GuiltyDragon

Arena Teams

2009-02-14T10:38:00.003Z

World of Warcraft's 2009 Arena tournament is nearly here. Lucy, David and I are putting together a team. Now, we're not the best PvPers. Not by a long shot. Lucy hates PvP and David is a dirty stinking keyboard turner, but I think that 2 weeks of limitless PvP practise with Level 80 characters in all Epic gear will go a long way towards honing our combat skills. Hell, I'd just like to see how a Retadin plays.

Anyway, we're going in to this purely as a practise/have fun event. Not really to compete at all. It'll be cool if we manage to earn the Vanquisher title or the Armored Murloc pet, but that'll just be icing on the cake. We're calling ourselves "The Fail Train", so I think that will give some precedent as to our expected performance.

Last one, I promise.

2009-02-12T07:22:00.002Z

Another Blink-182 post I'm afriad. Check out these photos from the history of the band, it's cool to see not just how the band have changed over the last few years, but also how their image has changed sinse the early nineties. Remember when Tom had blonde hair? No, me neither.

OPB

2009-02-11T07:45:00.002Z

Check out Mark Hoppus' blog at www.mynameismark.com. It's been dormant for ages, but sinse the band got back together, there's been a ton of posts with some really cool images.

They gave me a bit of my childhood back

2009-02-09T13:36:00.003Z

If you haven't already seen Blink-182 are back together. This is the best news I've had all year (yeah, okay, it's only February). I can't wait to see their new stuff, although I was also looking forward to +44 putting out a new album. I can easily sacrifice something like that for a chance at new Blink material though. I imagine it will be a while before we see anything come out of this, however.

Review Two

2008-12-11T11:30:00.002Z

Check out my second review for Boomtown here. Taking on Lich King for a review was a large task and, to be honest, 800 words is not enough. There is just so much damn content there. Still, I think it went okay. I want to up the amount of critical writing I'm doing. I think I need more practise. I guess reading more of the same kind of stuff would help as well.

Back again

2008-11-26T16:52:00.001Z

I guess it has been a while hasn't it? A lot has happened in the past few months between posts. I've gotten myself into a new flat, my XBOX broke again and needed to be repaired, I'm working on my second review for a video game and my World of Warcraft account got hacked.

I'm living with my girlfriend in Caversham now. It's a really nice place to live and the walk to work every day is a plesent one. It's a pretty spacious place to live if you can deal with low celings and so far I have managed to find a hidden corner or shelf-top to accomodate for all of my burgeoning computer hardware and console odds and ends. We're now nicely settled and things are going well.

Christmas is fast approaching as well. It'll spell the end of a pretty eventful year.

The review is up

2008-07-28T10:11:00.003+01:00

Just as the title suggests, my first review has been posted up on Boomtown. Check it out and let me know what you think. It feels kind of wierd to have something I've written appear on a website that I've been reading for years now. Right now I want as many people to read this article as possible and hand me reams of scathing criticism. I figure that would be the best way to speed my drink fuelled decent into hack-journalism.

As for the absense of posts for the last week or so, I have been on a family holiday in France. I won't go into much detail, as recounting tails of such ventures are usually only entertaining for those individuals that attended. As such, you are unlikely to be interested unless you have the surname "Matthewson" and even then, your previous attendance is not guaranteed.

Oh, and about the unfortunate demise of my XBOX. I managed to persude it to "run away from the light" (the light beeing approxamately three-quaters of a ring in shape and glowing red) with the help of a towl. Anyone familiar with Douglas Adams may have a smirk on their face right now. Yes, they really are that useful.

It is a sad day

2008-07-13T18:07:00.001+01:00

Noooooooooooo!

Possibly the coolest shirts ever made

2008-07-12T23:15:00.002+01:00

Followed a facebook advertising link today. I usually never do this, but this one had the word "Neuromancer" at the top. There are very few words that will make me click an annonymous hyperlink without hesitation, but "Neuromancer" has to be up there with "World of Warcraft" "Simon Peg" and "Dog porn" in that respect.

