So, right, back to Planet Fucking Crazy. I was talking about game systems that would be appropriate for doing games set on PFC in my last post, so come up to speed there if you’re lagging behind.

A number of people posted replies, and I think it’s probably a good idea to start by answering some of their questions in the main context, then moving on to the larger issues.

merb101 and jake_richmond both bring up Classroom Deathmatch¹, which is a fine, fine example of a game which definitely borrows elements of PFC. In CD, you essentially enact the events of Battle Royale, playing out the actions of a number of students forced to kill one another until only one is left. This is definitely a suburb of one of the main cities on PFC, without question. Where there’s a bit lacking is in the fairly limited scope that CD allows you to game out. It’s a very, very focused architecture and if you really want to do something beyond Battle Royale, there’d be a lot of work waiting for you.

Beyond the focus, there’s another, more metatextual² reason to avoid Panty Explosion / CD for PFC setting games. One of the big mechanical hooks of the PE system is the idea that your character has a Rival and a Best Friend; your Best Friend narrates how you succeed in a conflict and your Rival narrates your failures. This is wonderful, brilliant design. Absolutely incomperable in many ways, but one of the effects is to focus on your character’s interpersonal connections to other characters as a mover of narrative power. Additionally, the size of the die you roll in conflicts is directly tied to your character’s social popularity. Again, an awesome reification of the high school experience³, but it’s not entirely appropriate for the bulk of the PFC experience since character social leverage is often directly at odds with their narrative influence. In fact, in many cases it appears the further you are outcast socially from core culture on PFC, the more influential you are.

This may be because everyone on PFC is, indeed, fucking crazy. The quiet next door neighbor, the friendly cop on the corner, your best friend, your parents?! All of them absolutely, unequivocably, entirely bugshit nuts, possibly only requiring the slightest nudge to boil up girlfriend-face stew or believe their grief makes them physically invincible.

As much as I love PE/CD, guys, it’s better grounded in a setting that’s not wholly on PFC. The more FC you want, the more you need to lean on the social-focus strengths of the system, and they’re at odds.⁴

As Jake says, “Plus, Classroom Deathmatch is free!” which is its own advocation. I suggest going to check it out, and having a good time with it even if it is only in the same solar system as Planet Fucking Crazy.

_grimtales_ suggests Feng Shui which, while it’s one of my favourite mid-crunch games, I’m just going to have to say “No” to. Yes, you could run around on PFC in FS, the problem as I see it for that solution is one of insufficient insanity and a tendency toward over-mechanification. So much of the things your character can attempt and be successful have to be pre-considered and worked into the sheet that it doesn’t catch the edge of the wave you need to ride to get really deep into PFC. Plus, it’s just too crunchy for what it does. A great game for the period (1996 for the 1st ed, 1999 for the second), but really, guys, we’ve moved past explicit skill lists in mechanics for almost half a decade now. FS was great in the fact it helped pioneer the “merged attribute-skill matrix” as I think of it, with the ability to apply different attributes to a skill to get different results⁵. That was great. But it’s kind of done these days; Trait systems express the core idea better and more flexibly.

thandrak suggests Teenagers From Outer Space or Toon. This is me giving you the stink-eye, dude. Not the least reason being in the first case it’s always better to recommend something that’s actually seen print this decade, and in the latter … Take six Bonk. Have you ever tried running something even remotely serious (and PFC is very remotely serious) with either of those? Aside from having mechanics that grate and jitter like a twenty-year old transmission that’s never been tuned up⁶, neither of them even remotely work for the feel we’re talking about. I’ll even cop to having Toon and all its suppliments on my shelf, but I’d never think of taking it down for this.⁷

Next post, I promise, I’ll get down to talking about Beast Hunters, Over the Edge and Universalis, plus the obvious option I completely forgot, Wushu. Possibly, in a flash of “spacing it out and making fat egoboo from each one because I write as if I’m posting game suppliments, one at a time and stretched out interminably” I’ll treat each one seperately.

Tonight I watched, jaw-dropped and eyes huge and round like big black icons of delight, that work of profound iconography, Tokyo Gore Police from the same team as Machine Girl¹. As you might expect from the title, it’s heavy on the ol’ ultra-violence, with horrific mutilations, explosions of blood, emotionless murders, schoolgirl prostitution, and all the wonders you really expect from a Yoshihiro Nishimura piece².

But that led me to start thinking. There are a number of movies in that genre of artistic expression. Tetsuo: The Iron Man and its sequel. Ichi the Killer. By most measures we could include the entire creative output of Takashi Miike in there if we wanted to.

What system, pray tell, could possibly wrap its evil little head around the sheer levels of absurdity that modelling such things would require?

Yes, this is another gaming post.

We have a huge number of options which live both on my HD and on my shelves. There’s a truly immense and bogglesome swath to choose from. There are some constraints but at heart they boil down to a simple axiom:

The system can’t be very crunchy at all.

And here’s why: The action in the actual play has to be almost utterly unconstrained. It has to not only be possible, but perfectly reasonable for someone to — say — have their left arm cut off and simply grow a demonic, one-eyed fanged maw to replace it, or for someone to rip open their guts and use their intestines as a lasso. That’s the kind of inspired insanity that happens regularly in this genre, and it’s just that kind of thing that most systems that ostensibly promise to be about “stunts” and “over the top action” mechanize to the point it’s ultimately less rewarding to do such things in them.

Let me amplify on that a bit. Until very recently in game design, the idea that doing something cool should be mechanically harder for higher results was taken pretty much as law from on high. In an essenential way Exalted, despite being a system widely lauded for its “over the top” nature, is the modern exemplar. Sure, Stunting (as improvising something that gets an “oh, cool” from onlookers) is possible in the system and mechanically supported, but it often involves facing a higher Difficulty Target for a given test. Even with the 1, 2, or 3 Stunt dice such a move may bring (very rarely 3), statistically it means that having a running swordfight while literally running on the heads of a throng in Times Square would be less likely to succeed than just having it on the sidewalk.

Completely the wrong way to manage things.

Additionally, most of the “free form” designs really are more tightly constrained by pre-imagined specification than you’d want for this genre. Games like Truth and Justice have mostly free-form pre-defined Traits but, like many of its supergero bretheren, T&J leans heavily on fairly tightly defined book-given power sets which, if you’re doing traditional four-colour comics, can suffice — but that’s not what we’re talking about here.

I can’t even use my usual go-to game system, Capes, in here. Oh, you could do what I’m calling Planet Fucking Crazy³ games in Capes, but it, too, tends to lean a little heavily toward pre-imagined Traits as the character defining mechanism, but with Capes comes a strangely unexpected problem. Character differentiation within a niche is difficult! Putting together, say, a group of mutant-hunting cops who have a similar set of basic abilities (pistols, police authority, cruisers) which are all usable for narrative control means there are only a few Traits that differentiate them one another.

So, that’s what we can’t or shouldn’t use. Tomorrow or the next day, if inspiration returns, we’ll talk about some of the positive options:

• Beast Hunters
• Over the Edge
• Universalis

There are times that I shouldn’t be allowed to indulge in listening to music. In particular, songs that encourage me to design characters for games I’m unlikely to play, but in the off chance that other Capes players actually stumble by my blog and because I really, really need to get back into the rhythm of writing …

Edwin Maelraith

Love-Struck Mastermind

Abilities

Powers

• 1: Minions!
• 3: Global Conspiracy
• 2: Big Bad Lieutennant of the Hour

Styles

• 2: Friends in High Places
• 4: “I did it all for her/you!”
• 3: Untouchable
• 1: Voice of God

Attitudes

• 5: Obsessed
• 4: Love-Struck
• 2: Driven
• 3: Resigned
• 1: Controlled

Drives

• 4: Obsession
• 2: Pride
• 1: Power
• 1: Despair
• 1: Fear

Background

Middle management in one of the smaller global conspiracies is actually a pretty nice gig, if you’re in your mid-twenties and fresh out of Yale with an MBA. Nice office, important work, knock off the books of a small African nation this week, organize the contacts with the insiders in Gotham’s corrupt police network the next. Almost no chance there’ll be some costumed do-gooder busting through the skylight. Edwin Maelraith was pretty comfortable at having risen to his level of incompetence thanks to the Peter Principle and a very marginal level of personal motivation. He had a number of researchers and a small office of desk drones under his purview and he saw no reason at all to work any harder for ULER. In fact, he had no idea what ULER was even supposed to stand for, and really couldn’t find much reason to care.

