Longcat

One day, there was a picture of a cat. It was not caturday but this specific cat was so long it became a meme and, though the day was not specifically the day of cats, this cat's length became famous. Originating from 2ch, it is a sacred meme that embodies the spirit of the lulz. It has touched the hearts of every anon in the internets. All attempts made by noobs who desire to steal it from anon have earned the swift, unmerciful wrath of the IHM (Internet Hate Machine)

Longcat is a real cat (obviously). For some reason when Longcat's uninspired owners named him, they must have overlooked the extremely fucking hueg length of the kitten, and they named him after his second most defining feature. Therefore Longcat's real name is Shiroi (白い), which means "white" in Japanese.

Noone knows how long Longcat actually is. The figure above gives an estimated length of 10,000 ft, however, this number has been verified ,by science. The most successful space mission to measure Longcat had to turn back and recharge their lasers after just over 9000 feet in the air.

Sourceforts, PVK,

Sourceforts is an excellent example of the Source engines flexibility, and the users imagination

Sourceforts is a Hl2 multiplayer Capture The Flag mod.
The game consists of two phases: The build phase and the combat phase
In the build phase, players build a fort to protect their flag in the allotted amount of time, and with a maximum of 50 or so blocks. The fort doesnt really have any restrictions at all, if you can reach the spot you wanna build on, you can build there. Of course it has the normal restrictions of any game, but some of those lengths have been extended and shortened to service the games unique needs. There are mutiple classes to choose from, aswell as mutiple block shapes. The games a little hard to get used to, and theres a lack of Aussie servers, and players too.

You can steal enemy blocks if your an engineer, aswell as repair your own
Scouts are more of a capture class
Rocketeers have 5 rockets to wreak havoc on enemies and their blocks
Soldiers have plenty of health and pulse rifle to take down enemy barricades
And a sniper to get those long range threats down.
In all, its a solid game with a dying userbase thats worth a try if you have a source game and Hl2 deathmatch, i give it a 7/10

RE: Re: Laziness

Yeah, same here, but its gonna happen eventually..

Also im pretty sure theres nothing "Esteemed" about this blog..

Re: Laziness

Damn, you're right. Not that I want to make this once esteemed blog into a chat room.

Laziness

Goddamn me and Jimbo are lazy...

Haggard

So who's seen any Viva La Bam or CKY?
If the answer to that question is none, then GTFO and watch at least one.
If you have seen one of those shows, then read on.
Haggard is a movie that is based on the actors from Cky, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Rabb Himself, Brandon Dicamillo, Jenn Rivell, Don Vito, Phil Margera, Ape Margera, Tony Hawk, Mark Hanna, and probably alot of other people.
The storyline is a little cliche, but still enjoyable.

Ry (Ryan Dunn) is dumped by his girlfriend Glauren (Jenn Rivell) for a metalhead named Hellboy (Rake Yohn). Ry's friends, Valo (Bam Margera) and Falcone (Brandon Dicamillo) try to bring Ry out of his depression spiral. This movie is really not one for the littlies, because of the swearing, drug references, nudity and probably alot of other things i didnt really notice.

If your a fan of Viva La Bam, Jackass, Cky, Wildboys, or comedy movies, Then you'll defiantely get a laugh out of this.

New Feature

I got the idea for a new feature when my esteemed colleague Draztak began using a new feature in his blog, the Screenshot of the Week. Now, I understandably thought using a new, exciting feature was a great idea, so I wracked my brains for something to use. I was saved from my desperate brain-wracking by my co-blogger Thantos, who suggested using detailed descriptions of internet memes for a feature. Memes, for those who don't know, are jokes that spread throughout a group of people through repetition and variation until they have become part of the culture. Most of the memes we will be describing will have originated from 4chan, the very origin of most of the internet memes circulating around today. Mind you, 4chan is the Mos Eisley Cantina of the internet, providing a place for the denizens of the internet to, under the protection of anonymity, post some of the most disturbing things known to man. We imagined that you wouldn't want to go there yourself, so Thantos and I, brave and courageous as we are, decided to venture there ourselves to bring you the lulzy part of 4chan.

