I got the DC Super Heroes: the Filmation Adventures DVD set on August 15th of the year 2008. I haven’t seen some of these cartoons since I was a little young’un in the mid 1970’s. These cartoons are fun from pillar to post and I was surprised by a few things in the set. For one, a very famous DC Comics hero just blatantly kills somebody and says what amounts to, “Well, so much for that. Let’s bounce.” The best part is that I have friends who aren’t uppity about comics and cartoons so we could just watch some of the segments for the craziness that they are instead of stroking our goatees and claiming every 3 minutes that we’re watching them “ironically” (also known as goat-stroking) or some such crap. Besides, I’m the only one with a goatee and one of the people there was female. BUT STILL. This will replace the ones I taped from that DC mish-mash show that aired USA Cartoon Express and Cartoon Network years ago. I have an unfinished post all about this set and I’ll try to have it finished soon.

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From Game With A Brain:
25 reasons gamers annoy non-gamers

As a sad, sad shell of a man that has spent the last 8 years working on a old-school gaming site and draws fan art of characters that really just look like a mess of pixels, I still agree with most of those. Number 8 is just a truth that most people don’t want to accept.

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I keep talking about secret projects that I do on the side if all the random stuff that I do regularly. One project isn’t as much a project as it is a skill that I want to develop. I’m getting better at it and I’ll have something to show off in a few weeks. For now, here’s the only so-called clue you get:

Not that anybody will really try to guess, but I have nothing better to do. No, I didn’t notice how creepy that looks until I posted a larger version of it.

Damn, I’m tired. Ever since I got the NewOld Computer, a lot of my free time has gone towards trying to get it up to code or trying to cook up content for ScrollBoss’ 8th Anniversary update. Most of the work was behind-the-scenes stuff that nobody sees and couldn’t give two poots about. That’s why I’m going to tell you about them right now. Just kiddin’. Instead, here’s my Top Five List of things that I wish that I didn’t have to do for the update:

5.) Update at least 70 PHP pages with new side menu INCLUDES knowing damn well I’ll have to go back and do the same for the headers that I didn’t have time to redesign thanks to item number 4.
4.) Have to wait until I could access the old Hard Drive’s version of ScrollBoss that had a lot of non-uploaded things. I still don’t have a lot of programs working yet including Beats of Rage.
3.) Make an entire font in vector only to accidentally delete it when sorting data between the two drives. Yes, I’m talking about the font in this earlier post. Luckily, the new version that I started looks a bit better as the letter A I used for the banner of the Game Index page easily beats the first one I did.
2.) Spend a ridiculous amount of time working on graphics that didn’t have to used:

1.) Continue to not show over 20 sprite edits that are far better than the latest ones I added to the site. By now, I know that showing them before they debut in the projects I made them for will mean that someone will shoehorn them into their own fan game in the most fuctarded way imaginable. I don’t need to see Blue Be, er, any secret sprites showing up in another hentai M.U.G.E.N. bonus stage.

… and some firecrackers:

Okay, it’s the song Firecracker (with the Computer Games Intro) by Yellow Magic Orchestra. Much respect to Omanchin100 for uploading that video.

So let’s end this post on a bright note. Harsh, but so was he. Happy Fourth of July, everybody!

That USB Hard Drive enclosure that I ordered last week still isn’t here so I can’t finish some of the ScrollBoss’ 8th Anniversary projects. Instead of whining about it, I’ve burnt that anger by working on the long-overdue vector ScrollBoss letter set. Since I couldn’t find the backup CD with the old vector logo on it, I started over with the vector logo of a ScrollBoss section that I’m saving as a surprise. Right now, I have A-J, L-P, R-W and 6. I don’t know how to turn it into an actual font to use in a program, but it’ll be very handy for future projects.

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People around here were, as the young’uns would say, getting their fool on before the holiday even started. Lots of vehicles almost hit other vehicles or people. There was a lot of loud yelling from one street over followed by the appropriate amount of police sirens to answer said hollerin’. If that was just the demo, I can’t wait to see the full release version of all-out dumbassery. By “see” I mean that I’m staying in the crib. Hell, it was barely June when kids (or kid-like grown folks) were dropping smoke bombs at cars from the overpass that’s a few blocks from here.

To celebrate the return of Spring, here’s my favorite song about the season:

Today is my mother’s birthday. My self-appointed mission on her birthday is to shorten the list of movies and music that she’s always wanted bit-by-bit each year. Some were easy to find like The Sentinel, a horror flick that she loved but hadn’t seen since 198-something. The hardest to track down was a CD of “Odori” by Hiroshima. She had the LP and would play it a lot back when I was in the 4th grade (which is why I like the group a lot myself).

I was walking around K-Mart just looking for anything in the DVD section. I figured I could at least find some stuff in the el Cheapo section. Right when I was about to give up, I was floored by the luckiest find I’ve had in a long while: a DVD set with Creepshow, Cat’s Eye, Dreamcatcher and Delores Clairborne. See, my mother’s a horror movie fan was cool enough not to just let me watch horror movies, but she watched them along with me the same way that my late uncle Jackie would do when she was a young’un. Before the VCR was in the price range of everyday people, we’d watch horror flicks on local shows like “Houlihan and Big Chuck”, “Superhost” and more. But for the full meal deal, it was all about watching late-night HBO horror and two of our favorites were Creepshow and Cat’s Eye. She loves Creepshow so much that I used a screenshot from it for a Mother’s Day card that I made for her a few years back. Seriously. So to see those two movies in the same pack out of sheer luck, well, that was an instant buy. She was happy to see the gift and plans to save watching them. It’s fitting because she was also given a cake from work and was saying “Where’s my cake?” like the guy from Creepshow. So if you’re wondering part of why I’m weird, that’s it right here.

