It's not the size that matters...

I finally got my grubby little hands on a Game Boy Micro. Today I bought a silver Micro and I must say, it is pretty darn cool. Now, I am not really a Game Boy person. I hardly have any games for the system, and I lost one of my two favorite games. So I have been playing Sonic Advance 2 on this bad boy (On a side note, buy SA2, it is so fricken awesome. Oh and the game I lost was WarioWare Inc MMG)

The first thing you will say when you lay eyes upon it is, "Wow, that thing is small, and I swear it keeps getting smaller."

And when you look at the Micro your reaction will be pretty similar. Being the smallest Game Boy yet, this thing is pretty tiny. They got rid of the "clam shell" design of the SP and it has a design reminiscent of the original Advance. Because of this, one major problem that the SP had has been solved. The size of the SP made it uncomfortable at times and it gave you a cramped feeling. The Micro feels more like a game controller, specifically a SNES one.

Also the Micro has a brighter screen than the SP (or at least the old one, a new brighter SP has just been released.) While the screen is smaller it appears to be much more clear and sharp. Another change is that the buttons have a springy and soft feeling, instead of the clicky feeling. The Micro also lacks backwards compatibility with previous version of Game Boy games (Original GB games, and GB color games) To me this is not a problem in the slightest, however to others it might be. If this is an issue, this is one area the SP has a definite advantage.

Overall, I'd recommend the Micro. If you don't have an SP it shouldn't even be a question. And even if you do I still recommend it.

You know, moms (Part II)

Ok, I apologize. I haven't posted in a quite some time and when I have the posts sucked. Well my posts always suck, but now it is like "Kirby earning money through indecent means" level of suck. Without going to in depth school has been equivalent to jamming a rusty crowbar up my urethra. But I will try to post more.

Luckfully I hope by the end of this week, or perhaps even later today I will have a Game Boy Micro. I will try to do a little write up on this and can hopefully post it by the end of the week. And in case you were wondering why this post is titled what it is, here is a video of a kid who needs to be beaten with a burlap sack full of nails. Or given some mother effin chocolate milk.

Lacuna or later

Keeping up with all the latest SMBC updates Zach Weiner has sent out an email saying

Fuck it, SMBC is back.

So I have removed the "No longer updated" tag so you all know to visit his site for his daily updates. I am very happy he is writing SMBC again and I hope it doesn't go on hiatus again.

On the note of site changes I hope you noticed under "Tech stuff" I have added a little code that links to my last 5 dugg stories.

And because I have no material to make this a humorous post I whipped up a little some with the help of Google Image search.

Enjoy.

P.S.- I know that whole quote thing is over kill, but it just looks so nifty.

You know, moms

cozmicfool516: not until youve finished your hot buttered ass m'boy

I believe this post speaks for itself.

*Post may not actually speak for itself

Demo extraordinaire

Courtesy of digg I found the greatest video of all time. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you "The Ownage" . Now if only there were some bears in it. The only thing that owns more than this video (initiate transition mode) is the Battlefield 2: Modern Combat demo. Yeah, I know, smooth...

I have been playing this demo more than any other game. And keep in mind this is just a demo. The demo takes place in some crazy middle eastern country. For time being it will be called "Asscrackastan". In Asscrackastan you pick to play as the Americans (Hoo rah!) or the Middle Eastern Coalition (MEC). They have very different bases and they contain different vehicles. Both teams get some cars and the A-rabs get helicopters and the Americans get tanks. The goal of the game is to have the most points at the end of a match. You get points by killing enemies and taking flag/spawn points. When you have the majority of the 5 flags the opposing team will lose a point a second.

The game runs off a class system. They are all different and own in their own way and they are pretty balanced, though at time the Spec-Op class seems a tad overpowered. The game works extremely well except for server issues, but it is just a demo, not that I have much faith in EA's abilities. The only other problems are problems with the people I play with. Since it is just a demo and there is no real ranking, team killing isn't that bad but it certainly gets annoying. I hate driving a car that is beeping like Jay and Silent Bob on cable television, just to find out some asshat loaded it with C4. There is an option to vote to boot but no one uses it no matter how much you tell them to. The other problem is that people tend to join the team with more people. Instead of balance out the teams, they just make it worse. Honestly, how can one consider themselves a winner when the teams are 4 vs 16?