Esperanto, among other things

Jesus, I've gotten lazy with this blog. I guess I'll start with the most important news and describe my recent experience with Esperanto.Esperanto, as you may already know, is a universal language created by L.L. Zamenhof in an effort. While it is only spoken by about two million people worldwide, I really liked the idea of it, and therefore decided to learn more. The language was introduced to me by Zork, an eccentric friend of mine. You can find the decaying corpse of his long-abandoned blog here. Anyway, after describing the language to me, he linked me to the download site and I began my journey. Mind you, this was only last night, but in that time I've discovered the language to be extremely intuitive. The language sounds sort of like a mix between Hindi, Spanish, English, and Italian, with little hints of other languages sprinkled in. For an example, listen to this Esperanto song by Argentinean band La Porkoj.
Anyway, in other news, I recently got back from Hidden Villa camp, in the Farm and Wilderness division. It was a twelve-day program that involved pigs, chickens, cows, sleeping on a mat, hiking, meeting new friends, and eating meals with forty wasps buzzing around your head. While there were some parts of the camp that I wasn't a huge fan of, most of it provided for an enjoyable break from the monotony of modern life. Probably the most enjoyable part of the camp was the three-day hike we did up to Black Mountain. While grueling, we were given a full day at the top that was devoted to little but relaxation, and at the end of the day, we walked out to the bluff of the mountain to watch the gorgeous sunset. The overall impression was very good, and I imagine I'll return there again next year.
This is Jimbo, signing off.

He's back to fight for justice

Finally, after years of dormancy, your almighty ruler returns to reclaim his throne. I guess to start, I'll fill y'all in on my recent activities.
1) I got my braces tightened. It didn't hurt as much as much as getting them on did, which is not to say it wasn't painful.
2) I saw the new Indiana Jones movie.I'm not going to do a review, but I'll just say this: I enjoyed it. I know there are a lot of haters out there saying it nuked the series' fridge, but I heartily disagree. It stayed true to the Indiana Jones format with lots of cool stunts, an enjoyable plotline, and compelling characters. It even had some of the unbelievability that were trademarks of the old movies. Don't believe me? See it for yourself. You'll enjoy it, trust me. If you don't, you are restricted from reading my blog. EVER.
3) I finished my Second Semester Project for my Humanities class. For those uneducated as to the format of this project, everyone in the class chose a subject that deeply interested them and did an extensive report on it that included information on the subject's effect of and reflection of the society within which it exists or existed, and finally presented it to the class in PowerPoint format. For my project, I did the Boy Scouts of America. I mainly focused on the BSA's intolerance of homosexuals, atheists, and agnostics, and the repercussions this has caused them. I think I did fairly well on the presentation, as I managed to get a reaction out of the class.
4) I was released from school. This release was far sweeter than last year's last day of school, as we spent the whole last day on SSP presentations, literally up until the last minute. As we were let loose, one of my classmates took off his shirt and ran around the school, spinning the garment around and whooping with excitement. While my enthusiasm wasn't quite so pronounced, I was greatly relieved that the school year had drawn to a close.
5) I got Counter-Strike Source. This game gave me new standards for multiplayer fps's, and has proved to be an excellent method of increasing gaming skillz. The weapon section is incredibly balanced and intuitive, the maps are fun and challenging, and the graphics brilliantly showcase the Source team's skill.My only problem with the game was the aggravating player base. Complaining about this aspect of the game is futile, however, because to fix it, they would have to alter the game completely.

Thank you for your patronage.

Frets On Fire

Guitar Zero?
Guitar God?

If you are one of those, or someone who just enjoys Rhythm games, then you would probably like this one.
This game was inspired by Guitar Hero, plays exactly the same, minus the whammy bar, and you can play it with a Xbox 360 Guitar, or a Wii guitar (You'll need a bluetooth connector for the Wii one)


When you first start it off, it comes with three songs to practice with, these are fairly simple songs, so you shouldn't have to much trouble with 'em.
After a while you'll probably get bored of these three songs, so you can do two things here:
1. Download a song from the Frets On Fire Wiki
Or
2. Create your own!

