Donburi Boy

From Kate Beaton’s always-excellent Hark, A Vagrant

Today’s mantra:

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“The older I get, the more life seems to be the stupid, frustrating stuff that gets in the way of you and reading comics…”

Truer words were never spoken.

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“It doesn’t have to take millions, does it? The idea works. Batman on a budget.”

Thanks, Batman!

Stencil work by Mogul

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ourvaluedcustomers:

To his friend while discussing dating…

I had a similar “test” for The Woman but it was much more intense. I made her read Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson, and I made her watch Firefly & Serenity.

Lucky for me that she enjoyed both and passed my stupid test!

Video Game backlog update:

Before I made the resolution to not buy video games for 2012, I managed to score a copy of the Sly Collection for the PS3 for five bucks.

I had a hard time getting into 3D platformers. I never had a Nintendo 64, so I missed Super Mario 64. I couldn’t get into any of the PS1 games like Crash Bandicoot. I always felt that the controls were never quite there, so I largely ignored the genre.

I never played any of the Sly Cooper games when they were on the PS2, so it was a pleasant surprise to find that the first game in the series, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, is really quite fun.

The visuals are sharp and colourful. The controls are very responsive, which is a must for a platformer, especially a 3D one. The levels are short and sweet. I found a lot of the powers and abilities weren’t very useful or necessary.

The characters are all goofy animals, but the voice acting is pretty well done, and the story, such as it is, gets right to the point.

Good price for a great game. At least so far. We’ll see how the sequels do.

So, the Great Game Backlog project of 2012 currently looks like this:

• Assassin’s Creed

• Assassin’s Creed II

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

• Astro Tripper

• Back to the Future

• Batman: Arkham City (new game plus, challenges, for Platinum)

• Burn, Zombie, Burn

• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

• DC Universe Online

• Dissidia: Final Fantasy

• Donkey Kong Country Returns

• Final Fantasy XIII (I’m going finish all the hunts/missions and see if I can Platinum)

• Hydrophobia

• Ico

• Infamous (evil playthrough)

• Infamous 2 (evil playthrough)

• Katamari Forever

• L.A. Noire: The Complete Collection

• The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

• Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 (since The Woman has already completed most of it, I’m going to go for an easy Platinum :p )

• Little Big Planet 2

• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

• Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

• Portal (from the Orange Box)

• Portal 2

• Prince of Persia

• Red Dead Redemption

• Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

• Shadow of the Colossus

• Sly Collection: Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

• Sly Collection: Sly 2: Band of Thieves

• Sly Collection: Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

• Sly Collection: Mini Games

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2

• Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

• Tomb Raider Underworld

• Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (crushing playthrough, for Platinum)

• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (crushing playthrough, for Platinum)

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The goal is to not buy any games this year. (But when Christmas comes around again, I’ll try to pick up the best of 2012 during year-end sales!)

mightymendozasaur:

Spider-Man by by Travis Charest

jibubot:

Let’s make living breathing sprawling adventures filled with mind-blowing images of things unseen on Earth. 

To do:

Emergency breakup plan.

“Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” - Alfred Hitchcock