Least Ad Could Do

No, I'm not reconsidering putting up ads on the blog, at least in the current version. This upcoming rant is more aimed at Least I Could Do's ad nauseam tit and cleavage campaign. Now I never really found Least I Could Do all that astounding. I tried to read through and it seemed like every hackneyed dating horror story or misogynistic fantasy continually repeated in some sort of beat of incredible sameness that I eventually discovered in Looking For Group which caused me to drop it from the list (which I just remembered.) Now, the ads if you have not seen them look like this to the left. I take it that you have already glanced at it at least 5 times. I know I have since I put up the file two minutes ago. The problems comes from the misogynistic content, context and the fact that it is visually distracting which comes as a problem when the place where they seem to be buying ad space from is web comics, a heavily visual medium. Its like if you went to a concert and then another band was playing within earshot. Distracting, ruins the experience and can annoying for the band who is getting money off of them but can't ask them to stop.  The point I am getting at though is that the ads are going to far, aren't making me want to go back to LICD since its showing the same mentality it held when I stopped reading and it is detracting from the entire experience. I guess what I will say is if you get to pick your ads, turn down LICD's ads. Show them that tit based ads aren't going to fly on your site.

Webcomic reviews should be back next week.

Temporary Break

I got NetFlix and that is addictive as hell. Watching movies online and such. I've not been reading any webcomics but hopefully I can soon. Once I get my schedule in check. 

Back

I'm back at college now and I've been busy. Stuff on my plate for contests and projects. Everyone following probably heard about the KC Green interview which was almost a week ago. I'm currently busy with three projects but once I finish, I'll have time to read some new comics. Till then, go see Slumdog Millionaire. Also I'll post interview links here for when I do them.

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.

Just a Quick Rant

I am a Mac user. I've used PCs in the past and I just got tired of them getting bogged down over time. And that was with me keeping it in good shape, running diagnostics and such. The last new PC I had got a fatal virus and had to be reformatted after 3 months. Its gotten worse since and ever PC I've seen has done the same, unless you spend a large amount of cash keeping it clean and healthy. I decided I'd had enough and I'd go with Macs. As a casual gamer its fine since I rarely buy games, the last I bought was Penny Arcade Adventures Episodes 1 and 2 which I enjoyed. It was available for Macs and the download was nice and easy. And fast. And it didn't piss me off. Unlike Spore.
Now, I tried Spore and played for 4 hours in amazement the other day. Sure customization could be better and sure the PC it was on kept crashing but it entranced me none the less. Today I decided, "Hey, why not buy Spore? They have a discount on it." I clicked and purchased it. Then I saw after all this, they only allowed the PC version to be downloaded from the main store at the discount. What the hell EA? I have to pay full price on another site to get the Mac? I sent a complaint to the EA Support team asking to let me trade. I sent it a while ago but I really hate their support team.
My sister, the hellspawn and bane of my existence is a Sims addict. I'll admit I love playing the cruel god locking them in pools so they would drown and preforming other malicious acts of evil. Anyway, my sister recently received the Open for Business expansion pack. She complained about not being able to get it to run. Now, she is 14 or so now and she can't install a game. I decided that in the spirit of the holidays I would give it a look. She was worried about saving over her files so I assured her nothing was wrong and to not worry. The game finished installing and she goes to open it. It tells her to open Sims 2 Pets. I tell her to do it and nothing happens. I uninstall the game and then reinstall it. Same thing. I do this again to be sure everything non essential is off. It still doesn't work. I send an email to EA explaining my problem. They say they can't identify it. I reply asking what they need from me to solve the problem. No response. The day after leads to the weekend. Still nothing. Meanwhile my sister wanting to play clicks the normal Sims link. Not what the program says. The game opens up and everything is hunky dory. She starts a pretzel company or some crap I don't care about. EA still does not respond.
My hopes for this situation ending easily and with me thinking better of EA are very low. As are my thoughts of PC computers.
Just saying...

Webcomic reviews in a week.

I'm a Mac and I make blogs.

Update: Got my refund or at least they canceled the order. I picked it up from the Mac version of the store where they have it online after emailing about a registration error. Still, the game is downloading now which is sweet.