As I head off this week to intern at the nation’s largest stage combat workshop, I watch this with glee and dread. Plus, it seems to focus on some sort of autistic savant of the martial, which tweaks me in the right places. My sister has a genetic condition similar to autism that I’ve considered writing into fantasy short stories. Nothing new under the sun.
This little Flash animation sort of represents how I feel this week after my crash course in Flash production.
The folks who brought you Left Behind, which an uncle bought for me but I never read, have created an RTS game where you control the “troops” of either God or the Anti-Christ — from a lofty omnipotent perch, mind you. The minds of Metfailter weighed in in their typical humorous but thought-provoking fashion.
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A comment from Kotaku’s review of the game at E3:
I was equally surprised to discover that “God of War” is a fantastic game, even though I kind of felt like they were trying to shove their Greek gods on me. I couldn’t believe that I ended up actually killing one of them as part of the plot.
I don’t know too much about those Odyssey-thumpers, but they sure seem to like blood and boobs. A LOT.
When I played God of War, I made MHG giggle more than once with my furious, teeth-grinding lambasting of the game’s difficulty, broken only by giddy cries of “Boobies!”
Realplayer #2 and PCIE6 #8. