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“A headful of mad!”

These are the days of doom.

Specifically, Doom 3.

But cast your mind back to the days when you played the first game in the series. Did you ever wonder if the experience could have been improved with more words? Someone wondered that and wrote a comic based on the game.

So what deep thoughts were going through your avatar’s head as he took on the demonic hordes of hell? An excerpt:

Who’s a man and a half? I’m a man and a half! Berserker packin’ man and a half! There’s nothing wrong with you I can’t fix … with my hands! Dynamite! I’m cookin’ with gas! I’ve gotta handful of vertebrae and a headful of mad! Yeah, that’s your spinal cord, baby! Dig it! Who’s the man? I’m the man! I’m a bad man! How bad? Real bad! I’m a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness! Don’t need a gun … guns are for wusses!

It gets worse. How worse? Real worse. It’s a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness.

(Link obtained from memepool.)

Posted in Comics, Games.

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By Gobi – Tuesday, August 3, 2004

August

August

Xevoz Sledge Trooper.

Posted in Pix, Toys, Xevoz.

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By Gobi – Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Dark Army

Japanese toy reviewer momodani has a review of Dark Army, the limited edition mail-order Microman figure by Hot Dog Press. He’s unimpressed by the designer graffiti scribbled all over the figure but I found one message particularly amusing.

Posted in Toys.

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By Gobi – Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Persistence

Prof. Timothy Burke:

MMOGs can never be virtual worlds until they abandon the character as the primary unit of persistence. To be virtual worlds, they have to make the gameworld itself the major unit of persistence.

This is the dream of many MMOG players: they beg for gameworlds in which their actions matter, in which there are events of consequence.

(Link obtained from Terra Nova.)

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By Gobi – Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Smokin’

Some interesting statistics about smoking in Malaysia:

According to the Ministry of Health, in 2003, it was estimated that there are 5 million smokers in Malaysia (22 % of the population). Smoking is also believed to be a factor that caused 25 % of the non-accident deaths in Malaysia. It is also attributed as a contributing factor in eroding one’s health such as cardiovascular diseases, stroke, cancers and other lung-related diseases. The apparent adult per capita consumption of cigarettes in Malaysia has increased by 57% from 1970 to 1985 and by another 69 % between 1985 and 2000. The trend is expected to continue.

The Government has allocated RM 20 million a year on anti-smoking campaigns.

Meanwhile our Royal Malaysian Customs have got their own concerns. From an ad in The Star today (page 51, fact fans):

Smoking ad

Here’s a close-up of the message:

Smoking ad close-up

So the government stance seems to be: Buy cigarettes but don’t smoke.

You want more absurdity? The Malaysian smoking statistics I quoted above were taken from a speech at the launch of an anti-smoking campaign. The absurd part? The campaign was launched in collaboration with two cigarette manufacturers. Cigarette manufacturers against smoking. What next? Hookers for celibacy?

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By Gobi – Tuesday, August 3, 2004