What Happens in the Wasteland... Is going to be heard about at some point and you will be killed for those atrocities you committed.

When I play games with a morality system(for the purposes of this post we will use Fallout as the example) I tend to be the good guy, not just "good guy" but the "holy Jesus he killed himself so we could live" guy. Yeah I tend to play the Savior/Martyr/Champion character and most people in the game tend to thank me for it... yet even the brightest light casts a shadow, so then every paragon has his faults. And well mine is cold hard cash(caps) and shiny new stuff.

See I don't just like money in games(Fallout) it's a necessity for me because I have to spend them, and more often then not the things I do spend them on are completely frivolous and useless. But I needs the shiny new item that merchant I just passed has. It gets pretty bad for my character I will give you a for example: my character in New Vegas(his name was James Martin in case you cared) was the biggest goody two shoes you would ever meet in the Mojave Wasteland. And one day while wandering the wastes I met a merchant who had a weapon mod that I had been looking for for something like 12 hours(not in game but real time) problem was I didn't have enough caps for it, I didn't really need the mod because I wasn't using that weapon but in my blind ambition I went to the nearest town razed it to ground murdered every single soul within until I had the caps for the part I was looking for. Needless to say some folk in the Mojave weren't really happy about my wholesale slaughter, I'm sure they would have been even more pissed if they knew why I did so I ended up reloading a save because I was being hunted down by the very people I had previously swore to protect.

Other times I don't reload another time I just say screw it, I had spent 15 hours trying to gain the trust of this faction but then out of nowhere some NPC walks by with some sweet ass armor so I go to my nearest merchant to see if maybe he had some that was just like it(I feel it's important to mention that for this particular play through I wanted nothing but be part of this faction). Unfortunately for this settlement the merchant did not have in stock that awesome armor I saw that guy wearing a couple of minutes ago, so in a fit of rage I went around putting C4 in everyone's pocket that was in the vicinity and promptly blew those ass-goblins up, then casually mowed down everyone who started coming out of their shacks to see what the commotion was.
To make a great story short I didn't even end up getting the armor because that guy left the area and I could never find him again... but when I do, keep him in your prayers.

Generally I try to really be the good guy like this other time me and two homies hit up one of the rival faction's base and killed everything that moved, well except for the children because apparently even if they are Legion recruits you still can't kill the little bastards. But then someone has a shiny toy that I haven't seen and all hell breaks loose and I will murder everything in my path until it is mine, the Wasteland is a pretty dangerous place. Most of the time I have the self restraint to not murder people in their beds in games like these... most of the time.

Well I thought we would take a moment to remember those lost in the infamous Massacre of the Gauss Rifles.
In loving memory of...
Elder McNamara
Head Paladin Hardin
Head Scribe Taggart
Paladin Ramos

Paladin Sato
Senior Knight Lorenzo
Senior Scribe Schuler
Knight Torres
Scribe Ibsen
Apprentice Watkins
Initiate Stanton
...and many others lost to our memories.

war, war never changes

                                    toodlekittens

CONSPIRACY?! BLASPHEMY.

Hey everybody! Killinglights here with his own post (not a guest....) on such a (post) joyus day. As far as I'm concerned, it still feels like the 15th. Which means it (was) my birthday! Huzzah!

Anyways, everybody loves a good conspiracy theory. Especially those found in the vast world known as Pokémon. So, for this post, I will be discussing these theories.

First off, look at Clefairy. Now at Gengar. Now back at Clefairy. They’re shaped the same. (haha…old spice. Heh) Anyways, looking closely at Gengar and Clefairy, it is easy to tell that they look the same. You know, the same pointy ears, the humanoid shape. Why is that? Because Gengar is Clefairy's shadow. Obviously there are some differences, but its generally the same idea. Crazy, huh? Also, as Clefairy and Gengar are both normal and ghost types, respectively, they cannot attack each other.

