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Take a Picture Here, Take a Souvenir

Photo blogging is not a new activity. Like actual blogging, it came upon when people said “Hm, I want to express myself, but can’t find a medium to support my genius”. Or, more likely, “I want to blog, but my writing sucks”. At least they were smart, unlike others.

Sorry, I let my venom seep through my pointy fangs and into the page. Back to matters…

Whenever people ask me “So, what have you been doing for the last two months?”, if I don’t know them, I tell them “ah, the usual.. Work, stuff…”. When they’re friends, I just look them dead in the eye and say “Warcraft man, I swear to god I’m not an addict. Like, the other day, I went two days without playing it! Two whole days, man! I mean, I’m like, not addicted. FUCK! I’m sorry, it’s just that I’m having a hard time these days… FUCK! Can you believe we were raiding Scarlet Monastery the other day, and Herod’s Shoulders dropped, and this level 40 hunter was giving me shit because I rolled on them? I mean, I’m only level 37, but in 3 levels I can wear mail, and the +20 STA on the shoulders is pretty friggin’ sweet. Then he just went on and ninja-looted a staff, so we kicked him from our party and had to find another DPS. I mean, what the fuck, man?”

Yeah, totally not addicted.

But anyway, the other day we were doing a 5-man mission, and when we killed the proverbial Bad Guy ™, a teammate went:

-”Dude, take a picture of me while I flex on top of Herod’s corpse.”

-”Say cheese!”

World of Warcraft is already rockin’ out at 1.5 million subscribers, and these are March 2005 figures. Over 500,000 in Europe alone. That’s a ton of community members, and soon they will realize that hey, if they blog their world, they might as well blog their virtual worlds. I say “will” because even though there’s a bunch of communities now showcasing virtual-world exploits, but it still requires being technical-savvy, and knowing how to get your stuff from the game into the web. What I’m talking about is integrating blogging-like features into games. We’ve seen it with Machinima and the recent crop of FPS games, and Massive RPGs might be the next in line. I know that it’s something the public at large wants, but I’m scared to think of the repercussions it might bring. If anything, there’ll be at least one or two good places, with good writing and good stories to visit, but I don’t know if that’s worth the endless tail of wanna-bees that will try to attach themselves to it…

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nashira wrote:

“I’m a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me -no matter how dumb my suggestions are.”.

That was Homer Simpson, right before eating his mixture of “nuts and gum”.

;)

Posted 09 May 2005 at 12:34 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

I am not entirely sure its a good idea to encourage the masses to pour out into society their - experience - if you will.

From my experience playing online against others, probably 85% of the players out there are either:
A. Potheads
B. Teens with alot of attitude (not to be confused with character).
C. Tweens that by all rights should still be watching Mr. Rogers.
D. Old dudes (anybody in their mid 20’s and on) that just dont have anything better to do with their lives = losers.
E. A combination of the above.

Rarely have I found players that are true to the purpose of enjoying the game PLAY, versus simply beating an opponent (many times by cheating if necessary), or otherwise spitting all the profanity readily available to them to whomever beats their ass.

Do you really want to have to sift through a universe of crap in order to find one good write-up? (Assuming that a player “with soul” also has the ability to write).

I’m sure gamers out there would use it (abuse it). But for a society of gamers at large, I doubt it has any benefit. At least not for those who truly enjoy the games for what they are.

Like child-bearing, wearing certain types of clothing and speaking your mind, you should have to get a license to share your life experience with others on the web.

F it.

Posted 09 May 2005 at 2:29 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:

(From now on, I demand that Hell yeah! be adopted whenever refers to this site. I like “Fuck yeah!” better, but I’d like to preserve a shadow of “Work safeness”, for those with shit-restricting filters at work.

Filters, please ignore that ocurrence of the word “shit”)

I agree that it would spawn a whole world of crap, with probably a very small layer of cream at the top. As for the online-gaming populace at large, I say F it. Anybody who’s spent a significant amount of time playing online knows how bad 99% of the online gamers are (shitcock!). Bad, as in, “waste of biomass”. Most of the time I’m playing I end up with the same 10 peeps, at least as far as World of Warcraft is concerned. If you want to sample the fauna, do an afternoon of server-hopping UT 2004 games. I guarantee your opinion of humanity will go down a few notches…

That said, I have included a dressed-up pixelated Mario to demonstrate my old-schooliciousness as part of my new web design. New = “Now with 300% more graphic content”. Which, in my case, involved going from 0 graphics to three.

Posted 09 May 2005 at 3:13 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

Does anything Nintendo actually qualify as old-school? Wouldnt you have to go Atari or the such circa early 80’s at least to be in the “old school” neighborhood?

By chalking Mario up to old school you make me feel old. Give me some Zaxxon or Centipede and then we’re talking.

F filters.

Posted 09 May 2005 at 10:35 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:

I played a lot of real old-school stuff, like Pac-man on the Atari, or Dr. J vs. Larry Bird: One on One on the C-64 (Holy crap, that was 25 years ago!). I actually remember reading on a gaming magazine that the movie Commando had been inspired by the game Commando, as retarded as that may sound. But hey, I was young and gullible.

