| I call it 'ballistic therapy' |
[May. 21st, 2012|12:27 pm] |
...So for pretty much the entirety of the first-person shooter craze, I always wanted to see more. Chalk it up to the grotesquely curious side of my brain, but I always wondered, when I was sniping from halfway across the map, did I actually hit that character in the heart? Most games treat a shot to the torso as a shot to the limb -- most modern games have begun to reward headshots, but not all of them employ diverse hit location to any vaguely-anatomical degree. And yes, maybe I've always been a little sick in the head to wonder, but...what exactly would that bullet have done? Puncture a lung? The heart? What exactly happened to that supersonic slug of lead? ( Careful: you may not want to know. )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ got its kneecap shot off. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, burdened-with-glorious-purpose edition |
[May. 16th, 2012|09:54 am] |
So after being struck senseless by the digital effects in The Avengers, I wondered which movie I'd seen with the worst effects...and you know, I didn't even have to finish the thought in my mind. Of course it's Birdemic: Shock and Terror (entire thing online here, but...really, why?). No Syfy movie rivals its raw awfulness -- not Sharktopus, not Ice Twister nor Alien Tornado, or even, I'm sure, the upcoming (and I am not joking) Piranhaconda. It also helps that Birdemic's acting is a raw wad of suck, too.
Feel free to disagree with me, but you are wrong.
Anyway. Plenty of Avengers- (and really Coulson-) related images below, still. No huge spoilers, though, I don't think (about as many as in the last installment).
( 51 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ lacks conviction. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| This just in: bisexuals always become insane; details at 11 |
[May. 11th, 2012|01:23 pm] |
Just when you were worried the American sociopolitical discourse was devolving, along comes soon-to-be-legendary Jane Skrovota's fascinatingly deranged anti-LGBT testimony to the Lincoln, Nebraska city council. In just five minutes, she makes Bristol Palin sound like William F. Buckley.
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is a mewling...is mewling. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, twelve-percent-of-a-moment edition |
[May. 8th, 2012|05:57 pm] |
Didn't like The Avengers? Then maybe you should just lay down and sit this one out. Yes, you'll probably notice a bit of...repetition, you know, because Nyan Cat and owls aren't repetitive enough on their own.
One pic is somewhat spoilery for the film, but not a game-breaker, I don't think. Feel free to correct me. Consider this impetus to see it. You got sick days, use 'em.
( 42 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is a mewling...is mewling. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Quickie Avengers review |
[May. 6th, 2012|07:35 pm] |
Remember back when they unveiled the dream-team cast of The Avengers, with Joss Whedon helming it, and visions of sugarplums danced in our heads? Well, hope you put up your stocking, because this cinematic Christmas right here. Unabashed recommendation. It is everything you would expect in a Joss Whedon Avengers movie. Would like to know how non-comics fans (or especially anyone who hasn't seen any of the preceding films) felt.
But then, half of you reading this have seen it already and the other half have seen it twice.
I think that's the third time I've heard an audience cheer in a movie theater (the other times being Return of the Jedi and T2: Judgment Day), but that's probably because there aren't many conditions worth braving crowds and prolonged tedium for. (Though everyone at the jam-packed theater, who stood in lines that completely filled the lobby to the point where you couldn't tell where the movie line(s) and concession lines separated, was perfectly well-behaved and even courteous. No cell-phone lights, no blathering; you could hear a pin drop during the Dark Knight Returns trailer. Brilliant.) This film needs to be soaked in again. Glorious.
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is puny. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, #55 edition |
[May. 2nd, 2012|06:15 pm] |
I own five, maybe six football jerseys. They're all of the same player: twelve-time Pro Bowler and future Hall of Famer (Tiaina Baul) Junior Seau. I named the main character in my thesis after him. Have his action figures, have a collectible card of him dressed up like a stealth fighter. Calling him my favorite professional athlete is...yeah, pretty much right on the money.
And now he's dead at 43. Yes, this brings the '94 Chargers death toll up to eight, but none of them could be as much of a gutpunch as this (and nothing as shocking, reminding me too much of the sudden loss of Reggie Lewis 19 years ago). For now, probably the definitive word on the man comes from Eric Olsen, offensive lineman for the New Orleans Saints (distilled from his Twitter feed):
Wow this is a tough one.. When I was a frosh in HS Junior Seau worked the Jay Fiedler Football camp and at the end of one of the days he challenged any1 to a 1 on 1. Being one of the 'big' kids, I was volunteered by my buddies and went up in front of the whole camp to face...This monster of a man. Shaking in my cleats, he gave me a wink before a coach gave the cadence. He let me pancake him. And he sold it too...I can't even tell you how good I felt at that moment; it changed me forever. The whole camp cheered for me, a chubby kid that didn't know...If he even liked football. From then on I was addicted. All thanks 2 this 10 time all-pro that felt like making some snot-nosed kid's day...Doesn't seem like much but it meant a lot to me. Sorry for the essay just had to share. RIP Junior I'll never forget what you did for me.
In 1997, Junior won the NFL's Man of the Year award. Ten years earlier, Dave Duerson won that award. Last year Duerson texted his family to say that he wanted to donate his brain for research into the links between professional football and degenerative brain damage, then killed himself with a gunshot to the chest.
Former teammate turned commentator Marcellus Wiley said "Today is the worst day." I hate to admit it, but he's right. A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave....
