Long weekend!
Got to see Greg and Travis on friday night, introduced to Travis' new fat / prego girlfriend Megan, chased a little kid around the front lawn (we had no tocquitos, so there were no wizard duels), saw a nice house on Saturday morning, decided to put a bid on that house, viewed an art show (home made / found object musical instruments. Tony Smith's turtle shell guitars were awesome) at H&H, saw Soul Cannon at the Brass Monkey (EZ, Ryan, Matt, and the other 2 I don't know are always awesome, but more so because they played new stuff that night), poked Todd's boobs, pinched Micha's butt, signed a bid for the house Sunday morning, went to the Raven's game (3 point win, sloppy retards have no shot at winning it this year!), great seats on the 50, right at the front of the shady side of the upper deck -- mucho thanks to Zeke, went to soccer, got laid out like a tool, home, feel like crap, went to bed (finally).
Monday, September 24, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
27 on 9/27/07
9/27 day is coming up again. we'll see how well it stacks up to previous years, which included such things as Pinyata Robots, Hand made cowboy hats for Dunnys, and an all you can drink Jager party.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Race War on GP
Fun, if not slightly silly racial debate (sparked by a video game featuring black colleges only) on GP. Some good, some not so good comments here: http://gamepolitics.com/2007/09/15/philly-games-writer-bugged-by-racial-comments/
Friday, September 14, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
NBC fall previews
Watched three pilots from NBC's fall line up on demand cable last night. [spoiler alert]
Bionic woman is like Jake 2.0 meets BBC's Jekyl. The production values are decently high, the writing is hit or miss (generally unbelievable character responses, and poor pacing).
the Bionic woman is the actress from Jekyl. And she fights Kara Thrace from Battle Star Galactica (another Bionic woman). They aren't just machines though -- they seem to also be crazy 'evolved' creatures like Mister Hyde in Jekyl
Chuck was a decent mix of funny and action. It's their second Jake 2.0 rip off, and features an everyday joe (who works at a geek squad at a best buy) getting the entire NSA/CIA spy database downloaded into his head. The acting was better than bionic woman, and so was the writing. It also features Jane from Firefly as a NSA comando, who works at a best buy. The show will be pretty silly, but has its endeering aspects
Journeyman was the weirdest. It features the main character from Dog Soldiers and casts Kellerman from Homicide as his brother. The main character gets thrown back and forward in time, and tries to 'solve mysteries' each episode, while also trying to save his marrage... which is taking a pounding each time he 'blips' out. Good acting, good writing, nice 'heart' to the story, and probably the mot promice of the three shows.
the whole line up feels like they ripped a chunk out of the scifi channel. Bionic woman has 3 actors from Battle Star Galactica, (one was also on Firefly). Chuck has an actor from Firefly. Journeyman has the lead actor from Dog Soldiers (a scifi channel movie). The stories are all scifi too... from production values, to filming style, to actors.
Guess we'll have to wait and see if the public likes it or not
Bionic woman is like Jake 2.0 meets BBC's Jekyl. The production values are decently high, the writing is hit or miss (generally unbelievable character responses, and poor pacing).
the Bionic woman is the actress from Jekyl. And she fights Kara Thrace from Battle Star Galactica (another Bionic woman). They aren't just machines though -- they seem to also be crazy 'evolved' creatures like Mister Hyde in Jekyl
Chuck was a decent mix of funny and action. It's their second Jake 2.0 rip off, and features an everyday joe (who works at a geek squad at a best buy) getting the entire NSA/CIA spy database downloaded into his head. The acting was better than bionic woman, and so was the writing. It also features Jane from Firefly as a NSA comando, who works at a best buy. The show will be pretty silly, but has its endeering aspects
Journeyman was the weirdest. It features the main character from Dog Soldiers and casts Kellerman from Homicide as his brother. The main character gets thrown back and forward in time, and tries to 'solve mysteries' each episode, while also trying to save his marrage... which is taking a pounding each time he 'blips' out. Good acting, good writing, nice 'heart' to the story, and probably the mot promice of the three shows.
the whole line up feels like they ripped a chunk out of the scifi channel. Bionic woman has 3 actors from Battle Star Galactica, (one was also on Firefly). Chuck has an actor from Firefly. Journeyman has the lead actor from Dog Soldiers (a scifi channel movie). The stories are all scifi too... from production values, to filming style, to actors.
Guess we'll have to wait and see if the public likes it or not
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Getting up to speed in the slow lane...
I've been very 'meh' for a few days. More than a few days.
We've got three games working their way through development right now, which is good. Two of the games are pretty fun, which is also good. The website is coming along too, and the shopping cart error is now only happening like 10% of the time.
But I'm just not feeling the cat right now. Getting people to post/blog is a pain in the ass. Keeping the art moving forward isn't as bad, but it makes you hungry for faster progress. Talking to retailers and distributors - getting a lot of interest, but not usually at a price that makes any sense - fries the brain.
And i suppose the big thing right now is that we don't have a good lifestyle flow yet. Still haven't cracked the nut on getting to our clubs, getting the photos, and translating that to content for the website.
blegh
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Bit Boys
Been crazy swamped with the Robot Martini home website, and haven't updated the blog in a while. So here's a little bit from my desktop
I've been looking for something to give the site more identity and... well 'fun :)
I liked what i was getting with the Brikies, and in many ways their 3D nature makes them more flexible than the Bit Bots (working name), but something about their simplicity just feels right. The plan is to have them integrated into the user avatar system on the site... so depending on what your profile's race, alignment, gender and profession are, you would get a different BB.
I'm not super sold on the fem-design I've got here. I may want to tone the boobs down a bit (or at least offer that as an option). Some of the staff members will have unique avatars ( David Lovejoy's seen in the lower right ). Depending on Jery, we may be able to offer a number of character choices to our members -- maybe even different choices based on the member's "rank" (how many posts, comments, etc. the user has made).
like everyone else, I'm bummed about GTA4 slipping from the holiday docket (and my shares of Take2 dropping $1,500 in value). So here's a quick homage to Claude Speed of GTA3 (and a french soldier thrown in between for fun).
I've been looking for something to give the site more identity and... well 'fun :)I liked what i was getting with the Brikies, and in many ways their 3D nature makes them more flexible than the Bit Bots (working name), but something about their simplicity just feels right. The plan is to have them integrated into the user avatar system on the site... so depending on what your profile's race, alignment, gender and profession are, you would get a different BB.
I'm not super sold on the fem-design I've got here. I may want to tone the boobs down a bit (or at least offer that as an option). Some of the staff members will have unique avatars ( David Lovejoy's seen in the lower right ). Depending on Jery, we may be able to offer a number of character choices to our members -- maybe even different choices based on the member's "rank" (how many posts, comments, etc. the user has made).
like everyone else, I'm bummed about GTA4 slipping from the holiday docket (and my shares of Take2 dropping $1,500 in value). So here's a quick homage to Claude Speed of GTA3 (and a french soldier thrown in between for fun).
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