Comic for Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Posted: 12:06 am, Tuesday, July 25th

So, yesterday, one of the few links I put up (I'm always slow out of the blocks on a Monday, but yesterday was ridiculous) was about ESPN invading EA games, primarily NCAA football, since that's the only one I give a crap about. Of course, I'm not getting this year's, which is a tremendous show of restraint on my part, because I am already starting to shake with anticipation of the Irish season. There wasn't an Irish Eyes Power Hour last night, and it almost killed me. Why am I skipping the NCAA game this year, absolutely no one in the room asks? Because of the unique situation EA found itself in of developing one version for the PS2 and one for the 360 (splitting console generations, for those of you who don't follow this sort of thing, which is probably about half of you, if I know my demographic). This has resulted in middling reviews and also odd glitches in the PSP version of the game. Also, friggin' Reggie Bush (who may not even suit up for the Saints!) is on the cover. So, I'm going to hold off on buying a next-gen system 'til next year's edition of the collitch football game (I didn't get a PS2 'til they trotted out NCAA 2002.. in July of 2001) and can see what the prices are like. I can pretty honestly say there's not a chance I'm paying $600 for a PS3, but maybe the price will drop a bit in the eight months it'll have been out by the time next summer rolls around. So I may actually jump platforms despite the fact I'd prefer to get a PS3. By the way, check out this bizarre analogy from Konami's Hideo Kojima about midway down the page. Why am I telling you all this? I don't know, really. At one point, it was a roundabout way for me to proudly declare that in addition to cutting the abominable Daily Quickie from my daily internet habits, I have also, finally, stopped reading the equally shitastic collegefootballnews.com. Becoming so tremendously awful at writing and .html and analysis to get me to stop reading a free site about collitch football is so amazing of an accomplishment that I almost want to write those posers. How that thought was at any point linked in my mind to this treatise on what next-gen system I'm going to get is beyond me, but I'm pretty hungry, so I'm not thinking at my most clarityfulness at the moment. As evidenced by that word I just invented.

Onto other sports stuff (sorry, non-sports fans, my brain was really stuck in neutral yesterday when I was gatherin' for this post), I've been wanting to go to one of these Vintage Base Ball games forever. Looks like I've got two shots coming up in August. Also! Tonight, the Sox are in Oakland and Professor Thom's presents Kayraoke night. This is something I've been talking about forever - I've always thought that the SAP button on your remote should go to two hometown fans watching the game with a sixer of High Life or something. It beats the alternative.

Ani DiFranco is pregnant? I barely know what to do with this information.

Remember I used to have a link to Watch Me Turn 30, about a girl in the city who was turning thirty, whom I had kind of met once but didn't remember, and whose apartment I'd since been to while she was out of town, but it was because my friend was apartment sitting and invited us over? Well, now that girl's pregnant and I somehow know about it. The internet is so Goddamn weird.

Awesome slide show of the Green Lantern getting whacked in the head. I think I would get a costume with a helmet. I've always thought the fact that his ring was so friggin' powerful and yet could be defeated by anything yellow was the lamest superhero weakness ever.

The Times had a sweet little screwable-withable map of the upcoming Senate elections. Fun for all ages! Way to represent, Hoosier Democrats.

What was I going to look up on MySpace yesterday when it was down..? Oh, yes. Furries. Not just a MySpace nightmare, but a total out-and-out nightmare. Whooo doggy. Piggy. Whatever.

bullfrog

thanks for the myspace link. I just took all of the stuffed animals out of my 3-month old daughter's room.

Zero

Five Bucks to Friday: Your resource for fetish-free parenting.

Awesome t-shirt on Threadless - which makes me wonder what happened to the Foucault print that used to be in the girls' apartment...

http://www.threadless.com/product/543/This_is_not_a_Pipe

Further discussion on Obama 2008:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/

When will they learn???

http://www.senatemajority.com/outrageous_quote_of_the_day_james_inhofe

I'm buying the "This is not a pipe" during the next $10 sale. I'm also seriously considering buying it for one of my professors who would get at least half the joke (I'm not sure if they had Mario Brothers in Australia).

Little ND Football talk...they love the robot genius http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2006/teams/ind/notre.dame.html

How can you not love the Robot Genius? Fully capable of burning our world to ash and cinder, his logic processors can so closely emulate love and charity that he does this only to defenses that dare oppose his Gentlemen Warrior Princes.

Anyone know why ESPN booted their baseball analysis Harold Reynolds? (Additionally: Does anyone really care?)

No Super Mario Brothers in Australia? Impossible!

As for the EA games, I'm thinking you may be better off with the PS game now than the XBox 360 version. I hear it's too much into the graphics and not enough of the game. And believe me, if how EA did Madden 06 for the 360 is any indication, Madden 07 for PS3 is going to be just as demo-ish as 06 is for the 360. (And I really don't think they'll produce a College Football game for the PS3 until the next year after it comes out. College Football isn't as sought after as Madden is.)

If the PS3 comes out in November, there's definitely going to be an NCAA game next July. That would be ridiculous for them not to do. Sure, collitch football's not as insanely popular as the Madden games, but I'd wager it's their second-biggest sports title.

Oh, and all the scuttlebutt on Reynolds is sexual harrassment. ESPN is evidently less tolerant of it than the Knicks are.

after much thought, I have decided to leave the stuffed Cthulu with my daughter. I can't imagine a furpile with a Cthulu in it, so it should be safe.

Zero

Zero, I'm very worried.

Oh, come on. Cthulu loves kids! Perferably with a side of asparagus.

You know what would be great? Having Cthulu on call for when you're in a restaurant with a screaming child and parents who could be damned to do anything about it. "Hey, Cthulu, could you go melt that family's minds by the very sight of you? Thanks. I owe you a brew."

i'd be more inclined to believe the 'update' from deadspin.com over the sexual harrassment. i'm mean HR was married & did the little league world series broadcasts. i'd give him the benefit of the doubt on that: (UPDATE: Another reader, with "contacts on the inside," refutes the sexual harassment whispers: "Anyone who is saying sexual harassment either has been given bad third-hand info or is lying. Harold has had a couple of rather heated arguments with the producers at "Baseball Tonight," and some of the suits at ESPN over the program's coverage of Alex Rodriguez. At the last production meeting, when it was made clear they were going to really play up the A-Rod angle during coverage of the Yankees-Texas series, Harold had a colossal meltdown, which led to his dismissal. The sexual harassment allegations are even more laughable when you consider that he is being replaced by Steve Phillips -- a man who has never met a skirt he wouldn't chase and who was caught in one of the more embarrassing front office sexual harassment scandals in MLB history." http://www.deadspin.com/sports/top/was-this-why-harold-got-the-axe-189733.php

While I think the more piling on Accelerated Bat Head-boy is always a good thing, I'd be happier if it weren't a sexual harassment thing with Reynolds. Thanks for the update, man.