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For all of the electronic gaming I have done, I have played some disappointing games. Here’s my list of the top 15:
15) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PS2)
14) Megaman X6
13) Odin Sphere
12) Final Fantasy VIII
11) Heavenly Sword
10) Eye of Judgment
9) Tekken 6
8] Final Fantasy XII
7) Clock Tower 3
6) Haunting Ground
5) Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
4) Fade to Black
3) Mortal Kombat 3
2) Siren
1) King of Fighters: Maximum Impact
Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Season 1. Five ‘episodes’ for $5 on Steam. Cheaper than a movie or happy hour at Applebee’s. It’s a good deal, already snagged it for myself.
So a long time ago, I posted an image I made of a Buddha holding a bottle that kind of looks like mountain dew. Later I intentionally altered the bottle so it didn’t say Mountain Dew, changed the design of the bottle so it was more generic, and in so doing created a unique design that nobody except myself would hold ownership of.
Not only is parody covered by fair use (this image is definitely a parody) but my parody is of a product design and type I created myself. So I am immune to claims of copyright infringement except by me.
Anyway to make a very long story short, I’m challenging a claim of copyright infringement by PepsiCo, and waiting on their legal department to define their claim and provide evidence of my infringement.
I think I speak for everyone when I say I had a great time tonight. I wish more of us were available to go. More comments (and video, quality allowing) to come.
-Micah
–ADDED BY JARED–
The show this time had a much larger turn out. But I don’t know if it was better. The previous show was about to have a better play list until two people paid probably around 500 bucks for the band to play Rocketman and Venice USA. They also did 3 regular encore songs (Love Rocket, Drinking with Jesus, and I forget). So that really rounded out their show this time. No Love Pipe unfortunately
The reason why I say their last show was better was because they really let it all out for like the 20 of us watching, while this time there was probably 50+ people; many of which seemed to be pretty big fans. They didn’t have to work quite as hard to get the crowd going this time. But it was still a really awesome show.
So come mid-august I will be out of school for what amounts to 4 weeks of summer vacation. I have been debating what to do with my spare time, and I have a few proposals I would like the assorted gang to give me feedback on:
Help Jared break into ‘Fort Vagina’ (or ‘Camp Anal’, depending)
Cross-country road trip to stupidest destinations in America
Re-learn Japanese in a damn hurry.
Hit every open-mic night from Seattle to Eugene
Photo-bomb people in downtown Portland
Dress up and talk to people like I’m a time-traveling inventor from 1863, but be a real asshole about it.
Expand on my ‘DoucheBorg’ concept
Buy a video camera and finally get off the video pot
Redub an episode of ‘Blue’s Clues’ so it fits into the ‘Saw’ universe
Get Jared to play through all of FF8 while Geoff watches and comments on the game (and yes alcohol will be involved)
Write a full episode of Giant Robot Club! and submit it to networks
Build a better mousetrap, ideally involving interlocking blenders
Watch every Naruto episode
Ask Miles about plant biology, run away. Call and ask same question, hang up. Write letter to University, get Miles fired.
Hit the Gym every day again and lose all this weight / find out why I suddenly have an egg sac
Cut hair into mohawk, dress like villain from Mad Max
Make another adventure game, only this time make it good instead of terrible
Locate all HAWT bois, kill on sight
Watch Twilight movies so I have new material
Come up with funnier ideas for what to do this summer
Make Stargate fan film with $50 budget, have it be 1000x better than SGU
Make filthy version of Toy Story with sex toys, call it Sex Toy Story because I am talentless hack, maybe find out it already exists
EDIT: Removed second ZIP, had forgotten how screwed up the files inside were.
Some of my favorite chill/downtempo tracks with just enough beat to keep you awake and on the ball.
This comes from a compilation album called The Essential Chill Collection. This is a great assortment of some really good tracks from some names you already know, and a bunch of people you’ve probably never even heard of. If nothing else, this was THE item that allowed me to branch out into the world of downtempo and pick artists I really wanted to follow. Hopefully it will do the same for you…
First, Ranker.com is an awesome site where people can post up their own top 10/20/42/whatever lists of just about anything. There are some really awesome lists and some that are so bad you’ll want to floss your taint with razor wire. I find myself checking back all the time.
Next is another site, where you can get a look at how time and progress have changed some of the more memorable recent and past movie locations. Some of them still look the same (Ghostbusters’ Firehouse is still there!) while others have changed quite a bit. Plus there are some ‘why did you bother’ locations from movies like Twins and Major Payne.
FYI the site is pretty slow and is programmed weirdly, you may need to use your browser history to escape from broken pages.
if you guys remember last year at the end of May I did a culture event at Seoul Land which is an amusement park in Korea. I posted pics and wrote about the experience. Well today we just finished our 2 day Culture event at UCLA and it was amazing.
I took a lot of pictures and some videos of what I was able to see. Most of the time I was doing VIP parking duty, in underground parking where it was cool in the shade versus looking out into the entrance/exit and seeing blazing sun. I shook hands with the Consul General of Brazil when he drove up, chatted a bit with the Paraguayan Consul and got my own radio with ear piece- it was cool.
So anyway I missed the opening and main morning ceremonies/performances, but luckily i was able to watch encore/later performances. The best is when I watch ‘my short terms’. I envy them cuz they’re a few years younger, which is just enough to have them do the ‘dirty’ work like dancing and a capella. But those are the things I love seeing and doing with them. It’s so much fun and amazing to see how much we can break our hearts and do something that seems out of this world.
Check my Facebook for pics/vids that are processing and uploading. I have culture and pics from doing other events and college promoting. Our video should be up on youtube soon, i’ll provide links when they are uploaded.
I was introduced to this by a classmate who used it to sound smart about shit he couldn’t care less about- he said it was a good way to impress artsy girls or get on a know-it-all’s nerves without having to really know your material. Basically it condenses the discussion points of different topics into easy to remember blurbs you can pull out in a conversation and sound pretty knowledgeable about a subject.
I’ve resurrected most of the old site functionality. There are some weird bugs to work out but everything should be as it was, minus the event calendar, which as it turns out was slowly killing the code.
This had always bothered me, and it is so terrifyingly cool/plain terrifying that the guy now has a backstory:
Probably the most famous minor character with a stupid backstory, Willrow gained notoriety because it looked like he was carrying an ice cream maker during the evacuation of Bespin in Empire Strikes Back. Internet-using fans thought that was cool and gave him a whole backstory where he was an ice cream vendor in space, which was immediately shot down by the people who supposedly write “canonical” histories of these characters and he became a gas miner. This no-name extra is now officially an employee of A’roFilter, a company that sold discount gas to the Rebellion. The ice cream maker (it may have been an actual ice cream maker used as a prop, I can’t find anything that says otherwise) was really the data core of a computer that held the names of the Rebellion contacts. What does this prove? That everyone in the Star Wars universe was involved in some way with the big Empire vs Rebellion war. People just couldn’t run around a space city without smuggling something related to the plot.
