This comic is absolutely hilarious.

Well, we are coming to that time of year when there is nothing worth watching on television. All the heavy-hitting shows of the fall and winter months have wrapped up their seasons, and we are left with the terrible pilots that always surface during the summer months. Most of the shows you will be watching until August - assuming you tune in - will likely be cancelled before they reach the end of their season. But not the ones that just wrapped up. Those were the truly great shows. So, let’s take a look at how they ended things for this year:

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I have not mentionned Gotcha on this blog since I described my daring escape from Marguerite, but things have developed a lot since then. Slowly but surely, the number of people participating in Gotcha have disappeared. Now, I am one of only two people left. My opponent is Skyler: a sixteen year-old computer science student. There have been a few close calls in this nail-biting game between the two of us. On one occasion, I had just returned from Wal-Mart (where I went sans toilet paper) and I had just entered my room to reclaim my safety item. I was untangling it as I walked out, and he rounded the corner. Fortunately, I simply had to step backwards into my room to be safe.

More recently, he came walking around the corner and was missing his safety item since he had recently been in the shower. I was playing Tales of Phantasia on my GameBoy Advance in the lounge, and I did not notice immediately that he was not wearing his safety item. I gave chase, and I tagged him as he straddled the threshold of his doorway. I think I should have won, but he disputed it. This will only increase his humiliation when he loses.

Now, in order to spice things up, Yee Han - our don - has decided to add an additional safety item to the mix. Not only will we have to walk around with a roll of toilet paper around our necks, but we will also be required to wear a shower curtain as a cape. I fear that if this continues, I will be wearing a shower curtain, toilet paper, and holding a plunger as a sceptre while writing my midterms.

Keep your fingers crossed people. Pray for my success.

Alright. So, I let you down last week. There was no Foxy Friday. In fact, even this one was a little late.

A certain man who does things with bravado thought he could do a better job with a Foxy Friday than I could. Well, unfortunately for him, he was wrong. Dead wrong.

By sheer coincidence, he had just happened to steal away the lovely woman who was going to be featured in my Foxy Friday. But, through the arts of persuasion and seduction, I have managed to lure her voluptuous form back to The Box. So, here she is, the way she should have been presented: Catherine Bell.

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Metroid Prime 3 has a scheduled release date of August 20th. Which, unfortunately, places it right in the exam period for me.

Damn. Oh well. I guess I’ll have another little wager to make with my father.

Also, the Super Smash Bros. announcement is thus far a bust, since the site does not say anything (even though the counter is up).

It seems that the only way to acquire Half-Life 2: Episode Two will be to purchase the entirety of Half-Life 2 (+ expansions) again, and use only the one product code. This seems like a really absurd idea…and I cannot imagine why it was difficult to get just the expansion and extra content into a nice retail package. But someone deemed it unworthy.

I like how they describe what you should do in the official statement:

Those who purchase the PC version of The Orange Box will get three separate Steam product codes: One for the three new games, one for HL2, and one for Episode One. This way a PC Orange Box owner can give away their Half-Life 2 or Episode One unused Steam product codes if they don’t need a copy of those games.

Ah. So, you buy the game, and if you already have Half-Life 2 and Episode One, then you have to barter with your friends to find a buyer. That’s just special.