syntheticgerbil

Yes! LeChimp's back!

They have been married for like 15 years.

Haha, the website for the film let everyone view the online before the movie even came out, so I figured it wasn't too bad. Edited anyways though.

I think a lot of his movies egg on a bad ending and then you get the happy ending instead, but I'm not sure if that's what makes them contrived to you guys or not. Shallow Grave and Trainspotting had more bitter sweet endings, whereas I've noticed a tendency since then in movies like Life Less Ordinary, Millions, and Sunshine for everything to end up okay. I don't care that much either way, although I guess I'll be the guy to say that unhappy endings piss me off, unless I really feel there is a good reason. But that's personal bias.

Yeah, I know. Hellboy has sort of turned into a clusterfuck of people making Hellboy that aren't Mignola. Oh well.

Yeah, who made that?

So anything targeted towards kids under 12 will be banned coming February 10th thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Instead of going after the major corporations that are importing cheap shit from China that are coated with lead paint, Congress makes a blanket law that anyone selling "untested" toys, books, comics, costumes, clothes, and school supplies. Of course the only ones who can afford to have a third party test are big companies, but what about everyone else? I doubt anyone is going to heavily enforce this Act but what a shitty and retarded thing to do. I really don't feel like I'm in control at all here. Here's a link on the same thing from one of my favorite comic artists: http://evandorkin.livejournal.com/ Also the libraries don't know what to do either: http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=1322 Gawd bless 'merica, y'all!

I really like Evan Dorkin's sad or heartfelt stuff just as much as his outrageous violent stuff. Things like Dork #7 and the Hectic Planet Series are all really memorable, if not somewhat disjointed. I think all that has a lot to do with him raising his daughter, but I wish he would get to work on something a little bit more substantial than the one-pagers and TV shows he's done over the last 6 years. But then again I bet all that stuff pays just as much as finishing a 32 page comic book, but what do I know?

Haha that was pretty good... I wonder if there was any editing involved. I would be tempted.

Well, I'm not sure you read how problematic it is/was through the links, Thunderpeel, but it's not that lead paint and harmful chemicals in plastic or children's toys is disagreeable, it's that Congress is putting out a blanket act which requires almost all products under the sun for kids 12 and younger to be submitted to a third party for testing under general guidelines. It especially presents a dilemma for the libraries who all have for decades checked out books to kids under 12, but suddenly must get every book targeted to that age demographic tested in order to check them out. Libraries are funded by state and city governments, so there's no way anyone is already going to give them the money on the country's tight budget to get all their books tested that are all already obviously fine. It's cheaper for them to just throw them all away or ban kids under 12 from checking out books. And besides there's already laws against harmful chemicals and lead paint in toys, but for small businesses and DYI type sellers, they can't afford to submit everything they make to some other business setup just to tell you your product is okay to sell. Of course Mattel can afford it and companies like them are the biggest perpetrators on selling cheap harmful shit to kids, but as someone else in this thread already said, it smells like someone is just trying to make a useless middle man business to profit off of. Everyone making and producing toys, books, clothes, and costumes in the US is very aware of what they can and can't use to make them. It's just an act something that appears to be rushed to appease the parents that think their kids are going to die when they open their gifts on Christmas because of the fear-mongering bullshit every news network here is up to. And everytime there is a product recall, I'm sure it nearly always is a Chinese import, if not every single time. I worked at a Walgreen's two years ago and this kind of thing would happen all the time with cheap ass shit that kids probably don't need anyways.

Wario's Woods, SNES. Can't finish round mode. Lots of controller throwing rage.

Gosh the dead bird strip is such a classic. Also, on topic, I think Yufster should train the pigeon to send and receive messages. I always thought that was interesting, but I've never seen it in action. I guess E-mail is easier now.

Aaaaaaaaand, sort of a win for a year, at least. http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09115.html Guess everyone will figure it out by 2010.

I just can't wait for all the hot scoops.

Hahah, I never though of that, but you could totally reverse the band and song title and you'd probably get the same shit. We should be careful about the emo talk, or she may come after us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0y2BjXZS8

Speaking of hamsters, I'm just going to repost this, even though it's old news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzTfgds0UI It always brightens my day, though.

Just to level it out a little bit, I always like reading Bill Hicks quotes or listening to him talk, and I think he was very bright and someone to look up to, but I don't think he was that hilarious. Kiss my mouf.

2004 is over.

I'm not going to jail if I just sent a letter full of curse words to a member of the House of Representatives am I?

But someone's gotta read something sometime right? Right?! I actually didn't know it was an acronym full of bullshit verbiage until about a year ago when someone on the local radio was going over it. And in more news about the CPSIA, Snopes is arguing back and forth with other people, but amends are being proposed. More large text blocks here: http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/cpsia-continued/ Also you can tell this guy to go back and fix the damn thing... wonder if he cares? Honorable Henry A. Waxman Chairman Committee on Energy and Commerce 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington D.C. 20515 http://www.henrywaxman.house.gov/contact.htm Either way, I don't see why this has to be passed even with amends. Just tell companies to stop importing cheap dangerous shit from poverty stricken countries that they outsource to for the cheap labor. I seriously doubt any problem products are coming from businesses founded and doing production in the US.

I hope for both of your predicted outcomes, sir. I just get the feeling some laws aren't read before they are passed.

Haha, that Wes Borland is surely missed. Also, "I'm not putting my lips on that."

Yeah I think all the iMuse exclusivity stuff has been tongue-in-cheek so far in the thread, at least on my end. It really doesn't seem that hard to do event based music and I'd bet almost all games do it to some degree these days, although it probably just doesn't stand out as well because of (in my opinion) the lack of great music in most games these days (or past days as well). Definitely can't do it on redbook audio type games. Munch's Oddysee did it especially well when getting close to more dangerous areas or enlisting more Mudokens to follow you around. Only thing is the music in Munch's Oddysee was shitty generic techno.

Excuse my ignorance, but I always just got the feeling that Afro Samurai was deliberately ripping off Samurai Champloo and turning it into something more marketable to the United States. Guess I was wrong.

Haha, now that you mention that, I don't think I can see Jake as anything else. It's totally fitting!