They're Gonna Make It!

Who?

Why Ugly Overload, of course.

See here that the admin of Ugly Overload has decided to take on more writers and continue his blog with help so that a great internet landmark doesn't die due to disrepair.

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Boogie Man Gets a Bad Rap

We have all heard of him and we have all seen him in some form or another. There is the typical but not unsatisfying Monster in the closet with his flesh eating behaviors and general bad mood. There is the "normal" Boogie Man and after those is the more common random-dude-breaking-into-your-house.

Wikipedia Says:

The bogeyman (also spelled boogyman, bogyman, boogieman, boogey monster) is a legendary ghost-like monster. The bogeyman has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is just an amorphous embodiment of terror.

But lets see what Solve Unamusement says.

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Ugly Overload Needs Your Help

Fellow bloggers and blog readers, I bit you a quick look at Ugly Overload (once again) before it forever perishes under the weight of its own awesome.

Okay, that was a bit much but in all honesty it is time that people take up the reins and make sure this blog of Ugly MONSTERS doesn't die a a drastic death. The blogs creator has decided to focus on his writing and novel and, as such, some things take a side seat. However there is hope! Anyone with lots of Ugly creature photos (especially nature photographers) and an understanding of Wikipedia should see if they might be able to help things out.

Ugly Overload Needs You!

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Yellow Submarine

The talks of yellow snow and Frank Zappa had another random thought toss itself into this brain of mine. What about The Beatles? What about them? Well they liked the yellow, too! Yellow Submarine, that is. Oh yes, clever transition for us all. What we'll do, though, is hit two birds with one Beatles stone. A stone that is both movie and music in a quick toss around.

Like anyone in my age group, something from the 60s didn't happen across my board by anyone other than my Mother. The second or third CD I ever was to own was the soundtrack to a movie I had never seen. Not even knowing it was a soundtrack! In fact it was YEARS before the movie Yellow Submarine came across my television thanks to the magic of DVD.

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Zappa for Eleven

Eleven minutes of Frank Zappa telling an extended story about an ingesting Eskimo and a bunch of very random things. Think Weird Al minus the pop-culture references and with more SOUL, if you would. This is actually several different songs from the album of Apostrophe (').

Frank Zappa

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Redirection of The Philharmonic

Redirecting from an old post to inform anyone who cares that the Lou Diamond Philharmonic has apparently changed locations.

Now Bran, who creates the music under his fake label of Lou Diamond Philharmonic, has merged his odd images and his music into one uber site. Sadly the site is a bit flash driven so if you've a crappy PC or low bandwidth you should probably avoid it.

The positives is that he has all his songs playable on-site. They are in a specific order, equal the order they appear in his four "Demo-albums" which are available for download. His only video for Black Albino is also on-site but as I am redirecting, that will be provided here.

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More Morrowind Music

Remember yesterday's post? You don't? Well then you are SOL and I can't help you. Anyway, for today we look at an 8-Bit remake of yesterday's Morrowind theme song, quick like.

8-Bit Morrowind Theme

You WISH your NES was that sexy!

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Morrowind Music

The Elder Scrolls games (Images in link may be broken.) are a popular among western RPG enthusiasts but what catches me within most games and settings is the visual appeal and music.

Now older games get passes for their visual or music quality but a lot of 8 and 16-bit games are actually rather beautiful. Anyone who has played Chrono Trigger or seen the ending to Links Awakening DX could tell you that graphic quality isn't dependent on hardware capabilities. Heck, even now the Elder Scrolls III: Morriwnd graphics are looked at as bad. In fact they were bad, with horrible wall glitches and even details of the player character that didn't fit (like Argonian tails magically splitting through pants, etc). But let us look at something that hasn't dated, in the slightest, Morrowind's music.

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The Novella

While it has been a few dance since the last blog post, that is not due to Blogger forgetfulness. Laziness, maybe, but not forgetfulness. There is also that the last blog post Oil Spill Charity deserved a bit more time on the "front page". This post is simply to tell my twenty something in total readers, that I am pretending to write a book.

Now I say "pretending" simply because others write with the intention to publish or accomplish something beyond the scope of the book itself. However such is not the case here. The book is being written just to say, "It has been written."

