AndrewTS

Sega has done almost nothing in years but disappoint, save for a few good xbox games. Sega boned up a classics compilation with "improved" versions. They gave a Sonic character a ****ing gun. They turned Shinobi into crap. They dole out Sonic collections with 1 good game on them and have the balls to charge 30 bucks, then they eviscerate the US version of features. They pushed the Phantasy Star collection for PS2 back into nearly oblivion and still try to push its crappy MMORPG counterpart, etc, etc.

I personally expected the "Jonas Jr and Rusty become the new VBs" theory myself. The clone stuff had to at least be implemented, though. They dropped so many hints throughout the 1st season it was obvious. There's about a dozen possible great episodes set up. However, there was so much being set up you never really got anything too well explained. Hopefully White Noise doesn't return. The writers are better than that. I saw the boys and totally thought Hellraiser, though. "Gas leak...the silent killer." Hopefully they don't play this a hundred times so I get sick of it, like the Trial of the Monarch.

OMG that was just an amazing, surreal, hilarious episode. Well worth the wait. "You have accident-prone boys? You put helmets on them. If you have death prone boys, you keep a few spare clones around."

Oh yeah--love that ep. I swear that those "Teenagers" are from the Plan 9 aliens' planet. However, they screwed up in a host segment, talking about things that haven't happened yet in the movie. They also did that in the Earth vs. the Spider ep. Just finished watching The Amazing Colossal Man. Solid episode, but overrated, IMO. The best part is Mike's skit as Glenn.

"One ep that I have never been able to sit through is The Unearthly. I haven't tried to lately, though." It takes a few viewings, but I really like it now. Overacting John Carradine as a mad scientist running a nuthouse and Tor Johnson. What's not to like? However, I think the very-similar The Atomic Brain is even more fun, because the movie itself is more ridiculous and offers much better riffing opportunities, from the creepy narration, to the dumb blonde's "British accent," the old woman, Brainless Zombie Girl, etc. My personal worst list (I haven't seen a lot of season 1, though. Also there's a handful of eps I don't have): 1. Bloodlust 2. Hellcats 3. Sidehackers 4. Quest of the Delta Knights 5. Castle of Fu Manchu Pretty much anything Lippert sucks too, but I think those were helped a lot more by the riffing than the ones listed above. My list of favorites changes a lot, among them are It Conquered the World, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Space Mutiny, Prince of Space, and of course The Pumaman.

Hamlet can be hard to watch in places, especially considering the dull scenery, non-existant production values, etc, but I can still think of riffs I like. "Danish clowns: the silverfish-infested basement of the clown world." "My nipple came off, you jerk!" - Give us a taste of your quality. - "I said quality, not idiocy!" "The tragedy of King Vitaman!" "Hamlet will be back... in Thunderball!" Plus good host segments. I really like Beast of Yucca Flats. It's possibly the worst movie of the Coleman Francis oevre, but it makes for the best MST3K ep out of any of them, IMO. They take absolutely relentless shots at Tor, put words in his mouth all the time, "Okay...BREASTS, we get it!" "Tor Johnson as the beast--that's just good casting" "This movie stops at nothing... and stays there." "(Tor) da da da..hills alive...soound of mooosic..." *kids stepping over Tor in a cave, Tor makes an old man groan/roar- "(Tor) Hey, I was watching that!!" "Now the bunny eats Tor and becomes the Night of the Lepus" Some of Coleman's rambling narration: "Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Dedicated his life to the betterment of mankind. A once powerful, humble man, reduced to....nothing." "Touch a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a beast." "Boys from the city, not yet caught in the whirlwind of progress, feed soda pop to thirsty pigs." "Joseph Javorsky, respected scientist. Now a fiend prowling the wastelands, a prehistoric beast in a nuclear age. Kill, kill just to be killing." "A man runs. Somebody shoots at him." Try watching The Hulk after this, too.

Nobody counts KTMA. It isn't MST3K in its fully developed form. It's basically a bunch of bad movies, a few host segments, and a handful of comments throughout the movies. Most of the movies on KTMA are cheesy enough on there own to be worth watching, so sorry, I still rank most of them over those eps. Bloodlust and Hellcats had poor riffs in addition to unwatchably bad movies to riff on. During the making of the Hellcats I had heard that about half the writers were not available. The host segments were good...but they were mostly flashbacks to other eps, so there's no reason to recommend anything in the show on its own. Bloodlust has a good short, but the rest of it is terrible. Bad host segments and unfunny riffs = crap.

http://subjectcinema.podbus.com/sc061706.mp3 Interesting podcast ChrisMWaters hooked me up with. It's nothing people hear likely don't already know, but was a fun listen. I'd dispute their list of best newbie eps and most unwatchable eps. I'd replace one of the Mr. BIG eps with Godzilla vs. Megalon. Also, the worst list is missing a few bad eps that actually came out on VHS/DVD. Manos? Red Zone Cuba? Maybe the first time, but no. Bloodlust is perhaps the worst ever, IMO. Hellcats sucks to high heaven. Agreed on Sidehackers. I'm actually able to stomach Monster A Go Go because of the riffing (which is by itself far the most incompetent movie ever on the show, even more so than Manos). Space Mutiny is probably my number 1 choice for best newbie ep. The dialogue they have going on over the credits is a scream--perhaps even topping the ones from The Movie and Alien from LA. The Final Sacrifice of course is all wrong. One of the best ones ever.

