Oh hey Nintendo Super Squad is back

Oh wow, out of nowhere.  Like finding a gold nugget in between your couch cushions or something.

I watched Frozen tonight.  This was not a wise decision.  I'm not sure what I was expecting, I guess maybe a more jokey, goofy horror approach, but not really.  They do what most horror/disaster films don't usually bother with, making the characters mildly likable, or at least relatable enough that you're completely repulsed later on when stuff starts happening. 

If they'd been douchebags or something, it might be possible to take some perverse pleasure in seeing, say, [spoiler]a guy falling, snapping the bones out of both of his legs, then sobbing for like an hour until wolves finally show up and eat him alive.  It definitely hit that point where you realize "This isn't fun.  Why am I watching this?"[/spoiler]

It's kind of cute that one of the actors played Iceman in X-Men, and they get all winky meta referencing Open Water, but it stops being cute really quick and sort of turns into gruel.

If Les Stroud had been there, he'd have fashioned some sort of parachute out of the skin of the most annoying person and rode that sucker majestically down to the bottom of the mountain.

Oh, Les Stroud.  I need your calm, Canadian comfort now.   

This thread showed me a dragon vomitting from its eye sockets.

When I'm dying in the rain, this is one of the things I will tell Harrison Ford.

At least they're not using memes in their game--  Well, no, I think I saw a Double Rainbow something or other in frontierville.

Gaia Online was essentially the same (basic carrot on a stick gimmick, shamelessly using memes) but at least it had the eroticism of playing with dolls (?) and the forums while you play.

I used to go there and I distinctly remember a thread where a girl claimed a shark bit off her vagina.  That was the exact wording: "off."  Of course it didn't happen, but then it's like...

What if it did?

Farmville gives my parents something to do online for a change, so I can't completely hate it.  Then again, they always seem to be scowling while they play it, so I don't know.  And there's nothing more surreal than hearing a screaming argument where someone says "I just needed to do something on fucking Farmville!"

I'm pretty sure I heard one of them talking about how they recieved an egg that contained a full-size hot air balloon once.  That seems like a bit too much whimsy for a couple of southern Baptist Evangelicals, but what do I know?

My dad's also started getting into Frontierville which seems to be the same, only with combat, now. So basically Diablo!  I caught him planting peanuts yesterday for almost five minutes.  He told me they had to be done now because it'd take three weeks for them to grow.  I asked if this was game-time or real-time and he just sighed and said "I don't know."

It was nearly the exact tone of voice and look of despair he had when he used to talk about paying off his student loans.

god i was a shithead back then

Yeah, I'm coming down from a bad bout of shithead-dom, mostly on some other game-y, talky forum.  I think it's cleared up, though.  I'm in between outbreaks, riding bicycles on the beach and stuff.

I'm glad they had that little robot bug react to every scene in the trailer or I wouldn't have known how to feel.

Maybe I was thinking of Dragon Song.  I'm almost sure it was Dragon something that crippled you in a hideous way.

That cyber elf thing sounds kind of BioShock-y, so I guess I can act all morally superior to nobody in particular for not killing fictional characters.  Until I do, which will probably be justified in some way.

There's another game that punishes you for using one of its main gameplay elements, but I can't remember what it is off the top of my head.

I guess I'll give it a try because it's pretty cheap, though.  Hopefully it'll be similar to Mega Man X in difficulty, where it starts off near impossible until you go scouring the levels for the little health upgrades.

I only just saw the first episode, so I'm really behind, but I enjoyed it a lot.  At first it seemed like it was going over the same ground, but I knew I was really going to like this series when Rick goes back for the half-a-zombie, says "I'm sorry this happened to you" and then puts her out of her misery.  That was really great.  I can't wait to see where this all goes.

That really wasn't a very useful post...  Um, but I like the show!