In his search to find the killer of Rau (The Mark of Kri, Rise of the Kasai), Dante (Devil May Cry) stumbled upon two of the most annoying video game characters in history, Vaan and Tidus (Final Fantasy). After being annoyed to manslaughter, Dante sent Vaan and Tidus’s immortal soulsto Hell where they would torment Rau for all of eternity. Dante continues his search in a box canyon where two rival teams of hard-core space soldiers battle it out… but one lone green soldier has caught Dante’s attention…
Probably one of my most ambitious (and copyright infringing) works to date:
Dante, the ultra-cool demon slayer from the hit video game series Devil May Cry receives a mysterious and foul-mouthed phone call from the depths of Hell. Rau, the massive barbarian hero of the games ‘The Mark of Kri’ and ‘The Rise of the Kasai’, tells Dante of his death and wants Dante to search high and low in the video game universe to find the one character that was badass enough to have killed him, and take him out.
But neither Dante nor Rau know where to even begin looking.
Tempers flare, and insults are exchanged in a verbally obscene battle of the egos as the two rampage through the video game universe.
This episode features music remixes from the video games: Extreme G, Killer Instinct, Bayou Billy, Vectorman, Cheetahmen 2, Gun.Smoke, Terranigma and more.
Featured Remixes
Extreme-G – “G-Storm” remix by bLiNd.
Killer Instinct – “Killer Instinct Enhanced” remix by Jared Hudson
Vectorman – “Overflow” remix by Beatdrop
Final Fantasy VII – “Damn Those Turks!” remix by Daniel Baranowsky
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time- “A Storm in the Desert” remix by Tyler Heath
Chrono Trigger – “Green Amnesia” remix by Disco Dan
Gun.Smoke – “Spaghetti Cowboy” remix by Gux
The Adventures of Bayou Billy – “El Lagarto” remix by Evil Horde
Cheetahmen 2 – “C.H.E.E.T.A.H.” remix by PrototypeRaptor
Cheetahmen 2 – “Orchestral Remix” remix by unknown
Metal Gear Solid – “Metal Gear May Cry” remix by Jared Hudson
I spend most of my time on this site in either the Reviews section, or the Forum, so the Blog I set up for myself rarely sees any action. Here’s some of the latest reviews I neglected to post here, just incase someone actually reads this blog-thingy:
February 24, 2010 – LaughingMan returns with a review of the sleeper-hit 2-D fighting game, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.
March 30, 2010 – LaughingMan reviews the interactive drama video game, Heavy Rain
June 15, 2010 – For the first time ever, the founders of Cheshire Cat Studios.com, LaughingMan and Zimes do a co-review. Their victim is arguably one of the worst JRPGs of all time Enchanted Arms.
If the British had told the American Colonists that the heavy taxation laws that they passed, without representation by the colonists, was for public health care, would the American Colonists have still revolted?
I believe that our Founding Fathers were not as gullible as their descendants.
I am reading some articles on DIGG and I’ve noticed that the trend for anything Tea Party related is the following:
- How A Prankster Plans To Destroy The Tea Party Movement
- 47% of Tea Partiers Pay No Federal Income Taxes
- Foes of tea party movement to infiltrate rallies
- Obama: Tax Protesters Should Thank Me for Tax Breaks!
- Obama Fans Storm Tax Day Tea Party In D.C. (VIDEO)
The news media that is actively attacking the Tea Party movement and promoting the “Crash the Tea Party” activists is the very same news media that promoted “Rights to Protest” during every other protest rally for the last 10 years. In the eyes of modern Liberals, only they have the right to protest.
It is no surprise that the Liberal media is trying to squash the Tea Party movement before it gains any more momentum, since in the Age of Information, misinformation and propaganda is the greatest tool. There have been stories surfacing of people infiltrating Tea Party rallies and pretending to be fanatics, shouting that “Obama was born on the moon!” and deliberately writing signs using bad English grammar, and even going even as far as using racial slurs against the President in order to cast a shadow of ineptitude and bigotry over the Tea Party movement as a whole.
In my eyes, the problem with the Tea Partiers is that they aren’t doing enough to make themselves heard. Members of the Tea Party believe that what they are doing will be a gunshot heard around the world, but in reality I feel that their efforts are impotent in the greater scheme of things. America is an Oligarchy where the rich and famous tower over us, passing their laws and reaping the rewards because, like Dante and Virgil in the Fifth Circle of the Inferno, Anger, they have positioned themselves so far out of harm’s reach that they are immune from our cries of anger and view us as wretches fighting amongst ourselves in the filth of the river Styx.
In all honesty, do you think that those who are reaping the bounties and riches of the corporations they place in priority above you honestly care about whether or not you will vote for them in the next election? They are, as the mob would put it, “Made Men” where even if they were cast out of office like lepers, they would still have their wealth and business ties to fall back on while you, the voters, would simply elect other Straw Men (ie T. S. Elliott) to repeat the process over again. This two-party political system, this “8 years Republican, 8 years Democrat” cycle, these two heads of the Hydra must be cut off and soldered to keep from regrowing.
