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2-27-05,
4:42 PM
Blake: "Yeah, that Super
Milk Chan show is fucking retarded."
Kyle: "Yeah, it's
awful. From some people I've talked
to it's supposed to have a lot of
Japanese pop culture references and
satire, which is great, but we don't
live in Japan, I don't see what the
point of importing it was."
Blake: "Yeah, we don't
all eat rice cakes and... go out and
do shit."
Kyle: "Wow, you've
certainly got their number."
Blake: (leaves the
room, reenters almost immediately)
"Well, I don't think the Japanese
are very homebodied."
Kyle: "Sure, I just
liked that definition of their
culture."
Blake: "...Shut up,
Kyle."
2-27-05,
3:18 AM
So, what do you like to do for fun?
Oh, you like to wiggle and cry. Me
too.
Music:
Carter Burwell - Norville's End
Well, I
had been on a sleeping
schedule that could almost be
described as normal. Sleeping from
8 PM to 6 AM yesterday I thought I
would be fine for the next couple
days. Around 4 in the
afternoon
I got drowsy and decided to take a
nap. I woke up at 11. Goddamn it.
I'm not complaining, but I've done
so little within these last couple
months that the days just seem to
run together. A couple days ago I
couldn't remember whether or not I
had gotten the mail or if I had just
done it the day before. I've spent
the last couple days feeling ill.
I have a whopping total of two
dollars in my wallet so I can't
really go out and do much of
anything, except drive. About the
only thing I do is play games and
read, which, hell, that's what I'd
do if I were rich.
I'm rambling, I'll update again
sometime soon.
-K.
we were going
to discuss the financial burden of
the elephant on the mongoose
population but you forgot your box
2-20-05,
8:28 PM
You
can't fool us by agreeing with us.
Music:
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles
OST - The Incredits
Within the last twenty-four hours I
believe I have discovered two pieces
of incontrovertible evidence that
verifies god does not exist:
1)
The Loonatics - The minds of
infinite wisdom at the WB have
presented the world with a preview
of their latest venture into the
realm of children's programming. In
The Loonatics, we are shown
the world in the year 2772, a bleak
place that seems to be teeming with
crime. Rather than assembling a
group of original characters to
battle this menace, it has been
decided that the joys of our youth
need to be raped savagely, and
everything good and pure painfully
removed, so that we may be presented
with these bastardized shallow husks
of what we once loved. Ladies and
gentlemen, I present to you
The Loonatics.
If you can also sit through
this promo
without having an epileptic fit then
you are a stronger person than
myself.
2)
Maddox has a
book deal. I think that
speaks for itself.
A
fair and loving god that I've been
told is supposed to exist wouldn't
allow this kind of shit to go down.
Well, in other news I've played
through Resident Evil 4 twice
now and I'm getting ready to give it
another go, but I'm also playing
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
as well. My brother is moving out
for sure this time, the deal is
sealed. I've also come to the
conclusion that I really suck as a
writer.
I'll elaborate on all of these soon.
I
would also love it if someone would
buy this shirt
for me.
-K.
only a devil and joe garogiolla
2-15-05,
2:56 AM
When I
feel like talking to you, I will
look at you.
Music:
Ben Folds - Satan is My Master
 I
seem to be rounding all the bases
lately when it comes to doing things
unlike myself. I held a distaste for
the GameCube that could almost be
described as pure hatred, or at the
very least bitter contempt, so it
may be to your surprise (and, oddly
enough, my surprise as well) that I
purchased one over the weekend as
well as a copy of Resident Evil 4.
It was really that game that started
to push me over the edge, with the
gaming community doing no less than
gushing verbal orgasms over its
supposed greatness, and since a
kindly Shacker gave everyone the
heads-up
on a deal at EB, I found it impossible
to continue to resist. I traded in
damn near all my PS2 games (Save for
3: Hitman 2, Metal Gear
Solid 2: Substance, and
NFL2K3. I kept the latter since
they wouldn't even accept it.) but I
managed to get out with the system
and a brand new copy of RE4
for just a little over $10. I've
since loaded my GameFly queue with
GC games.
I spent about seven hours yesterday
and today playing it, and yes, it is
that good. I'll try to find the time
to elaborate further after I finish
it.
Also, Happy Singles Awareness Day.
