Lil' Gabe is 3 and a half now and so it's very important that we always have a ready supply of fruit snacks. If we're out shopping or at the bank or whatever, fruit snacks have the ability to soothe the savage three year old. We like to let Gabe pick out his own fruit snacks and he usually will choose Spider-Man or maybe SpongeBob. However I came home recently and found these in the pantry.
The tools to create life, once largely proprietary, are now the domain of every Tom, Dick, And Harry. We don't have the full product, so our palette was wide but not nearly infinite. Leveraging the true mechanism, one can generate a (among other things) a thoroughly terrifying Deep Crow.
The live stream will be starting in 10 to 15 minutes. If you can't make the live shows but you still want to see the comic get drawn you can always hit the Ustream site here. I record and upload most of the shows.
We have some new shirts.
We spent the weekend at the Darkmoon Faire, or at any rate its realspace equivalent. As people who enjoy the game but don't
If we are focusing the aperture exclusively on the gameplay, I can tell you in only a few words what I don't like about MGS. If I fail at sneaking, the game ceases to be Metal Gear. In the space of a second, it becomes an incredibly clumsy action game. The boss battles are comprised almost entirely of this other system, a mechanism that has now been exposed for what it is: a punishment.
Brian Crecente over at Kotaku attempted to put together a Fruit Fucker with the tool, and the results are surprisingly accurate. It's substantially more disturbing than the original in two key respects: first, the entire creature is sheathed in moist flesh. Second, where one would ordinarily find its steel prong, there is instead a drooping sharkmouth full of razor sharp fangs.
The Darkmoon Faire is coming to Seattle this weekend and Tycho and I will be there. For those of you that have not heard of it, the faire is a World of Warcraft TCG event. It will be three days of tournaments, demos, and all kinds of other stuff related to the card game. Penny Arcade will have a small booth there and we'll be bringing a bunch of our WOW related shirts as well as something really special. We got permission from Upper Deck to offer some prints of the WOW TCG artwork I've done. Our first print will be of the Leeroy Jenkins card and it will be available for the first time at the Darkmoon Faire. You will not be able to buy these online so if you want one you'll need to score one at a convention.
We didn't always hate Metal Gear, but at some point during the final cinema for MGS2 I got the impression that Hideo Kojima hated us. Since then, I think we've simply been happy to return the favor. The only games I've enjoyed since then were the two entries in the Ac!d series, and that's because they were completely unlike Metal Gear.
The live stream will be starting in 10 to 15 minutes. If you can't make the live shows but you still want to see the comic get drawn you can always hit the Ustream site here. I record and upload most of the shows.
I wanted to download it on the PS3 to check something, and now I have done so. On both next-gen systems, the demo for Civilization Revolution "includes" multiplayer. You may have noticed the quotation marks there. What purpose do they serve? Well, let me tell you.
Let me tell you a story about Robert. I have often wondered if Business School transformed him into a monster, or if his psychology simply whirls around an inherently bestial core. This tale may deliver a hint.
The live stream will be starting in 10 to 15 minutes. If you can't make the live shows but you still want to see the comic get drawn you can always hit the Ustream site here. I record and upload most of the shows.
The second part of our Dungeons and Dragons adventure is now available for download. This is part of a series of podcasts we did for Wizards of the Coast. Tycho and I sat down at a table with Scott Kurtz and a DM from WOTC for some 4th edition adventuring. We all had varying levels of D&D experience. Tycho is a pro while Scott hasn't played in years. For me, it was my first time ever playing D&D. It was a ton of fun and I think that comes across when you listen to thepodcasts . Not only are we posting the recordings of our session but Scott and I are creating comic book style panels to go along with each part.
After part one went up I got a lot of requests to post our character sheets. So here they are:
This is my character Jim Darkmagic (of the New Hampshire Darkmagics). The best part of the game for me was creating Jim and then really trying to get into the role playing aspect of the game. Jim is a real asshole with a very high opinion of himself, so it wasn't much of a stretch. I picture Jim walking aroundWinterhaven with a stack of head shots in case he needs to sign any autographs. Jim thinks he's the star of the party but if things go south he's the first one to turn and save his own hide. Jim also speaks about himself in the third person and trade marks his spells e.g., Jim's Magic Missile™ .
Jack Thompson hasn't been a fixture around here for quite awhile, largely due to the Beetlejuzian notion that speaking his name might cause him to become corporeal. As is so often the case, it was all "fun and games" until someone contacted the FBI. Specifically, him. I did not want to be Investigated by a Federal Bureau. This had the effect of transforming what had been farce into genuine rage.