Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Uncle Ruckus in the flesh, nigga!

Wow, ok, anyone who watches the newspaper-comic-gone-cartoon The Boondocks knows who Uncle Ruckus is. A black man who hates black people and loves white people. I don't think I had ever seen a real life Uncle Ruckus until now. I happened to be watching a series of videos about black women being the Earth when I happened to see James David Manning (black man), preacher of ATLAH Worldwide on the side panel going on a diatribe about how the black man is America's biggest problem. Wow. Talk about lack of knowledge of self. Perpetuating stereotypes about your own people, dude? Really?

Really?

Friday, December 12, 2008

New Games = Bigger Backlog

I really need to stop getting so many games when I haven't even finished the ones I started on before. This goes for PC and console games. I've always been an internet nomad, not letting grass grow under my feet too long in most places and it seems that has carried over into my gaming habits. Not sure why because I love these games. Maybe I have some pseudo-digi-commitment issues? I've also noticed that I don't dedicate as much time to the games I do play like I used to. I remember back in the day when I'd only get a new game for birthday or Christmas (and maybe a couple other times throughout the year) I'd really dig into those games. I probably maxed the time twice over in Final Fantasy VII & VIII. But it's not like I had much of a choice either. It's kind of like how kids are these days with the overblown console wars. The parent buys the kid one console and because that's all they have, they defend it religiously, though in my case I would play the games religiously. I find that the older I get my gaming habits change toward more pick-up-and-play games. Not that that's all I play now, far from it, but I gravitate toward them more than before. Maybe that's why I seem so scatterbrained with these games now.

Here are some (alot) screenshots of the PC games I've been playing the past year. There's still some games this doesn't cover though. The screenshots you see with the really low frame rates are from when I had my GeForce 8400GS. It's meant for high-def video not for gaming, but I now have a GeForce 8800GT. The 1600x1000 resolution shots are actually 1920x1200, but I guess blogspot had to resize them.

P.S. (should P.S. be used in a blog? A blog that no one reads at that? Hmm.)

My PlayOnline and FFXI account are back to being deactivated. Ah, that couple of days of screwing around were fun though. =P

Rohan Online, Silva Server


The Longest Journey (one of the best adventure games around)


Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (sequel to previous game, very interesting series, can't wait for the episode content!)


World of Warcraft

Rikhea, Female Human Rogue


An interesting sight. Most people on PVP servers in WoW get a raging hard-on for attacking anyone that moves from the opposite faction. Kinda cool to just kick it with Horde sometimes hehe.


Malynda, Female Night Elf Priest


Janae, Female Human Death Knight with Frostmourne & Frostwyrm mount (dropped by Arthas)


Janae, character select close-up of Frostmourne. Incredible sword. :)


Diabolick, Male Undead Death Knight (forgot what sword he's wielding...)


Malynda (same one, different server) solo healing an Arthas raid


Paper Mario TTYD running choppily on Dolphin or GCEmu


Tony Hawk's Underground with my face mapped onto the custom skater with less than desirable results. And this was the best one. >_____>


Me smashin' the AI in Unreal Tournament 2004


Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Sexy Alyx (you better not say she's just pixels! Look here)


Klonoa running on ePSXe


Call of Duty 4


CoD4 - Interracial love is a beautiful thing


Me smashin' the AI in Unreal Tournament 3


Mother 3 - The Japanese > English translation was finally finished! I'd been looking forward to it for quite awhile. :)


Call of Duty: World At War multiplayer beta (didn't play much)


Dead Space - Very good game from... EA! Even a broken clock is right at least two times a day. AMIRITE?


Left 4 Dead (Steam Demo) - Very fun, need to buy this, but I need friends who play PC games. :(


Frontlines Fuel of War - This came bundled with my GeForce 8800GT


Sonic Adventure DX - Memories from the early Dreamcast days. I forgot how absolutely fucking cornball the dialog is! Eh...


Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Haha, I love this shot


Psychonauts!


That bitch is crazy, yo...


Fallout 3


Daddy!

Now I know Bethesda is probably a mostly white staff and that's perfectly fine, but did anyone not think it might be a little bit... jarring to start the game off with a white father and if you chose an "ethnic" (this word in common context needs to be re-evaluated) character he all of a sudden changes ethnicity? Then there's the accent lol.


God bless you, Brianna! God bless you!


Prince of Persia (2008) - An absolutely gorgeous game and art direction. Controls very well once you get used to the controls and stringing combos together.





Look at the bright side, Prince, you lost one carpet to gain another one (hint hint, wink wink) ;)

Munch on, bruh.