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[ Happy Mood: Happy ]
[ Playing CRACKDOWN!!!  later today. Currently: Playing CRACKDOWN!!! later today. ]
I started renting games from Gamefly a few months ago, and it’s been a great experience. Since I can’t afford to blindly buy new games that might be crap, and usually are, renting from this company has been a great experience. I get to play the latest games for a fraction of their cost, usually about twelve a month. There’s even an option to buy the game you rented, and almost always for about fifteen to thirty bucks off retail price, because its used. All around its a good deal.


Please, God, don’t let that be a man.

There is no community on Gamefly. Zero forums, zero means of communicating with other members, nothing. But, you can submit reviews for games. And out of thousands of users, I recently broke into the top 25 reviewers on the site, and there’s a cool little graphic next to my name declaring my honor for all to see.


Sup, bitches?

So apparently, me right goode, or at least kissed the ass of all the right games. Nothing more to say, I just felt like bragging somewhere, since, again, Gamefly doesn’t have a forum.

Kyle Katarn Facts

[ Cool Mood: Cool ]
The Death Star was named after Kyle Katarn’s right testicle.

The Second Death Star was named after his left testicle.

Ewoks are just leftovers from when Kyle Katarn trims his beard.

There is no Sith Order. Just a list of Sith that Kyle Katarn allows to live.

Super Star Destroyers were designed to fight the Moldy Crow.

Kyle isnt addicted to spice, spice is addicted to Kyle.

Kyle Katarn died in Dark Forces 1. The grim reaper is too scared to tell him.

Kyle Katarn visited the baby Obi-Wan Kenobi and gave him the gift of beard.

Hyperspace exists because it’s afraid to be in the same reality as Kyle Katarn

There is no chin behind Kyle Katarn’s beard, just another Bryar Pistol.

Kyle Katarn is the death sentence in twenty systems!

Kyle Katarn won at Dejarik without ever moving a piece. He simply ripped the arm off of the Wookiee that was playing against him.

Mustafar looks like it does because it’s people once ticked Kyle off.

Utapau is full of holes for the same reason.

The only reason Kyle Katarn agreed to the "reciprocal apprenticeship" with Mara Jade is because he thought it was a sexual position. Not long after so did she.

What do you get when you cross Kyle Katarn and Luke Skywalker? A dead farmboy. No man crosses Kyle Katarn.

Kyle Katarn doesn’t "sweat." He "produces midichlorians."

If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Kyle Katarn spared your life.

On a high school math test, Kyle Katarn put down "Violence" as every one of the answers. He got an A+ on the test because Kyle Katarn solves all his problems with Violence.

In the medical community, death is referred to as "Kyle Katarn Disease."

Kyle Katarn’s tears are the purest and most powerful form of bacta in the galaxy. Too bad he never cries.

Kyle Katarn invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Corran Horn invented pink.

Evolution gave the Trandoshans the gift of limb-regeneration, because Kyle Katarn once lived on Trandosha.

Kyle Katarn named the group The Modal Nodes. They did not want to be called that.

The Sun Crusher was originally concieved as a humane alternative to Kyle Katarn.

When Kyle Katarn overheard Obi-Wan speak the words, "Only Imperial storm troopers are so precise," he laughed so hard that Alderaan exploded.

He then personally rebuilt Alderaan by hand, just to prove that the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of Kyle Katarn.

In the beginning there was nothing, then Kyle Katarn Roundhouse kicked that nothing in the face and said "Get a job." That is the story of the universe.

Saying these things is no longer funny as of 2/18/07

"I fathered Anna Nicole Smith’s baby."
"Before you start the car, buckle your seatbelt and adjust your diaper."
"I’M COLD!"
"Thanks, Greta."
"GET DOWN! Oh, its a lite brite. GET DOWN!"
"It’s legal to access porn in libraries. I’m going to a library."
"Hey, did you see American Idol last night? I did not."
"Giulianahmadinejongilintonobamamccainomania!"
"Wanna share a Snickers, dude?"
"I have to go home and let my roomba out of the closet before it freaks out tries to hang itself."
"If I don’t make it through Hannibal Rising, you guys can eat my body."

