August 28th, 2008
by Sam Pagan
Come to Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp and you can show them all! Back home your powers make you a loner, an outcast, a circus freak. But in this dojo, in this psychic dojo, they make you a hero.
Recognize those quotes? If you do, then you’re part of the cool crowd. If not - get out of my sight. But to the cool people, I want to tell you about something. If you’re interested in a little insight on the making of the game Psychonauts, how the idea came around and other things like Tim Schafer’s favourite level and the pile of money he’s still trying to locate from the downloaded purchases of the game, give a listen to 1Up.com’s podcast with Tim Schafer, recorded on the 25th of August.
Tim doesn’t pop in until around 73 minutes in, so if you want to skip ahead go for it, but the podcasts are pretty fun to listen to all around. The link will take you to other podcasts (”backlogs”) they’ve done that has Psychonauts talk, and for your convenience Tim Schafer put a little “cheat sheet” to the exact times when they bring it up over at Double Fine Action News , a site that I check regularly for Schafer shenanigans.
All hail Goggalor!
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August 28th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
Joe Biden’s speech Wednesday night was Bidenrific; still, people couldn’t be blamed for wanting a cherry on top of their hair plug sundae. And they got a taste when the no-longer-presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama joined his veep onstage to cross out a few “thank yous” from his to-do list.
And does he want us all to join him in the mile high club? I know things are different in Denver, but after all that talk of family values I hardly think Michelle would approve. Look, Barack, you’re an attractive man, but you have to end the Bill Clinton comparisons somewhere. If we’re going to win this thing…
Oh, he wants us to join him at Mile High Stadium? That’s not nearly as controversial. Focus on the Family has been praying for rain during the big closing number tonight, but little do they know I’ve countered their prayers by beseeching YHVH for clear skies, hope, change, and for all card-carrying members of Focus to live long enough to see their offspring become Satan-worshiping, bi-curious abortionists who vote in favor of their economic self-interests.
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August 27th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
A startling feeling overtook me as I watched Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Tuesday night, creeping through my mind like a professional thief. Inexplicably, it wasn’t sensory overload brought on by the 1970’s shag carpeting hue of burnt orange of her premier pantsuit (although, let’s face it, it isn’t the sort of fashion item you can ever forget).
What so unsettled me was that as she spoke, she evoked what could almost be considered respect. Having transformed from HillDawg to George Clinton during the primaries, her “I’m-doing-this-for-the-party” talk, even if it was in her own political self-interest, was an act of baptism by symbolism, washing away the crimson stains of pandering so ludicrous it bordered on self-parody.
Nothing has changed. The Clintons are still self-serving boomers who will do anything to achieve power. But everything has changed, because they are performing the preordained rituals of Democratic supplication with breathtaking exactness. By bringing the crowd to their feet by exhorting the full support of Barack Obama, she’s once again the toast of the her party. It’s a position she’s fought tooth and nail to return to, should the opportunity to run for president again present itself.
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August 26th, 2008
by KK4
White Supremacist Meth-fiends, Worse than Al-Queda.
OH MY OBAMA! Colorado Police arrested a trio of toothless racist meth-fiends in a scenario much more akin to Cops or America’s Funniest Home videos than Tom Clancy.
Via ABC news 7 Denver
The action started around 1:30 a.m. Sunday when police in Aurora stopped a truck that was swerving erratically near East Hampden Avenue and South Parker Road. The driver, Tharin Gartrell, 28, had a suspended driver’s license, and the truck was rented in the name of another person, said Aurora police Detective Marcus Dudley.
Later Sunday, federal agents arrested Johnson, 32, at a hotel in Denver. He was held on drug charges. A half-hour later, 33-year-old Shawn Robert Adolf jumped from a sixth-story window when authorities tried to arrest him at a hotel in suburban Glendale, police said.
Via TheHill.com
The station said police found two high-powered, scoped rifles in the car along with camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and methamphetamines.
One of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards,” according to the KUSA report.
Man the god damned artillery because meth-Nazis are going to kill Obama with HIGH POWERED RIFLES SIGHTED IN at 750 yards! What a fucking farce… seriously. These guys, no matter how badly they are tweaking or how much Nazi paraphernalia they posses, could never pull this off. First of all, 750 yards is a long god damned ways off and none of the suspects look like they were trained snipers. And no, you can’t just pick up a rifle, slap a scope on it and think you are going to take off someone’s head at 750 yards, especially with factory made ammunition and while tweaking on meth. Hell, the effective range for an M-16 in the hands of a Marine rifleman is only about 400 yards. Without going into the mechanics of it, or going to find my buddy who is a former army sniper, let me just flat out say that it is impossible for these guys to pull it off.
Secondly, they’re on fucking meth! Meth may have worked wonders for the Imperial Japanese army when they were running around in the jungle cutting the testicles off of American GIs shortly before running headlong into machine gun fire while their officers brandished samurai swords (I am not fucking making this up), but it isn’t going to turn tweakers into assassins. Seriously, this plot if so fucking retarded that I think they should sentence the suspects to life imprisonment in Leavenworth without the possibility for parole simply for being fucking stupid. An assassin’s check list should never include meth which was probably cooked up by a pharmacy course drop out with a chemistry set he bought out of a Sear’s cataloge.
The worst thing about all of this is that I have to hear about it. I haven’t turned on the television yet today… or for the past week and a half, but if I do I expect this to be all over the news, and the news isn’t going to give us the full story. No, the news will have the headlines RACIST WHITE SUPREMACIST SNIPER PLOT TO ASSASSINATE OBAMA AT THE DNC. Then the usual suspects will come on TV and tell us that racism is bad, ans that guns are bad, and talk about sniper rifles, and terrorists… and now you know why I don’t watch TV news.
To restate my main points, a bunch of meth-fiend Nazis could in no way assassinate Obama, no matter how many scoped rifles they have at any range. If anyone assassinates Obama, which I pray does not happen, it will be a professional job and most likely carried out by the CIA or their surrogates like the JFK/RFK assassinations.
Update (August 27): So it’s official, these jerkoffs were never a credible threat and there is insufficient evidence of a plot against Obama. Thank you Methamphetamines for wasting human lives and most importantly my time. I hope you are happy, you son of a bitch.
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August 25th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
What is the DNC trying to say by opening the convention with effeminate men dancing to “Big Girls Don’t Cry”?
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