It's not that crazy of a thought, but horribly stated. SES is going to have a major effect on your moral outlook. However, any speculation on how x factor will affect y behavior is pretty much speculation and pulling stuff out their tighty whitey asses. Like the video game brain wave studies. Or the "proof" Jack Thompson sites of studies that, by their own conductors' admittance, prove nothing. The fact that violent crime has good down rarely seems to factor in. I'm surprised that crimes of all kinds aren't on the upswing considering the incompetent government we have in charge. However, maybe those poor people will do nothing until they play Gwan Teft Otto. I would argue very much against the the claim that, as a game player, I'm going to have more permissive attitudes towards drug and alcohol usage.

Funny segment from the Daily Show about the congressional hearings on video games.... http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/medi...ml?itemId=70892 "Seriously, the House of Representative is filled with insane jackasses." They didn't even have to take 2-3 words at a time and blow them out of context. Real quotes...just let 'em breathe...and...wow.

I'm sure there's a clever pun there, but since BTO is, to me, just a bunch of old fogies whose music makes me think of things like Officemax and failed political candidates, I'm missing it.

Hey look, a French anime-wannabe Mega Man (which naturally was a ripoff of Astroboy...which naturally was a ripoff of Pinocchio): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotboy However, he's not just a cutesy robot boy with an arm cannon, a blue body, an evil twin, and a crazy robot-making evil scientist nemesis, oh no. He dual-wields his arm cannonS! And has jet boots. I actually want to check it out to see if it's meh or just bad and lame--2nd ep airs Friday at 11:30 PM. http://www.alphanim.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_robotboy.gif.gif

Thanks--one of the few I haven't seen.

Any idea what the sequel will do as far as the guitar controller? Same one? Better one? Game sold by itself? I've actually yet to pick this game up yet, and I'm filled with shame. However, there's something undeniably awesome about, how after I handed off the guitar to a 8-ish year old kid waiting behind me, he bushed out a damn-near perfect version of Iron Man. Rock on, little dude. Halfway through I provided my own Ozzy impression. With War Pigs it's going to be impossible to resist now. Great to see Primus and Reverand there. Where the hell is the Maiden, though?

I heard it was missing the "Upper" fighters, though. Right? Does it explain what the stars all mean in the dispwitch settings?

Hey, a slutty gypsy.

The ads on GameFAQs make no sense. They're showing sprites and backgrounds from the SF3s. And while you could consider the time the Alphas came out the "golden years", the Alphas are relatively late additions to the SF series compared to the time when *everyone* played the SF games (about from SF2 to SSF2T). Rendclaw: Be aware that there is only one Alpha counter per character in SFA, and in 3 they're done a little differently. Oh, and I thought Gem Fighter lost the PS1 character edit--actually, every game has its own color editor built in as a special option, so it would be redundant. However, what do I need to do to unlock those extra ISMs in Hyper Street Fighter Alpha? EDIT: nevermind. I found an FAQ on it. Hit up GameFAQs and look in the FAQ section (not codes). There's more stuff in here I didn't realize was there. Wish Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 let you select your level of super by the strength of your attack button (like how Fierce in Alpha 3 did Level 3, Strong did Level 2, Jab Level 1)? That's in. Want to turn off alpha counters? You can do that too. The bonus ISMs in Hyper Alpha are as follows: Select Alpha 3 version On the Mode select, you need to hold start on one of the modes and press left or right, then select the mode. Normal: Gives you Vampire, which includes chain combos and guard reversals Mazi: Gives you SF3 mode, which allows you to parry Saikyo: Gives you "true" Classic versions. Only works for SF2 fighters, but allows them access to SF2 properties and exploits. Classic: Vs. Mode. It's lame. No super jumps, chain combos, dashes, aerial raves, etc.

Poster for the video. Seriously: http://www.riverblue.com/mst3k/finalsacrifice/poster2-sm.jpg "Beethoven's Fifth just can't get started here..." *shot of a really ugly Canadian neighborhood* "Hitchcock's Parade of Homes." "Aw, it's the Came-With-The-Frame Family." "You know it's getting to be spring when the executioners start getting into the house." *Troy laying down with his head in front of the campfire- "Rowsdower.." "Could you put my hair out?" "I'm getting water for Rowsdower. Rowy, Rowy Wowsdower...." "Do you know how fast you were going, Rowsdower?" Horse: "If you could just move that huge gunny sack full of pork--oh, that's your BUTT." "Did you know my father?" Prospector: "Know him? He was *DELICIOUS!* *shot of a big-nostriled statue* "The Just About to Sneeze god."

It was cheap to make and has earned a slight profit. People will buy the DVD, and unfortunately this will probably help finance another WWE Film.

So you stopped caring about them before anybody ever cared about them? Impressive.

While not quite that, Super Monkey Ball Adventure is a little closer to that concept than anything else in the series so far. Although it is a quirky game series with monkeys, I surprisingly never really got into Monkey Ball. It combines a lot of things that, normally, I dislike in games. You have the obligatory collecting (which I can usually tolerate if the rest is good), bottomless pits (which I have lot tolerance for when they're in 3D games), and timing-based objectives, which I suck at since I'm the slow-and-steady type of gamer. Maybe Adventure will be more up my ally, though. 1. Crap. Quick, name the last Sega game released for PS2 that was any good and wasn't a port. They seemed to exhaust all their creative energies on high-quality xbox titles. 2. GTA is so played out. 3. I hated Shenmue. Soooo duuuull.

There we go. Will we see any hippies getting killed on TV this week?

Who?

Thanks for watching Raw Is Male Ass.

midgets--always funny