MrHoatzin

bxHunY_LaZA Why is the cat licking the fox? :tup:

You know, I should be respectful of their decisions not to proselytize. But I can't. Their quiet leaving the room I find more oppressive than voicing their mind. They are isolating themselves from the society they live in, never try to understand it and keep going on as if their way of doing things is beyond reproach. But they vote. And affect things. I find that hypocritical.

Oh, holy cow, this is the Aurora Engine? I am always heartbroken when over-the-shoulder games don't let me jump. It was fine when it was isometric and I was watching the action from the fourth floor, but since they (BioWare) changed it up, I've always felt something was missing. The feeling of disappointment is amplified by the fact that the trailer shows the Witcher dude jumping off of some extremely tall fort. I guess I like to walk on awnings and base jump off of eaves in my rpgs. Bethesda has spoiled me. The demo was nice and all, even thought the main wizard lady's boobs are in a noticeably, eerily wrong place. I dunno.

Oh, hey we finally got to uploading some honeymoon pictures. They are of Guadalajara mostly. A couple of standouts from our excursion to Mazamitla, a relatively pristine adobe mountain village with some affluent weekender neighborhoods: These people have paved a plot of forest! With red brick! These photos don't do justice to how glaringly red the brick was against the relatively pristine—if excessively manicured—nature of the neighboring yards.

I wanted to be excited by this game after reading through this thread (because I am a patsy when it comes to Idle T peer pressure), so before steaming it down, I youtubed it and was unimpressed by a gameplay vid. Granted, it may have been a dumb video. I want to want to play this, sell this game to me! Patters came close with his 'shant' comment, but that was before the ill-fated gameplay vid was watched.

A tangentially related anecdote: the printmaking department at my alma mater has had some sort of friendly relationship with the printmaking department of Brigham Young University, and there are always one or two very practicing Mormon graduate students who were suggested our school for their graduate studies by the BYU faculty. They are a weird addition to the contemporary art scene comprised mostly of cynical desert bums and urban Chicanos. They are not inept artists (technically or conceptually), although they tend to be somewhat cut off from the culture at large in the world they live in. They think Napoleon Dynamite is the greatest film ever made, have never heard of Orson Welles, and every time a professor would put up, say, a Fellini movie, they would watch it until boobs appeared on screen, whereupon they would excuse themselves and wait outside until the scene, or the whole movie, was over. They would never go out of their way to explore the culture around them.

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Man, I finally got to playing this little gem. It took me a while to get this game because I was anxious it would be crap. The stuff that I had seen about it didn't quite grab me in ways that I would've liked and I was apprehensive. I just went through two of the girls, for what its worth ( ), so my impressions are nowhere near complete. But here's a few scattered thoughts: Overall a really important game. :tup:

I see what you're saying, but I don't think Moon had to be as abstract as the other two to be as important. I like it all the more because I expected The Cold War was a time where beefy ideologies duked it out and offered solutions. Even if Kubrick and Tarkovsky were not manichean (which they weren't) and if they didn't pick sides in sloppily propagandist ways (which they didn't) the modernist culture in which they worked colored their attitudes towards their work. Nowadays we live in a much sloppier time. There are no healthy government-backed sciency exploration institutions. The governments are not fighting large scale ideological and propaganda battles for hearts and minds of peoples around the world. Russia is ruled by an oligarchy of capitalist criminals and US is an obliging servant to huge multinationals. There are no lofty ideas that drive the East or the West. ()

You know, I always assumed that Xbox was a western curiosity with no following in Japan, and in my mind I stretched this to mean most of east Asia. I never wondered if it did well in China or Taiwan or India or anywhere else in the region. Does anyone know?

Hahaha, they bleep Chris so much. I didn't realize how much he cursed. ¬¬¬

The English voices for Disgaea were as awful as the original Japanese were good. I played it in Japanese, subtitled. I was saddened when I bought the DS version and found it to be only English (in the major cutscenes alone, tho, so that was manageable). I've never played a game localized in my language. But I did play Beyond Good & Evil in French once. The special effects in English were more carefully put together tho.

I don't think that is possible. There is nothing to be gained in remaking any of the Kubrick movies. They made new movies after books that Kubrick adapted (Lolita and The Shining come to mind), but they sucked. Contd: the 2001: A Space Odyssey book and movie screenplay were written concurrently by Kubrick and Arthur Clarke, and while they handle the same basic story, I think the way Kubrick handled his end of it is a lot more interesting than the way Clarke did. The latter had to explain things that the former intentionally left vague.

Yeah, but again, it is a wave. All you need is a slew of more fascist board members to start asking why these games are not published under the umbrella label and things will turn around.

Frankly, and I think it would be no contest, the next game needs to be called Thus Spoke Zarathustra or better yet Human, All-Too-Human.

Sure.

Is ***** still a curseword? *********!

We had two parties, the first one on the 19th in SA, and then the other one on the 26th in Victoria. The photo is from that second party. Her mother (who threw the second party with no input from us) insisted she wear the weird little veil and throw the bouquet, neither one of which happened at the wedding proper.

My impression was that there was never a production for the game to be in in the first place.

Ok, here's another one: http://svzlrbrsvp.com/8D.jpgsvzlrbrsvp.com was a fun website to build, too. Now it is useless, I guess. Maybe we can just dump photos there.

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Oh, man, finally got around to seeing Moon yesterday. Amazing. I would say it is a very important movie, right up there with Solaris, Space Odyssey and Blade Runner.

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I have observed that I never listen when people say something is NSFW.

Not enough corpses. In other news, Brendan Q. Ferguson can kick David De Gruttola's* ass any day. __________________ * Holy god, that is David Cage's real name according to this helpful wiki page. I like it better than David Cage.