I hope we can set up private leagues. A tabletop game by the Warhammer guys, it was a violent version of tabletop football. Like a turn-based Mutant League with fantasy characters. It will apparently feature both the traditional turn-based mode, and an arcade real-time mode.
I recently finished volume 4 of Fables. It is a comic that takes very well know and established children’s story characters and applies them to a modern world. The stories from your childhood have had to flee their lands and establish an outpost in the real world New York. Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, and the Big Bad Wolf all assume roles in this new society that attempts to remain hidden from human eyes. Some characters are combined, such as Prince Charming is every Prince in each story; a womanizer who cheated on each princess when rescuing the next.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5075525/why-you-should-buy-a-refurbished-laptop
Which is exactly what I did when I bought my “new” Dell XT. When built new, this machine would have cost $2200, but was available for around $800-$900. With a 20% off coupon, shipping, tax, it came out to about $671.
I was planning on picking up a netbook and a Wacom tablet. Then Ted told me about this deal, which I bit on. So far, it seems like a great compromise. Throwing on the Windows 7 beta was also a great idea, as was buying Crayon Physics Deluxe.
Rant:
CSI people are the Judge Dreads of TV. They investigate, analyze, apprehend, interrogate, and occasionally execute their criminals. Each agent is assigned to a case with a partner.  Each partner is fully capable of doing any of the tasks required. If one performs a task, the other comes over and pats them on the shoulder; it could have just as easily been them performing the hair fiber analysis. They aren’t specialists; they are super-humans who have 8 PhD’s and are more capable in all aspects of a case than any one real specialist.
And then they don’t even die when shot in the head. Repeatedly.
Then they come back, *retarded*, and they are still smarter than everyone but their partners.
This week it Steam offers the Ubisoft classic pack. Each game individually is normally $10, and it looks like they teamed these 4 together for a limited time. The Ubisoft classic Pack includes:
Classic status may be a large label to put on some of these games, but there is hardly a weak link in the bunch. 3 of the games are highly regarded and rated, and most people *wanted* to like Dark Messiah, they just found it too buggy.
“Oh My God” is right. The concept of cute rabbits and camels fighting it out in the middle east is pretty funny. It gets funnier when you see how seriously the subject matter is presented in an ultra violent fashion. It gets “oh my god” funny when the bunny opens its mouth to reveal a deep Japanese voice.
This is great. Anyone heard/seen this before?
Thanks, Seanx2 and warmingglow
Over lunch we began talking about John Williams, and the lesser John Williams (but couldn’t remember his name). This reminded me of Ajax Greater and Ajax Lesser. Two different characters in the myth about Troy and in the Illiad. Both Greek Warriors who fought alongside Achillies. Both prominent warriors on the battlefield. One a great and noble warrior who kills himself after he is proclaimed 2nd best after Achilles death (Odysseus is 1st and gets Achilles’ armor). The other drags Cassandra from a Temple of Athena and rapes her.
We got back, and looked it up:
Bruce Campbell. More awesome than an Afroed Samurai (even with an Afroed Samurai being very awesome).
He was popularized in as Ash Williams in Army of Darkness, with the bandwagoneers jumping back and viewing his other previous works such as Evil Dead 1 and subsequently, Evil Dead 2. That should be enough for his name to live on forever.
A 2009 Guy Ritchie Film: Sherlock Holmes. It is to be released in December 2009.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/
Iron Man 2 is now in pre-production. Release date for 2010.
So you’ve seen Scarface and Goodfellas and you think you’ve seen the greatest gangster films. Don’t limit yourself to only a couple famous movies. I highly recommend watching Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels followed by Snatch. They’re bomb and will blow your mind.
