Every so often a great indie game popsup out of nowhere and tickles my fancy. I present to you Rainbow Rapture from Kindling Games.

Rainbow Rapture is a simple concept of a game. You play as a cloud bent on devouring several towns worth of people. You float along diving and rising to get more speed and people. Plus you tack on the happy music box style music the carries you throughout the game and you have a sweetly twisted game fun for that inner weirdo.

It’s not big on graphics or achievements, but it’s great for just a quick and simple game. There is a list of challenges to get through, but they ‘re things you’ll inadvertently end up accomplishing anyways. So no worries about trying too hard to get them.

You can also download this game as an Android App

Ok so this game came out a few weeks ago and this review is obviously a little late to the party, but cut me some slack I have been ill or wrapped up in the game.

Gotham City Impostors is a MMO styled similarly to Team Fortress 2 or any of the other cartoonier death-match style games. It has a few standout feature but those primarily are derived from the Batman elements of the game.

In the game you get to be either one of two teams, The Batz and The Jokerz and or course your character can be styled accordingly. You have a good chunk of options for both teams. You can edit their loadouts, personalities, costumes and traits. One of my favorites is messing with the voice of your character. You can unlock a myriad of choices in this game, but the voices and the editor are truly my favorites. My Batz character occasionally says in a little kid voice “I’ll knock the howdy doody out of those jerks!”

As much as I love this game I am very frustrated with the servers and how they hiccup so much. Plus the interface for playing with friends is a bit tricky/wonky. I have played online with Rob Manier and our very own Nude Gamer, but the one with Rob was the game that gave me a bit of trouble. It didn’t want to let us to connect to each other then when we did, the games kept glitching and kicking us.
Apparently this game is very repeat friendly with over 1000 level upgrades and upcoming FREE DLC. I am enjoying what I have seen so far. I am currently level 36 with a few interesting perks. One of my support items is a set of glider wings which I use to circle certain levels and dive bomb the enemies.I understand new games sometimes underestimate their popularity or are in a rush to get the game out to market and sometimes they aren’t built for the workload. I don’t want to be one of those inconsiderate gamers who incessantly bitch about every aspect of a new game. I am hopeful that with a bit more time these kinks will work themselves out.

Another interesting fact is that you can sign up on the GCI website for Warner Brothers ID, which I believe will eventually gain you access to new costumes, upgrades and other fun addons. You can use this to try your stats and keep up on all the games you have played in. You can also hunt down those who you have played against and challenge them.

I suggest this game to anyone looking for a good death-match style MMO. It’s only 1200 MSP, and the replay value is pretty high as long as you can not be too picky about the minor glitches. If you endup downloading this game, hit me up on XBL, my gamertag is MadWorldOdd.

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Her words dripped softly from plump lips
the prosody of the utterance flowing
churning like chocolate, slow like honey
waves of pitch rising and falling
entrancing my thought-swarmed-baited-breathe
I hung hungrily on each delicious detail
Sprung and desperate like adolescent dreams
Flushed and shaky, naked before her

© Jessi Shaffer 2011

We kill wildlife

With cascading buildings

and winding roads

They replace

Forests and trees

Smog covers colorful skies

Birds crash and fall at my feet

In the city center

I hold grand memorial

To the loss of forgotten souls

Invisible hearts in a concrete jungle

© Jessi Shaffer 2011

Well this mark the 6th entry in the adventures of Bones McCrackin’.  I have to say I am a believer in the good that it can do, it does still suck that the cost remains sometimes prohibitive, but regular care and visits are helping my posture and daily movement.

My mother bought me a insole to slip into my left shoe and after a week or so of walking on it I can say that it has helped me back and hip. I am still slightly lopsided, but not as much which isn’t putting so much stress on the hip. I notice it most when I am walking around barefoot at home.

I had a laugh with my Chiropractor the last visit, he was having difficulty getting me to crack and had to roll me onto my back and bear hug a pop out of my back. When he gripped me up I said “Aww, I love you too Tucker”, which elicited an uneasy chuckle out of him. I think he is slowly warming up to me.

I have to skip this weeks appointment due to my being sick. I actually believe it was just a case of food poisoning, but better safe than being typhoid Odd!

I’ll have more to report next week. I am going ask if there are any tricks or things I can do for myself at home in between visits. After puking so much the other day, I screwed my back up rather quickly and now get to suffer til next Wednesday.

I re-posted an image (This Image) which had an old photo of Jewish people behind a barbed wire fence. It had been tinted orange and done demotivational style with the words “Orange Jews, 100% Concentrated”. It offended a mutual friend (using that term loosely as it was a fairly new facebook friendship), She called me kind of an asshole to which I made a rip on her for not knowing me very well if she only thinks I am “kind of” an asshole.

It drops at that until the next morning. Where I wake up to a slurry of comments and a message from Mr. Henry.

“You better call me tomorrow. I am sorely pissed. What you did there with the orange jews thing is unacceptible to me, and would be to any Jew alive. I am not Jewish in the least, but anyone ANYONE who thinks that shit’s funny will never be called friend by me. PERIOD. You stepped WAY over the line.”

So seeing that I immediately get out of bed and head to my laptop. I take down the image and post an apology which is strictly out of character for me, but since I considered Mr. Henry a friend I figured I should make amends and then call him. Unfortunately he ducked my call….

“I’ve been up most all night here. Yes, I could have taken your call at 5 am, but I chose not to…..”

It devolved greatly from there, but that isn’t the point of this post. I am writing this to say that yes it was an image in very bad taste, but the fact is that I am very much like that image and I make no apologies for being me. I am that joke you don’t want to laugh at, but you end up laughing anyways. I am that part of you that you like to forget exists, that society may have beaten or belittled out of you. I seem to make friends easily because they supposedly love the take no prisoners, calling out bullshit and cracking wise on all that I see attitude. That is until the eye is on them or on something they hold sacred. Then it’s abandon ship and run for the hills as fast as you can.

