Beer and Bad Movies

For some time now I've gathered with some folk to watch terrible movies on Friday nights. The worst of the worst. Calling some of these low budget would be doing a disservice to low budget films everywhere. Some of these make the budget of Primer look like LoTR. Of course to tolerate these travesties of film, alcoholic libations are always in order. Often of a much higher grade than the film to be watched.

This past Friday we watched a delectable art piece called Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! - Strippers VS Zombies. Unfortunately, due to the quantity of Joose imbibed on that night I'm having a difficult time remembering the specifics of the film. The cover proclaimed it to be "Laugh out loud", if only because of the ridiculousness of the plot and/or special effects (if one is willing to call cherry juice splashed in good measure a special effect). Though they may have saved all their pennies (literally pennies I assume) for the finale, a Tour de Force of CGI circa 1993 whence the zombies start exploding after biting the man who was the cure.

Overall I give this 2.5 Cans. Not great, not super entertaining. With a couple high powered bottles of Joose and a liberal amount of internal MS3TKing she be entertaining.

Super Mario All Stars

On a lighter note my copy of Super Mario All Stars finally shipped. Looking forward to the goodies in the package as well as replaying some classics yet again ala Nintendo. I will be sure to post a short review and some pictures as soon as it arrives. Makes me all nostalgic, which makes me want to go to Midwest Gaming Classic, which I'm not going to because I have no money from buying a house. Thanks for making me sad classic Mario, Thanks a lot.

Hearts

I wish I was talking about Punchline but I'm not. My father was recently hospitalized with a heart attack and received a triple bypass the next day. The technology we have now is both amazing and creepy, that we can clip clip connect you to a heart lung machine, reroute some pipes, and sew you back up in a couple hours leaves me floored.

Been lazy to update

My list of DS9 episodes but needless to say I'm on season 3. Also trying to finish more games in 2011 but I've only managed to finish 2 so far. Almost done with Alan Wake, that is a hell of a gripping game.

Deep Space Nine

Rewatching DS9. Will keep track of my progress here.

S1E1 - 12/04/2010
S1E2 - 12/05/2010
S1E3 - 12/06/2010
S1E4 - 12/06/2010
S1E5 - 12/10/2010
S1E6 - 12/10/2010
S1E7 - 12/10/2010
S1E8 - 12/10/2010

Star Trek Online Still Sucks

Was playing some Borderlands last night but the folkl I was playing with dropped out after about an hour and a half so I thought I might see if Star Trek Online has improved over the past few months. I have the scamlifetime subscription that they insisted you could only get before launch but now blimp it all over the place so I can pop on whenever I want, which is not very often. I tried out one of the new diplomatic missions which, while a nice change from the arguably non trek style balls to the wall combat missions of yor, was seriously disappointing. The game interface and interaction engine was simply not designed for non-combat content. It wasn't designed for the sort of explorative non-combat content the Star Trek universe deserves. They also took the complaints about scanning for anomalies to heart. Prior to some patch you looked for a flashy thing, hit F, it scanned. Now you look for a flashy thing, hit F, and do a super tedious minigame of match the waveform!!! Great! They took a tedious aspect of the game, and made it even more tedious. Needless to say I pew pewed some klingons for a bit, got bored and went to play Global Agenda. Which is pretty fun, it's sort of like future Team Fortress.

The Singularity is Near

I recently finished up with F.E.A.R. which was entertaining and creepy, if a bit "by the book" scripted. Since I recently re-upped with Gamefly I just started playing Singularity. I have to say so far I'm really digging it. I'm real big into anything that delves into alternate history so the story behind the destruction Katorga-12 and Element 99 is drawing me in. A couple phases between the 50's and 2010 and the recon team has turned the world in to a devastatingly different place. I'm only about an hour in so I'll report back when I have played more.