Roderick

The problem I have with that is that the blog as a whole becomes much darker too. I want it to be a pleasant environment to be in. Perhaps lightening it would be a better solution? I'll tinker around a bit tomorrow.

Wow, that actually makes a ton of sense. I always had this sort of, learned instinct, that the more intuitive a game was, the better the experience, even though I fully agree that Morrowind was the superior game when it comes to roleplaying and ultimately, immersion. I guess I was just thinking from a layman's perspective, but now I'm not so sure anymore. What I do agree with is that Oblivion gets so much flak, while it's actually pretty good and I really loved it the second time I played it thoroughly.

Do you have a clear suggestion for that? Others have told me the background is too distracting. I could make it monochrome (blue or greenish), that would at least create a less explosive visual impact.

I think that is true only when you play Skyrim first and Morrowind later. If you progress from the older to the newer game it should be fine.

I have fond memories of planet scanning: I used to do it after work for hours and invariably fall asleep while doing it. I dunno, for some reason those are happy memories.

The end credits are furiously fun and the thing that drew me to watching Buckaroo Banzai in the first place. I understand everything you're saying, but experientially I was just never enjoying the film. I hesitate to give it another go because I've burned myself once on this already. I want to understand why this has a following, I want to feel what you're writing about. But it certainly didn't happen the first time.

Yeah, the crazy message is probably never the right thing to send. It feels like you have sorted this out pretty much and are putting it down here in order to commit to it. I'd say you're on the right track. Long distance is way complicated and needs pretty specific people and a lot of dedication to work. Move on, sir. Even if the friendship breaks. The odds are that after having any sort of romantic relationship, you can never have what you had before in a friendship. At least, not as far as I have ever experienced.

Can I just say, with the risk of offending some people, that I didn't really get what was so great about Buckaroo Banzai? I understand the gist of the film, but it was just so incredibly poor en boring, even with the inclusion of Gone Goldblum.

Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos.

I want the original games to feature these animations now.

Any rendition, of Hey Jude.

Last update: I managed to get the Twitter feed to work as well! The standard widgets are still useless, but someone gave me some HTML code that worked like a charm. I don't know what did it, I'm just glad it did. Still missing something? Let me know!

I'm not very up on my legalese, can anyone explain why Epic sued Silicon Knights? I've read the previous story, which was about how horrible Dyack functioned within the company, but I didn't realize court sessions were in the air.

Inside the cube: Paul McCartney giving a flailing, endless rendition of Hey Jude.

For some reason it reminds me of Dink Smallwood (remember Dink Smallwood?). The tech stuff looks really good, though in these types of games it is the handcrafted content (writing, quests, characters), not the interlocking mechanics, that make for an excellent gaming experience. I'm also curious how they'll achieve their impressive ambitions with merely 150k. On the face of it though, barring the awful name, it looks like a neat little thing.

You're KIDDING me! That is amazing!

If we assume that the life-changing aspect of the equation is serious, the only thing I can think of that would truly change a person's life is either a big monetary reward or soft power in the form of access to a network to move upwards in social strata. But since this is Peter Molyneux it's probably a voucher for ten Christmases he'll spend at your house having diner with your family. Certainly life altering!

Well, the lady is still keeping it together: her head does not yet reside in a column of angry red.

Congratulations with another four years of Obama, America! It would've been pretty dire with Romney and Ryan, throwing the US back, culturally, a good 120 years. Hopefully Obama will really shine in the next four years and make some lasting change.

It looks like a Borg Cube!

Thanks! I've made the blue a little lighter. The text is unfortunately tied to all the other text, so I've made it black. It should be legible enough. The main attraction should be the blogs, so the contrast is highest there. I've also registered a proper domain: http://www.filmadeus.com The only thing that bugs me at this point is that I don't know how to fix the HTML to give me rounded corners at the bottom of the main body. And of course, I hope the Twitter feed starts working at some point. Other than that, we've got a blog. [EDIT] I've managed to conjure up the rounded corner and for now disabled the Twitter feed, until the time it works again (I've tried various different widgets and custom javascript code, to no avail). So I think the blog design is pretty much finished, barring some slight adjustments for legibility. Time for a mission statement! With Filmadeus I'm going to put up film reviews or articles. The idea is for these posts to be relatively short while still offering some (hopefully) quality reflection. No grading or scores. I plan on posting a new bit every few days, which should be doable. Also, thanks everyone here for the offered help setting up my blog, and specifically motivating me to get it together.

Very cute pic!

Thanks for chiming in. I've been messing around with the design all day and was indeed just about to drop the transparency. One of the things I like about the sidebar are the possibilities for gadgets that will actually enhance the blog, such as displaying tweets (which unfortunately doesn't seem to work right now). I think there's plenty of room for the blog itself and I'm taking a lot of care to make elements as unobtrusive as possible. Heh, I look forward to actually posting on my blog instead of messing around with the design. [EDIT] Righto, I think I may have something resembling a passable blog now!

Yeah, I guess in the end I just trusted more on the moral fiber of Thunderpeel than everyone else here, choosing Blogger. Choose your allegiance! Ahrem. I generally don't care about comments on most sites, though I might just opt for comments on my own to see if anything good comes from it. Can always just switch them off afterwards if it turns out either a bad influence or superfluous. Thanks for your insights, people who posted.

You're welcome! I'm still tinkering with my own design. I think I do want the design with a big picture in the background, because I like how colorful it makes the site, but I do want it to fit the theme. So I'm thinking: nice big screens from good movies in the background. I can rotate them every once in a while, while keeping the design the same. Another question for the collective hive mind: do you feel the ability to comment on a review is an additional reason to read a blog, or don't you care about voicing in?