Epic phucked are I

I’ve been thinking. Yeah.. I know. Anyways, I’ve been thinking. There’ve been these thoughts. Questioning every move I make. Every step I take. Yeah… again.. I know. And no. This isnt a “started listening to Linkin Park/Pink Floyd/Greenday” phase. Stuff’s actually gotten me thinking. As you can see from my previous post, I am going through a very… ahem… emo state of mind. It’s not exactly easy walking and thinking, “What now?”

Anyways… fuck that shit. I’ve been playing mostly one game these days. That would be the first episode of the Penny Arcade Adventures on the PC. I thought I’d review the game just for the fuck of it. First, lets have a look at the Penny Arcade game.

I love the webcomic Penny Arcade. And I really admire the two authors of the webcomic as well. When I heard that they were making a game with HotHead with Ron Gilbert, who might I add is second to Tim Schafer in my list of people to respect in the game development community, I got as giddy as a 15 year old Japanese school girl who’s been ODing on coffee, sugar and crystal meth at the same time. So yeah, I was stoked. Then like the afformentioned Japanese school girl would do, I waited. Then I waited some more. I was counting down the days in my calender. Then when the day of the release was finally upon us, I got the game! In all it’s megabyte-y glory! I installed it and started it. I was greated with a character creation screen. It was quite good actually. And the transition from 3D to 2D to comic strips was simply amazing. Not to mention the humour was side-splittingly funny. All in all, it’s amazingly well written and funny. No offense to Portal, but this has to be the funniest game we have, counting the Sam and Max episodes. On to the fighting. The game is practically a role playing game only without the tedious number crunching. The fighting is a Final Fantasy-esque Active Time Bar system which works very well in this game. That means that your enemies wont wait for their turn to attack while you’re masturbating or something. There’s also the fact that you can block attacks with the space bar. The better you time, the more efficient your block. So I absolutely loved this game. It kicks so much ass, it’s not even funny anymore. So… I say go get On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness NAO!!

Yay me!

I will live and die alone.

Go Speed Racer!

Just got back home after watching Speed Racer. Quite a decent movie… a must-watch atleast once. The Wachowski Brothers have done an amazing job. They might’ve screwed up with the second and third Matrix movies, but they’ve more than made up with this.

The first thing that caught me was the art-style. The second kiddie Speed steps out of the school into the street, you get slapped in the face with bright, vivid, vector-style backgrounds. Its the nice kindof slap too. Makes you want to just look and look at the screen. The movie has loads and loads of colours. Lots of em. The whole neon lights fromt he background and stuff will make you just stare in it’s awesomeness.

When it comes to story, don’t expect many intricate plot twists and turns. This is a Speed Racer movie… which means the story is a typical Speed Racer anime story. Little family up against giant conglomorates… that sort. You just gotta love the fact that the movie has retained most of the stuff from the original anime. Especially one of those being the fact that Racer X is Speed’s older long-lost brother Rex. OOPS! Was that a spoiler for you? Uh oh… guess you have never seen one of the best animes of all time to have not known that eh? Idiot.

With Emile Hirsch has Speed, Christina Ricci as Trixie and John Goodman as Pops, you just couldn’t help but feel that the cast was just plain old perfect.

All in all… it was a nice trip to the movies. We stopped at a near-by deli to grab some dinner. It was nice. Some parathas, rice and dal. Nice, simple and filling.  Then while walking home, there was a blackout. One of the few times I’d heard of there practically no sound whatsoever in our fair city. Figured I’d waste some more time by you know, just hanging out, wasting time. Turned out to be a good idea. The electricity came back after about half an hour. Then I came back and came online and just typed this out.

All in all, it was a good day. And I think I’ve been playing  Team Fortress 2 too much. I just keep screaming out randomly that my uber’s ready… I really need a break.

Against Indian culture my ass!

This is about the news I read yesterday. Apparently, the Maharashtra government is turning back on it’s promise to introduce sex education as part of the syllabus for IX and X std. students. This is a load of horse shit. All this because some MLA’s probably forgot to take the gerbils out of their ass after they were done the night before. We’re the second biggest population in the world because of shit like this. Let me remind any non-existant readers of this blog… being the second biggest population of the world is not something to be proud of. We’re the second biggest population in the world because of shit like this. And people wonder why India is still just a developing country. Its gonna stay like that for a long long time until someone takes power away from shitwads like the aforementioned MLAs.

Here’s some quotes from the MLAs taken from 24th April 2008 issue of Mumbai Mirror.

Mawab Malik (NCP MLA from Nehru Nagar): “What is the need for us to appoint sex gurus? Europe needs sex education because of its declining population rates.”

Bashir Patel (NCP MLA): “Sex education is against Indian culture. It will affect the character of students and will lead to more crime against women.”

Mangal Prabhat Lodha (BJP MLA from Malabar Hill): “Sex education will only damage the sociocultural  fabric of the country. Children will learn about the subject once they grow up.”

If what they say is true and it truly is against Indian culture, we have one fucked up culture.

Hey Arnold!