I just noticed that she also shares her birthday with voice actress Janet Waldo and civil rights figure Rosa Parks.

Back on Christmas day I was groovin’ off my Christmas playlist which, by a law that I made up, must always start with This Christmas by Donny Hathaway. Shake a hand, shake a hand, y’all. Other joints include Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC, What Child is this by Vanessa Williams (not just for her but for that cool intro), Kurtis Blow’s Christmas Rappin’ and multiple James Brown seasonal gems. The James Brown songs make my eyes a bit misty since he passed on Christmas day a few years ago. Not “Soulful Christmas” because you CAN’T feel bad listening to that. But “Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto”? It hits even harder now.

So there’s a part near the end of the song that I couldn’t figure out. He says “Tell ‘em **unidentified** told you so” but I couldn’t figure out what the name is. Don’t ask why I’m just noticing this after all these years. Whatever it is, the name definitely isn’t James Brown. I decided to hit the lyric sites to see what they say. Not only did they claim that he said “James Brown” there but they don’t even have the obvious parts of the song right. Unless I have some alternate version of the song, these lyric sites have messed the song up. Many seem to copy and paste the same mistakes over again. Here’s a few:

“Pitch up your reindeer”
… Naw. I’m betting that’s “Hitch up your reindeer” and that James Brown didn’t tell Santa to throw an entire reindeer at a baseball player.

“Leave a toy for Johnny. Leave a dog for Mary.”
It sounds like “Leave a dawl for Mary.” If you listen closely, it sounds like there’s an “ll” at the end.

“You know that I know that you will see”
It’s “You know that I know WHAT you will see.” It’s not even hard to tell that he says that.

“And every stockings you buy,
The kids are gonna love you.

So, pick up a stocking you find.”
**rubs eyes** For one thing, he says “Fill every stocking you find.” I can tell that he’s saying that even through my crappy speakers. And the way that second line should go is “The kids are gonna love you so.” He doesn’t pause before saying “so” and a long pause after it. That means the period is after so, not before it. Not many people say “Love you so” in music these days, so I can understand the mistake… a bit.

There’s a few other times that I’ve noticed fubared lyrics on these sites. Some rap song made a reference to Alvin Ailey and whoever posted the lyrics just had some weird jibberish where Ailey’s name should have been. I wonder if there’s a really good lyric site out there that isn’t completely laced-up with the dumbs.

First it was the inkless printer. About 2 weeks ago I decided to roll El Cheapo style and try a ink refill kit for $15. After using the mini-hand drill included with the kit to hand carve a hole into the top of the ink cart, I find out that now the paper now has a hard time moving through it. So that $15 was for nothing… but at least I didn’t pay full price for a new ink cart. I barely even used the damn printer except to print some Lego torso stickers, the reassembled layout sketch for this pic and some coupons.

Last week was when my mouse, the USB-to-oldschoolian mouse connector or the computer itself starting bugging out. It jumps all over the place and sometimes tries to click on everything while scooting across the screen at the speed of light. Other times just the cursor will freeze while everything else works with a few rare moments of the computer freezing up. I tried using another optical mouse I had and it did the same thing. I should dig up that old non-optical/non-USB to test if that’s what’s up. On top of that, my old digital camera just figured out how to Instant Hell Murder a fresh pack of batteries in less than 24 hours without even being on. What a Greedo Smurf.

I love how all this happens after I do this big site upgrade and get excited to make new content for it. It’s just cold, man. So don’t expect any full-color artwork for a while. You know… for anyone that actually looks forward to anything on that site.

**crickets chirping**

It was a tough choice between the Rey Mysterio - the Biggest Little Man set and the entire Filmation series of Aquaman, but Rey won out in this case. The Cruiserweight division was one the main reasons I watched WCW Monday Nitro and Rey Mysterio Jr. always pulled off some insane move that blew my mind. Those matches were my introduction to the Lucha Libre style of wrestling and I’ve dug it ever since. I haven’t watched anything from the set yet because I’m saving it all for Sunday. I’m already hyped up for it because reading the match listing reveals matches vs. Dean Malenko, Juventud Guerrera, Juvi’s dad Fuerza, Ultimate Dragon/Ultimo Dragon, Psicosis, Jushin Thunder Liger, Super Calo and Blitzkreig. Some of my favorite matches in wrestling had Rey vs. Malenko and Rey vs. Ultimate Dragon, but I’m dying to see that match with Blitzkreig. I’m a bit disappointed that there’s only one 6-man tag match, but I’m just glad that this set has what it has. Of course, I’m saddened about the lack of La Parka but maybe he’ll do a run-in on one of these matches. Still, three discs of Rey doing his thing is well worth $20 and I hope sales on this can lead to some later releases with more Cruiserweight action.

When I got this DVD set at Wal-Mart, it was bundled with a DVD preview of the latest Smackdown vs. Raw game that’s about to drop soon. While I’m looking forward to getting SvR2008 one day, Fire Pro Wrestling Returns will be my next wrestling game purchase. I don’t have any of the fancy new gen machines, so I’ll hold off on SvR2008 until I get one. I’ve only played the GBA version of Fire Pro, but I immediately got into the depth of it and I’ve heard the PS2 version ups the ante much, much more. The two-dimensional graphics don’t put me off at all and video that I’ve seen of it shows that it’s just as or maybe even more fluid than the current 3-D wrestling games. Plus, the chance to customize everything from wrestlers (and you can make HUNDREDS), factions, tag teams, rings (even draw your own logos), and even referees is too insane to pass up. Even better: it’s less that $20. Aw yeah.