BET is showing The Matrix Reloaded as part of their "Black Buster Movies" feature. Naturally I tuned in to see what all of this was about, given that The Matrix Reloaded is not, say, The Color Purple. After it came back from the commercial break, the first thing they show is Niobe talking to Link about the whereabouts of Morpheus. You win this round, BET.
To clarify my simile, I avoid the PA forums like I would avoid cokehead strippers with leprosy. Not as could also be understood, I avoid the PA forums like a cokehead stripper would avoid the PA forums. That is all, please continue.
Once more comment on my simile, it could be possible that I also avoid the PA forums like cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums. I think I may do some research to see if cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums, and how prevalent the trend may or may not be, to decide if both possible interpretations are correct.
"I think I may do some research to see if cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums"
Well, given the content of the philosophy of Mind thread in D&D, I would have to conclude that cokehead strippers with leprosy do, in fact, frequent the PA forums.
And.. I'm enjoying it.. it's a bit simplified from console Suiks, but not badly so, and it's got some charm to it.
But I hit the point where I feel like I want to at least reasonably outfit my army. And, so I trade-routed up things. There's no GameFAQs trade route list up yet, so I broke out Excel.
Which is where I learned to hate this game. See, as you sell trade goods, more goods open up. Sell enough Wool Thread, and Wool Cloth starts selling. Which plays havoc w/ the spreadsheet, but.. okay.. managable.. except...
As you sell enough trade goods, newer, costlier weapons and armor show up for sale in your base... while you were in the middle of outfitting your army.
and I'm not talking a couple hundred gold more.. but a couple hundred K gold more. per item. Per member. And like all good Suik games, I'll eventually have 108 folks, 3/4s of which wear armor.
I mean.. we're talking gear that costs more than I've earned trade routing so far. And I'm about to break 7 digits, and had nearly outfit my people when I noticed the new gear.
I kind of like selling lots of little worthless items to make actually useful items appear in stores. I hate feeling like I've just bought something when I should have waited instead. Then again, I kind of like having ridiculously expensive items to look forward to.
So I'm giving this 6teen thing on CN a chance, because fuck, I'm a fair guy. It's flash animation about how teenagers have to deal with THINGS. And then BAM it's a Weapon of Choice video homage that runs for like the entire length of the Fatboy Slim video and is pretty much exactly the same thing. I figure, the people in this show are 16, which means that the people watching it are < 16. This means they were born in 1994 or later. This means they were...what...at most seven years old when this video was making its rounds?
Also, apparently this series was made a few years ago. That could close the age gap a little, and justify the Weapon of Choice thing, but still.
6teen's from the same prod. company who did Total Drama Island, right?
God, what terrible show that I saw too much of.
as for Suik.. well.. I'm a sucker for the games, and I know it.. but.. it's fairly charming on the DS. The story's one about a series of alternate worlds.. that.. as far as I can tell... start collapsing into one another.
and it's gotten better, once I built a fair sized stockpile of cash to begin buying the lower priced of the goods between two towns, and just moving between each other, buying out one side and selling to the other... basically economic grinding.
less troublesome than moving from each city to the next, buying their cheaps and selling their highs.
Ugh, you're pretty correct about the 6teen / Total Drama Island overlap of staff. I knew there was at least a target audience similarity, but man... how do you look back at your years in animation and say "I have made mediocre tween genre crap"?
I can't be too hard on Suikoden. I played about an hour of IV before I decided that I had had exactly enough of that shit. And then V came in with poor reviews from people I trust.
YOu know what I didn't think would get overexposed in the US was Persona / Shin Megami Tensei. But damn, that shit is all manner of over and done with due to the carpet bombing of new editions of the same old same old.
This is to say nothing of Tales of. Used to be we only got less than half of that series, then they started putting one out every time you turned around. This is the sixth year without Breath of Fire, and this is the first console generation since the NES to not have one. What is the hold up?
I'm intending "properly applied" to mean that it's funny, and not just a bunch of guys finishing everyone's sentences with COCKS DICKS LOL. Or I mean that it at least skews towards the funny side of that continuum.
Could there possibly be any reason that it's necessary to manually enter the information from my W-2 onto a 1040? Information goes from computer to computer to computer, then to a printer, then through the mail, then to me, and then I put it back into a computer. I see an inefficient and error-prone step there.
