Geekage!

DO WANT!

This nifty little device is available on ThinkGeek for almost $200. Also available is the Stylophone Retro Pocket Synthesizer, which is just as intense. I like their little commercial for this one, too.

Default To Manic

This is me, reporting in after a several month long blog post drought. Erm… sorry?

Moving right along. Much has happened since I’ve last spoken here on my humble little WordPress blog. I’ve managed to conjure up some new M.O.Cs, which I posted to the Brikwars Battle Forums only a month ago, or thereabouts. Also, another good post on the BBF was my Brikspace thread, with what I think to be my most successful microscale lego stuff to date.

I’ve also recently (as in past-few-weeks recently) started contemplating building my own Racer Mecha to go along with that fad that Legohaulic started a ways back. The few attempts I’ve made have only come to limited success. More on that later…

As for up-and-coming events, Hlbeta’s Halloween sleepover thing is looming in the distance (on Halloween night, of course). The events to take place there are (from my point of view) are as follows:

• Dress as the most fabulous viking ever (purple fuzzy viking helmet with sparkly horns and everything).
• Arrive and cause the guests there seizures.
• Serve candy to small children roaming the streets in costumes that may or may not be worse than mine.
• Retreat to the gaming basement for some Little Big Planet on Hlbeta’s new PS3, and assorted other gaming goodies.
• 3AM-CAST!
• Synchronize the poodle’s Lamborghinis to the tune of Dragostea Din Tei.
• Pray that morning never comes.
• Lose faith in the night and crash.
• Groggily awaken the next day at the smell of some home-made waffles (or some-such delicacy)

Well… that’s all I can think of for the moment. I suppose I should expect to forget about this for the next few months. I suppose that’s what the little green book I keep in my back pocket is for! Until next time, folks.

SOUND: CRIPPLE VENGEANCE

This is less of a new post, and more of a suffix to the last one, Small Screen Media is at it again, this time continuing the epic saga of The Lone Hobo and his loyal Cripple in two new PDM episodes, The Lone Hobo Meets His Creators, and Anne Versus Hobo – Clash Of Giants (this is the one in which the epic quote in the title takes place). Once again, we come back to the fact that I can’t actually post these, you just get to listen to me spout random quotes from them. Kinda like this:

“THE CRIPPLE HAS NO PULSE!”

Hi-Ho Cripple, AWAY!

Indeed, it is that time again… the time that PDM will arise and take it’s place atop the sheer peak of Podcast greatness. It’s time… for the Adventures Of The Lone Hobo And His Faithful, If, Broken, Cripple! Recorded a grand total of two hours ago, cleaned out, edited, and (as of now) officially posted (beware, it’s about 5 and a half minutes long), Small Screen Media releases the beginnings of the Lone Hobo series (belonging to the PDM series) to an awe-inspired public (this would include you, reader. You can begin being awe-inspired any moment now). The production team (kidko and ) had great fun recording and cleaning it, and who knows; we may even release a blooper reel sometime in the near future *wink, wink*.

Okay, so I totally would post it, if WordPress accepted .mp3 files. Oh, well. Well, if any of you have 4sharing, the free web downloader, you can totally go find it, by the same title mentioned before.

As for Strife… well… it’s got a Piece of Flair on Facebook! That’s basically the only progress made since my last post. So, um… the advertisement for it has begun, at least to some small degree. Hey, you gotta start somewhere…

kidko and I also plan on having another of those mind-blowing, earth-shattering, spleen-combusting sleepovers in the near future, to be joined (once again) by the infamous Hlbeta. A list of vague tasks to be accomplished at some point during said sleepover:

• Play some more Brikwars
• Eat the damn pizza, already!
• PDMS 4 (or 3, depends. I may/may not be making more random musical tracks to go along with it)
• Insane video-gamage, mostly involving Burnout (ROADSIDE TAKEDOOOOOOWN!)
• If only we could, we would also be playing Gauntlet, mostly for the hilarity factor thusly involved (Red Wizard needs food badly!)

… And much more, less predictable crap, mostly involving the afore-mentioned spleen-combusting. And possibly Mechaton, but that’s a definite maybe.

Anywho… I believe the talking needs to stop. Until next time…

Demons, Dragons, and Angels, Oh My!

