Random mutterings of a gamer

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:49:45 GMT

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:12:53 GMT

So while listening to Pandora Radio (pandora.com), an AWESOME site by the way, I've come to the realization when Manowar came up on the playlist:

Dragonforce is Manowar Lite.

Both bands play ridiculous power metal,
Both bands only sing about glory and honor,
The reason that Dragonforce is Manowar Lite is because in Manowar's songs, the fighters die and go to Valhalla, and in Dragonforce's songs, the fighters succeed.

Hey someone got Deadpool right!

Tue, 05 May 2009 19:19:43 GMT

CD Rack!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:46:24 GMT

These are after I put polyurethane on it.

Check out this INCREDIBLE action figure!

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:02:06 GMT

http://toy-world.com.hk/forum/viewthread.php?tid=13984&extra=page%3D1###

A bit of a break from lesson plans, cause this has been on my mind.

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:27:20 GMT

So I've been doing alot of thinking about the movie BLADE RUNNER.

There is a strong emphasis in the movie as to "what" a human is, so there is no real question as to whether Deckard is human or replicant, because the line becomes blurred. If Tyrell has been able to develop a Nexxus 7 or 8 line of replicants that outlive the four years, and they can implant memories into them, then they are human.

It gets wierd. Did the Tyrell corporation build a Deckard replicant? if so, where did the memories come from? We know that they can transfer memories from people into a replicant, so is there a "real" Deckard out there? It seems, to me anyway, that the movie kind of says that it is memories that make us what we are.

Is it our memories and experiences that make us human, or is it all the naturally occuring fleshy bits that make us human? Could we develop a machine that becomes so close to natural that there is virtually no difference?

I can't wait for Watchmen!

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:45:56 GMT

The start of student teaching

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:50:37 GMT

School gets cancelled two days in a row on account of the cold? WTF?

The Chest Emblem of The Sigil

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:33:49 GMT

This is the logo for my SuperHero: The Sigil

I made it myself!

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:20:12 GMT

ITS OFFICIAL!!!!!!!

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:53:51 GMT

WOOT!

I just got my student teaching package from RIC! I am officially a student teacher next semester at Cranston West High School with Mr. Martineau (the physics teacher my friend/comrade Andrew had). I can't wait to meet him!

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:50:32 GMT

Chrono Trigger DS here I come!!!

I love Browncoats!

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:16:57 GMT

Thank you John Stewart:

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:54:58 GMT

JOKER!!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:39:02 GMT

check out my other haloween pictures at http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f27/ahatz/

ARGH!!!

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:26:39 GMT

Man,

Why is it that everytime I think I've got everything for RIC and Student Teaching all squared away, they throw me a fucking curveball and i've got to scramble like a madman to keep up?

Seriously...
Fuck plans,
I'm not going to plan, not going to scheme, all those people who work at the school, they're all planners, trying to run our little world...

So Long, Fare Thee Well

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:08:19 GMT

And tonight's Pendragon game brings an end to the final first gen character.

Rest In Piece Earl Rhun, the Earl of Salisbury.
Died at the grand old age of 41 due to a dirty Saxon lance through the skull.

Man, I didn't want to get attached to the character, but I can't help it. He lived 21 FUCK-MOTHERING years and had SEVENTEEN CHILDREN!!! (15 of which are still alive!)

So Long,
Fare Thee Well,
Good night,
Earl Rhun of Salisbury...

Don't use a mace against a mounter heorthnin-gneort.

MP3 Player Question

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:14:30 GMT

So I've been looking online for a couple of weeks now and for most of the summer i've been saving up to buy an MP3 player. But the question still lingers: What kind should I get?

IPod seems to be really good, i like the interface and the size.
Zunes have really good storage space, but they're a tad expensive.

anyone have any reccomendations or other brands?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:20:05 GMT

Your results:
You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)

Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)		80%
Wash (Ship Pilot)		75%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)		65%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)		60%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)		55%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)		55%
River (Stowaway)		45%
Inara Serra (Companion)		30%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)		25%
Alliance		25%
A Reaver (Cannibal)		0%

You are good at fixing things.
You are usually cheerful.
You appreciate being treated
with delicacy and specialness.

Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test

WALL-E

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:13:18 GMT

WALL-E is undeniably Pixar's, and perhaps one of Disney's, best film to date.

Just plain fun and also really strong in deeper meanings. Also, it really shows how far the guys at Pixar have come in their craft. The movie is absolutely gorgeous and the "camerawork" is stellar.

Painkiller

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:27:09 GMT

Ok, so most of you have heard of Zero Punctuation, if not, the go check it out now!

Don't keep reading, just do it!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation

Ok? right, onto what this post is all about. Based soley on the Zero Puctuation review, and the fact that the game was only about ten bucks, I picked up a copy of Painkiller: Hell Wars (as it is called on the Xbox) and gleefully ran home to pop it in my Xbox to enjoy murdering tons of dudes.

Then after ten minutes i gave up becuase my Xbox apparently has AIDS and won't play any disc that isn't perfect and carries a certificate of authenticity.

So upon returing a movie to Hollywood video, I stopped by Gamecrazy to get the disc cleaned. Again I ran home gleefully looking forward to dude murdering and guess what,
Painkiller is Fucking Awesome!
That's right. it's so much fun, any FPS that plays this well on a console deserves a prize. the graphics are great and the gameplay is very straightforward, but the shining achievement is the weapon assortment.

You start with the Painkiller, as Yahtzee says, is basically for re-enacting the lawnmower scene from Dead Alive. But I prefer the Alt fire of the weapon that shoots forward the bladed claw and grabs the enemies by the whatever it hits first and yanks them to you (usually dismembering them in the process)

The I got a shotgun that also has the ability to turn enemies into ice, which you can then shatter for a very enjoyable explosion.

Still waiting to get the ElectroDriver though, that's the gun that shoots shurikans and lightning.

My favorite moment at the...moment is when you collect 33 souls. At that moment, you gain superpowers from God or something. The superpower can only be described as Murdervision. Everything goes black and white with the exception of enemies which glow red as if they were on fire. You simply one-hit-kill everything and they explode.

Pretty much the most fun FPS i've played.

(by the way, i don't really count Metroid Prime as a true FPS, as the majority of it, like most metroid games is action adventure platforming and exploration)

I fucking love Psych!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:33:33 GMT

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:52:16 GMT

So, all of my bookmarks in Firefox have strangely dissappeared.

I can't for the life of me figure out how, or why, it happened or how to get them back, any ideas from other firefox users?

Hey AJ: ENJOY!

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:01:14 GMT

Because i should be doing homework

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:29:55 GMT

Type your cut contents here.

Here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Total: 21 Read for fun
5 Read for school (though 3 of these i would read again for fun)
2 Started

Not too bad i guess, though some of the ones on this list I do plan to read eventually.