I hate E.T.

[ Scared Mood: Scared ]
I don’t trust that little bastard. If he has magical powers capable of making a legion of children fly through the air, then why was he waddling his little punk ass towards the spaceship in the beginning of the movie? Did the product placement chocolate give him the ability to bend reality to his every whim? What was his every whim? Because he made it pretty obvious that there wasn’t a whole lot keeping him here.


Suspiiiiicious…

And holy crap, if he could make an interplanetary relay dish from a speak’n’spell, a coat hanger and a can of diet Sprite in 1982, he could have nuked every nation on Earth if he got his glowy gimp hands on a copy of Windows 98 and a 56k connection to AOL. Every argument about political parties, religions, border lines, sports teams, and whether the term "beastiality" or "interspecies erotica" is more politically correct, settled in an instant when E.T. the Extra pissed off that we sent the feds after him Terrestrial goes Matthew Broderick on the Chinese rapid defense system. The second the FBI found him, they should’ve shoved a walkie talkie three feet down his throat, and pulled the trigger to decapitate him.


"I could have been a national hero."

Why? Because he was only here to observe us for the invasion. Who the Hell thought he was going to stop at collecting tree saplings? Next, he and his buddies would’ve been dropping flayed cows from a mile up, then introduce emo music to America to weaken our military, and cap it all off by randomly abducting live human fetuses. Put a little grease paint on that fugly muppet and he’d be the clown from It.


"Hey, hey, kids! Ahhuhhuhyuck, which one of you wants to touch my glowing finger?"

All I’m saying is, if you’re so evil that you inspire the worst video game of all time… er, one that fills up an entire Mexican landfill with copies that won’t sell, its time for you to go into the hole, too. You know what Hell will be like for me? The E.T. ride at Universal.

How I escaped some fat girls

[ Angelic Mood: Angelic ]
[ Listening to Suzanne Vega Currently: Listening to Suzanne Vega ]
Fat women are sensitive beings, not because they are weak, but because they are slaves to their own body chemistry. Estrogen, a hormone shared between sexes but more prominant in the effiminate, encourages many slothful behaviors and an increased pheremone count. An excess of fat can produce more estrogen than a human being normally would, causing a serious imbalance in body chemistry, which effects people both physically and emotionally. In men, an excess of estrogen in one’s system can cause them to develop breasts, which is a great reason to get fat. In women, they may experience a longer, more intense menstrual cycle, and more dramatic mood swings than usual as a result. This kind of behavior is not conducive to attracting a mate, and yet, an increase of this hormone also speeds up a person’s sex drive. And what is the best way for a horde of emotionally unstable, sexually frustrated fat chicks to satisfy their own vanity?

Start a religion around their emotions.

The wicca community is a very odd niche, and while you won’t be hardpressed to find open minded, wonderful individuals among its practicioners, its always been a splintered group. While the word and many of the traditions of its followers finds it roots in ancient paganism, the practice of it is rightly described as "neopagan." The religion was given its name in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, who claimed its tenants and practice had survived underground throughout the expansion of Christianity and Islam since the fourth century A.D. In reality, the religion was political in nature, and stemmed from a rejection of the Catholic and Church of England by deists and existentialists in the 1920s.

Immediately after the movement started, it shattered. While many self described "witches" believe there is no wrong way to practice their religion, many more are absolutely certain that their way is the only way. Considering that covens are typically made up of very local practicioners and have less than ten members, this provides for a multitude of ways to practice Wicca.

It did not surprise me that the ceremony I was privy to last night involved baking lust cookies.

