Hahahaha!

I remember seeing the commercial for that scene, but had never watched the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=bfcrwAkq8Y0&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//static19.youtube.com/vi/bfcrwAkq8Y0/2.jpg



Patton Oswalt kicks ass.

"Sponsored by Bawls"

hahaha

Bawls just confirmed they will sponser Baglecon!

Okay guys I have news. Saturday night I'm going to go to the Cleveland area to view Evil Dead on the big screen!!!!! Yes that is right a midnight showing of Evil Dead in the theater as it was meant to be seen. In addition to the film one of the actresses is going to be there, as well as the traveling prop museum. It is $15 for the whole thing, anyone want to go with me? This is sort of my birthday party :)

Blizzard won't give us any loot because we can't guarantee we'll have 40 people there at the same time. =P

Oh man, that would of been kick ass.

Dammit I so thought I had Blizzard on the "hook". They turned us down :(

BagleCon 2006 will be Saturday, June 10th.

www.baglecon.com

The doors will open at Noon, though we really don't expect many people to be rolling in that early. The last-call for cleanup will be at about 4AM for those who haven't just packed up and gone home / upstairs by then.

Hotel rooms are available at a discounted "convention" price of $55, and of course can be split by multiple people. I don't expect many people to take advantage of this, but those of us who'll be drinking (BYOB, and a bar in-house till 1am) have them avaialble. Or if anyone is actually gonna' be traveling to get down here.

Oh- and don't worry much about the "registration" price. That's more for encouragement, and any walk-ins who might stumble across the page. (Shatz mentioned Bawls as a potential sponsor, and they'd be listing the convention page on their site.)

We're not gonna' expect the "regulars" to throw down cash just to stop in and say "Hi..." but if you are gonna' stick around for a while and eat our food, throwing down $10 will be great. And it buys you your very own *super highly collectable* BagleCon 2006 Day Pass with "BagleCon Swag Bag!"

... assuming we have any luck getting swag, at least.

Shatzer - Technically, you're correct. Which is why I wouldn't actually kill him with a fire. (Besides, that would damage his computer.) That's just there to throw the Feds off my trail, while I kill him with poisoned meatballs at the next D&D game. They'll never expect it.

Oh, damnit... I did it again...

Dan isnt a bad dude, I went to school with him never really talked to him though. I do remember one time a kid was having a siezure and he thought the kid was messing around so he stuck a pen in the dudes mouth haha.

Jeremy--I don't want to be a dick but...... If you make it public record then your threats of death under "mysterious" circumstances carry less weight. Better that you corner him while no one else is around and whisper the threat. You know then you can give him the "evil" eye and whatnot. You really need to watch the Sopranos, it is like an elementary primer on shit like this. :P

All--Had a great time last night. Hope you guys had fun as well. I like the new guy, I think he has potential.

Later dudes.

Oh, the cell phone thing reminds me - I forgot to yell at Farva at the game today. Completely slipped my mind... so I'm gonna' just go ahead and make this public record.

My days off are Thursday and Friday. (Remember, I may not work Thursday Evening, but I don't get off work till 7AM that morning.) I try to sleep 8 hours from 8AM-4PM. Please reserve phone calls during this time to important issues, or emergencies.

If one of you are dying, or will be soon dead if you can't make your phone call, don't hesitate. If you're dying slowly, and think you can make it a little while longer, please wait till 4.

If you wake me up again to ask if I want to go out to eat, there will be a morning where you wake up dead from an unexplained electrical fire...

That is all.

Good morning all!!!!! Looking forward to DnD this fine evening. I'll try not to kill any characters.... no promises :P

Dustin--Hey dude sorry about Sunday. I had my cell phone on me all weekend, but didn't realize till this morning that the battery had died. I don't know when it died so I figure I must of missed your call. If you still want to grab some eats I could do lunch or supper on Tuesday.

Oh god, it's Monday again... ;)

Shatzer - Tower all the way. This isn't just a LAN Party, man. This is an official, full-fledged computer gaming convention! Or at least that's what I'm telling AMD when I beg for free stuff.

Yeh, I can sell some more stuff for ya, if you want. As long as you don't mind me being half-assed about it. I've still got comics that aren't selling, and a whole buncha' stuff of Dustin's that I've been occasionally poking with a stick.


