Nevsky

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  1. Posted

    The power of twitter!

    --

    Wrestlevania: Everyone's playing Grand Thumb Auto except me. :'(

    toblix: @Wrestlevania Also, except me!

    Nevskyp: @Wrestlevania @toblix Me neither!

    toblix: Maybe everyone's not playing GTA! @Nevskyp @Wrestlevania

    ysbreker: @toblix @nevskyp @Wrestlevania I'm not playing either. So who /is/ playing then?

    --

    For my part, I was working/getting angry at the internet. The girlfriend was playing Peggle, and saw there was some GTA going down, though. Was it fun? Was it? Eh?

  2. Posted

    Could it, though, possibly be a rights thing?

    I really doubt it. I'm sure they're just staggering it for marketing purposes. Got to admit releasing the directors and theatrical cuts on the same day is quite loopy in terms of consumer awareness, could create confusion.

    Speaking of releases being held up in other regions, where the fuck are the Grindhouse and Kill Bill box sets? I want to give these people my money but they won't take it.

    I know! I want my requisite Rodriguez extras, like the Cooking School!

  3. Posted

    So is Tales of the Black Freighter in the Director's Cut of Watchmen or not? Watchmen was one of my favorite movies of the year so I'm getting the DC regardless, I'd just like some clarification there.

    From what I can tell, the Director's Cut of Watchmen only adds about 24 minutes of extra footage (bringing it just over 3 hours). That doesn't seem to include the Black Freighter bits, which are going to be added in a future edition.

    More info here!

    They sure do want to get people to double-or-triple dip. Over here in the UK, they're only releasing the theatrical cut first, and the DC hasn't been announced yet. (From what I can see, both theatrical and director's cut are being released on the same day in the US, right?)

    Also, T2 is awesome! One of my favourite films when I was little - I should get around to getting the DVD sometime soon.

  4. Posted

    Love-hate PCs spiel

    Great write-up, James. Even though my experiences aren't exactly in line with yours, the reasons behind why I'm currently not a PC gamer are quite similar. I was primarily a PC gamer until the N64 generation, and even then I still played mostly PC games until university, when I downgraded to a laptop for convenience.

    Then I got in with the Gamecube, Wii, 360, and I never really felt the need to go back to the PC. And now it's incredibly daunting, from a price, space and choice issue. Listening to the Thumbs podcast doesn't help, because it's getting me thinking about PC games again - I'd love to give Anno a try, as a recent example - and my laptop groans when I play Spelunky, dammit.

    And there's nothing worse than loading up a game, then finding it glitching, stuttering, or crashing. That feeling of inadequacy is made even worse when it happens with New Star Soccer 4.

  5. Posted

    DAMMIT I really want to see Moon, but none of the cinemas in Brighton are showing it. Fuck you cinemas, fuck youuuuuuuuuuuu!

    (There are downsides to living in Brighton?!)

    Aw, I want to see Moon too! There are loads of places in London showing it, but I'm not sure if I have the time this week. Might need some drastic planning.

    In other news, I saw the new Pedro Almodovar film the other day, Broken Embraces / Los abrazos rotos. Really wonderful, enjoyable film. Very eclectic and cheeky in its melding of genres and styles, but still consistent and masterful in its gelling of direction, cinematography and acting. Plus, wow, Penelope Cruz.

    Definitely recommended - just a joy to watch something so intelligently and artfully made, that isn't willfully obscure, difficult or abrasive.

  7. Posted

    I may be up for some gaming tonight, if anyone else is? I'll blurt on Twitter as well.

    Not wishing to spam twitter. I might be going out to a film screening tonight, contingent on how much work I get done today. Er. So I'll let you know nearer the time - is this 9pm CJD?

  9. Posted

    Apologies. :getmecoat

    I ended up playing a mixture of Ikaruga and Eternal Sonata anyway. I messed up my eyes staring at black and white bullets, then learned little tidbits about Chopin. So that's marginally more painful, and educational, than Halo 3, I'm sure.

  10. Posted

    My theater is running a midnight show of Fight Club, and tonight I got to be the one to put the print together...

    Good to hear things are going well.

    Re: Fight Club, wasn't there a little frame snippet of porn at the end? Can't remember if it's pre-, during, or post-credits. Maybe during that final shot. Not watched that film in a while, a midnight showing would be something special.

    Things are trundling along for me. Currently writing some video game-related articles - damn fun to work on, but I had to turn down payment for them, which was a bit of a shame in retrospect.

  11. Posted

    Well last night went completely to shit on my account. Mother-in-law was using our phone in the games room for over an hour last night, which meant I couldn't get to my Xbox until after 10pm.

    So apologies if I dicked anyone around. I know n0wak was waiting to play at least.

