Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Quick & Painless Reviews: Snowpiercer

A comic book film that isn't Marvel or DC.


A jagged red pill to swallow, both because of its grimdark dystopian themes, but also HOLY FUCK ARE THE PEOPLE ON THE IMDB MESSAGE BOARD ABYSMALLY STUPID.

Okay, what...

How did you get THAT from THIS?

I keep saying I'll never revisit movie-specific boards again in these reviews, but I just keep doing it.

It's an 8.5/10 movie guys, but you don't actually need me to tell you that. Just get out of here before this gets ugly.

Friday, September 2, 2016

One Last Memento From ICP

Managed to catch one of the two hundred Faygo bottle rockets that were whizzing by my head, right out of Shag's hand.

Now it can go in the recycling bin!

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Passing The Torch



While I was buying drinks at the ICP concert, some sentimental metal head dude told me he used to have a hat just like mine and offered to buy it off me for $20. After everything I've been through in the last decade, mostly while wearing that toque on my head, I actually did sell it. As Willie Nelson says, "Never be too cool for the cash," and despite the priceless memories it represents, it's still a dollar store hat that I made a 1000% profit on, plus it's hopefully being passed on to someone who will go on to survive more bombastic jackassery with the help of its powers.

I spent the money on half a tank of gas and now I feel old and terrible.


Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Subnautica - Day 1

Why not play Steam's early access flavour of the month with its big summer sale?


Creepy vines

Something down there...

ThE mUrKy DeEp

Crashed ship spewing out tons of radiation. I'd later go on the fix the leak. Also 3D moon cool. 

Semi-floating islands?

A distant irl island?

Can be unsettling when you've been focusing on the island for a while then realize you can't see anything below you anymore

Eventually got there. Was full of crabs and underwater caves. Swam until my flashlight died and left.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Quick & Painless Reviews: Deadpool

I liked Deadpool before it was cool. In Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, I rocked a Deadpool skin about 50% of the time. But I have no problem admitting he's a fad anti-hero. He's done nothing more than crack one or two great lines occasionally, which are surrounded by a barrage of other 6/10 jokes and fourth wall breaks. Just enough to get by as long as he's almost constantly killing something. Guess what doesn't happen in this movie?


Overhyped for an understandably budget Marvel film. Hopefully this leads to a good sequel what isn't 50% unfunny origin story filler, and 50% mediocre fights against nobody mooks serving a nobody villian.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Space Beast Terror Fright

Since Steam wouldn't give me a refund for Firewatch, I tried to at least record a second playthrough of it to put up, but the video was choppy as hell and it didn't record the audio despite that the test clip that I recorded right before turned out fine... Two and a half hours wasted, woo.

Instead, here's some videos of me playing a few rounds of a much better game.



Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Quick & Painless Reviews: Firewatch

I have nothing against "walking simulators". You can see that I've played, reviewed, and made screenshot blogs out of a few major ones over the last few years. And eagerly I waited two of those fucking years for this one to come out.

For months, I even had a modified version of this painting as my wallpaper. 

This one offers an empty experience derivative of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, with (admittedly decent) banter between two main characters that goes nowhere in a game that manages to barely be four hours tops despite taking place in an open national park setting. The setting, it turns out, is mostly just padding. There's little to explore except for the obvious landmarks the developers left for you; nothing extra that you find or do will affect or flesh out the story in any way; and the game is uglier than Ethan Carter, so there isn't much worth looking at either.

I get up to more in a five hour shift at my real summer park job. I mad.

5/20




(that's the amount in dollars that you should consider paying instead of the full price of $20, in case you weren't catching on)

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Old Whiteboard Art


A Coopersville portrait I made on the whiteboard of a limousine booking office like four years ago. Apparently it's still there today, since a friend just took a picture of it and sent it to me. I'd like to give a big shout out to the funny fuck who rubbed their finger across the whole thing.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Getting Back Into It

IndridCold and I got back into COD4. We used to be somewhere in the top 5% of players worldwide with our other friend Danny when we played it on the Xbox360. Now we're entering a whole new ball game and jumping into PC. Shitsux having to learn how to git gud again, and it won't even feel legitimate with all of the hacking going on, but if I belong anywhere in COD, it's here (and also Black Ops).

Once I get my good classes set up, things will start to get crazy again.
 
EDIT:
Two choppers!
Four choppers!! It's coming back to me baby!