Old school means:

Having played Discs of Tron
-Bonus: On the arcade
-Bonus #2: On the lit-up arcade cabinet
-Bonus #3: With the free-floating joystick
-Bonus #4: While on a black-light lit arcade parlor
-Power Pill: With money you earned doing chores

Ah, the 80s…

Posted 09 May 2005 at 11:17 pm ¶
Deadpool wrote:

Are you sure it’s Mario? He looks like Luigi to me…I mean, his clothes look kinda green…as for the old school stuff, I didn’t play Tron but I did play pacman, missile commando and other nice games on my dad’s cartridge/cassette driven atari (it even had a keyboard for you to program basic, it ruled!!!!),

Posted 09 May 2005 at 11:43 pm ¶
Blind Willie wrote:

Want old? I saw Tron, the movie, on the big screen, and, and…I own an Atari PONG system (non functional though).

P.S. No, I’m not selling.

Posted 10 May 2005 at 12:05 am ¶
Deadpool wrote:

Man, what are you, 100 years old? No wonder you’re blind, Willie…

Posted 10 May 2005 at 12:13 am ¶
nashira wrote:

Yeah… but I know both of you and you look older, Deadpool.

Guess who’s back
back again
Marla’s back
;)

Posted 10 May 2005 at 12:45 am ¶
Blind Willie wrote:

“Please allow me to introduce myself…”

Nah!, you’re making me sound as if I am fallen Samael himself, but no, not nearly bro. It just happens that I was born in 1970, but I think Chase Ransom is the senior here.

Posted 10 May 2005 at 12:47 am ¶
nashira wrote:

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

Posted 10 May 2005 at 1:04 am ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

A great disturbance indeed.

1975 so I am not the senior. However of the old school requirements listed, everything except playing the games with the money I earned from chores, I hit 100%. Disc of Tron was my all time fav game and if you go down that list, that is exactly what it was.

I also played on the C-64, but I played more Seven Cities of Gold and stuff like that. Wavy Navy (rocks).

I could go on for ages talking about old games and the fond memories they bring (thats right, I played Salmon Run), but I havent the time. Nor could I make it interesting enough for you guys to give a *kof*sh*it (F filters).

Anyway, I never owned a Nintendo system until Gamecube and never owned a Sega or anything of the sort. Always was puters and that is the way I like it even until now. Not that I dont love my Gamecube and Xbox, but PC’s shall rule forevah.

I have two words for you freaks.

Dungeon Master on Atari 520ST

F it

Posted 10 May 2005 at 11:39 am ¶
Deadpool wrote:

Word bro!! PCs are the best, a bit expensive to keep them updated but man, they’re worth it!!
I think Blind Willie IS the senior, how can you beat 1970?? hehe. Me, I’m just 1977.
However, Nashira almost won the senior contest so she’d better shut up, hehe. AND I look 1974, tops!!!, I swear!!!

Posted 10 May 2005 at 4:59 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:

Number one sign you’re getting old: instead of age, you refer to your birth year.

Posted 10 May 2005 at 5:42 pm ¶
Blind Willie wrote:

Actually, I did that to maximize the effect. As in “born in 1970, that’s like…35 years ago!”

It seems almost archaic, but quite frankly, once you pass thirty one you just don’t give a shit anymore.

Posted 10 May 2005 at 6:42 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

I fart on birthday candles. Such a silly, self-serving tradition. “Ooh, look at me I’m 50 years old now”. What an embarrassment. I’d be ashamed to self-promote like that.

Btw, did I mention that this year for my big 3-0 I’m going all out?

*Sigh*

F it

Posted 10 May 2005 at 8:46 pm ¶
nashira wrote:

One of the best things about being born in the 70’s is that you actually met people with afros and moustaches when they were in style. Yes, they’ll be back again, but as a recicled fashion. Or fad, if you will. But back then, my neighbour was 17 when I was 8, and he was a bad motherfucker, he had these oh-my-god-he’s-so-cool-and-scary afro and moustache, boots, his bedroom walls painted in black and rock posters all over. Later on he had to run away from justice, I swear to god.

Posted 10 May 2005 at 9:30 pm ¶
Deadpool wrote:

An urban legend says Big Gay Al (also known as Alvarete) had an afro a long time ago…

Posted 10 May 2005 at 10:18 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

Being born in the seventies means you (if you were a boy) had a pie-plate haircut, at some point thought Michael Jackson was a genius, and amongst your toys you had: leggos, a rubix cube, star wars action figures, Simon Says, Battleship and a hoola-hoop. You watched shows like Battlestar Gallactica and “Thats Incredile”.

Of course, you also wore some of the ugliest fashions on the planet since late 70’s and all of the 80’s people wore some of the most missmatched threads ever to be assembled on one person.

F it.

