99 Lives

Wanna play? My 360 tag is bandersnatched.

The last episode of 24 ended with the death of Graem Bauer, the evil brother, bluetooth-wearing villain that everyone loves to hate. While I don’t share the animosity towards him that many fans do, their inane ramblings and crackpot theories brought on by his constant appearances will be sorely missed:

Liquid / Bluetooth Bauer is a complete tool. You do NOT walk away and leave not one, but TWO Bauers together, in the same place. That’s like putting an ass-kicking in a petri dish with an unholy terror and waiting for them to breed a new species of armageddon.

– Kajijima

Why the HECK do you want Graem back!!!! He’s a freakin traitor!!! Anyone who tries to kill Jack is officialy my enemy!!! Traitor…..

– 24myadiction

NOOO WAAYYY….GRAHAM CAN’T BE JACK’S BROTHER..
IF IT CAME UP AS THAT JACK WON’T HURT HIM, HE KILLS HIM AS LOUD AS HE CAN

– dj_mrt

January 23rd, 2007 - I write a post covering Jack Thompson’s docu-drama Mortal Kombat

January 30th, 2007 - I leave a comment on the “4girlgamers” blog with a link to this blog. 4girlgamers belongs to Faith, an editor for popular game culture blog, Destructoid.

February 4th, 2007 - Faith writes a post about Mortal Kombat on Destructoid, linking to the same YouTube video. She references GamePolitics which is heavy on Jack’s legal battles but details on the Mortal Kombat docu-drama are mysteriously not present.

February 6th, 2007 - Upon discovering all of this, I can’t help but to find myself feeling flattered.

Jack’s back. Not demoralized from his latest setbacks, he’s now appearing in a trailer for an anti-gamer Docu-Drama entitled “Mortal Kombat”.

As usual from anything involving Jack, there’s a lot of shock-value but little hard evidence. Images of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold flash across the screen as Jack predicts “a Columbine-link incident to the factor of ten”. Another part links school children as potential cop-killers thanks to Grand Theft Auto and claims 9.11 terrorists trained on Microsoft Flight Simulator. Other known critics of games such as Joe Lieberman make an appearance.

Further digging reveals a Myspace page with little detail besides a link to “mortalkombatmovie.com”, which appears to be owned by a domain-squatter. Another vile gamer, no doubt.

After much procrastination, here it is. I know there’s not much content at the moment, so to keep you amused, here’s a homage to getting 99 lives in Super Mario World. Ahh, memories.