Wednesday, June 02, 2004
A very Me-centric post coming up.
Note about the Blogroll: If you keep your cursor over the link for a second, some of them have some comments by me that will pop up. Just in case you wanted my two cents about what you would maybe be about to click.
Things are good.
By things, I of course mean recent events in the Realm of Me, and also meaning stuff in general. I received a package from Amazon yesterday containing the Invader Zim Vol 1 and Samurai Jack Season 1 DVDs as well as Top Ten Book 2. This is significant mainly because of the cumulative ass-kicking-ness of the sum of each item. Invader Zim is easily one of the better cartoons that has been put on the airwaves, tragically short-lived as it was due to marketing towards the wrong crowd. Samurai Jack on the other hand, which I started watching for the first time yesterday, is just uber. This is easily one of the best cartoon series I have seen, and it is all because of style. Everything about it just oozes style. I mean, the first episode has a total of barely 8 minutes of dialogue! It is AWESOME!!!
Top Ten is a special case. For one, it is penned by the unimitable Alan Moore. For another, it is the first thing I thought of when I started playing City of Heroes. Basically the idea is that back just before World War 2, science-heroes and aliens and robots and other such types started cropping up, and as they grew in population, Neopolis was created. It's basically a giant city where all the said super-people and otherwise abnormal folk live. Given that a city filled to the brim with superheroes, aliens, mad scientists, gods, robots and trans-dimensional pan-galactic beings live would be nigh-impossible for a normal police force to keep the peace in, a deal was struck with another dimension called Grand Central to have a precinct set up. This is Precinct 10 aka Top Ten, and basically holds the protagonists of the comic. End result? One part traditional superhero comic, one part satire on said traditional superhero comic, one part NYPD Blue-esque drama on day-to-day cop life, and one part "Where's Waldo?". I toss that last one only because nearly every bloody panel in the series has some in-joke to other comics or cartoons, whether it's a neo-cubist painting of the Fantastic Four on Lt. Colby's wall, to a cameo of Astro Boy flying in the background of a panel, or a re-enactment of the Arrival of Galactus done by Atom-Cats and Ultra-Mice (mice and kitties with super-powers). Oh yes, I am much a fan of Top Ten.
Cool new stuff to play with aside, I am looking forward to a most eventful weekend. Seems a friend of my parents had a free VIA Rail ticket, so I get to go to Quebec for a couple of days! I leave Friday afternoon for Montreal, and then continue to Quebec City the next day. I haven't a clue what I will be doing while I'm there, other than wandering around being a tourist, but if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to shout them out at me. The ones I have received so far amount to checking out Crescent St. and/or St Catherines St., and also to wander around "old" Montreal in the morning. For Quebec City, wandering around the "old" area there, (particularly the Chateau Frontenac, which is always a staple of trips to QC,) and also the street entertainment on the boardwalk by the St. Laurent.
To put this in gaming terms, how should I best gain some solo XP in the Montreal and Quebec City zones? (It's not exactly like I can just go beat up MOBs or anything...)
¶ 12:30 p.m.
Note about the Blogroll: If you keep your cursor over the link for a second, some of them have some comments by me that will pop up. Just in case you wanted my two cents about what you would maybe be about to click.
Things are good.
By things, I of course mean recent events in the Realm of Me, and also meaning stuff in general. I received a package from Amazon yesterday containing the Invader Zim Vol 1 and Samurai Jack Season 1 DVDs as well as Top Ten Book 2. This is significant mainly because of the cumulative ass-kicking-ness of the sum of each item. Invader Zim is easily one of the better cartoons that has been put on the airwaves, tragically short-lived as it was due to marketing towards the wrong crowd. Samurai Jack on the other hand, which I started watching for the first time yesterday, is just uber. This is easily one of the best cartoon series I have seen, and it is all because of style. Everything about it just oozes style. I mean, the first episode has a total of barely 8 minutes of dialogue! It is AWESOME!!!
Top Ten is a special case. For one, it is penned by the unimitable Alan Moore. For another, it is the first thing I thought of when I started playing City of Heroes. Basically the idea is that back just before World War 2, science-heroes and aliens and robots and other such types started cropping up, and as they grew in population, Neopolis was created. It's basically a giant city where all the said super-people and otherwise abnormal folk live. Given that a city filled to the brim with superheroes, aliens, mad scientists, gods, robots and trans-dimensional pan-galactic beings live would be nigh-impossible for a normal police force to keep the peace in, a deal was struck with another dimension called Grand Central to have a precinct set up. This is Precinct 10 aka Top Ten, and basically holds the protagonists of the comic. End result? One part traditional superhero comic, one part satire on said traditional superhero comic, one part NYPD Blue-esque drama on day-to-day cop life, and one part "Where's Waldo?". I toss that last one only because nearly every bloody panel in the series has some in-joke to other comics or cartoons, whether it's a neo-cubist painting of the Fantastic Four on Lt. Colby's wall, to a cameo of Astro Boy flying in the background of a panel, or a re-enactment of the Arrival of Galactus done by Atom-Cats and Ultra-Mice (mice and kitties with super-powers). Oh yes, I am much a fan of Top Ten.
Cool new stuff to play with aside, I am looking forward to a most eventful weekend. Seems a friend of my parents had a free VIA Rail ticket, so I get to go to Quebec for a couple of days! I leave Friday afternoon for Montreal, and then continue to Quebec City the next day. I haven't a clue what I will be doing while I'm there, other than wandering around being a tourist, but if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to shout them out at me. The ones I have received so far amount to checking out Crescent St. and/or St Catherines St., and also to wander around "old" Montreal in the morning. For Quebec City, wandering around the "old" area there, (particularly the Chateau Frontenac, which is always a staple of trips to QC,) and also the street entertainment on the boardwalk by the St. Laurent.
To put this in gaming terms, how should I best gain some solo XP in the Montreal and Quebec City zones? (It's not exactly like I can just go beat up MOBs or anything...)
¶ 12:30 p.m.