That is, until he met Amber-Lynn Sprayberry, the daughter of one of the researchers under him. It should have been a no-brainer, right? She was beautiful, honey-blonde hair to her shoulders, funny, cute, late teens and very much interested in her father’s work. Really, he should have been a shoe-in for her to fall for, marry, and raise 2.5 kids with in a small suburban apartment with a dog and a conspiracy-mandated tap on every phone.

But he just couldn’t seem to catch her eye. Part of the problem was that he was just too comfortable. In an organization filled with dashing figures with ambitions and not a little insanity, he was an accountant, a little bit of a people-person and just a touch bland. In fact, he didn’t work his way up to his place in ULER by planning a bank robbery and getting away with it, or running a small criminal group that stole a plasma-laser. He just consistently, calmly, even blandly made sure his division kept turning a neat profit, didn’t stand out too much, and kept the folks under him in the hierarchy happy. Dr. Sprayberry enjoyed working for Edwin more than any of his predecessors; not once had Edwin attempted to abscond with a piece of technical gadgetry or accidently leaned on something and blew up the lab. The budget was even balanced!

Edwin tried everything he could think of to try and woo Amber-Lynn. Flowers? Nice dinners? Charming conversation? Nothing. Oh, it wasn’t that she was unkind to him; she was always unfailingly pleasant and seemed to find Edwin if not titilating, a “good friend.”

Trapped in the Friend Zone, Edwin despaired. Until he saw Amber-Lynn hanging on the arm of one of his superiors in the organization at the Christmas party (with a Titanic theme) that Edwin had planned! It was at that moment the future of ULER as an organization was set.

Edwin Maelraith had decided to get promoted.

Do you know what happens when you give a man with solid middle management skills a burning, searing obsessive motivation to succeed for the love of a woman? In twenty years, he rises to the very top, runs the whole show with the comfortable disinterest of an expert accountant, and … he’s still a guy with an MBA from Yale who might be one of the most powerful 100 men on Earth (though he’d be the first to tell you he’s among the bottom of that list), and wears white shirts and sensible slacks. He just happens to order hits on powerful-yet-obscure people, run three small African nations, and launder the entire national income of Guam.

And he’s still trying to catch Amber-Lynn’s eye and hold it.

Dr. Amber-Lynn Sprayberry

(Mad?) Conspiracy Scientist

Obsession Exemplar for Edwin Maelraith.

Issue

“I need Amber-Lynn to love me, but she’s just not that into me.”

Free Conflict

Event: Edwin and Amber-Lynn share an intimate moment.

Abilities

Attributes

• 3: (Mad?) Science
• 2: Analyze
• 1: Research

Styles

• 3: “That can’t be right!”
• 1: Examine Sample
• 2: Miss the subtext
• 4: Smile lights up the room

Attitudes

• 5: Shocked
• 4: Self-Involved
• 2: Curious
• 1: Confused
• 3: Jaded

Drives

• 5: Undifferentiated

Background

Ever since she was in high school, her father’s boss, Edwin Maelraith has been trying to take her out. Most girls would be a little put out at his increasing fixation on them, going from nice dinners and lovely movies to promises of the ownership of Australia and a ring made from the largest diamond in the world, stolen from the core of the orbiting super-laser. Truth is, Amber-Lynn enjoys the attention and has no intention of putting Edwin off, but she’s just not that into him.

Doctor Sprayberry the elder died while she was finishing up grad studies at MIT and it was a natural transition for her to take his place in ULER — scratch that, Maelstrom — in the R&D department that Maelright used to run before he started moving up.

Still cute, perky, and a little bit scatter-brained in her thirties, Dr. Amber-Lynn Sprayberry only vaguely gets that she’s the reason the Maelstrom organization moves on some of its more audacious plans. But she’s flattered. And Edwin’s precious. Such a good friend.

• 11:05 played Killing Floor (PC) and Battlefield Heroes BETA (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 17:10 Ugh. Somehow I keep sleeping too long ... #
• 19:51 I sense my brain turning to gellid mash, but there's a show to do! #
• 20:34 BSU going live in about 15min. You know you want to tune in. ping.fm/lwRhH #
• 21:04 Operation BSU is as live as live can be, and Hurdle the Dead is, too! ping.fm/ChjsR #
• 22:04 Interview with Hurdle the Dead coming up in mere moments: ping.fm/hpbv4 #
• 23:32 Sigh. TS still doesn't have the show posted. I'm now officially annoyed ... again. #
• 03:59 Vista now brought up to SP2. Fear my mighty ... um ... guts. #
• 05:07 I'm just going to kick on some music, now. The advantage of having your own broadcast-quality playlist shuffle. #
• 07:07 I'm out, kids. Brainmeats melted down. Want tunes at work? Try: 174.132.198.195:8512 #

• 16:50 Oh, look, I've managed consciourness again! #
• 03:43 @RioMcCarthy It's not me! #
• 05:00 I unlocked 3 Steam achievements on Killing Floor! ping.fm/ZGSUc #
• 08:42 Head. Bed. Thud. #

• 15:00 Awake and functioning. Barely. #
• 15:04 I wake up and IMMEDIATELY start pulling ArmA 2 off Steam. Because, oof, 4hrs ... #
• 15:14 And now ... I am off to shower and th'like. #
• 16:15 Alright, rolling out to hunt and kill foodstuffs. #
• 22:35 Moie report: Transformers 2, solid B. Not a bad movie at all. #
• 23:03 Time to see if ArmA 2 release still has the 8gb RAM bug. Luckily, I know the workaround. #
• 23:50 Had to twiddle ArmA2 settings but ... Yes, it's truly deeply hardcore. Hardcore infy command shit, baby. #
• 23:54 @VeronicaVixen Hmmm, what's the main issue with the design? #
• 05:13 @gerrypearson Ironically, I was just playing the game "Killing Floor" with the Bee when I saw your song posting. #
• 08:42 It's definitely bedtime. Back to reading this tonight: ping.fm/DUN4W #

• 16:42 I Rise! I Hunger! #
• 19:20 Michael and Farrah? What other has-been celeb will see the inside of a pine box this week? Bets start now. #
• 19:24 No, Ed McMahon doesn't count. He wasn't a has-been. Though he might count for "trio of entertainers." #
• 20:03 @RisenPhoenix Hmmm. Cash4Gold is harsh, but maybe he just needed to make a car payment? #
• 20:31 @justicejr Someone did. #
• 21:14 I think this sums up all we need say about Jackson. ping.fm/gPRmv #
• 06:17 Wow, Weaponizers Ep 1 was horribly, horribly disappointing. #
• 07:00 Time for happy Squid bed time before going out with Erika tonight. #

