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Boxer briefs…

Not boxers, not tightey whiteys, they’re kinda like briefs with delusions of grandeur. What’s up with that?

It’s as if they can’t make up their mind, like deciding between being boxers or being briefs is too big a decision, just now. So they chose to just try to be both instead?

Perhaps they’re torn between two worlds, I mean, I can see their dilemma.
See, on the one hand there’s the comfort and easy breathing stylishness that boxers afford.
On the other hand however, there’s the warmth giving and boner restraining, nut cupping cotton banana hammock that briefs give the wearer, to say nothing of the fact that briefs keep one from sitting upon one’s own happy sack.
The advantages, like the differences are many. A difficult decision to be sure.

What if they started out one way, started to change, got halfway there, encountered some sort of difficulty and surrendered? Egads! Could it be? Might they be, you know… French?
Gruesome though it may be, I feel we must consider the possibility that these undergarments may indeed harbor some form of dark allegiance to the motherland of all cheese eating surrender monkeys. (editor’s note: DUN DUN DUN)

On the other side of things, maybe boxer briefs are not a product of their own doing.
Indeed, perhaps boxer briefs are actually the unholy love child of boxers and briefs.
Perhaps a pair of boxers and a pair of briefs were left alone in a fabric factory late at night, got bored and decided to get down with some hot, kinky undergarment on undergarment action.
Action which created the unholy product… Boxer briefs! (editor’s note: the DUN DUN DUN is reader’s choice on this one)

Now, I want the reader to be aware that I did not begin this line of philosophical inquiry with the benefit of any prejudice toward or against any of the types of underwear described herein. Nor do I intend to come to any sort of conclusion as to which type is superior. What you do in the privacy of your own underwear drawer is your own business. Indeed.

However, I will say this… *cough* boxer briefs are gay *cough*

That will be all jeeves… No! Stop typing! Don’t type that! Stop typing everything I say damn you! I told you I’m done, why must you persist? You will cease all typing this instant!

Well I’ve been on ‘vacation’ for about a week and today I started to have a little energy and drive to do things so I guess this means I’m atleast mostly rested up from the yearly christmas ordeal at the postal service.
So now that I have some money and free time (hopefully) I should be able to continue some persuits that I had previously put on hold.

Such as the repairs on my Jaguar, and my learning of the guitar.

Speaking of the guitar, I realised today that I first bought it in February of 2006 so before long it will be a year since I bought it. In that time I’ve learned exactly jack. Well I did learn to tune (with a tuner of course) and re-string, not to say that I’m really efficient or proficient at either. So time for my practice to resume!

I had other things to say, but my guitar is calling, so later folks.

The below quote is taken from today’s Penny Arcade news post. This is a very interesting idea. I like it in fact. My… PSP is feeling very happy about this idea.

As for the second paragraph of the quote, I totally agree. Why would’nt it be able to do that? I might consider buying a PS3 sometime this decade if it could. I normally think that consoles are a waste of money. I mean, why spend $600 on a PS3 that can’t do many things my PC can, when I could spend that $600 on upgrades to keep up with the state of the art. However, the fact that all previous PS games can be played on the PS3 is a big stroke in its favor, so I might get one sometime in the future if the price ever drops. Of course I’ve been saying the same about the original Xbox since it came out and I’ll probably not be buying one now as what I wanted it for is’nt really needed now that I have my laptop (I wanted it for emulation and SETI@home stuff and such).

On the fifth page of Gamasutra’s interview with Sony’s new PR organism, almost hidden from view, is the revelation that Sony’s PSone catalog will be available for five bucks a pop in their online store. This software currently plays exclusively on the PSP, with the ability to run them on the PS3 itself to arrive at some undefined juncture. Considering that until very recently people were buying Excitebike cartridges for like thirty dollars, this is a sweetness beyond description. Now, I imagine that this holds only for first party product: I have a hard time believing that SquareEnix is going to let Xenogears or Vagrant Story slip for five bucks a pop. But this is amazing pricing, about where people say they want it.

It’s extremely weird that they don’t allow you to actually play the PSone games you’ve purchased directly on the PS3, though. I mean, really weird, like bird weird. The Playstation 3 is fully compatible with the original Playstation. Should we use that crazy-ass console math everyone is always using these days to say that those games really cost two hundred and five dollars? No, because I’m not a fucking jackass. At least, not about this particular thing, at this precise moment. But if the console itself is fully compatible - i.e., it can play a Playstation One disc if I put it in the tray - the idea that it can’t do the same shit from the raw bits is a little hard to swallow.

