shit that pisses me off

I like Ludacris as an actor

But this is bullshit.

Goddam it JJ Abrams

And I can't find a good example of the Star Trek one as it just came out, but when I do, I will show it to you and you will be AMAZED at JJ's repeated use of the same font.
Other similarities include but are not limited too:
JJ Abrams
TIME TRAVEL

I swear to GOD I will update this soon.

Best Tourney vid ever

Check out this Street Fighter 3rd strike video. if you don;t want to watch the whole thing, at least watch from 2:00 until 3:00. you will shit yourself.

A wild Rantatta!: Stress && Simon Says 2: Parents

Mk. Dwyer is my dad, for reference,

playing guild wars again.

awesome

Portal

Happy Birthday Buddy

Simon Says: camping in the winter

Toast Post

in lieue of having any peanut butter, I have decided to make a blog post.
Bryan has created a blog, which is phenomenal because it gives me one more follower. You can find him to the right. for he is following me.
Terrifying.
I have to write an essay today for UOIT. I have decided to say "fuck you" to ryerson and not give them my portfolio. I will still send them copies of my transcript, however. I won't get in. Once I send my transcript to U of T, I will be done with this disaster. If I don't get into UOIT again I'm pretty much fucked anyways, so fuck U of T and Ryerson. It is all just one big ball of shit, really.I don;t understand how there is no peanut butter in my house.

gangster

Video Games have ruined my life.
My knowledge of pokemon far outweighs my ability to interact with others on a basic social level.
don't let it happen to you.

lag

Stolen from
http://hacked.free-bsd.org/funstuff/pics/96.html
found via stumble.

lawl

Read this today on a video game forum (I'm cool) and I thought it was hilarious. Figured I might as well share with you. unedited.

"
Sup, guys, got a cool story.

I have a young nephew, about 5 or 6. My sis complains to me, saying, "He doesn't want to read, he just sits and plays his Gameboy all day." So I ask her, what kind of games? She tells me is platforming stuff, SMB, and the like. While I'm glad the youngster is playan the classics, I know reading is important in this day and age. So I tell her, Get him an rpg. Hell, Pokemon! Yeah, get him pokemon.
So she does. He beats the first gen, then with my help, transfers his team to Gen 2, then 3. I'm thinking this shit is awesome.

Then my sister returns, complaining it didn't help. He still can't read. I give her a blank stare. She shows me, handing him a book. Kid has to sound out EVERY FUCKING WORD, his lips move, and he needs help constantly. He can barely read. I ask him if he could read while he was playing the game, and he shook his head.

I was dumbfounded.

A 6 YEAR OLD BEAT THREE FUCKING GENS WITHOUT FUCKING READING.

WHAT

THE

SHIT.

MY NEPHEW = HARDCORE
"

yee boy

camera

today I decided I'm gonna buy a really sweet camera with my pay. then i can post fucked up pictures.

Lack of Updates? hellz yeah.

To my reader:
I am sorry. LOST is on and FRINGE is on and im getting deep into this project I'm working on (particle emitters FTW) and as such, this has sort of taken the back burner for now. However do not expect this to die, as I am a kind hearted man at heart and I cannot have any more deaths on my conscious (RIP furrball).
Jut watched all of Afro Samurai. it was dece. downlo-errrrr, BUYING the movie now. when I'm done purchasing it I'll watch it and then let it slip into the oblivion that is this extremely wasteful year off. And now to find a decent picture for the top of this post.

--Ok so I couldn't decide between the two. I just put both.

rocknrolla

do yourself a favour and watch this ridiculously excellent movie right now. I loved it so much I don't even care that the size of this video will f*ck up my layout.

Development

I've been working on a game recently, and it has been sucking up all my free time, sorry for the lack of posts.
it is quite spectacular, really. I find myself working on this game more than I even play games anymore. It is a simple game so far, and will probably remain so. I feel like people will look at it and say "You've been working on THAT for months?" but for some reason, I just don't care. I'm getting so much joy from just making a sub-par recreation of a genre that used to eat up all my time.
Stay tuned and I'll let you guys know when I put it out.

busy. Fringe.

Burnout Paradise

Screw you guys, playing Burnout Paradise.

Driving lessons.

xkcd

xkcd is a great comic about crazy stuff like math and science. however, it remains hilarious and a staple of many a web-goer's bookmarks. I recommend you take a look if you haven't read any of them.
xkcd

Indy! Orisinal

Orisinal is really more of a name for all of Ferry Halim's games. its an excellent place to go if you got 5 minutes too kill. an assortment of short, sometimes simple, sometimes complex art games.

