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My buddy Matt wrote this with my hetero life mate, Jack, who I love like a brother from another mother and spoon whenever I get the chance, and it’s now coming to life. Check out the trailer, it’s short. It is what it sounds like, a good-old slasher flick that takes place in a LAN party set in a slaughterhouse. Everyone involved is a gamer in some capacity, so they aren’t just exploiting the demographic. The script is awesome, it’s going to be great.

http://www.lanpartymassacre.com/lan_party_massacre_teaser.html

Ok.

Seriously.

If you haven’t heard or seen Jace Hall vids, YOU NEED TO STARTING RIGHT @#(&$@#ing NOW.

For his FIRST show… FIRST. He played DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. THERE IS VIDEO OF IT. YOU CAN SEE IT. WATCH IT.

http://crackle.com/c/Jace_Hall/Jace_Hall_Ep_1_Duke_Nukem_Forever_SNEAK_PEEK_/2298717

Well his most recent video, he interviews JACK THOMPSON. MY GOD. HE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR. HOLY CRAP.

http://crackle.com/c/Jace_Hall/Jace_Hall_Ep_8_Video_Game_Violence_HOT_CHICKS_/2343336

Seriously this, Zero Punctuation… My god. So amazing.

This was cute, until he swears. Then it’s hilarious.

I will be in Austin, TX, from late Friday night September 12th, until nighttime Wednesday, the 17th for the Austin Game Developers Conference. I’m going for a few reasons:

• I’m sorta a game developer now!
• I’m going to need a vacation for after PAX.
• I’m giving myself a late birthday present. =P

If any of you internet friends are either going to it, or are close enough for a drink or dinner or whatever, let me know. Reply here or email me evilzug@evilzug.com.

1. Pet every cat.
2. Patience is my biggest strength and greatest weakness.
3. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato… Play with your friends, your enemies, and yourself, a lot.
4. You don’t stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing. -George Bernard Shaw… You need to play more. And to l2p.
6. There will always be someone better then you at whatever you wish you were good at, or are trying to be good at.
5. Cats, boobies, dancing and violence make the world (and internet) go round.
6. Don’t waste your time or time will waste you.
7. You can be your own best friend, worst enemy, best critic and worst motivation.
8. Mo money, mo problems.
9. Life ain’t nothing but bitches and money.
10. Bitches be crazy.

I’m freaking out. They gave pallies so much love. The achievement system is amazing. The Deathknight starting area is fucking FACINATING… they are doing some awesome things that I still haven’t figure out how, but involve some sort of … progressive instancing of the zone that you’re in. I.e. as you complete quests/objectives in this attack that’s happening, the ‘battlefront’ moves forward and forward. Totally amazing.

I can rant for hours about it, but all you guys need to know is that I’m super happy with Paladin talents and will totally be playing Xia in the expansion. SO AWESOME.

I don’t want to be that guy that says “I liked this show before you,” but I liked this show like five years ago. A few of my friends are from England, and they imported this over here for us to watch. We literally watched an episode or three whenever we hung out. Over and over, it was ritual.

This show, I say this with the utmost sincerity, is my favorite television show in all of creation. It’s masterfully crafted, hilarious, but also ‘real,’ it has it’s share of drama, and some of the messages it has are very valid. The show is ‘only’ two seasons long, but each individual season has it’s own amazing conclusion, as well as both seasons tie together wonderfully. The characters are amazing as well. I want to tell stories like this.

Turns out they are finally putting out on DVD July 22nd. American release, previously it was a different region or whatever, you could watch it if your player could handle it. One of my favorite things about the DVD release is that it has a special feature called the Homage-O-Meter, which is basically a set of subtitles that point out ANY references made in the show. Both pop culture, and to other episodes.

I could rant about it for hours, and I often do. If you’ve not seen it, do yourself a favor and get it and watch it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=spaced+dvd+july+22&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS224US226

Wow, my jaw hit the floor. I checked my youtube descriptions and the official PUSA channel had updated like twelve things. One of them was KITTY! I click on it, and sure enough it’s what appears to be the official music video for the song that was never released.

Really cute. A few funny camera things, mainly when the cat goes through the doggy door. Barring that, it appears it was all done in one take… (It’s quite possible they pushed it through the door and someone inside grabbed it…)

Yay I managed to do another one! New job stuff, job stuff in general, Anime Expo and The Edison.