    No worries. I managed to get online in the end, and saw you flash online for a moment - just thought it wasn't meant to be. Hope your son feels better.

  15. Posted

    I have and will continue to swim a lot. Its one of the games that have got the swimming mechanics right.

    Hm, I should try that out. I have an acute aversion to swimming in games, due to being (sort of) traumatised at a (relatively) young age by the (completely not scary) sewer creatures in (Star Wars: ) Dark Forces.

  16. Posted

    I'm guessing the draw is a fuller representation of the comic - as if the original cut wasn't slavish!

    Even though I liked the cuts they made, making it a baggy, but not-too-baggy monster, I'll still like to see how they tackled the supporting-supporting characters - the psychiatrist, the news vendor and the kid on the street. And, also, the spoiler bit that Toblix didn't see.

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    Hm. I suppose you can applaud the attention given to the design? Seems like they spent more time looking at pictures of intestines than reading the poem, to be honest. As I recall, Canto V is mostly about pain, heartbreak, and the story of Francesca and Paolo. I mean, check it out (from Cary's early 19th century translation)

    Canto V

    FROM the first circle I descended thus

    Down to the second, which, a lesser space

    Embracing, so much more of grief contains

    Provoking bitter moans. There, Minos stands

    Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all

    Who enter, strict examining the crimes,

    Gives sentence, and dismisses them beneath,

    According as he foldeth him around:

    For when before him comes th' ill fated soul,

    It all confesses; and that judge severe

    Of sins, considering what place in hell

    Suits the transgression, with his 'tail' so oft

    Himself encircles, as degrees beneath

    He dooms it to descend. Before him stand

    Always a num'rous throng; and in his turn

    Each one to judgment passing, speaks, and hears

    His fate, thence downward to his dwelling hurl'd.

    And so, with my be-powered scythe I lung'd,

    Tearing free th'intestines of Minos foul,

    Like some kick-ass deity of war, or

    Some shit like that. Twirling like airborne leaves

    I chained a sweet combo of ten kills or

    More, uncovering an achievement once hidden,

    Bolstering gamerscore with true finesse.

    Ploughing through dread Inferno's hellspawn,

    I reach'd save-point. Into a place I came

    Where light was silent all. Bellowing there groan'd

    A noise as of a sea in tempest torn

    By warring winds. Just like a hurricane,

    In a tornado, with naked bodies

    and overtones most sexual, but sick.

    There mark'd I Helen, for whose sake so long

    The time was fraught with evil; there the great

    Achilles, who with love fought to the end.

    Paris I saw, and Tristan; and they all

    Had extra members, orifices more,

    Like H. R. Giger, but fucking extreme.

    Wasting little time, aim on highest score,

    I drove through them with unwavering haste.

    Until faced, unholy of unholies,

    By Cleopatra, hind'ring my progress.

    Unfaz'd, I pressed buttons, flicked joysticks in

    Time with on-screen guidelines; heav'n-sent magic

    Infused my body, granting me power

    And skill, far beyond my other in-game

    Actions. To my eye, it was disturbing,

    And repulsive, but at the same time quite

    Compelling. My powers of verse fail me,

    But my trial, my adventure was brutal,

    And pushed all boundaries. I slay'd the Nile's

    Lustful Queen, paused to savour sweet vict'ry,

    To be taken, to my next stage, level,

    Circle. Only after a loading screen.

  20. Posted

    I downloaded the trial. Really like the look, feel, depth of the game. Teetering on getting it - then I see all these issues with the servers, so maybe I'll pass for the time being.

    If we can wrangle some thumbs for an en masse Pacific Expedition, then I'll reassess.

  23. Posted

    You do realize that the Y button only starts you climbing, and pushing it again will make you fall off, yes? If you want to climb faster, tap A. It's like running, but with a ladder.

    Sincerely, your Canadian tormentor.

    I do realise that, but it wasn't working very well at all. Then I started doubting my vague memory of the one time I'd climbed a ladder in the game, and started doing a jig instead.

    Also, I heard running with a ladder is dangerous. An adult told me so.

  24. Posted

    I agree, that different setting for Cops 'n Crooks gives it more potential - for tension, humour, slurs-from-beyond-the-grave.

    Enjoyable evening, mostly. I thought for a change I got 'stuck in' with the GTA Races, don't know if that's because I'm getting used to it, or what. The previous weeks, I'd be cruising for most of the race without seeing anyone. Plus, that airport track has some great choke points.

    There were quite a few bits of note, but most are overwhelmed in my mind by traumatic images of ladders stretching up into the infinite sky, and giant QTE-flashing Y buttons mocking me in a mixture of English (and one Canadian) accents.

    ...I think my favourite bit was Toblix's off-road, stunt driving flourish of the week, somehow managing to vertically climb a chain-link fence in a car.