Big 'ol tub of digestives

The best thing about digestive biscuits is that you don't realise you're full until it's far too late, then there's only a few left and you sort of need to finish the packet, to at least achieve something out of your evening (aside from getting one's Metapod to evolve before Pewter city on your 2nd attempt to restart "Pokemon: Leaf Green" in the past month.) The joy of having no money in the drinking fund.


Read some awesome news, "Dr. Horrible's sing along blog 2" should start filming this Summer. I've been listening to the soundtrack of the first one on repeat the past few days, pretty sure "Brand new day" encompasses all the nerd rage anyone can feel in a lifetime into roughly 2 minutes of NPH glory, it's practically therapeutic. 


"Avengers Assemble" was a fantastic bit of cinema, found myself loving Hulk and Black Widow (for more than the fact that it was Scarlett Johansson, I know what you're thinking) a hell of a lot more than I thought I would, guess it's the Joss Whedon effect. It's not surprising, thinking back to his "Astonishing X-men" run and how he portrayed  Kitty Pride. Hopefully the sheer amount of money this movie stands to make will up Whedon's power enough to bring out ten new seasons of "Firefly" in the space of three weeks.


Last post's rant was very comic centric, so I'm gonna try and mix it up; why am I not playing a "Pokemon" mmo? (and not one of this dodgey browser ones.) A game based around the concept of trading and co-operation that has existed for 16 years and STILL no dice? Nintendo is one of my favourite game companies, my definitive favourite for hand-held gaming. I was there for the rough years of the woefully under-appreciated Game-Cube, I got my Wii like everyone else and was bitterly disappointed by the lack of worth-while games. At the expense of millions of eager fans, Nintendo made a metric crap-ton of money, So, when I raised this point a few months back in college, we all threw out ideas about how the game could work, what we'd be willing to pay for it, etc. I guess I was in denial about the Wii-U's giant evil tv of a controller and thought that somewhere, somehow, a fraction of that money was going into the notion of the possibility of the pipe-dream that maybe this game could happen. In reality though, it just seems impossible, like if it hasn't happened by now, someone has taken the decision to never let it happen. "Pokemon" is so tantalisingly close to already being an mmo, with the global trade (etc) in the versions of the past few years opening the game up to international play, albeit in a very limited sense. Surely there is no better time to take a stab at the idea, especially considering "WOW" is entering it's decline, leaving a gap in the market. Would the expectation be too high? Is Nintendo's previous history with on-line play holding it back? Would it be the cost/commitment of maintaining servers? (Bear in mind, there would be a requirement for tons of them.) 


This is a gap that no amount of digestives can fill. It can, in fact, only be filled by spending hours getting my ass kicked at online "Pokemon" by the internet and loving every second of it.

Mark 00

I'm doing this for a few reasons; a.) It's been months since I've had a chance to write for fun, there's not much time for it in computer science. b.) I want to get some work published on sites  like bulbapedia and I figure a blog couldn't hurt that endeavour. c.) A recent episode of IGN's "Gamescoop" podcast suggested blogs as a means of getting one's name out there, there being the world of gaming journalistic pursuits, definitely something I'd love to try down the line.


Why are you reading this? (If, in fact, anyone IS reading this.) Maybe you have similar ambitions, maybe you like the font I'm using, maybe I'm making an arse of myself and it's rather fun to watch, all valid maybes. So, since I'm new to this, anyone who does happen to read this, please drop a comment, let me know if you got anything out of it.


First thing that springs to my mind: why are there no, absolutely NO decent Irish super-heroes? Canada gets Wolverine. Now, I don't mean to offend, I'm simply questioning. Ireland has a rich history, in particular of her people travelling to foreign countries and setting down roots. Wolverine is many things, one of which being an amnesia-stricken wanderer. Maybe I could raise the point that this memory loss could be induced by skulling back beverages of an alcoholic nature, raising an age-old backwards notion that all we do is drink. I now raise the point that I believe I speak for everyone when I say that if Wolverine was 2 foot 6, ginger as the sun and constantly half cut, we would be willing to take all of that simply because we had a Wolverine, a proper, badass comic book hero. Our best known comic-book hero? Probably Sean Cassidy. An alcoholic. Who is ginger. Wears green. His codename is "Banshee", as in a spirit from Irish folklore. His power? He screams at things. Oh, and he's dead, at least in the Earth 616 continuity. Somehow, I don't think "Banshee: Origins" is on the cards and rightly so. The character was in "X-men first class", but with zero references to him actually being Irish. So, anyone out there who is considering entering the comics industry, I ask you, please create a valid Irish hero, so years down the line, "Avengers 7" can feature Liam Neeson playing a lankier, pastier, woozier Captain America.


Anyone else feel their region has been left out? Lets hear about it.


-Rick Pow Pow