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Solscheniskunk
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com) at One Stop Thought Shop

More like House of the Fun (I'll edit this title if the game turns out crummy)
by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

When two fleshy arms won't do
by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

Tribe Along
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com) at One Stop Thought Shop

Hawkman Revamp: The Finale, Coming Soon
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

McLoophole
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com) at One Stop Thought Shop

Persuade? No?
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com) at One Stop Thought Shop

Maureen Dowd takes on Bush
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com) at One Stop Thought Shop

Pawn falls
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Hawkman Revamp: The Finale, Coming Soon
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

The Invasion Will Be Twitterized
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

For Serious, Guys
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

(Old) News You Can Use
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Happy Birthday, Chris Sims.
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Things I Hate: Chick Fil-A
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

So...How About Hawkman Special #1
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

If I Ran Marvel Comics #1
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

Friday Night Fights: Bardalicious
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)

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More like House of the Fun (I'll edit this title if the game turns out crummy)

Posted 2008-08-20 03:56:23 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

For some crazy reason, Sega thought it'd be cool to test the light-gun shooter waters on the Wii with the release of Ghost Squad and House of the Dead 2 & 3. Thankfully, people chose to invest in the better...

When two fleshy arms won't do

Posted 2008-08-20 03:14:02 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

I've finaggled a copy of Bionic Commando: Rearmed for my PS3, and I thought "Hey, lets share with the people what I think of the game." My first statement is....I wish I could jump. Hopefully you're freaking out right now,...

Hawkman Revamp: The Finale, Coming Soon

Posted 2008-08-19 13:49:46 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

So, after a genuinely zany weekend, I've hit a crazy work week head-on. All of these complications mean that I haven't picked my Hawkman winner yet. Expect closure tonight.

short and sweet

Posted 2008-08-17 05:38:51 by Brian R. Belida at appropriately[untitled]


August 2008
Ratatat “Falcon Jab”

I was going to wait until I had some more footage together but decided not to. I tossed in some old stuff from when I worked at ACRO Gymnastics to fill some space.

Otherwise it’s all freshly filmed this month! Tried to find some undiscovered spots in Westminster, as well as making new use of old ones.

Ohh, me so phony

Posted 2008-08-16 07:39:11 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

I'm likely the biggest fake-fan of Mega Man you'll ever come across. I mean, I do really like him, but not for the expected reasons. You know, namely his games. Nah, I'm a fan of his celebrity status. I think...

Downloading...Installing...Updating...

Posted 2008-08-16 07:22:50 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

I got a new harddrive for my PS3 not too long ago, and I'm just now diving head first into the murky waters of reinstallment. When my 40 gigger began running low on open space (I was left with 9...

The Invasion Will Be Twitterized

Posted 2008-08-15 17:56:56 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

The Skrulls are on Twitter, and they want you to know that He loves you.

For Serious, Guys

Posted 2008-08-15 09:30:02 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

A serious note from Bully's cookie provider, John:

There's no general information room or desk listed, nor is there a contact location for security, so I go to the Guest Relations Desk. I speak to a volunteer manning the desk; she's sympathetic to the situation but who doesn't have a clear answer to my question: "What's Comic-Con's policy and method of dealing with complaints about harassment?" She directs me to the nearest security guard, who is also sympathetic listening to my reports, but short of the women wanting to report the incidents with the names of their harassers, there's little that can be done.

"I understand that," I tell them both, "but what I'm asking is more hypothetical and informational: if there is a set Comic-Con policy on harassment and physical and verbal abuse on Con attendees and exhibitors, and if so, what's the specific procedure by which someone should report it, and specifically where should they go?" But this wasn't a question either could answer.
Really?

