Peer Pressure Works!

I quietly added DRM News to my links list awhile ago, but I figure it’s time to holla at my playah…or…something. Christ.

So yeah, after leaving Reclaim Your Game, I was still interested in doing writing on DRM info and stuff like that. Anyway, Brad (those of you who pay attention to comments on here would know him better as Qikdraw) and his wife Kathy had also left RYG and wanted to do something, and set up a simple little Wordpress site. I joined in and…well, that’s actually pretty much it. I’ll have to add in some ninjas and perhaps an exciting scene with rhinos rampaging down a small town street later to beef up the “Holy shit!” factor.

It isn’t anything too fancy. We just do little articles up when something news worthy drops and add a few editorial type ones, too. We’ve actually been throwing content up for a few weeks before announcing anywhere so that there is actually some material there if/when people start swinging by.

We have some plans for how to grow it from here, some stuff that would be pretty cool if/when it comes to fruition (haha! Still being a cryptic bastard!).

And now you know…the rest…of the story.

Notice how any time anyone ever says anything approaching that, it usually ends up in a gathering sort of like this?

Well, not anymore. If Don “Moose” Lewis gets his brilliant All-America Basketball Alliance going, it may soon end up in a gathering like this.

Yes indeed, it’s all cracker basketball! All the jump shots and chest passes that your heart can handle without any of those ‘urban’ types to bring those slam dunks and handguns and crack to the arena!

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Good lord! A serious post?!

As I mentioned in a post awhile ago, I used to be an admin on the site Reclaim Your Game. I stepped down for a number of reasons, many of them disclosed in that post.

Recently, they decided to turn their ‘fair and balanced’ (with about as much fairness and balance as the other users of that slogan, Fox News, typically display) on the SecuROM used on the game Borderlands. The resulting testing report is nothing but a collection of biased, unproven claims and rhetoric. Seeing them then begin to talk about that report on other web forums as though it resembled fact, I decided a response was necessary. This is that response.

 NFC – Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints

This might not be the most exciting matchup in terms of shock value (anyone with a functional cerebrum saw this coming about half a season ago), but it is the two best teams in the conference squaring off, and that’s usually fun to watch.

Minnesota and leader/crotchety old man Grampa Favre can probably put up some numbers on the Saints. I actually think that New Orleans’ blitz packages will give them a more consistent pass rush than Dallas had last week (then again, the occupants of a ward full of quadriplegics could probably accomplish that goal), but they’ll give up more on the ground to Purple Jesus, He of the Book of Fumbles.

New Orleans is pretty much next to impossible to cover, simply because they have approximately 62 receivers who can make plays if you don’t lock them down. So pass rush is key, and the Saints have a better pass blocking line than the Dallas boys (big and fat is as helpful to pass blocking as it is to a healthy heart). I don’t see Jared Allen (a man who really should be driving long haul in a plaid shirt with the sleeves torn off, using the CB call sign of ‘Jimmy Vegas’) teeing off like they did on Tony Romo last week. I don’t really like Romo, but even I felt badly for him. Had they focused on his mom in the stands at some point, you would have seen her wincing…not because her son was in pain, but because those hits were actually shattering HER pelvis.

I’ll take the Saints, as the Vikings have to deal with a raucous, noisy crowd on the road. Plus, New Orleans owner Tom Benson had Dubya in his luxury box last week…that crazy bastard will foment a Republican-led revolution that ends with the National Guard shooting the Vikings of they should win.

AFC – New York Jets at Indianapolis Colts

The most astounding piece of Jets new this week? Rex Ryan apparently eats 7000 calories a day. That would explain why he looks like Gumby after a few Jacko bleach treatments.

The Jets shouldn’t be here, but they are. They’ve won two games in impressive fashion. However, with Shaun Ellis now reduced to one good hand and a shattered lump wrapped in what looked like 63 rolls of medical tape, and numerous other guys messed up pretty good, they aren’t exactly in a great position this week.

The Colts are pissed off. This is their chance to show everyone that with their starts in the game, they can stomp a mud hole right through the Jets. They’re angry, they’re motivated, and they’re capable of actually pressuring the passer. A pressured Mark Sanchez does not a poised Mark Sanchez make. They also have a semblance of a running game, something San Diego couldn’t say.

I’ve got the Colts winning this one, at least in part because I think they have a chance against the Saints or Vikings, while the Jets would be crushed. I don’t need to see another Super Bowl ass kicking.