• 16:15 Oof. I feel like I could have stayed in bed another 4 hours. #
• 16:23 @CUnderkoffler Luckily, it's far more Gundam than Transformers, then! :) #
• 17:27 Whoot! Demigod update to 1.1! Let the songs ring out. #
• 17:42 Time to work on tonight's vox. Go go gadget Adobe Audition! #
• 18:44 Whoot! I think the set for tonight is in the can. I feel so ... amused. #
• 23:50 Going live at the Oak with an A-Z set in 15min. Tune in with iTunes or WinAmp! streams.venues.sl:8050 #
• 05:07 I'm of a mood. Let's watch old school filmmaking: Rio Bravo. #
• 07:59 @Ssha I like Spore, but I'm a sucker for god-games. #
• 09:04 Time for bed. Brain jellid. #

• 16:34 "Smithers, release the hounds!" #
• 17:14 Oh, hey, Spore: Galactic Adventures is released today. #
• 17:48 Ed McMahon's dead. Which means there's voice over openings! #
• 17:54 I NEED no support group! www.flickr.com/photos/passiveaggressive/3642661392 #
• 17:59 Dear Hell, an invite to a THIRD beta? What is going on in the universe? #
• 20:04 Enough city-building. Now I'm onto tinkering A Penny For My Thoughts for Giant Robot Combat. #
• 22:16 Eric drags me away from profiling mecha pulits to shoot folks with modern weapons. Luddite! #
• 03:51 I'm pretty pleased with the prototype of the A Penny For My Thoughts mecha-version pages. #
• 04:05 Let's see if THIS rip of Transformers is actually watchable. #
• 04:06 Hot damn! Peter Cullen, off the bat. My childhood is ... marginally less raped. #
• 06:20 Shockingly, I liked the voice acting better than the rest of the movie. #
• 08:04 I've produced two different Penny settings and laid them out tonight. I'm accomplished. #
• 09:05 Yes, it's definitely bedtime. Damn you, CitiesXL, damn you to Hell! #

• 16:22 I'd sing "here comes the sun," but there's no sun out today. Yay! #
• 16:29 @fredhicks You know, I can understand this "indie conflict." We need a new subsubculture from our subculture. #
• 16:47 @billba twitpic.com/846p5 - "So that's what the kids are calling it these days." #
• 20:08 @donttrythis twitpic.com/851jo - '"Incomprehensibly vaster," he said, eyes filled with the glory of the Great Old Ones.' #
• 20:22 Enough listening to random music. I need something more visceral. Hmmm. Time to go city building. #
• 00:18 THIS is how you initiate an assault: bit.ly/11AQys #
• 00:46 Now I totally want a job with a Russian military contractor: bit.ly/FGCHe #
• 04:36 Since the Transformers sequel comes out later this week, I should come up to date. Childhood braced for rape. #
• 04:39 Well, THAT encode absolutely sucked, in audio. #
• 04:40 Instead, fine. Burn Notice. #
• 05:22 And while we have some blood, how about True Blood? #
• 06:16 That was particularly good. LaFayette presented a good argument and Bill ruled. #
• 07:09 I swear, Demigod is my "pick up and shoot people" game without the shooting. #
• 08:37 Time for bed and to stop tinkering in InDesign. #

• 16:24 Oh, look, I could drag myself upright. Cool. #
• 17:52 Hacking away on BSU. Feeling kind of meh across the board. #
• 20:17 BSU with Little Fyodor live in 35min! ping.fm/99PVc #
• 20:47 BSU chat and pre-show is live. Little Fyodor tonight! ping.fm/tM8dd #
• 21:02 Little Fyodor is wonderfully present. Be Here Now. ping.fm/Wvj3Y #
• 04:09 I think it's finally time to watch Southland Tales. #
• 06:04 I MUST have the American Anthem from Southland Tales. It's stone awesome. #
• 06:22 I can't brain, I've got the WTF mate. Awesome movie, but ... Yeeow. #
• 07:29 It's bedtime. In a rare fit of cool, I'll leave the redoubt running on ping.fm/kkRR8 . Tune in. #

• 17:17 I've clawed my way back to near coherence. I feel accomplished. #
• 17:26 InvaderZ for free, today only. ping.fm/3k4bx #FreeRPGDay #
• 18:13 Free RPGs? How about a blog full of free RPGs, links, and reviews? ping.fm/SwhcK #FreeRPGDay #
• 18:16 Off to dinner. More free RPG links and yammer later. #
• 19:34 Paladin, perfect for running your fave Jedi games in! #FreeRPGDay #
• 19:35 Duh. Paladin. ping.fm/fNCsi #FreeRPGDay #
• 20:50 Grrrr, beta game crashes when I'm enjoying it! Grrrr, argh. #
• 20:57 I can has window mode! Yaaay! #
• 01:03 "Oh shit, you know SquidLord!" Words you should never hear. #
• 05:39 It's one of those nights. Time to ... SORT MUSIC! [drum roll] #
• 06:50 Jeebus. The Redoubt music collection just exceeded 30,000 tracks. #
• 07:13 I'm off a'bed. Don't let the Iranians explode before I wake up or snipe Kim Jong Il. #

• 15:31 Ypright. Getting shower. #
• 17:14 Rolling out to hang with Erika for a while. Back later; cell and ear bug, equipped. #
• 21:46 I return from the feeding and the Plague PTP protocol convention! #
• 21:52 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/7u2z7 - "How much for the blonde one?" #
• 22:11 @fredhicks Vimeo's HD hosting is worth paying for, no joke. It's fantastic. #
• 22:12 @RisenPhoenix Congrats! Mmm, can I ... stroke your baton, officer? #
• 00:05 Some zombies gonna feel the front of my big gun, baby. #
• 06:46 The major draw back of beta testing games is when they crash. #
• 07:54 Time for the sleeping, but ideas are a percolating. #

• 11:05 played Second Life (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:33 Crawling out of bed is harder and harder. Need to go to sleep earlier. #
• 17:52 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/7qhc6 - "What, I didn't tell you I was moving in with you this weekend? Oops." #
• 22:36 "That's a good problem to have!" bluntcard.com/images/1245372456huge.gif #
• 04:11 Let's see if Crow 3: Wicked Prayer is any good. It has David Boreanaz! #
• 05:45 Crow 4 was made by Boreanaz. Better than 3, but still paced too slow. #
• 08:57 I'm so off to bed. Eyes drifting shut. #

• 16:24 Shit. Two good things I can't tell you about in a row? WTH, Hero? PS: I'm awake. #
• 17:35 "What do I need to do, RIGHT NOW?" GTD, you save me again. #
• 19:32 Finishing up the last of the vox mixing for tonight. Whoot, Heavy Mithril wonder! #
• 19:40 Yay, Oak set is setted up. I feel so accomplicated. #
• 20:07 I think I've found the next game I MUST play: ping.fm/KlzSj #
• 23:25 I'm DJing Heavy Mithral tonight at the Oak in SL in 30min. To tune in without SL use: ping.fm/GgRyc #
• 23:48 Up to DJ at the Oak in 15min. Tune in via iTunes or WinAmp even if not on SL: ping.fm/0jX54 #
• 06:16 Man, The Crow: Salvation is TERRIBLE except for the sheer glee the protagonist brings to the role. #
• 09:03 I think my energy reserves are burnt. Bedtime. #

