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By Xeiphyer December 4, 2011 4 Comments

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Amazing spam I received: "Re: Best!BlackJack%Now"

By Xeiphyer March 29, 2011 15 Comments

I received this spam email earlier today, and was extremely amazed by it. Its no ordinary poorly written engrish spam trying to get my creditcard info or other such nonsense, this one is special.

Re: Best!BlackJack%Now

MaNy of the Divine PrO#Mi(seS are addr@essed to PartiCulaR chaRacters, ~oR, more corr~e ct!ly speaking, to particu(Lar @graceS. FoR example, in P^salm 25:9, the Lord declares that He wil l "guide ~iN jUdgment" the meeK; b!uT if I am out of c*ommUnion with Him, i#f I am follow&in#g *a cou#rs*e of self-wi&ll, ~if my h!Eart iS ha&uGhTy, thEn I am Not just%ifieD i n taking to m!ys*elf tHe comfor~t of !this verse. htT!p://kelDa6d.youtu Be.Com/5410.html A~gaiN, ~In JOHn 15:7, the Lord @t@ell S us, "If y~e abide in Me, and %m@y words aBIde in yoU, ye shall a#sk what ye wil$l, and it Shall Be dOnE unTo y o*U. , " But i~f I am Not in expeRiment%aL communion with Him, if H(i&s commanDs are not reguLating ^mY cond$ucT, theN my prayers Will rem@ain uNAnsw%eRed.

I like that the subject has a Re: As if the spam is in reply to me, or to somebody else. The link goes to a online blackjack playing website by the way (Tried it from school), which makes sense considering the subject line about BlackJack. What DOESN'T make sense though, is the entire fucking rest of it. Assuming someone decides to continue reading this little slice of joy, reading some bible verse, are they going to click the link? A link randomly inserted that makes no sense?! Lets assume they do, for the sake of stupidity. What do you suppose the venn diagram cross over is like between devout Christians who read bible verse spam emails and people who gamble online? I would wager its a pretty slim amount, which makes this spam meant for very specific people.

Also, there's the whole issue about the way its written... random symbols and capitalization and complete bastardization of the english language. Was that to avoid spam filters? I guess it worked, I did receive it, mind you it was packed with warnings about not viewing it or clicking anything etc etc.

So what is everyone's take on this? Other than its the most magnificently crafted piece of literature ever, and that we are lucky to receive such a blessing from the gods.

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Brainexplosion

By Xeiphyer March 26, 2011 2 Comments

I just realized that the yellow M&M and Barney from the Flintstones sound the exact same.

The yellow M&M says "Oh, hey Red."
and Barney says "Oh, hey Fred".

Those can't be two coincidences.

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Thoughts on the Dragon Age 2 demo

By Xeiphyer February 26, 2011 4 Comments

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Note to self:

By Xeiphyer January 1, 2011 4 Comments

Rachel McAdams would make a good C. Viper in a hypothetical non sucky Street Fighter movie. Ponder further.

- Xei

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First Thoughts: Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.

By Xeiphyer December 20, 2010 5 Comments

So I have played about an hour of the new Monster Hunter game and thought I would post some initial thoughts on what I have seen of the game so far.

Also, I grabbed a bunch of screenshots while playing since that probably makes things way more interesting to read and whatnot. Prepare yourself for the glory that is 480x272!

Around Town

This is the main part of the single player hub area. The change to a feudal Japan hot springs town is a pretty cool change of scenery, though these shops don't particularly reflect that.

Here is a picture farther back by the stairs leading to the guild building. All the trees look really nice and animate well. That lady drinking tea looks really low rez in this photo for some reason, and she totally has like no face?! Definitely not like that in the game... its just magic.

The hunter's house. Not a ton to say about this, it looks nice. Not a lot is different from other games though. ALSO, if you didn't notice by now then this picture definitely makes it obvious; you get two cat companions now instead of one and they also follow you around town. I had the piggy following me too and we had an awesome party (He was also wearing an eskimo outfit, it was cute).

Inside the guild hall now, its very fancy looking. Only two new things going on in here that I saw, one being the Health and Stamina business, not sure what the deal with that is. Presumably something involving food effects or something. I assume it has some relationship with the other new thing: The hotsprings.

Almost an album cover

The hotsprings are pretty fun, they basically replace the benches you could sit at and drink/emote in the old MH games. Same things can be done here, but its more awesome.

