The Ghost Brigades is perfectly serviceable science fiction (aliens! super soldiers! mind transfer!) set in the same universe as Scalzi's Old Man's War.
FuzzyCo grade: B-
MC Frontalot - Wallflowers from Fuzzy Gerdes on Vimeo.
Team Gerdes plus Noah made this video a few months ago for a contest by MC Frontalot. The deadline got extended and then it was the holidays and then Frontalot got sick... Anyway, the winners of the contest were just announced:
Honorable Mention goes to: fuzzy gerdes who took THE CENTRAL IDEA OF THE SONG and did not let go of it. We hope fuzzy clutches it still, as it is the only prize available. That and a button pack, okay, fine.
After a short (well, 3 month) hiatus, we've started posting again at Onomatopoetically.com -- the site where we say words that sound like sounds. We've got about a dozen new ones recorded and I've posted three right out of the gate and I'll be posting the rest over the next few weeks. Of course, if you've already subscribed to the site as a podcast in iTunes, the new words just showed up magically in your iTunes today.
So a little bird told me that I might be getting an Xbox 360 for Giftmas. Which is awesome. Except for my stack of original Xbox games and the fact that not every Xbox game is compatible with the 360. And it'd be dumb (even for me) to have an Xbox and a 360 hooked up in the entertainment center. So now I have to (have to) play all my non-compatible games. Thank goodness it's the holiday(ish) season.
Project: Snowblind is a solid entry in the "first person shooter set in a future military conflict and your guy has special abilities" (cf. Psi-Ops). And it took a whole two days to play all the way through.
FuzzyCo grade: B
Voodoo Vince is a fun little platformer set in a cartoony New Orleans. The titular character is a voodoo doll, trying to rescue his creator from a kidnapper who wants her "voodoo dust power". The central conceit of the game is supposed to be that since you're a voodoo doll damage to you actually hurts your enemies. But in practice, you can be damaged and the self-damage voodoo power is really just a special area attack, albeit accompanied by clever little animations of Vince being damaged by falling cows, passing mafia cars, and so on. The real stars of the game are the fun environments, which all have clever details like the labeling of storage crates or interesting posters, and the great background music. The music has even been released on CD and I'm tempted to pick up a copy.
FuzzyCo grade: A
As I said last year, you make a chart like this and it seems a shame not to keep it up to date each year.
| 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44 | 42 | 27 | 33 | 14 | 23 | 7 | |
| February | 42 | 36 | 35 | 25 | 12 | 18 | 4 | |
| March | 27 | 31 | 28 | 35 | 19 | 18 | 2 | |
| April | 28 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 30 | 18 | 4 | |
| May | 17 | 33 | 37 | 42 | 33 | 9 | 2 | |
| June | 35 | 42 | 27 | 27 | 38 | 11 | 2 | |
| July | 33 | 36 | 24 | 23 | 43 | 13 | 2 | |
| August | 13 | 40 | 15 | 43 | 36 | 16 | 13 | |
| September | 9 | 22 | 17 | 44 | 20 | 17 | 12 | |
| October | 31 | 22 | 39 | 33 | 33 | 18 | 3 | 3 |
| November | 31 | 29 | 38 | 23 | 37 | 17 | 7 | 14 |
| December | 35 | 42 | 39 | 30 | 28 | 9 | 17 | 8 |
Looking Back: 2008 in numbers
Looking Back: 2008 in Cities
Happy New Year
Chucklebowl is sold out
The Heartbreak Kid
Some Classic Movies, Some Free
Banana Star
Best and Worst Photos of 2008
Documenting DADA
Haribo Cocktail Acid
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