Ben X

Re. the thing Kroms just pointed out: HOLY SHIIIIIIT COMPLETELY WENT OVER MY HEAD!

Hey, look, everyone:

But sexy!

This is just a Hard N Phirm song with the album cover displayed, no actual music video, but as they already got mentioned (must have knowledge of Radiohead):

Cloudy is great, and one of the few films to have done 3D well, too. I recently saw Gangster Squad, Frankenweenie (2D), Life Of Pi (3D - also well done), Silver Linings Playbook and Django Unchained, and enjoyed them all very much.

Sigggh, me too. They shaped my knowledge of not just Amiga games but films, music, literature, fashion, attitude and even fucking diet (that one page about what to have on toast or something). Reading them digitally just isn't the same. I put a line about "inevitable slippy-slidey ice levels" into BTDT as a tribute.

This is a really basic pro-control article, but it's well-put: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-most-meaningless-arguments-against-gun-control/

Oh for heaven's sake, just read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article and Neuromancer, then you know what cyberpunk is. Btw, Subbes' best mate gave Bloodnet 90% (http://amr.abime.net/review_973) and it made it into the last ever AP Top 100. But he gave Dreamweb only 24% (http://amr.abime.net/review_962), EVEN THOUGH IT IS MATURE ENOUGH TO HAVE A MAN'S PENIS IN IT. Interesting to note that games were £35 even back then and that Nash readily refers to the fact that he only played the games halfway through.

That Esquire article is gross, obviously, but the AWL item on it is pretty flawed too. It misleadingly paraphrases Esquire in its title. One of its problems with the article is why Amy Adams is included in the list, which is surely joining in with Esquire's game of rating women in terms of looks. It then makes a crack about Adele beating them to death, which I can't help but see as singling her out for her size (unless there's some aspect of Adele's persona that is 'fighty' which I'm not aware of and can't find with a quick Google - perhaps it's that she's working class). Then the rest of the item is cheap shots at the SEO and bad writing, until an unfair comparison with a straight interview (ie just a transcript, rather than an article) with Paul Giamatti during which Esquire didn't ask him about how ugly AWL imply he is.

Just quoting this so no one misses it and gets into a debate with Luftmensch without realising his opinions are 'artificially heightened'.

Smart TV just means it has internet access, right? Why's that a dead-end?

Made me think of this:

Most of them do, apparently.

Yeah, thanks for linking to it, it's all very interesting and most of it had passed me by completely at time of reading! I wish I hadn't read about Jon Snow's mother, though, as that's still just a (very convincing) theory at the moment as opposed to the other, essentially confirmed stuff. I get the feeling that her identity will get revealed overtly at some point and I will have already had it spoiled for me. I'd definitely like to read more stuff like , though!

When you get a Chinese-symbol tattoo?

Dammit, I had my Xmas avatar on for a week too long. I feel dirty.

Must... resist... all Book 6 previews...

Just picked this up from Traid for a quid! First I've just got to read Johannes Cabal The Necromancer, a Douglas Adams-esque novel from one of the Broken Sword writers, of which I've enjoyed the opening couple of chapters.

This turned out to not have such a great ending, but the telling of the story up to that point was fantastic. It felt like it could have done with going on for a bit longer and expanding its scope a little, though. The themes, settings and sequences tend to feel repetitious at points, at first to good effect but eventually a little frustrating. iirc there was a bit of a fizzle-out issue with Bone, too...

Which, in fact, wasn't presented as new but as a different license! Maybe the SotC movie could be repackaged as a really depressing Clash Of The Titans sequel?

I think that's the clear answer Rodi was looking for.

Yeah, I suck.

No no, children suckle.

Don't worry, Ys, you made it in plenty of time to wish us all a happy 2023!