If and when you guys wanna go all out with the Gold sub for xbux it's only $38 bucks on amazon for 13 months. You save $11 dollars!

I'm getting all hooked on Amazon lately. I got the Firefly box set and Nerf armor for my DS for super cheap, and now I'm looking at books and all kinds of random bullshit. Late to the cool party, but I'm stoked.

Watched Dark Knight finally the other night, good movie! I can't believe Heath Ledger OD'd after that shit. He was a fucking awesome Joker and holy shit, Eckhart was an incredible Two-Face! Man, rad movie.

Grats!

- Lil' Art 3.0 on the way! Here are my name suggestions culled from years of experience with proper nouns: Hulk, Fart, Max Powers, P Biddy (get it? Cause he's a BABY, not a DADDY), Batman Theride, and Deuce (or Junior, but I like deuce better, 'cause poo).

- Funny comment read on BGG message board, not sure if it is more funny out of context or in: "Ah, the few but wonderful benefits of colorblindness. I can't think of any others offhand at the moment, but I'm sure the others are wonderful as well."

- L3ft F0ur D34d is so much fun. I haven't played in a few days, and I am itching like a mofo to get back at it!

- I run manual backups for a Unix system at work that needs to have the date manually updated every morning. The copyright on the build of this Unix flavor is 1976 - 1983. It is being used everyday by an insurance company, which sort of scares me. It is running on a 386. To reiterate, manual date entry, copyright 1976, 386.

Moar deals

Ah, the tail end of Thanksgiving weekend. So sad. And yet, Christmas break will be here soon!

- Art, one thing I am thankful for is that I am no longer in Dallas. Give me the good old, liberal godless commie faggot Hussein-electing coast anyday. I hope those motherfuckers secede.
- Thanksgiving was a smashing success. I was not quite as destroyed as last year (I was literally unable to talk five minutes after eating last year) but it was still pretty devastating on my bowels, etc. Beforehand my girlfriend was fretting that we would not have enough food. Well, nine people basically only managed to destroy about 1/2 of everything we had. Thanks Aaron, Mike and s.o's for all the goof stuff!
- I really enjoyed my 48 hour trial of xbox gold and playing Left for Dead with you guys! It's been a little too busy lately since to set up and play since, but I am going to try and get back online again this week. (I also have a free month from when my xbox was xb0rken.) Enron and played some split screen co-op mode yesterday and had a good time. Splitting our flatscreen in half seemed so small. I still cannot believe we played four-player Goldeneye on Aeryk's 15" TV back in the day. Enron, I think you mentioned possibly signing up for Live sometime after Xmas? I'll bite the bullet if you will!
- Myke has invested a great deal of time and effort in procuring a huge number of Doomtown cards, and then organizing them by set so that you can build decks with the cards available at any given time in the release cycle. I think this is both crazy and awesome, or even crazy/beautiful. We've played this a couple times in the last year and it's still a really good game. I would totally buy in if they relaunched it.
- Denis and Aeryk might be interested in this one: Fantasy Flight is having a pretty mammoth sale and one thing they are doing is fire saling all the AT-43 and Confrontation stuff (they are getting out of the distribution game for Rackham, I don't know what the story is there). So the prices have gone from pricey to very palatable indeed. I'm going to fill out my UNA and Therian armies just on the off chance that we play again at Kubla Con! They are also selling off a lot of Cthulhu card game stuff for really cheap as well. Linky!

DEALS

Ok, last post, I'm whoring it up too much. Amazon.com's Black Friday goes live at midnight tonight and they have Left4Dead for $20 bucks PC and $40 bucks 360! Enron or whoevers been a holdout, nows yer chance!

Hey, we miss you Art! Glad you guys are doing well and have another kid on the way! Happy Thanksgiving!
-T. Hanksgivington

I didn't watch the Macy's Parade today but this is a pretty funny moment:
Link
Yeah, might seem a little "dated" nowadays, but still pretty rad.

e: Holy Shit, this is the raddest claymation for Thanksgiving: watch - maybe not with family?

I can has Action Team!

Nice to have a day off from work. Navigating two separate family gatherings will be interesting, but let's just say I may not cry too much if we stay longer than anticipated at my uncle's house and wind up being late to the Hyena party at the in-laws.

John in Tey-hass? Whut? Good luck navigating through the enlightened masses of the Southern United States. Enjoy the food, but leave before you start hating fags and colored people.

Left 4 Dead sounds so awesomez. I see videos, personal accounts.. good times. I just don't have the free time anymore for games. Meh. I guess it's good to even have a job in this kind of economy, but the 14 hour days are getting to me.

Anyhow, on to happier Gnuz. We're having a boy! Weeee! We're completely stuck on deciding on a name though. Current front-runners include Jackson, Bennett, Braeden, Westley, Kieran, Aidan, Finn.. ?

Personally, I think we should just name him Emperor Wu-Tang or Chairman Mao Nikisch.

Welp, gotta go start cookin' .. everyone have a good turkey day! I'll try to be better about blogging and checking in. Shit, it seems like life is just on fast-forward right now. It's a blur!

Late,

~O.