It will take the looming threat of the hordes of the angry souls tipping over the boat and dragging Dante and Virgil into the filth of equality to birth any real change in the course of our country. And that angry horde of souls can be the Tea Partiers.
I can’t remember exactly how I came across Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. I believe it was one of those acts of fate where you stumble upon something that, while not ‘life changing’, still manages to leave an imprint. I was browsing one of the written posts for an online comic I used to read and my eyes stumbled upon the writer’s ecstatic remarks regarding what he called ‘one of the best stories’ he ever came across. Since I was bored at the time, I began downloading the WIND fan subbed series to kill time. What I found was an anime that I not only liked, but an ingenious story that literally shook me to the core.
I’ve made my negative opinions of anime very well known in my prior Devil May Cry and Demonbane reviews, but anyone who knows me knows that I praise a well-told story. Complex stories and character development are my cocaine, regardless of their medium, and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni provided me one hell of a fix.
After the dreaded Demonbane review -in which I lampooned for being the WORST of everything anime after their complete bastardization of the works of H.P. Lovecraft- I was presented with a second challenge by ONOE: To finally review the one single anime that I honestly enjoyed.
To quote ONOE:
That is why I wanted you two to review Higurashi because I have a feeling that Demonbane gave you negative impression of anime as a whole and I wanted you both to see that there are some good ones that people in the states and elsewhere never see. I hope your reviews of Higurashi changed your minds about the anime stereotype.
It probably won’t. Stereotypes are never 100% conclusive, but without a common trend among a demographic, there wouldn’t be a stereotype. Hence, I still think that 99% of anime is pure bullshit. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is the pleasant exception.
Still, along side Kenny Farino and ONOE, I’m accepting not only this challenge, but this privilege.
It will be hard to praise everything about Higurashi no Naku Koro ni without giving away too much of the plot, but I will try to keep this review relatively spoiler-free with the exception of some MILD SPOILERS involving character motivations that will be required to explain just how ingenious Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is.
Ah, Goode’s Q… Just like morphine, you know how to make all the pain go away.
Seriously, though, if everything can go wrong during my day, there’s always Goode’s Q. ‘Southern Comfort’ without either the alcohol content, or fathers with shotguns.
Admittedly, I acquired a taste for Cajun food from my mom’s cooking. It wasn’t that she could cook ‘real Cajun’ but because she had a knack of ‘blackening’ every meat she ever attempted to cook. On the years she hosted the Thanksgiving dinner for the extended family, her Christmas stocking often consisted of kitchen timers and turkey basters.
I used to eat at the place when it was Frank’s or Frankie’s because they had decent food. Then when it went out of business and became a Cajun restaurant, I decided to give it a try. The first thing I actually ever ate there was a simple hamburger. Why a burger at a Cajun place? Simple: You can always tell if a restaurant is worth eating at by having them prepare the simplest thing on the menu. I’ve eaten at places that can really screw up something as simple as a hamburger (CATIN’S), but I’ve never eaten anywhere that could IMPROVE a burger like Goode’s Q. I’m not sure if it’s some sort of seasoning or if it’s the wood in the BBQ grill they use, but even their burgers have a great ‘smokehouse’ flavor. And for less than $8 for the flame-kissed smokehouse burger and battered fries, it’s a no-brainer.
I got to Home Depot a few minutes before the appointment I’ve scheduled a week in advance. I go to the kitchen cabinetry section and patiently wait for the of the kitchen designer I made the appointment with to show up. Fifteen minutes after my appointment deadline I start getting the feeling that I’ve been brushed off.
After another ten minutes of pacing between the kitchen cabinetry section and the kitchen appliances section, hoping to run into one of the ‘well-educated and professional workers’, I finally catch a rep from the appliances section and ask for her help locating the missing cabinetry designer I’ve been waiting too long for. She asks who it was and I give the designer’s name and she said, “She called in sick this morning.”
Fucking fantastic…
Home Depot worker: “Didn’t you get a phone call?”
I’m standing there like ‘If I got a phone call I wouldn’t be here‘.
Something about BridgeMaxx rubs me the wrong way. Right off the bat, BridgeMaxx bought out Sofast, so I’m wondering if they will be ‘Sofast v2.0′.
But about a month ago they actually solicited at my house. I was kinda shocked when I opened the door and saw two guys dressed in button shirts and ties asking if they could talk for a second. I was going to tell them that I’d already found Jesus and wasn’t interested, but they weren’t carrying Bibles, they were carrying little black internet hubs. Not immediately recognizing what the small machines actually were, I then assumed that Scientologists were in town and paused a moment to try to remember if I’d unloaded my shotgun.
They still handed me a pamphlet and asked if they could tell me about the services they were offering (for this life, not the next) but I took the pamphlet and made a bogus excuse about going barhopping on a week-night… well, maybe it’s not so bogus for me…
Anyways, after they left I read the pamphlet and it sounded alright until I read the part about $150 cancellation fee as well as the standard monthly fee that isn’t low enough for me to go through the headache of switching ISPs.
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