Posted: May 14, 2010 at 2:24 am
I think to myself “I should add a post” (add in a good measure of hillbilly retard voice to make funny), but really, is my life that interesting? Short answer is: no. The long answer is: NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Then I just say, toss it, I’ll blag anyways. Lately I’ve been blissfully unaware of politics, so I’ve nothing to think of on that point. I could rant on about games, but who wants to hear that? So I return to the previous conundrum of what will I blither about?
Shit, I got nothing, so I’ll talk about games anyways.
One thing I pride myself on is not forgetting where games and I came from (in relations to games) My family was quite poor, so when it came to games, my dad got what he could. And damned if I didn’t get my(his) dollars worth out of them. It seem to me these days that games are getting shorter. Or is it that I’ve gotten better? Y’know when you start a brand new game, and as you progress and eventually beat the game, you start a new one. But as you play through it a second time, it seems like it wasn’t all that difficult to begin with. For me it seems like a lot of games these days give me a similar feeling, like I’ve played it before, merely going through the motions. And some will feel too short just as your beginning to have fun, or your having a blast and that’s it. But what gets me is when publishers are trying to wring every cent they can from a “franchise”. One of my personal favorite examples is Quake. God, I love Quake 1-3. But Quake 4,Quake Wars, they can go and ream themselves. Why the Strogg? Publishers have a nasty habit these days of stealing the ball, running for the end zone, then flinging themselves (and the property) into the sidelines. They could have pulled a Final Fantasy and made it into whatever they want. Hell, if they are going to go off on any storyline, the Slip Gates would have been the easiest. Yeah, the death of Shub-Niggurath might have been a stumbling point, but hell, how many times can you kill the Makron before you start getting all Metroid on its ass.
And agreed, not having Ramero on the team was a kick in the pants, but enough with the freakin’ strogg! At least in the case of Doom, it was so widely different from its predecessors that I couldn’t find much fault in it. If they do make a new doom (gods forbid) they should wait sufficiently long that technology has taken a whole new bound as to make the previous ones in the series look like a perverts satanic scrawls.
Wow, talk about off topic. Uhh…where was I? Y’know what, I forgot, I guess I’ll continue this later.
KTHXBYE
Posted: May 5, 2010 at 7:56 am
Just because I talk about games, doesn’t mean I’ll review them. Maybe nit-pick about glaring issues, but that’s prolly going to be the extent of it.
So what will I drivel on about here? Technology? Wow, THAT’S interesting. Politics? Gimme a break, I’m not a bloody news anchor (you want witty political satire? Go watch T.V.). The world at large? Sorry, don’t give two shits whats going on outside (by and large).
The biggest reason I don’t do anything like that is because I’ve the Vocabulary skill of a retarded pit bull fresh out of collage. I might pull off some drooling and snarling, but that pretty much sums it up.
So where does that leave me? Buggered if I know, but I think I’ll take a stab at all of the above. Then I’ll wallow is my own misery (mainly consisting of my own excrement and the blood of virgin plague rats), probably try to play it off as a half attempt at wit and proceed to wash down the gurry I spew with the aforementioned “misery”.
The more I think of it, the more it makes me want to brush up on my dictionary reading. Then I remember this wonderful thing called video games an’ I just say Frag it.
Now don’t get me wrong (or do, I don’t give two shits of a leper chicken), I’ve read plenty of books. Ranging from fantasy to non-fiction, much like my video games and music. There will be sterling example of them, the overflowing ewer of fecal matter, and my personal off limit pieces (with their exception that prove my own rules)
I’ve already mentioned games, so I’ll go off on music. Generally I’ll listen to most everything, and easily discern (relatively) the true gems in the never-ending seas of Crapulon V. But my overall rule is the almost strict avoidance of “Country”. I’ll admit there are good bands/singer/whateveryoucall’em, but I’ve been informed that the ones I do prefer are not (strictly speaking) “Country”. Thus my exception that proves my rule. And no, if anyone asks, I couldn’t name them to save my life. I have enough issues remembering my own without storing the names of others without something important possibly being moved out of the way.
