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The Platformers Podcast
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The Platformers Episode 67 : Karma Chameleon
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 65 : Go Play Brawl
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 6X : Buffer Overun
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 63 : GDC - Gamers Don't Cry
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 62 : Tranquility Base
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 61 : Twisted Podcast Black
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 60 : SuperCast VX
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The Platformers Episode 59 : Not Sixty
by The Platformers
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The Platformers Episode 58 : Fifth Eight-th
by The Platformers
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Solscheniskunk
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com)
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One Stop Thought Shop
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More like House of the Fun (I'll edit this title if the game turns out crummy)
by Tyler Ohlew
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Pressing Buttons
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When two fleshy arms won't do
by Tyler Ohlew
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Pressing Buttons
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Tribe Along
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com)
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One Stop Thought Shop
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Hawkman Revamp: The Finale, Coming Soon
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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Conditional Axe
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McLoophole
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com)
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One Stop Thought Shop
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Persuade? No?
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com)
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One Stop Thought Shop
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Maureen Dowd takes on Bush
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com)
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One Stop Thought Shop
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Pawn falls
by Brian Hayes (noreply@blogger.com)
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One Stop Thought Shop
From Conditional Axe:
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Hawkman Revamp: The Finale, Coming Soon
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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The Invasion Will Be Twitterized
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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For Serious, Guys
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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(Old) News You Can Use
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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Happy Birthday, Chris Sims.
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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Things I Hate: Chick Fil-A
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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So...How About Hawkman Special #1
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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If I Ran Marvel Comics #1
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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Friday Night Fights: Bardalicious
by Jeff (J.Stolarcyk@gmail.com)
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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...
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,...
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.
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.
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...
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 Skrulls are on Twitter, and they want you to know that He loves you.
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.Really?
"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.
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 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....
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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...