The basement is being worked on. Cleaning up the comics, and trying to figure out more efficient ways to arrange the furniture. The MAME computer is running on a new HD, so that downstairs TV may actually be running soon, too.

well if u r looking for a forklift my mom say all the time that i my not be the smartes but i have agood hart and a strong back:}

I'm torn about the lan party. Do I bring my tower, which of course I'm very proud of, or just bring my sticker covered laptop. If I bring the tower I'm going to need a forklift :)

Jeremy--Speaking of work you still want some stuff to list on ebay? I'm thinking of renewing my assault on the basement. Let me know what you think, as I could bring you a load of stuff on Monday.

All--Be ready for some DnD fun on Monday. Like I posted earlier I'm starting to recover from 4 or 5 really tough days of work. I'm so ready to have some fun. Also I think we need to have a movie night. The real problem that I see is finding a place to have it. Upstiars at Jeremy's place would be unhealthy for me (cats) and I really don't have the room in my house. Maybe when the weather gets nice we could do our own "drive in". I have a projector you know :) Just putting the idea out there. Hell I'll even pop some popcorn!

Later dudes...

Work.
Warcraft.
Web page.

The highlight of my week has been putting my PC back together. I have to dress it up for the LAN, and all. Wires are getting tied back and everything.

I just bought a new fan for my video card. A "silent" Zalman cooler, to reduce some of the horrible high-pitched whine caused by the stock leafblower currently keeping my video card cool. I was going to rewire all my fans to run at 7v to bring the speed (and noise) down a bit, but I decided it would be easier to just spend $20 and buy a nice fan controller for one of my many open 5 1/4" bays.

I'm allright.

Getting more bored with WoW every day, except for when Alertac Valley actually pops.

Okay somebody had better start posting. If not I'll start sending nekked pictures of myself to your email accounts! Except for Dustin..... he would enjoy it too much and start getting all "BrokeBack" :P

Really how is everyone? I'm finally past the hellish part of my week and am feeling human again.

I have far more work than I have time to do it....... Don't mind me I'm just bitching :)

God dammit Dustin you wait until Sunday!!!! Okay I'm calling the game tonight. See you guys next week.

Hahahahahahaha!

I'm probably gonna' be really late, if I do end up showing up.

Really? thats suprising...No I'm serious........No really I am.

Im seriously not going to be ready to run WOD tommorow. So, hopefully Shatzer brings zombies.

But do you kick ass for the lord :P

ok kick ass

Well it is my DnD game and I plan on being there. So I guess that means we have a game :)

If we're gaming Monday, yes, it would be at the store.

So are playing at the store tommarow?

Woo hoo Cinema Wasteland!!!!!!!! It is my goal not to see the sun this weekend :)

I'M AN ELITE GAME MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:P

Yeah. Dustin, you homo...!

Oh okay now I've watched the video. I think it is implying all you guys are gay or something :-0

WE GOT SNAKES ON THE MOTHAFUCKIN' PLANE!

http://www.gametab.com/news/520316/

Hahahahahahahaha..............

Ridiculous.

Pretty shitty, I've got another cold, 3rd one in a fucking month. The good news though, I got another prescription of good cough syrup. I'm ready to run a DnD game again, got some codeine inspiration.

*sigh* DnD alignment jokes are so 89...........

How goes it with everyone?

Mercy! You want Mercy! I'm Chaotic Neutral!.........Jeremy definitely wins.

That fight from Kill Bill, with Super Mario sounds dubbed in:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2696108?htv=12

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7521044027821122670

That was the greatest South Park episode :)

You know Goatsee doesn't really bother me that much. *shrug*

IMO Goatse is faaaaar worse. I had a friend that printed it out and walked up to random people at school and showed it to them.....funniest thing ever. The look on all those girls faces.....hahahahaha

What am I the only person that has ever put "fat japanese girls shitting on themselves while wearing a power rangers mask" in the google search?

Alright... you got me there.

Actually it was referred to on a message board I read :)

Ah yes. The wonders of the intarweb. (I think it was Fark.com that first introduced me to the tubgirl.)

Have you been broken by the horror of Goatse yet? We might as well get all the trauma out now, so you can save money on therapy bills.

What am I the only person that has ever put "fat japanese girls shitting on themselves while wearing a power rangers mask" in the google search?

Actually it was referred to on a message board I read :)

Uh... Shatzman? Wha' zactly were you searchin' for when you found Tubgirl? o.O

Dustin - NO, and i wount be showing up for that vincent is damn near unbeatable. haha

John - I've had fun with that disguising it as something else it sending it too people on AIM. Goatse is worse imo.

