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SonicRob: If I could just get a couple of wins, I’d hit level 6
FyreHaar: awww, you’re a big ork now!!!
SonicRob: ha
SonicRob: how’s level 30 treating you, humie?
FyreHaar: getting there
FyreHaar: still on 28
SonicRob: zog
SonicRob: how often do you not play?

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Sonic Rob: best horror movie cast ever: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving, and Emily Blunt in the Wolfman
Sonic Rob: The idea of Benicio Del Toro, New Yawk accent and all, as Hopkins’ son in a Victorian period piece is perfect
Sonic Rob: they’re not taking this too seriously

FyreHaar: awesome!!!
FyreHaar: hopkins reportedly ate 14 set pieces during pick ups!

Sonic Rob: set pieces are full of fiber
Sonic Rob: Hugo Weaving’s doctor put him on a strict diet of scenery for LOTR

FyreHaar: more dramatic and a cleaner colon!!

Sonic Rob Likes Funny Shirts, Not Crappy Ones

While browsing urbandictionary.com (for reasons that aren’t important right now), I saw a banner ad for this t-shirt design:

bacon-thumb

Ok, that’s pretty funny; I like a good public-signage stick figure joke as much as the next guy, if not more. Being a good netizen, I went ahead and clicked the link to noisebot.com, where the following shirts are also available:

milkshake-thumbjesus-thumbbrains-thumbsparta

Good times. But mixed in among these gems are some serious clunkers: Continue reading Sonic Rob Likes Funny Shirts, Not Crappy Ones

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SonicRob: who?
FyreHaar: he’s a procyclist
FyreHaar: rides with you know, Lance Armstrong
SonicRob: I read that as proctologist
FyreHaar: hee hee
SonicRob: he rides with one gloved finger pointed at the front of the pack
FyreHaar: ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SonicRob: this is how Lance wins
FyreHaar: OMG lol

Our PAX Schedule

With the Penny Arcade Expo a mere 18 days away, it’s high time we began strategizing. We’ve fairly divided the labor of planning – I’ve been combing through the event schedule to select the panels and concerts I’m most interested in seeing, while Fyre has been constructing a 1:1 replica of the Washington State Trade and Seattle Convention Center for us to practice our speed-runs through.

How’s that coming, BTW? (will you settle for 1:32 scale? -FH)

At any rate, this is the list of events I’m at least somewhat curious to see, as culled from the list of dozens of possible distractions and entertainments that the good folk of PAX are waving, plattered and fragrant, beneath our noses. Continue reading Our PAX Schedule

And Speaking of Inspiration

As I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m an idea man, but I work way better when I’m riffing off of the flawed ideas of others than when I’m trying to invent my own stuff out of whole cloth.

I haven’t finished Dead Rising yet; the whole mall full of zombies and ways to kill them thing sounded awesome, but those bastards at Capcom decided to put in that crazy time limit for saving all the survivors and getting all the story events to appear. If you just run around killing zombies with all the cool shit in the mall, you won’t lose the game, but you won’t really “win” either, at least as I measure it.

Ok, yes, I’m a little bit crazy about collecting everything and getting the best ending and all that and shut up I’m perfectly normal I just like getting the most out of my games.

I imagine that this is the designers’ stab at having you feel some tension and excitement, as defending yourself is actually pretty easy once you’re leveled up. If your zombie-killing capacity is nearly unlimited, the only way that Capcom can could inject some kind of scarcity to limit you is to give you a scarcity of time instead of, say, weapons. But this means that you don’t get to run around the mall stocking up on chainsaws and fireaxes and shredding crowds of undead; instead you just have to grab those things when you happen upon them while you’re sprinting like a camera-laden Jesse Owens to try and kill your way to the next survivor before he cowers himself to death. Continue reading And Speaking of Inspiration

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Rob: I wasted my orbomb in that last match
Rob: enemy standing around, I drop, they spread out
Rob: got 2 scout squads
Rob: tank and avatar dodged it
Fyrehaar: the trick is to engage
Fyrehaar: so they won’t think it’s coming
Rob: target my position. full purification spread
Fyrehaar: indeed
Fyrehaar: someone must stay to place the targeting beacon
Fyrehaar: you’re not fighting troops
Fyrehaar: you’re not fighting a race
Fyrehaar: you’re fighting a geek
Fyrehaar: make him shit it
Fyrehaar: and you’ll win