new stuff and shiny objects

Ah internets, is there anything you can't do?

In recent news, i got bioshock 2 in the mail from gamefly on thursday, and now it's monday and i already dropped it in the mail to go back. Not saying that it was short, but it is proof that it isn't any longer or shorter than the original. However, it failed in a few other key places that make the game merely passable rather the perfect successor to the "'shock" series (i count system shock 1 & 2 for obvious reasons).

First of all, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the premise, being a big daddy was pretty cool, and let me mow down splicers rather strategicly approaching one at a time like i did in the original. The downside is that now, you have to take 3 to 4 minutes setting up trapps and using up health and eve hypos trying to set up for when your lil'sister is about to harvest adam. I hated this aspect, and found it easy to die so many damn times that i eventually gave up twowards the end and simply saved the lil'sisters outright. Less adam, but less hassle for me over all.  Lastly, is that alot of the new plasmids either make the game entirely too easy, or to strange to truely enjoy. I found that the new trap plasmid was cool in novelty, but having to use them in practical application, was pointless and more trouble than it's worth.

In other news, i have a new side-project. called BrainBacon, for your perusal. Its a playground for my creative writing stuff, critiques and ideas are accepted, but the most part, just enjoy it.

A little fun with Games

I used to style myself as an amateur game designer, that didn't last long. It's not that i don't know or understand the concepts behind it all, or how to design a game to begin with. I just had no patience and no motivation.

Nothing has changed in that area; Not one damn thing. Except my need for shiny objects and need for funny stuff. While browsing through SomethingAwful i came across a photoshop phriday that i had looked over and laughed at many times before. Random Video Game Generator.

its fun!

Caribbean Goblin Underworld , now that's my favorite so far. Or rather one that seams plausible. hmmm, You guys think it would be to hard to make a pencil and paper version of this?

The State of the Empire Address: We need more Cow Bell!

My fellow Dorks and Loyal subjects;

As it stands in our glorious nation, we are young and unrefined. We need to reach our full potential, for i have a fever. The only cure for this fever is more Cow Bell! I hope to communicate to you, my loyal subjects, my plans to bring the cow bell to our nation and its peoples.

The first step is to define the leadership. In that mind, I do hereby declare Kelly the Foerchy to be Empress of the New Imperial Republic of Dorkdem,  Governess of Nerdwinia (our bedroom), and my Major-Domo. She has lead our like minded brothers and sisters to victory and has excellent management skills brought forth in the war torn World.........of Warcraft. Her responsibilities are to be the adjunct to our Warcraft brethren and sisteren, the governing of Nerdwinia and it's counties (the closet, the computer table, the bed, etc.,) and my second in command to all things pie and pie related topics. Do welcome her to our country and give her more respect than you would me, or i'll pay for it. (seriously, she gets mad, i get mad, evil cycle, don't start it.)

This, in turn, leads me to my second order of business; the acknowledgement and annexation of our newly founded territory and there leaders.

First is Dan, governor of Danganistan, Isle off the coasts of Ardenia. His new founded territory of Danganistan (ie, his house and car), are rich in the vital resource of crude geektronium. A vital resource used in countless industries like tech support, teaching, gaming, and much much more. As of now, we are in talks with the reprisentives of Danganistan (his wife and kids, maybe his cat) to make them full fledged members of our Republic.

Second is Danni Governess of Almos' Comfy Chair, on the europeon continent. For many years she has protected her realm from space invaders, Dr.Robotnik's minions, King Koopa's evil troopers, and many different forms of zombie. Her province's ability to refine geektronium into the final product of Pwnage is unsurpassed, even by myself. Please welcome her to our nation with open arms and freind requests.

Third is my throne provence of My'Couchia, (my living room) where i hand down Imperial edicts and defend the lands from super mutants and give Rad-Away to others for charity.

Let us welcome these new member provences with high-fives and freind requests. On to other business of our goals.

Now that we have the ability to discuss and even vote on legislation to make our country more fitting to our needs. Most of these things may be decided with an imperial decree, but i wish to make the governing proccess as equal as possible as dictated by my duties in our constitution.

