The Sudden Curve

Diablo ~ the game

I've been building a computer lately, and that reminds me that my favorite game of all time is still the original DIABLO.  Sure hardcore gamers will sneer because the CG is primitive by todays standards.  But when Blizzard came out with it - last century- it was the all the rage.  And, besides, DIABLO plays great on a Win98 laptop and the advanced DIABLO 2 with expansion packs is not only visually stunning it plays great on the worst solid state onboard video on the cheapest XP eMachines.

If you've never played a computer video game, but you've always wanted to find yourself in the middle of a Robert E Howard story fighting Ray Harryhausen monsters and ultimate evil - then you should give it a try.  But start with the original DIABLO because there is nothing like it, and play it at night, in the dark ... because it will scare the hell out of you.

posted by Tom Novak, who just bought property near Tristram... cheap!

Update ~ from november 2005

Green Plastic Army Men :: The Games

Well looky here, it's the twenty-first century version of Green Plastic Army Men that you can play on your computer.

You know, when I was a kid, we made green plastic multi-headed and limbed zombies by cutting up green plastic army men with razor blades and then remelting the parts together in unusual arrangements.  Then we had wars between them and the army men  and ... Hey, STOP LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY!!! This was just good clean imaginative adolescent behavior.  It's not like we were pulling wings off of flies or anything.

posted by Tom Novak, who's Green Army Men were equipped with lighter fluid flame-throwers and bottle-rocket launchers.

Green Plastic Army Men

When I was a kid Green Plastic Army Men were sold in bagfuls. Lots of time you could buy them out of the backs of comic books -- entire sets of American soldiers (who were always the green ones), enemy soldiers (can't remember the colors), tanks, planes, ships, who knows what else.

You could get all kinds of soldiers -- Cowboys and Indians, Civil War soldiers (oops, I mean the War Between the States, oops, I mean the War of Northern Aggression ), Roman centurions, spacemen, knights, and probably others I can't remember.

They all afforded hours of pleasure, until I melted all of them in a fiery conflagration.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who found the best battles were Green Army Men vs. dinosaurs.

Armed & Dangerous Babe :: Karima Adebibe

Can you believe it? ANOTHER Lara Croft body double babe from the Tomb Raider videogames ! Don't ya love it?

Posted by Wally Conger, who'd be intimidated by all these Lara Croft clones, if he weren't so delighted.

What I got for Christmas ~ The Circle of Death!

That's right - a Wolf Claw II first person shooter gaming keyboard from think geek.

What you have to ask yourselves, Mars City zombies, is do you feel lucky? Well, do you ... punks?!

posted by Tom Novak - have BFG, will portal.

A Styrofoam Sailboat

It was called the Sea Snark.

When I was 16 years old one of my friends had this boat, which he got by sending in about 2000 coupons from packs of Kool cigarettes. It actually held three of us, and we took it out on the lake where the owner and two other of my friends lived. I've always wondered what happened to it. And God as my witness, this thing only cost $99.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who's still building the "Busted Flush" in his backyard.

Flying My Kite

I'm heading down to Branson Mo in a month for four days.

I told She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed to buy her own kite, because she's not going to crash mine! A kite, a couple of golf clubs. . .it doesn't take much to make me happy. Travis McGee, who lived lives on a boat in the Florida Keys at Bahia Mar slip F-18, is my role model.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who is a lazy bum.

The Way-Coolest Fighter of All Time

I have exactly one model to my name.

The P-38 Lightning, of course--the way-coolest fighter plane of all time. The Germans used to call it "the fork-tailed devil." There were six machine-guns in the nose, and the two propellors spun in different directions to reduce the torque. One burst out of those guns could drop an enemy plane right out of the air.

Posted by Bob Wallace, WHO KNOWS WHO DICK "ACE OF ACES" BONG WAS.

Bong Books and Gifts

 

'Tis the day to talk the talk, and walk the

... PLANK!

Happy "International" Talk Like a Pirate Day, Swabbies. Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!

A Murder of Scarecrows and a Kingdom of Loathing

And now, for all of us pathetic losers who's stinking obsolete windows boxes embolized on Doom 3,

We Present :

*FREE* and Simple Games for the Poor and Easily Perplexed ::

A Murder of Scarecrows is a fun Flash game from The Skeleton Shop

Update Gamers!!!

Here's a completely different kind of fun game. It's a role-playing game from Asymmetric.net

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cartoons by Holbert

Warning from the FedCenCom

To all readers of The Sudden Curve, be advised.

The post below, titled World's Worst Hunting Dog has NOT we repeat, NOT been approved by the FedCenCom or inJustice Departmentalist thought police.

Avert your eyes or be turned into a pillar of FDA approved sodium-substitute.

OBEY!

Thank you for your attention.

(P.S. submit to the will of Landru and forever experience the peace and tranquility of The Body.)

posted by YOUR FCC, editor at knowing what's really good for you despite your naughty self.

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The Creep Hannity!

LOL!!

Poor ol' "Cutie Pie." He's just been gigged, gutted, grilled and served up steaming on a platter of banana leaves by a blonde harpy from hell

Woof! I hope that that De Coster broad never gets peeved at me. But just in case - I think I'd better get some scraping, bowing and groveling practice in beforehand, "Yes, Karen, whatever you say, Karen. You're right, Karen, forgive me, Karen ..."

Reminds me yet again of why Jodie in her infinite genius created this for all of us dumb guys.

Huzzah for King Bob

Over the last few months I've been reading a few poly-tickal blogs... some might say that they are postcards from Cloud-Cuckoo Land (not me, of course). The imperial chickenhawk side of the nest has been reprehensible enough as they worship the current presidential Carpet-bagger in Chief (yeah, those're some people who could use a nice big cup of shut-up), but now - not to be outdone, lately, the sado-marxochistic half of the cuckoos' nest've been clucking up to this Howard Dean guy. He is some kind of a NooYawk doctor turned weasel yankee professional politician who in the course of pretending to be appealing as he runs for president did some web logging a week or two ago. Oh, how techie, how messianic!! "He LIKES us, he Likes us." Okay, fine - whatever. Just what we need to do, fall all over ourselves to line up and elect the Mule the first chance we get.

Not seen a thing about actual cutting edge political philosophy and theory out there amongst the blogeratti. Just tired old statist drivel. Wanna' be radical? Learn Hoppe kiddies. Or get on the right track of political economy with human action

In the meantime, we still have King Bob