So. I’ve got a bone to pick with someone. I just don’t know whose bone to pick. Let me explain.
Yesterday, in the midst of a rare bout of optimism and motivation, I decided to register to enter Yuk Yuk’s Great Canadian Laugh Off, which is a stand-up comedy contest where the winner wins $25,000. Not bad. So I fill out the registration form, read the rules….wait, what was that?! “2. The Contest is not open to residents of the Province of Quebec and the City of Ottawa.”
Huh. My first natural instinct, of course, was to bitch up a storm about how much I hate Quebec and how they can’t seem to understand that, despite their whines of discontent, they are still located in the country of Canada.
Nice.
Then I got to thinking. Maybe it isn’t Quebec that chose to not participate in various contests but it’s the rest of Canada. Here’s my theory: Quebec is a French province, for those of you who don’t know. The language here is French. Anglophones are lowly pieces of poo (I’m exaggerating here, but barely). I’m pretty sure that these contest creators see it this way….if they include Quebec they will have to go all bilingual and allow French to be part of the contest..they will need to translate everything to French…they will have to allow French comedians to participate and more than half of Canada will not understand. So it’s just easier to exclude Quebec from the festivities. Am I close?
But what about Ottawa….What have they done so be excluded from the contests?
Either way, I’m feeling gypped.
Categories: Politikal Agenda · Things That Ruin My Day · This Just In
Tagged: canada, comedy, contests, laugh off, quebec, yuk yuk
Axel and Pixel (published by: 2k)
What I love: The surreal, dreamy landscape, the art, Axel’s responses to problems, simple gameplay, the amount of fun had while playing, easy achievements .
What I didn’t love: The driving levels and the game is too short.
Everyone praises Axel and Pixel for it’s looks rather the actual game and I can understand why. It looks nice. It’s the video game equivalent of the sweet girl you can bring home to mom and dad, who won’t guzzle down the bottle of wine before the main meal is served.
Our heroes of the game are a skinny painter in a beret named Axel and his pet dog, Pixel. The game is a simple point & click puzzle laid out on a beautifully hand-drawn landscape where we travel on a journey of solving puzzles, connecting water pipes, climbing mountains in awkward vehicles and searching for bones. While it might seem a little uninteresting to the more bloody shooter games out there, Axel & Pixel is a nice break from the more complex games we’ve been playing the last few months. Easily beatable in a day, 2K made it simple enough for younger gamers to enjoy as well as entertaining enough for adults to find amusing.
Be sure to stick around and check out the arcade mini games where you can pick from various vehicles to maneuver through tricky terrain – boat, hot air balloon and dune buggy. While it may not win any awards, it’s worth checking out if you like surreal, dreamy worlds and puzzle solving.
Categories: I Write Stuff · This Just In
Tagged: 2k, axel and pixel, game, reviews, video game review
~ Here. It’s a review at a site run by a bunch hipster kids about Patti Smith’s new book “Just Kids“. I’m pretty certain (about 99.8%) that the person who wrote the review has no idea who Robert Mapplethorpe is, and maybe knows three Patti Smith songs and only because they were required to research her to write the little article.
I could be totally wrong (proof would be required). Maybe not. Either way, I want the book.
~ Next time your woman opens her trap and starts bitching about how much beer you drink, make her read this article and tell her if it wasn’t for beer we wouldn’t be here today. That’ll shut her up.
~ Bayonetta: Empowering or Exploitative. Ehhhh, I like the game. I usually have many issues with games that feature skanks for men to oggle while they play, but this game feels different. Hell, I want to be her, for christ’s sake.
Watch. Drool. Swoon.
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and I need a job. So, sprinkle some sunshine on me today and help a gal out. E-mail is over to the right ~~~>
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Well hello there!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season if you are one of those that celebrate such things. I haven’t been very good with updates or following through on things, I know, but I have a good excuse. I have a few of them, actually.
A few weeks ago my hard drive died, taking with it hundreds of photos, writings, links and, of course, my whole book proposal and beginnings of my book. I was able to hook my boyfriends computer up, but that set up was uncomfortable and useless seeing as I had nothing on there…and just when I was starting to set all that up again, my monitor died. Lovely. And in between that the Xbox died as well, along with various other electrical things that should never die. So mix that in with a depressed state of mind, the holidaze and too much booze – and there ya have my sorry excuse.
In other news….oh wait, there isn’t any other news.
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Kotaku recently went and asked why people play or don’t play World of Warcraft.
Here is some asshat’s reason for not playing WoW:
Playing a game like WoW consumes so much time and all WoW players that I know play for hours on end everyday. There isn’t enough time for me to have a social life, go to college, get enough, sleep, and play WoW the way they seem to.
College? Pfft. Loser.
Then there’s the guy who says he’d rather spend time with his girlfriend. Please.
On the other end, there is Casey Lynch, some stranger I don’t know, who said he/she (hard to tell) plays because:
“Explaining why I play WoW is like explaining why I like to go out and eat pizza, drink beer and hang out with my friends all night. Obviously, because it’s hella fun to me. And come to think of it, when I play, I’m usually eating pizza, drinking beer and hanging out with my friends all night, except we’re wired into Vent and running Naxx instead of carousing at our favorite pub.”
Why do I play? The lootz!
Also, take the above with a grain of salt, please.
Categories: 'Tis Supposed To Be Funny
Tagged: anniversary, mmo, world of warcraft, WoW, wowturnsfive