Bubles-- answer your damed phone.

Any1 who playes Super Smash Bros. there is a turny for it on Saturday at the shop at 12:00 noon.

OMFG WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH JAPAN!!!!!!!

no one do a google search for Tubgirl..... just don't okay



Bubbles--Damn beyatch I was just pulling your leg with the shammy talk. Hey great news I hear that they nerfed druids, so now shammys really rule!!!!!

I wasnt crying. Just saying Shamans are broke and need to be fixed.

Jeremy--I want to play a weiner dog :)

Bubbles--Cry more nubz. Learn how to play :P

I started a new guy on burning blade so i could play with a friend thats home from college and decided to see if shamans are actually as broken as they seem.

Im doing mage like damage and hitting as hard as a paladin but i geuss they think is balanced because i wear leather.......I hate Blizzard

I could always lock myself in my room with nothing but a bottle of DayQuil, that David Hasselhoff video, and a notebook, and see what I come up with.

I know I had fun last night killing off some characters :P

I was thinking that perhaps we could have some discussions regarding what you guys may like to run. Of course we couldn't go into details, but general descriptions of setting would be cool. Perhaps we could even discuss the kinds of characters or backgrounds we would like to play. This could be a neat way of getting some creative juices flowing in Jeremy and Dustin :)

ps: Jeremy the Big Birdcage is da shit no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfVShWI7FI&search=car%20commercials


:)

Well...I think I have the Winner.

FAZED - Video Viewer

Dustin--Get real holmes. No way Family guy Clips beat that video I posted. NO FREAKIN WAY :P

Screw it, this is the best video ever. http://media.putfile.com/Family-Guy---Stewies-Wheres-My-Money-Segment

John-- I see your video and raise peanut butter. http://www.devilducky.com/media/38524/

BEST VIDEO EVER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2p-J3IIL8&search=comedy

Let me think about what I can/will run. It may just be board/card games for the short term. I really don't want to start this until the store opens offically in April. March is going to be way to busy for me.

ps: Dustin this means you really have to have something for you game on Mondays. I have neither the time or desire to run two games every week. Every other week will be bad enough.

I second bubles opinion.

That would be awesome.

I have a question for you guys. I was thinking of adding a second gaming night at the comic shop. Dustin said Wednesday was good for the shop. We could roleplay more (perhaps making it our Cthulu night when Dustin gets his game going again) or board game. What do you guys think?

Yar it be me game this night ye salty bastards!!!!!!!!!!!

Pirates rule :)

Were you guys already 5th level the last time we played? I was just wondering. We can work it out at the shop. See everyone tonight at 6pm. Oh yeah I'll have your xp for you then :P

As far as I know, its going to be Shatzers D&D game tonight at the shop at 6:00pm

So... are we doing the RPG thing today?
Board games...?

Comic shop again...?

I'll make sure to check the blog when I get up.

Sometimes i'll go through a month where my connection dies like every twenty minutes, it sucks.

PB&J is possibley the greatest sammich ever.

"Who's going to save the planet from the giant meteor while Superman's vaccuming? You? ... I think not."


Good to know it wasn't just the hotel. I neeed mah MMO to get through the night! *twitch twitch*

I am going to remember to keep a DVD or two in my suitcase for emergencies from now on, though.

"Talk to me you bitches, I know you can hear me" Quote from the Real World metropolis.
Jeremy, the problem you were having was sprints fault. The shop had the same problem all day.

I thought it was interesting to see the "evolution" of Aquaman over the years from the ambiguously gay man in green tights and an orange fishscale bodysuit that talks to the fish, to the grizzled old pirate motherfucker with a harpoon-hook-hand... yaaar!

I also hadn't realized just how many times the X-Men have been X-Whored out. I knew there was a bunch... hell, I used to read like seven of them regularly. But I've found roughtly four thousand different X-titles so far. Which is only a slight exaggeration. Jeesus...

Woot Aquaman!!!!!!!

That was at times a good read. Never worth any money though.

You just can't get a good free service anymore, I guess. ;)

Digging through comic books again. I've got a big run of Aquaman! Woohoo!

Jeremy--I've turned word verification off and it still comes up. This has been an issue since blogger got it's "facelift" a while ago. Yeah it sucks :(

Oh... and Shatz- did you turn that damned annoying Word Verification thing on for a reason? Or was it defaulted on, and you just haven't shut it off yet?

