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Here is a pic of the Alien marker, the Independence. It’s pretty much the same ol’ schpeel, though it does have a few unique features. First, it’ll come with a 45° or 85°, like the Interceptor. Also, it has a built-in low-rise feedneck, like the Bob Long Marq. Other than that, pretty much like any other high-end marker out there, just made by some brand no one really recognizes.
Welt Magazine, a “100% Free, 100% Online” magazine, launched today.
It has to be free and online, or else no one would read it.
They try to put off the whole “we’re badass mother fuckers,” but just fail at it, horribly. It seems like it was written by a 12 year old the night before with punctuation and grammar mistakes everywhere. Who needs to proofread things? We’re badass mother fuckers.
They also love to use cuss words, but don’t actually use them so you end up with “words” like f**k and d*ck everywhere making half of their “magazine” stars.
But there are no long or in depth articles in it. Just a bunch of one-liners and old pictures, with even more annoying and old videos.
It’s Die Hard in a magazine.
Though not really. Die Hard is actually entertaining, while this is just crap. Their hard hitting articles are “How To Bonus Ball In Six Easy Steps” and an interview with one of their “readers” and ask hard hitting questions like “Favorite Cookie?”
Yippee Ki Yay, Motherfucker
It even includes such great lines as
It ain’t often that you get to see a gun that looks as hot as your best mate’s mom when she passed out naked that one time, but you gotta admit this is one sexy shooter
What? Are you trying to appeal to all those 8 year olds out there? Does that even make sense?
There is nothing like WELT in the world today, probably because of things like lawyers.
Actually, no. It’s a thing called common sense. No one would be stupid enough to release a “magazine” as horrible as this is. I don’t think lawyers had anything to do with it, but if they did, they were some pretty smart lawyers.
Here’s a new marker coming from Bob Long dubbed the “Protege”. Though there’s a nice $100 bill covering most of the body, it does look like it’s going back to the timmy design instead of the Marq design. According to the scale, it comes in at 1 pound 10.8 ounces, or 1.675 lbs, or about 0.76 kg for you metric lovers out there.
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Another PSP is over, and like usual, not much happened. Bea Youngs tried her hand at micro-blogging, which was kinda interesting, but the format that it was presented was just lacking. This should’ve been posted yesterday, or really Sunday, but my connection has been a little quirky lately.
But, PBStar does have some footage of the event. I’ve embedded the 3 videos after the scores and jump.
Anyways, Russian Legion, err Boston Red Legion, won the event with Dynasty taking second and the Naughty Dogs and Ironmen filling out third and fourth.
Here are the scores
NXL
Open
D2 Xball
D3 Xball
D3 5-Man
D4 5-Man
Bea Youngs is going to cover the NXL on BeaYoungs.com. She’s going to be covering NXL matches, so I assume she’ll post something like, team x beat team y XX to YY points, and maybe, if something interesting happens, she’ll mention that. It might be entertaining for a bit.
Though, of course, I have to critique everything.
First, only half of the links really work. Want to read the comments of a post? Click the ‘Read More’ image. Nothing else will get you there. Then visited links will have strike-through through them, which just seems stupid.
It doesn’t really look too bad, except that the header takes up nearly all of the view port at the beginning, so you’ll be scrolling a lot to read anything.
But most the annoying part is that there is no RSS feed, or at least one I could find. The CMS has RSS feed support, so why aren’t you using it? If you do, I’ll guarantee you’ll have at least one subscriber.
Anyways, this isn’t the best way to do it at all. First, in order to update, you have to have a computer with internet access, unless you have nice smart phone. So updates are probably not going to be that frequent.
What you’re doing, or at least what I think you’re trying to do, is micro-blog, sending short messages about your status and what’s going on using something like Twitter which will allow you to update via text messages. You can now update whenever and wherever.
Now, if anyone wants to actually do micro-blogging with Twitter (or a clone), let me know. I’ll gladly write about it and promote it.
If you’re wondering, they’re using ExpressionEngine, which I’ve never really heard of, though it’s pretty obvious I haven’t been missing anything. WordPress is a much better choice.