(CW)TB out.

I seem to remember writing that on my previous page…

Anyway, I wrote a new page about the new obsession that’s also doubling as my excuse for not posting much. My car. Check out the page, and images, which are mostly of the old carb. Soon I’ll name the pics and upload pics of the mods I’m gonna do.

I know I have’nt talked about the Indie gaming scene yet, but having read the preview for Alien Shooter 2, I feel the time has come.

Indie games are… I don’t know. Different. Sometimes in a lame way, sometimes in a good way sometimes in a neutral way. I view different in the entertainment industry in general as not necessarily good or bad. But everything I’ve seen about AS2 suggests what I can only describe as different and the same, referring to a sort of melding of the best of both worlds.

AS2 is the same in that it includes alot of action, alot of features, including vehicles etc.
But it’s different in that it has NPCs that behave as though they actually care about their own survival, rather than just running around like idiots.
It’s also different in that it mixes the action and RPG genres, which to my knowledge has’nt been done alot yet. Or atleast not done well.


http://www.gametunnel.com/gamespace.php?id=324&tab=2

From the article:

Recently, there was a mainstream shooter game–who’s name I won’t mention–that received less-than-exemplary scores for not being immersive enough. While the visual presentation of a game does have to do with the way players feel they are being immersed in an electronic playground, it doesn’t mean it must detract from the gameplay. Many bigger titles out there come from publishers who think that the greatest shaders and lighting effects make the game immersive. When in fact, even limited resources for lighting and shading can be used to make gamers feel the quality of the game’s universe. Alien Shooter 2 perfectly illustrates its visuals to immerse the gamer in a believable sci-fi world. Even in the pre-release demo, the relentlessness of the aliens, the way the NPCs reacted and responded, etc., etc., all made up for AS2’s immersive presentation.

The above is an example of the sort of thing that I think can make an Indie game different in a good way.

Well turns out that the DSL connection troubles as of late were due to phoneline connections problems. So I switched the incomming cable and cleaned some contacts and everything seems to be okay now.

We’re probably gonna want to run new cables into the house here soon.

http://www.planetxbox360.com/index.php/articledetails/show/452/1

A very well thought out article on violence in video games and cause/effect of/on real world violence.

From the article:

Stories of battles waged between the forces of good and evil can be found in the very oldest traces of our society. Most people are drawn to these games because, like news programs understand, violent drama is compelling. The human spirit is attracted to the thought of it, like people are to the thought of danger on a rollercoaster. Theme park thrill rides are rarely accused of desensitizing or encouraging people to actually jump off high buildings or roll downhill uncontrollably. Video games are an easy target because most of the people who shape opinions on television news are not familiar or comfortable with the medium. It is easy to point fingers at a thing you do not understand.

http://cad-comic.com/news.php?i=1213

So true. Co-op is far too overlooked in my humble opinion. Anyone else remember gunstar heroes? There’s game with fun co-op. Or the recent PC Ninja Turtles games, maybe not the best co-op gameplay ever but hey atleast it was there and was’nt HORRIBLE.


On another note… Lego Batman!? I’m beside myself. Legos rule. Batman rules. OMG.

Well, my internet connection has been sucky for the last day or so. I’m getting 56k speeds here, I mean wtf. I honestly can’t fathom how I was able to stand those speeds back when I still had 56k.

If it does’nt improve by this time tommorow I’m gonna e-mail quest and find out what’s up.

I was gonna post earlier in the day (it’s still wednsday to me), but i was hung over then I had things to do, places to go TV to watch, basically a bunch of excuses.

Anyway, one of the places I happened to go was Wal*Mart, and they did’nt have Lego Star Wars II so I think I might buy it off amazon here soon.

As far as Lego Star Wars II goes I’ve been drinking, so meh.

I’ll grab it the next time I happen to be in Wal*Mart. It’s not THAT big a deal.

Woooooo000oo000oo00oo000oooo00000t!

I just made pro level on Tiger woods 2k4!

Um, w00t.

So I played with the settings and modified things to show 30 posts per page (we’ll see how that works out) and so you don’t have to register to comment, so uh, have fun commenting…

Note to spammers (guys selling stuff) don’t bother, because I’ll just delete your posts.
Comments saying ‘you SUCK’ will be allowed however, so feel free to rip on me.

