e: suckerthefly.ytmnd.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/peta-wishes-obama-hadnt-s_n_217162.html

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25654973-5001021,00.html

The four warriors arrive in the town of Coneria. A fighter, a stalwart bastion of might, goes before the adventuring group to thwart evil with steel and shield. A thief: nimble in his dexterity, though not as brawny with the blade; he can avoid harm and escape from battle to live another day. A black mage, privy to the attacking magical arts, destroying his foes at whim, but he himself is physically vulnerable due to his fragile stature. A white mage, a benevolent magician whose healing words can help her group stand against the trials ahead of them. (wait, hold on, was this just the 100th post? yay us)

Shod with equipment to avail them in their journey, they seek the king who enlists them to seek and destroy the evil Garland, a kidnapper of the princess. After whetting their fighting spirit, the party of adventurers journey north to the evil dwelling of their nemesis. Past delves and valleys, past the rocky way and the deepest forests, trudging through swamp and field: the enemy’s castle appears: Temple of Chaos. A hard battle fought, and outnumbering him, Garland is slain, freeing the princess for the kingdom’s sake. In his arrogance and pride, he falls, underestimating the four friends. Princess saved, day is won, everybody’s happy and after this daunting feat, the titles screen appears for The Final Fantasy.

I think this is our first video game review or post so bask, this is only the beginning. For 1987, this was a crazy change of pace for Nintendo Entertainment System owners. No more running, jumping and chucking fireballs. (sorry, Mario), but now with Final Fantasy, health is a numerical value and blighting villains comes by way of ’set and forget’ or in other words, tell your group your plan of attack and then watch them try their best at it on their own; less reflexes, more intellect; turn-based style. Gameplay here is a different animal: requires a little more planning than normal, but anyone can leave their Nintendo Entertainment System with a more adventurous attitude.

Graphics for 1987 were picturesque, though only 8-bit. Take a look yourself with some sweet-action screenshots…

They eventually re-released this game a few more times with better graphics, but we’re not reviewing those versions today. Pretty nifty pixels, uh?

Okay, how about some sound effects and music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7A3xpCStfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTx5V8hVsbk

If I recall correctly, there are 4 channels of music; and then set to stereo making it 8-bits total. I can so jam out to this stuff, thanks, Nobuo Uematsu.

Story? Probably no more riveting than this post, however, it leads the player well to the next objective. It also leaves plenty of room for one’s imagination. This also leads to re-playability. After going through a few other games, you’ll want to come back from sheer nostalgia alone, but hey, why not turn new magical moments into magical memories. Top that all off with a buddy. Doing anything with other people that you know can make anything more enjoyable. And just when you thought this fantasy was final… they made a sequel. /facepalm

Despite naturecrazies and outback animal-wrastlers, this queer animal doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It would go find more if it could but it’s too busy a swimmin’ and a scroungin’ for some grub.  This is where Zomgee comes in, we raise our (non-alchoholic) Fosters to you, Mr. Platypus. At this point you’re probably simply dumbfounded at this thing so lets break it down: it’s mammal, otter body and feet along with its beaver tail. Okay so far so good but where in the world does this beak/bill thing come from, whoa curve ball. Not to mention it lays external eggs, equipped! Also, the word on the street says they’ve got this spur thing near their hind feet that totally packs the only venom any mammal has today.

This is rather unruley, I mean, what gives.  This seems like something crazy commin’ out of Spore. Apparently this is the only surviving mammal of its family/genus so these things apparently wern’t as sparse as they once were. Even after all that they keep they’re eyes closed in water, too timid for debris so they use their enhanced sense of feeling using bill-mode by swiping it across the body of water’s floor. Despite their eccentric exterior, they’re fierce and rather offensive, especially to their own kind during mating season to fend off cheapskate or lowlife platypi guys, (i know one, he owes me 20 Australian dollars, the jerk).

more gratuitous wikipedia-ripped images.

and

Any Zomgee author gets a “monthly gimmy day” to not post, if they want. This is reciprocal but not “rolloverable” so you can’t save up 4 months worth of gimmydays and use them for a whole month (slacker). So use them wisely; (hint, feel free to use them last day of one month and first day of another if you need it like that).

Fun ways to justify stuff. Also this gave E-puka a great idea: how about ‘guest writers?’ I would be cool for that, make someone else write for me. I will say that I did write this post myself, but we might be seeing an occasional non-zomgee writer post someting for the sake of everyone’s sanity. This Zomgee stuff is “srs bznz.” It’s kinda like will smith in Men in Black: “I make this look good!”. (hopefully this fits into the new HT-Zomgeeulous plan)

Speaking of games, you’re playing a new one right now!

