So I got a few minutes to race through tiny land of the internet, catching up on all my spam from Poland, and a few other gems.

I came across the webcomic XKCD which is truly a geek comic. I love this strip, makes me almost wish I wasn’t ADD. But today’s comic struck such a chord that I had to come out of blarging retirement to share it with the world. (I haven’t retired from blogging…ADD remember?).

Laughed I thought I’d cry. Its so my future. Cue the Leiko light, full spot on Samantha Jane .
(Samantha is reclining on a couch, back of hand on forehead, other arm draped off the couch)

Samantha: [exhausted voice] DAD. I am a Actress, um so, like, you um don’t understand

[Fade lights, cue orchestra, house lights up]

Thank you thank you thank you ALL, YOU LOVE ME YOU REALLY LOVE ME!!!

[cough]

Thats what I can do in a minute.

Peace and Drama grease

Touch my Awesome button

This has to be the greatest line in any Jonathan Coulton song for me. It is all mixed up in the game that started me down the road to video game related insomnia.

Portal is a great game but its power is insignificant compared to the Force…opps I mean HALF LIFE.

Sure I played Doom and the other first person shooters but it was a save and walk away relationship. Half Life was different. The story was riveting, it was interactive, the folks talked to you. Half Life 2 took it further with amazing graphics and a very cohesive story. It is the record of 16 hours of playing a game straight that holds the most meaning for me. I played sections over and over to get them right (wait just one more time!). I played Half Life 2 in very long stretches but none touched the first.

It was always funny to go back and look at the original graphics from Half life and compare them to Half Life 2. Yes the first was interactive and it look better than most games at the time, but the leap between 1 and 2 was mind blowing.

In walk some, like minded people who thought the first story deserved a retelling with the new Source engine. This group is called BLACK MESA SOURCE. A true labor of love story. These folks have been working for a few years redoing the original story told in Half Life. Well the Trailer is out now and I must say it gave me shivers how good it looked.

I also think the followers of Half life should know about, if I haven’t mentioned this before, Freeman’s Mind. This is the thoughts of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a 27 year old physicist and neurotic individual.

I cant wait for Black mesa source to be released!

Peace and Head Crab Grease