Jack Thompson: disbarred

Aaaannnnddddd WHEEEEEE!

He's dead! He's dead! Okay, he's not dead, but his dumb ass is disbarred.

And I love that he immediately tried to file an appeal. And the Supreme Court said, "Hey! Jackass! You're not a lawyer any more, remember?"

Important boob-related research

I'm so glad someone out there is doing the truly important research...

Jack Thompson: still an asshole

Not worth another Daily Douchebag, but just in case you were wondering: yup, Jack Thompson is still an asshole.

Folding proteins for fun and profit

I think this is probably one of if not _the_ coolest thing to come out of our department. They managed to make a game out of folding proteins! Now your procrastination could actually cure disease!

Your daily douchebag (5/5/08)

You know, every time I swear I'm not going to give Jack Thompson another Daily Douchebag, he does something that brings douchebaggery to an entirely new level.

"Hmm...I've said pretty much every douchbaggy thing that could ever be said...how can I add that extra 'oomph!' that says, '_That_ man is no ordinary douchebag. Truly, he is a titan among douchebags!'? I know! Instead of sending a threatening email to my adversary, send it to his mother!"

Kitten cannon

Go directly to hell. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. In fact, get in the express line...

Mario controlled by giant ghostly hand

Definitely one of the weirder things I've seen recently. Ever wondered what it would be like to push around dozens of Marios with your hand? Yeah, neither had I.

Duke Nukem Forever: beyond sad

Oh, this makes me smile.

If you haven't followed video game development for the last, oh, decade, Duke Nukem Forever is notorious. If you haven't heard of it, that's because it doesn't exist. It has notoriously not existed for well over a decade. "Development" started on Duke Nukem Forever in 1997. Right, _that_ 1997. The one in the previous millenium. The one before I graduated from high school. That one.

It's never been released. But it refuses to die. Like a fucking immortal zombie, its decaying stench perpetually permeates the rumor mills. Indeed, a new trailer for it has even cropped up...yet again...in recent months. But don't worry...I have full faith we'll never actually see a real game. I choose to rest my vain hopes on Starcraft 2.

Cal's halftime show

I like to call this, "When Two Forms of Nerdery Combine"...

No more Daily Douchebags for Jack Thompson, but...

...still, and seriously, _what the fuck is wrong with him_???

Your daily douchebag (09/07/07)

I have to resist giving a Daily Douchebag to Jack Thompson for pretty much every breath he takes, but I think sending subpoenas to both George W. and Jeb Bush as part of his defense against being disbarred. I mean...wow. I think we need to make a new "megalomaniacal" subdivision of "paranoid schizophrenic" just for ol' Wacky Jacky.

So are the cable news channels going to still invite this nutjob on their programs? Oh, probably...he's still entertaining. In the way that that homeless guy yelling at invisible gremlins is entertaining.

Wired does Penny Arcade

A really nice article on Penny Arcade at Wired, if I do say so myself. My two favorite quotes, which literally made me laugh out loud:

"But gaming is increasingly a mainstream activity, with titles like Brain Age and the jock-friendly Madden NFL franchise selling more than anything else. A recurring theme of the strip is resentment that the cool kids are encroaching on their turf.

"It's not fair," Krahulik says. "They could be having sex. With women. Why do they want my hobby?"

...and...

"Kara gained a rep online as the perfect gamer wife after Mike revealed the particulars of their sixth anniversary to readers: They parked their son with the grandparents, holed up in a hotel room... and logged into World of Warcraft. "There's no time to run a raid on Molten Core with a kid at home," Kara says defensively.

Mike thinks the anniversary story has been blown out of proportion. "It's not like we didn't have sex, too," he says. Over his wife's shrieks of protest, he adds, "We took breaks. Long breaks, if you catch my drift..."

John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory

I'm not sure I'd actually wear it as a shirt, but it makes a great poster. Is there any more fundamental truth for our age?

Mario Kart Wii

*insert girlish squeal here*

Yet more Flash crack

Battle-bot tournament!!! Very addictive, but fortunately it has an ending (you can beat the game). My two teslacoil juggernauts, Tuna and Halibut, just massacred the last level. Muahahaha...

A review of Overlord that I know you don't care about

I just finished Overlord. I enjoyed it. It was entertaining. Not too challenging, but I enjoyed it.

The one big problem I had with it is that it wasn't polished. Maybe I'm holding it to an unreasonable Zelda standard of polish, but there were lots of dinky bugs in the game. For example, when fighting one of the final guys, there's a cut scene, and I swear that every single time I emerged from the cut scene, between 2 and 12 of my minions had become weirdly embedded in the boxes behind me. I pretty much had to write them off. It was annoying.

Plus, their object intersection code was clearly very poor. There was an obviously very large bounding box around pretty much every guy and every object, and it frequently felt like you were running into a magic, invisible forcefield. At one point, I found myself unable to go around a large boss who shouldn't have taken up more than half of the width of the passageway, and I died because of it. Just obnoxious shit like that.

I dunno...it didn't completely spoil the game, but it felt like it had been rushed out the door. I read online that there was a bug (that I fortunately didn't trigger) that could make it so that you would be unable to progress in the game. That's frankly inexcusable. It's poor game design.

So, basically, A for concept, C- for execution. You guys can do better. In the genre, I think Pikmin is strictly a better game, although it clearly doesn't have the humor. And it's a really weird Japanese game. And watching your pikmin die was fucking excruciating. Did they really have to show them drowning so graphically? *shudder*

But, I digress. I'm done with it. Now, I have Halo 3, Super Smash Brothers, Hellgate: London, and a variety of other games to look forward to. I'm also becoming slightly intrigued by BioShock...

(again, I'm never going to graduate)

More Flash crack: Boomshine

I beat level 12! Ha! And it only took me about 6 tries!

Crack Flash game

I have no idea why it's so addictive to stack blocks. All I know is that I lost the past several hours of my life, and I'm currently #21 on the high score list with 238,110.

If you were to learn about sex from Mario, Luigi, and Captain N

I figured I hadn't irreparably damaged your soul in a while. (nsfw)

Best of video game music

Have I mentioned how much I miss Mega Man? I still remember dodging those goddamn side-sweeping lasers in the Flash Man level...