The Eater of Shadows finds ways to waste time.

Well it sometimes helps to know people, as sometimes they give you a heads up about something.

In this particular case it’s my good friend Spike Therion of Embers of Sanity.

Now I’ve been a bit slack, but a few days ago he transferred a copy of the flyer for the band’s latest gig to me over MSN, and as the premium blog posting about their exploits it’s my duty to post it for you all to see.

Embers of Sanity - 8th of November at DV8 Nightclub.

Now in case it’s not clear from the text on it, that’s DV8 Nightclub at 12 McKillop street, which runs between Bourke and Little Collins streets and is situated between Elizabeth and Queen.

Now if you have any issues getting there, here is what you do:

1. Go to the intersection of Bourke street and Elizabeth street. This is easily identified as it is located at the end of Bourke Stree Mall (big area you can’t drive on).
2. On one of the corners is a Commonwealth Bank (it’s a T intersection, only so many corners), cross to it.
3. Head up the hill till you reach McKillop Street, it will be on your left. If you are on the same side as the Macdonalds, then you have ignored step 2 and should become an hero.
4. Turn left in to McKillop Street and walk down the resulting hill in front of you. If you end up at Elizabeth street again, you have once again failed.
5. Walk down McKillop Street until you reach the sign indicating DV8 Nightclub, this should be rather obvious due to the large security men and large mass of smokers wearing black.
6. If you did not bring any photo ID proving that you are aged 18 and over, turn back at this point, otherwise negotiate your way past the bouncers and proceed past the line of smokers until you reach a set of steps which will be on your right.
7. Climb the steps and enter the foyer, in front of you will be located a cash register with a nice lady behind it who will quite happily take your $12 entry fee (if you forgot to bring money, you will have to turn back at this point) and to your left will be a staircase.
8. Pay the nice lady with legal tender, she will then stamp your wrist if you succeeded at this step.
9. Walk up the stair case and find some music you like, eventually all the way up the top on floor 3 will be Embers of Sanity.
10. Try not to die.
11. ?????????????????
12. Profit.

Now, these instructions should be fairly clear, if you have any issues with them leave a comment and I will make sure to explain to you where you failed to understand them. But they are quite clear.

Now, if you should happen across a strange guy in his twenties wearing black with long blond hair, and no eyebrows, buy him a Smirnoff Double Black, as that’s me and I helped you to the den of loud noises, alternative girls and decent drinks and you should reward me with alcohol.

At the very least you should say hello.

I might be wearing some red glasses or have fangs, and I have a penchant for wearing either my Static-X/Ill Nino or Soul Fly t-shirts.

Hopefully I’ll see some of you strangers there if you didn’t somehow get lost along the way.
You could always click this link.

Don’t say I’m not nice to you, I am, and I made it so easy for you to get there it’s not funny.

AmK.

Well many of you might be aware that Dattebayo like to release what they like to call “trolls”

These so happen to be things that aren’t what you think you’re downloading, and are something totally different.

So here are a few things to help you notice and identify that something is indeed a troll.

• The filename for the torrent. Now, if it should contain a YHBT prefix or an extra N that shouldn’t be there, such as nns###.torrent, then it is most likely a troll.
• If the release name is slightly odd, such as Naruto Soulpuuden, then it is a troll.
• If it’s a release of something that’s not meant to be out due to the series having a break for a couple of weeks, then it’s most likely a troll.
• If it’s in MKV format, most likely a troll, as they don’t like MKV.
• If they’ve stated that they’re not going to sub something for around a year after release, and then they supposedly release it, then it is a troll.

These are just a few small tips.

Download the trolls all the same as sometimes you get some interesting new viewing material.

If I’ve missed anything, feel free to let me know via a comment about it, and I’ll add it to the list.

I have just been informed by my good friend, Spike Therion, that his band, Embers of Sanity, will be playing on level 3 of DV8 this saturday the 27th of September at 10:30pm.

So if you feel like seeing an up and coming act, check them out, then buy Spike a drink so he gets hammered.

Now, despite previous claims about how Dattebayo hate MKV and will not release in it, just this recent friday they decided to use it for their fresh sub of Naruto Shitpooden: Suicide Bonds.

Now I have one criticism there, that being the intro was at surprisingly low quality, I had difficulty following the lyrics.

Other than that, a top notch product, and I hope you continue to bring such marvelous gems to my eyes, I was quite captivated by it and watched it twice just to try and make sense of it all.

Please continue to do so in future, and don’t mind the squeamish, I don’t.

So for those who like quality japanese material with a dash of mind-fuck, go and download Suicide Bonds, just don’t blame me if it hurts your poor little stomachs or heads.

Well that time is upon us once again.

Respawn, the premium gaming scene of Melbourne is having another event in a few weeks time.

I decided to quote it below just for those of you not willing to go to their main site at http://www.respawn.com.au/ where you will go eventually, because I know you will.

Respawn LAN v9
September 27-28th
The Union Hall, La Trobe University Bundoora

With more win and gold than the Chinese Olympic team comes the next installment of Melbourne’s most popular LAN gaming event, Respawn. We’re back for the Grand Final weekend to bring you a 350 player exclusive event.

Competitions will include:
* Warcraft III 1v1
* Warcraft III DOTA
* QuakeWorld Deathmatch (DM6)
* Flatout 2
* Worms World Party
* CS Source 5v5
* CS Source GunGame

And other servers will include Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3 arena and more! Since we’re running on the Grand Final weekend, we’ll aim to have the game on the projector for those who love their aussie rules.

Registrations are alrady open right here, clicky clicky. We look forward to seeing you there!

So come to Respawn, I’ll be there, so should you.

Ok, now, some of you will be aware by now of what Facebook is, and for that I only raise my eyebrow at you.

