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    Entries by Isaiah T. Taylor (723)

    Thursday
    Sep022010

    Bboy Battle: 2008 Circle Prinz Poland Final -- Azizi Fellas vs. Funky Masons

    For a while I'd be kinda in a rut as far as my personal life. Then things started looking up [on all fronts]. For the past couple years I found that I was depressed on the matters of my dancing because I hadn't been dancing like I use to. And anyone who knows me in 'the meatspace' knows that it was a huge part of my life. I took a look at this battle from 2008 and remember when I first saw it -- I only knew one bboy in the clip. Surprisingly it wasn't Kleju [who's fairly well known now], but it was Chu Chu Rocket. For obvious reasons [gaming related] I glommed to that name/bboy because its not always easy to find someone interested in gaming AND dancing -- let alone someone who's name is one of your favorite games.

     

    In this video you see four youthful guys dancing, hungry for a win. The funny thing is whenever I bring this battle up to my dancing buddies no one knows of this battle. Turns out a battle at this very jam overshadowed the final.

     

    After the break, the battle that overshadowed the finals

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    Sunday
    Aug292010

    Is This Good For The Company?

    The Bob's Think That You Aren't Challenging Your Self Enough, Games Industry.

    In an age where having an individual product isn’t enough, where building a brand through viral marketing via ‘synergized releases’ -- its easy to lose sight of what’s important. Did we need the insulting and insensitive advertising campaign circulating the release of Dante’s Inferno? When you ate Dominio’s pizza in the 90’s where you thinking, “You know, if I could avoid the Noid and eat pizza, life would be so close to completion.” Maybe the Doom movie should have been released straight to DVD, seeing as theater goers typically do not support video game movies starring men [Angelina Jolie & Milla Jovovich]. The point is, we have come far from the days of Ducktales and Aladdin. We exist in a time where seeing a broken cd on the sidewalk is common. Furthermore, seeing brands stretched and skewed to make a buck -- makes what you liked about said brand much more disposable.

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    Saturday
    Aug282010

    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review -- Success And Failure Of A Genre

    Looking Awesome Comes At A Price Of Carrying Over 200 Pounds Of Ammo And A Wardrobe Totaling 1200 Pockets.

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    Wednesday
    Aug182010

    Gaming Averse

    One of three games I played for almost ten years. Street Fighter III: Third Strike, kept my interest in gaming, even when I never wanted to play games outside of this specific sect.
    Not even five years ago I was the owner of a PSone and Dreamcast wandering will I ever play a new game again. I  wondered if there will ever be a need, I should say. I have always played games since pooping in pampers, I mean haven’t you read my blog [nerd chortle]? Once I entering college in 2000, I played three games: Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, and NBA Showtime. I wish I could explain my NBA Showtime love to you all, but I feel it could fall on many deaf ears, I digress. This form of gaming hermitism could have been attributed to being the typical broke college student, but in reality I didn’t see the good in gaming. I was perfectly fine playing a select few and being in my own little world in that regard.

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    Tuesday
    Aug172010

    Commerical Break: IBE 2010...That Pretty Much Sums It Up

     

    Hmm...I debated putting this up, because I'm not the biggest fan of IBE, but their trailers are usually something that temporarily tricks me into 'thinking' I like the event. I am a huge fan of the individual competitions [footwork, top rock, uprock, power etc.], but the crew battles is where you lose me. 
    This doesn't take away from the amazing trailer here [at least I don't think]. They do put in a lot of hard work for the event to cater to not just the dancers, but the audience as well. So in that vein -- I can't be that mad. Enjoy.
    Saturday
    Aug142010

    Commerical Break: The Antoine Dodson Meme Will Never Die

    I feel personally touched [pause] that the Antoine Dodson story -- which is really not a story or about Antoine Dodson for that matter, has gotten to be this large. How large you say? Come on! When established HBCU's are doing renditions of a song that was a rendition of your tale about your sister's pseudo-rape then you really have to look at this magical beast that is the internet and marvel at how it works.

     

    Plus, I have family in Huntsville, AL so I feel kinda personally invested for no reason other than, "Yeah, I know an Antoine Dodson-type dude down in the south and he good people." And really, that's all that needs to be said.

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    Friday
    Aug132010

    Commercial Break: Mista Conspiracy Raps, Breaks & Eats Chicken

     

    Sometimes being self-aware works against you. In the above video we see retro-footage from 2005 of Mista Conspiracy. I want to say he's a rapper, but I know I'm wrong. Though I'm glad he was able to make a video making fun of himself and putting KFC product placement throughout, what I could only assume is a masterpiece of rhythmic song, Mista Conspiracy's droning nouns and adverbs leads me to this last question. "Dude, what the f*#k are you saying?!"

    Friday
    Aug132010

    The Death Of Local Co-Op.

    The Current Wrangling Of Varmints And Four-Player Now Comes With Internet Varification.

    I had a friend over who wanted to sit down and play through the Transformers: War For Cybertron’s Co-op campaign. We were surprised to see that the local cooperative mode was unavailable. We started talking about a simpler time when men were men and games new their place. It should be noted that while writing this I wore a cowboy hat and slim-fitting jeans. Its to remind me of a time where pressing start wasn’t just for one anti-social gamer on a couch, but sometimes two-to-four. Today we have three and four hundred dollar gaming consoles that, in away, promote solitary gaming. That’s right my little cowboys and cowgirls. Even the current multiplayer games encourage players to hide behind the veil of avatars and screen names within the isolation of the internet. Excuse the obvious pun, but has the gaming culture evolved to a point where gamers are just playing by themselves?

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    Wednesday
    Aug112010

    Alpha Protocol Review -- As A Date.

    Alpha Protocol Is One Of The Worst Games I've Played This Year. But You May Like It. Why? Because Some People Like Eating Their Own Poop.
    You know that feeling of a date gone awry? Nothing really that interesting being exchanged between the two parties. “Oh look, your meatball is getting cold.” Making idle chit-chat while trying to figure out why your friends set you up with someone so incompatible. Looks aren’t important to you, but being entertained is. The night started with so much promise and now you’d kill to see the waiter’s leg catch fire and hopefully engulf the entrance-way to this mid-tier dining establishment. Alpha Protocol was my date for the past week-and-a-half and came recommended by friends I use to trust. I’m currently staring across the table wondering how such a promising piece of work has me humoring sticking a fork in my eye.

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    Sunday
    Aug082010

    The Brog's 2 Year Anniversary!

    Trust Me, I'm Just As Surprised As You Are.

    It all started with an image of Jeff Goldblum in short-shorts. We’ve been through a lot haven’t we? Internet memes. Epic gaming rants and the institution that is the nonsensical image at the end of my movie and game reviews.

    This is the part where I issue some form of “state of the brog” address. There are plans, but for the handful of you who actually read this site, expect more of the same. Which, I guess, is more of anything I can get my mind around. There won’t be some major site overhaul or “Brog 2.0 beta” experience. I do like making banners with me in them, so expect more of those [narcissism]. For the eight of you who have stuck with The Brog this long ... I apologize. No one should willingly subject themselves to such poor grammar on a regular basis. I salute you.

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