Random Awesome - Every Time I Damn Well Feel Like It.

Recently, I've come to the realization that Random Weirdness is starting to get tired and old real quick.  Part of the problem was that I felt I had to find something strange and, sometimes, funny.  The other part is that I made myself do this on a weekly basis.  Every Monday, I had to find something new.  Sometimes, there just isn't anything that everyone hasn't already seen which does not suck (and how "random" is it when I do it on a regular schedule?).  I'm scraping the bottom of the barrell because I let myself get tied down in my own expectations.

Well fuck that shit.  I am nobody's bitch, least of all, Monday's.  Random Weirdness dies today.  I will take its lifeless husk and create something better.  Just like a cyborg, I will rebuild it and make it the be all and end all of random crap on the internet.

I give you the birth of Random Awesome.

Keep in mind that this won't be a complete departure from Random Weirdness at its best.  Some of those videos were already awesome in their own right.  It's just that, now, when I see something awesome, I'm  gonna post it... well, whenever I damn well feel like it.  No more waiting for Monday to post some kick-ass video and no more Mondays spent digging around through a bunch of shitty videos to find something odd enough (Cromsblood was right, that Voca People video was pretty sucktacular). 

So, without further bullshitting, let's get this behemoth rolling.

This video is proof that mixing two classic sci-fi series can produce some kick-ass results and that Jon Pertwee was one of the best actors to play The Doctor.

Another Teaser...

So I was playing around with MapTools again this morning and I created a scene that developed into another hint on the secret project I'm working on.  At first, the only criteria I was going for was that it had to include a human sacrifice.  Everything else sprang from there.  Pretty much, it's a band of adventurers and barbarians interrupting this dark ritual in order to save a lovely maiden from becoming the fuel for grisly blood magic.  It's not much, but enjoy.

Tools of the Trade

Recently, I've been putting blogging on the back burner and have been focusing on other things.  I've been investing most of my time on a top secret RPG project.  While taking breaks from that, I've been playing around with an application I downloaded called MapTools.  I found out about this program from The Savage Blogger (which is a pretty good blog for Savage Worlds fans.  Check it out.) and am having some fun with it.

If there's one thing that's damn near impossible for me to do, it's getting my friends together to run a game session.  Everyone's got an excuse: "I have to work in the morning," "I'm tired," "I'm having sex with five women in a UFO."  It's so hard to get people to come together at someone's house.  So the prospect of playing RPGs over the internet sounds promising.  All you need are some friends with computers and an internet connection (which shouldn't be hard) and you can set up an online gaming table.

MapTools lets you create your own battle maps, complete with buildings, terrain, objects, and creatures and player characters to keep track of battles.  I have heard of other programs, but I'm kinda liking what I'm seeing so far with MapTools.  There is a chat function, but, as The Savage Blogger mentioned, Skype would work well with this.  If you want to check out MapTools, go to their website, which has all the applications, tutorials, and resources you need.  I definitely recommend the tutorial videos, as they help you get around the program and make the most of it.

To give you a simple example of some of the things you can do with MapTools, I made a little scene with cavemen in a skirmish against some lizard men.

Not to mention that this is a tiny hint on the secret project I'm working on.  (Those who already know are sworn to secrecy under penalty of making you wish you were dead.)

Kaiser out