New Mechanics and shit

Besides the fact that you can quest with two cats now, they can also totally equip weapons and armor now. This equipment isn't cosmetic like the last game; each piece has its own stats like regular character equipment. The method you obtain them seems to involve trading items for various 'scraps' which you then exchange for equipment.

Anybody who played (Or didn't play) MH: Tri will probably know that they removed a bunch of weapon types from that game. Luckily for us, every weapon type remains in 3rd and we get Switch Axes from Tri. They will probably be my new main though I do love to fiddle with heavy bowguns once I can get some decent ammo for them. Also, the bowgun system from Tri is not in this game, instead its back to the light and heavy ones.

I noticed this guy when I started up a mission from the guild (I didn't see him when I did a single player quest from the elder, though I might be blind?), this cat dude will take some items from your inventory and go back to town with them. I assume he will put them in your item box, but I suppose its possible he just sells them and gives you the money or spends it on hookers and catnip. I should probably check.

Theres probably some other shit that is new, but this is getting long and I should sleep soon, so i'll skip those for now.

...Oh! When I went to the farm area to mine and whatnot, I decided to fish once, Instead of doing that very boring fishing minigame the character pulled up a sweet fish trap from the water and it gave me some fish. A very welcome surprise!

Quest Stuff

Man, they really stepped up the quality of the scenery again in MHP:3rd. I only walked around a few zones of the first area but they have some really nice ambient effects going on.

So, the Japanese version always has lots of blood, its awesome. I can't remember if the last english MH game had blood like this... I don't think it did. Its pretty crazy!

Also, Switch Axes are really fun! Well, the sword mode is anyways :D The Axe mode is like a faster greatsword and hits hard, but the sword feels so zippy and powerful, plus you can do some crazy moves with it.

I noticed that my felynes (The cats/not a spelling mistake) got pissed off towards the end of the mission and started flipping out. They were even throwing these crazy glowing boomerangs at the enemies. I know they have had something like that in some of the older games, but it seems like they have some other moves that they start using when in the rage mode as well. Also, you can see the map clearly in this screenshot, it looks nice. Definitely more detailed than previous games.

Heres the loading screen, I took a really nice screenshot when it was showing the full colour version but that caused the game to lock up and me to lose all the items I collected on that mission. Oh well, I can do it again =P The loading screen looks really nice when it isn't darkened like this... Maybe I can get a picture later sometime.

So yeah, thats my initial impression and thoughts on the game, it looks really great. I haven't seen a single change I haven't liked (Though no swimming from Tri is sad, but presumably a technical/control limitation). I am looking forward to playing more of the game on thursday with some friends. I will probably write another blog on the game once I have had some time to sink my teeth into it.

Thanks for reading (If you did?!). Lots of pictures and not much writing is probably lame. Or totally awesome. I don't know which.

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This is one Walmart deal you don't want to miss!

By Xeiphyer December 5, 2010 85 Comments

While checking the mall *LAST WEEK* for a copy of DiRT 2 for PS3 (Vapourware apparently) some friends and I decided to check in the Walmart...

Which is where we found this sick little deal:

Don't all get up at once!

Anyone else seen any crazy game things going on at Walmart?

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What I need to know for my Archaeology Midterm tomorrow

By Xeiphyer November 3, 2010 9 Comments

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Banff Trip Photos and blog type thing!

By Xeiphyer August 4, 2010 13 Comments

So I just got back from Banff (Actually it was a few hours ago, but I was tired) and I thought I would post some photos from my trip for anyone who is interested in seeing 'em. Since Banff is in the middle of the Rockie Mountains, the view is pretty amazing. We also stayed in a 4 and a half star hotel, which was gorgeous! Pictures of that later~

Before I start though, I should explain what and where Banff is (Smart readers will already have picked up on a clue or two of where it is!). Banff is a resort town, so basically a town that is based entirely around tourism more or less. Its nestled in the Canadian Rockie Mountains ( Gorgeous!) and is one of Canada's most popular tourist spots, there is always a ton of Japanese tourists visiting during the summer, and during the winter all the Australians come out to go skiing and snowboarding.

Banff is actually in one of the many national parks in the mountains, which is cool, all that unspoiled land makes for a great backdrop for photos =P What else is cool about the place... Its the second highest town in Canada? Thats pretty cool. Mountain air is refreshing!

Alright! On with some cool photos!