Comes out tommorow! W00t!

I just got done reading a review of this game, and I gotta say, having played the original, I’m totally stoked. Eve more so since reading the review. I mean I was stoked the instant I heard about it, but now I’m totally stoked. I will most likely be hitting up my local Wal*Mart at about 2am in order to purchase this game. Unless I’m too drunk in which case I’ll go in the afternoon.  :)

Well it’s now almost 5am my time on the 5th anniversary of that fateful day.
America was attacked, but we fought back and will continue to fight back.

My condolences to those who suffered loss as a result of the attacks.

Since I have’nt had much to say about video games so far, I figured I’d talk about Eve Online some. This is a game that has really captured my interest. I love the fact that it’s one world that everyone plays in. Also the fact that Eve has it’s own economy and politics, and hell, the fact that there’s so many ways to go. I mean, you can be a miner, a pirate, an anti-pirate, a bounty hunter though the line between pirate and bounty hunter is far too blurry if you ask me, but I digress, more on that later. Where was I? Oh, yes. A builder, a trader, need I go on?

There’s more I’d like to say, but there’s far too much for me to go into right now. I’ll start making some notes and write up a more detailed post with all my thoughts/complaints at some later date.

So for now I’ll just give a big shout out to all my homies in my corp Dodge This inc., yo homies! Let’s not forget my corp’s alliance, Vanu Space Command.
As for specific names, I wanted to mention everyone by name but there’s too many to list (lest I forget anyone), but i still wanna give a big shoutout to the folks that have (and continue) to help me learn the game, you know who you are (I hope).

I started playing Tiger Woods 2004 a couple weeks ago and for some odd reason, I find myself really getting into it the last couple of days, dunno why, dunno why.

The reason this is worthy of mention is because I normally don’t care that much for sports games, I have’nt liked one that much since the 16bit days and even then I’ve always thought that golf was the most boring sport on earth. However as I’ve discovered with other things, while watching the sport TV may be boring, that does’nt mean it’s not a candidate for a compelling game or two.

Well this started out more complex but, yeah, TW 2k4 is fun… especially when I’m drunk.

Eve was down for maintentance so I started writing a blog post in my head. I have an odd feeling that eve being down and my blog posts may frequently coincide in the future.

Anyway, I had a posting bonanza there for a bit, but I kinda stopped because I made the foolish mistake of reading other people’s blogs. Big mistake for me, because I read them and either think ‘this sucks’ or ‘this guy’s life is way more interesting than mine, why bother with a blog of my own?’  or ‘everybody and his brother has a blog, blogs are hardly original, why bother’.

Well the reason that discourages me is I really like the idea of being original and/or interesting, so reading other people’s blogs tends to rid me of the illusion of those eventhough I know that originality is an illusion at best considering that the written word has existed for literally centuries. A comepletly new idea is not possible. However, I try to remind myself that I can achieve ‘interesting’ by making my blog uniquely mine in that I say what I have to say. If someone else has said something similar before, so what?
The uniqueness comes in putting my own spin on things, not being truly innovative or original.

So if I think all that, why does reading other people’s blogs discourage me, you ask?
Well it’s like this; as stated above, I like the idea of originality, eventhough I know deep down that it’s not really possible. So I prefer to maintain the illusion as much as possible, because (and don’t ask me why) the persuit of that mythical creature seems to keep my creative juices flowing.

I’m not sure if this post makes any kind of sense or not, but I think I’m gonna leave it at that while I remind myself to not read any kind of blog other than the Penny Arcade news and the Ctrl + Alt + Del news.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/08/1237230

Hell yea, time to see some of these guys learn a lesson. As for the guy that likens spammers to telemarketers I wholeheartedly agree. They come into my house when they call me. ’nuff said.