I was sat at a table for what I was told would be a Valentine’s day feast. Sixteen hundred pounds in the form of eight women, ranging in age from sixteen to forty, gathered around the table I was sitting at, along with a few other male acquaintances. They held hands around us, and started chanting a celtic hymn. Through the candle light, it slowly became obvious that they were wearing robes decorated with rosewood knots, honeycombs and various herbs, and they smelled lovely – like a gelatenous rosegarden had just walked into the room.

They started twirling around, and I noticed a cavernous black slit roughly a foot in length behind each one of them. Slowly, I denied reality until I could no longer. I was horrified into a stupor at my seat, the realization: The robes were shear, and they were naked underneath them. Their wrinkled, lumpy asses scared me. My eyes squinted, but they would not shut.

As their song progressed, they’d leave and come back four at a time, each one bringing a different dish to the table. It was all vegetarian, but if you can smell salad dressing from across a room over the scent of sweaty fat girls wearing decaying herbs, that’s a good salad dressing.

I admit I was intrigued by what was going on, until the song ended, and we all applauded, and realized there were two empty seats to each side of us. Suddenly, I felt like I had gotten the middle seat on a Delta flight, and was surrounded on each side by two tourists from Detroit. This was weird. I stared straight ahead and ate my food, only to see two large, full, round faces smiling at me from across the table, along with my frail, small friend, Deek, who was looking back at me with fear in his eyes and heart, just as I was looking at him. I turned down at my plate and played with the salad, which was incredibly delicious, as the women to each side did everything they could to engage in friendly conversation.

"So, tell me about the Lord and Lady," I said, nodding into a mysteriously large bite of boiled eggwhite. The Lord and Lady are a constant that most covens share, as the romantic ideal of God and creator being two supreme beings working in harmony with one another seems like a sharp contrast to typical monotheistic religions, that are more patriarchal in nature. As they spoke and we shared trivial knowledge about their religion and traditions, it turned out that this particular coven celebrated only The Lady, whose purpose was sex in order to let the lands flourish with the life given from her womb.

This was literally a fertility cult.

"I have to leave, I’m afraid," I announced at an opportune time, but was quickly shouted down by the entire table with promises of baked goods and a cackle enducing "main course." I said a silent prayer that they were cannibals as I was held in my seat by the shoulders by each of the women to my sides and I silently shoveled more food and wine into my mouth. The discussions continued all around us, and to a passerby, it would seem as if the entire table was merry and happy.

Indeed, they were lovely people and I wished there were more women in the world like them, only not morbidly obese. We discussed conservation theories, the benefits of modern technology versus the simplicity and character shaping enterprises of old fashioned hard work, and I even played the piano for them. The only song we shared a common appreciation for was Loreena McKennitt’s "Mummer’s Dance," but one of them put words to "The Entertainer," which was actually impressive.

I could sense the crowd growing more amorous as time went on, and my ear had been licked by at least three different people that night. The wine was catching up to me, so I asked for a bathroom. I was escorted upstairs by an eight year old girl who appeared out of thin air and brought to the bathroom. Just out of curiousity, I tried to see if the window was unlocked. It was, but it was a two story drop and I’m a total wuss. I watch Mythbusters, I’ve seen what happens to Buster. After I finished my business in the bathroom, I zipped up and looked to the door, which was wide open. It could have been that the old 19th century wooden door had floated open with a light breeze. Or it could have been that someone was watching me pee.

Either way, I was just freaked out enough to try to sneak out of the house. There was not a light on except for a few candles, so as I made my way down the stairs, I started blowing and waving each one out, one by one. No easy task, as there were easily a hundred between the dining room and the entrance alone. After about a half an hour of inconspicuously dowsing candle stubs, I decided it was time to make my move for the door.