BET is showing The Matrix Reloaded as part of their "Black Buster Movies" feature. Naturally I tuned in to see what all of this was about, given that The Matrix Reloaded is not, say, The Color Purple. After it came back from the commercial break, the first thing they show is Niobe talking to Link about the whereabouts of Morpheus. You win this round, BET.
ReplyDeleteThe squids represent AIDS and Zion represents the African Continent.
ReplyDeleteSomeone in D&D had a baby today. They posted a picture.
ReplyDeleteWe decided that we need to sacrifice this baby to further humankind's knowledge.
First up? Is the baby a blank slate or does it have some fundamental programming?
Then we're going to test to see if it understands a priori concepts.
You guys should be the ones without a chat thread, not G&T. Listen to you all in there with your baby sacrifices.
ReplyDeleteWe just posted ben affleck autobots and BAM we're kicked out.
That's cause G&T is serious business whereas D&D is all about exploring new possibilities.
ReplyDeleteman.. I'm reading this shortly after waking and I'm all thinking Gin and Tonics ARE serious Business!
ReplyDeleteDungeons and Dragons is all about min/maxing, though.
Debate and Discourse, homes
ReplyDeleteMan, I avoid the PA forums like a cokehead stripper with leprosy, and I understood what G&T and D&D meant in this context... jeez.
ReplyDeleteTo clarify my simile, I avoid the PA forums like I would avoid cokehead strippers with leprosy. Not as could also be understood, I avoid the PA forums like a cokehead stripper would avoid the PA forums. That is all, please continue.
ReplyDeleteOnce more comment on my simile, it could be possible that I also avoid the PA forums like cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums. I think I may do some research to see if cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums, and how prevalent the trend may or may not be, to decide if both possible interpretations are correct.
ReplyDelete... Kyle, Have you been working the the Gentleman's Bars to make ends meet?
ReplyDelete"I think I may do some research to see if cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums"
ReplyDeleteWell, given the content of the philosophy of Mind thread in D&D, I would have to conclude that cokehead strippers with leprosy do, in fact, frequent the PA forums.
new episode of Kings was great -
ReplyDeletebut i fear next week, for the stunt casting is about the begin.
So.. I'm playing Suik DS, right?
ReplyDeleteAnd.. I'm enjoying it.. it's a bit simplified from console Suiks, but not badly so, and it's got some charm to it.
But I hit the point where I feel like I want to at least reasonably outfit my army. And, so I trade-routed up things. There's no GameFAQs trade route list up yet, so I broke out Excel.
Which is where I learned to hate this game. See, as you sell trade goods, more goods open up. Sell enough Wool Thread, and Wool Cloth starts selling. Which plays havoc w/ the spreadsheet, but.. okay.. managable.. except...
As you sell enough trade goods, newer, costlier weapons and armor show up for sale in your base... while you were in the middle of outfitting your army.
and I'm not talking a couple hundred gold more.. but a couple hundred K gold more. per item. Per member. And like all good Suik games, I'll eventually have 108 folks, 3/4s of which wear armor.
I mean.. we're talking gear that costs more than I've earned trade routing so far. And I'm about to break 7 digits, and had nearly outfit my people when I noticed the new gear.
I kind of like selling lots of little worthless items to make actually useful items appear in stores. I hate feeling like I've just bought something when I should have waited instead. Then again, I kind of like having ridiculously expensive items to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Suikoden stop being good a few years ago?
So I'm giving this 6teen thing on CN a chance, because fuck, I'm a fair guy. It's flash animation about how teenagers have to deal with THINGS. And then BAM it's a Weapon of Choice video homage that runs for like the entire length of the Fatboy Slim video and is pretty much exactly the same thing. I figure, the people in this show are 16, which means that the people watching it are < 16. This means they were born in 1994 or later. This means they were...what...at most seven years old when this video was making its rounds?
ReplyDeleteAlso, apparently this series was made a few years ago. That could close the age gap a little, and justify the Weapon of Choice thing, but still.
6teen's from the same prod. company who did Total Drama Island, right?
ReplyDeleteGod, what terrible show that I saw too much of.
as for Suik.. well.. I'm a sucker for the games, and I know it.. but.. it's fairly charming on the DS. The story's one about a series of alternate worlds.. that.. as far as I can tell... start collapsing into one another.
and it's gotten better, once I built a fair sized stockpile of cash to begin buying the lower priced of the goods between two towns, and just moving between each other, buying out one side and selling to the other... basically economic grinding.
less troublesome than moving from each city to the next, buying their cheaps and selling their highs.