The Wiki should have about every song that you should want...
Also, just a tip for people who are learning to make some songs for FoF, try going going to the Frets On Fire fan forums for help =3

Out of 10, i would rate this an 8/10, a solid game that nearly everyone should like, but it would probably appeal more to people who like Rock music
Catch Ya, Thantos.

Ironman

Yes, I'm finally back, and with a movie review to make all other movie reviews tremble at its very name. Ironman, folks, is a great movie, so stop reading my blog and get out there and see it. What, you're still here? Damn, now I have to review it.
Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr. (omg), is a billionaire weapons designer with only profit in mind. While testing his devastating new missile, the Jericho, his crew is assaulted by Afghan terrorists. Taken hostage, he is forced to build another Jericho for the terrorists with the aid of fellow technophile Yinsen (played by Shaun Toub). With Yinsen's help, he instead creates a powerful machine to aid in their escape. After returning to America, Stark turns his company's focus away from weapons (Stark having seen the devastation his weapons caused to his fellow Americans) and towards a secret project of his own...
Overall, I would say that this is one of the best superhero movies I have ever seen. Granted that I haven't seen a great amount of superhero movies, and that Ironman doesn't have any superpowers, but I know a good movie when I see one, and Batman doesn't really have any superpowers either, and he's a superhero.Final review: If you can suspend your disbelief past the few plot holes and appreciate the movie for its compelling plot, incredible effects and dry humor, you're in for one hell of a ride.

Oblivion

Oblivion, the cornerstone of rpgs.
If your a Rpg newbie, or even a veteran, you cant go wrong with oblivion.
It will eat hours of your life without you even knowing it, and the graphics are simply amazing for a game published in 2004. It may not be Half life 2 or Crysis, but its still amazingly real.

The game is amazing in terms of gameplay; people will run away when attacked, or if they are brave enough, they will fight you to the death. The city guards have amazing fields of view, so try not to be too obvious if your trying to steal everyones' possesions. ^^

Playing through the entire game, including all the extra quests and dungeon crawling, it would take a very long time to complete. Most of the time, you sort of forget about some quests, and just go hunting to increase your levels.

Theres four main paths your character can go down: A Fighter (good at absorbing damage, and dishing it back out), A Mage or Wizard (bringing the elements to destroy their enemies), a stealthy character (exceptional at sneak attacks and stealing others possesions), or a hybrid of these three main paths.

From the moment that you create your character, you can tell that the game will be an amazing and enthralling experience.

The best way to increase the games replay value is by downloading mods. In this game, mods are essential there to fix the little things that Bethseda Inc missed.

Out of 10, I would give this game a 8 1/2.
It has times where the gameplay is dull, and you feel lost in the immense world, but there is also times where you feel that you cannot be beaten with your Armor of Ownage, and your sword of Nooblet Bashing =3

Catchya later, Thantos

Thantos The Heavy!

Hiya everyone, im a hardcore gamer who cant live without some Tf2 in my life, Movies are good too ^^ I enjoy a bit of everything in games: Racing, FPS, Rpg, all of really, except for sports.... Ill be doin reviews on games mostly =3 Catchya all later, Thantos

