Update - November 27, 2001
I've been watching a little series known as
Neon Genesis Evangelion lately, and I've noticed something peculiar. The series takes place in the near future, after something called the Second Impact nearly destroyed mankind. In order to protect the Earth from rampaging monsters known as Angels (because it's well known that in Japan, God is called Satan and Satan is called God, and Jesus is mysteriously called Murray), the government sets up an organization called NERV, puts a homicidal maniac in charge, and recruits fourteen year old kids to pilot giant anorexic robots and blow the holy hell out of the Angels. The interesting thing about it, besides the fact that the three Eva pilots have barely passed puberty, is that while the kids aren't killing God's avatars on Earth, they're in school, where
all they learn about is the Second Impact. Every time you see the kids in class, the teacher is droning on about the Second Impact, and how it was horrible, and how it killed 50% of life on Earth, and so on. While it's important to understand the past, I think it would be helpful if the next generation had skills other than talking about how bad it was years before they were born. But then again, with fourteen year olds defending the planet, there probably won't be much of a future.
Update - November 17, 2001
Alas and farewell, for today (well, a few days ago, actually) marks the passing of a hero. The once proud and mighty
EmuRater, one of the greatest emulation sites on the Internet, has been sold to some mental defect who posts pictures of cats wearing funny clothes and classy "Osama jokes." Fortunately, other
bastions of gaming goodness persist, but it worries me that other sites might be forced to follow this sad path. After all, about half my bookmarks of emulation/abandonware sites are dead now.
I really don't know where I was going with that paragraph. Maybe a dissertation on the state of the Internet, maybe a plea to support your favorite websites, or maybe something completely meaningless and difficult to follow. So instead, I'll show you something I linked to a long time ago, only to find out I had linked to a mirror that's dead now. So this is the new and working
link.
My roommate just bought
Max Payne, and boy howdy is it badass. This game is so badass that even calling it badass is an insult to its badassitude. However, the hefty pricetag (about $50) of new games has always driven me farther into the arms of classic gaming, a sentiment mirrored by the ultra-cool
Scrathware Manifesto. Check it out, yo, it's totally rad.
(Addendum: EmuRater is back online, as of November 18. I don't know what to say about that.)
Update - November 6, 2001
I have
nothing to say today. Absolutely
zilch.
Nada.
Zero. As the Germans would say,
nichts. I've been too busy reading homework, writing essays, and playing
Arcana to give a damn about my website. Just look at all the pretty
links and leave me the hell alone.
Update - October 27, 2001
I know, I know, I've been gone. The three of you who actually come here regularly should have learned not to expect me to update very often anyway. In case you haven't noticed, I've nearly stopped caring. Ah well.
Guess what I have? That's right! After a five month hiatus, I've made a new
AIM Prank! Whenever I get mail from someone, or when someone signs the
Guestbook, it's always to say "It's a pretty cool site, but you need more pranks." From what I can tell, nobody appreciates all the work I've done on the rest of the site, they just want to read the pranks. Fine then, you ungrateful bastards. I've appeased you with a new
prank, so you can be happy for another five months.
Update - October 16, 2001
Well, I've been absent from the site for a week, and I didn't even think of something witty and humorous, or even vaguely informative, to include in my new post. That's OK, today's new
addition to the site stands on its own. If you'll remember, I made several comics using Paint Shop Pro last
month that somehow didn't draw any kind of response from my readers at all. Not surprising, of course, considering the number of people who have signed my
guestbook, but I still thought, naively, that I would have gotten some kind of reaction. Regardless, I've made a new
one, so if you didn't like the other three, you should probably stay clear of this one.
Update - October 9, 2001
I've been gone a long time, but I have a good excuse. I was busy. Very busy. Like a bug, I was. So go read
something I wrote a long time ago but for some reason never posted. It's crude, stupid, childish, and may explain why I don't have a girlfriend, but it may also be good for a laugh.
I've kind of renovated the site, but not enough that anybody is likely to notice. I've changed a few things that have been bothering me, but these changes, while necessary, are but the first few steps towards making a website worth looking at.
