Kris went out and bought Rock Band. Thank you, Federal Government.
The past couple of weeks have been filled with variations on a playful argument.
Brianna: “We have no place for this game’s drum set and guitar. Where do you plan to store this safely away from cats and kids?”
Kris: “We don’t really have room for you book addiction either. Those built in book shelves? You are overflowing.”
Brianna: “How about you give me the two book shelves that house all of your television shows?”
Kris: “Where do you suggest they go?”
Brianna: “The media center.”
Generally, this ends with a hug and a love pat.
I brought home 13 books today. God bless the 50% off clearance shelf sale at Half Price. I spent less than $10. I have a feeling Kris told me to go splurge at Half Price after he had brought home the new game and accessories. But I ran with it.
I have to admit, this is fun. It’s almost as good as having karaoke in the basement, too, since a rock band needs a singer. I’m impressed with how much the microphone picks up. The guitar is far beyond me. The drums, I can handle on easy, most of the time. I’ll stick with the vocals, I think.
I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been distracted by dad related activities and poorly managing my time, but I’ve saved a variety of geek related tidbits to talk about.
First, check out this wonderful poster created by Scott Johnson to display many of the varied geek types. Overall I fit in about 17 of the different categories in some form or another. How many do you fit in? Let’s see how many of these archetypes I can hit in this post!
I’d like to give a shout out to my former roomate and fellow geek Mike Ringenbach for working on bringing back online text games and getting noticed for it.
Also, a very geeky thank you to Coach for giving me my new favorite shirt (see below) and for lending me one of my new favorite comic series; Star Wars Legacy. If you like Star Wars or comics you should check out Cade Skywalker’s story.
Elsewhere in geekery The Hobbit is going to be made into two movies with Peter Jackson as the producer. He won’t be directing, but let’s hope that his presence brings about the quality seen in The Lord of The Rings. Hayden and I read The Hobbit for bedtime and eventually Gabe and I will as well. By the time the movies are done the boys will likely be 5 and 8 years old. Hopefully the resulting films will be something we can enjoy together.
Duke Nukem Forever, the longest running gag in video games (10 years in development and still no release date in sight) has released its first teaser since 2001.
Is this game/genre still relevant? The entire series revolved around shooting aliens with ridiculously oversized/Freudian guns, one liners ripped from They Live and the Evil Dead movies, and paying strippers to jiggle their various money makers. Duke Nukem is an archive of the days when the average gamer was still in pimples and tighty-whities who’s only interaction with girls was paper or virtual.
Now the average gamers age is 33. Most of us have grown up, met a few girls, discovered them to be rich deep individuals to be interacted with on multiple levels. Now we have games like Portal which is not only unique, beautifully designed, hilarious and well written, but also contains an all female cast with ZERO characters cast as one-dimensional sex objects.
Duke’s been outgrown, it’s time for him to lay down and go the way of the Atari; cheaply and overused.
Since I brought up Portal I want to point out this merchandise which I know want more than anything else in the world today:
Of course, if you haven’t played Portal, then you can’t understand my affection for the Weighted Companion Cube, but you should know that it loves me and speaks to me.
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