Posted 11 May 2005 at 2:23 pm ¶
Blind Willie wrote:

I actually feel sorry for all you kids who did not played with GI Joe toys. Simply put, the coolest toy ever.

Now, about Jacko: no fuckin’ way.

Posted 11 May 2005 at 4:08 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:

Come on, Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough = Genius. Plus, the video for Smooth Criminal is great. I remember rocking out to Beat It, later to discover that the solo was provided by none other than the great Eddie Van Halen. I would also hearby like to posit that the late 80s-early 90s were, like, the hottest music period ever, dude! I’ll take dudes wearing stiletto heels and singing about sex in the backseat than today’s angst-ridden nu-metal shit.

Oh god, I’m really growing old…

Posted 11 May 2005 at 5:01 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:

I’m sorry, but Gi-Joes lacked, how to put this, possibilities. I’m a Lego man myself, or their european cousins, the Tentes. And I’m talking old-fashioned here, not today’s “Snap together these two pieces and you got a 6×2 battleship” crap!

Even though, I’m man enough to admit that I lust after that Star Wars Lego line they have for those 26-35 with a disposable income, and a willingness to relive their childhood…

(Yes, that’s 149 € for a freakin’ Millenium Falcon. Still lower than the 369.99 € asking price on the CE Imperial Destroyer kit. I said disposable income.)

Posted 11 May 2005 at 5:07 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

Dont talk to me about Star Wars Lego because I might just have a seizure mid train trip and I am not confident in the First Aid skills of the machinist running this gig. I love them and if I wasnt married I would have a house full of it.

GIJoes were OK on TV, but as a toy lacked for certain. As I child I owned some GIJoe stuff and it was consistantly neglected in exchange for anything else around (that includes playing with legos the cat had already piss in).

I have a firm beliefe that a box full of legos (not a set necessarily) is the nesting ground for great minds. How much more educational as well as entertaining could a toy be? Impossible.

Anybody who tries to dis Jacko’s previous musical accomplishments in light of his recent downfall is just as brilliant as a puppet with the enquirer shoving its hand up its ass. Jacko’s career WAS brilliant until Thriller, and better than average until Bad. Denying it would be like saying that, Stevie Wonders career is bullshit because all he is famous for in the 80’s was “I just called to say I love you”. Have you ever heard Superstition? Holly crap.

Jacko in the 80’s is IN. Now as far as the best music in the world between late 80’s and early 90’s, I am not so sure. I guess you would have to decide for which genre of music. Most of the best stuff put out by bands like Def Leppard, U2, Motley Crue, (Shall we even mention Led Zeppelin?), etc was prior to mid 1980. I think 1975 to 1995 was the generational period where the best shit on earth (isnt that Snapple’s slogan?) was composed.

Somebody save us from ourselves and our elitist dissertation on the quality and existentialism of modern music. Somebody play some Dark side of the moon and kick me in the ass.

F it

Posted 11 May 2005 at 10:23 pm ¶
dorothy hale wrote:

I prefered Playmobile than lego..the little men were cuter…

Then to be honest I never really played with toys..boring kid like my sisters say…i prefered Enyd Blyton…

On the other hand, i was 8 years old and all my walls were covered with Michael Jackson!!! I still symphatize with him now, i can’t help it :(

Posted 11 May 2005 at 11:17 pm ¶
Blind Willie wrote:

Dude, the comment about the 80’s music being the best was a joke (I hope). And besides there is no way to compare Michael fucking Jackson to Stevie Wonder. Yes, Superstition from Taling Book is a hell of a great composition (even though the Songs In the Key Of Life is a better album). The man is a great musician with a hell of a voice, Jackson’s just the Britney of the 80’s.

One last thing about GI Joes: are we talking the same toy, the classic 12″ soldier with the cool gadgets and accesories, or the recycled shitty smaller version from the cartoon series?, ’cause that’s like trying to make a comparision between Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson in their prime years.

P.S. Stevie Ray did a fun cover of Superstition, but nothing can beat the original.

Posted 12 May 2005 at 1:21 am ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

Britney of the 80’s?? I cant even respond to that without going into muscle spasms.

F it.

Posted 12 May 2005 at 11:35 am ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

My muscle spasms have long since passed. What gives?

F it.

Posted 16 May 2005 at 7:25 pm ¶
alvarete wrote:

Yeah, what’s up with you people? Are you going to force me to write something new?

Posted 17 May 2005 at 11:41 pm ¶
Chase Ransom wrote:

What the F man? Over a week without any juice already. If it werent for my consistant distraction with my anticipation for Episode III, I might have gone off on you by now.

Just to inspire you….

“my baby fits me like a, flesh tuxedo…
…I’d like to sink her with my, pink torpedo”
- Spinal Tap

Posted 18 May 2005 at 4:36 am ¶
alvarete wrote:

I got to watch Spinal Tap at the cinema last weekend, as part of a documentary cycle. Yeah, so I had to go alone. To quote Metallica, “So What?”. Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick, that movie is the bomb-diggity!

Posted 18 May 2005 at 4:32 pm ¶