Its 4 a.m. and I just finished watching Hey Arnold. Its a very old Nicktoon from the early 1990’s. Watching it reminds me of my old school days. I used to wake up early in the morning and watch Hey Arnold while having breakfast at around 7 a.m.
This cartoon always used to make me smile. Always. Surprisingly, it still does. Something about this cartoon always makes me smile. Maybe its the highly likeable characters. The football-headed Arnold or the girl with the monobrow named Helga . Or maybe its the black kid named Gerald who also is the keeper of all the urban legends.
Maybe its the perfect place for any and every kid to grow up in. The perfect city, the perfect school, the perfect friends. Its just THE perfect place!
Either way, this cartoon makes me feel very nostalgic. I’ve seen lots of emotional movies and never shed a single tear. But I watch this cartoon and I think about my old school life.
I sit here, writing this and wiping my tears.
Where does the time go?

!(*$#)W(@$#&

Stupid mini-boss. One-hit-KOing my 2300 hp  Templar! :/

W00t!

Just got back home after seeing John Rambo. Damn it is most probably the best action movie in quite some time now. 300 aint got nothing on Rambo biotch!

In any case… Sly has pulled this one off fairly good. Even though his old age was showing… that didnt stop the blood from flowing.

Uh oh… I think I need a ciggy. I wrote a limerick! O_o

Me

Ah yes. I forgot that I should introduce myself just in-case someone other than me actually reads this.

My name’s Shunal. I’m 18 years old. You know the somewhat fat geek in school that got picked on a lot but had a higher IQ than most of his class-mates and always roamed around with just three-four friends? That’d be me. I’m an introvert. Very much into gaming and music. Ah yes.. music. My favorite genres are anything which isnt pop, hip-hop or Linkin Park. My favorite band is Marilyn Manson. I’m very much into Industrial Rock and Trance. Somewhat into NU metal.

As for gaming… my preferred genre is Adventure. The old school LucasArts games being the best examples. My favorite game of all time is Grim Fandango. I also like playing RPGs. Mostly the ones by Black Isle, BioWare, Obsidian and Bethesda. I also look forward to games by Double Fine productions, Ron Gilbert and Telltale Games because those are the last hopes for smart, fun and hilarious adventure games these days.

Well… thats me… I think.

Yay!

Finally managed to downgrade my PSP! Sure I bricked it once in the process… had to use a friend’s Pandora’s Battery for unbricking… but finally… its downgraded. Now I’m stuck on level 2 in the old Megaman game >.<

Yahtzee released a new review today. Was quite funny… possibly the second funniest review he’s done. Completely butt-raped the new Resident Evil game. But for some reason… I liked it. No matter how bad Yahtzee said it was… it sounded fun. It was one of those old-school rail shooters. You know… the kind where your character followed a fixed path and all you had to do was aim and shoot. Was very nostalgic. Reminded me of when I was a wee little lad… playing Time Crisis 2 at the near-by arcade.

*Sigh* games these days. Barely any game concentrates on fun these days. But this year seems promising enough though. With Ron Gilbert working on a new game, Spore, Tim Schafer working on a new game and Fallout 3 (which I hope BethSoft doesnt fuck by the ass like they did to Oblivion… ruined a perfectly un-ruinable franchise. Morrowind was such a nice game)

I have a really bad feeling about Fallout 3 though. Mostly because I think BethSoft will dumb it down for the console retards. I used to be one of those retards though. But I barely played any RPG’s or FPS’s on it. It was mostly platforming and console-exclusives. ^_^

Must… kill… boss.. that… looks… like… a.. huge… ass… fucking… snake!

Hmm

Well… this is me with yet another attempt to maintain a blog. I have a good feeling that I’ll actually be able to maintain this one for some odd reason. Anyways… my day today was  same old normal. Woke up at around 12:30 pm to the noise of mom watching some weird ass movie on HBO. Got up and sat on my computer (not literally you idiot). I had no idea what I was going to do on one of the most boring (and cold) sundays of my life.

About an hour into my… erm… lets call it computing.. shall we? Anyways… as I was saying.. about an hour into my computing, a friend calls me up asking me for my iPod (I use my worthless piece o’ trash iPod as a portable hard drive for the uninitiated). So I go visit him and we end up calling every goddam friend we have to meet up for no friggin’ reason whatsoever (story of my life). As I take my cellphone (yes… I have a shiny cellphone.. up yours!) out to call a friend… I drop it. Sure nobody who’d know me would be surprised… with me being the clumsy oaf that I am… I end up getting a huge ass crack on the screen.

Anyways… we went into Thakur Village to meet up at a friend’s place and we’re bored… We take turns playing Titan Quest on his computer which has now become quite badass due to upgrading of RAM and the GPU. Anyways… we eventually get bored of Titan Quest and then end up watching porn just for kicks. Halfway into the porno, another friend calls up asking me what the fuck we’re supposed to do about lunch. So I come up with the bright idea that we should go to the near-by restaurant (yes… I call two-bit deli’s restaurants too ) for lunch. So we go there… eat… and then we’re bored again (again… the story of my life).

So we’re bored and we’re bored and we’re bored… and we’re bored. A few of us still have money left after the extravagant (okay… extravagant might be too big a word to use in this situation… two dishes in total) meal… so we grab a quarter of DSP whiskey and a half litre bottle of coke and we go to the afformentioned friend’s place again… you know… the one at who’s place we were watching porn. Anyways… we make our drinks and we switch on the TV. What I am about to tell you will blow your head off and then reattach it and then make you bend over the other side and eat your own arse.

We… saw…

The Matrix: Reloaded in Hindi!

Anyways… we were just drinking and pointing and laughing at the movie.

Then I came home and got bored…

And we lived happily ever after.

The end.