Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Super Doom 64

Super Doom 64 adds Doom 64 textures and sprites to your normal Doom and Doom 2 wads. It looks cool, so I figured I'd use it while doing a Doom playthrough on Twitch.

For some reason, the video lags during the first level, but plays fine for the rest of the playthrough. E1M2 begins at 1:40.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Paranoia 2: Savior Playthrough

I had to dink around with this video for like a week because the YouTube drones kept picking up some b-side atmospheric track from Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (the worst GiTS by a longshot tbhfam) during different parts of the footage every time I reuploaded it. Now it has a whole five minute chunk of audio that I muted just to be safe, but nothing really happens during that section of the video, so no big deal.

Anyway, I did my view-baiting with The Order: 1866; it sucked and didn't work, so I'm back to more original stuff. Paranoia is a very underrated horror FPS that came out like eight months ago. It's annoying how it can go from 300 fps to 13 because the game was basically duct taped together by a couple Russians, but outside of that the gunplay and atmosphere are very satisfying. If you don't want to play it, this is a very comfy playthrough to watch before bed or something. I've already watched it four times myself, and I almost never rewatch my videos, especially the long ones.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

We A Foodie Blog Now

Instagram hipsters like to take photos of their fancy meals at restaurants? Well, I took a picture of the most embarrassing dinner I've had in probably two decades. Like, this is the stuff Europeans still get made fun of for eating.


Saturday, November 7, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: Spectre

A James Bond film that's such a by-the-numbers parody of itself, that it can't be spoiled, but if you're sensitive about spoilers, maybe don't read this yet.


 Spectre is about an incompetent assassin who can't operate a vehicle for five minutes, or shoot a few people without completely demolishing everything. An absolute jokester that can't even play around with a mouse without pointing his gun at it and tearing the place down. A film with the message "spying is still cool!" that has absolutely no spying.

Featuring a villian who, guess what, was behind the whole Daniel Craig saga, starting from his character's adoption. Someone so dastardly, despite only getting about 20 minutes of screen time. Just enough time to give two small speeches, perform sinus and brain surgery to zero effect, get blown up by a watch, then have his helicopter shot down with a pistol. A final boss defeated in two hits.

At least they brought back Oddjob. I mean Jaws. I mean Bane?

Spectre is Daniel Craigs 'Tomorrow Never Dies', and probably the most disappointed I've been with a sequel since Terminator 3.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: Life Is Strange


A five episode adventure epic released throughout the span of nine months, about a young woman who breaks space and time to... save a small town from a tornado.

Pirate it, and you'll still feel ripped off.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: Blood Bowl 2

The game's awesome. Smashing weak humies and scaven has never felt so satisfying. Plus, now we have online league play and Cabal TV. And of course, my niggas Jim Johnson and Bob Bifford are back with fresh commentary.


I'm not one to normally appeal to authority when it comes to an argument, but this is a review, and I'm probably one of the highest authorities there are in the Blood Bowl gaming franchise. In the last five years, Risexual and I have easily accumulated at least 6000 hours of game time throughout Blood Bowl Legendary & Chaos Edition. Over those years, we pretty much lived and breathed the game, molding our senses of humor around what's basically one big inside joke based around Blood Bowl lore; we pretty much wrote the book on every strategy for every team, and we have never lost a single online match to an honest player. So, do yourself a favour by avoiding what one of the most uninformed and entitled communities in gaming have to say, and buy yourself a copy of this sports masterpiece, because I fucking told you to do it.

Monday, September 21, 2015

The 0wnage of Rogue-age


I used to be pretty much unstoppable at NF BGJ back when I played Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II on the daily. On the Internet back then (as in prior to 2005), people kept screenshot collections of their scores to help with their street cred, and if they were a big enough douche, they wrote some of their colourful commentary along side it. There isn't really much worth salvaging from my old GeoCities website, but these shots of my JK pages are a nice nostalgia trip.






Thursday, September 17, 2015

Some Sketches & Concept Art

After procrastinating for a decade and allowing the whole emo craze to pass from the mainstream, IndridCold and I have pretty much agreed that the EMOgirl comic has been cancelled. Having dropped that, but also wanting to work on a new comic series besides the Z-Comic, I've started drawing up some concepts. Basically I've just been drawing stuff that looks cool, and then formulating story elements around it all later. I'm also keeping the art style simple, somewhere in the range of the Z-Comics, so that I can theoretically blast out new issues quickly. I've also been testing out some new brush pens that I got for shading. 


Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Random Left 4 Dead Stream

I did a live stream of L4D2 just because. Playing with randoms, nothing special. I'm wondering how long it'll be until YouTube takes it down because of the music I had playing. Really pulling my A-Game to keep the content flowing here. I'll actually make a conscience effort to find the power cable for my scanner and get some new art on here soonish.


Action starts at 00:03:00

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Mr. Robot

Basically the best show. That'd be my review if there was one. I made this wallpaper for it.

