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11/02/2006
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Episode 6 - The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth
| 6th episode of hilarious British comedy series. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Episode 4 - The Apes of Wrath
| 4th episode of hilarious British comedy series. | |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Episode 2 - Hell Hath Fury
| 2nd episode of hilarious British comedy series. | |
9/15/2006
Dear Nintendo, Your Wii is Smelling More and More Like Ass
At the start of the year, I lauded Nintendo for their radical and groundbreaking 'Revolution' concept. As a casual gamer, one of my favorite experiences is introducing and sharing my video game experience with friends, family and co-workers. However, my interest has severely waned as name changes, price gouging, suspect timing of this consoles release and other nitpicky crap have reared themselves. I must ask, "Am I the only one who gets less and less interested in the Wii with each new announcement?"
Like most people who have an interest in gaming, I was a huge proponent of the Revolution game console during the intitial announcements of the system. I think Nintendo had a tremendous opportunity to let gamers, and non-gamers alike, in on an experience that could change perspectives of this video game business and make games a group/party event. With the most recent announcement (9/14/2006), Nintendo has managed to put this console out of the range of most casual customer’s pocketbooks and the release date makes it less of an impulse buy for most parents this holiday season.
Sure, they are packing in a Nunchucku controller and WiiSports, but a system that uses architecture that currently costs Nintendo $25 a motherboard to create and about $65 in memory, CPU and other components shouldn’t be used to take advantage of their fan base. In addition, the cost of peripherals if, for example, you would like to play games with your family is astronimical. A Wiimote will cost consumers $40 and the Nunchucku will cost an additional $20. If you wanted to play a four player game of WiiSports with your friends and family, you would need to shell out another $180 in controllers alone.
The release date is a very suspect move on Nintendo's part. Releasing two days after Sony shows that Nintendo is not making this a game machine for the masses, but a machine meant to compete with the current generation of game consoles. If Nintendo had the jump out of the gate by launching in October and having a secondary shipment scheduled for November 19th would get the console in the hands of those who want it early and not eating into the inventory scheduled for little Billy’s stocking this holiday. Launching that close to another console, and the same week of Gears of War will just let mom and pop know that this is just another machine like the one I purchased two years ago that is now collecting dust on the shelf.
Another issue of the release date is, like it or not, it speaks to Nintendo's lack of confidence in their decision to differentiate. The Wii was supposed to defy convention and break out of the video gameplay rut we have been plagued with since the PlayStation; where graphics define gameplay. Nintendo made bold statements and assured, through their iPod like video demonstrations that this system would be played by grandparents, metrosexuals, and loners alike. Pushing this system out till after the PS3 release is a move that expresses some degree of 'cold feet' with breaking away from the paradigms that have grounded video games for nearly 10 years.
Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, Nintendo has bumped the GameCube release date of Zelda: Twilight Princess until December 11th. That should say that they are beginning to worry about their own GameCube console pulling consumer dollars away from the Wii.
I wouldn’t have balked at a $199 price point and $150 would have been ideal, but $250? That’s just rude. But who cares, right? Everyone’s going to buy one this holiday, right?
I just wanted to vent for a moment to say that I am no longer interested in swinging Nintendo's stiff white wand around anymore as they seem happier shining their Wiimotes up real nice, turning them sideways and shoving them straight up consumers' assholes.
Screw you Nintendo, and your little machine too.
8/24/2006
7/06/2006
Sony gets out shovels to dig a grave so deep, 'so even God cannot save us.'
7/05/2006
National Geographic foregoes science to post truth!
Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran: The debate
by: Ima Luzincred
for National Geographic News
July 4, 2006
High in the mountains of northwestern Iran, a Christian archaeology expedition has discovered a rock formation that its members say resembles the fabled Noah's ark.
"It looks uncannily like wood," said Robert Cornuke, president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE), "We can claim to have conclusively found the ark, as it does look like the object that the ancients talked about," Cornuke said. When we asked about further proof, Cornuke stated that they had also found 2,107,349 skulls; two for each spceies and one for Noah," before running off with his 14 year old girlfriend.
