World Domination

A recent post about obscure muppet stuff by _dragonwolf_ prompted me to look into a couple of bizare old muppet specials I'd seen years ago. The first is from a story about a frog in a rainforest. The second is from The Christmas Toy, which did the concept of Toy Story before there was a Toy Story. These are snippets from each.

Well, that was either the worst or the best secret message container I've ever seen. I can't decide which.

Heavy Rain is a game that makes me wish I had a PS3. It is being created by the same people that did Indigo Prophecy, which I greatly enjoyed.

The game follows four people as they try to track down the origami killer and stop whoever it is. The developers take a fairly cinematic approach to it, giving you varied emotional response type dialog choices along the way. If one of the four main characters is killed, the story actually continues without them. You just play the parts of those who are left at that point.

I know I won't get a PS3 just for this game, but one day, if I ever do decide to break down and buy one, it is a game I will get, along with Uncharted, Infamous, God of War, and a few others that are only on PS3.

These days, I am playing both Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2, alternately. Both are enjoyable. I was very happy when I recruited Archangel. He gets a spot on the team, no matter what. I keep flip-flopping on whether to take Dr. Mordin or Miranda for the other spot. I usually choose my party based on how cool or amusing they are, as opposed to how useful they are. Miranda hasn't impressed me much yet, but she seems like the person to take as a renegade. I'll probably just take the scientist, Dr. Mordin, because he's more amusing.

For Dragon Age, I filled out my team with Morrigan (the witch of the wild voiced by Claudia Black) and Zevran (the assassin who sounds like Antonio Banderas, but isn't). They form team evil, along with Alistair, the token good guy. Dialog between the characters is much more interesting when one of them is constantly complaining about how evil we act. You have to take the token good guy for that reason alone.

Season 8 of Scrubs has been watched. I checked out part of an episode of Green Wing, enough to know I like it and would prefer to watch it in a manner other than on my computer. At some point, going to hook up computer to large tv and watch it that way. It's probably something I should have done a while ago to watch other streaming stuff that way. It's a 52" tv whose primary purpose is to make the zombies on Left 4 Dead look really good. Or to make games like Dead Space or Bioshock even creepier.

Currently watching season 2 of Big Bang Theory. It's a hilarious show, assuming you don't mind a show that makes fun of geeks. It amuses the hell out of me.

Next up, I'll be introducing my brother to season 2 of Chuck. I've seen it before, but I always enjoy the chance to rewatch something with someone who hasn't seen it. It's like seeing it again through their eyes. The shared experience makes it just as enjoyable.

Otherwise, I'm generally feeling in a really good place these days. While I am kind of burnt out on work and would like more days off in a row, like maybe just four, it's not stressful anymore. Gaming is fun. I'm enjoying Dragon Age immensely and I always enjoy killing me some zombies now and then.

I feel like there was something I wanted to pontificate about. You know, sound all pompous and important, because I know you like to hang on my every .......


.... word. But I think it has slipped my mind. Damn shame too. It was probably something brilliant. Or about soup. Or brilliant soup, the soup that thinks for you. Coming soon to a dream near you.

Yeah, whatever it was, it's gone now. I should have started writing when I thought of it. Oh well.

The God of email hated me again. When I tried logging in to retrieve messages, it would just spend five minutes thinking about it and retrieve maybe one message. For all I know, there are maybe other messages it just won't retrieve. If you sent something to me today, I might not have gotten. Or maybe I did, but just slower. I sure as hell can't tell.

I've been watching Venture Bros. lately, starting from season one. That show is frikkin hilarious. Dr. Orpheus is great. Everyone should speak in a melodramatic voice about everyday things. I'm nearing the end of season one now.

Otherwise, I keep looking at the Intercon game listing for the Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon and not being able to decide what I want to play. So, I'm going to ask if anyone already knows what they are playing in those times, so I might think, "hey, it'd be fun to play a game with so-and-so." If not, I'll pick something when signups open and hope for the best.

I decided to sign up for 10 Bad Larps on Sunday morning, thinking that a game about random improv would be fun for my brain dead state at that point of the con. It couldn't possibly be worse than the Sunday game I played last year, where the game was scheduled in a room that was taken over by the hotel's breakfast buffet, and the GM overslept and started the game an hour or two late, plus only ran the game for 45 minutes. I'll admit it was a fun 45 minutes. But all in all, I did not consider that a successful game.

I sleep very little at the con, mostly due to the fact that I just have trouble sleeping anywhere that isn't my bed. I get some sleep, but not much. Thus, I am always kind of brain dead by Sunday, or punchy, or oblivious, or something.

Story Wars still seems to be getting signups from somewhere. We are now out of male roles, not counting the neutral role, so there is technically room for one more. And there are four female spots left. I will *not* be writing extra characters this year to move people off the waitlist, like I did last year when I saw people like zapf were on the waitlist. The game is already 46 characters. It does not need more.

As a random aside, I don't actually know how someone embeds another lj name in a post so it can actually be clicked on. I assume it's an html thing, but that's not something I've ever learned.

I saw Pirates! at the Huntington tonight.  It was a lot of fun, a cool show.  It was mostly Pirates of Penzance with bits of Pirates of the Carribean thrown in, as well as some other stuff.  Overall, it was done very well.  The guy playing the Pirate King was very good.  The Major General and Ruth also stood out to me.  The others were good, but those three stood out the most to me.  It was also cool to see the show with people I know.  I derive enjoyment from seeing the reactions on the faces of those I'm with as well.

I think this might have been the first time I've ever gone into Boston to see a show.  I definitely enjoyed the show.  Whether I would do it again, I don't know.  It's the getting in and out of Boston part I don't care for as much.  If there was a better and less expensive way of getting in and out, I'd be more inclined to try it again.  I've driven to MIT a lot in the past for larps, but that is easier to find parking around.  In the past, you could find free parking on the street and I recall often parking in the ninja lot, though I don't think they allow that anymore.  I'm not sure.  It's been a while since I've been there.

Overall, I consider it a fun night.  I'm still not sure what I'll be doing with my Saturday.  Sunday is my normal day off, so I actually have the entire weekend off.

Otherwise, I have started rewatching Veronica Mars.  With my brother, I'm almost done with watching season one of the Big Bang Theory.  I have found it to be a surprisingly funny show.  I mean, I thought I would find it funny, but it has hit the right spot more than I thought it would.  I think I'm going to pick Jack of All Trades to watch next.  It's fairly cheesy, but almost anything with Bruce Campbell is.