The "oh crap I haven't done a round-up yet" roundup.

Greetings fellow humanoids!

This roundup is coming to you late because... no, you know what, I don't need to justify myself to you people. It's late.




Now, for a roundup.


Learn how to Pimp your Ramen. Seriously.

Read a blog about the fashion of Doctor Who, specifically where you can buy things!

Here is a pretty awesome article from Cracked about things from space.

I WILL LOVE WHO EVER BUYS THESE FOR ME FOREVER.

These shoes are pretty awesome.

My new favorite Penny Arcade comic (which belongs to them, not me).

Okay, yeah, it's also a SHORT roundup. And you know what?

Some kind of tutorial

For all you LADIES that read this, you may be wondering how good ol' Felix made that awesome Fallout 3 Bra. Right? You remember, this one?

Well, GOOD NEWS!

I'ma show you.

Only with a shirt I made as part of the plan Lulu and I have to seduce and capture the boys over at Penny Arcade.

It looks like this:


And the tutorial is after the jump.

Cake, etc.

Oh hey there everyone.

What day is today? It's Felix's birthday! What a day for a birthday! Let's all have some cake!

Points to anyone who names that reference.

There's more!

HAPPY RAPTURE DAY

Jesus Says...

Don't worry, we here at 8 bit runway will still be here after the Rapture- which is today at 6pm, local time.
I'd just like to remind people that this Rapture simply means the beginning of the end, not the actual end. The chosen ones will be recalled to heaven, and then depending on which prophecy is right, we either get until October or 7 years to decide if we want to repent or not.
In these trying times, we should use images to recall what Jesus looks like (wait, should we? Isn't that sacrilegious or something? Won't he look different this time?). So please, take a moment to review:

I knew it.

I knew it!

I KNEW IT!

Oh, right.

Enjoy the rapture, everyone!

I can't stop thinking about...

How much I want to play Brink. Okay, sure it's out, I have [some] money [I really shouldn't be spending on games right now]. But I'm kind of living in three places right now- one(1) my kind, loving, amazing parent's house in Portland, two(2) my kind, loving, amazing boyfriend's house in Bloomington (Illinois, because that Indiana one is pure silliness), and three(3) a storage unit (that is neither kind, nor loving, though it is amazingly full of stuff). My (read: our/his) Xbox is in the home in Bloomington, the PlayStation3 cuts my eyes (seriously, why do I need those lines to be that sharp?), and I run a Mac (and because I think PC Gaming is silliness unless you use a real controller, not a stupid mouse. I mean, come on).

(I clearly need to stop using so many parenthesizes. Sorry.)

Anyways, I'm not really a big fan of games that rely on my, um, shall we say... ability to aim at things while running using two sticks and a trigger. Seriously, unless it has some kind of pause-the-game-and-allow-me-to-aim system, as with the Fallout VATS system, I'm probably boned.

Though I may talk like a life-long gamer, I've owned exactly three systems on my own, five if you add joint holdings into the mix. When I was a kid, I had a GameBoy brick. That's the one before the GameBoy Advanced, and the GameBoy Color, and it looked like this:

How far we've come...

I played Kirby's Dreamland on it and was terrible at it. Really. I got stuck after level 2 almost every single time. I now own a Nintendo DS, which is made infinitely cooler by the TriForce on it, and it's tiny little Mario carrying case.

It's okay for you to be as jealous as you are right now.

Again, as a child I owned a N64 with my brother (he now fully owns it, and that boyfriend I was talking about earlier bought me one of my own), and played Mario Kart, GoldenEye 007, and Quest64 (it is really called that). Extra points to anyone who can tell me in 100 words or less how lame Quest64 is. Plus the fact that I never really learned to play any of those games. I now also co-own an Xbox 360, the only Microsoft product I can say I'm proud to be "co-owner" of.

The number of games I've actually played all the way through is quite slim. But I say it does not matter. I can be a gamer no matter how many games I've played. And Brink has caught my attention. Sure, I'm excited for Portal 2, but people are done talking about it. Everyone has beat it, hacked it, and pushed it to the wayside, allowing me to be excited in my own little bubble. Now, however, all my favorite geeksites are all posting about Brink. Which, of course, means that I can not stop thinking about it. Even though I know very, very little about it.

Behold, the comic the two men who will be my best friends created, just for me (not true):

Mike Krahulik, you are my hero. Via Penny Arcade.

I find this very funny. You probably should, too.

In other news, according to one of my friends, I've reached the end of the internet, proven by the fact that Stumble keeps giving me the same pages. This is the last original Stumble I got, and I'm addicted. Seriously. I downloaded the mp3, and have been listening on repeat.



His stuff is pretty awesome.

Oregon Geeks

Here in Portland, we're geeks for the outdoors.

If you take a look at the month of April alone, you'll notice 6 days with no precipitation, and 4 days above 60. This is clearly not stopping us anymore, as an adventure photo shoot in torrential rains I took with a friend recently proved, but when the weather clears up, we're out there. And last weekend, it was a glorious day. Behold:



I went on a hike out in the gorge, where there are some amazing views, and many wonderful waterfalls. The view going up looked like this:



and this:



The view from the top was amazing:



And the view heading back down?



Now, I'm not saying that hiking with your mini vintage leather backpack is a BAD idea... but...

This was the only picture I managed to get of the many, ahem, "colorful" characters I saw on the trail. Apparently, the uniform for middle aged women is zip off pants, "hiking" sticks (ski poles that people use as walking sticks...? Why?) and conversations about email forwards. I kid you not, there were several groups that fit all three of those. Another highlight was a group of about six guys in their early 20's, who looked to be gamers, all hiking with their resealable cans of Diet Rockstar.

Perhaps my favorite hiking outfit I saw was a young woman in equestrian boots and a sun dress. Perhaps not the best attire for a 2770(ish) foot trek up the hillside.

But hey, to each their own, right? I'm sure my jeans and BRINK shirt (sawg from PAXEast 2011) drew some skeptical looks.

I'll avoid the geekery I feel about the recent Royal Wedding, but I'll end with my stupid excitement over a recent purchase... cover art by one of my favorite artists ever, "Gabe" (Mike Krahulik) of Penny Arcade (if you don't know who they are/ what that is, get out, get out now) and some magic cards, STFU.