The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

I’ve read a few places on the internet that comment about how crazy the security systems and puzzles are in the Resident Evil games when dealing with the research facilities and other workplaces of the Umbrella Corporation.
The most common examples of the perceived insanity tend to include the train with brake systems that require [...]

I recently touched on my desire for my own personal recording device in the form of a robot camera that could follow me around and capture all those little moments that always seem so awesome and worth sharing, but which never come across as any more than a “eh, you had to be there” in [...]

NaBloPoMo: Day Five (Delayed to 11/07/09)
I’ve mentioned before about how my brothers and I grew up on Action Force, the UK re-brand of GI Joe, and about my support for COBRA and the Dreadnoks over the good guys of the series – for one thing, Cobra actually had a uniformed military organisation and supporting named [...]

“All my bags are packed
Im ready to go
Im standin here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin
Its early morn
The taxis waitin
Hes blowin his horn
Already Im so lonesome
I could die””
~ “Leaving on a jet plane“, John Denver

It begins.

“And when he’s off to sail the seven seas
He just stays indoors or hides up trees
He’s been to places that you’ve never seen
But his mind is blank and his passport’s clean”
~ Domino Man, The Beautiful South
“I’m not going to change my passport. It’s British, you don’t mess with
that. Blue passport. Gold writing. Stiff. With a [...]

Slight change from the norm here, as I did a vlog about this topic and the promptly forgot to post it. So, enjoy the video while I finish writing up the rest of it.

Back already? Geez, I hadn’t really finished yet. I guess we’ll see how far we get and then I’ll wing it.
As established [...]

“On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night”
~ Hotel California, The Eagles
Considering I knew that I was picking a locally busy time for [...]

“I want my love, my joy, my laugh, my smile, my needs
Not in the star signs or the palm that she reads
I want my sun-drenched, wind-swept Ingrid Bergman kiss
Not in the next life, I want it in this
I want it in this”
~ Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud), The Beautiful South
For the upcoming ‘grand adventure [...]

“Is it Cologne with its great cathedral?
Milan with its glamour and its pace?
London with its river and its bridges?
Lisbon with its beauty and its grace?
[...]
Is it Dublin with its culture and its wit?
Madrid with its market square?
Paris with its bustling cafes?
Hull with its musical flair?”
~ Pretenders to the Throne, The Beautiful South
It’s been about a [...]

In a not-so-secret lab in Scotland, scientists have seen the first results of a program to breed a covert bio-weapon. One ‘asset’ is capable of killing 200 using a highly honed death touch. Just what is Scotlands plan for these bio-weapons and what are our hopes for survival?

We are going to blow the hell out of those dumb bugs until we don’t have anything left to shoot ‘em with! And then, we are going to strangle them with their own-living-guts!
- Sgt. Johnson, Halo

Over a year ago I made a small promotional video that some of you might remember. DugalCorp had designed a [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters

FC-D23: I hope you realise, organic, that your usurpment will not be forgotten.
Ryo: What a pity.
FC-D23: You might think that you are tough, but we are made of sturdier stuff.
FS1-D23-U3: Mainly composite materials.
Ryo: Ah-huh.
FC-D23: We are the great builders, the weaponsmiths…whereas you, you are a test pilot…a guinea [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters

FC-D23: It just looks a little ‘pedestrian’ to me, where are the high action and heavy artillery features. It’s got nothing remotely threatening.
FS1-D23-U1: Unless you count kung fu grip and spinning blade action.
FC-D23: It’s meant to be a giant robot that will crush spirits and structures, not Action [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters

FS1-D23-HUD: So, how are the Arm Alliance doing, boss?
FC-D23: HUD, are you going to continue to insist on creating bad team titles or do you intend to avoid a trip to the trash compactor?
FS1-D23-HUD: You prefer Limb League, right? I knew I should have gone with that!
FC-D23: Rrr. [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters

FS1-D23-U3: I mean, what is with this colour scheme, it’s like they don’t trust us to use the right pieces in the right place if they don’t colour them differently.
FC-D23: I wouldn’t trust most of this crew to get the right pieces if I crushed their faceplates [...]

Essential Cybernetic Science Department, DugalCorp Headquarters

Shuuhaijin Yuki: The supreme leader ordered delivery of components for top secret plan and transfer of data and schematics, I am honour bound to follow these orders.
FS1-D23-U2: Because otherwise you must commit sekkupu?
Shuuhaijin Yuki: Worse, bukkake…but also, I get sacked.
FC1-D23: Never mind that, how did you [...]

In August 2006, I referred to a man called William Lyttle, who had been dubbed “The Mole Man” for his, some would say ‘eccentric’ behaviour. If you didn’t see it, it’s here.
Mr Lyttle, at the age of 75, was ordered by the local council to leave his £1m Victorian property, originally two properties that he [...]

Private Chamber, DugalCorp Headquarters

Guise (B): Sparks…vector sigma…cybernetic gods…robotic medics…folded space for mass conversion…

Guise (B): …but no damn instructions! Is it too much to ask for a simple “how to” on building giant war…I mean peace-keeping robots to help me spread my message of World Peace under my tyrannical rule?!

Guise (B): There must be something somewhere [...]

I love Mecha, that’s no secret. I love seeing giant robots and machines in reality, I love to see them in movies and anime, and read about them in books and comics. I still enjoy Transformers and Sentai, and can be talked in to watching Power Rangers fairly easily. The image of Dai-X from Starfleet [...]

Just to prove I’m not dead, I’m going to do some edu-ma-cation on how difficult it may be to take over the world with a starting point in the UK.
Politics is something I have more than a passive interest in, what with being formerly employed in governmental work and planning to rule the world with [...]