Sunday, June 27, 2010

Behold the AWESOME!!!!

So, for anyone who ISN'T a comic book person, or married to me, DC comics has been having this "Blackest Night" event in their story lines for a while now. Blackest Night deals with the Green Lantern facing off against what MIGHT me the apocalypse of the DC comic universe! Unless all the heroes can band together to defeat it! (spoilers: they do). But as part of the ad campaign for the story DC release plastic fun rings for each of the power ring corps shown in the book. I have been collecting them for a few months now, and my collection is complete. This is a picture of that awesome:

Sunday, June 20, 2010

You are FIRED! But you need to give us some overtime first.......

Ugh, wish I was kidding! Fat Rock here, with fun news. Seems Chubby Industries has had a rough patch of business, and as such has had to cut the hours of the production and manufacturing staff by 20%. Yes, twenty percent pay cut. But here's the kicker: On the weeks we are NOT on reduced hours, we have to work overtime to keep the schedule from getting behind. Yes, you heard me right. Furlough time.................but with overtime.

Damn.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Eve Online

Now, this is the stuff. Better then World of Warcraft. Better than Everquest. WAAAAAyYYYYYY better than that steamy pile that is City of Heroes. Eve Online is more complicated than all 3 of those games combined, and has a wider variety of roles and abilities. Like a big-ass diamond, the facets of Eve are limitless. The learning curve is steeper., but the fun is limitless.


Essentially, you're in space. The empty void of space. But the void is what you make it. There are hundreds of thousands of players, all working in this void, trying to make something. Individual players join corporations, groups of like minded players who use teamwork to accomplish their goals. Corporations can join alliances, which can consist of up to thousands of players. Alliances can band together into coalitions, informal treatieas and the like. The economic and diplomatic tools used in this game would even give Kissinger and Greenspan a run for their money. But don't take my word for it. try it out.