The DOOM comic... all 16 pages of it...

THANK YOU. Bill! As a) a DOOM fan and b) someone with a taste for cheese, I can enjoy this on so many levels! Dear heavens, it's even worse (MUCH worse) than the four DOOM novels, and that's really sayin' something.

PYGMY HIPPOS ARE GO!

There's a band name for ya.

Incidentally, no, I did not feel the quake here, especially since I'm a good 4+ hours from San Luis Obispo (it was centered near San Simeon, which is about 35 mi. north of there). Around ten to one there was a distinct shaking sensation in the building, but that also can happen when someone runs up or down the stairs quickly. I think I told you how I already used up all my "earthquake points" in the L.A. quake of '71 (::shiver of repulsion at how danged old I am::), so I'm not allowed to actually experience another quake again in this lifetime. Given that the death count's at 3 so far, I'm fairly okay with that.

(Hey, and now I'm reading a book about Moscow in 1992, and you're having Soviet dreams! Glad Senor B is no worse for the dunking, too.)

Edited by author 12-23-2003 01:56 AM
Negs:
When I saw the earlier site with just excerpts of the comic, I thought that they just picked the worst moments. But the comic is one big worst moment! Even Super Green Beret doesn't have dialogue that's simultaneously retarded, insane, non sequitur while also having "choo choo choo" in it.
I never played Doom very much, but did the end scene really involve the BFG being used on the Cyberdemon whose "huge guts" he couldn't rip&tear at the beginning? King Koopa was a bigger threat than him.

Lilly:
I was sitting in the parking lot of the Bloomfield Wendy's and listening to WNPR when the news led with the earthquake. "How the HELL am I supposed to know where Hearst's Castle is!" I thought, until they said "southern California." Then I thought, "Oh, she's okay," and returned to my 99 cent nuggets and copy of "Skeptical Inquirer."

The "flowing blood relic" of an Italian saint from the 10th century is really just an 18th century fake made from fat and food coloring that liquifies at room temperature! Who knew! Also, the nuggets were tasty with honey mustard! Fancy that!

Bill,
Just read your review on the awful Mae West musical/comedy/farce - I just finished reading it, and I can't remember the title! - and anyway, your comment about the Captain & Tennille reminded me of something. I don't know if they have Kohl's department stores in your neck of the woods, but we do here, and there's a Christmas-themed TV ad for said chain, with the song "Love Will Keep Us Together" playing in the background. (The general theme of the ad being buying gifts for your loved ones.) At one point in the commercial, the couple opens the front door to their house, revealing carolers singing outside. The door is only open for a second, but if you look carefully, in the middle of the carolers are Daryl and Toni singing their song (he is playing a melodica - I think that's the right name for it. A harmonica with a piano keyboard.) I thought it was cute.

The chronology of that comic is screwed up. He meets a cyberdemon - OK, a pygmy one, the real ones are at least 15 feet tall - at the very beginning, before he even gets a lousy *pistol?* The cyberdemon first shows up at the end of the second set of levels, and he is a MEAN mofo. At that point you only have a rocket launcher, and it takes a ridiculous number of hits to take him down. And while you're shooting at him, he's shooting rockets up your nose. The BFG-9000 doesn't show up until the third set of levels, and even so it takes three or four BFG blasts to kill a cyberdemon. And while you're standing there waiting for it to sloooowly charge up, the cyberdemon is still using his rocket launcher.

(I forget when the Berserker pack first appears, but it sure as heck ain't at the very beginning either.)

My only explanation is that he's playing a level made by an incompetent WADder whose design philosophy is "Level design? Screw it, just stick tons of monsters and ammo in there!"

thanks bill....now i've got that song stuck in my head! so you wouldn't recommend Sextette as a must see huh?

love will keep...must stop singing

Heads up to Negaduck - you might want to check out http://www.adultswim.com as there is now a 2nd installment of the Brak Puppet Party there.

Thanks for the heads up, Mike! Has that one aired, and I missed it? If so, crapola and a half. If not, hopefully I can catch it on tape sometime soon.

Edited by author 12-24-2003 10:00 AM
Negs,
If it aired, I missed it too. I just happened across it on the official site. Hopefully they'll run it (again) soon.

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Edited by author while he was sleeping
Hey I like this edit feature! I just chatted with Gerson, he saw it during last Sunday's Adult Swim block (I went to bed after the new stuff, so I missed it)

Snard, Negs, or Anybody: Whatever happened to Spottiswoode, aka Karl D'Annucci?

Edited by author 12-24-2003 08:12 PM
Gah, it's been far too long since I've watched Adult Swim. The Brak Show Spy vs Spy episode nearly made me wet myself.

I'll pray for your souls...SUCKERS!

Incidentally, this is one of the greatest things I've read in a long time: http://www.livejournal.com/users/willwhitfoot/

have i been banned or something of the sort, or is everyone quiet? anyway, best wishies for Byron

Your Zefness, I was right there with you on the paranoiac uncertainty angle; I actually started to write something here on Xmas afternoon, but then wondered exactly how pathetic I would appear, having no discernable Life even on Christmas...(damn you, Bill, for your not-so-subconscious suggestions!)

Then again, I *was* hiding from my Mormon relatives, under the guise of setting up my dad's online account, so given the choice between being polite 'n social 'n not so overtly liberal vs. making yet another wordy, innocuous comment here...oh, no contest.

Speaking of, I had a quasi-techie question I wanted to throw out here, on the off chance that someone might be able to help me; Dad's new-to-him kompyuter was previously owned (and assembled piecemeal out of secondhand components) by said Mormons, and while doing Dad's online setup (okay, yes, I can't try to obfuscate the horrid truth any further: it's on AOL. There goes whatever credibility I was deluded enough to believe I possessed), I found out about a fiendishly little fascistic element of Internet Explorer called Content Advisor. I made its exceedingly unwelcome acquaintance because Dad was unable to access a *single* website owing to CA's protocols, which didn't even allow access to the local paper on the grounds that the page contained "mild obscenity."

After I calmed down and got done screaming and yelling about censorship and rabid conservatives and the Freedom of Information Act, I went into the control panel to fix this, only to find that without the system administrator's password I couldn't do jack. Subsequently checking with The Mormons, I found they had not clue one about any of this, as evidently the content settings had been established by one of the machine's previous owners (all of whom were also LDS--yeah, like that's a shock. They're just like the CIA, only with less caffeine and more geneaological resources).

Therefore, does anyone know how to circumvent the absolute EVIL that is Content Advisor, specifically with regard to system administrator passwords? Apart from, I guess, just re-installing Windows? (Grrrrr...I couldn't help thinking, "This wouldn't have happened on my Mac, dammit!" Uhm, yeah, if my PowerBook wasn't presently out of commission, that is...)

For once it's not even an AOL problem, as Dad's account is set up for the 18+ age range with zero parental controls; this isn't a huge deal, since the old man isn't going to go online a lot anyway, but for now he's having to access the net using my business email account, and it'd just be nice for him to be able to sign on using his *own* SN, ya know?

Thanks in advance to those of y'all a.k.a. Romans, countrymen...and muchos positive karmic vibes to the pobrecito Senor B.!

Hee. Well, i was indeed typing here at xmas night. i just got too sidetracked to post that night. well, i know disabling content advisor has to do with the registry, and a quick googling turnt this up:

http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/nopics-ie/

it's all there, and it should work. it's nifty too, since editing the registry is a nightmare and can make too much things go wrong. but this should do oki.