Team Fortress 2

Sorry for the delay, I got sidetracked. Anyway, Team Fortress 2. My history of online FPS's consists of Unreal Tournament 2004, a little bit of Quake 3 at a friend's house, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and Team Fortress 2. Since I have no history with class-based fps warfare, I will just say this: Team Fortress 2 is fucking awesome. Balanced classes, intense combat and a touch of humor are what give this game its extreme awesomeness. The classes in TF2 are thus: The Scout for swift scattergunning action, the Pyro for burninating ferocity, the Soldier for good old-fashioned RPG firing havoc, the Heavy for some Russian-themed, dumbed-down minigunning, the Demoman for k'boom blammo stickymine nadefirin' explosive combat, the Engineer for sentry-centered lying in wait, the Medic for healing/needling, the Sniper for crazy headshots, and the Spy for backstabbing supremacy.The maps are pretty good, but they do get a bit boring after a long time of playing on them. To shake things up, there is a custom maps option for bizarre variations of TF2, such as birthday party TF2, low-grav TF2, and instant respawn TF2. Another fun thing to do is check out the custom maps- my personal favorites are orange_x and duel_duel2.
As a final note, I would say this game is extremely competetive as a multiplayer fps. It has a low entrance barrier (see my esteemed coleague Draztak's run-down of fps's at www.draztakblog.blogspot.com), so little noobs should consider this as their first adventure into the online fps world as opposed to COD4 or Halo 3. That's all for now, this is Jimbo, signing out.

Ow.

Well, it's official. I have braces. You may be thinking to youself, gee, I wonder why that muscly hunk of literary genius got braces when his teeth seemed okay to me. Well, apparently (thanks for the compliment, by the way), I'm an imperfect being. I've been one my entire life and just recently found out. Now that my braces are yanking my teeth back into a natural position, however, I shall soon be a perfect being.
The process of getting the braces on consisted mainly of strange women sticking little metal things in my mouth and then shining a big heat ray onto them, all the while cramming my gullet with foul-tasting cotton swabs. It took about an hour and a half, and I came out looking as good as new. At least I think I did, my reflection cracked the mirror and I couldn't see it all that well.

Speed

Going along with the continuing saga of terrible action movies, I present one of the best. Just reading the plot synopsis should give a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about. A lone terrorist wires a bomb on a bus so that, if its speed falls below 50 mils per hour, it explodes. Throw Keanu Reeves' terrible acting into the mix, and you've got a stupid, but potentially badass action movie on your hands. Choice quotes: "There's enough C4 on this bus to make a hole in the world!"
"Don't even think about growing a brain!"
Here's a riveting scene where the bus does a crazy-ass jump that is totally sweet, dude.Apparently, Keanu Reeves called upon the eagle totem spirit to lift his bus over the jump. This is just one example of the many ridiculously stupid, but badass scenes that defined this movie. Other samplings of badassery include: a fight on top of a train where one of the combatants is holding a detonator; a scene where Reeves tries to disarm a bomb under the bus; and of course, many big fancy explosions.
Overall, I would give this movie 1.5 out of 4 stars for some cool fight scenes and big explosions, but a swiss-cheese plot and some terrible acting made it cringeworthily enjoyable. This seems to be true for all my recent views, hasn't it?
This is Jimbo, signing off/out.

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

First of all, my comments on Bruce Willis, the leading role in the Die Hard series. I actually do like him as an actor, despite the whole macho-beefiness aspect of his acting. The first Die Hard movie was actually very enjoyable. Compelling characters, good one-liners, a followable plot, big explosions, and Bruce Willis kicking some serious terrorist ass made it a good experience for all viewers. Sad to say, Die Hard 2 to failed to live up to the reputation of its predecessor. Yes, Bruce Willis still kicked some serious terrorist ass, and yes, there were even more big explosions, but the incomprehensible plot and terrible dialog turned it from a kick ass movie to a lolworthy one. Here's a sampling of the choice dialog that defined this movie: "Which sets off the metal detectors first? The lead in your ass or the shit in your brain?"
"Sounds like someone's been pissin' in the pool." "Yeah... and they're all outta chlorine."
The plot, to quote Yahtzee Crosshaw, is more twisted and impenetrable than a granite octopus, but this is what I understood went down. Terrorists from somewhere, after basing their operations in an abandoned church, take remote control of an unspecified airport. After shutting down the airport's landing strip lights, they make their demands clear to the man in charge of the control tower, Trudeau (played by none other than former presidential candidate Fred Thompson). The implications of this takeover set in when they realize that the many planes coming in to their airport have nowhere to land. Old Freddy submits to the terrorists' demands, and this is where the plot gets sketchy. I'm pretty sure it centers around some sort of drug ring run by Latino mobsters or something to that effect. The terrorists' motives for taking control of the airport are so that the leader's plane lands safely. It was piloted originally by some weird security people, and apparently in all the planning the terrorists assumed the leader could take out a whole plane crew by himself. To make sure the control tower doesn't attempt to turn the runway lights back on, they give a demonstration of their power by crashing a plane into the runway, and pleasing the audience with a massive, massive explosion. Other kick-ass scenes include: Bruce Willis dumping a plane's fuel, then lighting a match on the trail; a fist fight on the wing of a moving plane; and Willis ejecting himself from a plane filled with grenades.
Closing note: I would give this movie 2 out of 4 stars, for cool fight scenes and explosions, a mediocre plot, and a script written by chimpanzees with Down Syndrome (another Yahtzee Crosshaw reference).
This is Jimbo, signing out.

