Bjorn and I are likely candidates for live-action Pacman. In fact, I can’t imagine it existing and our not partaking. It’s like our clones live in New York or something.

No, you’re not invited. But if we get the Minibosses play our gig, you can carry their shit if they’ll let you.

In response to this mockery, I post Steelbuddha’s 100 Best Movie Characters From Movies (Mostly Geeky Ones) I’ve Seen Subject To Change As I Remember Others Or Am Reminded By Comments And/or Angry Emails And Most Importantly In No Particular Order.

Also, I’m a totally uninteresting person with nothing better to post than the fact that I had haggis this weekend at a Tartan Day party and didn’t see what people get so disgusted over. It tasted like pork liver hash to me.

P.S. I’m still behind on my classic films; I may change a lot of these once I’ve actually seen things like To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and *gasp* The Godfather.
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Everyone I know could probably use a little time with this card game, but Czelticgirl most of all. Be sure to check out the “art.”

After all, one can only resist so long. I officially became a MMORPG’er last night, having received my beta client for City of Heroes. Already I love it.

You get to survey the area from rooftops, leap down on criminals and save the innocent, all while the mega-powered fly overhead and deal with cosmic threats. The world is immersive and smoothly executed, so much so that you find yourself speaking “in character” a lot of the time.

“hey” becomes “greetings”, “dude, on the right” becomes “hostiles at 3 o’clock”, etc. At least for me. The wide variety of characters is almost astounding but then you see Silver Paladin, Nurse Notorious or Mighty Kid murmur “I o\/\/nz j00!” and you remember where you are. Still, fun.

Most-Honoured Girlfriend, luckily, is also interested in it. She is nervous that I’ll be so engrossed that she will only be able to communicate with me through her superheroine avatar in the game. At some point, she will have to come to grips with my double life in a three-part series where I must choose between her and rescuing 300 hostages from the terrorist controlled cineplex. In part two, we make love. I’m looking forward to that.

In a concurrent attempt to keep my writing skills oiled, I have started a freelance article schedule with GameGrene. I have a lot to say about the subject, so I will say it with words on a screen. For the interested, I’m writing under steelbuddha.

It certainly doesn’t hurt my self-esteem to have more work published, if it indeed becomes so, and with Most-Honoured Girlfriend finishing the particulars on her game/cyber-fashion store, it may lend some legitimacy to our advertisements. Who knows?

This also marks, for the co-workers who read my site, a sort of coming-out. Yup, I’m one of those guys who burns lean tissue thinking up plots and puzzles so that other grown adults who oughta know better can roll dice until I give them the answers. I’m a closet GM.

I love the hobby, and it doesn’t make me any more antisocial than I would be without it. In fact, last Tuesday, my plotline involved a scene dramatic enough to evince cathartic tears from one of my players; the time when such real emotion can come from this medium make it worth my effort. I avoid the subject, however, to remove myself from a scenario similar to this with my hipster co-workers, or even those just prejudiced against the pastime.

There, I’ve said my piece (peace?) in the least interesting blog entry ever. Hard week, this. I should have stayed far from the Movable Type.

Chaintech provides with their ZNF3-150 motherboards all kinds of goodies: a 5.25 card reader with several ports, nicely bound IDE cables, a handy little screwdriver set reminiscent of first generation mechanical pencils, etc. If you’re going up to Socket 754/Athlon 64 3400+, I highly recommend them based thus far solely on the packaging, add-ons, and low pricetag.

Does anyone (who might read this) know if the Athlon 3400+ running with 1GB (2 DIMMs) of PC-3200 DDR memory, SATA/150 hard drive and a Chaintech GeForceFX 5600XT 256MB DDR 8X AGP video card will need more than a 400W power supply? Tom’s Hardware Guide shows it should be a decent fit, but the memory and graphics card I’m using are a bit more power-hungry, I think. I don’t want my father’s new speed machine to have a lack of power. He won’t like that at all; his Tim Allen sensors will blink and wail.

I’m using the 400SL PS from Antec, which according to their test gives out max power at 380W. I assume I can trust an Antec PS to shutdown before frying my components, yes?

Basically, my research turned up very little (that I truly understood,) and I’m too lazy to do any more.

I stare at truer geeks in awe and envy, that in their presence I am so unadvanced.

Hey! Look at this!

Now, I’ve gotta go kill and eat my little brother before he realizes I’m not cool.

They must realized the second installment was missing some things, because Samonosuke has returned to Onimusha.

The trailer makes my nerdy little hands tremble and my thumbpads already rue the day.

I’ve been desperate to post this geek Venn diagram for some time. I forget where it’s from, but whoever made it, thank you.

Also, I think a simple WTF? suffices here.

With my obsessive nature, I sometimes find myself lost in loops of repetitive gameplay. In fact, to my mind, the video game industry had encouraged this throughout my youth. Recently, however, they discovered their new medium, led by Squaresoft. The new medium? No gameplay at all. Just watch the movie and occasionally hit a button to see if the movie will progress.

It’s like watching a DVD chock full of CG eye candy that just suddenly pauses at random times to be sure you’re still watching.

Somebody understands me too well. Guest starring the highly underrated Peter Cetera, just so I’m sure how incredibly uncool I will appear to my children.