Well its been about a week since my last update and a LOT has been going on, as usual. It’s been pretty crazy on the personal front, so much so that I don’t even know where to begin (plus a good deal of it is not fit for public consumption, so I should say no more). But it’s one of the main reasons why I never got around to doing one of my patented crazy-ass long game-specific posts, which I had planned on doing this past weekend, since the Tokyo Game Show just happened. And I’m pretty embarrassed to admit this, but I’m totally clueless as to all the stuff that went down, with the exception of that broomstick arcade game that has both Wii and DS elements that has pretty much everyone knows about, at least those that follow tech blogs (such as Gizmodo which has a vid of it in action… again, I’m assuming that most have seen it by now, so sorry for being late to the party).
And of course, there’s Halo 3, which launched today (well, last night at midnight, technically). Thank God no one asked me to cover it… I was so exhausted yesterday that I passed out around 8:30-9:00. Which meant I woke up around 4 in the morning, and have been working non-stop pretty much ever since… and which also means I should have gone to bed hours ago. Yet I’m still massively behind on a lot of stuff; top priority goes to finishing my Gamer’s Quarter piece, since ShaperMC is extending the deadline just for me I think. Plus Katie wants me to do a comic for her upcoming comics anthology, and has also extended that deadline on my account as well. And considering how its been YEARS since I last drew a comic, plus Im a slow illustrator anyway, I need all the time I can get. That plus all the other stuff that I’m supposed to be doing (just found out that Simon wants me to check out the new Resident Evil movie for GSW, so gotta fit that in my schedule as well). Oh, and DigitalLife is in two days, plus Rob & Michele’s wedding is this weekend!
Though with everything going on, I’m still finding the time to mess around in the forums. Perhaps I’ve officially come to the point where its becoming a distraction! The past day alone has seen the first real instances of forum drama, with the “high-point” being the first ever banning of someone! Oh boy! That and I decided to post the infamous “Bottled Fruit” story for all to enjoy. And the “furries LOL” thread, the utterly brain melting shitty comics thread, including the most ridiculous anti-abortion comic ever, and the real live naked girls mixed with video games thread are also worth mentioning.
BUT ANYWAY…. so it’s late and I should really be going to bed, but real quick, time for two quick stories. First, why an angry street musician got so pissed off that he decided to spit on me last week:
Last Thursday was kinda annoying. Long story short, there was a cell phone game that I really wanted to review for Zedge, so I contacted the PR guy, and he said that he’d get ahold of the game pronto. Earlier that Monday I was told that a phone with the game loaded was ready to be passed along. Great, so I started giving him my address when I was then told “Hey, I’m coming to NYC for an event, how about you swing by and pick up the phone from me instead of mailing it out to you?” The thing was, I had already said no to this event twice already, and with next day shipping, I’d get the phone faster if it was just mailed out, but sure, whatever. Plus I was promised food and booze. So on Thursday, I stopped by the event (which meant dealing with the crowds in Times Square, which always annoying, but for whatever reasons always feels worse on a Thursday evening), and of course, there was no cell phone game waiting for me. The phone was on-hand, but the game itself was no longer working. Naturally, I was pissed. Though it should be noted that I finally got the game to work this morning. Anyway, the so-called food and booze spread was basically a close to empty plate of Frito Lays and three bottles of Budweiser. Great. As for the event itself, it was a controller for the PS3, specifically for FPSs. And considering that I don’t own a PS3, nor do I play FPSs… you get my drift. But it is neat for what it is, which could be best described as a combination of the Wii’s nunchuck controller and a traditional mouse. They actually gave me one which then presented me with a problem; lugging the damn thing around (it’s huge), especially since I had a good deal of time to kill; I was checking out an apartment way uptown, but much later that night. I had planned on chilling in the hotel lobby for a while and do some work (which was the reason why I couldn’t throw it in my bad, which was already overloaded with the gigantic laptop I got from work), but they wouldn’t let me use their Wi-Fi, those fuckers, plus I was sitting next to an annoying loud couple that wouldn’t shut up about Canadian politics, so I couldn’t even relax. Which meant wandering around Times Square while carrying the controller around under my arm, which I almost wanted to throw away since it was a burden and I can’t use it anyway, but since it’s so expensive and I also know a few people with PS3s, I just couldn’t. BTW, yes, I’m making a big deal out of nothing. Whatever.
Why I am explaining all this? Maybe it means nothing, but anyhow, I then decided to head over to Midtown Comics, and while walking down 7th Ave, I passed by an old black guy, a street performer, a saxophonist to be exact, yelling at some white woman who was clearly a tourist, and a confused one at that. He was screaming at her “Bitch, you gotta pay if you gonna take MY picture!” and the like; she had obviously taken an innocent vacation snapshot and was now being coerced into paying for it. Which is bullshit. I guess the reason why I provided so much back-story was to explain why I was so pissy, even if it was for totally dumb reasons, enough to make me feel completed to yell at someone, anyone. Which is why I interjected.
I explained to her that she didn’t have to pay him anything (she was just about to hand over a $5 bill). He immediately became infuriated, naturally but I quickly explained that A) it was a free country, B) as a street performer, the dude basically made himself free game to anyone who wanted to take a picture out in the public (yes, I actually tried explaining this), but most importantly, C) the guy was an asshole who didn’t deserve it. The guy kept screaming at me, so all I could do was reinforce my third point, that he was a fucking asshole, so in response, the guy spit at me. And it was one of those really concentrated spits too, which mean it didn’t spread very far and hit a wide area (thank God), but was real thick and foamy. It was like a glob of glue, all bright and white. Its at that point that the woman quickly walked away. But hey, I had done my good deed for the day. Where did it land exactly? On my left shoulder (and not my face, once again thank God). And what did I do? I dumped a ton of Purell on it, of course. And believe it or not, I’m glad all that happened because it got all the venom out of me, and again, I also believe I did a good deed. The rest of the evening was pretty non-eventful; got some Iron Man comics and checked out the new possible apartment, which is nice and a real contender.
As for my second story, it’s actually more of an announcement: Katie has decided to illustrate my wacky sci-fi sexual fantasy! The funny thing is, the more I tell people about it, the more comfortable I’ve become with divulging details. She had already heard it once before, which led to the statement of “No offense, but with all that back story, I bet it takes you two days to jerk off.” But now she’s the first person to hear the WHOLE story, meaning the entire tale of one girl’s odyssey, and her trials and tribulations with clones and mucus. She even did this quick study/sketch Sunday night:
I swear to God, this will be EPIC. I already have one friend state that he would personally buy ten copies once it?s available. So wait for it!