November 26th through 29th were horrifying days in Mumbai, India. The city was in disarray as terrorists had taken over and bombed trainstations and hotels. The center of conflict was in the Taj Mahal Hotel. Within, guests had barricaded themselves in rooms, the kitchen, and other hiding spots. Some communicated via cell phone calls, texts, and emails, but a major outlet was Twitter. Hostages sent tweets out to inform loved ones and co-workers that they were ok, if they were injured, places to stay away from, and supplies that their hospital needed. By now, most of the original tweets are so buried that they are hard to find.

Now take what I’ve just relayed about Mumbai, and imagine how twitter would have affected incidents and our responses to them..

Invasion of Poland/France – “Uh.. guys, German tanks just rolled past the border, run!”

Pearl Harbor – “Japanese planes just flew overhead.. strange.. Seem to be heading for Pearl Harbor”

D-Day – “wow”

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – “So.. the city next to me just blew up. I’m thinking we should take cover”

And thats just WW2. Its weird to think how history could have been drastically altered by one simple web application… Keep that in mind next time your thumbs tap away on your phone updating your status..

(Edit: I actually did have this finished last night, but forgot to push the Publish button.. doh!)

How not to end up in a ditch

Over the past few days I’ve been arguing with myself as to whether or not I should write a  welcome message or just jump right into the thick of things with a real post. It seemed somehow that introducing myself to people, who for the most part, already knew me was superfluous yet here I am doing exactly that. Perhaps one day when this blog has spanned out to readers we do not know that this will serve to them as their introduction to me. Hopefully that will not cause them to immediately turn away from the site.

I have been blogging since late 2003 and for better or worse everything that I have written is out there for all to read. I can most certainly look back and realize what a horrible writer I have been on some occasions and yet notice eloquence on others and let us all hope that throughout my endeavors on  Zomgee.com I will lean more toward the later.

What can you expect from me here that you didn’t get on lotrfanatic.com? Well for starters I’m going to update more often. This coupled with the fact that there are two other authors means regular updates for this site which can only be a good thing. What I will be updating about is another thing altogether. My old site was a hodge podge of anything and everything that I felt like writing. Here I will be sticking to some staple topics and hopefully not straying too far from any of them.

The main topic that I will discuss that the other two authors will not is politics and current events. Now don’t worry this doesn’t mean I’ll be shoving Hillary vs. Obama or Romney vs. Giuliani down your throats or anything but I will be giving commentary on events currently taking place and how they fit into the world we live in and more specifically how I think we should look at these events. Yes, they will be opinion pieces so please feel free to disagree with me. I love a good discussion and I love seeing the thoughts of different people with competing viewpoints. It makes for good reading.

Secondly I will probably spend a lot of time writing in such a way that could be considered ranting. I use to call my old site the “Rantings of a Lord of the Rings Fanatic” and that is because I will often notice a given topic that needs discussing and spend some time discussing it. I plan on continuing this trend although probably with less fervor than I have in the past.

Finally I will definitely spend some time writing movie reviews. Dan has mentioned that he would like to do this as well and I welcome that, however, we will both likely not agree on every film or watch every film so we can probably tag team this effort without any trouble. I personally want to make this an entire section of the site that users can go to, to see what we recommend, but we’ll see if and when that happens.

The long story short is that I write far more than I need to and Zomgee.com is here to stay. We look forward to you reading what we have to say and letting us know what you think.

When starting a new project, it isn’t always easy to see how well things will turn out right off the bat. Zomgee seems “so far so good,” but I’m starting to see it’s potential. Readers will find Zomgee as a one-stop-shop for several topics and interests and I feel excited to be a part of it all as a writer.

OhYoBlog will soon be, for the better time of it’s final days, an internet road sign leading right to Zomgee. Can’t say I’ll miss it as much as I’ll enjoy posting on Zomgee instead, but this is a foreseeable opportunity cost we can all manage with. Besides, everyone’s gotta love these little avatars.

A new road might lead to more fun than we bargained for, so we all can’t pass this up. It was fun enough designing the first Zomgee logo. One of the other authors proposed we use a computer circuit board idea: it fit. Who knows how long we’ll keep this logo, but it seems to work for now.

All in all, I’d say we’ve got a great chance of rolling Zomgee in the right direction! Props to the Zomgee krewe and thanks for visiting.

So by now you should have seen the sweet looking countdown letting you know when zomgee.com is going live. I’m actually writing this quite a few hours beforehand so that this is waiting for you when the doors to this place open. Let me explain what is going on here.

Tom, Pete, and I decided that instead of three separate blogs, we’d pull together and have a joint blog- tying together each of our unique reader base and shifting our focus from large, infrequent, and often personal posts to shorter (sometimes), more frequent (hopefully), and widely appealing articles. I, personally, have several awesome ideas for posts I want to get started on, but those shall come soon.

Believe me- the stuff we’re going to be spitting out for you guys is just about as diverse as you can imagine.. everything from cars, tech stuff, computers, and games to stuff that I can’t even speculate about right now. All this to say- you’re going to want to register- or at least subscribe.

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