It's Black and Bruised month!

(Public service announcement: I don't recommend typing "black and bruised" into Google Image Search - lots of depressing results.)

Time for another one-game month! This time it's the goofy, cel-shaded boxing brawler Black and Bruised from the PS2. Heck, why don't I just let the request speak for itself:

Now I don't blame you if you've never heard of it. It flew under the radar years ago and lasted like a month before hitting the bargain bin but thats not to say it's awful. I mean it's not good but it's not awful.

But you know what is awful? The fact there are like zero good videos of this game on youtube! The ones featuring everyone's favorite boxing babes (Janet, Holly, etc) are all camcorder crap. We need a pro like you to fix this!

Now I love what you're doing with Wrestle Angles Survivor 2 and RRXX but I think it's time to dust off this old overlooked classic.

Well, never let it be said I don't have a good video capture device. The only caveat I'll issue here is that some of the matches are going to be pretty short - this is a "boxing-based" game, not a boxing game, so there's not a lot of fancy footwork and blocking, it's mostly the two women throwing punches at each other's face until one of them can't get up. I mean, I can run away from the opponent to make a match last longer, but not only does that feel kind of contrary to the game's spirit, but it also is probably pretty fucking boring to watch. So I didn't! There's no Knockout Kings 2001 style 30 minute duels here. Whether you prefer this style or not, I guess you'll just have to watch the videos to find out.

I'm back & HOLY SHIT what did they do to YouTube??

Well, I'm back. How was the vacation? Awesome, thanks; We went to the Epcot Food & Wine Festival, and I finally got to go on Soarin', which holy shit, nobody cares about hearing about my vacation, do they? Let's leave it at that I'm rested and relaxed, and should now be responding to messages and comments much sooner*.

Also, jesus god, what the hell happened to the YouTube front page? And I thought them fucking around with the way the channels look was bad. Holy hell. Well, um, stay tuned for December; Check back on Saturday for the first match of another special month, and check back here for the big announcement. Can this top two extremely polygonal women hitting each other with sinks and traffic cones in the WCW bathroom? Amazingly, the answer is yes. Cue shocked emoticon to end post on:

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* As in probably within three weeks instead of six

Vacation time woop woop woop woop!!!!!

It's that time of the year again - time to pay ten month's worth of mortgage payments to jet down to Disney's Polynesian Resort for 2 weeks of fun, sun, fun in the sun, sun's fun in the sun that has fun with the sun whose sun we are having fun with.

Ahem. As you can tell, I'm excited. As noted, pretty much at least the first half of November is going to be a wash. I'll try to upload a 100% body 0% muscle match for Thanksgiving and make some lame jokes about how they all ate a lot of turkey and mashed potatoes ha ha etc. Otherwise upload activity is probably going to be pretty light, and responding to comments/messages is going to be not at all during the first half and at a slower pace during the second half (okay, who yelled "is that even possible"). Wish me a nice vacation, and if you see a slouching guy who needs to shave with his wife with big boobs in the Polynesian, yes, I will sign autographs.

Irene, you cunt!

Now a super quick service advisory: The Ryona Kingdom is located in beautiful upstate NY, so we're in the path of Irene, although by the time it gets here it should be down to Tropical Storm levels and not actual hurricane strength. We're not supposed to get hit until Sunday morning, so the last WCW Backstage Assault should be up on time, but if your good pal RyonaKing isn't seen or heard from after that, well, I'm probably cursing loudly by candlelight. (More likely, nothing's going to happen, which is what I'm hoping for, since I have exactly zero preparations in case something does go wrong.)

** Update **

Well, it just rained a little. Now I feel bad I called Irene a cunt.

August is a surprise month!

Big news: Next month -August, assuming I live that long with this heat wave - is going to have a special theme. No Rumble Roses videos on Saturday; All four Saturday videos are going to be very, very special. What is it, you ask? It's not Game Boy Boxing Month (still working on recording those). So what then? Well, let's just say that these four Saturdays may very well be the greatest nights in the history of our sport. And if you enjoyed Hideous Playstation Boxing Game Month, you're really going to enjoy this, and you should also probably get your eyes checked.

Have I said too much? All right, more than that, you'll just have to wait and see. Cherish the next two Rumble Roses XX videos, they're the last ones you'll be seeing for a while. Stay tuned - the announcement will go up on the 5th of August, with the first video on the 6th. w00p

Where'd the top comments go?

One kind of post I unforchies can't do anymore is "Top Comments", mostly because trolls no longer seem to hang around my videos. Admittedly, there are still people hit and running with stuff like "gay" and "wtf" and there are some great comments. Just at random, ones I've seen recently: "in pro wrestling, this move is called the cameltoe clutch" and "HOW THE FUCK CAN U DISLIKE THIS".

The issue I have there is that these aren't negative if not always complimentary; I feel like the gag only works if I have a grandiose introduction about the frank exchange of ideas and thoughtful comments to follow, and then straight-facedly present a bunch of people calling myself or other viewers GAY FAGZ or sad bastards. This may partly be my own fault; I can't remember if I've been banning trolls from commenting or not, but that may be why they're gone. Cue sad face: =(

That being said, I did see an absolutely great comment that I'm going to try and work into conversations whenever possible:

lol @ 2:05 tifa having a right good feel of elanas bum =]

lol indeed. That's all for today; Go have a right good feel of your special person's bum now, you sad bastards.

Just a reminder

Wednesday, June 15th, is my birthday, when I'll be turning twenty-(coughing, mumbling wheezing). Don't feel bad if your present is late; I like late presents, they cheer me up more than getting everything all at once. And no, I don't have enough text to fill in the space next to this image; It's my birthday, I don't have to. Just do what the image says.

General schedule & video & ampersand update

Not a lot going on right now; Supremacy MMA's coming out in June, which will yield two videos (Video 1: Felice "Lil Dog" Herrig vs Michele "Diablita" Gutierrez; Video 2: Michele "Diablita" Gutierrez vs Felice "Lil Dog" Herrig) and I'll probably be making some videos out of the PlayStation "Kickboxing" game (which is apparently similar to playstation "Boxing" game, amazing graphics and all). There's some other stuff I'm tinkering with, but it's all on the back burner for right now. Instead, I thought it'd be fun to count up how many videos I have in the can and waiting to post. (drumroll)

Wrestle Angel Survivor 2 has 11 videos - 2 months and 3 weeks' worth - currently ready to go. I actually cleared out my to-be-recorded list, so this is a good time to make a request; It should be recorded right away, even if it isn't posted for 3 months.

Rumble Roses XX has 15 videos - 3 months and 3 weeks' worth - waiting to be uploaded. (Not including one relaxing video that's just a tag team breathing after the match is over). If you have any simple requests, this is a good time for them, as all I have left on my to-record list is big tag matches or single-move specials, which take hours to set up, record, and edit into one six-minute video. Ugh.

So that's that - another Rumble Roses XX Picture Pack will be coming soon, and if anybody knows a good PlayStation emulator that can both use DexDrive saves and record video easily, drop me a line. (Don't suggest epsxe, please; Darn thing crashed my computer last time I tried it.) Rar!

** Update **

Supremacy MMA delayed. Well, fuck.