Random Thoughts
So is the Dark Knight going to be all about how it’s wrong for a billionaire to run around in a costume punching poor people? Last thing I want is another left-wing, morality trip.
Filled out a survey and it took me a second to remember to answer “Yes” to “Are you a parent?” It was a survey on playing Legend of Zelda.
There’s this Club Nintendo thing where I can answer surveys on games and get coins towards free 3DS game downloads. I’m an adult.
Early complaints I’m hearing about the Dark Knight movie is that Bane speech sounds garbled and is hard to understand. Based on Rick Perry?
In some countries, a “Man Bites Dog” story is a restaurant review.
To whom did we compare people we had disagreements with before Hitler?
I know this lyric criticism is a little late, Weird Al, but I’ve never heard of kids starving in Japan. Don’t know what else you could rhyme with “bran”, though.
So for Star Wars the Old Republic, I pay $60 for the game and another $15 a month to be able to play it? That doesn’t sound insane to some people? I’m one of the most avid gamers there are, yet I can’t imagine how more than handful of people pay these monthly fee to play one game. If it were a buck a month, maybe. And will this paradigm last when competing against iOS games where $6 is expensive? Maybe it’s just I’ve never tried an MMORPG other than Diablo one and two (free to play online).
It hard to associate the bad guys in that Rainbow Six trailer with OWS because they’re wearing suits and are racially diverse.
Tell me that in the training level you get to pepper spray unarmed hippies.
Why doesn’t someone just make a game called “Hippie Puncher”?
I’m not sure I’m liking this new “controversial video game” fad. Next we’ll be launching angry birds at illegal immigrants.
I don’t understand the mentality that adding walnuts to cookies or brownies does anything other than ruin them.
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December 21st, 2011 at 9:26 am
I dont know about you, but i would actually pay for “Angry Birds Vs Illegal Immigrants”
December 21st, 2011 at 9:36 am
Uzebekistan bran and so on
Tried to find the New Yorker cover of all the ‘Stans to no avail
December 21st, 2011 at 9:37 am
Come on man Walnuts are tasty. Adds to the textural toothsomeness of the brownie
December 21st, 2011 at 9:38 am
Pretty much any of the stan countries would have worked also Sudan, Iran, or a made up country since no one ever looks at a map.
December 21st, 2011 at 9:54 am
Mmmm. Walnuts.
Of course, being my age, any time walnuts are mentioned, I think of Mary Tyler Moore.
December 21st, 2011 at 10:00 am
Frank, I’m sorry to say Diablo (1 & 2) were not MMORPGs. Just really great games with on-line co-op play and a little pvp. World of Warcraft (which had 11 million subscribers at it’s height) is an MMORPG and it also casts $15/month to play.
I look at it this way; if I’m spending more than 4-5 hours a month playing, I’m getting my money’s worth. I would definitely be getting better value than if I spent that same money at the movies every month. Maybe if those lazy authors over at Baen would write faster, I could spend the money on their books instead.
Anyway, I’m a Trekkie so the whole thing is a moot point for me anyway. Lucas sucks!
December 21st, 2011 at 10:42 am
I don’t want to shoot hippies, I want to punch hippies. Dang it, video game designers, get your act together!
December 21st, 2011 at 10:54 am
Why would we need a hippie punching game when there are so many real hippies to punch. They are even camping out in parks right now making them easier to find.
December 21st, 2011 at 11:06 am
In my area at least, there are very few hippies and in these economic times, it makes more financial sense to spend my gas money on heating the house. I can’t afford to go to one of those dirty cities in the winter to punch hippies. I have to wait until they pop up in the summer.
December 21st, 2011 at 11:25 am
“So for Star Wars the Old Republic, I pay $60 for the game and another $15 a month to be able to play it? That doesn’t sound insane to some people?”
Apparently not to 11.5 million World of Warcraft players. But, then, to those people dedicating months “mining gold” and “leveling up” in order to achieve a shiny virtual axe or “purple” gear makes sense as well.
December 21st, 2011 at 11:33 am
Amen! I’ve been saying that for years.
December 21st, 2011 at 12:00 pm
I didn’t think it possible, but we have a disagreement here that transcends the Vote for Romney v. Not Voting divide. I fear that the great walnut divide may leave lasting tensions among the folks here, not too mention the walnut trolls that will be stopping by.
By the bye, I did an image search for “hippie puncher” (without quotation marks). Guess whose image comes up #7? Hint, she’s a lot more attractive than Frank J. The man of blog, newspaper and books, Frank J., appears many spaces below. The lesson: SarahK ranks as hippie puncher extraordinaire.
December 21st, 2011 at 12:05 pm
The same people who don’t like walnuts are quite possibly the people who don’t like potatoes!
December 21st, 2011 at 12:39 pm
“I don’t understand the mentality that adding walnuts to cookies or brownies does anything other than ruin them.”
Dont get me started on how they ruin a perfectly good fudge
I beta tested ToR, it was fun and neat and I love everything star wars, but I couldnt see my self spending the monthly fee.
I play Lord of the Rings online, also beta tested, I did their “lifetime” plan which has paid its self off, now that they went F2P, I get free premium account for life
I guess I would be more willing if I had option to pay one time for lifetime access rather than the pressure to play so feel I earn back the monthly fee.
December 21st, 2011 at 1:52 pm
WALNUTS!!!1!!1!!!!!!!!!!
December 21st, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Son of Bob,
Those people who truly desire addicting games know they don’t have to pay for it. Minecraft – one of the most addicting substances known to man – is free.
It looks so laughable at first glance. When a friend introduced me to the game, I thought he was insane. The graphics were truly hideous and the game itself looked like something out of the 1970s.
To this day, I’m not sure how, but I became completely addicted to Minecraft. I still have dreams about digging underground for little blocks of coal and gravel.
December 21st, 2011 at 2:29 pm
WALNUTS!!1!!1!!!
December 21st, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Considering TOR is just putting a Star Wars skin on WoW, it makes sense to copy the payment plan too.
December 22nd, 2011 at 9:21 am
I hate walnuts and I love punching hippies. I’m a man of simple tastes.