The economic structure of our nation is an important thing; it will be the standard unto which we will trade within our borders. With that in mind, i have decided that we must decide on three major points in our government. Those points are as follows:

• We will need a regulatory commision with a cool acronym to make sure trade and business transactions are handled honestly and without lameness.
• We have to have a neat currency, maybe something with griffons, dragons, and/or space-ships on it. I will decide its exchange rate. Which in turn, will be regulated by the previously mentioned reggulatory commision.
• We must then setup a super simple structure the licensing and taxation of businesses in our borders; its annoying process, but i'm pretty good at monopoly, and Kelly is better, so i think we can handle it.

Allong with the creation of a common coin of the land, we will need to further define our identity and thusly we will need to have the following artistic shiny stuff:

• The creation of the official Imperial Seal; so i can look all official and stuff. (and Seals for each provence, but that goes without saying, thats the governor's responsibility.)
• A really cool flag, because, like all the COOL countries are doing it.

Lastly, we will need to get together an Armed Force of somesort. We should put forth a discussion of which games, resources, and nerf products will be the focus of those things, and how they should be implimented. The proccess of this discussion must take into account the availibility of these resources and the needs of our future soldiers.

In closing, i wish to thank you all for reading this, and i hope that all of our new contempararies come to respect one another. May Google bless us all.

So is Signed,

JohnWedd II, Governor of My'Couchia, Liker of Pie, and Emporer of the New Imperial Republic of Dorkdem.

Oye, with all that goes on....

Lately, it's been stressful. It promises to be a full weekend with a hearty mix of mellow and the frustratingly pressured tasks that need to be done. We all have them, chores homework, work work; all that you don't necessarily like doing, but are pushed by the simple fact that these tasks need to be done. We all have our share, mine is starting to seam heavier, but I can deal with it.

My previous post may have seamed off; as if i was drunk, this is not the case. I was extremely exhausted and sleep deprived. I'm tempted to delete it and pretend like it never happened, i won't, mind you. It serves to remind me that on weekdays, i need to go to bed early. Most other grown-ups have this down to an art; why don't I?

In other news, I have managed to convince a few of my friends to join the glorious New Imperial Republic of Dorkdem. I will address that in another post that will also be my first 'State of the Empire' address where i will go over the overview of our great model-nation/thought-experiment as well as lay out goals for the next few months. This will be followed by imperial decree to annex the newly claimed 'land' and name the governors. I want to bulk up the primary found document so that i can use it in my political science class, and just have fun. Never too late to join up!

reality is tied up in knots

stresss stress stresss.....

stuff going south and we're just now pulling crap outta the fire. Its difficult to keep up with school and work, ugg its kinda.....

Anyway, things like homework and work study, conflicting and doing my best to keep all the balls in the air.

must learn to focus better.

Taken care of Business homework.....

FYI, i watched the President's State of the union address, read the summary, and I'm currently waiting on the techno/auto-tuned dance remix to eventually show up on youtube. ( post link if you got it)

been reading more in my spare time, came across a cool comic, and its not a web comic, its a real trade paperback.






i like it. Its origanal and very nice as far as super heroing goes. gives me the warm and fuzzies.

and in other news, the new email system for reporting books on hold and fines/fees that i cooked up for the library has been doing great, so Kudo's for me.

Busting ass and taking assignments.

I have just gotten a big debockle taken care of in my academic career. It was a lil panicky at first, but i found that i could strive to get through. Doesn't mean i don't have to bust ass getting shit done, in fact, it's more so now. I sit in the library making this quick post with a hand written sign that quotes quite clearly:

Off Duty Nerd

If i had a camera i'd take a pic but thats neither here nor there.

Anyway, More news From my beloved Empire of Dorkdem.

The Emporer (that is myself) is currently working on a law for copyright and intellectual property to submit to the interm-Governer's Conclave (also myself) and then to the interm-Representitive Council (still just me). His Nerdliness JohnWedd II, expects an unianious decision and short deleberation.