• 11:05 played Killing Floor (PC) and Demigod (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:36 Oi. Hello consciousness again. You look bleary. #
• 16:55 Looks like dinner in tonight, but that's no big deal. Wendy's it is. #
• 17:58 Let the power metal ring forth! Excuse me, must headbang. #
• 18:08 @JessicaCha Sadly, I won't be on SL until around 1a eastern at the earliest. Hold the fort without me. :P #
• 18:40 Pinging. Headed out the door with @scyllacat for the feeding. #
• 22:42 @themercurymen twitpic.com/7l0gm - "I think we need more gun." #
• 22:46 I think I can manage this. I have the arms! ping.fm/J3Jcn #
• 01:11 How about some Hot Fuzz? #
• 03:02 Hot Fuzz officially qualifies as completely barking mad. #
• 03:04 It's not Devil's Night, but it's time to enjoy The Crow again. #
• 04:35 Since I just recited most of The Crow from memory, time to watch The Crow II. #
• 06:11 Might as well work on putting together some of tonight's set. #
• 06:38 And, whoo! Good thing happened that ... I can't tell you about. But it's good! #
• 07:00 May or may not make tonight's set: www.youtube.com/watch?v=35bxULT7q7s #
• 07:34 I have MORE than enough music for this week. Whew, I was mildly concerned. I can actually cut the death metal. #
• 08:57 I think I've gone as far as I can. Bed, now. #

• 16:01 I rise. I wake. About in that order, too. #
• 16:16 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/7hd3l - SUCCESSFUL SPOT CHECK: There is no cat in this picture. Not that we mind, per se. #
• 16:43 Keen, looks like dinner with Erika in a bit, after I finish some other stuff. Auspicious start. #
• 19:00 Headed out to feed on the flesh of the weak. I roll. #
• 21:06 Happily fed, entertained, and looking at the downloads from the last day. Go me. #
• 21:48 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/7hzuf - "Is it hot in this apartment or just me?" Captioning, ahoy. #
• 22:01 @JessicaCha I have achieved re-tweet immortality. I can die a happy man. (For the record, "just you.") #
• 22:05 It's suddenly very, very quiet, even with the Necro Tonz jamming. I am on my guard. #
• 22:46 @JessicaCha That'd be "decrepit." And "dictionary.com." Editing talents provided free of charge. ;) #
• 00:32 @flickguy needed MORE METAL for tonight's editing: bit.ly/t3y1j #
• 01:33 Psychological Profiling Via Twitter: TweetPsych.com from @danzarrella #
• 02:16 Best. Technology. Ever. Tactical Corsets. ping.fm/PvAYb #tacticalcorsets #
• 03:18 Everyone's gone. It's all me. All alone. Which probably means it's time to watch Tru Blood. #
• 04:41 I must say, I'm pleased at True Blood's return. Mmm, delicious carnage. Speaking of which, Burn Notice! #
• 05:25 Why not watch Doom in my ongoing fight against sanity? #
• 07:08 Doom had absolutely no reason to be that much fun. Stupid, but hugely fun. #
• 08:27 I'm done and ready for bed. No idea if @scyllacat is planning dinner. I'll find out. #
• 11:05 played Killing Floor (PC) and Demigod (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #

• 11:05 played Second Life (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:01 I rise. I wake. About in that order, too. #
• 16:16 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/7hd3l - SUCCESSFUL SPOT CHECK: There is no cat in this picture. Not that we mind, per se. #
• 16:43 Keen, looks like dinner with Erika in a bit, after I finish some other stuff. Auspicious start. #
• 19:00 Headed out to feed on the flesh of the weak. I roll. #
• 21:06 Happily fed, entertained, and looking at the downloads from the last day. Go me. #
• 21:48 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/7hzuf - "Is it hot in this apartment or just me?" Captioning, ahoy. #
• 22:01 @JessicaCha I have achieved re-tweet immortality. I can die a happy man. (For the record, "just you.") #
• 22:05 It's suddenly very, very quiet, even with the Necro Tonz jamming. I am on my guard. #
• 22:46 @JessicaCha That'd be "decrepit." And "dictionary.com." Editing talents provided free of charge. ;) #
• 00:32 @flickguy needed MORE METAL for tonight's editing: bit.ly/t3y1j #
• 01:33 Psychological Profiling Via Twitter: TweetPsych.com from @danzarrella #
• 02:16 Best. Technology. Ever. Tactical Corsets. ping.fm/PvAYb #tacticalcorsets #
• 03:18 Everyone's gone. It's all me. All alone. Which probably means it's time to watch Tru Blood. #
• 04:41 I must say, I'm pleased at True Blood's return. Mmm, delicious carnage. Speaking of which, Burn Notice! #
• 05:25 Why not watch Doom in my ongoing fight against sanity? #
• 07:08 Doom had absolutely no reason to be that much fun. Stupid, but hugely fun. #
• 08:27 I'm done and ready for bed. No idea if @scyllacat is planning dinner. I'll find out. #

• 11:05 played Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC), Men of War (PC), and Demigod (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:40 Waking up cold is not on my "favourite things to do" list. #
• 17:58 Headed out to Ah-Pull-Beez. #
• 19:25 Back from the feeding and now to finalize show stuff. #
• 20:33 Operation BSU in 20min with HB3 talking about The Veldt! ping.fm/7s0g8 #
• 21:02 BSU HB3 ETA NOW! ping.fm/h1N2s #
• 22:08 HB3 live interview in 3min. Come join the BSU crew, and enjoy. ping.fm/q2LZD #
• 00:36 HB3 logs up and rather pleasantly formatted: ping.fm/jXFTL #
• 01:06 @JessicaCha Now she's hated because she's just not that funny? (Well, not hated. The Vast Indifference is way worse.) #
• 04:20 If you use this URL to find new bands ... you might be me. ping.fm/aWk1F #
• 04:55 The 101 Rules of Power Metal. #1: You have but one goal. BE EPIC. ping.fm/OpODm #
• 05:00 The Epic Sequel to the 101 Rules of Power Metal. #1. Denim and leather went out with Saxon. Silk and steel is the new thing. ping ... #
• 07:02 Off to bed. Neurology, FAIL. #

• 11:05 played Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:23 Hmm. Power outtage may have killed my router. #
• 20:59 Yes! Router replaced and largely configured from memory. Win! #
• 22:09 @JessicaCha Typically, extra hydration and reducing eye strain. #
• 22:50 Listening to the new HB3 album, The Veldt, for BSU ... and it's very mellow. #
• 01:23 Mmm, getting your kill on in Demigod has so much visual appeal. #
• 05:42 I just went 33k:17d in CoD4. I feel like a badass mofo. :) #
• 07:17 Time for bed, my better judgement says. Tired beyond tired and my better judgement knows sleep may help. #

• 11:05 played Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (PC), Men of War (PC), and 1 other game in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 17:28 Oof. How did I end up oversleeping for an hour and a half? #
• 18:34 Rolling out to get some St Louis Style Ribs. Cell, et al, with me. #
• 20:15 Back from feeding on ribs and shopping for groceries. #
• 20:27 Thanks to @flickguy, I bring you "Redneck Wizard". Welcome to my kind of game: ping.fm/Hh0df #
• 20:37 Want to know why I've pre-ordered ArmA II? ping.fm/1GNsz #
• 02:06 Bugger, my ankles are sore after only 1.5hr of tightly controlled FPS shooting. I'm getting old. #
• 03:39 @CUnderkoffler Did I use too many monkeys? Maybe you just don't like monsters so much. #
• 05:37 Right, back into the Eureka Seven mode. Ep 40, are you ... jittery? #
• 06:23 Have I mentioned lately that I hate and despise humanity across the board? Just checking. #
• 08:17 Alright, bed haa made demands, and I must fulfill. #

• 11:05 played Second Life (PC) and AudioSurf (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:37 @strangerthings Depends on the MTBF for the drives. It's a standard high-i/o parallelizing disk layout otherwise. #
• 17:09 Oh, forgot to mention I'm up, but fed. And Dad's home from l'hospital, so. Yeah. #
• 17:18 Instructional blog for non-Georgians: ping.fm/NCFYI #
• 21:15 Annoyance of the moment: Horrifically dim people who can't manage a coherent conversation NOT about themselves. #
• 00:52 @Wyldekyttin "Through the Fire and Flame" - DragonForce #
• 04:04 I find myself really liking Red Orchestra's meaty weapon sounds and blood haze deaths. #
• 04:35 Hmmm, how about War, Inc tonight as the movie of the moment? #
• 06:22 I love John Cusack films. The dialogue, mainly, actually. It's all so tight. #
• 07:38 Do I have enough WWII grognardia with Red Orchestra, or do I need Panzer Elite, too? ping.fm/vnozI #
• 08:42 Time. For. Bed. No exceptions. #