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1203

I would have posted last night, but I had no internet at work. And no DVDs or other computer games as backup. Not even a book. Oh god, it sucked.

The laptop works fine here at home, so I'm still not sure if the entire wireless system at work has gotten fucked up somehow, or if they've added some new firewall without telling me. I got "kinda" access to the internet- text would sometimes load. No pictures or any scripts.

I need to clear out all the saved Network info so I can let it attempt to reconnect without the old login/pass still being used. How do I clear the keyring, anyway?

aight don't make me busta cap in your ass with my gat!!!!!!!!!

*sniff* I'm very lonely here :(

/sing "....all by myself. Don't want to be all by myself anymore...."

:P

Yo bitches post!!!!!!!!!!!

:P

Well I had fun last night. This new comic shop has much potential.

Anyone interested in maybe playing a boardgame or something Friday night? Dustin is the comic shop open on Friday? I was wanting to get another Zombies game in :) Let me know what you guys think.

Just one question. Is the comic shop pants optional? =0

Just called Jeremy... See ya guys at 6:00 at the new shop.

Yeah it looks like the game is going to happen at the new comic store.

Dustin--Have you just not called Jeremy or do you not have his number?

So the game today is going to be at the new store?

Farva knows, I called him, the only one who dosent know is Jeremt G. The game is Going to be held at the new game store, where collection Connection used to be.

Anyone know farva's # ? i cant find it and he probley doesnt think anything is going on.

Guys if you see this bring your Call of Cthulu characters tonight. If you are new to our CoC campagin just bring yourselves and some dice :)

Im up for whatever.

Dustin asked me to run something tonight. I don't know why he told you guys there wasn't a game tonight. You guys still want to play? If no one responds I'll just go home and play my rat :)

I guess... if Dustin said no game, I won't argue with 'em.

See ya' next week. Unless anyone wants to do dinner, or somethin?

the game today is off?

allright looks like i get to level my pally some more haha

so dusty told me the game is off ? i might not of been going i got a job at geen leaf . if u guys want to do boardgames or some thing call me.

http://www.gametab.com/news/493483/

Those guys are assholes....but also my new heros haha

I could probably do a poker game Saturday.

Okay I've cancelled my subscription again......... Just can't justify playing WoW when I would rather be playing my xbox or reading a book. My account is active till March the first. I may change my mind by then but I doubt it.

Flames are reserved for hot wings, or a good meal at an Indian resturaunt. You don't really get flames from your typical "We wash our tables with the same sponge we scrubbed the toilets with..." infections from a buffet.

Explosive diarrhea, sure. Flames, no.

As they say - what doesn't kill you, just makes you wish it did.




All:

Who is available for another Poker game this Saturday?

If food-bribes work, there will be meatballs served. (And maybe some chips and drinks, if anyone wants to bring something. <.< )

Good god were you guys trying to cause your asses to burst into flames? Just wrong..........

Didn't miss anything, John. Except the mass suicide attempt.

Dustin wasn't able to make it, so Farva, Bubbles, and myself decided to hit the just-reopened after 30+ major health violations buffet!

So hey what did I miss last week? You guys make White Wolf characters? Did Dustin kill anyone yet :P

See you all tonight.

Jeremy--Damn sounds like DDO is exactly what I thought it could turn out to be :(

Dustin--So what did I miss on Monday? More killing thrills and chills. I must know.

Bubbles--Hey let the guys in the guild know that I will be back on as soon as I get back from Vacation. I'm kind of missing the game. Sort of........... :P

Well that is all. See you guys on Monday. Post from Florida El Juan is out

So, I just got my invite for one of the DDO Stress Test Beta events yesterday. After setting up a long 2.5 Gig download for the "High Resolution" client thismorning, (A 1.5 Gig version with lower-resolution textures was available) I was able to install and run the program for the first time earlier this evening.

My first impressions of the game were quite poor. I've heard nothing good about the game from previous Beta testers after the Disclosure Agreement was lifted, so I had little expectations going in. In fact, the strongest praise I'd heard was "It's really fun... for about ten hours of gameplay."

Character creation is simple. You pick from a selection of the standard PHB races, plus a new addition (which may be from the Ebberon campaign...) known as the Warforged. A golem-type race, that receives only half-benifit from healing spells, but can be repaired and mended. You can customize your feats and attributes using the point-buy system, with a minimum score of 8. (-6 with racial mods. You cannot "sell" under 8.)