Next being books. I’ll read most anything, so long as the writing holds up long enough for me to turn the bloody page. The one genre that I avoid like its last month mulched diapers left in the august sun, is “Mysteries”. Most of them have the compelling writing of a drunken two year old after a month on mescaline. Now, to date, I’ve yet to encounter a “mystery” novel I was able to pallet. And no, I’m not taking suggestion.
There are a few books/games/music I just out and out refuse to read/play/listen to. Anything J.R.R. Tolken I will not read, have no intention to read, and will die never knowing what the hell a “Frodo” is. I’m sure this might get some rabid fanboy into a psychotic frenzy frightening enough to make Paris Hiltons chihuahua pee itself. I’ve no intention to play anything of the Ninja Gaiden series. People say how “hardcore” it is and blisteringly difficult. Y’know what else is difficult to do with resulting blisters? Fapping with a waffle maker plugged into 220 while simultaneously nailing your hand to your forehead while singing the Canadian national anthem. And no, internet goers, that is not a dare. And no, I am not going to reconsider (the game, not the fapping). Anything JayZ makes me want to puke, so I’m not going to elaborate on that (I’ve used up all my funny, and JayZ is an easy target anywho).
Movies are the one thing I’ve watched so little of to have a preference, really. Is it funny (to me)? Cool. Is it interesting (to me)? Cool. Is it not any of the above? Change it. I didn’t get a PS3 to watch movies, I got it to play games.
Beh, I just watched 666 words pass by, so that might be my cue to wrap this up. I need to recharge my Rantometer.
KTHXBYE
Posted: May 3, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Now don’t get me wrong people, places like facebook, twitter, myspace, really bother me.
Why, some might ask? Because sites like that make otherwise insignificant ass-mites feel self important. So obviously talking about myself would be quite contradictory to me saying this, no? Yes.. yes it would be, but damned if I don’t get to feel like I’m heard once in a bleeding while! I otherwise am quite self-effacing, nay, am quite self-deprecating.
The only reason I bring that up at all is because of games like FF13. People will say (and quite often) “The game gets better 20 hours in” (add appropriate nerd/douche sounding voice)
THAT IS NOT STRONG POINT! That is a bloody flaw in game design! That is at the very least not something to be proud of…I really don’t know what to say about that. I love RPGs, RTSs, FPSs, MMORPGS (the free ones, at least) racing games, fighting games, shooters of almost all kinds. Hell, I like JRPGs to a lesser extent.
There is only one kind of game I will not play, and that is sports games. I feel lazy enough in the first place. Then you add on a game you pay $50 for, when you coulda bought a ball and have done the same goddamn thing! Some would argue that “its the statistics”, GO DO SOME MATH YOU STUPID BASTARD. Some will say “its the rostering”… Do you really have so much time and so little brains as to fill this empty void (both in mind and time) for the sole purpose of making a TEAM?! And even others will say “its to play with the pros”…. Uh-huh, right. More self-important bullshit.
Y’know why I will play games like shooters, fantasy games, and so one? Because either A: its physically impossible (let me see some force lightning, bitches!), or B: its illegal (I’m sorry officer, I had no idea that peoples heads actually EXPLODE).
I will say this though. My only exception to this rule of mine is WII Sports and so on. Its a sports game that doesn’t make you feel lazy (just stupid, flailing about an’ wotnot) Another example is a little game called Jet Set Radio/ Future. Mainly because I’ve yet to see someone rail grind UP a telephone pole.
guhh….. rants running a little long, need to collect thoughts.
kthxbye
P.S. Oh, if I seem scatterbrained, that’s because I AM.
Posted: May 3, 2010 at 7:18 am
It’s a wonderful new year we live in that allows a wacko like me on teh interwebnetz.
So, I liek video games and wotnot. I spend a good part of my income on video games and paraphernalia.
When it comes to the computer industry and IT, I avoid it like that plague.
So far have I removed myself from it, that I work at a bloody hardware store.
And at the end of the day I fap for an hour and play gamez ’till my brain rots outta place.
And unlike ShariVegas, I’ve little claim to fame. Prolly ‘cuz of the aforementioned avoidance of the computer industry besides games.
Speaking of games, I’mma pound my head into FF13 a little more before I call it quits on the series on the whole (again)
kthxbye
