My Mini City – Texasville

Yep – another time waster! 🙂

http://texasville.myminicity.com/

 My Mini City – as far as I can tell, the population of your little city grows by one with each person who clicks on it.  I have no idea what happens beyond that.  My city, Texasville, currently has a population of 2.  I guess that I will just have to click back every once in a while to see how it’s doing.

NES Emulators….who needs a wii, 360 or X-box thingee?

I found this site last night while I was bored:

 http://www.theoldcomputer.com/MainMenu.htm

The Old Computer Dot Com.  On this site you can download an “emulator” which is essentially the operating system of the old, original Nintendo that we had back in the 80s and early 90s, and then download “ROMs” which are the actual games.  You would be shocked to discover how little memory it takes for those games….eesh!

I have already played Legend of Zelda and Spy Hunter, and I am eyeing Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Tecmo Super Bowl.  I used to have one of these for the colecovision back before my computer had the unfortunate run-in with my hot water heater a while back, so you can just imagine how stoked I was to find this when I got the urge to play a classic like Mr. Do.  As MC Hammer would say: Proper!

So yeah, that New Year’s Resolution to not get distracted by trivialities….yeah, let’s go ahead and scratch that one off.  I need to go turn on Zelda and get to work on Level 5.

My New Year’s Resolutions

2008.  Wow, man.  I honestly wasn’t sure if I’d make it this far!  Yay me!!!

OK, since everyone loves breaking their New Year’s Resolutions, I figure that I need to set the groundwork here.

1. I resolve to pay as little attention as possible to the upcoming Presidential election.  I’ll let the other suckers waste time with this; I’ve done my bit for Queen and Country, so now some other shlub can take up the “I care” mantle.

2. I resolve to stop trying to provoke a war between Austrailia and France, just so that I can name it “The Franc-Oz War.”

3. I resolve to not watch a single NFL game from the end of the Super Bowl until the beginning of preseason.

4. I resolve to not get my hopes up for the Astros, no matter what they may or may not do.  If they end up winning the World Series, then I want my lack of hope credited for the victory.

5. I resolve to stop coffee.  Not stop “drinking” coffee, mind you – I don’t drink coffee.  I want to stop coffee…end the scourge of coffee once and for all, wiping out each bean and shutting down every Starbucks!  MWU-HA-HA-HA!!!

6. I resolve to try to rein in my evil laughter, especially in public.  I’m starting to sound like the damned Cobra Commander.

7. I resolve to search the internet until I can find some trace of pornography.  This may take a while, but I have heard that it is out there.

8. I resolve to refer to Dallas as “South Oklahoma” a bit less often than I do now.

9. I resolve to respect the opinions and feelings of others, unless I don’t feel like it at the time.

10. I resolve to come up with more of these later…..or not

The Frat-Hippy War

Having recently ascended again in Kingdom of Loathing, I am back in my familiar Disco Bandit guise.  It is what I started as, and it is still my favorite class.  The coming Crimbo is quietly and ominously building as something has the Council of Loathing seriously spooked.  It hasn’t stopped the Pirates from continuing with everyday life, tho.

In the latest massive content addition by Jick, Skully & co.; the Pirates in the Mysterious Pirates Cove have added a ton of new content.  Lots of new pirates to fight; tons of new loot; a couple mini-quests (which have me fiending for Cap’n Crunch cereal); and of course all kinds of booty, from the virgin to the dirty.  Best part so far, tho – it has made acquiring the Abridged Dictionary 100% less annoying.

I’ll spend more time on that later.  Right now I’m playing my favorite part of the game: the Frat-Hippy War.  I pity speed-ascenders when it comes to this, as I’m sure that they just blow through it as quickly as possible.  Personally, I enjoy taking out every Frat Warrior and Hippy Warrior each time around.  There is a finite number of them, so spread over a couple days it is a great way to get great items that are only available once per ascension.  Of course, I will not do what I did last time when I forgot to turn in my Frat Rings for items before completing the quest.  Man, that was annoying to open the Quest portion of my items and see all of those staring at me!

I want to get through this before the Crimbo content starts up in earnest.  Once it does it will be only collecting bounties and Crimbo adventures for me.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Crimbo!

http://www7.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=00c6057c4df948b282b1c4a7817cd54e

 It’s that time of year again in the Kingdom of Loathing – CRIMBO!!!  Uncle Crimbo has dropped by our campsites to make sure that we all had our advent calendars which count down to the celebration of Crimbo.  Any resemblence to a certain holiday with presents, trees and elves is totally, absolutely coincidental. 

 Two years ago we had to supress a marxist uprising as Rudolph, the Red attemtped to overthrow Uncle Crimbo and his wonderful capitalist ways.  Last year we survived trips throughout time to save Uncle Crimbo…and Crimbo itself, from the evil clutches of Linnea, the Scream Queen and her Halloween ghoulies.  What’s on tap this year?  No idea yet, but I always freaking bank during this time, so I am rather excited about it!

Ivan Drago

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/ivan-drago/

I’m always the last to find out about things like this, but this is such a wonderful time-waster that I had to make sure and share it with the tragically behind-the-times people like myself.  You are Ivan Drago (of Rocky IV fame) and you have to fight your way through the streets against little stabby guys, chicks with Lassos, guys on Segueways and dinosaurs on the orders of Mikhail Gorbachev.  Definate old-school video game feel to this.

Kingdom of Loathing

  http://www5.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=3957db261bdd42499d4f6b8121f0f2eb

What is this?  This is Kingdom of Loathing.  It is an online game which has put such a dent in my personal productivity that both alcohol and online porn are insanely jealous.

You can find the game in the link at the top of this post. The game is free; it is fun; and the people who run it may or may not be completely and utterly insane. My character’s name is Groovius Maximus, and I am a member of Clan Newsarama. Currently I am a Pastamancer, but I will switch back to being a Disco Bandit before Crimbo starts.

Odds are, you have no clue what I just said. Pastamancers and Disco Bandits are two of the six classes of characters that you can play on the game. The others are: Seal Clubbers, Turtle Tamers, Accordian Thieves, and Saucerors. Each class has its own special attributes and are ruled by one of the stat categories: Muscle, Mysticality or Moxie. The game itself is free, and you earn items by defeating monsters such as Hippy Shaman, Beer-Bongadiers, Vampire Ducks, Furry Giants, the Twig and Berries, the Muff, the Whitesnake, and various other creepies, crawlies, ghoulies and sleazies. The currency for the Kingdom is meat…but you cannot eat the meat. You can only collect it to help maintain the wonderful market-based economy.

You can eat; however. That is one of the ways to get more adventures. The other is to drink as much booze as possible without passing out.

If you decide to check it out, send a message to “Groovius Maximus” and I’ll send you a welcoming gift.