Here they are:
Mah niggas don't dance - Combining Fat Joe with The Simpsons. Based on its poor quality, I'm pretty sure I made the image myself and recorded the song with a PC microphone.
Shake Your Rump-Ah! - Some fat kid + Alizee + the Beastie Boys. It sounds like I used a PC mic again. I did not make the GIF.
Solid Snape kills Dumbelnooo - This is a combination of 3 trends on YTMND at the time (I believe I'm the only one that combined them in this way): Harry Potter spoilers, Darth Vader's "NOOOOOO" from Revenge of the Sith, and parodying Metal Gear Solid. I believe I made the sound and the image myself, which is way more effort than I'd currently put into something like this. This also seems like the first one where I actually had sound editing software.
Resident Evil 4 is GC exclusive!- I thought the lyrics in the song I used (by Taking Back Sunday) were hilariously bad and fitting for that image (which I did not create). I was also a bit of a Nintendo fanboy at the time so I sort of cared that Resident Evil 4 wasn't exclusive anymore even though I didn't buy it until last year. For Wii.
OW! My sperm! - Image/sound from Futurama.
Supersize it, Supervise it - Combining a picture of a fat kid at McDonald's with part of a song by Le Tigre (I believe it's called "Well Well Well"), who I was really into at the time. Le Tigre, not the fat kid.
Sexy, am I right? Guys? - A GIF of an anorexic transsexual walking towards the camera while the "Imagine there's no heaven" part of A Perfect Circle's cover of "Imagine" plays.
Sex in the future - I have no recollection of making this. I probably found the comic and the song around the same time and thought they'd fit or something.
Fear not, for I shall assist ye! - Another Futurama joke, but this time I put the extra effort into actually making the GIF myself.
SOUL RLY? - The "O RLY" meme was huge on YTMND. If it didn't start there, it definitely rose to prominence there. Soul Calibur III came out and had an owl character, so I made an O RLY YTMND using a picture of him. This is the second GIF I actually made myself.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The internet is stupid
I have a thing with message boards. The entire time I've had access to the internet I've been posting on them. Primarily video game message boards, especially during my adolescence. I still visit and post on message boards, but I try to stay away from video game specific boards now. The reason? People are idiots. Console fanboys are what did it mostly. I thought I had escaped... but sometimes the internet will follow you places.
Enter (the) Dragon Age 2. I loved Dragon Age: Origins and apparently so did a lot of people on the internet. I played it on PC. Apparently so did they, because they hate how DA2 is "consolefied" or whatever. They made this judgement before the game was released, mind you, and somehow managed to get their user reviews on Metacritic before the game was released. They must have industry connections! Truly they are superstar video game critics!
I played and finished DA2. It's superior to DAO in virtually every way. I have a fondness for the original, don't get me wrong, but DA2 is simply more fun and tells a more memorable story in my opinion. It's shorter, less expansive, flawed... but DAO was just as flawed in many similar ways. And it's still damn long. I'm a bit of a slowpoke/completionist and DA2 took me 50 hours as opposed to DAO's 80 hours. 30 hours is a pretty big difference, but I was far more familiar with the gameplay this time and 50 hours is nothing to sneeze at.
The big complaints seem to be that you can no longer select your race, you can no longer zoom the camera all the way out, and you have less diverse environments to explore. All valid complaints I suppose, but if these people actually played the damn game I'm sure they'd enjoy it and give it more than a 0 on Metacritic. Dragon Age 2 addiction is the reason nobody has updated this blog in 3 weeks. I personally think it could have benefited a lot form an extra 6 months or so of development, but I played the hell out of it regardless so I'm satisfied.
Enter (the) Dragon Age 2. I loved Dragon Age: Origins and apparently so did a lot of people on the internet. I played it on PC. Apparently so did they, because they hate how DA2 is "consolefied" or whatever. They made this judgement before the game was released, mind you, and somehow managed to get their user reviews on Metacritic before the game was released. They must have industry connections! Truly they are superstar video game critics!
I played and finished DA2. It's superior to DAO in virtually every way. I have a fondness for the original, don't get me wrong, but DA2 is simply more fun and tells a more memorable story in my opinion. It's shorter, less expansive, flawed... but DAO was just as flawed in many similar ways. And it's still damn long. I'm a bit of a slowpoke/completionist and DA2 took me 50 hours as opposed to DAO's 80 hours. 30 hours is a pretty big difference, but I was far more familiar with the gameplay this time and 50 hours is nothing to sneeze at.
The big complaints seem to be that you can no longer select your race, you can no longer zoom the camera all the way out, and you have less diverse environments to explore. All valid complaints I suppose, but if these people actually played the damn game I'm sure they'd enjoy it and give it more than a 0 on Metacritic. Dragon Age 2 addiction is the reason nobody has updated this blog in 3 weeks. I personally think it could have benefited a lot form an extra 6 months or so of development, but I played the hell out of it regardless so I'm satisfied.
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