Black Friday Muahaha

One quick deal that's sorta relevant is a 3-month Live Gold card, $15 bucks at target. That's $5 bucks off. No biggie, but hey, not bad. That goes thur-fri.

Staples has a 750gb external Seagate hard drive for $89.99. That seems pretty good seeing as I bought a 500gb drive on sale for about $100 bucks just a couple of months back. You can order it online before it sells out.

Valve is selling the movie posters from Left4Dead, all 4 for $15 bucks:POSTORS
I haven't bought a poster in friggen YEARS.

I'm so fucking tired. Eat some turkey for meh!

Whoa, that's cool music Dennis! I've heard them on college radio a few times - I thought it was Erykah Badu! That's good shit - ah man, I gotta try to go to a show now.

That L4D thing was funny. :) Happy turnkey day tomorrow!

There's a new version of Street Fighter 2 out on XBLA. It's like the total definitive version if you like that game. Looks really good and supposedly the netcode is ridiculous - one of the best for any fighter out there (apparently it's hard to get fighting games down online because of lag, but this one nails it.) I suck at it and have never been a huge fan, so prolly not getting it. BUT, puttin' the word out.

A cool Live Arcade game that came out last week is A Kingdom for Keflings. It's basically a city-building/rts but with NO conflict. You don't fight anyone. You're avatar walks around the world and there's these little dudes called Keflings that you pick up and make them gather resources and build shit. That's it! You basically just go down tons of tech trees and build a little world. Can also do co-op and whatever. Sounds totally lame, but it's really soothing and fun for some reason. If you have a comfortable place to play, it's a fun way to kill some time.

Still playing Fallout 3

I don't own an XBox 360 so Left4Dead isn't an option for me right now. But after seeing this... So this is what you guys are doing nights?

Left4Dead? Really? (NSFW)

Embrace your new Cthulhu masters!

Went to a concert last night. Been a reeeally long time since I did that. It was in a small bar in Costa Mesa, the Detroit Bar. It's in a strip mall five minutes away from the end of the 55. They are a Swedish band, Little Dragon. Great band. Been playing the heck out of the cd. Great live show. Best part was that they were selling their cds before and after the show. Got to chat to a couple of the guys. You usually don't get a chance to do that with a band you are really into. So that made my month and totaly made up for the crappy jury duty I had to do the week before. I don't know if any of you share my tastes in music, yeah I looking at you Eric. But give it a look.

Little Dragon

Oh yeah.

Embrace your new Cthulhu masters! Do it!!!!!

Big, fat, whiner

Played a little L4D last night with Rude. We played the co-op/team game where half the players get to be the infected, and the other half get to be the survivors. You play until either the survivors are killed, or they escape that particular map.

Not knowing how to play, and not really playing any competitive multiplayer online games in years, I totally fell back into my competitive mindset of old, and got really frustrated and whiny about how bad our team was losing and how ineffective I was throughout.

On the last map, I was killed in the first 2 minutes and since it was the finale, I just had to watch the rest of the gang play as there is no respawn point. I was mad, but then watching the heroics on display by the survivors and the sneaky-ass tricks by the infected I found a way to escape my old mindset and was ready to play again!

Of course we signed off at that point, but I just wanted to relate how L4D let me confront some of my gaming demons and exercise them! Hooray!

Because the bottom line is: it just doesn't matter anymore.

I look forward to some possible vs. co-op tonight! See you all (well, Rudy) on the 360 tonight at 9 - 9.30!

That is 2 cool jon! Glad you were able to pick up a copy. Eric's family obligations tend to end around 9pm on a regular basis, so we usually meet up around then when we're going to play. Just send me an txt message or whatever some night when you're up 4 it!

Yes, I will watch A.D. over again sometime soon. I can't believe how funny all of the actors are, especially Will Arnet. That guy fuckin' rules.

Left <3 Dead

Well, on your recommendations I picked up Left 4 Dead, I figure it's as good a time as any to use my one-month subscription. It's a busy week, but hopefully we can find a time in the next few days to fire it up!

Dallas is a land of friendly, stupid people and horrible freeways. The water tastes like dirt everywhere you go. I was there for my college roommate's wedding and the only reason I went was that it promised to be a crazy Indian bash. All the parts that involved the wedding itself were very cool! There were horses, fire, etc. I'll try to post some pictures later when I am less baked. I woke up today eaaaarly to get to the airport, only to end up missing my flight anyway and having to spend an extra 4 hours cooling my heels and eating airport food and am thoroughly wiped.

Re Arrested Development, the 3rd season definitely is not quite up to the standards of the 1st and 2nd season. There is a tonal shift that occurs that is jarring at first. I think it picks up in the 2nd disc, and there are some classic bits like the Godzilla bit, etc. but it is not dy-no-mite to the same extent. I did notice that I enjoyed the third season a lot more after a second viewing than I did the first time around. There are a lot of number terms in this paragraph. I suppose that makes it hard to follow!

Just finished watching the last season of Arrested Development. The first two seasons were fantastic but the 3rd was kind of a let down. I guess they knew it wasn't going to last, but it just didn't have the same loose feel to it. That long un-funny arc with Charlize Theron. Ugh. The final episode was really good though. Cool show!

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