So Like, I Wuz Trolling Teh Telly-Veesion And..

The title sounds like the start of a bad joke. Thankfully, I don't think I'll have any bad jokes in this post. Well, at least not more bad jokes that I normally have per blog post.

ANYWAY, I was looking for something to watch on TV the other day and an ad caught my eye. It was for this product called the Body Action System, developed by MMA champion, Bas Rutten.

B.A.S. = Body Action System = Bas, Clever huh? Oh, what's that you say? Not really? Well then:



Now that we've gotten that out of the way, while searching for that picture, my lack of an attention span caused me to get distracted and look at some other pictures that came up in the Google Image search result. Here's another one:



Oh right, we were talking about something before, weren't we?

Anyway, yes, the Body Action System. It's like a training dummy that martial artists can use while training to practice throwing punches, kicks, headbutts, kamehamehas, spirit bombs etc. at.



The television ad claimed it was new and revolutionary. I beg to differ. Have you guys ever seen one of the following?



It's called a Wing Chun Dummy. Been around for like more than a century too, maybe two. It's used by practitioners of Wing Chun Gung Fu. For reference, wiki it or watch a movie called Yip Man. It's one of those Chinese gung fu movies. It's fairly recent too. Either way, here's a Youtube video promoting Bas' product, tell me what you think.



If you think anything like I do, you'd probably just make one of the wooden Wing Chun dummies and stick some pads on that sucker. Yes, make. Get some durable wood (no innuendo here guys, move along...*snicker* wood *snicker*) and try making it. It would be a LOT cheaper too, Bas' product is like $500 USD.

BUT, I'm not bashing it. It actually seems like a pretty good idea/product. If he could get the price tag down to like half of what it costs now, I definitely see a big market for it, not just for serious MMA fighters, but for people who want to get a bit of self defense practice in without having to punch their little brothers in the nose. *cough*

In the video, when Rutten called Slice, I almost had an "anal recalibration" moment. I was hoping that they were going to fight. You know, for ermm... promotional purposes. However, that didn't work out, so Kimbo got to take out all that pent up oppression that results from being a hairy, muscular, black guy out on that poor dummy. Ouch.

I like UFC and other MMA competitions. I don't really watch them often, but the matches I've watched, I like. Whether or not you believe the sport is rigged is unimportant, those guys have worked out and are buff, and it's damn entertaining to see them staggering around after a few good blows. Just saying.

お休みなさいよ！
Lord Robinson.

The Good News Cometh Out

If things work out, within 8 months or so, I should have my own individual website for the blog. I'm been brushing up on my PHP, HTML and AJAX skills to make it happen. The issue is really the time it would take to set up the site, and not exactly the cost (although finding a good cheap hosting package would be awesome).

What do you guys think about a comment system similar to that found on Kotaku and other Gawker Network sites? Minus the whole rating system, I'm actually quite fond of the whole thing. I just like it. Allowing users to add images and videos and stuff to their responses really makes things more interactive. Maybe I should add some Facebook connect functionality too, you know? Make things sooo Web 2.0.

I was on ZOMGAnime and I saw this interesting poll. It said Battle of the Classics: Rurouni Kenshin vs. Yu Yu Hakusho (and the third option was "I haven't seen either"). I loved Kenshin, but watched more Yu Yu Hakusho than Kenshin in my time. So, I picked the Hakusho option. At the time I voted, the percentage score was 45:30, in favour of Kenshin. 25% said they hadn't watched either (morons...XD)

Anyway, what do you all think?

Yu Yu Hakusho:



VERSUS

Rurouni Kenshin:



I'm going to a beach party this Saturday. All hail the power of friends with free passes!! WOOT!! This is a pretty good summer, probably one of the best I've ever had.

Oh yeah, I also finally found the theme song for my armies that I will use to take over the world. Here it is:



Minus smoking weed. That crap will be banned. I intend to make that plant extinct. It's nothing but problems. For reference, look at the Jamaican population.

Blah, enough ranting about crap.

I haven't beat Assassin's Creed 2 yet, but I have beat Dragon Age (DLC not included). I'm going to replay now with a different origin story. It's a really epic game as I said earlier. As it pertains to which ending I got, I took the cop out way, involving Morrigan. I don't want to spoil things for people who haven't beat it or even played it, so I won't say anymore.

This has been Gavin Robinson, here to say that you just wasted like 10 minutes of your life.

Tata For Now,
Lord Robinson.

I Steadfastly Refuse to Talk About The World Cup, But I Would Humbly Suggest That A Certain German Octopus Be Promptly Eaten

This is the unsightly bastard I refer to. He needs to fry and die!!

Actually, I'm just kidding; it doesn't matter. As long as Germany has fallen, I can tolerate Spain's victory. ¡Viva España!

