November 24 2003 - He's after our beaver technology!
Two full weeks of uniterupted updates! How about that?

During the time I was away I picked up an unhealthy fetish with the now cancelled Nickelodeon show Invader Zim. I spent God knows how many hours downloading each and every episode from more or less worthless servers, perpetually fueled by the need for more Zimmy goodness. It's an addiction that has possessed me to download every released episode. several of the episodes that were never aired and even the pilot and trailer had to be mine. They just had to! So try - just try - and imagine my joy when I found out someone had picked it up for DVD release, despite being cancelled over two years ago by Nickelodeon executives who, I am sure, now make their living by turning tricks behind Taco Bells. What we're looking at is three DVD's loaded with delicious extras and a sweet special box to bind them together in a unity so holy it makes my nipples explode with delight. Click this sacred link for more information.

The Happy Tree Friends DVD's also look like something I won't be able to keep my fingers away from. I mean, how can I pass up the chance to watch tiny cartoon animals get mauled in the most horrid of ways? I simply cannot.

It seems that it's become costumary to plug the hell out of Penny-Arcade's Child's Play program. But it's like this with good reason. Buying toys and games for sick kids in Seattle is too good an idea to not love it to death. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm too broke to buy even my closest family christmas presents I'd surely donate something horrible and cheap - because that's the kind of rotten bastard I am. Anyway, I implore you to donate these guys a heart and a kidney's worth. They've already filled up a warehouse with Gamecubes and LEGO but there's no reason for them to not fill another one. The best thing about this though is that this is only the beginning. Who knows what this'll grow to next year? All I know is that a lot of kids will be collecting rubies with Link in 2004.

-CCP

November 24 2003 - Put my wisdom to good use
Today's comic is infact original MediumRare comic #100. Pretty gnarly, eh?

I'm not too big on the MMORPG thing. First off, not many of 'em make it to the Mac (Everquest, Shadowbane and World of Warcraftare the only a-list ones I know of) and secondly, monthly fees scare my wallet. But that doesn't mean that I'm too big a man to try out some of the smaller shareware MMO's out there. And so I did, together with some guys from #IMG...

Key Nine Online was the game, and let me tell you: It wasn't pretty. Seriously, this is one trainwreck of a game. The only interesting thing about it is that it's sidescrolling - that is in itself an interesting concept for a MMO. Just too bad that this means it's more a bad platform game than an RPG. You jump around, smack monsters that look like green penises with your fists and if you're lucky they drop yellow things that you can use to buy swords that break when you hit the red - seemingly invulnerable - penis like monsters enough.
There's one soundeffect. Read it, one. The animation is horrible (Worst. Walking loop. Ever.), all the characters look like the same anime wannabe stuff you'll find on 70% of the comics on the 'net and don't get me started on character creation.
Consider this a public service announcement: Unless you like being tortured to near death, avoid Key Nine Online at all cost.

Come back Friday for a new comic and a list of DVD's I cry about during the night because i don't own them yet.

-CCP