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Hell Hath No Fury
January 15, 2002
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Well...lessee. According to the happy little day-to-day Dave Barry calendar (one of my humor gods, along with Berke Breathed and Robin Williams, just to note) that today is time to make with the rantage, so here I go again. Whoo.
Still no job-love here in Arizona, which is making poor little Blue a very sad camper, and nobody likes campers, as we (should) all know. I'd put up a Pay-Pal linky-thingy on the site if I thought it'd give me any bank to help out, but yeah - I'm not there yet. I think I'll sell an organ or two first. Say...anybody out there want to buy a kidney, slightly-used? Hell, I've got TWO of them, I'm sure I can spare one if the price is right.
Fallout 2 is still in firm control of my life, and pardon the occasional outburst about it now and then. I try to keep it under wraps, but...hey, I know how to skin geckos! Whoopee! C'mere, you little critters, I can skin YOU for cash! ::lunges out of her chair with a crazed look in her eyes and a sharpened stick::
...Kidding. In other gaming news, I've had the pleasure of playing gobs of The Simpsons: Road Rage for the PS2, as well as a round or fifteen of the new SpyHunter for the same system, and a glimpse at SSX: Tricky. All are excellent, but I like Road Rage the best because frankly, I can kick its ass, and I always like games like that. This isn't to suggest that this game is EASY, which in fact it isn't, and it takes great steps to get harder and harder as you go on, but it is one of those games that's best to play with a bunch of friends, switching off as you go. It's like Crazy Taxi, just with all the Simpsons voices (and they're all authentic - no cheezy Homer rip-offs, thankfully) saying insane stuff all the way through...nothing like driving over a gigantic bump and through a pane of glass with Mr. Skinner in the passenger side, who says matter-of-factly "I think I just soiled myself." I think I speak for everyone when I say: *Excellent*...
As for SpyHunter, it's quite a good game, with what I believe is an interesting idea for a storyline, and I'd have a lot more to tell you if I had played BEYOND THE FIRST LEVEL. No, really. It's not that I suck (::shifty glance around::) it's that the PS2 that I played it on belongs to my (newly-hitched, wahoot!) friend Joanna "Skittles" Wilson and her husband Brian, and it's dammed HARD. No, really. Maybe if I was more the type to play racing games I'd kick more ass at it, but hmmm...yeah. There are so many mission objectives per level, my God...It's basically: "Primary objective - shoot all targets moving randomly from side-to-side at around 150 mph. Secondary objectives - Shoot tracking chips at targets; slalom between cones in an exploding minefield; bake a cake; paint a cubist picture of the Madonna on the ass of a charging rhino with dysentery; etc. It's rather insane, and not something to step into lightly unless one normally excells at things of that nature. And stuff. And I'm beginning to think that this is all sounding like a giant excuse as to why I'm not ruling the world with my L33tness, but yeah, um, if you think that, then you are cordially invited to kiss my posterior [You don't want to say that...they will, I knwo there are some sickos out there - Josiah]. Yeah.
Oh yeah...SSX: Tricky. Tough. But I never really got a hang of the first one, and once I began to excel at it, then I had to go back to school, and upon my return I promptly sucked at it, so there you go. It's like attempting to learn how to re-ride a bike when all you've done is looked at it. But it LOOKS good, it looks fun indeed, and I look forward to one day teaching it how much of its ass I can kick, which I hope to be quite a bit. Or something.
Well, can't think of much new to say...oh yes. Don't know if I mentioned it before, but I got a Wacom drawing tablet for Christmas, and have been puttering around with it for a little while, and so far I love it to Kibbles and Bits and Bits. Used it recently to work on a comic, and I like it much - so dammit, that may just mean that I need to raise the bar on myself for the future. Maybe...even...BACKGROUNDS? ::gasp:: Let's not go TOO crazy [If you start giving them backgrounds...they'll eventually want 3 comics a week. Don't give them too much too fast, they'll get spoiled - Josiah].
Yeep. Must flee. Brain gone already...but be well. ::smile::
P34C3 0UT.
Annie "Blue" VM
When you fall in love
it's like falling in love
It's like barbeque
- Brak
"Barbeque"
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