It’s true - I spent many, MANY hours playing ET. And of COURSE I fell into the pits - who didn’t? - but I knew how to get out of them, so it wasn’t a big loss. But while everyone else hates it, I remember it fondly. So it was quite a kick for me to watch Little Miss Gamer’s most recent episode where she takes a look at some less than stellar games:
I know I say this a lot, but this time, you really, really, REALLY need to listen to me: this show is a TRAINWRECK. First, there’s about twenty people in the studio. Second, we were all COMPLETELY drunk, and it only got worse throughout the night. When we weren’t busy yelling at (F’ing) Zach to shut the hell up, we’re burbling drunken recollections far too loudly into the mic. It’s fun to listen to me prattling on completely incoherent and then stopping all speech (and thought) as one of the girls crosses my line of sight and Good Kwip and Evil Kwip battle for dominance over my mouth. Good Kwip was doing fine until the lesbian stories broke out, then Evil Kwip grew far, far too strong.
Three cases of beer and two large bottles of Jamesons can testify to the brutality of this show.
I still haven’t heard from HappyJack, so I can’t say for certain there were no casualties - as is usual for him, he got drunk and then took off. Odds are good that he’s headed for the border. We think Josie was sold into a sex slavery ring - or she wound up at Dr. Sexy’s house, the results are still the same. I know (F’ing) Zach left at some point because I distinctly remember I STOPPED shouting, so he must’ve no longer been present. Kwipette just started speaking to me again - apparently over something to do with one of the cats, the chairlift and a large elastic band. Christine is in good shape (or at least she was the next day - now, who knows) after launching herself off of our deck at someone (HappyJack?) who doubted her ability to throw down. Dr. Sexy continues to be Sexy. The Sexretary - I’m not positive, but I think at some point I was VERY close (ie, way, WAY too close) talking in hushed tones about sexual experiences and she may never fully recover. Johnny Arkham lost the vision in one eye thanks to some abuse of St. Jamesons, but he wears goggles, so you’ll never notice (and he had Steadfast Brad along to drive him home, so that’s ok). Bini proved a remarkably good sport and allowed me to grope his wife, Norma. Norma, on the other hand, tasered me in the balls, so she = not that good a sport. I think Trevor is still asleep somewhere in the house, but after some intimate sharing of my lap that he and I did, I’m not going to wake him. The only two people to actually survive this whole disaster with their livers undamaged were Bruce and Steve - but I’m holding Bruce’s lawnchairs hostage until he returns and properly pays homage to St. Jamesons! And long, long after the show was over, Rusty came strolling in to look upon the drunken mess that was left.
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So I had been having a lot of problems with my Linksys router. I had changed from WEP to open (no) encryption, and ever since then, our wireless connection would drop every ten minutes or so. Very annoying, to put it mildly. I was all set to scrap it and invest in a new model, when WildWon pointed out to me there’s the option of hacking your router.
Being the l33t haxor that I am, of course I seized upon this as one more opportunity to stick it to The Man and his constant oppression of my freedoms!
This was even easier than hacking my xbox. Now I can pump up the range in my router, shape the traffic, and do all sorts of other really neat tricks. But, most importantly, it STAYS CONNECTED! I can’t get over how slick this “new” router is. Now to figure out how to get my hacked Xbox to connect to my hacked router, and there will be much rejoicing!
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This episode we discuss muppets, latest episode of Hero Envy, JOKER’S ASYLUM: THE JOKER #1, Iron Man 2, Marvel fighting to own Spidey & Hulk, Lively, the new Stykman Statue, Hulk vs Wolvie animated, Moon Knight Mugg, Warhammer 40k 5Ed, Reese’s Dark Knight Cups, more on Platinum Studios, Red Sonya, the Etoro, Secret Lives of Mobs, and an incredibly long Zombie discussion wraps up the show!
As promised, show notes:
Dr. Sexy’s been reading more about Warhammer than the rest of us, and that’s lead him to discover Secret Lives of Mobs, a webcomic about Warhammer.
And on the subject of Warhammer, Woody was not at all happy about his portrayal at the hands of Justin, and if there’s one thing you don’t want, it’s a Very Large Man unhappy with you. I do understand what Justin was trying to do there, but I think he failed a bit and instead of making Woody part of the joke, he made him the object. We’re telling Woody nothing would ease his anger like a few beta keys!
I still haven’t broken down and gotten the 5th Ed of Warhammer 40k, but the things I’m reading about it REALLY have me interested in it! Is the Emporer really dead?
I thought that cannibals were always scary, but it turns out there’s some tribes out there that have even… stranger… ideas about how to “eat” people… (props to the Smodcast for that subject!)
I don’t know if it’s fair to call Teddy Babes (NSFW!) a more “affordable” version of Real Dolls - because we can’t afford either. People are strange, have I mentioned?