This discovery has spawned fierce religous debates from renouned institutions such as Robert Morris University to the little known southern baptist Churches of Littletown Nutbaggery. Many have questioned the 40 cubit quarters of the ship could not house that many animals. Religous expert, and fundementalist Christian, Cray Zecook, promptly pointed out, "due to cubit inflation, that unit must have measured much longer back in those days." He went on to say, "40 cubits could hold a whole lot more animals back then. Also, Noah shrunk the animals with a shrink-ray."
When questioned further, Cray became sweaty and defensive, "Silly you say? A SHRINK-RAY? Yes, Noah just loaded all the animals in the world into a boat with no SHRINK-RAY." We continued to press Cray for information as he made his way towards his 1990 Chevrolet Caprice. Somehow frustrated, Cray concluded his conversation by saying, "Ok, ok...so let's suppose there was no shrink-ray back then. Hypothetically, if there were no shrink-rays, how you suppose Noah shrank all of those animals? EXACTLY! God would HAVE HAD to provide SHRINK-RAYS! END OF STORY!"
Meanwhile, ancient timber specialist Archibald Bridge, of England's Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, is doubtful that a wooden structure would have lasted long enough to petrify under ordinary conditions.
"Bible scholars think that Noah built his ark somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, making preservation highly unlikely except in extreme environmental conditions," said Bridge. When we suggested Cray's theorem that Noah could have used some type of shrink ray to put all of the animals on a 40 cubit ship, the professor balked and "LOL"-ed. "But if that WERE true, ladies and gentlemen, why is there no mention of SHRINK-RAYS in the Bible?"
The professor then lit up a rather curvy pipe, looked at us knowingly and stated, "But there is an interesting matrix of Hebrew characters...that when you take every 518th letter, it spells out 'SPACE SHUTTLE EXPLOSION.'" Tapping his newly lit pipe out on his desk, he recanted, "well actually it spells 'SPC SHTL XPLSN' but you get the picture.
Editor's Note: Shortly after this article was printed, National Geographic went back to putting representations Sea Monsters in the oceans of all of their maps and a dotted line to represent the end of the earth.
7/03/2006
The bedding endorsed by government-owned murders
6/28/2006
My fear of mustard and pickles is ruining my life
It rarely gets funnier than this.
If I were high, unemployed and home watching this stuff on my couch, I would never want to do anything else. Regardless of your stance on politics or religion; we must all agree that we are a seriously fucked up place when you have the luxury of being terrified of balloons, mustard and pickles.
6/27/2006
ATTENTION CHILDREN: Skin monster to come for you whilst you sleep
King Awesome makes surprise visit from Shit Mountain
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6/05/2006
Hasslehoff's Blow Out Boxart Extravaganza!
I currently work in the internet department for a video retailer. Part of my job is to make sure that we are using the proper boxart for titles within our stores. We had one rabbid 'Hasslehoff-movie-renting-customer' complaining that we were using the wrong boxart for his stellar action movie 'Bail Out.' When I investigated the matter, there seemed to be endless varieties of boxart imagery for this title.
I have collected many of my findings here. Enjoy!
This cover makes it look like David Hasselhoff was caught in the act of something dirty; like trying to impersonate Richard Gere in the 1983 remake of Breathless. The blue tone of this cover makes me think this is a movie about hospital orderlies who use the term ‘Bail Out’ as a cooler way of saying ‘changing bed pans.’
I think my wife had the same look Linda Blair has on her face when I brought this DVD home over the weekend
“Come experience the wonder and amazement of the Oregon Coast with this educational DVD with commentary from 75% of David Hasslehoff’s face.” Seriously, there are 8 bajillion images of David floating around the internet. I think they could have got a complete headshot from somewhere
This one has a more-coarse Jim Morrison ‘I’m totally arty’ look. Unfortunately, the overwhelmingly poor choice of font face and ‘Ol’ Cap’n McDealie’s Golden Treasure Box o' Savings’ banner demolishes any degree of creativity to whatever lay underneath.
