* Now talking in #allthecoolkids
* Topic is 'WELCOME TO SHENANIGANZA 09: LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR | I cant believe keith ledger won the oscar for best supporting actor, I saw the black night and he was the worst riddler I ever seen, jack nicklaus was way better and he is a golf legend | Sonic is officially legal, today ;) Go get him, ladies! | '
* ChanServ sets mode: +o BlazeHedgehog
<Kyoma> blaze
<Kyoma> we have brain tumors
<BlazeHedgehog> What else is new
<Kyoma> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/Kyoma/My%20Art/DougUnfunnie.png we are drawing
<BlazeHedgehog> ahaha
<BlazeHedgehog> Roger really let himself go
<Kyoma> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/Kyoma/My%20Art/dink.png
<Kyoma> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/Kyoma/Honkhonkhonk.png
<Kyoma> man
<Kyoma> we do need to do a Doug comic
<Kyoma> just decide on a plot and take turns drawing it.

(...Later...)

<BlazeHedgehog> http://www.vampirewebsite.net/howiknow.html - Read this shit.
<Kyoma> HOW I KNOW
<David_Bowie_Knife> lab rats or slaves
<Kyoma> rofl
<Kyoma> the one site i used to hang at had a brush with PSIONIC VAMPIRES
<Kyoma> it was hilarious
<David_Bowie_Knife> Vampires are bad at english.
<Kyoma> Lets make vampires the focus of our Doug comic.
<BlazeHedgehog> The Lost Boys III: Terror at the Honkerburger
<BlazeHedgehog> They start serving up burgers with vampire blood in them
<BlazeHedgehog> turns the entire town in to vampires
<BlazeHedgehog> Except for Patty because she is vegetarian
<BlazeHedgehog> and Doug
<BlazeHedgehog> because Doug is trying to be a vegetarian to impress Patty
<Kyoma> hahaha
<Kyoma> exactly !!
<Kyoma> Doug ends up having to kill all his friends
<BlazeHedgehog> And the King Vampire, the one who started it all
<BlazeHedgehog> turns out to be Mr. Dink
<David_Bowie_Knife> Dinkula
<Kyoma> it turns out Dink was always a vampire
<Kyoma> he explains his sightings in daylight
<Kyoma> as being "Special Sunblock. Very expensive."


Only the coolest kids keep it real.

Today is the 18th Anniversary of the release of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis. It also marks 8 years since Sonic Adventure 2. Saying that makes me feel really, really old, because Sonic Adventure 2 doesn't feel like it came out that long ago.

But yeah. Sonic's 18 years old! It kind of snuck up on me, I guess. Sonic fans usually quietly celebrate this day, but I had completely spaced it out until I saw a post about it on NeoGAF. Since I'd started uploading MP3s I've made to Youtube, I decided to go through and upload an MP3 for the four major Sega Genesis Sonic games. Please, partake in the remastered Sonic music goodness with me:

Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone MP3: http://sharebee.com/103f6b1

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone MP3: http://sharebee.com/3e3dfdf1

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Hydrocity Zone MP3: http://sharebee.com/cc76421

Sonic & Knuckles - Death Egg Zone MP3: http://sharebee.com/e8e3a0e0

It's worth re-iterating, but these were made from MIDIs freely available on the internet. I can't compose or sequence worth crap (never had enough motivation to learn), but I like tinkering with soundfonts and music in general, so I've gotten in to the habit of taking MIDIs of videogame music and running them through FL Studio to make them sound nicer. I have a Youtube Playlist where I'll be uploading my favorites.

And while we're on the subject of Youtube and Sonic the Hedgehog, if you haven't already watched it, Gametap's Sonic Retrospective is a good watch. Covers a great deal of what went on behind the scenes for Sonic's rise to fame during the era of the Sega Genesis - and it respectfully cuts off right before everything goes sour. Definitely worth watching, especially on today of all days.

Wow, I've never played a Bonk game before. So I decided to try Super Bonk.

This game is like a fever dream.

There's this candy. If I eat one candy, I grow very large. If I eat the other candy, I grow very small. If I press the Y button while small, tiny Bonk will yell "RAGE!" at enemies (the letters of "RAGE!" can also be stood on, as if i was a floating platform). If I do it while big.... Bonk's mother f-ing head detaches from his body and rolls around.

It also seems to be impossible to die in this game. I was on a bridge level and I missed a jump. I expected to die, but instead it loaded a new level under the bridge where there was water. In the water there were fish swimming around and one of them ate me. Instead of killing me, again, it loads a new level, inside of the fish.

Falling off the bridge was completely optional and so was getting eaten.Then I get out of the fish (I exit via his poop-chute) and a giant brick wall with eyes smashes me, which for some unexplained reason, turns me in to a crab!

Get the right combination of power-ups and you transform in to a bizarre monstrosity best described as a psychotic Bonk wearing a Godzilla costume.

Not a single lick of it makes any sense whatsoever. I don't think I've ever played any game that is quite as completely random and nonsensical as Super Bonk. Sadly, the way I hear it, none of the other Bonk games are like this at all - most of them are generic, boring, simplistic platformers. But not Super Bonk! Super Bonk is out of it's mind, and as a result, is totally freakin' awesome.

A friend of mine loves my Sonic Unleashed videos but doesn't like the game itself. He kinda-sorta issued a challenge to me to try and make Sonic 2006 look good. This is the end result. I honestly didn't expect anything that happened, but let's just put it this way: re-adjusting to playing a bad game like Sonic 2006 after six months of playing Sonic Unleashed is extremely difficult. Speaking of Unleashed, I also have just posted my review for the final Sonic Unleashed DLC pack, here.

I'm pretty floored at the announcement of Left4Dead 2. And the weird thing is, I seem to be in the minority. Outside of a few of my friends, most people seem to be cheering at the prospect of Left4Dead 2.

I, personally, don't get it. The original Left4Dead came out seven months ago at full price. Despite being in development for two or three years, it contained barely two hours worth of content. Now, of course, this just leaves the door wide open for some cheeky little wiener to go "But the AI Director means you can replay it over and over and over again!" - Well, yes, I guess. If you ran around every Counter-Strike: Source map one at a time until you had seen them all, that would be a pretty short game, of course. But whereas me and my friends can sit on cs_office for hours at a time, when me and my friends sit down to play Left4Dead, we basically run through all four campaigns and then we stop playing for two or three months. Versus Mode (or Survival, for that matter) just never really "clicked". None of that mattered, though, because Valve promised that more Left4Dead content was "on the way". Given how they were supporting Team Fortress 2, it was easy to read that as "Free content packs every two to three months with new maps and stuff."

Instead, we're getting a sequel that will arrive on store shelves just four days before of the original Left4Dead's one-year anniversary. And people are happy about this? This is pretty down-and-dirty, if you ask me.

Maybe I was out-of-line in expecting another "free lunch" from Valve, but even ignoring my expectations, having a game's sequel scheduled announced this soon with a projected release date that doesn't even let the original game reach one full year at retail is definitely pushing the line way, way, way too far. I'm ready to call this worse than "Madden Syndrome" if only because it feels like a complete 180 from a company that is usually very careful and very respectful with how it treats its consumer base.

Granted, we do not yet have a price - so maybe Valve really does have some kind of ace up their sleeve and will only charge $20 for it, or maybe they'll give existing L4D owners a discount, or who even knows. But as of right now, something is definitely smelling a bit rotten - and it's not all the blood-soaked zombie corpses.