All Is Well

We did it, guys. WE DID IT. Ten posts in a month, a three year high for The WAMBAG – not since September 2009 have we put up double digits in the span of a calendar month. I mean it took excessive and blatant stat padding with some insane baseball ramblings, a two sentencer, and a bit about Chevy Chase that absolutely did not deserve its own post…but that’s always been the case here. I’m proud to say that I have never allowed a thing like objective quality be a factor in the content that we provide. This was a team effort guys, congratulations all around!

This benchmark also represents a four year personal high, and is especially fulfilling considering that it’s come as a result to a renewed dedication to blogging quality content here. I’m trying to get back to ours roots, rediscover my love for the game, and relearn all the fundamentals again. I’m in the best metaphorical blogging shape of my life, I’m practicing like six times a week, going two-a-days, just typing nonsense words over and over again into an empty screen. Listen, if you can’t periodically reinvent yourself as a different animal while still remaining the same beast, then what are you doing? If I didn’t absolutely love doing this, then why would I still be at it for over a decade? I mean it would be insane right? No rational person would willingly subject themselves to such a torture right? They would require some sort of professional therapy, and thus you’d see behavioural changes in him like constantly trying to drop notes and hints to his friends that things are not well, or writing weirdly excessive amounts about uninteresting subjects in a thinly veiled desperate cries for help. He would wish that just for once, someone would realize the hell he’s in and step in to stop it, instead of allowing him to further descend into a destructive spiral of insanity that will ultimately lead to death by his own hands.

But obviously that is not happening here.

Onto the links!

– If you are a big Taylor Swift fan and wish to woo her with song, you might be interested to know that whipping out the Creed voice might actually work. She is so delightful.

– This novelty coffee mug delighted me way more than any novelty coffee mug should realistically be able to. There’s so much genius packed into this that I am ashamed for the world that they cannot appreciate this on the same level than I can. Mobile Organism Designed Only for Koffee…goddamn, that is brilliant. All those years, dollars, social opportunities, and mental capacities that I’ve sacrificed in following comic books…all worth it.

– This is a successfully funded Kickstarter game called Sui Generis that looks pretty interesting. I have no idea how fun it will be to play, but the engine looks pretty crazy. Also try to imagine it after they get someone to clean up the animations, and combat might actually be more interesting than just two ragdolls randomly flailing at each other. If nothing else, it’s a neat look at what sort of wacky things computers can do these days. Technology, everybody!

– Dead End Thrills is a website that collects a lot of screenshots from video games, jazzed up with various mods and high polygon skins and extra rendering and such, and offers them as high resolution wallpapers for your computing needs. You can just wander through there endlessly like I did or browse by game for convenience. Yes, there are a lot of Mass Effect ones, but none of the ones featuring Miranda show her from the front. This is a man who knows his subject material very well.

– Shane Carruth, who you might better remember as the writer/director of Primer, has recently unveiled a new movie called Upstream Color. The synopsis given is that the movie’s about “a man and woman who are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism“…so if you were expecting that this wasn’t going to be like Primer, in the sense that you wouldn’t need to refer to a mind bending Wikipedia diagram of the plot to make sense of it…I guess that idea’s out the window now. From the first three stills, we can also see that it does indeed include a man and a woman, a lot of ice water, and fearful cuddling in a bathtub. I am already really looking forward to being really confused about this movie.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.