Wings Over the Pyre - April 28th, 2006

02:07 am - Welcome Us, Damnit!

You had best welcome your new squid overlords, you sorry bastards, or I will personally see to you sucking the ol' heat ray!

Larry Knox created a bizzare and creepy War of the Worlds photoshoot using a squid as the main prop. The photo is for the cover a reprint of H.G. Well’s famous novel. Glad to see that Larry is doing his part to welcome our squid overlords.

via Boing Boing

A ten tentacle salute to raincoaster and Rick Abruzzo for the tip!

photo credit: Larry Knox

Current Mood: geeky

05:32 am - Car Assault Wars Auto Double-Zeta

Yes, its more Capes geekery. Of course its more Capes geekery.

I've been playing a fair amount of Auto Assault lately. Unlike World of Warcraft, you really don't have to be on a few hours to complete a couple missions; you can generally do some decent farming or run a couple missions in an hour, which is part of why I appreciate it so. I can pop on, go butcher some Pikes or Scavs, ram head-on into vehicles and crazy huge monsters to watch their ruined, burning forms go hurtling through the air, and roll on with a big ol' smile.

But AA wasn't the first game to involve putting on the armour of Mad Max, arming up with your railgun, and heading out into the wasteland. Car Wars burned along the highways of North America long ago, and Autoduel Quarterly was one of our favourite reads. We were slaves to the wheel, strapped in and burning hard with nitro injectors and crazy-huge arenas full of jumps and deadly traps, which we bump-and-jumped around and over while blazing away with machinegun fire and flames, missiles and plasma arrays. Or we were on the highways and by-ways of a dead and mutated America, picking up resources from bombed-out cities for our Arks and subterranean bases, fighting off muties and worse in the ruins.

Well, Hell, how could I get so wound up over such a concept without translating it into the goodness of Capes? But why do it the usual way?

Car Assault Wars Auto Double-Zeta takes the Capes mechanics and leverages the click-and-lock system to let players jump in, throw together a vehicle, then hit the arena or the highway, looking for a good time, and more than a little carnage.

( Car Assault Wars Auto Double-Zeta Rules )

This has been your free Capes mini-game broadcast for the week.

Current Mood: creative

09:35 pm - The Roots of Fanfic

I'm strangely amused at the implications on various levels here.

Current Mood: amused