Ben X
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Okay, that's the 12 days, and therefore Xmas 2014, over! We could probably stretch it to the 6th Jan but as we started before the 25th Dec I think that would be just a little bit too much Christmas. EX-MAS, MORE LIKE.
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Just finished watching the first season (only 8 episodes), and I won't be watching the second. Nicely shot, but ponderous and repetitive with shallow, muddled characterisation and a pointless, mishandled gimmick.
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Oh, I forgot my cyber-presents! I got the Deponia adventures and Wolfenstein New Order!
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Idle Thumbs 191: Not the Greatest, but the Best
Ben X replied to Jake's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
Crystal Skull is the same stuff as Raiders, just done really really badly. -
We ran out of shit romcoms to watch over Christmas and ended up watching I Could Never Be Your Woman. It turned out to be really good! Directed by Amy Heckerling and retaining a handful of Clueless actors (primarily Paul Rudd, who is utterly charming in this), it walks up to tropes then ignores them, has a sharp script and features a bizarrely large number of Britcom actors doing American accents.
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When is the next page coming out? This slack schedule is an INSULT TO HER FANS.
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For Christmas I got: the new Robocop and Firefly coffee-table-book companions, both of which are nice but a little shallow, especially the Robo one which spends almost as much time on the reboot as the original and smacks of promotional release paying lip service to the franchise as a whole. South Park seasons 1 - 16 Seinfeld 4-9 (I already had the first three) Wayne's World 2 and the Blue Is The Warmest Colour graphic novel (which the film was based on) - neither of which I asked for or much enjoyed! Sweeeeet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXP1xu8pxQA
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Actually, It's about Relocation in Games Journalism
Ben X replied to Architecture's topic in Video Gaming
I liked it the first time, then it started getting a bit repetitive. -
Only another few days of Christmas celebration to go! The Twelve Fights Of Christmas by Rachel Lark
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That art is great, and I'm looking forward to following the story. I particularly liked the visual transition from roof tiles to keyboard!
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I don't want it bad but I'd be interested to see it and your post is rendered a little pointless without it! I always thought of ZMF as a self-aware gimmick-poster on the AVClub who disappeared years ago, and nothing more. Then I listened to that one-off podcast he did with them recently about the Sons Of Anarchy finale, and it was just embarrassing - a meandering, charmless drunk with no interesting or coherent thoughts on the finale or the show in general. I guess he's also a shouty 'Twitter personality' now?
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You really should have made an 'ice' pun.
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Ha ha, yeah, I've actually got one of JKO's PnC pieces on the wall too, they're gorgeous.
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Come Get Your Sacred Objects! It's the Outcast HD Remake Kickstarter!
Ben X replied to toblix's topic in Video Gaming
Hooray, I just found the original game on disc! Wonder if it still runs... -
Ugh, it's one of those awful HD paintovers, bad luck Doug.
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Is it like an accusatory lecture? Or an awkward rant?
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To harp on about 'deep dive': I just saw an io9 post that calls a 4-minute video about the sound design of the new Godzilla movie a "deep dive". FOUR MINUTES! I haven't watched the video but I assume that, like all other sound design featurettes, it'll be about them doing foley and combining different noises for creature noises. DEEP DIVE!
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Point of information - the "baby boomers" are the children of those who fought in the war, born from the post-war shagfest.
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WOW that's busy. It's almost as bad as Drew Struzan's Star Wars posters.
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Awww
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The most mental thing there imo is his closing: He acknowledges 8chan as a safe space for child abusers, and yet thinks the person at fault is Olson for pointing it out.