So people have been really into making stuff about me lately.

Aside from Awesomeraptor (which I had a hand in making), a movie made out of a little story I told during my interview with Rina-Chan for the Behind the Flash Newgrounds Podcast was just created by Simple-Line.

Click here to watch Egoraptor’s Awesome Adventures At The Brawl Tournament!

Incidentally I just ran into the winner of that tournament last night! How weird, huh? Anyway Simple-Line told me he was making another movie about me, which sounds kind of neat.

Anyway there was also a movie that was inspired by me that I found recently that for some reason had me laughing nonstop. Something about it just made me crack up. It’s called Work is Awesome. Check it out!

I might be inactive for a while because I’m heading out to Tampa and then to LA for like the better half of a month so that I can spend some time with Suzy and then fly out to LA for AnimeExpo where I’ll be meeting David Hayter and entering Anime Idol, which is a voice acting competition. Tomamoto and I are going to go head to head, so it should definitely be something impressive to see! I’ll try to keep updating so I don’t get out of the habit, I really like my blog now that it works.

Take care ya’ll!

A little while back I made a flash movie for Suzy just as a present to show my love. She wanted me to share it with the world since she thinks it’s so cute! I’m glad she likes it! I warn you guys though, it’s a little bit mushy ;O!! If you want to see Egoraptor being a love fool then check out the updated Suzy page! If you’re squeemish to the idea of a guy saying he loves his girl then STAY AWAY you hard-hearted heathens.

Man she’s so pretty isn’t she.

So I have found a programmer! He goes by dxprog and he pumped out what I needed almost instantly. Hats off to him, he’s helped the entire Pokemon CCG community!

I’ll have the updated cardlist to the LackeyCCG database really soon once I make sure everything’s in order. But right now I have a date with some peeps! Seeya round folks.

I’m really into the Pokemon TCG. Like, really.

I don’t play it with cards, I play it with Lackey CCG. It’s a digital online CCG player that is really rockin’. It supports Pokémon among other things, but there’s a problem. The latest 3 sets of the Pokemon CCG, which are sets needed immensely for the modified rules of play (the standard) are not in the system. They need to be added in manually, then, and that’s a pain in the ass. Kyle believes that the Pokémon CCG doesn’t have a hardcore enough fanbase for this.

I want these cards.

SO.

I propose to anyone who can live up to the challenge, I need all three sets of these cards organized into a specific format. The reason I asked for programmers is because this can be done very easily using regex or basically anything that can read data and manipulate the string. All of the data is available online, it’s just a matter of fetching it and reformatting it. That’s it. If anyone can do this, please hit me up at rotparoge@webmoron.net. You will be helping not only me, but the entire Pokemon CCG community as well.

Thanks

Remember the interview I posted earlier with David Hayter? Jeffitude on Youtube cut out the segment where Hayter says “Hotness I wanna bang you” and put it up on Youtube. Thanks man! Check it out!

I posted this in my blog on Newgrounds, but I wanted to rekindle this topic since I posted it the day after it came out and I’m sure a lot of people hadn’t played it then, but have had a chance to play it since. So without further ado:

Metal Gear Solid 4 is pretty sweet, to say the least.

The graphics are insanely beautiful. The boss battles were pretty impressively fun although not quite as weird and quirky as the other games which was a bit disappointing. Cutscenes were long as FUCK but typically very engrossing. There is a lot of that super long convoluted “no, it was actually this” plot devices that kept coming and coming but for the most part the cutscenes were very good.

I don’t feel like this game has as much of a formal link to the previous 3. I could see some very obvious formal links to the previous games but I did not identify one ultimate goal of the storytelling in reference to the other games. In the long run I was sitting there trying to decide ultimately what was the point of it all and couldn’t put my finger on it whereas in the other games it’s typically really clear.

I also found the Beauty and the Beast unit, byfar the most intriguing element of the game to me, to be completely under involved. They felt almost tacked on which was a major disappointment. None of the major characters in the game ever referenced them outside of thier allotted bossfight time, and even then it was sparse.

It was a very awesome experience and I’ve never felt a video game grab me in such an epic way as MGS4 did. Although, as I mentioned, I couldn’t really pinpoint the goal of Kojima in this scenario other than to tell a story, I can still say with confidence that Kojima is very good at using the video game medium in its own unique way to make the player feel something other video games or movies couldn’t make you feel.

Thoughts? Questions? Feel free to discuss the game here. If you mention spoilers please label your comment as such.

Spoiler alert

If you are super anal about spoilers please don’t read below this.

There are two parts of the game, both playable, that I very much enjoyed and find to be some of the most memorable sequences ever. One involves an incredibly elegant and surreal revisit of Shadow Moses island that made my skin crawl by how eerily nostalgic they made everything. The other, without giving away too much, is a sequence where as Snake you feel completely helpless and as the player you almost feel connected to Snake’s pain and will to succeed. As a player I thoroughly felt connected to the situations at hand as if my actions were the ones that decided the fate of the entire game.

Also Raiden’s role in this game was fucking awesome. It was great to see that all that identity crisis stuff in MGS2 paid off in the end, and Raiden stole the show, literally, by creating a scene in which it is much more entertaining to watch him than Snake. Kojima is funny about that kinda stuff… but he really gets into your brain and makes you really feel the pain. You, as Snake, can’t watch a complete turning point in the game. You’re forced to stick to your gruntwork while the hero takes down the villain. It’s such an incredible parallel to the game’s message.

Evil Avatar Radio recently had a very good interview with David Hayter about Metal Gear Solid 4 among other things.

Click here to listen to the interview!

The best part about this interview is that at the end, on his own accord, he says “Oh my God hotness I wanna bang you!” What a flattering gesture! I hope he wants to bang me. Oh har har har. If you wanna skip straight to when he says it, it’s around the 1 hour mark, when they’re saying their goodbyes. I suggest you listen to the whole interview, though. Hayter is a swell, entertaining guy. He’s going to be appearing at AX in Los Angeles this July and I’ll be there to meet him. I’ll definitely have pictures of the event. ;D

A big thanks to Andeh for pointing this out!

What do you guys think of the interview?

Hello folks!

I got myself a brand new blog yippeee!! No more Cutenews deleting comments and shoddy captcha making it impossible to post comments anyway, now I’ve got a stable (hopefully) blog from WordPress!

I should be updating more often now that it’s not a complete bummer to run this thing.

Also, check this out!

Awesome Gaiden is out! Click the image (or here) to watch it! It’s one of the new segments for the DVD. I’ve decided against making the DVD right now in favor of a much more interesting project. Don’t worry… this just means you’ll see Awesome cartoons sooner! Instead of waiting for the DVD I’ll be releasing all those segments online for free! Sweet huh? That way no one’s left out.

I’ll probably be updating you more about this project, it’s coming along REALLY great and I’ll release a lot of information really soon!

What do you guys think of Awesome Gaiden?