Ladies, gentlemen, me hearties.

One year ago, I posted a list of pirate jokes in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. A good resource for pirate jargon can be found here.

Changing the subject: I've always been a big fan of the computer game Doom. I even like the game's minimal story, mostly because the unnamed protagonist is presented as completely badass. For the unitiated, a thumbnail sketch of the plot goes like so: a team of space marines answers a distress call from a research station on a Martian moon. The team goes in, leaving one member behind to defend their ship, armed with only a pistol. The team is slaughtered, and the sounds of their deaths echo in the unnamed marine's ears. He decides, "Hey, might as well go down fighting" and proceeds to kick everyone's ass. It turns out that the research station actually opened a portal to Hell (oops). After killing every last demon in the station, the Marine steps into a teleporter and gets killed in an ambush. He finds himself in Hell, again armed with only a pistol, and decides to fight his way out, which (of course) requires him to kill everything in his path. Now, this isn't a great story by any means—but it is cool, and it does support my contention that no one is tougher than the Doom marine. So I was kind of upset to find out that the new Doom movie is about genetic mutations, and not demons. But I'm even more upset to discover that much of the movie is shot in first person, with a gun bobbing along at the bottom of the screen (there are clips showing this in the featurette). So I guess the Doom movie will be just like the video game, only with a crappier story and less interaction.

And some good video-game related news: the MGS4 trailer is out. Right now, the server's too busy for me to watch it, but I have no doubts that it will be spectacular.
UPDATE: It is pretty awesome.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go splice the mainbrace.