The cruel 2470’s, when uploading is considered mainstream and thus the concerns about the embodied are minimal, leading to torture-porn being Sunday night fare, more concern about the expansion of understanding with none given to physical ramifications, and the very idea that flesh is meaningful given entirely short shrift.¹

• 11:05 played Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:14 Consciousness. It's surprisingly painful. #
• 17:26 I REALLY have to finish hacking on my set tonight. #
• 18:06 Hmmm, I wonder if tonight's set compares to Asian movie emotional whip-saws. #
• 19:14 Set complete, vox recorded, technology advanced. I think I'm ready. #
• 21:17 @GeishaMashi Hrumph. One day someone'll get around to tendering these geek pickup lines to we geeks. ;) #
• 21:39 Despite the rumours, Basement Cat is not going to be referenced during my set tonight. #
• 23:39 Set going live in 20min. Want to listen NOT on Second Life? Point your stream listener to streams.venues.sl:8050 #
• 00:05 Spinning insanity live, RIGHT NOW! Want to listen NOT on Second Life? Point your stream listener to streams.venues.sl:8050 #
• 05:00 Maurice LeMarche is so much incredibly cooler than I, there is no measure. bit.ly/Yycmp #
• 08:04 Bedtime. Best. See you guys flip side. #

• 11:05 played Killing Floor (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:06 Weird that I'd wake up chilly. How annoying. #
• 16:20 #crapsuperpowers Cold hands. Just a little cool, really. #
• 16:21 #zombiepickuplines "I love the way your eyes glass in the moonlight." #
• 16:23 Hmmm, #TweetMyGaming.com is giving away Uncharted 2 Beta keys. I have 6min left to get in! #
• 17:44 Headed out to Sonny's. Don't miss me. #
• 19:20 @fredhicks This is why my current box was built as a quad-core monster with 8gb of RAM. And Audition still chugs along. #
• 19:21 #crapsuperpowers The ability to taste things at range. "Mmmm, salty." #
• 20:29 I find myself strangely compelled by the ability to play the Canadians in WWII. ping.fm/a7Tz6 #
• 21:00 New track: GnarledOak-2009-06-04.000348 bit.ly/16gMKj
  via #soundcloud #
• 21:50 #crapsuperpowers The ability to seduce any 85+ year old senior with your poo. #
• 01:55 Red Orchestra, making being Russians fun since 1941. ping.fm/DK35z #
• 02:04 @JewelStaite You say Katusha and I read Katyusha. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha #
• 05:04 Might as well tinker with adding tracks to the database. Yay, advanced technology! #
• 05:19 Well, @ursulav would freak right the fuck out. There's a tiny centipede on my floor. #
• 06:24 Something is awesome when you just cue up a Megadeth track and are filled with the Power of Metal. #
• 08:20 Just secured a safe house in Barcelona, Spain. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 09:20 I'm finally off to crash out. Brain ... mush. #

• 11:05 played Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 15:58 I rise and putter and think I'll go see Terminator today instead of being productive. :P #
• 16:21 @kippras STOP THAT, DAMNIT! #
• 17:04 Headed out to Discover Mills to feed and watch robots kill humanity and root for them. Whoot! (Poor @scyllacat.) #
• 17:05 @varifrank I don't have a tattoo, but ... hmm, arguably not a primate either. Got me! #
• 21:53 I return from Salvation! #
• 01:06 There's something about Killing Floor that scratches my rampaging kill zombies itch. #
• 07:46 Alice and @scyllacat just left. Breakfast in me with drugs. Now to wind down and sleep. #
• 08:21 Biology and chemistry demand that I get some sleep. Braaaaain. My braaaaain. And stuff. #

Goofy, because he brings up the most existentional questions in the Disney pantheon. His best buddy Mickey owns a dog, Pluto. Goofy is a dog! While Donald Duck has occasionally seen mundane ducks, the level of interaction between Mickey, Pluto and Goofy is unprecedented. To add to the madness, Pluto appears a sapont, albeit limited in expressiveness. In theory and by observation, Pluto could actively consent to sexual relations. Yet, he is the pet of an only slightly more anthropogenic mouse and the friend of a marginally more anthropogenic canid whose primary superiorities appear to be bipedal walk and a particularly poor taste in clothes.

And you thought Belle and the Beast’s relationship provided issue fodder.

• 11:05 played Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) and Demigod (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:50 Vrrrr. It's entirely too chill in here today. #
• 18:34 Show notes and special guest reporter set up. Wooha. #
• 20:32 Operation BSU going live with Stranded in 20min! ping.fm/6UTGz #

• 11:05 played Men of War (PC) and Demigod (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:34 Oof. We'll call this wakefullness, if it makes you feel better. #
• 16:50 @Ssha Z'miel, on Seven Spindles. They may also put me over FarmCrafting. #
• 16:59 Just secured a safe house in Mexico City, Mexico. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 17:56 I just reached level 15. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 18:09 Headed out to dinner, my gaping maw needs to be fed a thousand starships. #
• 19:44 Pleasantly fed now back and looking at my ToDo list. #
• 23:01 Surprisingly, very funny: ping.fm/qDYO8 #
• 02:22 Wait, NOOOOOOOOOOOO! i40.tinypic.com/s2zbpe.jpg #
• 06:28 There. LJ Writer's Nlock entries are better blog primers than the other bunch I was using. #
• 08:35 Serious bedtime is serious. #

Well, assuming we’re talking about … no, wait. Can we assume anything?

Is it the Zombie Apocalypse and I have to choose between intervening in the wave of flesh-eaters heading for the love of my life on one hand and the few people I actually aren’t happier seeing be a mindless undead thing on the other? In that case, I’m going the Spidey route and just saying a deadpan, “Neither” before busting out my sniper badassery, putting rounds in the noggins of whatever foul beasts have the insipidity to get in my way. Just like people, really, but less back-talk.

Are we talking about some kind of social thing, where my friends oppose my taste in women? Never happen. Despite my very clear and apparent affinity for madwomen, my friends know better than to oppose the cruel and Earth-shattering power of my Will. No one wants to be ground alive not just slowly, but exceedingly fine, in the grist-house of my perversion.

Or it’s just a false choice in the first place. If your SO isn’t one of your friends, “yer dooin’ it rong.”