This has pretty much been the story of my life and at this point, I have come to accept it and not really bat an eye when it happens. I always find it strange though that more often than not, the reason they love ends up ultimately being the reason they loath me too. I can rest easy at night, I am not putting on airs to get people to accept me. Like me or hate me I am still going to remain me.

I make jokes about EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. Nothing is held sacred to me, life is comedy and if you don’t or can’t see that then I am feel truly sorry for you. Also, anyone who truly knows me should know I am not racist or antisemitic. I consider the Jewish people to be one of the strongest culture of people out there. The hardships and the hand life dealt them have in my opinion given them the thickest of skins. That doesn’t excuse the picture, but it explains what my thoughts truly are on them as a people.

I guess the part that “hurt” was that I made the mistake of counting Mr. Henry as a solid friend and that I confused a solid friend with being part of the inner circle. Yes, there is an inner sanctum of people. It’s small, but at least they are ok with who I am. It’s also a bit confusing when I have heard many an off-color (Using that as a broad term to not “out” the actual content of the humor) joke from the old blues musician. I never got bent out of shape about some of the content, I just chuckled and put in the all in good fun column.

I feel that you should give full disclosure with people about the things that are triggers. I posted to twitter that if you go drawing unknown lines in the sand, you can’t get upset when someone inadvertently steps over them. In the last Sunday show, I said on air that to me that friendship is an uneasy truce between two people to not purposely push the buttons they know will set them off.

Know this, I am not sorry for posting something I thought was humorous on my own facebook wall. The reason I thought it was humorous was for the double pun. I can admit it was in poor taste, but sometimes with me you have to understand that you’ll get just that. It’s because I am not afraid to push the envelope and make the cringe jokes.

I recently posted this update on facebook….

“I am considering a decision regarding facebook that may or may not effect the lot of you.”

The decision I am mulling over is to either abandon facebook for business purposes and use it solely for personal use or ditch the personal contacts and keep those interested in the business. I can’t have folks getting bent out of shape over every little thing and frankly I am sick of the drama in my life. You people need to decide whether you want to like me or not. As I said, I am going to keep being me. I just wanna be me with out the headache of knowing you.

MISSION: I want you guys to hit up our call in line with your horror stories from social media posting. What have you posted that got people all up in arms. Call us at 1 734 743 1697

I decided that until it gets a name we will be only putting forth parts of the Sunday show, this bit is the opening song, interview with Katie Goodman and then two more songs. If you dig Katie and her music head over to the links provided below.

So give me some ideas as to waht to call our Sunday night show. Follow me on twitter (@madworldradio) and use the tag #OddsSundayTitle Best one wins a neat prize.

http://katiegoodman.com/

http://www.unfuckitup.com/

https://www.facebook.com/thekatiegoodman

https://www.twitter.com/KatieGoodman

P.S. I am looking for your horror stories of social media. Flack you have caught for posting things to your OWN wall. Call us and share at 1 734 743 1697 or email me at Odd@phoneticbells.com subject line Social Horror

My guests in this episode are D.I. Prime and his Loverly girlfriend Sue Blair. We talked about many things, but the main topic we kept coming around to was that we three had seen Kevin Smith: Live From Behind. We decided to pick apart what we liked and what we didn’t.

We alos poked a bit of fun at the evil one (Billy Zebubba) for his narcolepsy act during the broadcast. To be fair he was the victim of $2 16 oz. beers from a local bar. We caught Two O’Clock High playing at The Avenue Sports Grille here in Wayne Michigan. They’ll be back there on February  23rd from 8pm til 1am so make sure your asses are in attendance.

Last night was mostly a show about puns and crude humor, so another normal episode of Mad World Radio. Debuting last night was our Featured Artist segment where each show for a month we showcase one artist/group. This month is Mark Claytor who has been a big supporter of The Phonetic Bells Network. Which is exactly how we are picking our featured artists, the bands that promote that their music is being played on our network the most get the shot at our brass ring.

MUSIC PLAYED

Trending today is that fact that an organization built on the prevention of breast cancer and making sure every girl/woman has access to mammograms has decided to say F-U to women in favor of listening to the holy rolling bible thumping clans.

Komen for the Cure is an organization setup bu Susan Komen a cancer survivor. The idea was to offer affordable screenings to ALL women. The best way to do this was to partner with the Planed Parenthood facilities around the country, this makes perfect sense to me since a lot of people can’t afford healthcare and those clinics offer more than just abortions for women. Sometimes that is as close as a woman gets to having a doctor.

Thank to pressure from the Religious Right (often wrong), Komen is pulling the affordable screenings from having any involvement with Planned Parenthood. The reason? It’s because the holier than thou crowd doesn’t like that the Planned Parenthood also offers abortions and birth control.

Komen has come under fire in the past for questionable actions, but this really takes the cake in flat out insensitivity and lack of caring. So because a woman chooses to do the responsible thing? Be it an abortion or just getting on birth control, you feel the need to take away her ability to stay on top of her health. Nearly 40000 women and 440 men die from invasive breast cancer ~Us News Health 

That number can be greatly reduced by having access to regular screenings. Which were available to all until they pulled this stunt. I sincerely hope that someone or some organization steps in to replace Komen’s involvement so ladies everywhere can get easy access to regular screenings. I also hope Komen fades away into obscurity, because obviously they only THEIR interests at heart.

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A petition has popped up to convince groups to send their money to better organizations instead of Komen