Question. Do you think the designers screwed up the evolutions for a few well known Pokémon? I do. I think they fucked it up hard. And to be honest, I wish it wouldn’t have been the way it was. I wish they would have done it in the way that I think is correct. Anyways, lets get to the meat of this theory. Look at Caterpie, Metapod and Butterfree. Now look at Venonat and Venemoth. I don’t know about you guys, but when I look at them, I feel like those are wrong. I feel like it should bec Venomoth after Metapod, and Butterfree after Venonat. Look at their features. Butterfree has the purple, and the red eyes. Venomoth has the lighter purple, and the horn on his head. He has a similar structure to Metapod (that useless fuck. It’s only useful if it’s nicknamed Penis and it uses harden. Heh). Anyways, immaturity aside, some gamers believe this was a mistake.

Alrighty. You guys know that adorable little fella in mama Khangaskhan’s pouch? Yeah, that little adorable devil becomes Cubone when its mother dies. That’s right. This little Pokémon is so badass that he wears his mother’s head on his and fucks bitches up. Cubone straight up does not give a fuck. He’s badass. But when you look at the skull on his head, it looks strangely similar to that of Khangaskhan: long snout, pointy ears. Cubone is also a orphan Pokémon. This traumatic experience is probably why he is who he is. In short, he’s like the Batman of the Pokémon world. :D

Another question. Where’s your rivals Raticate? What happened to Blue’s Raticate? Oh wait, I remember. You fucking killed it. How? Remember a little boat by the name of the…S.S. Anne? Yeah. You remember battling him on board the boat? Yeah, it’s coming back now, isn’t it? If you correctly recall, he had a Raticate. He doesn’t have that anymore. Does he? Nope. You run into him in the Lavender Town tower where they lay Pokémon to rest. Your rival proclaims “Hey! What brings you here? Your Pokémon don’t look dead!” Because they’re…..OH SHIT. Yeah, you just made the connection, didn’t you? Yes. Amidst the chaos that was the S.S. Anne, your rival couldn’t get his Raticate to a Pokémon center. It died. And you killed it. How do you feel? Warm and fuzzy? You shouldn’t, you sick fuck. That’s why he’s chillen in Lavender town. To lay his beloved Pokémon to rest. Good job.

Here’s another tasty tidbit. How many middle aged men have you seen in the world of Pokémon? How many young trainers do you fight? Or elderly folks? Another question. Where’s your dad? Where’s your rival’s dad? Don’t give me that bullshit answer that your parents were divorced. No no. Fuck that. They’re dead. They’re pushing up daisies. They kicked the bucket. Why do I have such a blunt answer? There was a fucking war. Again, how many middle aged people do you battle? Very very few. There’s Lt. Surge. Yep. He’s middle aged. There are plenty of the little spitfuck toddlers roaming around. And there are the elderly too. But when you battle Lt. Surge, he mentions something about how his Raichu saved his ass. If it wasn’t for his Raichu, he’d be dead. The gym leaders were all fighting in a great war. Imagine a war. With Pokémon. Loads of them. Fighting. Scary shit. That is incredibly scary. Imagine a bunch of flying Charizards coming to rape your shit. Yeah, you’d freak out too. This is what caused the generation gap.

I don’t know about you, but I think this is plausible, and scary as hell. I also think its probably my favorite one too.

However, this does it for me for now. I’m sure there are plenty of other theories, but these are some of my favorites. …They were also located together on one convenient site, which I used some info from. Thus, I need to make sure I give them credit.

http://geek.pikimal.com/2011/04/12/the-craziest-pokmon-fan-theories/

Oh yeah. One last thing to leave you guys with. Look at Diglett’s mouth. Yeah, his mouth. Look at the white spot. Yep, it’s a tooth. You can no longer un-see this. Congratulations.

Until next time folks,

Killinglights

Hello everyone!