For those of you who are as yet unaware, Facebook is yet another social networking site, designed to let people who know people congregate on the internet and exchange interests, photos, and other crap.
It also has this wonderful capability called applications.

Now, what Applications are, are ways to completely waste your time doing utterly pointless things, with the capacity to spread themselves in the manner of a virus.
For most of them they actually require you to spam people in your “friends” (I use the term lightly, as it’s usually a whole heap of people you’re loosely connected to and probably don’t even know, but somehow they think they’re your friend) in order to progress.

The problem with these types of “games” is that people end up having tremendous amounts of spam, so much that facebook actually capped invites and added the capability to completely ignore invitations from apps.
This is good, as I hate having to click ignore for things.

Anyway, this leads me in to this. I’m currently spending a lot of my time playing a few “games” at this moment.

First are the twin games Blood Lust, and Elven Blood, which are essentially the same game, except one’s a post-apocalyptic vampire setting, and the other one has unicorns and elves and shit.

The other game is Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition: Tiny Adventures.
This “game” is officially supported by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, and has proven so popular they had to get better hosting to deal with the network traffic.
Basically choose your class, which gives you a set statline and restricts what gear you can equip.
You then get to buy and sell equipment, which alters your statline, which often doesn’t matter as only stat-mods are used to determine how well you go.
Then you get to go questing on some pre-scripted scenarios, earn gold, loot and experience with the goal of getting to level 11 and retiring your character.
This game keeps breaking and is slightly unbalanced.
It’s also fun.

But yes, facebook, less complicated than World of Warcraft, costs less money, and is more time consuming.
It also contains all sorts of weirdos, like me.

If you like wasting time on pointless webgames, go there.

Just don’t add me.

Haven’t posted in some time.

Had skin ripped to shred by a girl named Chocolate, had the flu thanks to her as well.

Anyway go here as I’ve been told not to link this blog as someone will get in trouble for it.
It’s posted anyway.

Oh and I have a party here with a bunch of lanners.

Loud lanners are loud.

Enough said.

Well originally I wasn’t going to be going to DV8 on this saturday the 9th of August due to a LAN event, however I’d totally forgotten I said I was going to be at a mate’s 21st on that same night.

Now I was meant to go to another mate’s birthday last sunday but totally forgot due to saturday night drinking.
So I figure I shouldn’t miss this one. It’ll look bad.

So yes, after birthday shindig we’re planning to move over to DV8.

Much alcohol will be consumed in huge amounts.

Also, my mate Spike, who DJs at DV8 (10 till 12 set this sat on floor 1) has a band, that band is playing on wednesday, you should all go and see them because he is metal and wants me to spam people with it.

Spike's band has a gig.

Yes, that strangely hard to red text up the top of it says Embers of Sanity and I think I shall mock him about that… Spike you have been mocked.

The more people who turn up the better supposedly, they’re recording it or so I’ve been told.

So anyway, go to DV8 this saturday and every saturday as it is awesome, and come to the gig on wednesday as Spike is awesome.

Also, I am awesome.

That is all.

–AmK–

Well this is a small first time review of something because it was there, I was there and well it was cheap.
What I’m talking about is Coca Cola’s second attempt at the energy drink market, AKA Mother version 2.0

Now as I’m a gamer, naturally the assumption is that I consume energy drinks, and in this case that’d be right, I do, fairly constantly with the occasional day where I don’t drink them.
They are my lifeblood, or something to that matter.

Not only do I drink them, but I go out of my way when I see a new one to try it to see if anything can top my choices of V or Red Eye, and naturally they usually disappoint.

So tonight I went to the supermarket with the intention to buy some supplies and possibly my second bottle of V (I forgot the first one that I purchased at the fish and chip shop.)

What should I see before my eyes, but a big black can called Mother.

Now the majority of people who’ve tried the initial version in the white can will attest it’s absolutely foul, a failed experiment by Coca Cola, though I’ve heard if you think of apples while drinking it that it makes sense.

So what do we have but a big black can claiming it’s “completely reformulated” and it “tastes nothing like the old one!”

Mother: Version 2

Just some pictures I took when I got home of this 500ml of “potent energy”

It also basically sounds like if you drink anything else, you’re a girlyman and a pussy.

Anyway, now on to what people have been waiting for, what it tastes like.
At this point I haven’t even opened it, so here I go.

Can opened like any other, no extreme smells or explosions.

Getting closer it seems to smell like a generic guarana drink, which makes sense as it contains guarana extract.

And now to lift this huge black thing up to my lips in a non homo-erotic way and taste it.

Hmm, well it doesn’t seem offensive to the mouth on first taste, is similar to pretty much every generic energy drink.

Bubbles hit the front of my tongue so I’m tasting with the back, and well it seems ok.

It’s nothing special, but it’s nothing horrible either.

Looking at it I’ve a feeling it could work quite nicely for jager bombs as it’s 500ml, generic, bubbly, sweet, all those things.

It looks like Coca Cola might have found something and implemented it right.

• Calling people weak if they drink an alternative.
• Xbox huge can of 500ml, not much shorter than a V bottle, but much larger than the 440ml cans that other companies are using.
• Tastes nothing like the old one much as their claim.
• Tastes nothing like Black V, AKA coffee flavoured V.
• Similar pricing to a bottle of V
• Nothing like the old drink.

So there you go, cheap, generic tasting energy drink in a huge can.

So if you’re a size-queen and want a lot of the stuff, go for it.

Now to see if I can get it in a four pack or something, could just come in handy at a LAN.

So have no fear, drink it, mix it with alcoholic drinks, go crazy with it, it’s good shit.

Now to finish the can, if any negative impacts happen due to it, I’ll be sure to post them.
This might take awhile.