I engaged one in conversation, who had beautiful rosey cheeks, a double chin, and eyebrows made up with wax pencil. After a sufficient amount of flirting, I told her I would like to kiss her lips. She did a fat girl laugh, pursing her mouth and humming a "myuhhummhmmmhm!" I told her I would like it to be a surprise, and placed her hands over her eyeballs. I blew a breath across her cheek, crouched down and disappeared into the shadows I had created. I did not escape as smoothly as originally planned unfortunately, as one of the ladies had noticed many of the candles had gone out, and was taking a long one to search for extinguished candles to be relit. I mirrored the movements of her wide girth and held my breath for a good forty seconds, until I came to the door. I played with the locks for what felt like forever, and was finally free to escape. Behind me, I could hear the girls sensing my absence and beginning the search for me, thinking I was hiding from them to be coy.

I was the cheuffer for the evening, and my comrades were trapped without an escape vehicle when I left. I do not know what happened to them, something horrible, but in a way I envy them for being in such good company. Except for the extremely unwanted sexual advances, I enjoyed the evening, ladies.

How to get hyped for Ghost Rider

Alan Vega. Martin Rev.
Suicide. Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider.

Fwoo. Yeah.

Yeah, look out.

Duhn duhn duh duhn, duhn duhn duh duhn, PREEEOWWWW
Ghost Rider, motor-cycle HEEERo.
Ghost Rider, motorcycle, heeeeerO.

BABY, BABY, BABY, BABY, HE’S BLAZING AWAAAAAAY!
LIKE THE STARS, STARS, STARS IN THE UNIVEARSE, yeah.
BABY, BABY, BABY, BABEH, HE’S LOOKING SO CUTE, yeah!
Ridin’ around in a blue chrump suit, yeaaaaah.

BABY, BABY, BABY, BABEH, HE’S SCREAMING THE TRUTH!
AMERICA! IS KILLING ITS YOUTH!
I SEE THEM, TRYIN’, DYIN’, CHOKIN’, DROWNIN’, GOING DOWN, GOING TO HELL, GOING DOWN, I SEE THEM DYIIIIIN’, DYING!

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
YOU DON’T WANT TO BREAK APART GHOST RIDAH’S HEART!

He’s riding through your town with his head on fire.
HE’S RIDING THROUGH YOUR TOWN WITH HIS HEAD ON FIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAHH!!!
Head all burnin, eyes all cryin’.
Head all burnin, eyes all cryin’.
GHOST. RIDAH.
GHOST. RIDAH.
GHOST. RIDAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Keep ridin’! Never stop ridin’!
Don’t forget to burn! DON’T FORGET TO BURN!
BURN. With FIAH. With FIAH, FIAH, FIAH, FIAH. With FIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHowwwwoh.

YEAH!

Lost Planet, Blazing Angels, Kameo

[ Angry Mood: Angry ]
Kameo
This was a fun children’s game that suffered from poorly implemented controls. It was originally a GameCube title, but moved to the X-Box when its developer was bought by Microsoft, and then bumped again to become a launch title for the X-Box 360. It can be completed in about a day, and the story is not very strong, but the character design alone has been enough to inspire talks to make this game into a feature film. You spend most of your time looking up the skirt of a sprite named Kameo, the adopted daughter of a legendary conjurer. Kameo’s mission lies mainly in seeking to free her royal family members from your traitorous sister.


Her underwear is green.

Along the way, you must fend off armies of sieging trolls and gather creatures that you can transform into. There are ten in all, and each one does have a unique look and numerous abilities. None of them are useless, and the level design is simple enough that an eight year old can master the game, which is perfect, considering the demographic. Not my kind of game, but its great way to get a little girl to sit down and shut up for a few days.

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
If your idea of a good time is getting ruthlessly torn into quarters by an angry mob, this is the game for you. The story makes no sense, the camera work is confusing, the targeting system is tedious, and it hits every branch on the stupid videogame cliche on its way into crashing into the ground. Reviewers have praised the game for its impressive smoke graphics and realistic blinding snow. Whats impressive about not being able to see anything?