So, this link took me to a flash website. Not promising. I usually hate flash website, but the aforementioned Gibson referance had piqued my interest. On this site in question were hosted some of the most awesome t-shirt designes I have ever seen. These things are majestic, and anyone who has read the books to which they are a referance too should really appriciate them.

Check out http://www.the-affair.com/ to see what I mean.

Webcomics

2008-07-10T09:55:00.002+01:00

Recently I ordered a ton of stuff from the Penny Arcade store. I went there for shirts and left with all 5 of their published books. I recieved my order pretty quickly (I better damn well have done after forking out $50 for international shipping) and I've spent the past few days looking through the early manifestations of PA.

It's surprising when you realise how relevant it all is.

I mean, when you have a hobby which is as progressive and fast moving as gaming, where games that were released 3 to 6 months ago are dated and usually not work picking up, you'd expect the culture that surrounds it to have the same kind of product redundancy. It was really nice to see what my kind were talking about and thinking nearly 10 years ago, and I was still able to get the jokes and relate to it all.

Also, their shirts are pretty damn funny.

World of Warcraft guild

2008-07-07T17:43:00.003+01:00

Just a quick one.

I've created a guild website for my WoW guild that I'm heading at the moment. We arn't very big right now, but I figured it would be good to have a base of operations on the webberblags. Check it out here.

If by chance you are reading this and have an Alliance character on the EU server Sporeggar, drop me a line. We could use some new members.

Retro

2008-07-03T10:43:00.003+01:00

One of the highlights of visiting the Science Museum in London on Sunday was seeing a small-ish cabinet stuffed with retro computer hardware. Some of this stuff I remember my dad bringing home from work occasionally. It's a real nostalgia trip.

Pretty cool, right?

Reviewing is a bitch

2008-07-02T10:26:00.002+01:00

So, I'm currently playing through Overlord for the PS3 for review. This is the first time I've expressly played through a game for the purpose of reviewing it. It actually changes the way I feel when I'm playing through the game. I catch myself thinking "Is this fun? Am I having fun? What did that guy say? Was what he said funny? How is the voice acting?" It's harder to relax and just cruise through what I'm playing.

Still, Overlord is pretty fun. I'll post a link to my review when I get it published. It's nice to do something semi-creative like this.

Possibly the best bar ever

2008-06-27T23:38:00.002+01:00

This is me, lucy and jess in The Intrepid Fox. A metal bar near Soho. It is, without doubt, the best bar. EVER.

Alternative internet names

2008-06-27T14:19:00.001+01:00

Wabdywobs
Nebberwets
Intertubes
Interwebbernettertubertubewebs
Netterblag

That is all...

Rock band kills rock bands

2008-06-27T09:00:00.002+01:00

When I started up in my band (about 7 years ago now) we did it because we wanted to play gigs and generally rock out on stage infront of a horde of screaming fans. We wanted to emulate bands that we liked at the time (hell, most of our early songs were covers). It was this that galvanised us into picking up instruments and learning to play them.

I was in HMV a week or so back when I saw they had setup Rock Band on their XBOX 360 demo pod and some chav kids were dicking around on it. When they had finished I took up the drumsticks and promptly hammered out a 98% score on Danny Califonia. When I got up and looked round, there must have been a crowd of 20 people watching me play. I had almost the same feeling I get when I used to play gigs. Infact, beeing able to play toy drums may carry more kudos than actually playing the instrument it was based off.

I can seriously see kids picking up these games as an alternative to picking up a real guitar or drum set.

I haven't seen any news articles linking the sales of Rock Band/Guitar Hero with the sales of entry level musical instruments, but it would be interesting if the popularity of the former reduced the sales of the latter. If I find anything confirming this, I'll post it here.

The king of burgers

2008-06-26T15:51:00.001+01:00

Witness it's perfection. Damn this thing is tasty.

A blag

2008-06-26T10:18:00.001+01:00

I has one.

Although I'm really bad at maintaining stuff like this. I'll have to remember to, you know, check it. Update it. It's all a big hassle really.

Ah well, going to London this weekend. Can't wait to see Camden market again. It's been too long. Gonna hit up Soho and Chinatown aswell. Will take many pictures.