The Amazing Adventures of The Rogue and Neon Girl!

I stumbled onto this site today.

I was chilling with my girlfriend between classes and I decided to make Neon Girl, who she claims her superhero would be. She's neon girl because she's so pale.

I also decided to make myself a super hero. The Rogue. (Not simply Rogue because that's already an X-Men character.)

This is Neon Girl. She uses bright light of her neon skin to blind and stun her enemies. 

This is The Rogue, Neon Girl's superhero boyfriend. He has an awesome magical sword, but if the baddies are too far away for the sword he just shoots them. 

Together The Rogue and Neon Girl fight crime and evilness in Fargo! They prowl the city looking for people who just don't know how to park properly or are just plain douche bags and they deal with them appropriately.

Their arch nemesis is the Evil Count Drunkass! *Dun dun duunnn!*

Count Drunkass's super powers include toxic belches, pinpoint accurate projectile vomiting, insulting women, smashing things, and more. 

He is Neon Girl and The Rogue's greatest foe. They have encountered him many times but have yet to defeat him. 

Bison Man

I really love this picture and want it framed in a fancy antique frame.

I like to think he was some kind of wild west superhero vigilante who was transformed into a bison man after being struck by lighting while touching a bison. 

This picture is just bad ass. 

The end. 

The Ewoks are coming for you

You may or may not be aware of the Star Wars Miniatures Game.

It's awesome and a lot of fun to play as well as collect.

Yesterday three of my friends and I decided to play a somewhat unorthodox game. Normally there are just two players facing off, but we wanted to have a four way battle.

We used this map of Endor's shield generator bunker:

The teams were these:

Imperials, Rebels, Ewoks, and Ugnaughts/Jawas.

It was to be a silly game indeed.

But the ewoks sided with the rebels you say?

Nope.

That's why I wanted to make this post. The story we conceived for this scenario was so funny to me I wanted to share it.

Naturally the imperials are there because of the Death Star, the rebels are there trying to stop them. The ugnaughts and jawa team is there trying to conquer the moon simply out of greed.

And the ewoks.

Those cute cuddly bear guys...

Well, the reason they're not with the rebels is this:

When Leia met Wicket she took her helmet off and it startled him. Before she could explain to him that it's just a hat, he stabbed her in the neck with his spear and killed her. He took her body back to his ewok camp and they ate her.

When Luke, Han, Chewbacca, R2, and 3PO got caught in that trap they cut themselves out. C-3PO was damaged in the fall.

The ewoks perceived him as a god, and they blamed Han, Luke, Chewie, and R2 for 3PO's death. They were taken back to the camp and cooked and eaten.

The ewoks were not happy about people invading their moon.

And that's why the ewoks were not sided with the rebels in our little game of Star Wars miniatures.

The ewoks actually did quite well in the game too. It ended up being a draw ending with one ugnaught and one ewok.

The imperials in the bunker were swarmed by ewoks. It was funny.


Anyway, just thought I'd share that. The image of ewoks swarming people and chopping them up and stabbing them just seems funny in a twisted way.

Yub Nub!

5 Songs about Games that aren't really about Games.

Here's some songs about some games that aren't really meant to be about the games.  

I was going to put this on IJAG, but it seemed kinda pointless. What do you think? 

Enjoy

Gears of War

Megadeth - Gears of War

Battlefield Bad Company 2

Five Finger Death Punch - Bad Company

I realize this is a cover song, but I prefer this one. 

Cawa Doody

Lil Wayne - Call of Duty

This song might actually be about Call of Duty. I don't follow Lil Wayne, nor do I follow CoD. I feel that the quality of this song reflects the quality of the game. 

The Darkness

Disturbed - The Darkness

Halo

Beyoncé - Halo

My Kinect Dream

I could probably draw this out and post it on It's Just a Game, but I thought I'd get this jotted down here while I could.

Last night I had a dream where I buddy of mine had a Kinect. Some girls were playing a game on it.

In the game you were playing Kinect. So on the TV, in the game, you were controlling an avatar in a living room who was playing a game on Kinect. (think World of World of Warcraft.)

I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to make this one a reality.

I shopped together really quickly a visual aid to let you see what I'm describing.

What's up with the National Anthem?

The Star Spangled Banner.

I've always thought it's a boring song, but that's besides the point.

Why do they play it before every sports game?

I've never understood this.

Though I have distanced myself from sports in the last few years. (I don't care about sports at all. I don't get what all the fuss is about.)

But why play the national anthem before every sporting event?

The United States wasn't founded on the basis that everyone should be able to play sports. Hell, professional sports discriminated against minorities for a long while.

As far as I know there's nothing about sports in the constitution.