Click here for the 1920 x 1080 version

Monday, August 31, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: LEGO Jurassic World

Honestly isn't even that good for a Lego game. I enjoyed the Jurassic Park 1 episode due to nostalgia, despite there being almost no enemies to fight the entire time. The episodes following it have enemies, though 99% of the time you'll be fighting compys or some variant of them.

I feel the Lego games have become too heavy-handed with the "puzzles," having to literally stop every seven seconds to use a character-specific ability, bust some blocks up, and/or build something ad nauseum to complete a level that is otherwise two minutes long.

Anyway, I made my way to the Jurassic World episode and was having a decent time, as it was apparent more effort went into the levels specifically surrounding the new movie, but somewhere near the end of the game, while fighting the Indominus Rex, this happened:


The level bugged out, literally causing the boss to start fucking me in the ass as the game softlocked, forcing me to restart the level. There were no checkpoints. I was expected to go through the four minutes of puzzle-padding to fight the QTE boss again. At this point, I was sleep deprived, and had taken exactly too much shit from this insufferably mediocre game, so I quit, ejected the disk, had a nap, then returned it.

Perhaps you might have seen my review of Ryse, where I said that one glaring problem negates the quality of the overall product? I'll admit I'm treading into the territory of a personal pet peeve, but when a game breaks right at the end, it pisses me off to no end. Fuck this game.

Monday, June 29, 2015

The House of the Dead

Sometimes (often) emulating arcade games can be a nightmare. I did this run on a faulty Sega Model 2 emulator Sheldon Cooper style. I had to replay this game like ten times either because OBS wasn't detecting it on my screen, or because the emulator would break my gun alignment. I eventually gave up all hope on recording the best possible run, and settled with playing in a 640x480 window, because that was the most consistent method. Also, the reload key only worked like 60% of the time, so if I do meh in some parts, that's probably why.

Friday, June 5, 2015

1-2-3, H the B


Got it on "clearance" for $8 + $30S&H. Nathan sends me an email saying that he doesn't have any more of the right size and that they only have kid's shirts while I'm busy working for two weeks... then sends it anyway when I didn't reply. Thought briefly about getting it framed, but I'm not willing to dump more money into it, so it hangs above my TV like a decoration in a teenager's room until I can think of what to do with it.


Though I own physical copies of most of their discography, I pirated Pizza EP and their World Tour documentary, to which I would say "fair enough", but I can get get Pizza EP for $5.00, which I wish I chose to do instead.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Gurgle

I sure hope people don't actually use this as a masturbatory aid. For strict scientific use only.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

They Deserve Each Other

Wray & Nephew is the infamous "Jamaican Rum" from the Joke Liquors chapter of Yagsalvania Is Decadent And Depraved, known as the worst rum IndridCold and I have ever experienced. If I were to write an updated list of joke liquors, Pitú would be the new #1. So it's no surprise that when I went looking for it at the liquor store, I found the two stocked next to each other.

Monday, May 25, 2015

MS-DOS Nostalgia: Super Muncher

With P.I.T. #12 suffering from a ludicrous amount of lost computers and general revisions, Risexual hasn't had any face time on this blog in, well... YEARS. So I thought, "How can I get him involved again?" I know! What about those Let's Play videos that were extremely popular four years ago and have since fallen to redundancy?

I mostly record my gameplay footage with my microphone turned off because, like 99.9% of the people who do Let's Plays, I'm simply not funny enough to engage you for more than a couple of minutes at best. But I figured if I have another person with me, we can at least be unfunny together... right?

I put our MST3K riff parodies on a semi-permanent hiatus until I could come up with a halfway decent audio set up. I'd say the microphone quality in this Let's Play is at least doubly improved from what we used to have, along with direct video capture to boot. Now, instead, we shame ourselves by taking forty five minutes to complete a single cycle of a children's educational game set to the easiest difficulty.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

That Guy Who Was 4/20 on 9/11

Sometimes I still like to break out Plasma Pong whenever I want to play games to music that gets more hype the better you do.

Friday, May 1, 2015

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: Mortal Kombat X

Damn I suck at Mortal Kombat...


Uh! I mean, screw this clunky DLC-fest! Game crashed on me three times in the main menu before I could even get a match going. And kwick time events? Press X to buy Goro.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Nightwish


Let the bodies hit the Floor

Also Sabaton

Also this fag with a 3DS -- Security's face is priceless


(Not pictured is Delain, because who the fuck cares?)


Thursday, April 9, 2015

Sunday, March 29, 2015

The Order 1886 Playthrough

HAHAHAHA! WHY CAN'T I DO A PLAYTHROUGH VIDEO FOR YOU GUYS AND NOT HAVE SOMETHING GO WRONG? WHY WHY WHY?!

Anyway, the audio was muted near the last boss fight. I sent an appeal to Twitch, but all they did was freeze my account.



