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Friday Night Fights: Halo3contestGO!
vexed alex | 6:02 PM on 08.29.2008 7 comments


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You know, I'm really looking forward to sticking you dirt bags with a pretty plasma grenade tonight. I'm also really looking forward to randomly choosing one of you guys as the winner for tonight's contest (provided you win at least one round, of course).

Tonight's slaughter-fest will begin at 6:30 PM pacific time and will go on through the night and maybe on through the morning. For most of you this isn't a bad thing. I, on the other hand, have to get up for work at 5 in the morning. Caffeine is my best friend right next to alcohol and pot.

As always, the "pay to play" DLC will be an after thought. We'll be playing those new maps when everyone who's in the room are also people who own the DLC.

Let me remind you that this is the last chance you get to sign up for my contest. I'm not going to be adding your name to the list while we're playing because it takes too much time. So if you haven't already, write a comment saying that you want in or PM me. Those who did so in the last blog don't have to tell me again.



Tonight's price.


Current contestants:

Justice
Clockwork
Ub3rSlug
Heretic
Justin Villasenor
Twisted Imp
JayRock
TheDreadHawk
nebones
EternalDeathSlayer
Tsunamikitsune

By the way, saying you're coming means you're entered into the contest.

Getting kicked from the rooms means you're disqualified, but don't worry. I rarely kick anyone. The only way you can get kicked is if you're bugging your fellow dtoiders, or if you're being a big ass.

If you need more info on today's contest, then please check out my previous blog post. There you'll be able to read the rules.

Please remember to not be afraid of asking for host. If you've got a good map to show the group, let me know. I'll hand you the gift of God.

__________________________________

To: Samit Sarkar

"It's nice of you to run this contest, man. Wait...people still play Halo 3?"

175,468 players online (from Bungie.net).

Looooove youu!

EDIT:

Sorry, guys! There were blackouts in my area. I was out of cable, internet, and phone until 2 AM (by that time I was already asleep).



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vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
I think the number of players online in Halo 3 are about the same number of people currently signed up to PSN.

:P
linuxguy's Destructoid Blog
@ALEX:don't make fun of us
Clockwork's Destructoid Blog
Can't play tonight :( :( :( :( :( :(
vexed alex's Destructoid Blog
List changes. I'll update later!

Also, I'm allowing people to enter during the night.

Just because I want more people to join.
Infinite Obscurity's Destructoid Blog
Hmm I wonder if its too late...
Twisted Imp's Destructoid Blog
@ EDIT
Damnit, my team just won that game also. Pink team ftw!
Are you still gonna do a draw?


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Frank Miller's Robocop
Frank Millar - Steven Grant - Juan Jose Ryp
Avatar Press

The original Robocop was fantastic. It was funny, violent, and it had some things to say about society (though not intelligently). The movie bordered on a thin line of acceptable ridiculousness, and was rather enjoyable cyberpunk flick. Robocop 2 and 3 on the other hand, were awful pieces of shit.

Everyone seems to place the blame on poor old Frank Miller for the dreadful sequels, but he says otherwise. According to him, Hollywood took his screenplay and made drastic changes. Producers of the film claimed that most Miller’s vision was “unfilmable”. Nevertheless, it left a bad taste in his mouth. Miller wasn’t too happy with the way Hollywood worked.

From 2003 to 2006 Avatar Press published nine issues of Frank Miller’s Robocop, now deemed to be the real Robocop sequels by nerds across the globe. The book follows Miller’s original Robocop 2 script, and bit off of Robocop 3 as well. He didn’t write it though. The adaptation was written by Steven Grant, but was looked over by Frank Miller.

With all that said, I don’t know if what Miller had written in his original script was worth all of the drama. The outlining story is practically the same. Detroit is still shitty, OCP still replaces the cops with a private military of criminals, and there is still a “Robocop 2” that Robocop has to battle.

I won’t tell you what differences there are between the movie and comic specifically. What I will say is that they make very little difference towards the end quality. Lewis still has no character, as well as everyone else in the book. Nothing is explored -- a generic and tired formula that begs to be ignored.

Grant does inject a bit of that satire found in the original film, and while it isn’t as good, he still manages to land a few on the bullseye. What is landing one hundred percent is the violence. Some of you could have fun with watching a woman’s burning, melting corpse slam against a wall.

The art was a tad difficult for me to review. While I can’t say it’s necessarily bad, it sure is “busy” (for lack of a better term). Too busy. Many times I’ve had to take a while to figure out what I was looking at. The detail work was somewhat impressive. In a way, it sort of channels that sense of chaos that comes from this universe’s version of Detroit. You can take it either way.

I can’t recommend this to everyone. I can’t even recommend it to most Robocop fans. You gain nothing from reading it. If you’re looking for something violent, or just want to rinse out some of what you saw in Robocop 2 and 3, then this could be for you. Everyone else should just…



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