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 Review

The third in the Half-Life 2 series, this game contintues following the story of Gordon Freeman, the bearded theoretical physicist with a strangely inexplicable knack for gunplay. For the sake of time and laziness, I'm not going to delve into the archives and give you the rundown on the Half-Life 2 storyline, and assume you have already played HL2E2's predecessors. As the game begins, you find yourself in the wreckage of the train you left Episode 1 in. Alyx and Gordon find a radio station where they meet a strange new character, Doctor Magnusson. He was apparently a competitor with Kleiner for grant money, and although our relationship with the old coot was unexpected, Valve does a pretty okay job of introducing the character to us and making him believable, if a pain in the ass. Anyway, Alyx and Gordon learn that Magnusson has a rocket set up in the White Forest base, and says that it would be a perfect opportunity to launch Alyx's data packet into the Combine portal. Thus begins our protagonist's journey to White Forest, along with the lovable character Alyx. Along the way he encounters a myriad of near-deadly mishaps, including an encounter with a hunter-chopper, an excursion through an antlion colony, and a brush with a brand-spanking new enemy: the hunter.
This game can be praised on so many levels. I think I can honestly say without exaggeration that this was the best game I have ever played. The visuals are outstanding, the characters are very believable, the plot is compelling, the weapons section is intuitive, and the AI is brilliant. What more could you ask for in a game? If the best game ever award was based more on graphics, physics, and combat, I think I would lean more towards Crysis, but with the story and cinematic feel, Episode 2 is my choice.Of course, I haven't played a great many games in my time, but I think I have a pretty good idea of the gaming scene.

Footnote: Kudos to Valve for the excellent G-man monologue during Alyx's immersion in the vortescence. We really got a sense of his sinister, puppetmaster attitude towards the world as he cooly informs Gordon of the situation at hand, highlighted by scenes from past and future gameplay in the background.

Portal Review

Portal is perhaps one of the most ingenious games I have ever played. The game centers around the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device(ASHPD) or the portal gun, which shoots linked portals. This concept seems relatively simple, until you realize all the complications that go into two linked spaces. Momentum is not affected by these portals, objects can fly through them, and they travel slow enough for some crazy portal-through-portal tricks.
In the game, you play Chell, a misfortunate woman trapped in an Aperture Science testing facility for the ASHPD. As you advance through the stages, you are guided by a supercomputer named GLaDOS(Genetic Lifeform and Disk-Operating System), whose darker side is slowly revealed to the player. She vaguely hints to the player about the end of the test, which may or may not end very, very badly.
Portal, while only about two hours long, has very high replay value, as it can take several goes through the whole game to truly think with portals. One neat thing I try to do is a speedrun of Portal, using the "ninja method" to fly through test chambers in a fraction of the time it would normally take. This often involves using momentum to your advantage, flying through one portal and coming out the other one to cleanly hop on to a platform.
Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation probably does a better review of Portal than I do, but lacking an endless supply of wit, I simply provide you with the raw facts.

Update time!