• 11:05 played Killing Floor (PC) and Demigod (PC) in the last 24 hours. raptr.com/SquidLord #
• 16:20 Consciousness bedevils me once again. #
• 16:22 Monday. Anyone free Monday to hear the Supersuckers at the Gravity Pub? #
• 16:52 Pretty much fits what I thought upon hearing the story: ping.fm/67dDg #
• 17:28 Headed out to get breakfast; foooood. Sonny's. I'm leaving the house, yes! #
• 19:14 Back, and deliciously stuffed with meat, plus groceries purchased. Net win! #
• 19:17 @jarod "Dude, you're autoerotically asphyxiating in BANGKOK? You're doin' it wrong!" #
• 19:36 I just reached level 13. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 22:01 Damnit, another night I failed to lure @semiapies into playing Demigod. His flesh is weak! #
• 22:03 @TweetMyGaming You know what TMG needs? Hilite filters for games I'm interested in. #
• 22:05 In fact, you cannot touch this: bit.ly/MgZHn #
• 22:27 I just reached level 14. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 00:19 Sigh. I was talked into reprising one of my old characters on a Pern MUSH. You may now kill me. #
• 01:26 @Wyldekyttin Yay, drugs and exercise! #
• 01:54 NOW it's time to catch up with Castle. #
• 01:55 Hmmm, looks like I am up to date with Castle. Reaper? #
• 02:46 Meh, I think I should watch Outlander. Vikings would be welcome. #
• 02:58 Hot hot-blooded Viking combat chick. I'm already happy. #
• 04:38 Wow. Outlander is a way better movie than it has any right to be. #
• 04:39 @moonfrye Wouldn't it be better to send food rather than videos? Or kill them? Dead people aren't hungry, after all. #
• 06:16 Off to breakfast and picking up dry cleaning. #
• 07:59 Whoot, I'm home. Long day, waiting for drugs to kick in. #
• 09:34 Bedtime fo sho. Damn Demigod sucking me in. Again. #

Vancouver. Far in the frozen north lands, full of those strangely societied Canadians. And yet ... perfectly acceptable as a Squid habitat. It's walkable, which is good because folks there can't drive for shit. There's at least one decent BBQ place (merely decent, sadly). You can buy Transylvanian bread loves fresh out of the oven! Plus you can lurk on the quay-side and watch ships bring cargo in and out all day, and for some reason I find that soothing.

• 16:03 The ability to sit upright has returned to my world! #
• 16:13 Judas Priest will be at the Verizon ampitheatre on Aug 20th! I ... I so want to go. Mutter. #
• 16:28 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6lx04 - "Excuse me, sir, I believe you're card-counting. Guido, knee-cap him." #
• 16:36 "He was well-hung and in Thailand." I'm not writing Carradine's epitaph. Luckily. #death #
• 16:42 @RioMcCarthy C;mon! Plenty of time to plan a road trip! :) #
• 17:17 You know, @TweetMyGaming is actually rather cool in a content-extraction kind of way. #
• 18:56 It's really pouring down out there. This is one evening I'm glad I'm not out in it. #
• 20:48 I just reached level 11. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 21:20 Just secured a safe house in Shanghai, PRC. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 22:01 Rebuilding my TV feed RSS links now that tvrss.net is gone. Very annoying. #
• 01:56 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6nlwj - Tired tonight, are we? #
• 03:53 I'm of a mood. I think I'll watch ... hmmm ... The Rocketeer. #
• 05:41 The Rocketeer really has the "iconic shot" thing nailed. Beautiful cinematography. #
• 05:43 Having set the tone tonight, why not finish up with The Spirit? "My city screams!" #
• 07:07 Dear Hell, I've found my perfect henchwoman. #
• 07:19 That was ... actually quite a fun movie. I'll take any extra Candy Floss you have. In a SS uniform. #
• 07:28 While I'm oggling Stana Katic. Castle! #
• 07:50 OK, no Castle this morn, breakfast intervened. #
• 08:29 I just reached level 12. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 08:36 I'm off to bed. Wake me if the apocalypse arrives. #

• 16:07 "What time is it?" "It's time to get ill!" #
• 16:32 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6jlla - Socks. "Feel the rainbow!" #
• 18:18 Beginning to cut vox for the set. Thank Hades for pre-designed multitrack filters. #
• 19:06 Vox is wrote and I'm a much more comfortable squid thereby. #
• 19:06 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6k24s - "It's so ... big!" #
• 19:13 This makes me seriously wish I could play Rock Band: bit.ly/fxMQz #
• 19:28 @RisenPhoenix How do you fall off a barstool while perving? Not one of the dangers I've ever faced. #
• 20:44 Hmmm. Haven't eaten Lemonheads in a while. So deliciously tart. #
• 20:58 This song is all @semiapies : bit.ly/SqJ5j #
• 23:16 Voot, I'll be spinning my mad club tunes in 45min or so at the Gnarled Oak. ping.fm/WTLJS #
• 02:43 Huh, that was a very, very successful set. I'm oddly pleased. #
• 03:24 This is TOO BOUNCY! bit.ly/rfqSx #
• 03:56 "Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls." #
• 05:25 I have a wild hair; I feel like watching Doomsday. I need the fluff. #
• 05:32 Lesson of the first 15min. The Scotts are disgusting animals better walled away. #
• 06:34 "See beautiful Scotland! It's full of fookin' retards!" #
• 07:28 Rhona Mitra: What Sandra Bullock would be if she bought into action hero crazy. #
• 08:10 I'm going to sleep, now. Keep the planet turning in my absence. #

• 16:04 Grah. Time to start training myself to wake up at 4p on the dot. #
• 16:18 @Rissani Mainly because OverLord II has had almost no advertising or hype at all. Evem I was unawares! #
• 16:23 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6grt1 - Rockin' the hot librarian look today, are we? #
• 16:32 Huh, phone call from my father. Must be still alive. Did sound rather drugged up, as appropriate. #
• 16:47 @Wyldekyttin I'll get right on that. #
• 16:48 @troubleismybiz Actually, I'd find that incredibly normal. C'mon, I'm sure I have WraithNet access. #
• 16:50 New Demigod release! Yay, no more Sedna Bug! I look forward to teaching the Bee Demigoddery. #
• 20:09 Can someone take me out to the Littlefield Military Vehicle Museum? Pleeeease? ping.fm/gOyqt #
• 20:21 Postmortem Studios. Free RPG. Good stuff. No, really. I promise. (I'm such an easy shill.) ping.fm/ILlKC #
• 20:24 I just reached level 9. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 23:12 @RioMcCarthy I've been waiting for you to tell me you'll love me forever for YEARS. :P #
• 00:30 I really wish PETA /vegans lived what they preached so they'd just die off sooner. #
• 02:25 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6imkd - Are you lookin' at me? #
• 03:11 I never ever get tired of Demigod shouting "Godlike!" as I beat down another demigod and lord over the corpse. #
• 04:21 Grr, I hate it when I get sidetracked when I should be finishing my set list for tonight. #
• 04:58 Strangely, I never get tired of the Ghoultown song "Fistfull of Demons": bit.ly/oJtcW #
• 05:17 I think my set's all neatly ordered now. From compilations to pure Saturday morning madness. #
• 06:00 Episode 38 of Eureka Seven, coming up. Progress is being made! #
• 08:03 Picking my butt up and tossing it into bed. Tonight, need to record vox for Oak set. #
• 08:04 I just reached level 10. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #

• 15:38 M'brains are all gellid and squidgy. That bodes oddly for the day. #
• 15:50 Huh, all the updates from E3 make me wish I were there. Sigh. #
• 15:51 RT: @SteamNewsValve Announces Left 4 Dead 2 ping.fm/g9a6E #
• 17:28 I have eaten more pie, and discovered Layers magazine does, sometimes, run articles I can use. :) #
• 17:56 Baby, oh HELL YEAH. Zombies in NOLA. I'm in. ping.fm/eTWZa #
• 19:50 I just reached level 5. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 19:57 @LostZombies Evil Dead 2. Though Army of Darkness has some excellent cinematography. #
• 20:22 Might as well rip some more tracks tonight. The system demands feeding! #
• 20:29 @moonfrye Because 3yos are known for making such great decisions, right? #
• 21:24 @RioMcCarthy Just pick me up some Left 4 Dead 2 swag! #
• 21:28 @RioMcCarthy That doesn't obviate my demands. ;) #
• 22:11 And this is why Sith are just better than Jedi: ping.fm/KCKmX #
• 22:12 @llliamnnnixon My heart goes out to your suffering in listening to me ... #
• 22:55 I just reached level 6. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 22:56 Just secured a safe house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 03:11 Oh, hey, Arma II is up for pre-order from Steam. Am I the only hardcore infantry sim guy here? ping.fm/upuAu #
• 04:58 I have a few hours, maybe I can get closer to the end of Eureka Seven. I'm up to Ep 33. #
• 08:15 It's bedtime at long, long last. #