However these are reasons I can't wait for this game. This is just a demo and it has less problems then most full version games have. With months to fix server issues, implement a better team killing prevention system, and perhaps force even teams this is looking to be one of the most promising games in a good while. And I can't wait to start a Battlefield clan.

By the way, this was a totally different post earlier and I just edited it.

Captain Excelsior!

Once again Zach Weiner, the creator of SMBC has sent out an update on his project and here it is.

Here's the cover art for the new project. I'm about a
quarter through the script and hope to have pages
ready in a few weeks.

Enjoy.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/images/cover.gif

Sans subtlety

Cats!

Excelsior!

Recently I made a little change to the blog. By looking to your right (It the side of the hand that doesn't make the L) you will see next to the link to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal link it says, "(No longer updated)". That was because from June 4th, the site was, well no longer updated. Of cource like any decent SMBC fan should do I emailed Zach Weiner, the creator of SMBC about what was up. Well he got back to everyone who emailed today, and tells of how SMBC will be discontinued in favor of a weekly comic. And for all of you who did not email him and because of that not receive his email, here it is.

This is a message for everyone who's written over the
past two months about the deal with SMBC. I'll be
using these emails as the beginning of a list to give
people updates on the progress of the new project. If
you don't want to be on the list, just email me and
I'll take you off.

If you are interested in the deal on SMBC, please
continue reading.

Why no more SMBC?

Long story short, with my current job I frequently
work over 12 hours a day. A typical SMBC comic takes
at least a few hours (mostly spent on coming up with
jokes and rewriting). Over time, SMBC began to affect
my job performance. Although SMBC is what I love, my
job is how I live. Mentally juggling the two was
beginning to be difficult, so I elected to stop.

Why no information until now?

Not quite coincidentally, I stopped SMBC just as I was
having server issues AND moving to a new apartment.
I've only gotten regular Internet access very
recently. I probably should have posted something
sooner. For that I apologize.

If you didn't have time for SMBC, how do you have time
for a different strip?

Two reasons. First, I'll have a slower update
schedule. This new one will be weekly, though this
will perhaps become more frequent once I get a handle
on how long it takes to make a comic page, and get
better at doing so.

Second, I will be scripting the entire thing in
advance. This means that I will not have to stay up
coming up with jokes (believe me, there are few
experiences more creatively harrowing than trying to
write a funny joke at 2AM when you have work the next
day, knowing you will then have to draw and color it
before you sleep).

What is the new project?

I'm keeping it pretty secret for the moment. However,
it will be total comedy. No drama, no love, no hugs.
It's all about funny.

That said, it won't necessarily have the "SMBC style
of humor." Mainly, this is because I don't really know
what that means. It will have my sense of humor, so if
you like that, you should like this.

That said, it will not be single panel. It will be
comic book page style. So, naturally the humor has to
be a little different. Single panel format allows for
the humor to be extremely dry and stupid (styles of
humor which I love). Page format allows for more types
of humor, and I think I can still retain the SMBC edge
despite lacking the directness that single panel
comics afford.

Regarding the subject matter - for now, I'm keeping
mum. However, there is a preview available in the
forum.



That's all for now. I will be posting some exclusive
updates to this newslist in the near future, so stay
tuned, and please pass on the word about the list to
anyone whom you know to be an SMBC fan.

Excelsior!

Edit: In related news, if you visit SMBC it has a much shorter version of this email basically telling you the same thing you just read, but in fun bite sized form.