Maybe it's played before sports like Baseball and Hand Egg because this is the only country that really likes those sports. It's some kind of show of 'Merican pride.

Or perhaps the sort of people who get all riled up about some guys playing a simple game like to feel some sense of national pride once and a while. They need to remind themselves that they live in "the greatest nation on Earth." Though I feel that anyone who touts that has never been abroad.

Do they play the national anthem before tennis matches? Or before a game of golf? I doubt it. Though I don't know for sure. I feel that the people who invest their time in those sports are of a different mindset than those who would scream and rant over a missed field goal or a robbed homerun.

I don't get sports. I don't get uberpatriotism. I don't get why the Star Spangled Banner is played at sporting games. I don't get why I'm expected to put my hand over my heart when it plays. I guess I don't get a lot of things.

And that's fine with me. 

My Summer.

I can't study.

I can't focus on computer science anymore.

Arrays, Queues, Binary Trees, Algorithms, abstract data types.

No more for now.

I don't know what to do.

So i'm just going to write.

And I guess you're going to read it huh.

I need to do a lot this summer, besides take a stupid calc class and get a job.

I need to get a custom domain name for It's Just a Game.

I need to transplant my spider plant, Peter Parker into a bigger pot again.

I want to make a papercraft Boba Fett helmet.

I need to do lots of stuff with my hon bun.

I want to bike or walk downtown often to write and just relax.

I need to get in shape.

I need to read.

I have a lot of books I need to read right now.

• Currently reading The Power of Now. 
• Cryptnomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Anatham by Neal Stephenson
• Second part of Stephen King's The Dark Tower graphic novel
• All of the free comic books I got on free comic book day.
• perhaps some of my roommate's comic books

I need to get LA Noir.

I need to play the shit out of it. 

I need to beat Metal Gear Solid 3. (I agreed that I'd beat my roommate's favorite game if he beat mine.(Mass Effect)).

I need to beat Gears of War 2 co op with my hon bun. 

I need to keep It's Just a Game interesting. 

I should probably finish up my Fem Shep playthrough of Mass Effect 2. 

I want to have a lot of Nerf sword fights in my fraternity house. 

From the sounds of this I have a lot ahead of me this summer. 

Maybe I'll keep you readers updated on it. 

Anyways, I guess this post is wrapping up. I just needed an outlet of my loss of focus. 

Stupid finals. 

Ciao

Why I love Twitter.

It all started over a year ago.

Someone in my fraternity decided to set up a twitter account for our chapter in the hopes of keeping everyone better updated on what was going on.

So I signed up for twitter and started following.

Our chapter's twitter account was short lived, but I stuck with Twitter.

I wasn't sure what to expect from it, and I didn't even touch it over the whole summer. But once the summer was over I found myself getting sucked back in to Twitter.

I started following some of my friends, and I found some interesting people on twitter.

I think it all took off when I started following Felicia Day. She posted a Tweet that brought me here.

I really got into this blog. It really inspired me. And from reading that blog, I found more blogs I really like. Such as Zen Habits, one of my favorites.

So now I had been sucked into the world of blogging because of one little tweet. That's how I got inspired to start writing It's Just a Game. I'm sure you've heard of it.

Twitter also gives me lots of insider info because I follow a lot of game developers.

I can keep my German in shape with Twitter because I follow a lot of people from Germany.

And I've gotten some free stuff because of Twitter.

I got free lightsabers from my Xbox Avatar because Lucas Arts tweeted some codes. I got the Super Meat Boy soundtrack for free because one of the team members posted codes for free downloads.

So Twitter has done me good. It's helping me connect with others similar to me, it's opened me up to the wonderful world of blogging, and it's helping me get my blog out there. It's Just a Game, not this one. ;) 

Animal Language

I just watched The Aristocats last night.

Great movie. Thomas O'Malley is one smooth cat.

But it got me thinking. In most movies that have talking animals, the humans can't understand the animals right?

Ok.

But

All of the animals can understand each other.

Humans can only understand humans, but any animal can communicate with any other animal? Poppycock.

You'd think that animals would follow the same pattern, cats can only talk to cats, mice can only talk to mice, frogs can only talk to frogs, and so on.

Anywho... Thats just what I was thinking about last night. 

Smell the Music.

The Arts have a pretty big hold on two of our senses: hearing and sight.

There is an unending amount of music and auditory experiences you can find anywhere from orchestra pits to the Zune Marketplace. Music can speak to your moods, let you drift away, or compel you to run and ram into a huge crowd of people doing the same. Music does a lot for people.

The sense of sight is equally explored. Everything from fine art, to sculpture, to movies, to youtube videos, to graffiti, to tattoos, its all an art form that uses our sense of sight.

But the sense of smell is more or less untapped.

