For Galaga! Pt. I

Notice: This is quite picture heavy.

  I don't know where the name Galaga came from, it's not a god or queen in any book I've read. I googled it once, but all I ended up with the arcade game; certainly not something to give your life for.

Not Pictured Above: The Horde, The Emperor, My Dignity

Well, to be honest, I do know where the name itself comes from. If anyone's seen Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, the goose that laid the golden eggs was named Galaga. Galaga the goose. Anyway, at some point in time, the name got into my head as something to yell when going into battle. That being said, let's get to the real point of this story: Minecraft.

  Lately minecraft has gotten a bit dull because if the multiplayer server I'm part of isn't online, I play single player. While this can be exciting, I find it a bit tedious, especially since the nightly portion is usually spent hiding in whatever shelter I've scrounged up.

They All Bleed the Same

A few weeks ago I went about finding an inventory editor for single player after watching a video of this guy laying down 3k blocks of TNT. This is hella impressive since I usually get to about 100 (if I'm lucky) before accidentally blowing myself and the project up. That lasted about a week before exploding things got old and I had nothing to do. Recently I picked it back up by loading up with all sorts of cool things and building whatever I wanted. I wasn't really interested in the whole ginormous-creative structure thing you'll see plastered across most websites. I wanted to stay simple while still being fancy, so this is what I went with:

Obsidian with a glass roof.

That's a simple moat that goes all the way around. There's a window on all 3 sides.

The reason I went with obsidian is simple. I hate creepers. I hate them so much. Thus, I went with something that withstands being covered with TNT, which I assumed it can't go wrong (don't worry, it doesn't!).  Unfortunately monsters can now swim (or maybe they always could?), so they don't sink like I'd prefer, but oh well. There's also a simple 3 square long pit of lava, but it's not anywhere that in-the-way.

  So now I've got an indestructible house and the ability to generate anything I need. I've decided to have a fight to the death. I'm hoping it'll be more exciting than it probably will be, but I've decided to make it crazy. First of all, I tore the door and surrounded posts out of the wall, so now it's 3 squares wide, quite a lot of space for a monster to freely come in through. Second of all, I rigged up the whole outside with TNT. Don't be mistaken, I'm not going out there. No, it was difficult enough for me not to blow myself up while setting it all down! It's mostly to blow up monsters before they get here and then fight them in my own house. Yes, that doesn't sound like I'm in a whole lotta danger, but I'm cranking it all the way up to 11 because Normal mode doesn't sound hard enough.

The entry is now open fully. Also, hella pretty. Hella.

A pig set off one of my explosive traps on an adjacent island...

I set off a mine myself, so I filled some of the hole with bombs.

Putting the "mine" back in minecraft.

Mine-Related Pun Here

The apples are only for if I'm at 1 or 2 hearts, anything else is toughed out.

So wish me luck, I'll be posting during each ingame day if I'm still alive!

Decline in the Modern Age

  Whooo! So it's been a while since I blogged it up, so I thought, "hey, why not blog at 7:30 in the morning?" Currently I've been up for 18 hours and counting, so I thought I might abuse myself for the sake of humor. Just kidding, I'd be up anyway, almost everyone here knows that. So I've got about 10 movies here, all ripe for the reviewing, and we'll see how many I get through, probably one or two more. I'm just here to have fun, like the rest of my blog, so don't take these too seriously. And yes, I know it's formatted a bit like Cracked, but I like it, and that's where I'm going with it.

I'm not going to bother summarizing these movies for the sake of spoilers. Besides, that's what all those movie sites out there are for.

  Basically what I did last night was looking up the filmography for Robin Wiliams, Liev Schreiber, Stanley Tucci, and Simon Pegg, purely on a whim. I will be updating as I finish the movies, instead of one massive update, it just looks nice!

So here are some movies foooor you!


#1) Good Morning, Vietnam
The Movie:

This one was pretty good. Robin Williams being his quick-talking, funny-voiced self. I was pretty amused, even if I could only understand half of what he was referencing. I liked that the mayor from Pleasantville played the sergeant major (your guess is as good as mine). I just assume that after the war is over, he hightails it to Pleasantville to try and set up the police state he's always wanted. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty surprised his black friend wasn't killed in the roadside bombing three quarters the way through the movie, but I suppose it wasn't supposed to be that type of movie. I understand the underlying point to Military Police, but it almost seems silly. It's like bringing a rifle to a rifle fight. Congrats. On that note, check this out, it was terribly amusing.


Favorite Line:
"You are in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history."

EDIT: There will not be a Pt. 2, because it ended terribly (the movie and the writing), so we're just taking this as a review of Good Morning, Vietnam!

DUI- Drawing Under the Influence

Well someone can't draw bandages.

I love the Hippity Hop (Rapper's Delight)

Snake is SO inaccurate. Why doesn't the rabbit run when it sees a 200 ft long snake coming for it?

I hate side-views with a fiery passion. A fiery penis-shaped passion.

  Artists always get the question, "Who are your influences?" and I feel I've drawn (ba-dum-chhh!) from pretty much every piece of art I've seen, one way or another. Obviously Superman carving penises isn't exactly Rembrandt, but using Superman that way and there being a penis joke (originally it was going to be a fist, but then I realized I had the potential for my first dick joke) was heavily influenced by SMBC, though less well-drawn.

  When I came up with the idea for the Hippity Hop comic, I definitely visualized it as a sort of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes. Though the disproportions were due to being terrible at drawing children... One summer I checked out both anthologies from the library and read every single strip, it was fantastic. There are a couple of these, but the one I kept thinking about for this comic was this one. Obviously Rapper's Delight is not the 1812 overture, but as I always say (though in person I usually yell), all music is just a modified scale, so who cares what kind of music you like (though incidently I like both of those)?

  I suppose you could say that the first comic here is in the style of Far Side, another comic I absolutely adore. I've ready almost all of those, partly through a Comic-A-Day calendar I got for Hanukkah freshman year, and partly through 10th anniversary anthology. I was emailing back and forth for a bit with the webcomicker of Skidmore Bluffs and he was saying that while you might worry you're stealing the style, almost everyone's style is borrowed from one place or another. Then he mentioned someone following in Picasso's footsteps but I didn't know who that was.

  So I suppose what I'm saying is that everything every breath you take, every move you make, was borrowed in some part from other ideas, which is okay as long as it's not, "Ahoy, I'm stealing this comic and everything about it!" For me it's much more of, "Doo dee doo dee doo, working on this comic! Huh, this is a lot like blah blah blah". Also, that Police song is really creepy.