Monster Mash: Loser's League, Battle 1

Greetings, Sports Fans!

As Monster Mash fans no doubt know, Greentech Corporation has partnered with everyone's new favorite animal-battling company to bring you EVEN MORE animal brawls! Greentech is an expert in life reanimation, monster wrangling, and not cringing when witnessing something really gross, so we are a perfect choice to hold THE LOSER'S LEAGUE!

Yes, the Loser's League. Just because six of the twelve monsters competing in Monster Mash were brained, squashed, or fed to giant plants does not mean they're unsalvageable! Our crack team of doctors, surgeons, back-alley quacks, mechanics, roboticists, necromancers, alternative healers, and white mages are hard at work breathing life back into the six beasts that failed to win the first round. Of course, sometimes we get lucky and don't have to do anything to revive a monster. You'll see what I mean soon.

Voting works much the same as in Round 1. State your vote and present your case as to why you think your pick will triumph. The votes will be Tractored and a winner will emerge to move on deeper into the tournament!

Let's meet today's contestants...

Chatzy Madness Volume 55: Bowser Hangs Himself

RedSpy: Truly that would be the world's worst curse
RedSpy: Having Cole and King narrate your sex life
RedSpy: "BAD GUY, FROM BEHIND"

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RedSpy: THQuality in real life
Draco: O_o
TheDeleter: wow
Draco: The one guy's just curled up in a ball?
RedSpy: Think about it
RedSpy: You can't pin that
RedSpy: Makes for shit TV, but you can't pin that if you can't break the ball

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M Sheep joined the chat
Gooper Blooper: M Sheep takes time out from his grueling 18-country drama tour to join us in Chatzy
M Sheep: In over 110 languages!
M Sheep: But yeah, finally done with everything for now
Gooper Blooper: Man, I actually said "18" completely at random
Gooper Blooper: It's in my fucking subconscious at this point
SteelKomodo: XD
Gooper Blooper: Six straight months of this insanity

Legalized Gambling For Children 14 Years Later

I have right here ten packs of eight cards each from the Topps "Pokemon: The First Movie" trading card set. I am quite a ways from a complete set, but I do have over half the cards. With eighty new cards to pull from these packs, I should finish this blog post substantially closer to my goal.

So, what's in this set? Here's the rundown:

-The meat of the set is a collection of 72 cards based on the original Pokemon movie and the "Pikachu's Vacation" short that aired before it. Each of the 72 cards also has a holofoil variation, and there is one holofoil in every pack - guaranteed. I am missing 17 "First Movie" cards and 7 "Pikachu's Vacation" cards.
-There are two sets of rarer cards. The first type is the "Evolution Cards" set, which consists of twelve cards featuring the Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Dratini families. Each of these cards can be holofoil, uniquely shaped, or ordinary. The odds of getting a unique-shaped evolution card are listed as 1 in 12 on the pack, making these little gits a real pain to gather if you want all the variations. I've managed to collect eight of the cards - I'm missing Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, and Dragonair.
-The third type of card is the "sticker card". On one side is a sticker, and on the other side is a piece of a picture. There are twelve sticker cards and the odds of getting one is 50/50. I don't have a single sticker card.

Miscellaneous Facts:

-These packs originally cost 1.99 each, as marked on the package. I bought the whole lot of ten for eleven bucks, so I actually got a discount here.
-Every pack has an identical design - it's a great foil wrapper with a picture of Mewtwo on it.
-The back of the package offers a bizarre sweepstakes that allows people to mail contest entries to Topps for a chance to win additional cards "at the same odds". Sweepstakes winners don't get the evolution sets or holofoils - they just get a random card. One. But then again, if you remember 1999 like I'm pretty sure it went down, that was enough for a lot of kids to enter. It's almost impossible to overstate just how huge Pokemon was for people my age in 1999.

Chatzy Madness Volume 54 - The Gardener's Bear

Saberwulf: Oh, Sir Del
TheDeleter: aye
TheDeleter: post in CoL got it
Saberwulf: You read my mind hahaha
Saberwulf: Also Bennett failed a grapple check so he might get shot in the skull
TheDeleter: i'll do it right after i finish this powerpoint, write about a thousand words about levels and figure out how to make camstudio not suck shit
TheDeleter: nah screw it
TheDeleter: i'll do it now
Saberwulf: Hey man, take your time. It's chill
Saberwulf: Things are frosty like Sub Zero
Saberwulf: Ice to meet you
Saberwulf: I ran out of jokes
TheDeleter: you've truly broken the ice
Saberwulf: That joke's such low-hanging fruit it's Antarctic
TheDeleter: I'm gonna go help bennet
TheDeleter: he's a cool dude
Saberwulf: Cheng rageeee
TheDeleter: don't want him frozen out of the adventure already
TheDeleter: it'd be cold of you
Saberwulf: I'm going to vomit

Unfinished Business: A Look at my Pokemon Card Collection

So, as Chatzy-dwellers know, I have recently decided to make an effort to finish my old Pokemon card collections after taking stock on a whim and seeing I was quite close to finishing some of my sets.

I started collecting Pokemon cards in 1999 (like just about everyone else) and spent about a year feverishly gathering pieces of paper until they were banned at my school. With my trading outlet gone, my collecting faltered, eventually petering out entirely around 2003.

