SBCG4AP Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner, in review

SBCG4AP, which is abbrivated from Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, came out with it’s first episode today, entitled “Homestar Ruiner”. This is created with help from from Mike and Matt Chapman and with the actual game being created by Telltale Games, the same people responsible for the new Sam and Max episodes, which I also recommened.

The summary of the episode starts with Strong Bad “Checkin’ the Email” and recieving a request from a email writer, the emails in this game are generated by the Bros. Chaps to help with the storyline of the episode.

The request here is to beat-up Homestar, however, Strong Bad learns about the Free Country USA Race to the End of the Race (FCURTER in the game), which homestar is competing in. Strong Bad sabotoges Homestar and causes him to get into a whole mess of trouble. The aftermath if which leaves Homestar mopping around the House of Strong. Strong Bad “races” to undo his acts of mischief by dressing up as homestar, again, cleaning his criminal record, etc.

Various Side quests are present, like trying to find lost game manual pages to “Snake Boxer 5″, a game playable on Strong Bad’s FunStation, but collecting the pages will unlock “the super secret forbidden mode“. You can also make your own Teen Girl Squad, this list can also go on.

With all the cool extras, dialog and coolness factor of walking around Free Country USA and saluting the Strong Badia flag, it’s worth the 10$ purchase on WiiWare or 8.95 on TellTale’s website for your PC

I recommened this for H*R fans with a rating of 8/10 and 6/10 for non-fans.

GraphJam.com

All of these are random

Most of them appeal to my sense of humor

Thanks again to Peter B. for the link

I can has an IPod

I received my first IPod this week, as a gift from my dad (out of guilt for something that I wasn’t TOO angry about). I, myself, was reluctant to purchase one because It seems to me that any MP3 player would work just as well.

I was wrong.

This thing amazing, I can’t stop listening to it and doing neat stuff with it.
It can even play videos.

I should probably put legally-purchased music on it, just a thought.

Packing Done. Painting…Almost

HOLYCRAP

I’ve finally packed my room. But where is my family moving. The thing that annoys me the most is were not going anywhere….yeah…you heard me. The new owners of the complex I live in decided to repaint the entire complex and refurnish the bathroom and kitchen, also, their redoing the windows. We knew this about 2-3 weeks before having to start. I finally got around to packing my room…since it;s not, ya’know, organized. I just put everything into like 3 HUGE boxes and said “To hell with it”. I’ve been stressed to no end. Also, they delay everything randomly, so you plan on them painting, get out of the house for the day, and they postpone to the next day for some bogus reason. I’ve been a pain to be around (except at games club where I TRY my best to “Chill-lax”). Packing freaking suck WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE!!!!1!!

I’m way to exhausted from work, packing and everyday life.

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Dark Knight “review”

I saw The Dark Knight on Friday night with Dani and Chris from game club
We went to the 10:50 showing and they had to open up another theater to house the people seeing the movie.
As always, I snuck food in and almost got caught …but didn’t. Apparently, Regal is VERY relaxed on their big bag policy.

So, the movie.

Well, the way I normally analyze movies is if they are worth the ticket cost.
The Dark Knight is worth the 7.50 I spent to see it, the 5$ Medium soda WAS NOT (boo-urns)

Heath Ledger performs the role like I had not expected…even with seeing previews. The Joker in this is simply not a character, but an idea (and ideas are bulletproof…wait…wrong movie). The joker gets smacked around and keeps getting up for more. It is difficult to tell if this Joker is crazy and is doing everything an hour at a time or how far ahead he’s planning.
Arron EckHart performs the role of Harvey Dent good enough, but not spectacular. The effects for the bad half of his face look just like a real life version of the cartoon.

The movies feels, and is, long..simply because the plot lines re SO HUGE.
This is not like in PotC in which their are 100 simultaneous plot lines…there are like 3 huge ones

Overall Score:
5/5 “Value of ticket”
2.5/3 Characters
.5/1 Explosions/Gun fights
.5/1 Misc.

8.5/10

VERDICT: Good enough to see twice and own

Wedding day

Yesterday, I went to Amanda And Steve’s wedding. First off, I was surprised to even be invited, asking her beforehand “How many people cancelled to allow me into the wedding?”…Amanda told me “like three”..but i belive it to be larger than that.

 

I was able to find a nice looking-ish shirt and some khakis and actually talked to people I didn’t know(well, not really)…I mostly clung around gamers and played games.

 

I wished Amanda and Steve the best wishes I could and had a nice day/evening

 

 

Later in the evening, me, Dani and Amy played Ticket to Ride: the Card Game and overall had a nice time…It wasn’t a movie…but it wasn’t bad

 

Overall Rating 8.5/10

Origins Report

After months of waiting..I was finally able to go.

 

 

Games Played:

Fluxx
Early American Chrononauts
Chrononauts
Magic: The Gathering
10 Days in Europe
Apples to Apples
Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
Power Grid
Lascaux
Yspahan
Rock! 

Stuff Brought Home

Magic Backpack

Funny Friends

Rat Hot

“Angelic” present for my friend

Random magic cards

 

Quotes:

“Is it, or is it not tue, that you left me in a gas station in Ohio?”

