIES
TIEN DIES
YAMCHA DIES
CHAOZU DIES
VEGETA DIES
CRONO DIES
TELLAH DIES
MARIKO DIES
DARTH VADER IS LUKE SKYWALKER'S FATHER
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE
BRUCE WILLIS IS DEAD
PRINCESS LEIA IS LUKE'S SISTER
WINSTON GETS REPROGRAMMED
THEY FIND NEMO
THEY ALL WENT TO THE SAME DAYCARE
ROSEBUD IS HIS SLED
YOU JUST LOST THE GAME
WANDER DIES AND IS REBORN FUSED WITH THE DORMIN
GRETCHEN DIES
DONNIE GOES BACK IN TIME SO HE CAN GET KILLED BY THE FALLING PLANE ENGINE
MACMURPHY GETS LOBOTMIZED AND IS KILLED BY CHIEF
ALEX IS "CURED"
THE PLANET OF THE APES IS EARTH IN THE FUTURE
TYLER DURDEN AND EDWARD NORTON'S CHARACTER ARE THE SAME PERSON
JAY GATSBY DIES
MERCUTIO DIES
ROMEO DIES
JULIET DIES
CEASAR DIES
HAMLET DIES
TONY ALMEIDA DIES
DECKARD IS A REPLICANT
THE BOY SHOOTS OL' YELLER
JESUS DIES

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Schedule Complications

It's 10. I have to get up at 7 tomorrow, I really should go to sleep.

*Lean*

Nope, sun's still up. Damn

Making the cut

I have a job again!

Due to my NDA with Microsoft that's all I can tell you.