Because that's pretty ridiculous. But rather than condemn the asocial mouth breathers who perpetrate the kind of harassment John's talking about, the sort of assholes who probably believe that the Open Source Boob Project was like a manifesto or a galvanizing call to action that should have sent fetishizing, unloved nerds gropingly into the streets en masse, I'm simply going to be alarmed by the fact that something so big, so populous and so plauged with these kind of in-plain-sight cases of purely malicious sexual harassment doesn't already have a policy in place about this beyond "report the incidents with the names of their harassers," which is - frankly - an idiotic policy when you consider an event like SDCC, which has thousands of people who don't know each other and probably aren't wearing a legible nametag unless they're a VIP, press, or an exhibitor. And some of those people are in costumes. A lot of them, actually. The douchebag who tripped over my laptop's power cord at WizardWorld Philly? He took off and I never got a good look at him because he was wearing a costume and because he was spry. And all that happened to me was the inadvertant destruction of my property, not attempted rape.

You know, if any of this stuff happened at a pro football game, the clods responsible would be detained at the very least.

I doubt that, if you're reading this, you're one of the asshole types responsible. I like to assume that my readership has high standards. But you probably know at least one of those types. His behavior damages the hobby, it drives people away and it perpetuates the bullshit golly-gee manchild view of our culture that gets on your nerves every time you see a comics-related story in a newspaper or on TV.

Hopefully, we'll see CCI do something about this before next year; hell, maybe before Baltimore next month. Realistically, I don't know. In the meantime, let's just try not to be assholes and also not turn a blind eye to this kind of behavior when we see it.

Too many chefs make the soup...awesome?

Posted 2008-08-14 23:10:17 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

So when Sega teamed up with PlatinumGames, I thought "Wow, that's unusual. Unusually spectacular." I think that thought somehow got around, and a lot of publishers got really jealous. EA in particular became Mr. Jelly Jealouson, thinking to itself, "Sega...

So close and yet...still pretty close

Posted 2008-08-14 22:22:26 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

So it looks like I've missed my chance at scoring the Resistance 2 multiplayer beta. Well, at least my earliest chance. I remember way back when (a month or so ago) Gamepro ran a cover story on the aforementioned game....

(Old) News You Can Use

Posted 2008-08-14 15:40:00 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

Is This Thing On?

Posted 2008-08-13 14:04:00 by noreply@blogger.com (Brian) at Clinton Hill Foodie

Wow, that was quite a layoff, much longer than I'd expected. Sorry about that! There's been some sporadic fooding in the last month, and I'll have a few posts up later this week about munchies in the neighborhood. We hit up Loulou the other night, and it was grand as always. I finally got to try abistro, and while the food was good, the service was less so. More on that later.

Busy-ness has kept me from doing much of my own cooking lately, but we'll be heading up to Arthur Ave sometime very soon, which always precedes lots of goodness.



One piece of exciting local food news is that Il Porto, the new Italian place on Washington is now open! Thanks to Myrtle Shuffle for the heads up. I haven't been able to check it out yet, but rest assured I will soon. I also have yet to try the restaurant that Il Torchio turned into, but I've heard good things so far.

A quick random question for you guys: Which is better, 67 Burger or Five Guys? I prefer 67, but this sparked a heated debate the other night. Might have to have a burger-off one of these days...

Happy Birthday, Chris Sims.

Posted 2008-08-13 00:46:07 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

To commemorate the birthaversary of Chris Sims, he of Invincible Super Blog fame, I've unearthed this hidden gem of Romitude, a story in which the noble Spaceknight battles the mightiest of the Warriors Three. Women swoon, warriors weep, and by the end of it all, Volstagg has boasted of kicking 8,000 men in the face before barely helping Rom neutralize a Dire Wraith masquerading as an erotic horror author named 'Ms. Framingham'.

Here's to you, sir.

Review - Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (WiiWare)

Posted 2008-08-13 06:30:01 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

With Braid and PixelJunk Eden showing us the soft, artistic side of downloadable titles, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is that weight on the other side of the scale. It's as straightforward as can be, but just as...

Things I Hate: Chick Fil-A

Posted 2008-08-12 10:00:01 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

This was going to be Things I Hate: Being 30, but Phil 'Poptown' Looney reminded me about Chick Fil-A's breakfast sandwiches yesterday.

I thought about that subject for a little while, and you know? Die in a fire, Chick Fil-A.

Why?

Because any sap you grab off the street will tell you that this


...is like a little piece of breakfast Nirvana.