I came across a game called Solar Fleet ( http://www.solarfleet.com/) and at first I thought ‘hey this looks neat’ then I looked at it some more and saw that it’s kinda a 2D Eve Online, except on an empire scale, kinda like sim city or some such but in space. Then I noticed that it’s turn-based. Meh. I’m sorry, it looks cool, but I don’t like turn-based games. In fact I hate them. I avoid them like some kind of horrible flesh eating bacteria that will not only eat away my face, but will somehow bring about the end of western civilization as I know it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/09/08

The Final Fantasy series has been an nearly unbroken string of cinemas for several installments now, and with this new innovation they have managed to wrest even combat - that tawdry, unregulated brothel of player interaction - from our increasingly desperate grip. I am not a “Final Fantasy Hater,” though such people exist - indeed, I believe many are currently employed at SquareEnix, where their evil labours on Final Fantasy XII have birthed darkness in a twisted mockery of The Holy Nativity.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/09/08#1157699040

Okay, so I have’nt played FFXII, but I’m aware of the sort of stupidity in gaming that is being reffered to in the comic and corrisponding news post, quoted above. So the way I see it is, the video game industry can’t come up with anything new, and have been hitting plateaus on the graphics side of things, so in order to attempt to create the illusion of innovation, they take away from us the only thing we’ve enjoyed so far. Control. Hello? World to gaming industry. Do you read? Wake up morons. We don’t want JUST pretty graphics, or stupid gameplay gimmicks, we want brand new features. And new styles of gameplay, not just FPS or RTS, or RPG. I for one, want to see more blending of those, and I don’t know, stories?Perhaps you guys could try thinking outside the existing genres, or something.

P.S. The first company that so much as talks about making a ‘Snakes on a plane’ videogame shall earn my un-dying scorn and perhaps boycotting.

Well, now that Eve Online is down for maintenance, I’m sitting here listening to music and drinking and reflecting on this here blog I’ve started and I’m thinking I kinda enjoy it, so long as I don’t try to post every day or week, etc and turn it into a chore. So, I’m gonna continue the idea of posting when the mood hits me, it might be 10 times one day or 0 time(s) another day, but, hey I’m really doing this more for me than anyone else, however recognition etc would be nice (for the love of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, someone please comment).

So my brand new laptop arrived today. I spent the day touching my… Touchpad.

It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad T42, and I must say I am extremely impressed with it in every way. It’s not the most flashy laptop around, but then I don’t see that as a bad thing either. It’s got nice features, nice simple look, and it’s nice and thin and not really heavy. Allthough, I think I’ll be upgrading the RAM and or Hard Drive in the near future.

I got an excellent deal on this here compootar from my friend Josh, good goin’ man

I would like to go into more detail, but I’ve been drinking and I think I want to go play Eve Online some, so I’ll sign off for now.

Oh, since I’m still on a night worker’s sleep schedule, by ‘today’ I mean yesterday, the lappy came on the 7th, not the 8th as the post time for this here post should reflect.
Oh, and that applies to most of my posts… The 7th is the 6th and so on.

Well I wrote some stuff on the about page… Next I think I might write a post or two on the current video games which are catching my attention, but it’s getting late and I’ve had a few beers so I think I might leave that until tommorow.

Well having written a first post, I then took it upon myself to search for a theme that I found met my requirements for form, and function. It has to have right hand columns, dark theme and day, date and time displayed on the post. While this theme is’nt exactly ideal in all ways, it does meet the basic requirements.

Tommorow I expect my new laptop to arrive which will allow for the writing of, if not the actually publishing of blog posts when I’m on the trip mentioned on the first post.

’nuff for now… On to writing that about page thingamabobber.

First real post anyway. Well um… Be deep. No. Be interesting? Well I’ll try. No promises though.

So yeah, not that anyone cares, but this here is my blog. I wanna post regularly and be all famous and stuff, but I have the feeling that it’s gonna be more of a ‘post when I’m not too lazy’ sort of affair.

The real idea of this endeavour is not so much to reveal my innermost thoughts and whatnot as some ‘blog guys’ are known to do, but to just rant, rave, and generally talk about whatever happens to be on my mind at the time I happen to have the energy to actually post something. This will include video games (probably mostly video games), any hardware related to video games, and music, movies, computer hardware/construction, and software, etc etc etc.

I have planned on doing something like this for some time, but have’nt really done it for various reasons. So why start now? Well, me and my Dad have been talking about/kinda planning a trip to Florida to see some extended family there, and the idea hit me to keep a sort of travel log of the trip, so I thought, ‘why not start that blog up?’. I plan on keeping my posts short and to the point, unless I really have something to say, so as not to make ‘this here thing here’ become a chore.

Some of you may have noticed that I take some ‘artisitic license’ with grammer etc, but that’s my style. I sort of want to go on about myself, but I think I’ll leave it at this for now and maybe (maybe) go fill out the about me page.