Sunday, March 22, 2015

This Is My Creep Face

A couple pics of my friend's cat. He's retarded, but overall a well behaved kitty.


Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

It's a comfy walking simulator where things eventually get real. You walk in a big circle for three hours solving murders in a forest until you reach the end, where if you didn't solve everything, you get to walk through the circle again for maybe another ninety minutes cleaning up the clues you probably missed while you were still trying to figure out the game mechanics that were never explained to you. If that sounds like an interesting $19.99 experience, check it out. Here's some shots of when the game was being pretty.





Monday, March 9, 2015

Quick & Painless Labels: Birdman

It was The Breakfast Club, except they're trapped inside of a theatre.

But I don't regret watching it.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Viridian

During the very end of August, I crashed into a weird and deep depression. The GamerGate movement was starting to spring into action and was exposing a lot of fucked up corruption that had already taken over the gaming media. That, on top of the already bogus levels of corruption that I already knew had been going on for years, I thought that was it, gaming was doomed. Erik Cain claimed that the gamer is dead, and that old nerds like me, who had already faced seclusion for decades because of the nature of our hobby, were even going to be even further segregated by the communities now buying their way into the industry. I practically had nowhere to run because someone like me was now strawman for bigotry because of the games I play, or the websites I visit. Thankfully GamerGate leveled up, but before the months it took it to happen, I found The Promised Land.

Viridian is a virtual town within one of Minecraft's many online servers, CivCraft (mc.civcraft.vg). CivCraft is basically a social experiment to see what kind of civilizations users can create and how they decide to interact with each other. Other than deterring hacking and sock account abuse, there are no rules. Over time, many websites have jumped into the server to claim a bit of land as their own, and/or conquer others. One such community on a certain video game centric imageboard I frequent decided to take part and create our own promised land. We settled in an area formally known as StoneArk, whose owners entrusted us with, and let us ultimately claim as Viridian. This is pretty much where I took shelter for about two months straight to keep me out of the whole gaming journalism debacle thing until most of it could blow over. When I poked my head out, gaming still seemed to be alive, and in the mean time, I had a lot of fun experiences with my little autism town and its 100 or so users that came and went in that time. Over time I took little video clips around the city, eventually planning on editing together a video to draw new citizens in, but as the town population became inactive, I couldn't get any interesting footage, and finally, after like four years, the premium Minecraft account that I borrowed from an anon was reclaimed with a new password and I can no longer log in. Here's the footage I have left:


I had plenty of neat screenshots too, but I'm a fucking idiot who deleted them all in the folder I saved them in once YouTube finished processing this video.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Insurency

Insurgency's co-op is something that you usually want to take slow and allow the enemy to come to you, but sometimes shit just hits the fan and you need to dropshot a bitch.



Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: American Sniper

The movie has the word 'sniper' in the title, so I went in thinking I was going to watch a sniper movie.


Chris Kyle killed a lot of scum, but it wasn't necessarily as a sniper. He hardscopes like eight guys in the entire movie, and spends the rest being your usual door kicking cowboy. I didn't know he was murdered, so that felt terrible at the end.

Movie's alright. Take a shot every time you see the Punisher insignia.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Strafe Demo

Strafe is a neat little FPS with a mid-90's retro aesthetic that I hope reaches its funding goal.

EDIT: It made it. Sweet!

 

Monday, February 16, 2015

Barony

For a game that I would have probably never heard of if it wasn't randomly linked to me, Barony is probably one of the best first-person dungeoneering games I've ever played. Definitely better than Eldritch, which I already like a lot, and it's free. The basic combat leaves something to be desired, but I rolled a wizard, and messing around with magic is quite a lot of fun.


I may upload a playthrough of one of the other classes for comparison.

Monday, February 2, 2015

Resident Evil In Under 3 Hours

Even though I cheesed this trophy by doing it in New Game+, I'm not a marathon speedrunner (not to imply this is an impressive run by today's standards), and this was still pretty stressful. I was pretty confident by the time I reached the labs since I estimated that I had about 40 minutes left, but it was definitely relieving for it to finally be over and to see the "Don't Stop Running" trophy pop up.




I might broadcast and upload other challenges depending on how lengthy they become.

Got The Trophy

Video hopefully up by tomorrow

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Normies

No more than seven hours played between the two of them. It's like I really got sent back to 2008.


Saturday, January 17, 2015

Quick & Painless Reviews: Ryse 2: Halo MCC Boogaloo


36 hours to fully install and patch, but I had to get in on those Halo 2 Anniversary graphics and cinematics. I remember it taking maybe 10-12 hours to go through Halo 2 as a kid, but with cinematics included, it only took 4 1/2 hours this time around. I went through Halo CE Anniversary as well just to feel like I hadn't completely wasted my time, and that only took 3 1/2 hours.

fuck off / 10