Category: looky

Dan got me some issues of Aphrodite IX, because I had been asking for it for a while… it’s a comic by Top Cow/IMAGE, and all of their titles have a particular style to them.

The art in Aphrodite IX is cracking me up- Image really pioneered the “less inking, more shaped gradient coloring in Photoshop” style which we see in modern superhero comics. Aphrodite IX herself is a good example of this extreme- the only part of her nose that is inked is a nostril and the shadow under the tip: her entire nose is coloring. That is, her nose is a collection of shaded gradients, shaped to imply a nose.

I like how not only does Aphrodite IX not have an inked nose, not only does the green dot on her face keep changing sizes, but she is wearing giant leather armor on every part of her body… except for her crotch… which is covered only by a flimsy square of tissue. Perhaps someone’s forgotten handkerchief they lost at the laundry.

I’ve been getting around to things I hadn’t had time for- like playing video games.

I had started playing Metroid Prime several months ago, and it’s a great game. I got to around 55% completion at 15+ hours (not so great I know), finally beating the Omega Pirate after fighting him many many times. Now it’s time to collect the Chozo relics. I have 4 of them.

However, there is now a slight problem. I got to a point in the game where no matter what I do, within 2 minutes of continuing my game it freezes. I’m in the save room in the Phazon Mines, just before the Omega Pirate, on my way back from getting the Relic of Newborn.

The Map thingy tells me I have to return relics to the Chozo shrine
place, but if I got to the map screen on this prompt, the game freezes. It locks up and even the music hangs on one buzzing note. I tried re-saving and even just ignoring the map prompt and making a run to the Phaedrana border. Nope!

So the breakdown:

• When the game restores, it nags me to look at the map.
• if I look at the map, it freezes
• if I don’t look at the map, and keep playing, I can get as far as the room past the Phazon refinery, and then it freezes.

At least GTA: San Andreas comes out in a week!

CHIA: i never got into GTA
CHIA: metroid prime 2 comes out in a month
BRAIN: maybe that will suck less
BRAIN: maybe I should mail them my memory card
CHIA: maybe it won’t have omega pirate
CHIA: maybe copying the save to a different memory card would help
BRAIN: hmm good idea
CHIA: of course, if the actual save is corrupted, it’s game over
BRAIN: I should mail them this thing anyway
BRAIN: maybe they could mail me a working one
CHIA: maybe you can beat the game in less than 2 minutes!
BRAIN: I hear if you do that Samus does a sexy pole dance
CHIA: justinbailey
BRAIN: who
CHIA: it was the secret password in the original metroid
CHIA: when you typed it in, samus would appear in a bikini
BRAIN: aha
CHIA: apparently, bailey was a popular swimsuit maker
CHIA: “just in bailey”
BRAIN: my brother was so good at the SuperNintendo version that he actually got her to appear at the end in a bikini
BRIAN: under 2 hours
CHIA: nice

A site for people to show off how they shaved off their pubic hair to show their support for the end of the Bush Administration – that is an awkward way to put it, but that’s what it is, not so much pro-Kerry as anti-Bush.

Eh whatever. Yay nudity!

F The Vote was better executed, but this has that ghetto quality.
Web link of note: Shave It 2004
(At http://shaveit2004.org/)

Probably!

It’s only a conspiracy theory because people try to disbelieve it. It should be fairly obvious. We’re turning into a nation of OJ jurors.
Web link of note: Is Bush Wired
(At http://www.isbushwired.com/)

Peppy girl group that did the theme to Sealab 2021. I listen to it over and over…

Their six-song album is a steal at only $7.50 !

If you’re looking for me
(you) Better check under the sea
‘Cause that is where you’ll find me
Underneath the Sea lab
Underneath the water
Sealab
At the bottom of the sea

Web link of note: Calamine
(At http://www.calamine.com/)

That’s right kids, there will be a draft.

Fortunately, as the Republicans are fond of saying, I got mine, all my family members are too old for the initial draft, and hopefully we have learned enough from the Bush dynasty to successfully dodge the next one.

True to their family tradition of personal sacrifice, Jenna and Barbara Bush are the first to sign up for Spring Break Fallujah 2005. “Isn’t that an MTV thing?” asked party girl Jenna, “because I’m totally there.” How cute! It’s armed conflict in the Middle East, spring break style. And the twins will have plenty of company – all guys and girls from the age of 18-34, and medical personnel up to the age of 44! Awesome!

We are all doomed.
Web link of note: Enjoy the Draft!
(At http://www.enjoythedraft.com/)

Incidentally, it looks like there is a whole Puffy Ami Yumi show! That rules!

Yikes! Very weird- talking heads embedded on a web page. Check out their portfolio of clients if you want to be really sketched out.
Web link of note: SitePal
(At http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/)

Cool idea- send links to politcal ads like e-cards.

Minor problem- there are only Kerry / anti-Bush ads. Ah well, at least most of my friends will be happy.
Web link of note: P2P Politics
(At http://p2p-politics.org/)

Courtesy of Samuel John Kass:

He’s expanded the Rock-Paper-Scissors game (aka じゃんけんぽーん) to include 5 possibilities.

Notice that as in Janken, any two symbols results in one player winning and the other losing. My favorite is “Paper disproves Spock.”

You think that’s retarded; you should see the “replacement of foo” article.
Web link of note: Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard
(At http://samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html)