Konfabulous

I missed this last night, so I am posting it now. A long time ago I posted about a program called Konfabulator. I loved this program. It was fun, easy to use, and surprisingly cpu efficient. Even on extremely slow computers it works fine. Yahoo! just aquired Konfabulator and is re-releasing it as Yahoo! Widgets. The cool thing about this is is that it is free now. It won't nag you to pay for the full version after 30 days. So now there is nothing to stop you from using this great program. Go download it.

In a command prompt far, far away

Through one of my romps through intraweb I found a pretty cool version of Star Wars. It is entirely in ASCII and goes pretty far into the first (Ep. IV) movie. In order to watch it assuming you are on Winblows, just click "Start", then "Run" and copy or type

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

into the prompt and click "Ok". Enjoy.

Also as any cool kid as myself should now, pressing "R" while holding the Windows key also opens a Run prompt.

On a seperate note, if anyone reads this blog and knows a bit about routers and more importantly how they affect Xbox Live please contact me at john.outwater@gmail.com because just recently my router has begun acting up again. This really bites because the new Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory co-op maps should be coming out in the next couple of weeks, and more specifically the problem I am having prohibits me and Patrick from playing together. And those maps look pretty hardcore so I better be able to play them, or else...

How do you think Patrick keeps his lovely grin?

cozmicfool516: hold on
cozmicfool516: i feel swweet corn tryin to make it thru my rear
cozmicfool516: brb

You askin or you tellin?

Cause no body tells Boxy Brown...

Bustin this joint

Once again, I will not be posting for some time. I am going on "vacation" for 2 weeks starting tomorrow. I will have a very limited amount of time on the computer through out these weeks. So odds are I won't post, and if I do imagine them not only to be craptacular, or crap frenzy, or even craptrocity, but crapamanjaro.

So until next time, well, we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

The scary scary hotness

Ok, I'm back, and contrary to popular belief I am not better than ever. With school practically over I have the whole summer to enjoy the warm weather, outdoors activities, partake in athletics, find a partner, and heck, maybe even work off some of extra weight gained throughout the school year.**Waits for laughter to stop**

What I will be doing is playing video games like the uber cool cat that I am. Like the Trix cereal rabbit(Patrick) I too have Conker-Live and Reloaded. What is so great about the game is that one would assume it is all cute with a smiley faced rodent on the cover. However you spend most of your time in mountains made of fecal matter and dismembering the undead or Nazi teddy bears. The single player is definitely dated, which is expectable considering the fact that it is a remake of a N64 game. That is not to say it is bad, but you can tell the game wasn't made to the full potential of newer games. It is part platformer which fares pretty well. The camera is a bitch at some points but overall is it good.

The other portion is third person shooting which is pretty fun. When fighting undead squirrels you don a shotgun. For fighting the German nationalist plush toys you use a machine gun. And while it is extremely short, there is a very fun Matrix part.

If that was all there was to the game, I wouldn't recommend it but that was just the single player. The multiplayer is a whole nother game. It is a class based game where you play in objective based levels. While some people might run into connection problems **Points at Patrick using the power of interweb** it is a great addition to an already good game. For anyone who has it Fatal Furry is a very good site with some good forums and a lot of info about the game.

And if you were to get bored of that game there are many other things that can keep one busy.

Out for lunch

Ok, instead of being a dick and just not posting for a couple of days, I will first say I will not be posting for a couple of days. Then I will be a dick. Same action, different order. I am having finals. And that isn't the bad part. Without getting too indepth, I am going to be busy, you know, manual labor, using commas with reckless abandon, etcetera. So if any posting will happen it will be from the lord of the dance (A.K.A. Patrick).

But I don't want to leave you empty handed so I decided to share some art of mine with all of you. By using interweb and art.com I was able to uh, express myself. As shown in these pictures...

I tried to focus on what I didn't draw

She was never seen again

What they didn't want you to see

If anyone wants to share some of their art with us, leave it in a comment. To get the link, after drawing your picture, hit "save and send". There you should see a link saying "If you'd rather not send this painting to your friends but would like a link anyway, click here" Click there, copy, paste, post.

At least I have chicken

LEROY JENKINS!!!