The GM here, hoping all you folks from the States had a fun Independence Day. In the time I had off, I re-downloaded Shivering Isles for ESIV and got that pesky Duke of Dementia achievement for 100% completion. I had already obtained said achievement on my previous xbox, but unfortunately my heat-sink committed suicide and took all of my achievements to the fiery depths of hell that is the red ring (*GASP* *DUNN DUNNNN DUNNNNN*) Anyway, happy with my 1000/1000 gamerscore for Oblivion I contemplated what would come next (prolly Morrowind via Morroblivion, but more on that later), and decided that I missed turn-based games such as KOTOR and Final Fantasy. Man I loved FF7! It is close to being my favorite game of all time (Legend of Zelda can suck it....(please don't kill me Darth)). I first played it when I was 11 and fell completely in love with it; I used to even draw pictures of Cloud, Sephiroth, and Red XIII. What I loved most about the game, besides the lovable characters and epic storyline, is the fighting system. After a pokemon-style 'run around until you have a random enemy encounter' brings you to the fight screen, the fun happens.

Battle music starts, and your party, as well as the enemy parties, are set up facing each other. Rather than a realtime, reflex-based, and quick-fight methodology, the game slows it down a little. You can control of each member of your party, and decide whether to cast spells, melee, or use items (or run...PANSIES! No seriously, running from fights just to save time is a terrible idea. You will be too low level when you advance in the story, and have to resort to WoW-style grind leveling). Summoning is also amazing. Watch a Youtube video of 'Knights of the Round' and see how epic the mini cut scenes are. I ALMOST FORGOT!!! Chocobo racing! Sorry, I got a little too excited.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know the pleasures of turn-based fighting, and its ability to let you think and strategize, you should pick up a copy of FF7, Knights of the Old Republic, or many others, and micro-manage the hell out of them.

-GIB

"The Quality Of Beer Is Shown In 1 Sip, But It's Better Just To Be Sure."

Hi all. Sorry about the long delay I’ve been quite the busy fellow with all this school work and all. (I’m still trying to dream of being a video game and roller coaster tester *sigh*) Anyhoo I’d like shift gears and begin a nice long discussion about one of my favorite vices outside of videogames. And that vice is beer. Now I’m sure that most of you out there have already discovered beer and know what it is you like and don’t like. But it’s ok because I’m only here to recommend to you some things to try. This past weekend I hit 5 breweries on the east side of Michigan. And I sampled quite the wide range of beers. One brewery I hit did mostly Belgian style beers while another one had terrible beers. And some of them had fantastic dining choices too! So I got nice and fat and happy this weekend. My 2 favorite places I hit was Woodward Avenue Brewery and I must say they had quite the porter. (Mmmmmmmm dark beers……) and the other place was Royal Oak Brewery and oh dear god was their beer good but their food made it even better! At Royal Oak I had another solid porter but the IPA I tried was quite good. Should you ever find yourself around the Detroit area I recommend you look up these breweries.

Moving on I’d also like to recommend other beers I’ve had before and I’ll keep giving updates at the end of each post I make as to what game I’m playing/ recommend, what beer I just tried and would recommend and also anything else I find relevant like movies and television. Ok onto the good stuff for those of you who take your beer seriously I’d recommend the Founder’s Pale Ale. It’s got the light malt but its dry hopped so you get a much stronger hops flavor which I love. Another great one I’ve been drooling over (and coincidentally got Toodlekittens hooked on) is the New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk. If you are a fan of the barrel aged whiskey then this is your beer. They age it in bourbon barrels for 1 and 2 years then mix them together and it is vanilla-y and great and not bitter in any way. It’s so unique and glorious. Finally for you lager fans/ dark beer fans I’d recommend the Victory Stormking. It is an Imperial Stout so it’s big but it’s got a light roasty flavor and strong hop profile and oh sweet baby jesus is it wonderful. It has everything I want all in one bottle.

Finally a few book keeping things for you loyal fans out there I did beat Dragon Age awhile back and am now playing it again (like an achievement whore) and I must say it certainly isn’t the same game twice. I love the unique character’s you not only build but recruit. More gripes came with it now that I’ve beaten it but hey nobody’s perfect. Also SUPER PUMPED for Skyrim in November. That date definitely can’t come fast enough. In fact I’m more excited for it than my 3 year anniversary with my girlfriend a week later….. (just don’t tell her please). I think that is all I have to spew at you good people for now. Oh and a little fun fact some of you may not know, Google voice search censors the word porn. Hilarious!

Until we meet in hell,

Darth Marth