Actual screenshot of Lost Planet.

And there’s a part in the game that doesn’t make sense to me… Like it was taken out of a horrible 1980s art film… The main character of the game, a white man named Wayne who looks Japanese, has some sort of flashback of his dying father’s last words. He was not there to witness his father’s demise, but somehow he knows exactly what happened. Its not explained if this is a telekenitic link, a video recording, or an assumption, but here’s this blood covered old man, crawling on his hands and knees towards us, begging for his son to complete his mission. He reaches out to us, and wipes some blood on the camera. What the Hell? Why the crap is there a camera in this telekinetic flashback?

In short, yet again, Capcom fails to localize a Japanese game for an American audience.

Blazing Angels
Yet ANOTHER World War II game! Kinda fun at first, but the game doesn’t explain its controls very often, and you’re often left guessing at what to do next. The camera is poor and the gameplay is fast, just like real war. And oh, yeah, once again, it rapes history.

Everyday conversation for this week

[ Hypnotized Mood: Hypnotized ]
Rosie O’Donnell has the jump on all of us. The woman is psychic. This aired the day before Anna Nicole Smith died. We have to act fast and burn this witch whose evil becomes reality.

I need to say these things in everyday conversation by 2/18, lest they lose their potency and have all the relevance of a hanging chad joke.

"I fathered Anna Nicole Smith’s baby."
"Before you start the car, buckle your seatbelt and adjust your diaper."
"I’M COLD!"
"Thanks, Greta."
"GET DOWN! Oh, its a lite brite. GET DOWN!"
"It’s legal to access porn in libraries. I’m going to a library."
"Hey, did you see American Idol last night? I did not."
"Giulianahmadinejongilintonobamamccainomania!"
"Wanna share a Snickers, dude?"
"I have to go home and let my roomba out of the closet before it freaks out tries to hang itself."
"If I don’t make it through Hannibal Rising, you guys can eat my body."

Rest in Peace, Randy Newman

I was going to blog a blog about
How I blogged a blog about
Blogging bloggers who blog too much
Only to realize I blog
Like Bob Loblaw blogs
In the blogosphere and
there are blogs everywhere *
And one more blogged blog
Would be one blog blogged too many
By one more blogging blogger
Who blogs just to blog
Even if no one reads his blog and
There’s nothing to blog about anyway *
Even though there’s many ways to blog,
Live blog, election blog, life blog,
Blogtacular, blog table, blog cabin,
I blog, he blogs, he/she/it blogs,
Blog guests, blog days, blog havens,
They blog, we blog, we’re blogging,
I’m blogging, this is a blog entry and
This blog is flying and
It is blogging legitimate,
Even if blog readers are sick of it and
Then they blog about blogs
"This blog is too male for me" *
"This blog is too soft"
"THIS BLOG IS NOT PORRIDGE AT ALL"
Critiblogs to criticize blogs
BlogWatch blogs that only bloggers watch
God’s blog is the blogiverse and
I am the center of it.

And that sentence is true no matter who says it out loud. * (fade)

*= CHORUS:
Blog blog blog blah blah blah (repeat x10)


He’s number one in my celebrity deadpool for this year

Hurry it up, Burlew!

Order of the Stick is supposed to update today. It hasn’t updated yet. Hurry up, damnit! I want to know what happens next! I needs my fix of the stick! Will Roy finally kill Miko? Is Belkar capable of killing again? What about Xylon? Is Haley pregnant yet? This Hinjo guy – will he betray them all? Is Varsuuvius a dude or a chick? What happened to that fatty that Durkon plowed? Gah! Imma go do a myspace quiz! To pass the time!

UPDATE: HE DID IT! Ahhhhhhh. Closure. Relief. But now I have to wait another two days for the next page of the comic! Damn you, tedious online comic release format! I’m bummed out now. THE CHEEEEEEAT! Bring me some potate! And a blankey.