After a quick number crunch we have a 32.33% (the three repeating of cource) chance of hilarity.

And since one must give props where props are due, props for the video go out to Flex Master Weir.

Patent Pending

You know, sometimes very simple ideas can change the world. The guy who one day thought, hey why not make a toilet seat that heats up to prevent frost ass changed to world for the better. And sometimes Patrick has these moments of pure, um, genius, as shown in this conversation.

cozmicfool516: hey, why dont prinnters print stuff out back wards?
cozmicfool516: u know so it comes out with the first page on top
SpazMuffin803: i dont know
cozmicfool516: idiots
cozmicfool516: we cudd revolutionize the printer industry
cozmicfool516: then we could have it that wenever ure yellow ink cartridge is runnig low, you get herpes
SpazMuffin803: damn
cozmicfool516: ?
SpazMuffin803: my yellow is lo...**HERPES!**
cozmicfool516: billy, you dumb fuck, stop drawing the yellow ranger in ms paint. no! don't print that!
cozmicfool516: yellow lo HERPES

Sounds good to me.

My little green friend

Post script, if anyone finds an animation of the last picture please tell me where I can find it.

Ownage x 2

Yesterday Patrick and I finished the co-op portion of Splinter Cell. I must say I am very impressed with it. While we were forced to save almost every minute do to the fact that the game gets dropped very often I still enjoyed it. However I am almost positive it is due to Patrick old Thompson xbox. But even with the occasional dropped sessions the game is extremely entertaining. You find yourself really having to work together to get anywhere. Or you can read an online walkthrough... Not to mention having a guard walking straight at you only to be capped by your teammate is so great. And two words, Tomo Nage. Throwing your teammate over your knee is just freakin awesome. However, I only seemed to be able to do it when you needed to, not just to knock out guards, which was disappointing.

But the co-op does have a problem, and a fatal one at that. My only complaint is Panama. That level is so friggen annoying. I hate it and every pixel of it's being with the blazing hatred of a thousand suns. Hey, howabout we make a level with 400 identical rooms, 200 of which are pointless? Sounds great...asshole. Honestly, it is boring, not fun, and a poor way to introduce the player to the game (not including the tutorial).

Rumors have stated that new co-op levels will be released via DLC, and I can only hope it isn't much longer till they are released. As to how they will fit in with the story, considering the current levels play parallel to Sam Fisher's escapades, I do not know. But frankly I do not care, just let me tomo nage and pull of inverted neck breaks and I will be happy.

**Head Explodes**

If you go on any forum lately it is an all out war between 360 and Ps3 fans. Honestly, it is insane and sad. Now I love Xbox, but I really thought the PS3 would be "better" hardware wise.

However after "reading" this article, I am not so sure. For one, it is some seriously hardcore stuff. I mean I know the basic, CPU's, GPU's, RAM etc. But this gets really in depth. However, for those of us who have no friggen idea what the hell 48-way scalar floating-point shader pipelines are, there are bar graphs. Ah, the bar graph, easily displaying information with all the fun of a vertical or horizontal line. Ya gotta love it. But pretty much what it is saying is the the 360 is better than the PS3 in many regards. So I guess that's it. The 360 is better, end of story.

Ha, gotcha there for a sec, heh? One little thing, the comparison was written by "Major Nelson", someone who works for PR in Microsoft's Xbox division. While I doubt he is all out lieing about the specs, there may be a tinny little bit of bias in there.

And uh, Revolution. Yeah. That's about all I know about Nintendo's new system. With the amazing ability to play old nintendo games... Yeah, Nintendo going retro, there's something new. And speaking of backward compatibility, the 360 will, I repeat WILL play Xbox games.

Well, aside from videogame stuff, I saw Star Wars. And wow. It is great. Fantastic, Greatasitic if you will. While it may not be a "The Empire Strikes Back", it is an amazing movie. And I will post more about it later (Don't worry no spoilers, until next week), but I am off to see it again. So in the meanwhile go see the movie, or I'll lay eggs in your stomach, I mean it!