Duncan

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  1. Posted

    I like that of the nine games on jaf's list, ONE is from 2006.

    I am also working on a post in the interests of prolonging the life of the thread (possibly just by one post.) And even though I said "working" all I actually have is a clever joke that maybe 45% of people will get. :frown:

  2. Posted

    Yeah, they seem to reserve real cliffhangers for the actual season finales. (Okay, so nobody thought Adama was going to die at the end of season one, but everything else that happened in Kobol's Last Gleaming was an actual cliffhanger.)

    I found it disappointing because it's like if the cliffhanger in KLG was Sharon points the gun at Adama and then in the next episode she... doesn't shoot him. Which seems to be where they're going with this: nothing really happened because in the next episode nothing's going to happen. If at the end of this episode they'd launched the nukes or even if Anders had been shot that would have been something. But I would be very surprised if the "cliffhangers" aren't resolved in the first two minutes of the next episode, so basically the story is paused halfway through to throw in a meaningless "oh my god will they be ok?! oh I guess they will be" moment.

  4. Posted

    Anyone else out there playing Medieval II Total War or the recently released Rome Total War conversion mod Europa Barbarorum whose 0.8 version was also just released?

    I know someone who's playing Medieval II. How's that? (Not very good. :sad:)

    I can at least attest to the fact that the collector's edition is hugely impressive. (For once.)

  7. Posted

    Oh except the Hotel Industry because they have no friends except their co-workers who aren't even friends anyway, they're shag buddies because they have no lives outside their miserable jobs and can't find a partner who works similar random shifts to them so they end up just having multiple shag buddies instead.

    I almost worked at a hotel once and I was really looking forward to that part.

  9. Posted

    Let's see. Ben is at SEGA, Alex at EA, Steve at Perpetual Entertainment, Lawrence at Namco, Spaff and Nick at NCSoft, Rusalka did a thing at Climax, Bob is ... uhh, going to London (shit I totally forgot what his new gig is), Jake and Doug are at Telltale, Chris of course went to Shack, and I'm working at a game dev in Amsterdam. It's the Idle Thumbs exodus.

    Wow, that's a depressing post.

  10. Posted

    On a related note, how long do you think it takes for consoles to get to the point at which anyone can say "THIS is the platform that suit me most in term of the type of games it supports" ? 1 year, 2 years, 6 months ?

    Two years seems about right (maybe less now that you generally know what to expect from the Xbox/PS) but for a lot of people it's probably ten seconds and then five years of rationalisation.

  13. Posted

    I thought it was a decent enough episode, albeit one with a kind of generic, spec-script-esque plot.

    I am very confused with how Baltar's situation has apparently resolved itself. D'Anna thinks Baltar -- while being tortured, in a delusional, near-death state -- told her that he loves her (which he didn't) and apparently that's all it takes for the Cylons to drop all the (pretty damning) evidence against him, start having threesomes with him and letting him wander around the ship and help out.

    And I just remembered that Caprica Six has been on the show for eight episodes now and there hasn't been a word about the phantom Baltar from Downloaded. Which is very odd, unless that was something, Lost-style, they threw in to blow people's minds without ever planning to follow through on it. Which is how I'm starting to feel about the entire New Caprica storyline, also.

    And the Cylon's plan for Bulldog in this episode was really kind of pathetic. Okay, I'm done.

  17. Posted

    Ehhhh. :tmeh: Talk about all-setup. It's not even very exciting set-up. Lay Down Your Burdens Part I at least had explosions. I think.

    - Oh, X HOUR EARLIER, I missed you. Oh, wait, what's the opposite of 'miss'.

    - Nice to see the first twelve minutes are a retread of the previous three.

    - That opening was a total cheat on at least three levels. Also, that had to be the easiest fucking battle of all time. Notice how we didn't even see the centurions because I guess they ran down the effects budget.

    - What happened to the beard? Seriously?

    - Yeah, what this show needs is a fucking oracle.

    - When they broke Resurrection Ship into two parts there were still things happening in the first one. This was like the first fifteen minutes of a typical episode padded out to death. A lot of shaking hands and pretty anaemic farewell speeches and vague baby mysticism. Kind of lost enthusiasm in a big way here.

  18. Posted

    Takes away a bit of the funny, but still... good story. Didn't think it that farfetched though.

    Really?

    We spent two weeks trying to figure it out, but it led us no where.
    This is one of the harder tasks that we've dealt with here, simply because the only person who knows

    what these letters, [kthxbai], mean has taken this knowledge to the grave

    Currently, the Miami P.D. has five Detectives from the Computer Crime Task Force utilizing the majority of their high-tech machines to track down and decipher the 'code', and they estimate that it could take up to six weeks before they see any results.
    For now, authorities are asking that anyone with any knowledge about the meaning or identity of "kthxbai" to please come forward.

    Not to mention the plethora of grammatical errors. This doesn't hold up in any court!

  21. Posted

    MAN. Those may have been my favourite two hours of BSG ever. I am so much more interested in the occupation than the Galactica stuff for whatever reason. I wish the show would be about this for longer than it probably will be.

    The one-two punch of the Sharon/Adama psychoanalysis and then, immediately, the Dualla/Lee psychoanalysis was a little hard to take in its obviousness. And the "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEETING WE WILL EVER HAVE" was very funny.

    That's all I didn't like though. This was great.

    I feel worse for Baltar and Jammer more than, say, Tyrol, weirdly. I doubt Jammer is going to make it. ;(

    My guess on the Gaius/Six thing is that he only sees her when he's really distressed or adrenaline-fueled or whatever. He was permanently high-strung during season one and when she returned after her absence in season two it was when the Cylons came to New Caprica in the finale. From most of what we saw of Baltar in this episode, he's depressed and unengaged. Up until, obviously, he gets a gun shoved into his head and can't make a decision anymore.

    Laura dead? Or are they going to be, as Duncan puts it, "moving the car back onto the cliff"?

    Oh man, someone referenced my lame metaphor. :sad:

    The metaphor only applies if, like, in the opening minutes of episode three we see everyone dive out of the line of fire before the Cylons start shooting. Or if there are suddenly five minutes between Cally falling down the hill and the centurions opening fire. Obviously Roslin isn't going to die and I kind of doubt Zarek will either. If none of those 200 people die though it will be lame. And this show has copped-out before with regards to death (see Roslin, curing cancer of.) I do think, given the tone of the show thus far, most of those people are dead.

    Incidentally I really had to think hard to remember Dualla and Zarek's names.

  25. Posted

    The first 10 minutes of Part I, with that brooding music that suggests all the events shown somehow relate to each other and foreshadow Something Big, is really well done. It's amazing how much BSG relies on the editing sometimes. Also the Baltar's Hair Zoom-In gives me goosebumps the size of warts.

    I think BSG does that kind of thing better than almost any show. Although other than Kobol's Last Gleaming, I can't actually remember where else they did it. ¬ The hair zoom-in is the best. I was really surprised listening to the commentary, hearing that Moore didn't want to do that originally, and wanted that transition to be really quick and capricious.

    I just watched the first episode of The Wire. :tup: I'm really looking forward to watching more.

    Woo. :) That was fast. You gotta let us know what you think of the rest of the season.

    As for other HBO shows, I like(d) Carnivale a whole lot. That seems to be a love/hate thing with most people though, so I don't know. There really hasn't been anything else on TV like it so I can't compare it to anything you might have seen.

    Oh, I just remembered that Ron Moore was involved in Carnivale's first season, coincidentally. There were some other soon-to-be-BSG-writers working there too. The shows aren't that similar though. So... who knows.