In other news, I have now linked my formspring.me page to my blog, so feel free to seduce me, abuse me, harass me or confuse me as you see fit. Come on punks, make my day.

I slowed down in playing Dragon Age a bit, since I got Assassin's Creed 2. It's pretty good. I like Ezio. He has some really funny lines. I mean, the first glimpse I got of Ezio (apart from him being born), was him telling his rival about the "handling" that he gave his rival's sister. What's not to like about it?

As an interesting side note, I've noticed that lately, I've been laughing more at dialogue in games. I'm either getting dumber from playing all these games, or game dialogue is getting wittier. Probably both.



Anyway, just jawboning with the faithful audience of my blog. Back to Assassin's Creed 2 now. Or maybe some Dragon Age first. If I don't get too engrossed in them, I might have a special article for you tomorrow on something I found interesting. Reading The Sum of All Fears this morning brought the issue to my mind, so I did some research. More on that tomorrow. Or whenever...

FailOSaga is coming on great by the way. I have a rudimentary battle system. I'll also work on that...whenever.

Either way, my birthday is 5 days from now.

Peace,
Lord Robinson.

I Wanted To Blog About the World Cup and A Friend's Boyfriend Problems But Dragon Age Wouldn't Let Me...Seriously

Seriously, it wouldn't let me. It's too addictive. It didn't want me to goooo!! :(

Hm. Let's start with my friend's boyfriend problems. I'd really like someone to come with suggestions about how to advise a friend on how to get rid of a dangerous boyfriend. Really...I'd appreciate it, I can't seem to figure out a solution AND get it into her thick skull.

Now, onto 2 things that actually mean something: The FIFA World Cup and Dragon Age.

This world cup, I supported England, up until Germany kicked their asses anyway. So now, I have an ermm...this person I know called it a "grudge" against Germany. I'm now rooting for the Netherlands, since they beat Argentina. Well, maybe beat isn't the word. Rape seems more appropriate.

I never wanted Argentina, Brazil or Germany to come to anything in this World Cup. Two out of three isn't that bad I guess. Let's see if the Netherlands can be this year's champion.

NETHERLANDS MI TING DEH!



(Fun fact: The French flag can be obtained by turning the Netherlands' flag sideways. Compare. I learned that from the ship scene in a movie called Lord of War. The movie stars Nicholas Cage, who as regular readers know, is one of my favourite actors. Epic stuff, you should make an effort to watch it.)

Now, onto Dragon Age.

Dragon Age is just that addictive. So far, I've logged like 27 hours of gameplay. It is REALLY engrossing. The characters are well defined, the available choices you can take are diverse and the world is vibrant. It is EPIC!


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My character is a City Elf rogue. I play with him more like a warrior though. He has high dexterity and decent strength, but I should do some work on his cunning, although its not bad. He's been lugging around this massive greatsword I got in Ostagar close to the start of the game. So far, I'm like 17% done with the game. That's what you call a reliable weapon.

Moving on to my other characters.

My Allistair is a TANK. I'm amazed there's still any of him left after the number of times he's been burnt, sliced, frozen, poisoned, trapped by roots, knocked down etc. I always make sure to get him the best armour though, since I know he's going to be eating the largest slice of damage pie.

しかし、私のモッリガンがとくい。
Translation: However, my Morrigan is my point of pride.
I have transformed her from a simple witch, to sword-wielding, D-cup wearing, Amazonian princess of badassness. She wields a greatsword (slightly weaker than the one my player character brings around). She can actually wear armour almost as heavy as Allistair. She also does most of the killing in the party, usually finishing off enemies with that ice spell she comes with (I forgot the name).

The final member of the team I normally bring around is Wynne. I got her fairly recently, but she's already an indispensable addition to the team. Her revival spell has saved my party's bacon many times when Allistair or Darrian (my player character) has been incapacitated.

I've been playing the part of goody two shoes so far. What a friend of mine recently pointed out to me was that Dragon Age and Mass Effect are unusual for Bioware RPGs as you don't really have good and evil, but rather the choice of being an agreeable guy or a really rude guy. It's true. If you think about it, you can probably see the progression from KOTOR with the well defined Light/Dark sides, then Jade Empire with the ambiguous Open/Closed Fist Styles to Mass Effect and Dragon Age that lack any REAL good/evil system, but are more karmic. By karmic, I mean that you don't actually get rated on a scale for your amount of evil/good, but rather, in game events are determined by the manner which you respond to certain situations (for example: insult a man at an earlier stage of the game and he comes back to murder you close to the end).

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I think I've found a my new favourite chauvinist pig this morning. His name is Borgore. He's a dubstep artiste (although lots of Dubstep fans are insulted when people classify him as that). His lyrics are almost pornographic, definitely misogynistic. They never fail to make me laugh. Here's a quick selection of some of his songs:







Peace,
Lord Robinson