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Today's Strip:
While I was all crushed into a fetal ball of pain (see below),
about the only motion that I could make that wouldn't send me into
fits of agony was just clicking over at the Kill
Everyone Project, the thing I noticed as I was clicking and
reading the banter that flies around place was,.....it's damn fun.
I mean,..you're just clicking a button to change number stats and
chatting, but for some reason it's still a blast. I guess it goes
to show that even a game with this little Hollywood savvy can
still be a killer app (pardon the pun) in the modern game world.
And of course my wet dream like imaginings of having the power
over who lives and dies with no negative repercussions are lived
out here as well. (I
think I'm like 350 now)
Of course watching the banter as a country gets closer and closer
to getting wiped off the target map is a riot, and the Twilight
Zoneesque scenario of "What if this was a government
population control laser run amuck and we were actually vaporizing
people" has come up a few hundred times, so I thought I'd
give it a nod in the strip,...that and I'm playing catch up with
my life so this was a quick and dirty one (like you can't tell *lol*)
Praying for death, was starting to become commonplace
for a while, and thus no new strip for a bit.
You see, I had woke up feeling a bit sore in the back, a condition
I attributed to my hyper-intelligent, yet terribly uncomfortable
mattress. Waking up new with an aching back was nothing new, but
what was new was this amazing little pain in my abdomen, that
built and built through the course of the day, until at about
noon, whence I did that thing that people tend to do two or three
times a day, and whilst standing and doing that thing I was quite
amazed at the fact that one person (i.e. me) could, in fact piss
out what seemed to be a gallon of blood. I then went mostly
unconscious from the pain, and when my head cleared, I was on the
phone for a trip to the emergency room. Of course the local
hospital emergency room was flooded with people, and litters were
being set up in the halls, broom closets, wherever. In my long and
agonizing wait to be seen, I saw these ER workers put up with the
most amazing of shit from no end of pissed off people in pain, so
I was resolute to be a good little monkey and not add to their
pain, but after about two and a half hours of waiting I was about
to grab the nearest RN and beat her till some morphine came out,
as I was getting ready to go beat sed RN,..suddenly I was back to
normal,..no pain, nothing. So after a brief exam and a nice chat
with a couple of resident lovelies, I was back home. Kidney Stones
had been the prognosis. And the only thing they could tell me was
they'll pass eventually and hurt like hell when they do. One of
the RN's told me that she had kidney stones at one time as well,
and that she'd also had twins, ala natural childbirth. She earned
her bedside manner merit badge by assuring me that the kidney
stones were by far the more painful of the two.
That's when I got scared.
Women hold on to the bragging rights of being able to bear the
pain of childbirth like it's a golden trophy, and for a woman to
just flat admit that I was (possibly) going to go through
something that made it pale in comparison, meant that it was going
to be so fucking painful that even the knowledge that I would
never have to hear that argument applied to me as a man again
wasn't going to count for shit when the pain hit,........... and
she was right.
Most of a day went by and I felt fine, just a little sore, and
then as I was walking through my house the "BIG" pain
hit. It was immediate and mind numbing, my legs gave way and I
collapsed to the ground clutching my abdomen, and for an instant
(and in retrospect it IS kinda funny), for that instant, I looked
around on the floor to see if there was anything blunt that I
could club myself unconscious with just to get me away from the
pain. Luckily there was nothing of the sort, and even the instant
realization of what a funny thing that would be to think about
later did nothing to abate the pain. The rest of my weeks were
filled with alternate feeling fine and praying for death, but now
I hope,.....I think,...I actually pray, that it's over. I've gone
about 6 days without popping painkillers like they were M&M's
so I'm mostly sure I'll be ok for a bit.
Thanks for all the Get better e-mails,...I really appreciate
them,..and some time this week I'll get around to replying to all
of them *lol* Soooooooo Many nice people :)
Stuff:
Well,..a lot has happened in the world since I went under, but
none of it was as important as my pain so I won't talk about any
of it, and in future conversations with me everyone is to pretend
that during this time the people of the world stayed silently in
their houses waiting for me to get better before life resumed,
anything else I will mock as unfounded rumors.
In the time that I've been better though I dug out ONI
and was FINALLY going to play it all the way through, because some
part of me LOVES the game, and that part was better healed than
the part that hates the game. So as I tend to do when I'm playing
a game, I went poking around Take
2's page, and though I hadn't heard anything about it, here
it is in black and white,..a general allusion to a Max Payne
Sequel (well duh) But a Serious Sam, and a ONI sequel as well.
Hmmm.........this could be interesting.
Star Wars Movie Coming
up,.....*Bleah* who cares really,....I'll go see it, and most
likely I'll hate it,..no surprises there.
Hit and run, and then hit some more.
I purchased Wreckless
(From Activision) for the X-Box and was pleasantly surprised with
it, it's very much like Driver for the PSX with a bit of manga
influence thrown in for good measure, and just enough
impossible/arcade-y things thrown in to keep you going
"WAHOO!" when you fly off a rooftop and land 20 stories
down with only your doors falling off as evidence of the fall. The
missions are a little simplistic, but I still really enjoy the
game. The replays ( a feature I ignore on 99% of games) are
actually really well done in Wreckless and entertaining to watch,
plus you can pan the cameras in replay mode, and look around as
the track plays.
I found driving a car into the cargo bay of an airplane as in mid
runway taxi to be especially fulfilling.
I'll be interested to see how this stacks up against Spy
Hunter, I'll be sure to let you know.
Another X-Box bummer
Though there's 2 story lines, they only have 10 missions each.
It's a shame that there are so few missions to this game, but this
seems to be the major fault of all X-box Games, dish $50.00 Play 2
days, repeat. Whereas Driver for the PSX took forever to win and I
STILL haven't gotten all the way through Gran Tourismo, Tekken
took forever to get all the way through (and with the adventure
modes) Dead or alive 3,.. one evening worth of play.
Why am I so happy?
Blood
Omen 2 came out for the X-Box this week, and of course I'll
get it, but I'm guessing it will follow the same formula
mentioned above and not manage to live up to Soul Reaver's legacy
(pardon the pun) either.
Of course Bloody
Roar 4 (Primal Fury) Comes out for the Gamecube soon as
well,..Hmmm,..looks like I'm going broke this month :)
And soon,..oh so soon my lovelies, I will be strangling
again!!
Hitman Codename 47 Part
II
What's still new?
Hey remember that New Comics section I was talking about? It still
has that new section smell to it so you should check it out. In
addition to being linked at the top right of the homepage, it's
also HERE
check these guys out, drop them a line, sit a spell, take your
shoes off. This list is going to grow fast so check back often.
I'm back in the saddle again!
-Banquo
(WH),.......click,.....<NO
CARRIER>,...Bzzzzzzzzzzzz
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