So, yeah. Picspam. Many of these are (as Junior was) always in motion, so be prepared. Also find what appears to be a storyboard of the first draft of the Avengers script before Joss tightened it up. ( 36 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is blee blee blah blah blah. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, seven-hours-until-420 edition |
[Apr. 19th, 2012|04:43 pm] |
...And yet you'll note a ton of cannabis pictures bel...wait. No, not "cannabis," but certainly "capybara." Same thing, right? (In Argentina, they're both fish.)
Also, more ducklings than you've ever seen.
I promise.
( 43 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is totally wasted, dude. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, no-foolin' edition |
[Mar. 29th, 2012|08:15 pm] |
I'm not going to say that the Internet has ruined everything, but it's certainly taken all the fun out of April Fools' Day. Like sarcasm, subtlety and nuance do not convey well across new media, but cruelty and mean-spiritedness somehow do, and the result does nothing to endear the occasion to me. I sit out April Fools'. If you see me saying/posting/tweeting anything particularly out-of-character on April 1, it's not a joke.
I don't begrudge you partaking of trickery, but I will expect you to at least do it well.
( 65 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is currently grasping the orangutan. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, yay-Community-is-back edition |
[Mar. 15th, 2012|08:16 pm] |
Oh, I heart me some Community. It has been greatly missed. Since it's already had a zombie episode, should The Walking Dead have an episode where they go to community college? It might have less pointless banter. ( 78 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is in the darkest timeline. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Addicted |
[Mar. 3rd, 2012|09:56 pm] |
So I've been trying to play Mass Effect 2 (to get ready for Tuesday's ME3 launch) and a little bit of the original Dragon Age (as DA2 was simply godawful), but I now see why I avoided multiplayer online. A long, long time ago I played the online demo of Battlefield 1942 (with one map, Wake Island) to death. Now I've got Battlefield 3 (with the Back to Karkand expansion) and Battlefield 1943 (a much less complicated and graphic-heavy game), both of which have Wake Island, and both of which reward tactics and teamwork more than simple reflexes. I'm hooked. As long as whoever's on audio isn't being a loud obnoxious cretin (and no, no audio for me), it's an immense amount of fun.
Though I'm not very good yet. I'm typically the lowest-ranked player on whichever server I flit across, and I usually have an abysmal kill/death ratio, but my scores are still pretty decent, as I keep capturing flags and repairing teammates' vehicles and the like. I'm somewhat hampered by the fact that, with more than a few accessories and kits, I still don't know what I'm doing. Which reminds me -- I need to look up how to use the knife before I play again....
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is a teamkilling n00b. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| My favorite thing of the week: "I don't need no education!" O_o |
[Feb. 28th, 2012|07:41 pm] |
As found on Reddit:
As I was being walked by a nurse to the operating room for my shoulder surgery, I told her about a bet I had made with my friends on how I would fight and win the anesthesia....
Seriously, read the whole thing. Worth it. In other news, my face still feels like someone dropped a refrigerator on it, but I better get used to it.
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is heavily sedated. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, trivia gods of Capital City edition |
[Feb. 5th, 2012|01:56 pm] |
Forgot to mention -- trivia night in Capital City went swimmingly. After getting shut out of the prizes in the last go-round's "pop culture" contest, we won last week's outing by five points. The health and 2011 best-sellers categories thumped us hard, but the "identify these '80s cartoon shows by still frames" (I never thought knowing that the show's full title was Rubik, The Amazing Cube would ever be relevant in the slightest) and "portmanteaus" were cakewalks. Sadly, my two library LED lights I brought home don't seem to work. Still, I got a pen. w00t w00t.
Also -- nontrivial but picspam-tangental -- a billion thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) maggiebloome, without whose Tumblr (![[tumblr.com profile]](http://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico) ltcoblivious) I would be lost and bereft. Many of these pics are yanked, still screaming and squirming, from her feed. She shines.
( 55 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is facing fourth and forever deep in their own territory. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| Picspam, Superb Owl edition |
[Feb. 5th, 2012|01:43 pm] |
So today is the Superb Owl XVLI, one of the few remaining occasions in American culture in which we still use Roman numerals. Some of you care only because of the commercials. Some of you only care because of Puppy Bowl VIII. Some of you go to great lengths not to care at all. Me, even though none of my favorite teams really came close to making it this year (New Orleans came within spittin' distance, but Drew Brees will have to settle for his team's victory in Madden Bowl -- seriously) and still I find myself intrigued. It's the pinnacle of my favorite sport, steeped in tradition and ritual and fanfare. Someone's going home tonight recognized as one of the best ever in their profession, and quite a few are going to stagger home with broken hearts. And that's all we know. The narrative will write itself out on the gridiron in white chalk and cleat marks. Something's going to happen that will make our jaws drop. I just hope it's not at halftime (Madonna? Seriously?).
( 55 pics below.... )
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account as LJ is punting on third down. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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| One Moore Episode |
[Jan. 26th, 2012|06:46 pm] |
On the eve of trivia night in Capital City, beagle1971 sends along a thread from a show I've never seen -- IFC's Portlandia -- detailing a typical first reaction to watching Battlestar Galactica.
Originally posted to my Dreamwidth account because LJ is herping the derp. You can comment there using your LJ login as an OpenID, or here. Either's good. |
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