Here there be bears

Just remember your pepper spray.

Shiny

I should point out that I have no intentions of getting a PS3 for a good long while, after the price has gotten out of 'wtf?' range. I didn't really have any intention of getting a PS3 at all, I do like the games, it's a fun system, but I'm happy with my little GameCube. Therefore I wasn't really paying attention to the system at all, slacker that I am.
Then I saw the trailer for White Knight Story.
It made me go *ooooh shiny*
None of the other damn trailers are working at this point, at least for me, but if ALL the graphics are anything like the above, I may have to deviate from the path of Nintendo.

Too amuzing to ignore.

Found this courtesy of the Penny Arcade forums...
Too White and Nerdy.
There was an earlier incarnation of this on youtube, then the RIAA freaked and brought it down, then Weird Al posted it himself.
Which makes him very cool in my opinion...

Anyways- the references in this are hilarious.
And if you get very many of them, you're pretty much a nerd.

Deal with it.

I'll Gut Ye

Before I forget, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Which in my opinion is fairly stupid, but pirates are awesome.

Why, you ask, are Pirates awesome?
Besides the treasure, and swords, and parrots?
Well... forget the shit Disney pumped into you. A Pirate Captain's word wasn't law. Pirates ran a Democracy before the U.S. did, and elected all captains and officers. Even then, a captain was no more than a commander in battle, deciding tactics and strategy. All major decisions (headings, ports, who to attack) were made by the crew, by vote, and if the crew wasn't happy with the captain, they would choose another.
They also had their own laws, which, depending on the ship, prohibited theft, rape, murder of fellow crewmen, excessive drunkeness, etc. Punishment ranged from lashing to marooning, depending on the crime.
Spoils were divided up evenly among the crew, and the captain's was usually 1 1/2 t0 2 times the crew. Officers were in between. Ship's boys were half or quarter.
Worker's comp. Not kidding. If you lost a leg or arm or eye or finger, or anything else important, you would be compensated, quite nicely, with enough to get you by for quite a while, especially if it was something that kept you from sailing again.
Don't believe me? Under the Black Flag is highly entertaining, and educational even.

I've had 'The Pirate King' stuck in my head ALL DAY.

And it is it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King...

School again? I just went yesterday...

Ah yes... after taking the summer off (finaid wouldn't cover it even if I absolutly had my heart set on going. Which I didn't.) and working lots I now get to go back to school, do school work, and still work lots.
Whee.
But one more semester after this (in which I will be getting my welding cert, thankyou very much) and I will officially have an AA. Which amounts to nothing but then I will be going to a real school. (The welding is for money. And fun. Cuz playing with molten metal is freaking cool.)
Unfortunatley, this semester, I have school every damn weekday, which means real days off are going to be hard to get. Grrr.

For once all my prof's beleived in cheap books, so that was nice.
Gonna go do my reading now.

Myspace is EVIL

That is all.

Eisenheim the Illusionist

Saw The Illusionist this weekend...
Good movie. You should know Ed Norton from Fight Club, and Jessica Biel from... other things.
Also, Paul Giamatti, who you may recognize from Lady in the Water, is excellent as Inspector Uhl.

It gets a bit dull in places but has one of the best storylines I've seen in months, much twisting and turning and surprises. The actors are fun to watch, the lighting is beautiful, and the effects are subtle and work excellently.
(no spoilers)
Edward and Sophie were childhood sweethearts, and Edward (who later changes his name to Eisenheim) gets driven off for being the son of a cabinet maker (already on his way to being the Illusionist), and Sophie being upper class and above all that.
Edward returns 15 years later to find Sophie on the verge of being engaged to the Crown Prince. You'll have to go see the movie to see what happens...

Dark Prince

The annoying thing about playing any of the the Prince of Persia games is that if you play it steadily for a while, and switch to something else, you still automatically try to rewind when you fuck up. Oh well...
Stupid reflexes.

BAD STINGRAY!

Steve Irwin, who is usually referred to as the 'Crocodile Hunter', is dead.
Not by a crocodile, but a stingray.
He was filming some sort of documentary and was stabbed in the chest. This being Australia, where a good deal of the animals are poisonous, he prolly got a good dose of something lethal if it didn't nick some major blood vessel or other.

Poor guy... I always found him entertaining... and he really did love his job. The wife and kids are prolly going through hell now... and the damned press won't be leaving them alone either. Suck.


Even if you did find him annoying, you gotta respect a guy who had the balls to taunt large animals with sharp pointy teeth for a living.

You may call me ADMIRAL slacker!!!

Sooooo yeah... been busy for a few days. Not that my extensive readership has missed me all that much. =P

The one thing I have been paying attention the past couple days is the Nintendo Revolution. As you know by now, the official name for the new system is "Wii". We're still having trouble discussing this with a straight face.
Anyways... the 'Wii-mote', which bears a distinct resemblace to a pair of nunchucks, is the coolest thing yet, at least for nintendo. The controller reacts to movement, so when you pull back on the contoller, you see the results on-screen. This is an integral feature on games specific to Wii. Depending on the game, it's your throttle, scope, or hilt, among various other things.
The downside to this is you're completly fucked if you sneeze at a crucial moment.

Anyways... The long delay of Twilight Princess may have been worth it, at least to those snapping up the Wii when it comes out. Still don't know when that is.
I'll be playing it on my gamecube 'till I decide to invest the monies in a new system.