Far be it from me to criticize someone’s artistic talent (*cough cough*) - unless they try and sell it, of course.
I’m not at all excited about the Hulk vs Wolverine cartoon coming out. I (kind of) appreciate what they’re trying to do, but I HATE that animation. Oh, wait, I don’t criticize artistic talent…
It’s a given that Stykman is one of our favorite comics ever. So when I saw (the man, the myth, the legend) Jonnie Allan had released a Stykman statue - well, that’s a MUST BUY!
Dr. Sexy had WAAAAAY too much fun as Mumblepuss in the new chat app from Google, Lively!
I thought the headaches from Stan Lee Media were over, but it seems that it’ll never die and there’s always some new headache to be had!
Glad to see that Marvel FINALLY came to their senses and did whatever it took to get Favreau back on board! Now would you please let him set his own schedule?
Dr. Sexy liked Joker’s Asylum: The Joker #1, so you might not want to put much faith in this guy.
We’re always up for Muppets talk, and there were some interesting bits here and here about some of our favorite Muppets.
The sci-fi tributes come fast & furious in the latest Hero Envy. The Buck Rogers fx were particularly awesome.
I’ve been spending quite a lot of time with the XBox Media Center. Not actually hacking my XBox or anything, because that would be illegal, and far be it from me to stoop to such depths!
I have to say, it’s pretty damn impressive. Having all the Atari, NES, SNES, N64 and Sega games on one console - a console that plays damn never every sort of video codex as well - is mighty handy. You can’t connect to XBox Live anymore, but so what? I never did in the first place. And actually, I think you can, you just have to jump through some extra hoops.
Now I’m looking at setting up the wireless connection. And I want to get a network storage drive - I love my Ubuntu media server, but I didn’t put a big enough drive on that to store all our movies. It can handle all of our music with no problem, but movies are a bit too much. I’m not sure if it’d work better to get a plain network drive or upgrade the Ubuntu box to a giant drive. Probably cheaper to upgrade.
The next experiment will be taking an XBox and upgrading the DVD-drive and installing a larger hard drive. You know - theoretically.
How I love being a geek.
The show got off to what was probably the funniest and most awesomest start EVER - but don’t worry, I forgot to record it, so you’ll never know just what you missed. Since I didn’t record the introductions, the show starts with Bini and Bruce joining me in the studio whilst Dr. Sexy and HappyJack are off making sacrifices to Cthulhu at different shores.
We all shared some favorite 4th of July stories to start off the show (mostly involving exploding friends/family), and it just goes to show: nothing says independence like the freedom to completely blow the hell out of yourself (and objects near you).
We slowed things down a bit to talk about Michael Turner. It was such a shame that he died, but particularly because of how young he was.
None of us follow Battle Pope, but I guess it’s good news that it got syndicated to an animated series. I just don’t know that Spike is good for… well, ANYthing, but in particular doing something like this.
I don’t understand the significance of Larsen stepping down as the publisher of Image, so forgive me, but Sexy thought it was important to mention.
I always enjoy Gail appearing at ANYthing, but this was a great panel for her to be on.
With all the controversy surrounding Platinum Studios, it surprised me to learn that they’re talking about buying Wowio. I’m not sure if that dispels the rumors of financial troubles or just points to crazy spending - shaking confidence them even more.
Penn Cinema is a local privately-owned theater that we really love. It’s got stadium seating, digital projection AND really powerful AC (these are a few of my favorite things!).
I’ve got to get a better way of watching the projects from our friends at Riff Raff Theater - trying to watch it on the computer just doesn’t work, and I just want to watch it on the big TV.
I don’t like Rose McGowen. Simple as that. And Red Sonja was so ridiculous the first time, do we really need it remade with that bimbo in the lead role?
I was never a huge Origami fan, but the work Brian has done is INCREDIBLE. His Iron Man alone is worth checking out!
I thought Bini was crazy over-reacting to the Diablo 3 announcement - but then Josie violently masturbated to the news of Chrono Trigger for the DS. Makes you wish you were in the chat room, doesn’t it?
My cousin and his lovely wife filmed what looks like an incredible documentary about puppeteers called Puppet Rampage - I have to get that, it just looks too entertaining.
We were drinking quite a bit for this show, and then Dr. Sexy logged in the chatroom and he was ALSO drunk - it was an odd meeting of the minds. Our shared blood alcohol level let us bond telepathically. But Dr. Sexy says we need to plug NeedCoffee.com. Done!
One of the (many) wonderful side-effects of me being drunk is that I bounce from subject to subject at about 1,000 miles an hour, so let me just through out some links that I have no idea how they came up: Chipmunk Bay is the comic that Kaigon SHOULD be doing when he’s wasting his time revamping N3; XKCD.com is a brilliant comic, and Chris Sanders is a brilliant artist.
We discussed ONLY two comics this show: BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM #1 and ZOMBIE TALES #2. So that’s that!
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