Hello All,
This letter is to officially and honestly announce the Republic of Thoronia Artifacts Exhibit, which will be taking place on September 5th at the Skinny Squirrel Gallery (3047 Larimer St., Denver, Colorado). The exhibit will feature a variety of pieces from collector’s from around the world, with pieces raging in size and scope from booklets to armor, dolls to paintings. Officially licensed exhibitor’s include: Bryan Danknich, Mojiferous J. Colossus, Brandon Knapp and Brent Neustifter, with unofficial applicant’s still waiting approval. The Exhibit will help to found the History of Thoronia in the minds and souls of Denverite’s as well as continue the always running teachings of the Good King Thor. Please feel free to submit your applications for your admissions to this website, and be sure to bring your friends.
Is missing in action right now. President Bush is missing his math skills. How many people live in the United States? More than 300.
I’m not one to generally go about internet-Bush-bashing, but this was one of more funny clips from our president’s legacy, and sounds too much like something King Thor might have said. Perhaps that’s were he’s run off to than? Into Bush’s body? Only time will tell.
Alright, so things here in Thoronia have been a bit hectic — King Thor up and relocated himself and is now missing, I mean missing. We have no idea where he is, and if you spot him, please, please, please let us know. Take a picture, send us text messages, microblog, and, if you have the guts — go talk to him and tell him that we need him back to fix the dryer. Beware though, when he ran off he was a bit testy, and refused to eat his ice cream or take his vitamins.
Anyway, for the time being I’ll be pointing you to some of the stupidest things on the internet I’ve found. I would also like to point out that, although I think RSS is a lovely invention, it appears to be destroying a vast majority of my free time and my work time. I sit and read stupid fanboy shit all the time and what do I learn? Oh, that Nintendo’s lineup for the next year caters to the casual crowd and the casual crowd alone — way to indtroduce an innovative system and than abandon it. Whoops — a little off track. Fuck it, here are some links with self indulgent witty banter in-between.
- Dinosaur set loose in museum. Freaks the fuck out of one little kid while a mom extents her hand to let it sniff her. Did you freaking see Jurassic Park? Stay still! Stay still!
- Exoskeleton helps dude up and walk. I’m not really a fan of being handicapped, but, wait, that came out wrong. I’m not really interested in being handicapped, but if I could have an exoskeleton I’d be totaly into it. Maybe I can get one anyway.
- If you couldn’t figure it out based on the name, College Humor is usually a remarkably stupid site, filled with the dumbest bullshit internet film buff wannabe’s can produce — but this video depicting fonts as humans has a few moments that might cause a chuckle.
- Rush isn’t good at playing their own song on Rock Band. Of course, if you can play an instrument you usually aren’t very good at pretending to play the same instrument using simplified Simon Says-like commands.
Man, I thought there was more… apparently I just spent my time this last week reading boring crap that is only of interest to me. Great.
As I’ve finally stepped into the “next-generation” of video games, I have watched friends and foes become obsessed over Massive Multiplayer Online games. This is sort of disenfranchising for a number of reasons, primary the fact that it makes me worry that developers will simply begin relying on humans to do most of the work for them.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy playing a few games online, but of these, all are based on games that are single player package as well — Call of Duty 4, Metal Gear Online — these are simply kill ‘em up, shoot ‘em dead sort of randomness that we all know can be more relaxing after a hard day’s work then a spa. What worries me are things like World of Warcraft, Neopets, or whatever other MMO a developer is churning up these days. I use video games to escape reality, to relax, and to enjoy a good plot/gameplay/fun. I don’t want to meet people by doing it — to me video games are much like watching a movie, something I might enjoy doing with friends here and there, but not something I’d do to meet new ones.
The point here is that MMO’s step back the few leaps and bounds that video games have made over the last 25 years. When we finally start getting solid, well written scripts with good/mediocre voice acting, when we finally start getting involved with character development, when we finally start seeing a progression of “higher level” games, when indie developers are getting a chance to develop for console’s — we are being threated by the “human factor.” The human factor isn’t as good as a well written script — some 15-year old in Alburqueque does not having anything interesting to say to me, other than to perhaps call me a “fag,” “noob” tell me how he just “pwned” me or perhaps attack with a racial slur he assuredly doesn’t understand.
I can honestly say that I don’t want human interaction in video games. I don’t care about mic support, text support or any of the other hub-bub. I want well written, engaging video games that spend more than 20 minutes coming up with a plot, one that they might not have ripped off from a ’60s sci-fi pulp.
Really, all that King Thor cares about is this: Keep on making your MMO’s, but don’t think for a second that humans will ever replace a quality, interesting A.I. Take Metal Gear Solid for example — if those guards had any intelligence, if they responded like real human beings? The game wouldn’t be fun or funny.
