Showing posts with label video games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video games. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The baddest Pokemon team on the block

On Sunday I busted up into the local Wal-Mart and demanded the latest Pokemon game. I was all "POKEMON BLACK PLEASE" and the Wal-Mart guy's all "Show me them greens" and then I whipped out a devastating duo of twenty dollar bills and he's like "Ka-ching". To make a long story short, the guy flipped me the goods and I made myself scarce. In the safety of my golden horse, my golden '05 Pontiac Sunfire, I viewed the loot and revved the engine. Target: men's quartet practice at FPD. Two hours later, after nailing the lower tenor part of "Goodnight Sweetheart", it was just me and the Pokemon.

Days later, my progress is getting to be mildly admirable, and I'd like to introduce you to my team.


See that girl? Her name is Sunraker, because she will destroy you. She'll drop a Leech Seed to suck the life out of your inferior Pokemon and finish you off with Leaf Blade: a SWORD made out of PLANT that can CUT HEADS OFF.

This bird right here is named Brobin. Because he's a robin AND he's a bro. See that funky red hat thing he's got? Only males look like that. Female birds don't have any color. His ability is Big Pecks, which means his Defense stat can never be lowered. NEVER. Leer all you want: Brobin will always have Big Pecks.
This cool as ice fella is named Rosencrntz, like the character in Hamlet, except without the A. He wears his sunglasses even when inside. In a few minutes he will be evolving into a larger, angrier version of himself.
This adorable little critter is named Carraway, after the narrator of The Great Gatsby. She's super nice, too, and a female. Her freshest move is Electroweb, where she shoots a spider web supercharged with electricity.And finally, above is the newest addition to my prestigious team. While she isn't hand-drawn in real life, she still pretty durn cute. I named her Lizaveta, after the supercute girl from Crime and Punishment that Raskolnikov murders accidentally.

Anyways, you might notice there's only five Pokemon here (most teams are six-membered). That's because I haven't yet found a satisfactory Pokemon to fill that sixth slot. If you're interested or know someone else who might be, contact me.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

My desert island

Instead of working on my stories for the newspaper, I'm going to compile a list of my favorite things.

My all-time favorite song
is either "Casimir Pulaski Day" or "Glory Box", both for entirely different reasons.

My all-time favorite album
is xx, from last year, though the greatest album of all time is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The greatest band of all-time
is easily The Beatles, though there are about three artists that have meant more to me than them: Sufjan Stevens, the xx, and mewithoutYou.

My favorite movie is
The Truman Show, followed by It's a Wonderful Life and No Country for Old Men. The three most fascinatingly disturbing film characters are in There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, and The Silence of the Lambs.

The best book I've read is The Great Gatsby, and I haven't liked anything else near as much, except for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a kid.

The best movie of last year was Up in the Air, and the best movie of this year is, so far, The Social Network.

My two favorite songs of this year, so far, are "Dance Yrself Clean" and "Crown on the Ground". My two favorite albums of this year, so far, are Treats and The Age of Adz, in that order.

My favorite video game is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Zombies and whatnot

Now that I'm done with being in plays and AP classes are over I've found myself with a lot of time on my hands. In looking for something to do, I've finally resorted to playing video games. Last weekend I spent several hours playing Half-Life 2, which I borrowed from a friend. Its generally regarded as one of the best video games of all time. Its not really my style, being a first person shooter and all, but I've been playing it anyways. I thought it was fairly mundane until I got to a certain part in the game. A part involving zombies.

Basically, you find yourself in a deserted town. Deserted, all except for the zombies. Zombies are scary stuff. At one point, I was in the upper floor of a dark house and I decided to go out the window to hang out on the roof. Instantly I heard a crazy bunch of screaming and growling so i turned to my right and there was a ton of zombies bleeding and whacking me. Freaked out, I backed up and fell off the roof. Unfortunately, I was now in the middle of a bunch of zombies. I whipped out my sub-machine gun and randomly started shooting up everything around me. Then, I ran out of bullets so I pulled out my other guns and used all their bullets on the zombies. After a bit of time, I was out of bullets in all my guns - all I had left was a crowbar.

I beat them for several minutes and realized I hate video games.