The textures a nice, though customization at this point is very minimal. Like WoW, everyone uses the same core body, just with different hairstyles and skin tones. They did, however, abandon the "eye candy" races. The men look like men, and the women... look like slightly less blocky men. (A good Darfen woman, indeed!) This may change for release, or be expanded on, but not likely at this point.

Stumpwater Jack, Level 1 Dwarf Cleric was born.

I started off on a pier in some nondescript city, surrounded by hundreds of other identical-looking new adventurers swinging weapons and hitting air. The controls were basic - manuver with the keyboard, mouselook around. Left click targets items and enemies. Right click swings your weapon.

Now, I've never liked these kinds of combat systems. It wasn't the Diablo-like right-click-to-attack system, but instead the "Right-click and you swing your weapon in the air. If you're close enough to hit, you might..." system from the newer Legend of Zelda-like games. There was an "auto-attack" feature that could be clicked on once you made contact with an enemy that allowed you to just continue swinging. But, I moved on.

The path led to an inn. Because all adventureres start at the inn. That's what they do. The NPCs were obviously marked with a different color nametag, and the objective points illustrated with big blue arrows. The first objective was simple - go inside and talk to someone else.

In we go to a room that was packed full. (Again, expected. This is only a few hours into the Beta event's opening... it's not like anyone had places to go.) I found the target, and accepted another small training quest. It was your basic "first quest" like in any good console game, where you're introduced to all of your basic abilities one at a time. Jumping, climbing, opening doors, levers, chests, etc. And your first experience with breaking random world objects to steal the goodies hidden inside!

Crate? Break it. Barrel? Break it.

This is also where I experienced my first bugs. Not little, to-be-expected Beta bugs. These were game-halting terrain glitches. I got stuck on the crates we were expected to be climbing on and around in that area of the "Training Area." Lots of rubberbanding. The character would move forward a few steps, then glitch back to some invisible snag point. Jumping sometimes cleared it. Sometimes not.

I managed to get myself up on a ledge to open a hidden chest. Trying to jump down off the ledge back to the ground got me again, stuck on something. He'd hit the edge, then snap back a few steps. He again couldn't move from his spot. After a few more minutes of struggling, I managed to jump clear of whatever invisible terrain glitch I was snagged on, and fall towards the floor...

... I never landed. The poor Dwarf glitched back to the ledge, only to walk off and fall again. The character at this point was unresponsive, stuck in a non-stop fall-band-fall-again.

Logging out didn't work. So I had to quit the game. With a sigh, I loaded the client again and restarted. Logging back into Stumpwater, I found myself in the exact position I'd left off at before. The fall, this time, completed, and I finally touched floor.

"It's a Beta..." I told myself. "Some bugs should be expected." Taking two steps forward, I moved towards my next objective. Only to spring back to my original position again.

Gaah. I filled out a big report form, noting that there was no "unstuck" feature. It would be delt with by a GM. No. Not waiting for a GM literally 30 seconds from the starting zone. Quit again. Restart. Delete Stumpwater. Reroll Stumpwater II.

Stumpwater was run back to the inn to accept the quest. For the sake of simplicity, I avoided all exploring and just went straight to my goals. I collected a few stone things out of chests, and beat down a few spiders. Cast a few spells.

Magic is apparently handled by a "spell point" system. I wasn't able to play around with it long enough to understand it fully, and couldn't even get one of the spells to work, but... uh. I was immortal in training mode anyway. The spiders weren't doing any damage when they hit, so I just beat them down with my mace.

Sucess! For completing the first quest, you gain a level. Leveling up reminded me of City of Heroes. Skills are modified by various minor upgrades. I chose one that gave me a 20% bonus to my 1st level healing spells, and moved on.

I moved out back into the inn, with a few healing potions and some copper coin, ready to seek out my first adventure. I walked towards the door of the inn, towards the wilderness...

... and got stuck on a loose board on the inn floor. I ran forward a few steps, only to get glitched back to my place in the middle of open floor. Stuck again.


This should be expected from an early Beta. Not a public stress test this close to the release date. If they can't even properly debug the noobie zone, I'm afraid of what the rest of the world has to offer.

It's an EQ-style version of the Temple of Elemental Evil. Except between the long slowdowns and game freezes, you could actually play Temple.

Quit to Windows.
Program Files.
Uninstall.