Their nine contributions.
At level 33, I've finally started having the experiences in World of Warcraft that will really end it for me. I have stopped utilizing the game world as a source of creative impetus and have begun instead to consider using power tools on human beings in ways explicitly forbidden by the manual. It's not even Blizzard's fault this time, and I'm looking forward to Thursday's sixteen hour service outage so that I can really examine my life and figure out what is so spiritually injured about it that I feel compelled to be a dwarf all Goddamn night.
To a great extent, the reason I've been having the quality experiences I mention in WoW isn't just because it's good. It's because I run with a fly crew that watches out for each other and helps the guys coming up. Grouping has usually involved sending a polite tell to a member of the guild and them having them gallop in on a resplendent war horse. What I learned tonight is that I should only group with people for whom I have several references and a complete employment history. I want to sit down with a mysterious wizard before we enter some kind of dinosaur hole and ask him which letters are and aren't in "Team." I want to make sure he understands that just because he can project bolts of elemental flame doesn't mean that he was chosen by god for some special purpose and thus cannot die. I only had to go down a few times before realizing that this fucker was actually playing another type of game, against me, one that was not firmly delineated by the application. He was playing a game where you run directly into a troll camp, and then Trolls kill him, and then they kill you just because they saw you guys hanging out.
I ended up comforting myself with my Broken Saints DVD. I first found out about the site years ago, as my spy network is vast and keen, and I was told to check out this "webcomic" immediately. I use the quotation marks because it was apparent at the outset that it wasn't anything I'd call a webcomic. It was as though someone had an idea that could have manifested itself as either an impossibly ambitious film or a series of powerful graphic novels and ended up somewhere in the middle. The DVD removes it even further from webcomicry, adding 5.1 audio and what I'm prepared to call excellent voice acting to what was already a rich musical score. Now, listen to me. It's a four DVD series which hits on topics like spirituality and global capitalism. The writing is, at times, what I might call... enthusiastic. If you already liked the series, the debit card should be coming out at about this point and you should be buying it. The additions are fantastic and the extras are encyclopedic. Newcomers can always check out the old site here, and see if the series is for them. If you find yourself getting into it, don't hesitate. You'll prefer the new version.
(CW)TB out.
she tricked me easy
Our EB actually got RE4 on the ship date, due no doubt to some improbable celestial configuration, and it is so beautiful that it's almost stupid. There's all sorts of alterations to the trademark gameplay, which I'm sure you've heard a thousand times - in the same way that the Chunky line of soups remain soups yet eat as though they were meals, this is a Resident Evil game that is still Resident Evil even though you can freelook, enemies drop glowing ammunition, and you can elbow a person's head right off. I'll have more to tell you eventually, but the presentation is simply impeccable thus far. I had to say something. The faces alone!
I'm absolutely surrounded by Mikes pretty much all the time, they're closing in, and one of them asked me if I was familiar with The Order of the Stick. Me. Asked me if I knew about it. Motherfucker, my balls have twenty sides. Nothing escapes my gaze. Don't get in my face with your tabletop trivia unless you want to save for half.
(CW)TB
There's some meat on it now - Gamespot's got some goods. It's called End of Ages, and purports to draw the Myst series to a close. Cyan's on this one, not a team internal to Ubisoft like IV, and the screenshot provided doesn't look like it's using the engine from Four either. I wish I knew more.
(CW)TB
So I guess G4-TechTV is dropping the TechTV part of their name. Apparently they thought it gave them undeserved credibility. They are also launching some new shows, one of which is called girls gone wired. I guess they have judges sit around and rate how hot pretend girls are. Here’s a quote from their press release:
"Our audience interacts with digital girls as much as real girls and we're tapping into that fantasy," commented Laura Civiello, Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for G4. "'Girls Gone Wired' is the first pageant of its kind on television with contestants competing for titles like "Hottest Newcomer," "Sexiest Voice" and "Most Likely to Kick Enemy Ass." I think that the idea of a television channel that focuses on videogames and technology is an exciting one. Obviously there is a lot of potential for some quality shows on a channel like that. I think that’s why people dislike G4 so much. It’s not just because the stuff they make is so bad. There are plenty of bad television shows on every channel. It’s the fact that they are wasting all that potential, and that’s what is so disappointing.
-Gabe out
Well a game finally came out that was able to pull me away form World of Warcraft. KOTOR II wasn’t able to do it, even MechAssault 2 couldn’t hold my interest for more than a couple minutes. I had actually given up and resigned myself to the fact that WOW was the only game I’d ever play again. Then I picked up Resident Evil 4 yesterday and it got a fucking grip on me. Sweet Christ this game is incredible. I had planned on grabbing level 30 last night but I just couldn’t pull myself away from RE. It’s like it broke some kind of spell or something. At least now I’ll have something to do today while the WOW servers are down.
So I guess G4-TechTV is dropping the TechTV part of their name. Apparently they thought it gave them undeserved credibility. They are also launching some new shows, one of which is called girls gone wired. I guess they have judges sit around and rate how hot pretend girls are. Here’s a quote from their press release:
"Our audience interacts with digital girls as much as real girls and we're tapping into that fantasy," commented Laura Civiello, Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for G4. "'Girls Gone Wired' is the first pageant of its kind on television with contestants competing for titles like "Hottest Newcomer," "Sexiest Voice" and "Most Likely to Kick Enemy Ass."
I think that the idea of a television channel that focuses on videogames and technology is an exciting one. Obviously there is a lot of potential for some quality shows on a channel like that. I think that’s why people dislike G4 so much. It’s not just because the stuff they make is so bad. There are plenty of bad television shows on every channel. It’s the fact that they are wasting all that potential, and that’s what is so disappointing.
-Gabe out
