Too busy to transcribe drunkenness today. Oh well. I rented a hell of a game recently though. How about a review?
For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a Mac version of Rollercoaster Tycoon for Lindsay to download. For those of you who’ve never played it, RT is basically a amusement park themed Sim City. It’s a ton of fun, there are a ton of options, such as designing your own roller coaster and the like. You can purposefully design a coaster that will make it’s passengers nauseous or even kill them. Rollercoaster Tycoon carries my highest possible recommendation.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a Mac version of RT. But, with that longing in my heart, I spotted Thrillville: Off The Rails for the Wii.
If Rollercoaster Tycoon is the Sim City of amusement park games, Thrillville is The Sims. Much like RT, you design your own park and even your own ‘coasters. The difference is, in this game you have your own character with whom to run around the park. You can ride all the rides and play all the games. There’s also a bullshit storyline about an evil corporation named Globojoy who are trying to sabotage the park for their own evil purposes. Diabolical!
Using your little turd character you can earn “Thrill Points” by doing any number of things, including playing games, hiring and training staff (the most monotonous part), search for lost documents and even seduce lonely girls walking around the park. I’ve got two girlfriends somewhere in the park. I hope they don’t run into each other.
Basically, on the whole, the game combines elements of Sim City (planning and building), The Sims (interacting with people, gaugeing their needs), Wario Ware/Mario Party (tons of minigames) and also has some games that are exact clones of some classic games (F-Zero, Off Road, 1942, Rock em Sock em Robots, old fashioned shooting galleries, 1st person shooters).
All of this is fun, sure. But you know what sold me? The trampoline game. There’s a game where you’re just jumping and doing different tricks on a trampoline and it’s worth the price of admission on it’s own. I’d play a game that was just that.
The game also makes pretty good use of the Wii controls. If I had some kind of catchy rating system, say, number of drumkits set on fire by Keith Moon, I would give it a 75,456 out of a possible 97,236.
On the game there’s also a preview of Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I enjoyed these games, and I look forward to seeing what they add to the collected edition.
Here’s some super fun happy links for you:
Mario Awesome
Power Thirst 2 Juice Springsteen!
I Feel GREAT!
Have you ever scrutinized this city?!?!?!
I’ve mentioned before that I love Bob Backlund. Sorry, Mr. Backlund, I should say. His fortitude surpasses that of the plebeians, who fornicate and masturbate with wanton disregard the deleterious effects on society! VOTE BACKLUND!
on November 1st, 2007 at 6:49 pm #
Allright, “Iright Daley”… If that’s your real name. I can play hardball.
First I’ll have to call attention to the fact that you purposefully distorted and pixelized evidence and propped them up right next to each other in your image, attempting to draw correlations between the two. Obviously the texts are quite different but your resizing and digital “photoshopping” (as the kids call it) are a deliberate attempt at misdirection and subterfuge.
“It wasn’t photoshop” I can hear you already claiming, but if you dare say it was MS Paint it would call into question your professionalism and discount your argument by default.
Here is my counter argument.
I am a professional, I personally know both my own work and esteemed real-person Banya’s work intimately, and I don’t resort to deceitful tactics like yourself. Behold:
First I would like to mention that I do not resort to resampling or digitizing, plus I used a professional-looking red pen to indicate changes. I simply call out the discrepancies, and leave it up to the jury to decide how they match up. No distortion of facts from me.
Secondly I’d like to make it known that the comic text sampled is from the most current, recent, and accurate source: the newest, as-of-yet unpublished comic written by myself. Likewise, the Banya letter referenced is more recent than your Banya letter. You could at least have used current material in your analysis instead of cherry-picking through a library of information.
As for the analysis itself; first I will call your attention to item 1 in the image above. You can see that in my comic text, on the right, my letter O has a distinct un-closed loop, wheras the Banya letter consistently closes the letter O, a telltale sign of my open-endedness and creativity vs. Banya’s solid, rigid rule-based alphabet (probably imposed by years of tyranny under Russian occupation).
Item 2 in my analysis shows a clear distinction between the styles of the letter Y, directly refuting your original evidence. My most recent comic work uses solid Ys formed with three distinct strokes, wheras Banya uses one fluid motion. This again reflects my creativity and constant self-analysis and correction, versus Banya’s “let the chips fall where they may” laissez-faire attitude of one stroke, one letter.
You will also notice in example 3 in my image above, Banya is constantly making spelling errors. There is not a single spelling error in any of my comics, which should immediately discount any evidence you produce.
Also, look at item #4. My letter E is constant changing, ever flowing, ranging from fluid to straight-edge styles, showing my wild unpredictability and non-conformist attitudes. Banya, once again likely due to his Communist Upbringing, solidly produces the same letter E over and over and over again, hardly changing. This reflects the communist equalism agenda.
Finally, item #5. Banya seems to have an overarching butterfingers-grasp of Grammer, English, and even proper sentance structure and punctuation. In contrast, my writing is infallable and has never produced a single error.
I hope this puts to rest any wild rumors.
on November 1st, 2007 at 7:47 pm #
I don’t have nearly enough free time on my hands to even dignify most of this claptrap with a response, but I will at least say that you haven’t addressed the most ridiculous part of Banya’s so-called existence, which is the fact that he has the last name of a Canadian webmaster, not a Czech letter-writer.
Also, I would point out that in your *ahem* extremely professional handwriting analysis, you have chosen to compare upper and lower case letters, or apples to oranges.
Finally, I am assuming that you spelled a bunch of things wrong on purpose in point #5 because it was funny/ironic. Unfortunately, all you have done is demonstrate to the court that you are capable of misspelling words and using poor grammar on purpose, making you an ideal candidate to impersonate an immigrant (or idiot).
on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 am #
How sporting of you, dismissing reams of work with a single word ‘claptrap.’ Sounds to me like someone couldn’t deny the truth behind my words. Though I am dismissing your arguments as ‘crapshack’ I will nonetheless respond to each point for the benefit of the jury.
Banya did indeed borrow my last name. We were both afraid that letters arriving at my mailing address would be re-routed if they had a foreign name on them; our downstairs neighbors perhaps thinking they were addressed to the wrong house. Also, in the event that we were issued a Canadian-use-only gift certificate in Banya’s name after Banya had left the country (he was only visiting for 4 weeks), we wanted to be able to feign familyhood to still reap the rewards.
Also, coming from a communist upbringing, Banya is a very nervous and protective type, not willing to give up his privacy in these letters (especially as they ended up on the internet). Who knows which Russian mobsters are watching? So yes, I admit we were sharing last names.
As far as the upper/lowercase argument: Pfff. I do not write in mixed case, all of my letters are capitalized and consistently so. It is me shouting truths.
Also, due to my infallability and strict moral fiber, I would never try to hoodwink people by posting as an idiot and intentionally misspell things. I would not stoop so low!
on November 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm #
Objections!! Hearsay, leading the witness, argumentative, and most importantly - BULLSHIT!!!!!
I must admit, that even though you are quite clearly full of it, I must admire your staunch defense of the untrue. George W. Bush would be so proud. “Banya” should write a letter unveiling the true location of the WMD’s.
Also, if he is so concerned about Russian mobsters, why would he give out the names of his friends while concealing his own? Unless he is in fact a poorly-trained spy and communist informant, that is…
on November 3rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm #
Wow, this started off as CSI, and now it’s clearly Law and Order. Know how I can tell? Cause CSI would have you believe that cases never go to trial and the police always get criminals to confess based on overwhelming evidence found with ultraviolet lights and other superfluous bullshit. Anyway, intermission over, back to your corners and come out swinging.