08 in Nerdy Review

I figure since the year is over and I've been too busy to read too many webcomics, I'll post a semi pointless list of the top and bottom things of the last year in the classic K-blog Tradition of writing the post at night when I should be sleeping.

Top Things of 2008 in No Real Order ®:

• The Option Key on my Macbook - Seriously, I love being able to make all the symbols with memorizing 4 button combos.
• 4th Edition Anticipation - The videos, the previews, the Penny Arcade teamup. Honestly if the product had lived up to my standards of not being an MMO tabletop game, 4th edition itself would be on the list.
• New Music - Current bands to follow that you might not are The Magic Bullets, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band and Akira the Don. Seeing the first two live and continuing a semi association with the third made this a good year for music.
• Interviews - Back before I deleted the old Majorca shows, we had a repoitre of semi-famous internet people including the unflappable KC Green, Scott Smith and Scott Hepting of Slackerz, Tyson Hesse of Boxer Hockey and ....more. Honestly I don't remember. Along with that, meeting Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse also top the list.
• Nerding - Honestly, 4th edition, a new WoW expansion, Dr Horrible and more make this a good year to be a nerd. While I don't play WoW anymore for a plethora of reason I note it due to my addiction demanding that I do.
• Zombie - Diary of the Dead, Left 4 Dead, Monroeville Mall and more. Zombies are back in the spotlight and with the WWZ movie aparently in the works, things look even brighter.
• Change - New politics after 8 years. Blah blah liberal junk.
• Webcomics - I've picked up good ones, dropped bad ones, I consider this a win.
• Superjail - Closest thing we have to a KC Green tv show so far.
• Movies - I'm seeing more and I'm liking what I am seeing.
  

Bottom Things of 2008 in No Particular Order ®:

• Wizards of the Coast - I dropped out of the Magic thing for various reasons leave me feeling jilted. My disappointment over 4th does little to assist. I'm leaning more towards indie games now. Next up, Serenity RPG!
• The Internet - Microcosm of humanity = we are a bunch of fuckers.
• Adult Swim Content - More crap than non crap as of now. I mean, the PJs? Not even Fox wanted them. Sure there is Superjail but most of the other stuff is horrible.
• Fast Zombies - Just.....no
• Sloth - Why can't it be a purple squishy blob....
• Vista - I am using a Mac now, aren't I?
• Anime/Manga - Overall, less creativity than the Saturday morning kids cartoon lineup. Some shining stars in it but overall, avoid, avoid, avoid.

I have a list of stuff to trudge through so that means some sort of review coming next week. Till then,
hope.

Make a Will Save

Normally, I like to keep politics out of what I do because most of the time, they just make things worse. In a recent moment full of lulz though, John McCain aid Michael Goldfarb in response to attacks on McCain's credibility in a story about him drawing a cross which apparently echoed something out of a classic story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich most likely.. In the blog he says "It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others." Now apparently that pulled a torrent of nerd rage from everybody including the President of Wizards of the Coast. The lolz continue when he apologizes stating "If my comments caused any harm or hurt to the hard working Americans who play Dungeons & Dragons, I apologize. This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American." If McCain and Palin (the apparent VP pick) want my vote, they need to distrubute loot more equally, give out cheaper healing spells and then stop being jerks and let me play that evil cleric. It's my right to choose if I want to bring unlife into this world and the government shouldn't have any say.
For now, unless something else amazing happens, I'm done.
-Koltreg