This is more like it; explosions, cross-hairsm bullet-laden text and blurry red cars! I now fully know what to expect when I rent this! My Saturday night will be ALL-RIGHT!
To Live and Die in LA meets The Best Little Whore House In Texas with a dash of Smokey and the Bandit! This picture shows that this DVD is still in its shrink wrap where it ultimately will continue to remain when the archeologists discover this item buried with the rest of our civilization in 1,000,000 years.
What in the world? Where did that tiny cop come from and why does he insist on shooting and showin’ his badge at the same time. Adding to the confusion' Linda Blair now looks 20 years older, 60 pounds heavier and a lot more like Delta Burke than she does in the second DVD cover. Having no idea what this movie is about, I would think I was watching a Baywatch, Designing Women, In the Heat of the Night television crossover.
5/11/2006
I agree 100%
5/09/2006
Beginning a sports rant
[My local sports team] is far superior to [your local sports team], and therefore I think you should get [violent and horrible event]ed.
5/05/2006
What's grosser than gross
GROSS:
When you use the urnial at work and it appears that someone has coughed up a pint sized loogie on the urinal cake.
GROSSER THAN GROSS:
It's not a loogie.
GROSSER THAN GROSSER THAN GROSS:
This is a true event and happened at my workplace this morning.
5/03/2006
A hero named 'Colbert'
5/01/2006
There are rings around Uranus
4/26/2006
It's all about me!
4/13/2006
Why has He forsaken...He?
3/28/2006
Five more reasons for why I should never be president
3/23/2006
Nude Britney Spears sculpture makes us all a little gayer
From the Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery in Brooklyn:
"A nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug while giving birth to her firstborn marks a "first" for Pro-Life. Pop-star Britney Spears is the "ideal" model for Pro-Life and the subject of a dedication at Capla Kesting Fine Art in Brooklyn's Williamsburg gallery district, in what is proclaimed the first Pro-Life monument to birth, in April.

Image courtesy of Earvolution Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the 'right choice'," said artist Daniel Edwards, recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from London's The Art Newspaper. "She was number one with Google last year, with good reason - uneducated white trash are inspired by the beauty of a pregnant woman just out of high school. Also, people like seeing famous people naked." said Edwards.
Image courtesy of Earvolution Personally, as a father and Christian*, I personally believe that we should reverse-abortionate Brittney Spears’ and her Wal-Martain-like kin. * By ‘Christian,’ I mean that I am an avid believer in the teachings of WWE’s wrestling duo Edge and Christian.
Image courtesy of Earvolution Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the 'right choice'," said artist Daniel Edwards, recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from London's The Art Newspaper. "She was number one with Google last year, with good reason - uneducated white trash are inspired by the beauty of a pregnant woman just out of high school. Also, people like seeing famous people naked." said Edwards.
Image courtesy of Earvolution Personally, as a father and Christian*, I personally believe that we should reverse-abortionate Brittney Spears’ and her Wal-Martain-like kin. * By ‘Christian,’ I mean that I am an avid believer in the teachings of WWE’s wrestling duo Edge and Christian.
3/14/2006
Two weeks of absolute hell
To all 12 people who have bookmarked this blog, my apologies for not being here to update over the last few weeks. It has been a tough 2006 thus far with my grandmother passing away and my daughter reaching into Pink Floyd's 'comfortably numb' territory with a 104 fever.
To add to that, my hosting service has deleted my blog.html page from its servers. They say that bad things happen in threes, so let's hope this is it. Finger's crossed.
3/09/2006
Microsoft Unveils Project Origami
3/07/2006
Yet another reason not to live in South Dakota
2/27/2006
Out of Office AutoReply:
I am out of the office as my Grandmother has gone downstream. As another one of my relations pass, they erode the bank upon which I stand. Sooner or later, I'm going in too.
Be back soon.
2/22/2006
Holy shit! Competant and smuggless picture of George Bush released to press
Of all my many colored days, today would definitely be considered 'olive'
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