As of writing this post Novella, the name for this book which literally means "short novel", has seven of its fifteen to twenty chapters. It is a small book, no more than twenty chapters is in the idea but will probably stop more along the lines of fourteen or fifteen. If you are curious a link has been provided, however if you are not a member of deviantART you may not be able to few most of the chapters due to "content warnings".

The Novella or Novella

Clearly it is still a "working title". We shall see if the thing even prograsses in any amount of time. With projects, and me, sometimes things simply get put aside for more fun and amusing... amusements like Persona 3 or the more recent Dragon Quest VIII. My PS2 is magic!

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Oil Spill Charity

Not often that Solve Unamusement talks about charity and donation, let alone the environment. There was this one post about climate change that one time but that was somewhat half-baked

Today we talk about that oil spill not far off my own coast. Being a Florida resident means that I have heard about how the Gulf is doing. However my pocket book and life situation mean I've to deal with what life gives me. In the future, perhaps I'll be able to do more but for now we shall simply throw a nerd friendly way to help out everyone on that other coast of the USA's wang.

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Darwin Science

A little bit of Darwin can go a long way if you choose to let it. As a personal note, I'd suggest letting that little bit go the long way.

But this post is more about Nerdcore than flushing religious and/or political views onto the readers of Solve Unamusement. Behold, nerdcore rapper MC Hawking. We've got two songs, here, with similar thoughts and ideas behind them so if you've got a twitchy or sensitive religious button, you shouldn't go any further.

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Last Persona3

Final and last Persona 3 comment for Solve Unamusement as after two-hundred and eleven hours of play, the game has been finished. A long game when you take into account the amount of time that I, personally, spent on grinding all the characters to their max level. Of course, if I'd have known that was going to make the final battle so easy, I would have done no such thing.

The final battle of the game, as with plenty of other games being played recently, was a bit of a let down. Not in story terms (at least considering Persona 3's degree in story) but it was weak. The battle took awhile, that was for certain, but there wasn't any difficulty beyond some phases of the creature's "Arcana" shifts which made certain abilities worthless.

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Popotamo

The title of this post goes in tune with the game of an identical name. Basically you're looking at an MMO version of Scrabble with some interesting add-ons to it. Very "newb friendly" while, at the same time, appeals and keeps veteran players playing.

No worry about spelling, the game will inform you when you have made up a word. Turns are met with "action points" or "ticks" as with most PBBGs. Turns are also "play letters when you have them" and can become a bit of a race to just get your words on the bored. Personally, this game has only been played for a couple days off-and-on but like most PBBGs it is easy to leave, and come back to without much difficulty.

A few notes before you start to play as well as some simple strategy. First off, read the Help Section. It will answer all those questions you are going to have. If the Help Section doesn't answer those questions, then you've never played a game of scrabble or done a spelling-bee in your life. The Help Section applies to how Popotamo is different to similar games, that's about it. Some personal notes would be to fill up your action bar as much as possible before coming back to a game as well as to avoid putting letters in the outlining squares unless you've got plenty of actions points to spare. That very outside ring of the game square will cost you points for using but at the same time clear the bored to allow for more words.

Popatoma - A Game of Words

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Super Contra (Kinda)

SpaceNinja88 needs your love if you're a nerd and/or gamer with a YouTube account. He does some interesting LPs (Lets Plays) of Pirated games that most of us have never heard of. Him being Hungarian has an extra add to the fact he's actually played these games, and he's access to them if you ask.

More recently SpaceNinja has been doing some old not pirated versions of the Mega Man series for the NES however his roots are with pirated games and odd remixes. BUT IT'S WRONG being one of my personal favorites among his videos.

Let's look at one of his more recent-ish, play-throughs, Super Contra 7 for the NES.

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You Fool!

Who of you watches "Hollywood Squares" on TV? Me either (at least not anymore), but a friend of mine directed me to a funny bit which happened to have happened on life television. At least it is implied to be live TV but I highly doubt that.

Hollywood Squares is basically two people going up against each other in a game of Tic-Tac-Toe where they win either Xs or Os, depending which booth they happen to be sitting in, by agreeing with or disagreeing with celebrities who answer questions. Most of these questions seem like something you'd see on that newer show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" which makes this bundle of fail, very amusing.

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