Check It Out

aboners

A Wild Rantatta: The Gender Bender

Please don't ask whether this picture was already on my hard drive or if I had to google it.

The Gender Bender is a term used by many authors of this blog to describe the completely ridiculous portrayal of either sex in a video game. Not entirely sure what I'm talking about? Not a problem, allow me to use visuals to convey my extremely simple point.

Is this androgynous being a male or a female? I'm fairly confident it is a female, but I would not be blown away if it was a male. I know two things about this image.
a) It is from Final Fantasy XIII.
b) It is giving me confused feelings.
The Final Fantasy series is very well known for making people uncomfortable about their sexuality, but you can find examples of the now infamous Gender Bender even in classic games.
Don't be fooled by this excerpt from the Super Mario Bros. 2 booklet, this character's name has been officially changed to Birdo for North American audiences. Birdo's name used to be Ostro to American audiences, but in Japan, his name is Catharine. This is why I love video games so much.

If you are anything like me, you're wondering why developers are trying to alter our sexual orientations. Apparently, the developers think that a character that can be seen as either male or female is far more likable by both genders, and players will associate better with these androgynous freaks.



Obviously, the developers of Final Androgyny know that multi-faceted, deep and emotional wussy boy's sell a game better than anything starring some sort of one-dimensional manly man.

In unrelated news, Gears of War 2 (pictured above) sold 1.8 million in its first week, while Final Fantasy X-2 and Final Fantasy Crisis Core's first week sales were 1.5 and 0.9 million respectively.

Sales data source VGChartz.com

If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go to Japan so I can live out my dream of being named Jeanette without being judged.

Indy! Dino Run

Indy! is something I think I'm gonna start off with until I get a hang of this whole blogging business. Serious business, blogging. I don't think I need to explain, but Indy! is going to cover independent games that are awesome.

I'm choosing to look at Dino Run for two reasons. Pretty much everyone in the world has played it, and it's a game that sells itself. Let me drop some prehistoric knowledge unto thee. You control what appears to be one of them egg stealing dinosaurs, and all you have to do is run away from extinction. If anyone is still reading right now, it is for two reasons:
a) You do not know where to go to find this marvellous game.
b) You didn't read what I wrote properly.

Anyone in their right mind has already left this page to go find this game, but in case you haven't, allow me to elaborate on the concept of this game. You run to the right, eating eggs and smaller dinosaurs, and avoiding rocks and larger dinosaurs. You even earn experience to spend on four main stats such as speed and acceleration.

This, however, does not cement the game as a instant classic. A strong concept does not a good game make (I'm looking at you, Dead Rising). The point that sells me on Dino Run is the sheer amount of detail to gameplay. As you can see, the game is heavily pixelated on purpose, so artistic detail, while present, is not what will wow you. What will wow you, my dear reader(s) is the fact that you will discover small caves filled with dinosaur bones. You will discover other dinosaurs, some willing to help you, and some not so genial. These include Pterodactyls that will lift you over holes in the ground, and triceratops that want to turn you int a kebab. Worms pop in and out of the ground. Meteors will smash into other dinosaurs mere steps away from you. This is not some procedurally generated game. PixelJam has spent hours upon hours of work making every level, of which there are 21, seem like it has its own unique story.

Needless to say, this game is frantic and intense. Maybe I forgot too mention, but you're doing all this while the explosion from a meteor is closing in on you.


Dino Run uses flash, so it is playable online here.
The official PixelJam website is located here. They have a couple other good games, but I wholly recommend Dino Run even if you only have ten minutes at work. It saves your progress so your stats are saved between plays.

About the Player

That cup is ten times happier than I ever will be.

Hey, welcome to my blog. My name is Kyle, and I have a disgusting amount of free time. I spend this free time playing video games, reading about video games and bitching about stuff (usually video games). I think that it is fairly obvious that this will be heavily video game oriented, so if you don't know what I'm talking about when I say RPG, SNES or Mario, you don't belong here. Stay anyways though, cause it would be cool if someone actually read this. I don't think anyone will.

Friends? Friends you say? Let me tell you something about friends. Actually no, I won't. I will let you form your own opinion of my friends. Check out this little gem right here:

Kyle said:
hey sugar
Michael said:
yo im just heading to bed, ill talking to you later
Kyle said:
dick

And what a dick. You know who never said shit like that? Crash Bandicoot.

Well I hope you enjoy my blog. As you can see, it's amazing.