Zero Punctuation

Another productive Friday night here in Midtown, spent endlessly uploading the spoils of DCI's spanking new video download service onto my iPod Touch, half listening to CNBC in the background, and stumbling from link to link like some deranged sherpa ... don't judge, lest we talk about your peccadilloes.

I thought so.

But I did find something in all that madness that made me laugh really, really hard. Of all things, it's a video game reviewer from Australia. Bear with me now, this actually goes somewhere:

It's not that I am a video game addict or fanboy of any particular console/franchise/platform. (Complete disclosure: my personal XBox library consists of Halo, Halo 2, and The Simpsons: Road Rage) I am, however, something of a tech geek, and so I browse in the same circles as people for whom the Halo novels are akin to the bleeding Silmarillion. Through this odd cross-pollination, though, came my exposure to some of the most wickedly funny journalism I have ever seen. Seriously, you owe it to yourself to watch.

Zero Punctuation reviews Guitar Hero III

Note: NSFW at all. Not even a little.

This particular review is made that much more acutely funny by the fact I have actually played Guitar Hero II in the past (the kids love to bring in their PS2's and play the game through the band hall sound system during finals week). My skill goes beyond terrible, admittedly. Though I throw down on YYZ on easy. I know Jim Bonney would be proud... kind of.

My personal favorite aside I have heard him use (not in this review) is that someone has been bound and "beaten about the head by a bat of frozen stupid." All with that acerbic British accent. Hilarious.

Anyway, off to bed so I can be well rested (read: not nodding off during) the TBA clinic I am going to tomorrow. For someone who loves learning, I am such a terrible student.

Oh well - take care. Adios!