My personal criteria of what constitutes a complete set is pretty loose. Here's the basics:

1: Several card sets feature both holofoil and non-holo versions of certain cards. As long as I have one or the other, I consider that card obtained.
2: There were numerous reprints of older cards in the series. For instance, cards in the original Base Set were reprinted in Base Set 2 and the Legendary Collection. I readily accept these reprints as counting towards the total - all that matters is the card's content, especially its' art.
3: Sure, I'd love pristine, mint cards of everything, but if the only Ninetales I can find is battered and worn, then by Elohim it's going in the binder.
4: As for what sets to collect - I have limited myself to a group of sets that were all released during Pokemon's early years. Have you SEEN how many sets the TCG has now? It's utterly ridiculous. I've pared things down to a total of seven different sets - four from the TCG and three others, plus a couple promotional and bonus sets to bring the grand total of "sets" to nine.

Chatzy Madness Volume 53: Eggwang

SteelKomodo: Japan why u so deranged
TheDeleter: they are cramped together on an small island with not a lot of livable space and their culture emphasises obediance and respect for betters no matter how crazy those betters are
TheDeleter: it's an entire nation with cabin fever
Saberwulf: Yaaayyy
TheDeleter: whoooo

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Saberwulf: I actually paid money for Spore
VeryHungrySpy: We all did
VeryHungrySpy: Oh, we all did . . .
SteelKomodo: :<
TheDeleter: :<
TheDeleter: never again
VeryHungrySpy: Until Spore 2 comes out
VeryHungrySpy: And we're all fooled again
SteelKomodo: or they actually make it work
TheDeleter: hahaha, EA fucked up with maxis on simcity recently, they won't do ANYTHING for a while now

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BadSpy: Don't forget to have Garland and the Sentinels come back as robots so Erebus and Jonesy's kid from the future can kill them with his sword
TheDeleter: don't you do it spy
TheDeleter: don't you start

Grey Knight and Conehead Go to White Castle

A Chatzy compilation of moments from an online playthrough of Castle Crashers.

Grey Knight: RedSpy
Conehead: Gooper Blooper
Royal Guard: Gentleman Draco (present only for Industrial Castle, Lava World, Pirate Ship, Desert, UFO, and Marsh)

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(Grey Knight stands underneath an owl that is relieving itself out of fright)

RedSpy: Owl shower :D
SteelKomodo: Showler

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(A group of unarmed Thief enemies are running away from an unknown attacker. Grey Knight charges after them and tries to kill them before they run offscreen)

Gooper Blooper: spy no theyre running away
RedSpy: NO MERCY FOR THE WEAK
RedSpy: WARPDAMNIT JONESY
TheDeleter: "Don't blame me for your own failures >​=I"

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Harpy joined the chat
Gooper Blooper: hey harpy
RedSpy: Ey Harpy
Harpy: oi
RedSpy: You're just in time for Grey Knight and Conehead Go To White Castle
Harpy: i thought grey knight hated coneheads
Harpy: WHY ARE YOU WORKING WITH THE ENEMY
RedSpy: We're actually on the most confusing level
Gooper Blooper: It looks pretty hilarious really since we're on the wedding level now
RedSpy: Grey Knights Seige Conehead Caslte
RedSpy: So we just keep getting distracted
TheDeleter: Hullo mari
RedSpy: (Also I introduced Goops to wonderful tricks like digging everywhere and the Owl Shower)
Harpy: "most confusing level"
Harpy: more like the level where the cake always saves your life
Gooper Blooper: MY OWN CLONE

Chatzy Madness Volume 52: Baby's First Creepypasta

Saberwulf: I just realized
Saberwulf: I have tortilla chips, shredded cheese and a microwave
Saberwulf: Time for ghetto nachoes
TheDeleter: do it
SteelKomodo: yessssss

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SteelKomodo: also, there's gonna be options for flirting with wimminz
SteelKomodo: that nets you bonuses and stuff
SteelKomodo: and each episode has a unique female lead that Dirk goes after like the loser he is
RedSpy: Pffft yes
SteelKomodo: Leisure Suit Dirk
SteelKomodo: like the wrestling episode has this girl from mebbe oklahoma or something like that
SteelKomodo: and the first time Dirk makes a move on her she suplexes him
SteelKomodo: "Yep... she digs me... '@_@"
RedSpy: Ahahahaha suplexes
RedSpy: Sabinette
SteelKomodo: indeed
SteelKomodo: also Dirk takes the piss out of whatever the subject matter of the episode is
SteelKomodo: like in the Watchmen episode, when he paraphrases Rorschach's famous quote
SteelKomodo: "The whores will look up and cry 'Save us!'... and I'll whisper... '2/10, wouldn't fuck."
RedSpy: "And the ladies will look up and say "Dirk, please let us show you our asses." And I will say . . . "Fuck yeah!" "
RedSpy: Pffft I almost had it
SteelKomodo: I'll save both, just in case

Chatzy Madness Volume 51: Game of Bones

Deletons joined the chat
Deletons: hullo
SteelKomodo: oh lawd D:
SteelKomodo: bro you okay why are you a skeleton
Deletons: i have playtested myself
Deletons: TO DEATH
Deletons rattles bones
SteelKomodo: D:
SteelKomodo: ...how went it?
Deletons: it went great

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SteelKomodo: XD
SteelKomodo: ...someone is playing Venga Boys quite loud in the distance
SteelKomodo: loud enough for me to faintly hear
RedSpy: I read that as Vegeta Boys
Deletons: Bad Men
SteelKomodo: oh god no that would be terrifying XD