Well, it's been over two weeks since my last update, so it's time for some compensation. This is Jimbo, doing a TRIPLE REVIEW!!! The following are reviews of the three new games featured on the Orange Box: Portal, Half-Life 2 Episode 2, and Team Fortress 2. Yes, I know that the Box has been out for quite some time now, but hell, I like reviewing.

Terminator 2

Yes, another movie review from Jimbo himself. I might start a series, I'm not sure. Anyways, Terminator 2. Overall, a good movie. Yes, Arnold is a terrible actor, but as a robot, he doesn't need to show emotion to be an enjoyable actor. He only needs to whip on glasses, flash a serious look, and stride calmly toward you with a huge gun in his hand and half his face ripped off to be about as badass as you could possibly be.

Terminator 2 included enough explosions, car crashes and massive guns to satisfy the hordes of drooling movie-goers, and enough plot depth and acting talent(minus Arnold)to keep me entertained. Not that the previously mentioned action-y stuff wasn't interesting, it's just that for me, most of that sort of thing doesn't make a movie. There was, however, a very cool chase scene in the movie that was possibly the best chase scene I have seen in a film before. It involved a helicopter, an ammunitions truck, a massive tanker filled with liquid Nitrogen, and of course, huge guns. The budget of this movie was obviously very big. Probably a bit bigger than that of Evil Dead 2.

Most people know the plot of the Terminator movies, but I'll run over it for those freakishly deprived people who don't know it. Basically, things went haywire when the USA turned over its military defenses to a supercomputer named Skynet. Skynet proceeded to fire nuclear missiles all over the world, I think because of the whole "humans can't control themselves so we must control them" theme that's common in a lot of robot movies. Anyways, after the nuclear explosions wipe out half of human existence, the Terminator robots under Skynet's control proceed to wipe out the rest of humanity. Although the robots kick serious human resistance ass, John Connor, the leader of the human resistance, starts kickin' ass back. Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill John Connor as a child, and in response, John sends back a friendly Terminator of his own to protect himself as a child. And this is the point at which the plot becomes confusing. Why not send five Terminators back to kill John? Why not send 100 Terminators back to protect him? Whatever. Anyways, that's the movie's plot in a nutshell. One of the very cool things about the movie, I thought, was the T-1000 sent back to kill John. It was made of some titanium-alloy something that was, in essence, liquid metal. This guy could turn his arms into spikes, melt into the floor, and take the form of anyone he had contact with. In the end, I give this movie four out of five Jimbos for cool action scenes, a compelling plot and, of course, Arnold.

Evil Dead 2!

Recently, my family has been going through a bad action/horror movie phase. Our recent views have been the Robocop series, Terminator 3, Escape from New York, Army of Darkness, and just now, Evil Dead 2. Bruce Campbell is... well, you need to see him to understand his incredible acting presence. Here's a good look at the man:
Truly an amazing character. Here's a more flattering view of the chintacular wonder:

He's one of those people whose acting is so over-the-top terrible that it's actually extremely enjoyable. He has some of the best one-liners ever concieved, such as "All you got left now is jack and shit, and jack just left town!" and "Let's make like Zeus and bolt."
Evil Dead 2 isn't really the sequel to Evil Dead 1. Apparently, Evil Dead 1 was so bad, people couldn't get through the whole thing. However, someone thought the movie had potential, so they gave Bruce & friends some actual money to do a remake of Evil Dead 1, and Evil Dead 2 was born. Bruce doesn't have as many snazzy one-liners in Evil Dead 2 as in Army of Darkness or Alien Apocalypse, but his terribly incredible acting makes up for it. The plot goes like this: Dashingly handsome Ash Williams (played by Bruce Campbell himself) goes to an abandoned log cabin to make sweet, sweet love with his stunningly beautiful girlfriend, Annie Knowby (played by Sarah Berry). He discovers a tape recorder, and on it a recording of an archaeologist's exciting new find: The Book of the Dead. As the recording begins to read the book's text aloud, a dark and evil presence is awakened. And with it comes one of the many ingenious cheapass effects pioneered by directer Sam Raimi: a camera flying through the woods towards the location of our stalwart hero, accompanied by strangled screaming. We never really see what is in such a hurry to reach Ash, but we can use our imaginations. The unknown presence steals Ash's girlfriend, whose reanimated corpse does a little jig for her boyfriend before leaping off into the woods. This dramatic scene sets off the horrible series of events Raimi has in store for Mr. Williams, among which is this tasteful scene where his hand becomes possessed (please forgive the blood; it's just one of the many overdone things that make this movie charmingly bad):
Other classic scenes include one where Bruce slams down a trap door on a zombie's head, shooting an eyeball out of its head and into one of Bruce's accomplices; one where Ash shoots his disembodied hand crawling around in the wall, whereupon he is drenched in a torrent of blood flowing from the wall; and one where the zombified grandmother of Bruce's aforementioned accomplice grows a huge neck and gets in a boxing match with the chinmeister. Overall impression: A cheez-tastic horror movie, the bad acting and cheap special effects make it awesomely funny. A must-see for Bruce Campbell fans.
This is Jimbo, signing out.