I didn't take any photo's on the way there, I mostly just forgot, so this first photo is when I have already arrived in Banff. This bridge leads into the actual town on the left, and our hotel is nestled off in the mountains on the right somewhere.

You might have noticed the water being all blue and stuff, this is because the water is glacier runoff from the other mountains. Its very pretty to look at, but also really cold =P

Heres another shot from the right side of the bridge facing towards the town, lots and lots of traffic even though the long weekend had just ended. People sure love to jaywalk even even though there is a million crosswalks.

So instead of checking out the town first, I wanted to check out the government building, it has a ton of flowers and was super nice looking. I took the previous photo of the bridge from just inside this property (You can see the gate and fence that surrounds the area in it).

Heres a few more to check out if you like, the fountain was pretty nice.

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Also, the colour filtering option on the camera is totally crazy, look how artsy this picture is! ARTSY.

Here is what the building actually looks like, its all cool and whatnot!

The Hotel

So after we finished checking out the flowers and stuff, it was finally 4pm and we could go check-in at the hotel. Seriously 4pm check-in... those fuckin' punks.

So I didn't get any shots of the outside of the hotel partially because I forgot, and partially because the hotel is on the edge of a giant cliff half way up a mountain, so enjoy the above googled photo! The place is called the "Rimrock Resort Hotel", its 4 and a half stars and super fancy (Read: Expensive). Thats actually a lie, it wasn't too expensive since we used Hotwire (Save a lot of money on hotels, but you don't know what hotel you get until you purchase the room. The hotels sell the extra rooms cheaper than normal, so they have to be unlisted. Its all fancyness).

Since the hotel is built on a cliff up a mountain, the hotel's lobby is actually located on the 7th floor, which is really strange and easy to forget when you are using the elevators.

A couple lobby shots, the inside is insanely fancy and they even had a grand piano nearby, It made me wish that I could play the piano so I could have dazzled people with my musical powers. One day I'll learn to play Piano... One day.

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Two more pictures for anyone wanting to see what the lobby looks like a bit better.

I like this photo because you would assume it was taken from the ground looking up towards the building, but its actually taken from the 7th floor balcony looking towards the ground. The plant was on the balcony =P

Took this shot from inside the elevator, its all shiny and reflective. I guess its brass or something, I wouldn't know but that'd be my guess.

Here are two more pictures from inside the elevator, one is an advert for their in-hotel restaurant called Eden, its super fancy looking but I didn't feel like paying $70 for a meal. The other is just the facilities listing and what floor they are on. We tried to find the pool, but we never found it.

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So this is the room we stayed in, its quite nice and I wish I could have spent some more time in it, but we were pretty busy. The room had 2 beds which felt like a waste since we only needed one, but oh well, thats the room they gave us =P

This is the view from the window, a surprisingly great view considering we had one of the cheaper rooms.

And the bathroom... It was nice and had a full bath, although It took me forever to figure out how the faucet for the tub worked when I wanted to have a shower. You would think that itd be some form of turn and/or pull system, and it appeared to be, but it was actually some sinister trick or something. When I finally got hot water, it was too hot... ugh. I must be retarded.

So thats prettymuch all the photos from the hotel I stayed at, however I totally need to show you guys the Fairmont Hotel in Banff. I was really hoping that I would get to stay there but hotwire had other plans for me. The Fairmont is so gorgeous!

I love the way the Fairmont looks, but apparently not all of the rooms are air conditioned and I need AC in a hotel. As soon as I got to my hotel room I turned it down as low as it could go (Which was 17C for anyone wondering, still a few degrees warmer than I prefer, but manageable).

Heres a professional-ass shot for you punks who don't like my drive-by camera skills. I didn't want to stop and get out to get a better picture since that would make me seem totally lame.

As nice as this Fairmont hotel is, theres actually an even nicer one a little ways away at Lake Louise, but that place is mostly a winter resort. Heres what it looks like though:

Look at how blue that water is! Looks like a huge pool doesn't it. The water really is that blue in real life too, its really amazing to see.

This blog is getting really really long, I probably should have made it a 2 parter, but the first one would have been all substance and the second part would be mostly random stuff, Plus I probably would have gotten lazy and played Starcraft 2 all week. Lets finish this now! The silly and hilarious shit is coming now! Feel free to take a break here, but come back, its gonna be awesome.

Alright, so we came across these rapids just outside of Banff, and they were pretty awesome so I took some pictures. There was a path all along the side so you could walk along it and look at the different parts of the rapids. It was neat.

