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Ack, Forbin, dude. I was with you up until the point where you mentioned WoW. You just fell off the deep end and tarnished any point you may have made up to that point. No, not a one, none of those examples qualify WoW for any consideration as a transcendent/sublime anything. Maybe a sublime coffee shop or a transcendental bed and breakfast or any school. Boy, that's a long article, I will read it later. Math can be sublime, I will give you that—on the flip side, art is not some flighty dramatic pastime driven by raw, frothy id. Math and art can coexist and feed off of each other. The zeitgeist usually pushes all frontiers in a generation in a similar direction. We had Einstein and the height of abstraction and the height of utopian modernism all at the same time. Today's science is driven by processing sheer volumes of data, ditto for art. Etc. My take on art, as appeared earlier in this very thread.

I didn't catch what exactly happened to the Jonas brothers game... It sounded interesting but then in avoiding talking about Epic Mickey, I felt that the Jonas Loom was never quite wrapped up.

Man, way to not answer any of your questions. The thoughtfulness of it is astoundingly one-sided. You did your best man, but the dude was obviously not concerned about thinking about things he's making.

On a flipside of some sort, it is super easy to terrify kids and get a pristine PG rating. For example, I can conceive of a story where a child's loving mother (established as awesome in the first 20 minutes of the film) is brutally murdered (off frame) and the kid gets to fend for her/himself in care of his/her cynical and distant father.* Instant horror. The rating systems are really bollocks. As is whatever pop morality conceived it. *

I forgot how good this podcast was.

Maybe he did! But he did a middling to piss poor job. No one Serbian or tangentially related was consulted, except maybe in the wardrobe department. Niko and Roman are weird obscure impossible names if they're supposed to be Serbian. It would've been Nikola—and nicknames of Nikola would be Nidža (Nidzha) or Johnny (oddly enough). I am not too bothered by Niko, tho, since that means "Nobody" so that is kindof neat. But Bellic is really weird. They keep pronouncing it as Bell-LICK when it ought to be BEH-lich (with a soft ch, if it even is Belić they're going after, loosely translates as "Whitey"), and that stupid double L (there is no such thing). I would prolly have more to say if I played more of the game.

I see no reason why the 4d space couldn't cast a 3d "shadow" onto 3d film that can then be perceived by us. That youtube vid is somehow not enlightening, tho.

Maybe empty carts now scoop up things? Maybe someone died in that cart and came back to unlife?

Ack, typo. IV!

I kindof like Lazlow, he was the high point of GTA III if you ask me. He was the straight man in the craziness of Liberty City, the person that you somehow, oddly, mostly related to, as you went along your business shooting things in the face. It was also the game with the most manageable collection of radio stations, and it was easy to listen through to all the music on all the stations, and all the music was weird (little, unknown acts that made it after the music came out, or old forgotten reggae songs, or all the songs from Scarface). It made for a really nice package altogether. Anyway, I have not played GTA VI long enough to get the sense of the quality of the story, but I want to express an entirely different way in which Niko is an obnoxious character: he is supposed to be from a nondescript pseudo-Balkan country that could pass for any random eastern European country where that particular strata of urbanized thuggish peasantry can be recognized by their track suit, leather jacket, and bling uniform. I get that. I am cool with it. What I am not cool is that his accent when he's speaking that weird Eastern-European-cum-English creole thing he does, is that of a man who has never even tried to pronounce anything in a Slavic language. In Vice City they went to great lengths to get proper Haitian dialects and what not—that got them burned, I guess, so they mishmashed together something vague enough to provide plausible deniability—but they could've at least gotten a native speaker, not someone whose sum-total experience with a slavic language is imitating Rade Šerbedžija . Another reason why The Last Express is awesome—all the characters are voiced by native speakers. I hope they Wire up the series in the next installment. Following many different stories through the city, even intermittently—one chapter you are a small fry mope, next you're an upstart cop, then you're a medium level soldier in a specific crime family, then back to this guy, then that, and so on. That would really allow for some more complicated storytelling. Edit: cleaning a bizarre asterisk, my keyboard at home does weird things.

Of course, that was a personal attack at Patters. It is normal, natural even, for "Kingz" to be used acrimoniously, 'cause, you know, fuck that guy.

You know, it would be totally amazing to show shadows of the non-euclidean architecture Lovecraft spent so much time talking about as shadows of 4-dimensional objects on 3D film. I dunno if that was their intention, but it would be a pretty rad use of 3D film; they would have to get some high-concept artists and scientists in on this, if that is their intention.

Tell me how that Mansion of Madness is... Boardgamegeek.com doesn't have it particularly high up there, but that could be because it is new. Ideally, I would love a graceful rule set that allows for interesting emergent narratives as well as some strategy and tactics and WTF moments. I am not a big fan of overly complex rules.

Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if having a lot of spam links on a site causes the site to be shitlisted by google. Idle T has some really healthy google mojo, it would be a shame to waste.

As long as you scrub the links the spam poetry can be appreciated. Having that shit sit around with links and all is not bad for anyone but google and google's users because it raises the profile of the sites linked for the keywords used. It is just annoying and it makes for good internet civics to kill the links.

Yeha, that is what I meant.

Worth noting is that the Merchant of Venice is considered one of Shakespeare's comedies and that particular movie tried to humanize Shylock—in spite of itself, in a way.

I guess the technical name of what was done to me is "dilation of pupils" which really sounds less sinister than what I said. It was really a routine eye exam. It wasn't an operation at all.

They've put three kinds of eye drops in my eyes, so that I can't focus on anything closer than five meters and bright lights hurt because you can't aperture them away. Then the doctor stares into your eyes with these machines and check out the back wall thereof. It is starting to wear off, so I can type, but for a good two hours there, I was useless, sat with sunglasses indoors, had other people order breakfast for me at the restaurant. All's well, apparently. My eyes are fine.

Man, I have the next couple of panels all drawn and scanned and I've finished the admin, but I don't know if I will have the time this weekend to photoshop it all together. There is this charity auction that benefits this awesome local gallery, and I have to make a piece for that... If at any point I am tired of it, I will crank out at least one more panel. On top of all, I have an eye doctor appt and they're gonna widen my pupils, so I will likely be functionally blind for a couple of hours today.

Looks fine. Also the outdated browser warning they're peddling shows up on the map page. I wonder what percentage of the western world's IE6 stats are dev machines.

Why not just bake some simple html right into the page with relevant news infos? <h2>Headline</h2> <h3>June 67th 4657</h3> <p>This is interesting stuff! Download it <a href="poop://blargh.biz/foo.asp?ook=3">here!</a></p> <h2>Headline</h2> <h3>June 67th 4657</h3> <p>This is interesting stuff! Download it <a href="poop://blargh.biz/foo.asp?ook=3">here!</a></p> <h2>Headline</h2> <h3>June 67th 4657</h3> <p>This is interesting stuff! Download it <a href="poop://blargh.biz/foo.asp?ook=3">here!</a></p> and then style it in css. Just keep adding to the page, you have the flexibility of doing whatever you want and it is not too complicated to keep up. Fills the page up. It is not technically a feed, tho.

Dude, all the best games released lately are PC games, what are you talking about?