It was a fucking treat. One of these
days I am going to have to write a
script called Cataclysm:
Countdown to V-Day.
-K.
and the sun became black as
sack-cloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood
2-8-05,
4:32 AM
Not
everybody turns out like their
parents, look at me, my parents were
honest, hard-working people.
Music:
Nina Simone - Feelin' Good
So
with no blockbuster titles left to
play and a need to play something
other than more action games, I have
reached a new low. Many of you are
familiar with my disdain for
World of Warcraft and, indeed,
MMORPGs in general. So it may come
as a shock to reveal I've been
playing it for the last couple days
now, and sadly, I'm enjoying it
quite a bit. I'm glad that I'm
sharing an account with two other
people (Only one of them is actually
paying for it, but he's busy a lot,
and the game allows you to create as
many characters as you want.) so I
don't have to worry about this
becoming a full-blown addiction. I
wouldn't want to venture that deep
into the dork forest.
Actually, so far I wouldn't be able
to tell the difference between this
and any other RPG if I didn't see
night elves named Weapon-X and
FaTALiTY running around, since I'm
trying to work alone as much as
possible. This has made some quests
so far nearly impossible, even with
the ability to sneak around as a
rogue. But I really don't feel like
asking Byrnwybbyle the Forest Child
for help in plundering a nearby
cave.
I've been told that after reaching
level 60 the game's pretty boring,
but I've only reached level 10 so
far so I've got a ways left to go,
and hell, there's five other races
and classes to try anyway.
I
compared this experience to the open
beta of another MMORPG (Though more
like MMOFPS) titled Face of
Mankind. Developed by a team in
Germany (I don't think we should
hold that against them) the game
places you far into a very cyberpunk
future where description-less items
are purchased from terminals and
delivered to a storage locker far
from your position, mission goals
are impossible to meet, and NPCs
don't speak. I don't mind the fact
that the game crashes frequently,
it's a beta, but at this stage of
development I expect the very basics
of gameplay to be in place. By the
time a game has reached beta stage
all the content should be complete
or at least very close to it, not
still under heavy construction; it's a time for
bug-crunching and working out very
hardware-specific technical issues. The visuals aren't
lighting any revolutionary fires,
either, since it seems to be based
on first or second-generation LithTech technology, the same engine
used to power Shogo and
Blood 2, which was great and all
back in 1998.
My first time playing I had no idea
what I was doing or how to get
around, given that there is no
tutorial or basic explanation of
gameplay. When I finally got my
bearings and wanted to arm myself I
found the marketing terminals in
which you buy all your equipment,
but the problem is that every item
on the list lacks any description.
So when I finally bought what I
believed to be a gun, spending
almost all of the cash I started
with, my first problem was finding
it. They made a genius move in
designing the game in that what you
buy is not placed in your
inventory, you have to go hunting
for the storage locker in
the sector you're in so you can
obtain what you've purchased. It took
me a while to figure this out, and
when eventually I did, to my
surprise, it turned out I bought a
grenade. A single grenade. Upon
further playing I discovered that
this grenade actually costs more
than any one of the five firearms in
the game. So, pissed and poor, I
logged out, hoping to create a new
character and try again. Not
possible: one account, one
character. So I had to go and create
a new account via their website, and
start once more. I don't know why I
kept playing at this point, I guess
I expected something fun to happen.
So, a new character, starting on an
entirely different planet. Great,
now I have to figure out where I'm
going all over again, thanks to the
ingenious decision not to provide
players with a map of their
surroundings. After locating and
asking a player to tell me which
item on the list is a gun, I am
finally armed and ready for
business, even though I could only
afford one magazine of bullets. The
guns don't come loaded, sorry.
Checking the mission list for my
faction, I see that nothing is
available, every mission is either
full or completed. It was at this
point I figure out that all the
missions were user created, by
people trying to further their
character's "agenda," though this
feature was entirely absent for me.
Apparently having an agenda is
illegal until you reach a certain
level or something.
Around the time they launched the
open beta, the development team was
quite happy to report that over
30,000 people signed up and logged
in within the first week. I sure
hope they don't expect even 5% of
those people to hang around once
they start charging for this shit.
Final
score:
Incidentally, that image is also my
entire review of Metal Gear Solid
3.
-K.
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