• 15:02 A new day begins full of horror and mystery and surprising twists and turns of the plot! #
• 15:17 @Wyldekyttin Drag Me To Hell, no question. #
• 16:30 I just reached level 2. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 16:34 Reminder: BSU tonight is with the Lasy Barbarians! What's in your wallet? ping.fm/GBGc2 #
• 17:54 I just reached level 3. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 20:48 BSU is going live for the pre-show. Come hang out with us and the Last Barbarians! ping.fm/1bTfb #
• 22:57 @JessicaCha twitpic.com/6dirw - I suddenly feel very metal! #
• 23:19 I just reached level 4. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 23:27 @Wyldekyttin We clearly need pics. #
• 23:37 Quoted: "Fine. I don't find you attractive at all and certainly don't like your ass." #
• 23:58 Just secured a safe house in Tbilisi, Georgia. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
• 00:50 @Wyldekyttin Why choose? All of the above! #
• 00:51 @JessicaCha Shouldn't you be in bed? ;) #
• 02:37 @JessicaCha Get some rest, girl. :) #
• 03:30 I think North Korea just told the Democrats to suck a dick! ping.fm/ead53 #
• 04:09 Well, dad's off to Crawford Long for open heart surgery and the house is all mine alone for a few hours. #
• 05:27 Going slowly through my CDs on a second pass at ripping ones I missed. Much music flows. #
• 05:30 [boggle] The Warmen do an awesome Finnish power metal cover of "Somebody's Watchin' Me" by Rockwell. #
• 07:22 I think that's about all I can handle, kids. I need sleep and I leave the world to my lessers to watch over. Good luck. #

• 16:24 That creaking sound you hear are my hips and knees going all "old man" on me. #
• 16:33 @semiapies I figured you ended up just slumped over in the toilet, snoring sonorously. :P #
• 16:40 I clearly need a pet anteater: bit.ly/7V7U2 #
• 17:15 New track: Madlife - Oh Canada bit.ly/GsnwX
  via @SoundCloud #
• 17:59 Finishing prep for the feeding and the thrashing and the madness. And clean glasses. #
• 19:41 I return, fed to the brim on mear. Yum. #
• 19:55 @DenizenKagan I don't always drink human blood, but when I do, I prefer "young goth-girls." He is he most interesting psycho in the world! #
• 22:41 @Wyldekyttin Why yes, yes I'd love to come. #
• 22:42 @varifrank PJ O'Rourke clearly doesn't live outside the insulated confines of urbanized suburbia. Or the South. Or retain two synapses. #
• 23:22 Flick is live and kind of directionless, whoot! ping.fm/SHH57 #
• 01:46 @JessicaCha You're definitely making it a pleasant bedtime. #
• 03:00 @tonystark For very low definitions of "working." #
• 07:08 Time has crept up on me. Bed summonses. #

• 10:20 Huh, did the Wave folk slurp up Ethernote while I wasn't looking? It looks terribly familliar in places ... #
• 11:08 Headed out to hook up with the kids and destroy Six Flags. Wish the city luck. #
• 20:56 I return! And damn, I'm beat. #
• 22:09 Your night is not WEIRD ENOUGH: bit.ly/Kwhw9 #
• 22:19 You MIND is not READY! bit.ly/Nohhv #
• 00:06 @Wyldekyttin To quote Wanted, "No woman ever fantasized about getting raped by a liberal!" #
• 00:30 I repeat, you mind is not READY! bit.ly/j0b25 #
• 01:26 I definitely need an @eyeficard for my @evernote camera integration. #evernote_eyefi #
• 03:08 I really wanted to listen to something but wasn't sure what. It was Slayer. SLAYER! #
• 03:55 @kippras They are pretty annoying in their unending cavalcade. #
• 03:55 @RioMcCarthy Planning to sleep in the car, then? #
• 04:01 Back into Eureka Seven, children. One day I'll finish this series! #
• 06:17 Having a nice chopped steak for breakfast. Something a wee bit different. #
• 06:49 I think it's bedtime. My neurology is looking like a blank grey wall. #

• 15:29 [grump] Waking is not as much fun as wallowing in semi-consciousness. #
• 15:44 @Rissani Ha! Another Demigod player! We'll have to put the smack down on some uppity bastards sometime. #
• 15:47 @JessicaCha Well, I ... uh ... I can't object to that. Ever. #
• 15:49 @Rissani Gasp! Get it yourself, girl! Hot hot hellcasting action! (Though my best Demi is the angel. Go fig.) #
• 15:57 Spock be Big-Pimpin'. Which seems just, really. ping.fm/0Xhzr #
• 18:06 I'm off to feed. The food is necessary for my survival. I need to work on that. #
• 19:12 Christian Chicken always has at least one deadly hot girl working there. Why is that? #
• 19:13 @moonfrye Jordan from Real Genius, the ur-example. I still have a crush on her, which is just sad, sad, sad. #
• 21:02 Yes, Men of War is just as cruel and unforgiving as I recall ... #
• 03:22 Headed to bed ... but what an interesting evening, late as it ran. #
• 09:01 Start the fight music. "It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight." #
• 09:11 @adamdray Beast Hunters SRD1.5! www.berengad.com/bh15srd/ #
• 09:13 @JessicaCha Nooooooooo! If your Internets go down we get fewer pics. I oppose this on elemental grounds. #
• 09:14 @DenizenKagan Lick DVORAK for Great Power! #
• 09:37 Watching the Google Wave developer video. This ... is kind of friggin' cool. bit.ly/13u3Sm #
• 09:44 If Wave works, it's going to murder Disqus, Twitter, Plurk, and (hopefully) every damn forum system on the web. #

• 15:59 [yawn stretch] Well, looks like I just have the house to myself another four hours or so ... #
• 16:32 @JessicaCha Thank Hades we have the Net, right? #
• 16:36 Twitter's little bullshit problems today are starting to tweak me off. #
• 18:03 There are certain sales I can't resist. Like Men of War for $12. #
• 18:04 Oh, that's MoW on GamersGate: ping.fm/CMang #
• 19:14 Time to go hunt food and buy drugs. What a sparkling life I lead. #
• 20:37 Back from the big, scary outdoors. Feel my powah. #
• 20:45 @GeishaMashi It's all my fault. #
• 21:02 Reminder: I spin at the Gnarled Oak at 12a Eastern tonight, so c'mon over to SL if you want to hear terribly inappropriate club music. #
• 22:27 It's never a good sign when the DJ on ahead of you has net issues. #
• 23:43 "That's Inappropriate!" set going live at the Gnarled Oak in 15min. Come on, listen in horror! ping.fm/BiWyR #
• 02:26 Set complete, brain pained, eyes bulgy. Huh. #
• 05:20 Man, I'm beat, but I should have gone to bed hours ago. Now I might as well ride 'til breakfast. #
• 07:08 Sleep. Thud. #