Any sap except me. Because I've never had one.

Among a certain subset of my friends, it's become legendary - all the times I've tried to purchase this sandwich and been denied, either because I, hung over, sleep through the alarm, or am not woken up, or because the restaurant, in some cruel, cosmic, Serling kind of joke, is closed for renovations when I happen to show up right at open.

Hell, they were out of chicken once. At least, out of the kind of chicken they put on that I-know-it-has-to-be-delicious biscuit. That time, they offered me coupons and told me to come back tomorrow. "I live out of state," I said, "I'll never be here again!"

"Argh!" As Charlie Brown might say.

The worst feeling of all is that of getting up early, dressing silently, and slipping out of a friend's house to drive to the Chick Fil-A, pull into the drive thru, wait for a minute or two, and then realize belatedly, the last wisps of gossamer sleep evaporating like fine dew, that it's a fucking Sunday.

If I hate Chick Fil-A for anything, it's that crap.

See, Chick Fil-A is a front for the vast Southern Baptist Conspiracy. What conspiracy? Well, frankly, I don't know. That's how good a job they do. Because of this, their stores are closed on sunday to traffic cocaine "honor God." And I get that. Honest. But all I ask is that you have maybe one atheist there on Sunday morning to pick up that handful of people - like me - who forget sometimes. See, it's just not smart. That's money they're losing. And because I live in what some of Chick Fil-A's consumer base still calls "The Union," my access to a franchise on, say, Tuesday at noon is...problematic.

Now, I know that there are some misguided people who dislike Chick Fil-A because of its Southern Baptist roots; as a lapsed Catholic, I'm prepared to tell you (if you're one of them) to get over it because religion is probably just a shell game anyway, but chicken is real and palpable and it means something in our everyday lives. And their chicken is goddamn delicious. And that's why I hate them, really. That and those stupid Sundays.

And, well, my own serial lack of planning and/or forethought. But that's not my fault. Surely not.

So...How About Hawkman Special #1

Posted 2008-08-11 21:31:08 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

You know who's not winning the Hawkman Revamp Contest?

Jim Starlin.

Having read the thing, I'm inclined to think that Christopher Bird did a better job with it.

In fact, I'm gonna go ahead and say that anybody could probably have handled this revamp better than Jim Starlin did.

And you can help prove me right, too.

I know some of you have Big Ideas.

The prize for the best Hawkman revamp pitch is a commissioned sketch from Benjamin Birdie, artist of The Rack, who's doing his own reinterpretation of the Thanagarian Terror.

So email or comment with your pitch or a link to your pitch; it will make you Internet famous.

If I Ran Marvel Comics #1

Posted 2008-08-11 03:34:25 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

Taking a cue from everybody's favorite little stuffed bull, I'm going to toss out just one of the many amazing ideas I'd front-burner if I ran Marvel Comics.

Yes, it's exactly like The Clone Saga, except with Aunt May. Yes, I know it's pretty amazing.

Dewey Adventure

Posted 2008-08-09 22:45:29 by Brian R. Belida at appropriately[untitled]

Well I’m off to Dewey Beach, Delaware for a week! The above is a little photo teaser of some parkour footage I’ve been putting together in August so far. Should get the actual video up shortly after I return!

w00t le fuque!

Friday Night Fights: Bardalicious

Posted 2008-08-08 21:44:17 by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com) at Conditional Axe

Friday Night Fights: Ladies' Night
Barda Vs. Insect Queen #1
Barda Vs. Insect Queen #2

This week, we got a dose of comic book apocalyptica from Grant Morrison. Here's a little number from the last time GMozz threatened to destroy the DCU, the classic JLA arc World War III.

Bahlactus heralds the dawn of the Fifth World. And he knows how to treat a lady.

If my words aren't enough, how about some voice?

Posted 2008-08-09 02:42:22 by Tyler Ohlew at Pressing Buttons

I don't think I've ever made it clear, but I work for a site called Oranjive. If you remember, I did write for Platformers.net, but the editorial staff and I moved on to create Oranjive. You can catch my work...