Wow. Just wow.

If I had to sum up a Buckethead concert in one word it would be this: overwhelming. Last night's concert in San Francisco was my first concert, so I can't base my opinion of concerts on a first impression. I do, however, think that, in general, I am not going to really be a concert person. Oh, sure, the music was "SHREDTASTICALLY AWESOMERIFFIC," but I didn't find the marijuana fumes, ear-bleeding music, and need to stand for four hours quite as awesome.
The first act was Kid Beyond, beat-boxer extraordinaire. He could make some noises with his mouth I had no idea even existed. One of the cool things he would do was make one noise, press a button to somehow record that noise and play it over and over again, then add on a different noise that fit in with the beat. He kept laying on new and interesting sounds, and it actually sounded pretty cool. It was great for an opening act, but after about ten minutes, I stopped being amazed. One can only take so much beat-boxing in one night. He amused the audience later on by having them invent some sort of viking-pirate cry of "fnyaarg," then later a more emphatic version of "hoom'fnyaarg," but when he left the stage, I was thoroughly ready for Buckethead.
Which brings me, of course, to the man himself. He wears red bowling shoes, a black trench coat, pants several sizes too small, fake dreads(I think), a white mannequin mask, and a KFC bucket on his head. Oh yeah, and whenever he talks, he uses a severed head. It was bizarre to see first-hand. Unfortunately, never in the performance did he whip out his nun-chucks and do some killer moves. He did, however, shred like the history of shreddage has never seen shredded before. He played on into the night, until, at 1:00, he hung up his guitar and walked offstage, leaving a thoroughly satisfied audience. It was really a sight to see.

Meh

Hmm... The new computer is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it can play Steam games on high graphics with a very high fps. The downside: it's very unstable. When I first took possession of this computer, it ran Steam games beautifully, but crashed after several hours of gameplay. No problem, I thought, I'll just restart it and launch the game again. But alas, it was not to be so. After about half an hour, it crashed again. I decided to let it sit for a while. The next day, I got about an hour of gameplay before it crashed again. After a while, the crashes turned into BSODs, and appeared about five minutes into a game. I sought the help of some friends, and decided to restore settings to about a week before the BSODs started happening. After that, the games ran beautifully, without crashing. After that, however, there was a SNAFU that involved an error screen whenever I started up the computer. The noob who sold me the computer gave me a Windows XP Professional disk, and I started from scratch. And then, inevitably, the games have started crashing again. Can anyone help this poor noob?

He's back and better than ever!

My sincerest apologies to my close friends, loving fans, and creepy stalkers that I couldn't update it for a month or so. No, it wasn't because I was soaking up rays in Hawaii or that I was climbing in the Andies, but because I was monumentally bored over Winter Break and in the time after that. But now, I have something to celebrate with a lot of joy and cheer and joyful cheeriness: MAH NEW COMOOTAH! It can play Orange Box games on full graphics, and it only cost $175!!! WOOTLE!!!