 

“Cameeples!”

 

“There is twice as many flames at this table than strategy”

“That’s what SHE said”

 

“This game makes me feel like Strong Mad”

 

“The downside to lowcut Jeans is that I know what color or type of underwear my female students are wearing…if at all. And that is WAY too much information”

 

“I don’t see the point in a Rock Papper Scissors card game”

 

“I won this Magic Backpack…you can tell it’s a Magic Backpack because it says ‘Magic’ on the side”

100 Best

Ones in bold are ones I own

Ones in ilalics are ones I’ve played

Ones in both are ones that I own and have played

 

Bruce C. Shelley on Acquire
Nicole Lindroos on Amber Diceless
Ian Livingstone on Amun-Re
Stewart Wieck on Ars Magica
Thomas M. Reid on Axis & Allies
Tracy Hickman on Battle Cry
Philip Reed on BattleTech
Justin Achilli on Blood Bowl
Mike Selinker on Bohnanza
Tom Dalgliesh on Britannia
Greg Stolze on Button Men
Monte Cook on Call of Cthulhu
Steven E. Schend on Carcassonne
Jeff Tidball on Car Wars
Bill Bridges on Champions
Stan! on Circus Maximus
Tom Jolly on Citadels
Steven Savile on Civilization
Bruno Faidutti on Cosmic Encounter
Andrew Looney on Cosmic Wimpout
Skip Williams on Dawn Patrol
Alan R. Moon on Descent
Larry Harris on Diplomacy
Richard Garfield on Dungeons & Dragons
William W. Connors on Dynasty League Baseball
Christian T. Petersen on El Grande
Alessio Cavatore on Empires in Arms
Timothy Brown on Empires of the Middle Ages
Allen Varney on The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Phil Yates on Fire and Fury
William Jones on Flames of War
Rick Loomis on Fluxx
John Kovalic on Formula Dé
Anthony J. Gallela on The Fury of Dracula
Jesse Scoble on A Game of Thrones
Lou Zocchi on Gettysburg
James Wallis on Ghostbusters
James M. Ward on The Great Khan Game
Gav Thorpe on Hammer of the Scots
Uli Blennemann on Here I Stand
S. Craig Taylor, Jr. on A House Divided
Scott Haring on Illuminati
Dana Lombardy on Johnny Reb
Darren Watts on Junta
Greg Stafford on Kingmaker
Lester Smith on Kremlin
Wolfgang Baur on Legend of the Five Rings CCG
Marc W. Miller on Lensman
Ted S. Raicer on London’s Burning
Teeuwynn Woodruff on Lord of the Rings (boardgame)
Mike Breault on Machiavelli
Jordan Weisman on Magic: The Gathering
Steve Kenson on Marvel Super Heroes (Jeff Grubb version)
Gary Gygax on Metamorphosis Alpha
Greg Costikyan on My Life with Master
John D. Rateliff on Mythos
Chris “Gerry” Klug on Napoleon’s Last Battles
John Scott Tynes on Naval War
Erick Wujcik on Ogre
Marc Gascoigne on Once Upon a Time
Mike Bennighof on PanzerBlitz
Steve Jackson on Paranoia
Shannon Appelcline on Pendragon
JD Wiker on Pirate’s Cove
Richard H. Berg on Plague!
Martin Wallace on Power Grid
Tom Wham on Puerto Rico
Joseph Miranda on Renaissance of Infantry
James Ernest on RoboRally
Paul Jaquays on RuneQuest
Richard Dansky on The Settlers of Catan
Ken St. Andre on Shadowfist
Steven S. Long on Shadowrun
Peter Corless on Shadows over Camelot
Dale Donovan on Silent Death: The Next Millennium
Matt Forbeck on Space Hulk
Ray Winninger on Squad Leader
Lewis Pulsipher on Stalingrad
Bruce Nesmith on Star Fleet Battles
Steve Winter on The Sword and the Flame
Jeff Grubb on Tales of the Arabian Nights
Shane Lacy Hensley on Talisman
Douglas Niles on Terrible Swift Sword
Ed Greenwood on Thurn and Taxis
Mike Fitzgerald on Ticket to Ride
Thomas Lehmann on Tigris & Euphrates
Warren Spector on Tikal
David “Zeb” Cook on Toon
Mike Pondsmith on Traveller
Zev Shlasinger on Twilight Struggle
Kenneth Hite on Unknown Armies
Sandy Petersen on Up Front
R. Hyrum Savage on Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
George Vasilakos on Vampire: The Masquerade
Kevin Wilson on Vinci
R.A. Salvatore on War and Peace
Jack Emmert on Warhammer 40,000
Chris Pramas on The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Steve Jackson on The Warlord
John Wick on Wiz-War

Yet another countdown post

I’m still counting down towards Origins

 

I’m at the “6 days till Tuesday…my last day to pack”

Tuesday is also going to be the “longest day” in while most likely tieing with the Wednsday carride

 

Has anyone played any good DS games

Guitar Hero: On Tour comes out the 22nd (just in time for the trip)

The World ends with you (A lot of + feedback…no actual reviews or gameplay)

I’m not sure this is a large number