Saske 21 Is On The Way...

I searched around Blogger or whatever the hell this is called for any Sasuke (Ninja Warrior in the US) related blogs and other than the random outdated one where somebody lists it as their favorite show, there's nothing very informative about it on here. So, being a pretty big fan of the show and wanting to be someone to spread the goodness of Sasuke, I'm going to begin posting tidbits about the event on here leading up to the 21st tournament. Maybe I'll do a faux-live blog or something. We have DVR now, so the world is my oyster!

Anyway, I guess I should mention for anyone reading this that doesn't know about Sasuke what the heck it is. Basically in Japan 2 times a year (one in the spring & one in the fall) the Tokyo Broadcasting System runs an extremely challenging obstacle course. 100 people from all over the world compete in 4 grueling stages testing speed, endurance, and strength. Since the first tournament in September of 1997, only 2 men have completed the full course, Kazuhiko Akiyama (Sasuke 4) and Makoto Nagano (Sasuke 17). The US cable tv station G4 sends a couple people to compete in the tournament and in Sasuke 20 Levi Meeuwenberg (who was one of the people G4 sent) was the only person to make it to the 3rd stage. Anyway, if you want to know more than my bastardized summary of Sasuke provided, then head on over to the Wikipedia page about it here.

Hopefully more to come...

Batman vs. The Parking Garage

Haven't written on this thing for awhile, mostly because my girl and I went to Orlando for a week from July 2nd to the 9th. I had my video camera so once I figure out how to upload videos onto this thing, I'll put them on here.

Anyway, Thursday night we went to see The Dark Knight at a midnight showing. We got there an hour early and barely found seats together. We show up any later and Erica (my gf) and I aren't sitting together...which is very bad. I'm not going to bore everyone with a review because I can't do the movie justice, only to say that every good thing about it you've read is true even all the stuff about Ledger's performance deserving an Oscar. I had EXTREMELY high hopes going into the theater and all my expectations were more than exceeded. Definitely GO SEE IT!!! The only crazy thing that happened that night was that the theater we went to was in a shopping mall that had a big parking garage attached. When all 4 showings of the movie ended all the people got to their cars and left at one. This created a huge dilemma since there were only 2 people working the gates to get everyone out. Needless to say there were loads of white people with their panties in a bunch. By that point I was too tired to care and just wanted to go home. So, we sat in our car in this parking garage until it looked like we wouldn't be sitting in a line for hours, wasting gas. Needless to say, the movie ended at about 2:55am and we didn't get home til around 4:30. The thing is, the movie was so good I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Apples to Apples. A fun game. Unless...

Played the game Apples to Apples with some friends last night. Its a great game, with loads of hilarious possibilities depending on the group you're playing with. Now I shall attempt to explain the rules for anyone not familiar. There's 2 card colors, red & green. The red cards all have a different person, place, thing, or event on them (ex: Count Dracula, losing your job, leaf blowers.) The green cards all have a different descriptive word on them (ex: elitist, magical, classic.) To begin, everyone gets 7 red cards. Then for the first round a judge is selected. The judge picks a green card and reads it aloud. Then, everyone who isn't the judge picks one of the red cards in their hand that they think best goes with the read aloud green card. Then the judge collects every one's selected red cards. Then he/she reads those red cards out and selects which one goes best with the green card they had for that round. The winner gets that green card. First player to get X number of green cards (depending on the number of players) wins. Now why have I gone through the trouble of (poorly) describing the rules for this game? Well the thing about the RED cards is while there are mostly normal ones like the examples listed above, some of the red cards have certain "questionable" topics on them. These include: (And I'm NOT making this up)

5) Hitler
4) In a Coma
3) Challenger Explosion
2) AIDS
1) Hiroshima-1945

Now I'm not offended by this, in fact there were some hilarious combinations in the game with some of these red cards last night. But this post serves as a warning. If you're a Japanese AIDS patient who has a relative that's in a coma, or if you're Jewish and had a relative that was in the Challenger explosion...then this game ain't for you. I mean did they think there wouldn't be any awkwardness if a player was connected in some way to any of these? The thing is, as the night went on and these had all been revealed, we began speculating what other cards we wouldn't be the least bit surprised seeing. They included:

5) Rape
4) The KKK
3) The Holocaust
2) Child molesting
1) 9/11

And the thing is, there were like 4 unopened packs of red cards still in the box. So, there's a good chance at least ONE of the above was in there.Am I reading into this too much? Probably. Should all I be caring about is the fact that the game was unique and original and worth playing? Yes. Well, anyone else have a thought?

Diablo 3 announced!

Not sure if anyone interested in the Diablo games would be reading my blog, but for old school rpg fans like me this is like (insert universal Christmas-like holiday here) and the Super Bowl rolled into one. For all your geeky Diablo 3 info, including the trailer and gameplay footage, head over to the awesome gaming blog Kotaku.

First post

I'm going to be writing on this thing about anything from video games to sports to any movies I've just seen or if I think of something funny to post. Thats about it. More to come.