• 15:10 Wow, that was some restful sleep. I almost feel reacclimated. #
• 15:18 Man, you sleep a few hours and the world shifts on you. Pop goes in for open heart surgery on Friday. #
• 15:22 @JessicaCha Hey, we pervs can overlook a mere eye infection. High-level pervs even prefer it. #
• 16:37 Hi! If you think I add value to your network, do drop me a recommendation at mrtweet.com/squidlord?rec Much appreciated! #
• 16:58 Hmmm, a lot of sites are really responding slowly today. Did I miss an email about the Net Going Down(tm)? #
• 17:53 @JessicaCha I am the Master of the sicktastic. #
• 17:54 Off to outer space to feed on Mother Earth. Back in a wee. #
• 19:54 Back, fed on coupon'd prime rib, and horribly made aware it's TUESDAY, so I need to finish working on my set. #
• 20:04 Recommended @creativedv8tion to @MrTweet 'he manages to keep me amused and I don't want to kill him; SCORE!' cli.gs/AvvBt9 #
• 23:16 Wednesday night's theme: Inappropriateness. How appropriate for me! #
• 02:28 Damn you TVTropes, you have eaten my night AGAIN! #
• 03:17 It's surprisingly hard to find songs about being naked. #
• 04:25 I have an evil plan! I shall play William Shatner tonight! #
• 05:21 Finally, this set is gelling into a nice, coherent musical whole. Even if I do cheat by having seven songs in one block. #
• 05:50 Happy noises: Set assembled, has the right run time, and makes me giggle very scarily. Win! #
• 05:52 Back to the robots with massive surf boards and the strangely convoluted back-story. #
• 07:43 Time for bed, good or ill, no matter what transacts beyond my shuttered lids. Time. #

• 14:46 I awake again! And back on my usual cycle, thank Hades. #
• 15:28 I hope I'm not, in fact, coming down with a cold. That would be tres annoying. #
• 16:14 @Wyldekyttin Bring me back something nice. ;) Since you're travelling in time to get the chainmail ... #
• 17:02 Time to get a shower and go hunt some food. Serious Squid Is Serious. #
• 17:31 @Wyldekyttin Oh, why pick an era? I'll take slavegirls from all of them. #
• 17:39 Hungry Squid is Hungry. There's Sonny's in my future after I gear up. Like, now. #
• 19:18 I return to a nice, comfy house, subshine and thunder. How appropos. #
• 19:48 I love logging into SL and finding someone needs help with SAM. It's like "Oooh, a chance to look good!" #
• 04:22 @JessicaCha You know we all prefer the hot librarian look ... #
• 04:56 Time to catch up with the Legend of the Seeker. Because we need to have more violence. #
• 05:39 From brutal swordfighting to giant robots that ride flying surfboards. I have odd tastes. #
• 07:23 Time for bed. Neurology demands. #

• 10:05 Feces: Piled. Geared up. Time to roll out. #
• 19:45 Home, with groceries in tow for a quick dinner before show prep. Crazy day, crazy night ahead. #
• 20:28 @jarod73 We survive! #
• 20:34 Operation BSU interviewing Eric Watts in 30min! Less, even! ping.fm/sFW9Y #
• 20:46 Showtime here at BSU in ... hmmm, we're accepting call-ins now. Cool. Eric Watts and the rest of the staff wants you to join us. http:// ... #
• 22:06 Home, with groceries in tow for a quick dinner before show prep. #
• 23:18 Operation BSU recorded, HILARIOUS, and in the can. Logs up at ping.fm/00YFF #
• 23:27 @VooDooStevie You BASTARD. #
• 23:45 @moonfrye Dodging drunken drivers, having trouble finding dinner, and wondering why there are so few memorials? #
• 04:57 Yes, time for some Reaper. Mmmmm, evil. #
• 05:39 Well, Reaper wasn't bad, actually. More Batman, I summon thee! #
• 06:31 22hrs awake. I suppose I'll hit the sack in another half hour. #
• 06:54 Off to crash out at 23hrs. #

• 11:06 Observe, as brainmeats slowly stir to life, right before your eyes! #
• 11:41 I ... think I'd play this game: ping.fm/VV1mb #
• 13:02 Checking out a few Killing Floor map sites and adding a few to my collection. Why? No idea ... #
• 13:31 Time to watch some vid. I'm awake, I can do that. Criminal Minds. Mmm, juicy murder ... #
• 14:55 OK, who gave the CM writers both copies of "Of Mice and Men" and "Skullcrusher Mountain"? #
• 14:56 Abd from that to Batman the Brave and the Bold. #
• 15:30 Disgustingly catchy, and all soo true: bit.ly/lPbST #
• 17:42 @RioMcCarthy I've been meaning to tell you. I use cemeteries as net links to the Underworld. WraithNet is my side project. #
• 18:30 Rolling out to Mideval Times to see some badassery on horseback and eat ... uh ... stuff. #
• 21:53 I've returned from my time travelling. There will be a couple pictures, in time! #
• 22:54 I'm so in A Mood(tm). Here, let me help. bit.ly/FL8wJ #
• 00:08 My drugs are now taken; countdown to sleep before getting up to go to 6 Flags ... begun. #
• 00:24 Time to be headed off to bed. Go go gadget sleep-cycle. #
• 07:47 I rise, though I don't think my body's cool with that. #

• 10:07 Brains, brains, I love 'em, I need 'em. #
• 10:10 @jailawrites The Con! Do try and dig up appropriate pics for me today. ;) #
• 10:31 @Wyldekyttin Everyone loves zombies! Everyone loves tentacles! Why choose? #
• 11:25 Might as well go ahead and twiddle around a bit with the BSU sched this morning. #
• 11:56 Hacked out the bulk of everything in the show other than the main stories. Go go gadget evil tech. Now ... Watchmen soundtrack. #
• 12:20 Amusing game premise of the moment: “Left Behind… Because You’re An Asshole” #
• 12:49 @semiapies I am channeling the evil of the Daystar. (Man, now there's an Abyssal concept ...) #
• 12:59 @jailawrites Sing, sing, sing for the Glory! (+1d6) #
• 13:07 Huh. The new Offspring CD is ... quite good, in the main. "Shit Is Fucked Up" may be my next set's intro theme. #
• 13:23 "The Devil Wears Prada" -- The first CD/band I've regretted buying in years. We all make mistakes ... sometimes. #
• 15:03 As a change from zombies, I just murdered hordes of grunts and several Demigods. #
• 15:10 @jailawrites Next assignment: At least one JoCo song that is NOT "Still Alive." "Skullcrusher Mountain" is apropos. #
• 18:08 Time for the feeding and the gnawing and the screaming. #
• 19:43 I have returned, with Whoppers as a prize of war! #
• 20:08 Sad admission: The new V series trailer? Looks dumb as Hell and non-sensical. #
• 20:38 Time to torture myself. Here comes the Crystal Skull. #
• 22:36 Well ... huh. Crystal Skull's not bad. It's just not great. Kind of weak. #
• 22:42 @Wyldekyttin Awwwww. Sorry I'm not there, though tentacles aren't exactly for tying. #
• 03:56 It's definitely time and past time to go to bed. Oif, brainmeats. #

• 13:20 Now THAT was a bit of a nice, comfy sleep-in. I feel ... strangely refreshed. #
• 14:40 Off to Sonny's. I'm ravening and I'm likely to eat only one meal today on my sleep cycle. #
• 15:52 Home, but increasing laconic drive to nothingness reaching dangerous levels! #
• 17:53 @jailawrites Welcome to con-space, once more! #
• 19:11 Mmm, zombies have been killed. There's a certain visceral pleasure in it. #
• 23:00 @jailawrites Comedy ... and Twitter! #
• 01:49 This is so goddamned wrong I'm inflicting it on you! ping.fm/1MQyZ #
• 02:35 I'm going to try that sleep thing, in a rare show of intelligence. Catch you good folk in 7hrs or so. #

• 21:42 About to kick off my set at the Oak on SL in 15min or so. DUOTONE! ping.fm/kz745 #
• 22:14 DUOTONE at The Gnarled Oak is go; Queensruche vs Queen, first up! ping.fm/HxTdp #
• 22:48 Annoying thing of the moment: Having two pre-recorded vox go missing on play. #
• 04:58 Bedtime for me. The snoozin' is not loosin'. #