Ugh, you're pretty correct about the 6teen / Total Drama Island overlap of staff. I knew there was at least a target audience similarity, but man... how do you look back at your years in animation and say "I have made mediocre tween genre crap"?
ReplyDeleteI can't be too hard on Suikoden. I played about an hour of IV before I decided that I had had exactly enough of that shit. And then V came in with poor reviews from people I trust.
YOu know what I didn't think would get overexposed in the US was Persona / Shin Megami Tensei. But damn, that shit is all manner of over and done with due to the carpet bombing of new editions of the same old same old.
This is to say nothing of Tales of. Used to be we only got less than half of that series, then they started putting one out every time you turned around. This is the sixth year without Breath of Fire, and this is the first console generation since the NES to not have one. What is the hold up?
I forgot to mention where Suikoden 2 and 3 were pretty good. Those ones were pretty good. Especially 2.
ReplyDeleteSuik 2 is Gold Standard.
ReplyDeleteI dunno about 5.. I kinda like it, but it takes for goddamn ever to get underway.
The less said about Suik. Tactics the better, I fear.
Question for Mikey:
ReplyDeleteSo, you basically do literary criticism. What do you think of everyone's best friend Derrida?
There is a class on Derrida offered for the fall...and I'm to decide whether or not it would kill me.
New PSP Design
ReplyDeleteJesus Jackrabbit Fuck that is pretty! And look at how prominently they place the screen. It cannot wait to be scratched.
Fucking Sony. They really need to start designing products which are meant to be used rather than placed upon a sanctified mound and worshipped.
Isn't that the uncorroborated, theoretical maybe-design that's been around?
ReplyDeleteYeah. But it might be real.
ReplyDeletetone matrix
ReplyDeletegin + tone matrix = wheee
I think i need to stop being a pussy.
ReplyDeleteUnskippable: With Yahtzee
ReplyDeleteIs it funny? I am undecided.
That was pretty funny. Properly applied MST3K formula is gold, and these guys are pretty good at making it work, I think.
ReplyDeleteBreakdown of current WoW Arena Tournament Team Composition
ReplyDeleteFor those if you who hate WoW you may still enjoy the graphs.
"Properly applied MST3K formula is gold"
ReplyDeleteI think that properly applied MST3K formula by parts of the MST3K crew is gold.
When non-MST3K people do it, though, I am compelled to pause and consider its merits.
I'm either going to take Derrida or Puritanism.
ReplyDeleteI think in the end I'm going to pussy out of Derrida. But if I want to do continental...but maybe I don't want to do continental...
GAH
I'm intending "properly applied" to mean that it's funny, and not just a bunch of guys finishing everyone's sentences with COCKS DICKS LOL. Or I mean that it at least skews towards the funny side of that continuum.
ReplyDeleteCould there possibly be any reason that it's necessary to manually enter the information from my W-2 onto a 1040? Information goes from computer to computer to computer, then to a printer, then through the mail, then to me, and then I put it back into a computer. I see an inefficient and error-prone step there.
ReplyDeleteYou can take Derrida -- just remember to punch in the gut, then sweep the leg.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Beck has totally lost is mind.
ReplyDeleteDerrida would be a more useful class in the long run
ReplyDeletelots of people talk about Derrida but most people don't understand what the fuck he was talking about.
Knowing what the fuck he is talking about is key to doing anything little-p philosophy related at this point
Yeah. Derrida scares me...but...I think it would look better on a transcript and behoove me.
ReplyDeleteIt's just that it's being taught by the hardass professor. So Derrida + hardass professor...is scary.
I want Glenn Beck's job.
ReplyDeleteRifftrax did Eragon!
ReplyDeletejay - suck it up
ReplyDeleteyou are in grad school now
I would watch Rifftrax Eragon.
ReplyDeleteAlso, someone needs to read Eragon and report whether or not it is super-shitty.
Sucking it up would be a thing to do. That's why I signed up for the class.
ReplyDeleteI love this new transformed Glenn Beck, Naked Showman.
ReplyDeleteBecause.. while he ABSOLUTELY terrrifies me.. he knows his damn game, and plays it to the hilt.
I wish I had Glenn Beck's job.
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