Well, it is when it’s done like this.

There is no way in Hell that this is real. It has to be a spoof, but it’s done so well that I don’t care. It makes me do the laughing.

Seriously, this is incredible.

So, these guys in capes and weird armour can just wander the halls of a school without arousing suspicion? Seriously, Bibleman is the offer of a candy bar and a panel van away from being a full on pedophile suspect!

Watch as the show’s token black character displays the temptation of the bad side by throwing on a do-rag! Watch as Satan’s minions use computers to try and tempt children away from geekery and in to a world of…well…basically hanging out in a food court from the looks of it. Thrill to the site of Bibleman and the Hellspawn engaging in combat with energy swords that are totally not a complete rip off of the lightsabers from the Star Wars movies! And enjoy some hot computing action as Bibleman’s sidekick shuts down an evil network while it ineffectually hurls sparks from its keyboard!

All of this and more in the video above. And that’s just scratching the surface. Youtube is replete with countless videos of the hilarity of morality.

Aaaah, the War on Terror.

Really, I could just leave that title and that line and mail it in and this would be a success. However, I’ll keep going! I’ll share MORE of my ‘brilliance’ with you peons!

Anyway, the War on Terror…I can’t even type, say or hear that term without giggling. I mean, what are the limits? If Barack Obama was scared of the dark, would the US be launching ‘Operation Perma-Day’ and trying to use atomic weapons to turn the moon in to a second sun? Every sensible child out there is scared of clowns…should we start lining them up against a wall and shooting them? And where can someone volunteer for that duty?

So, back to whatever the Hell my point was going to be! Obviously, part of the War on…okay, I can’t even say it again. Part of protecting the airways from hijackers is airport security screening. If you want some idea of how stringent that security is, I have one line for you :

I was once employed as a gate security screener.

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At least, one would assume that when you see what they need to include in their safety films. It seems that when they aren’t busy drinking massive tankards of beer and cooking up their latest Reich, Germany suffers from incredible levels of accidental workplace violence.

I also learned an important lesson watching this : sheets of metal, regardless of how flexible they may appear to be, are in fact razor sharp instruments of death.

I went 2-2 last week. Hopefully I can show some goddamn improvement here.

Baltimore Ravens vs. Indianapolis Colts

The Ravens looked excellent against New England, but the Pats defence possesses as much speed as you’re likely to find in a typical retirement home. Indy’s defence can run. The issue with them is that size wise, they sort of look like blue and white clad Lilliputians. This hasn’t hurt them too much this year, but Baltimore plays a physical, pounding brand of football.

On the other hand, the Colts score at will. Peyton Manning is not so much a quarterback…no, he’s some sort of cyborg programmed for pure football excellence. The guy makes ripping defences apart look as difficult as pitch and catch. He also has a rather ginormous melon….maybe to contain a genetically altered uberbrain???

Anyway, I’ll take he of the malformed dome over the Ray Lewis Murder Express, but it will be a close game. I’m also going to make up some sort of arbitrary competition matchup for each game. For this one…which is mentioned more : Ray Lewis is credited by the announcers for his amazing leadership, or Peyton Manning gets angry when a receiver misses a catch? (I’ll take Lewis) (continue reading…)

Remember I talked about this game a year ago? No? Well, I did, ya bastards! Anyway, it WAS a year ago, meaning this is the birthday of Crayon Physics Deluxe. And because it’s the game’s birthday, you can now buy it from the developer for whatever the Hell you feel like paying.

Don’t be a complete dick. After all, I’ve read that it costs the seller somewhere in the neighbourhood of 40 cents in processing fees to complete a Paypal transaction, so if you pay the guy less than that you pretty much deserve to have a beehive shoved up your ass.

As for the game itself, it’s pretty basic. You have a ball you need to get to an end point. How you get it there is your choice…draw whatever objects you think might help. Here’s the trailer video, since that description pretty much made it sound as intriguing as ‘Take a Dump Simulator 2.13’ :

And to say that some people come up with insanely creative solutions would be a massive understatement. The only limit really is how much of an Engineer you feel like being (with all the depression, loneliness and rampant alcoholism that obviously involves).

Also, there is a level editor out for the game, and pack upon pack of levels by the hundred in the forums. So there ya go. Sale lasts until the 15th. Represent, bitches!