I have heard that the sense of smell is one of the most powerful senses we have. Smells can trigger memories.

So why aren't there forms of art revolving around the sense of smell?

Think of a song made up of scents.

What would that be like?

The smell would gradually change, making you feel different things, think of different things.

Right now scents and fragrances are marketed in ways to make your house or room smell better, but not as a form of art.

Do you think the sense of smell will ever have a roll in art? Whether on its own or coupled with hearing or sight?

This is just something I've thought about. And now you're thinking about it. 

My Terrible Jokes

So sometimes my brain will just associate words in odd ways and it'll form a really lame joke in my head. Ask my roommate. He hears a lot of my on the fly terrible puns. Its fun watching him cringe when I say them.

But these are some of the bad jokes I've made up. At least the one's I can still remember.


Q: What is a snake's favorite part of band class?

A:The Scales!!!! Click here


Q: What is Eddie van Halen's favorite vegetable?

A: Rockoli! \m/>.<\m/


Q: What is the average cup size in Canada?

A: Eh. :\


Q: What did Dr. Solus prescribe Commander Shepard when he needed to fight dark energy wielding enemies?

A: Antibiotics! Doh!

(If you're into video games check out this site! http://www.itsjustagame.net/ )


Q: What did the scientific baker come up with?

A: A piepothesis!

Q: What is a pirate's least favorite color?

A: Maroon!


Well, thats all I can think of for now. Hope you don't have a mark on your forehead from facepalming.

Just a bit more...

More HDR

My HDR Photos.

These are a few, but not all, of the pictures I have done in high dynamic range. Enjoy.

Well its not letting me upload any more pictures for some reason... I will put up more later I guess.

Two Pictures.

 I tuck in my alarm clock lego stormtrooper and his little buddy in at night lol. 

And during the day he peers at me over my computer. 

My Brilliant Ideas

So, as they come into my head, I record brilliant ideas in my phone. I suppose not all of them have made it into my phone, but I will write about the ones I do have written down.

Enjoy.

1. A Dry Erase T-Shirt. This is essentially a shirt with an area on the front that acts as a whiteboard. Now you can change the stupid ironic phrase on your shirt every day!
2. Rough Shoe Laces. I think I had this idea after my shoe laces would come untied all the time. If the shoelaces had more friction with each other they would be less likely to come undone. 
3. Silent Shopping Carts. Pushing a shopping cart through a parking lot is annoying. Find a way to quiet those suckers. 
4. Building Slides. I think every building thats more than 2 stories should have slides as a means of getting back down. Way more fun than elevators or stairs. 
1. Note: I was told by someone with firsthand experience that people like to poop in slides.
5. Playgrounds for Adults. I love playgrounds. But I don't want to look like a pedophile. Solution? Playgrounds made specifically for adults! Less safety, more fun!
6. Helium Backpack. A backpack with a pocket of helium in it to take some of the stress off your back. lol. 
7. A Backpack with Sound Effects. So when you open the zipper it goes: Ahhhh... And when you put stuff in it it goes: Nom Nom Nom. And when you re zip it it goes: Mmmmphff! Stuff like that. 
8. Bacon Juice. One day I said that I needed to get some Naked Juice. My roommate thought I said Bacon Juice. With everyone's obsession for bacon, I figure it could sell. 
9. Baby Shaped Candy Dish. It'd be like taking candy from a baby....
10. Domesticated Squirrels. 'Cause having a squirrel for a pet would be awesome. 
11. Baby Section in Restaurants. Restaurants have (or had) smoking sections because people don't want to be around annoying secondhand smoke. Why not have a baby section so people don't have to be around crying babies? 
12. A Trivia Restaurant. I think this idea went something like this: You answer a trivia question right and you get your meal half off, you get it wrong you pay full price. Or double or nothing: you get the question right your meal is free, get it wrong and the price doubles. 
13. A Gravity Gun Eating Utinsil. Basically your food just floats there. So you don't have to put your mouth on anything except the food. 
14. Directionless Clothing. So no matter what its on the right way. No inside out. No forwards. No backwards. You just throw it on and its good to go. Simplifies things. 
15. Thief App. I'm not sure what this one was supposed to be. I think it's supposed to be an app that can steal other apps...
16. Solar Powered Heated Jackets. Self explanatory.
17. Siamese Twin DJs. 'Cause that would be cool.  
18. EDIT: Just found another one. Elevated Jar Bottom. Ever struggle to get peanut butter or what have you out of the bottom of the jar? Well, what if you just had to twist the bottom of the jar, and the bottom rose up through the jar, pushing all the leftover peanut butter up with it. Now you can reach it. 

Well thats it for now. I might assemble another list later once I come up with more brilliance.