This shot sucks, but it shows where they start, well actually, where they end. But its where we started. The spot shown above is actually fucking insane, the picture doesn't do it justice, but these ones do.

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I remembered I had some video recorded, so I threw those in too! =)

Around Town

So when I finally got a chance to wander around the town, I found some pretty awesome shit. I'll share that here. I left it for the end to better establish a narrative in my blog. Also anyone still reading will enjoy this part the most! *Evil Smile*.

First up, is this famous candy store called "Welch's", I immediately thought of Star Ocean, but there was no crazy girl with a hand wand inside sadly. There was however, A LOT of candy. They sell a ton of different sweets which are really hard to find or not available in Canada. They also have a ton of candy that isn't made anymore... I have no idea where it comes from.

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I ended up buying an old school looking Charleston Chew to see if it was any different from the ones I normally buy (Also my favourite chocolate bar by the way), Some german or something chocolate called "Schogetten" It was super creamy and delicious milk chocolate, I also bought a Yorkie since I've never tried one before and their "It's NOT for girls" slogan thing on the bar made me laugh.

I also bought a half a pound of those lego candy bricks, they don't taste particularly great, but you can totally build things with them! Loved them as a kid. Heres what they look like for anyone missing out:

AWESOME.

The other thing I bought was a bag of Mini (More like TINY) Jawbreakers, they are about a quarter inch in diameter and I have like 200+ of them. They are really great and amusing looking. Heres a picture!

SHRINK RAY SUCCESS!

So thats it for the Candy Store. Next, and most awesomely, was this famous Ice Cream place called "Cow's".

This cow theme is amazing.

I had already started into the candy on the way there, so I decided to not get an icecream, that and the line was insane. However, they sell a ton of custom made novelty t-shirts which are totally hilarious. I took a picture of all the best ones I saw, I wish I had had some money left to buy some of them though. Anyways, look through them all! They are amazing!

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I put my favourite 3 at the end, but they are all pretty amazing =P I really want to buy most of those.

OK! And now for a few random funny pictures I took along the way that made me laugh.

A car had this pretty sweet gothic tinkerbell, I dig it.

This is obviously the most classy place around. Some 'Restorante' named "guido's" on top of a McDonalds. Nice. Oh and its Leased!

I came across this little gem as well. What a perfect name for A Liquor Store!

I think that is pretty much everything from my trip that I took pictures of and is worth showing, I'll leave you guys with some pretty mountain pictures I snapped on the way back.

Thanks for reading my blog!

- Xei~

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I Need your help everyone! We are going to do something amazing.

By Xeiphyer July 5, 2010 144 Comments

UPDATE: Everyone can vote once per day, so please vote again!

So, the Tester. That show was total cheese, but I found myself actually enjoying it. It had that perfect kind of terribleness to be hilarious, and everyone on the show sort of realized how silly the entire thing was.

Anyways, the casting call for the Tester Season 2 has started, and for the next 10 days, people can vote up their favourite people on the site.

Put this together this morning. Are you voting yet?!

A friend whom some of you may know, bonbolapti, has decided to try out for the show (After much convincing by us at how funny it would be if he was on it), and since he is such a shitty actor, this will probably be good for him. Minimum wage jobs are better than no wage acting jobs, right bon?

So I would really appreciate it if everyone can take a minute and make a voter account super quickly, and vote bonbolapti up there. If one of our own members gets onto the show, it will be hilarious! He promises quality programming!

Here is how you do it:
1. Sign up quickly right here: http://casting.thetester.com/join/
2. Go to bonbolapti's profile on the site and click VOTE!
3. PROFIT, fuck ?????.

Thanks a lot for your time everyone!

Also, check out his video, its pretty funny. Lazy links for the lazy.

These sideburns have the minimum wage wall-hugging credentials for being a tester.

UPDATE:

It looks like you are able to vote again each day, so please vote again everyone! If you bookmark the profile page you can just jump back to it and click vote, super duper quick! This is a great opportunity for us to get even more votes!

Thanks a lot for your time everyone, Bonbolapti is very excited and just spent a few hours filling out paperwork.

GO TEAM GIANTBOMB!!

Check this out, Cyrus wrote on Bon's "Wall":

" Glad to have a Giant Bomb community member on the site :) "

That is pretty awesome! That means Cyrus is aware of this website! I wonder who he is... I have many questions!

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Around Town

New Mechanics and shit

Quest Stuff

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The Hotel

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