Friday, November 8, 2013

UNBOXING THE PS4…(camera and controller)


The PlayStation 4 hasn’t launched yet, but the PS4 Camera and Dualshockoctocotcoc 4 wireless controller shipped early. So, let’s fuckin’ unbox them in this expertly cultivated parents’ guide for man I’m totally feeling it!

We’ll start with Kinect, Jr. It comes in this nice shiny, blue box. It looks generic as fuck. I don’t remember how much it cost. I don’t even think any of the launch games support it. I’ll handle it lightly; maybe I can return it.


It says some shit on the back, like that it has two wide-angle lenses, four microphones, and face-recognition technology. Kinda creepy. It also interacts with the light bar on the Dualshockoctocotcoc 4 controller (we’ll touch on that in a bit) so you can go ahead and throw your stupid, obsolete PlayStation MOVE! In the garbage. Yell “MOVE!” as you can that bitch, for karma.


OK, undo the little tape thingies, slide that shit outta the generic blue hell it came in, and, well, I guess there’s more to it than that.


Fuck all that unnecessary bullshit outta the way and we’ve got the camera, some T-shaped thing in a bubble-wrap bag, and a piece of paper nobody will read.


Look at that dongle, would ya? Can’t wait to plug that fucker in one day.


The T-shaped thing appears to be some sort of stand.


With hinges. I bet it bends!


Well, I’ll be damned.

One end of the long part has this little dental dam on it. I’m just going to leave that there.


Other end has this little male part. I’m blushing.


…but not as much as I’m going to be. Here’s the PS4 Camera LadyBits.


Let’s smoosh them together.


You guys remember that movie Short Circuit? This thing stares into your soul like its alive (like Johnny 5), but it hates you and want you to die (like the weaponized total dickhead robots Johnny 5 is related to). Yep. I’ll be sending this shit back soonsies.

Here’s the piece of paper this curse upon humanity came with.


So, apparently you just adopted a baby. Congratulations. Do not touch the product with wet hands. Don't let any other metal items come into contact with any of the connectors. Don't place any objects on top of the product (really?). DON’T stand on the product (worse than a baby). DON’T throw or drop the product, or otherwise expose it to strong physical impact. DON’T speak ill about the product in its presence. DON’T ever remove the product from inside your body—it lives there now.


In summary, the PS4 Spybox is fucking awesome, despite its total uselessness. Again, the PS4 isn’t available yet. Maybe I can plug it into this piglet.


It didn’t work. Let’s move on.

The Dualshockoctocotcoc 4. This is the key to the future, the control module to the most exciting new product on the planet.


Yay, I opened it up! This is fucking stupid what am I doing. This is fucking pointless.


Whoa. A way shittier photo of the Dualshockoctocotococ 4 than ever before cool moves wh


It’s got a light bar. How about we see how it works?


I pissed my pants a lot in 2nd Grade. A couple times, I was wearing the most 80s shit a kid could wear. Maybe it was a sign. I bet it was a sign.

Have you ever bent over super hard in someone else’s workspace?


It all makes sense now. I could only make water when someone else was in the room then, I can only make wet when someone is right there even now.


The touchpad on the Dualshockoctocotcoc 4 clicks like a button. Look! It clicks like a button!


You ever have a dream that you’re compulsively eating feces, like little mouthballs of human feeks, and you’re chewin’ and chewin’, rolling it around in your mouth, and then you wake up, and you’ve been sleeping on your back with your mouth open and your tongue is drier than a sandmummy’s cotton-stuffed dickhole.

Anywho, you’re probably screaming “WHERE’S MY EXT? WHERE’S MY HORSESHOE HOLE?” Don’t fret. The PS4’s Dualshockoctocotcoc 4 has you covered.


Let’s fire it up! 

But Dad, the PS4 isn’t out yet.

I have this cat. Press X for Sniff.


If we’re lucky, only 40 percent of us will starve to death in the next two decades.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Reinventing the Conversation Wheel




What if I want to choose all of these at once? I am presented with a choice in ME3 - I can force the bartender to drink what he has just served me (it's obviously poison) and then watch as he dies in front of me for the RENEGADE bonus. Or, I can incite an alien passerby to kill the bartender and then watch as he dies in front of me for the PARAGON bonus. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I take the one less traveled by and WHO GIVES A FUCK WE'RE ALL GOING TO HELL ANYWAY.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

For Me Anyway


Scientists tell us that the brain grows in interesting and significant ways when we are children. At the outset of adolescence, the gristly pink mass begins to hard-wire certain memories and muscle commands. Does this explain why we can still get through the first three levels of Sonic the Hedgehog with no problems?

Thursday, November 17, 2011

In Case You Give A Shit: My Dark Souls Experience So Far

I've finished most of the Undead Berg and Parish area, a real shithole. I have quietly ground the wights in its grimy grey-green alleys and parapets for several hours. It won't be until I'm fully confident in my short bow and partizan abilities (+5 and +6 respectively thanks to the weird metronome of a blacksmith) that I'll venture deeper into the Darkroot Basin or Blighttown or defeat the Bell Gargoyles (naked?).

I'm a hunter this time around, a class that was intriguing to me because DEX is an attribute seldom explored in most of my RPG experiences. The fact that my character in Demon's Souls was a glass cannon she-mage with high MAG and INT also urged me to explore the weapon battle system further, which I've found is fairly similar to that of Demon's Souls but tweaked slightly for the better. Combat without magic was basically foreign to me throughout Demon's Souls.

I did have a nice set of armor. I remember Dr. fondly:




I'm pleased with my hunter build so far, but I have only so much tolerance for death (though the addition of campfires as checkpoints certainly softens the blow, or plummet, or stabbing, or burning) which prevents me from playing for long hours all at once. Death is something that is certainly part of the life of this game. In the last installment, I ground skeletons for hours at a time, setting personal soul goals that seem silly now (100,000 souls before I turn in for the night). This actually ended up paying off, as one day I sat and easily cleared the Tower Queen's level and soon realized that the rest of the game was sure to be a tumble down hill. It was. I'm hoping for a similar experience with Dark Souls, but I'm admittedly a little tired of this stupid level.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Play the Game (On Hard) - Queen

You know that song by Queen? 'Play The Game (On Hard)'? I'm feeling down and my resistance is low. I nearly smashed out all the windows in my apartment after attempting to win the "Bulletproof Windshield" trophy from L.A. Noire (I failed and quit loudly). I switched to Dungeon Siege III, only to get spanked by Rajani, the white-eyed, two-formed (maybe three, re: Ninja Gaiden), dumb, cheap, hot boss I saved before last night. I'm cracking another beer and relaxing with the 5th anniversary edition of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (there is no trophy support). This is the life I have chosen, this Hard life, or Hardcore, or Nightmare, or whatever.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Don't Hit IMHO:


If you're a man and you beat your lady, you deserve to go to jail. Some guys, that's all they know, they just punch. "Punchies" I call them. They don't know any better, but to me that ain't no excuse, so lock 'em up! That's what I say.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011