So, here I am again. This time (surprisingly enough) of my own accord. Mostly to gloat about the fact that the firs two panels of my latest project, a webcomic entitled Strife, are finished and out of the way. A preview of what’s to come:

This should be officially starting up in about a week or so. I’ll begin by posting it here, but it may get posted other places as well eventually. I’ll actually start using this blog on a weekly basis! Yes! That’s never happened before! LANDMARK!

And in other news, kidko and I have again had a sleepover. Nothing much actually happened besides the making of a rather crappy Flash animation and a Brikwars match, in which kidko’s forces where totally demolished. All of his units moved at nearly half of the speed of mine, and therefore moved less than a foot across the field before they all died horrible deaths. It was honestly quite sad. As a result of this, I utilized his large supply of Legos horses and made him a couple of fast moving cavalry squads. Another match was held the following morning, and kidko did decidedly better. Not actually winning, but still better.

The battle on the noveling front goes well. If by ‘well’ I mean nothing but a small paragraph has been written in the past month and a half. My head’s burgeoning to the point of overflow with plot ideas, cut scenes, fights, and characters, but all of them for the six novels I’m trying NOT to focus on until Nightwater is at least mostly finished. Nightwater is receiving no signal in my mind. I’m having a drought of plot ideas.
Hopefully this will be remedied soon enough. Hopefully.

My RPG endeavors have come to a grinding halt over the past few months, leaving me battered senseless with rules, histories, Knights Templar research and more. Distress is especially doomed to travel along the road going nowhere for at least a couple weeks longer (Distress being the setting in which the afore-mentioned novels take place. Yes, it’s getting an RPG too), until the remnants of my somewhat fragile mind recollect themselves and come to the rescue of the poor in-progress game setting.

… I’m fairly certain that wraps up my ramblings for the moment. I’ll keep you posted on my weekly events (if anyone besides kidko and my girlfriend every actually read any of this bullshit). Toodles!

Failure to Win (and post since December)

Kidko has chided me into updating my blog, so here I am. Not much to say, other than… ‘hello’. And the fact that a grand total of two Brikwars games have taken place in my supposed absence. One of them you can view here, on the Brikwars Battle Forums. The other never got a written report, due the fact that it took place at 3:00 Am on a Sunday morning. Basically it involved kidko’s army and mine charging at eachother, while the immobile superweapons at either end of the field attempted to blast eachother to bits. The units in the middle clashed, causing nothing but small craters and gore and all out carnage. Then, there was the last turn of the game, where my superweapon pulled off a shot at his superweapon, which promptly exploded. This, combined with the explosive shell ammunition it used, was enough to blow a crater the size of half of the battlefield (a 4×6 foot space) AND demolish his army in the process. The only thing left to his name was a useless skeletal janitor and a guy on a motorcycle. My squad ran up and shot him down, and then promptly blew the door off of an underwater-except-not bunker, for reasons I cannot recall.

The new addition to my video game collection that I didn’t mention earlier is actually a wonderfully good game. Star Ocean till the end of time. Look it up, you lazy bastards. Game review incoming shortly, after i finish making Season 2 of my podcast.

Speaking of podcasts, Season 1 of Punch Drunk Mayhem is out (this took place on the same night/morning that made the above Brikwars skirmish)! You can view that here. I put it on Youtube for two reasons:

A) I wanted to show off the cool cover art we had put together

B) I had nowhere else to host it.

I do hop you enjoy.

Slowly losing momentum, I think this will be the last thing I discuss before going and eating my fathers hastily prepared tacos. One more thing on Brikwars; I have my army theme in sight, and this will be the first landmark for me, as I’m actually going somewhere with it! My Undying Tek forces are coming out great, complete with the Mk VI Archangel Hellfire Laser, the Mk III Remora, a butt-load of skeletal cavalry with weapons, two skeletal chariots, a group of skeletal heavy weapons troops, several mounted Two-Handed Weapon Buffs (for lack of a better name at the moment), and a Tekmage. Also working on the inclusion of an MDP (Mobile Defense Platform). Basically a tank, but with less armor, more guns, and a lot more cargo room. I hope you all will look forward to pictures, as well as my first battle report with them, which should be coming up this Saturday (the 9th)!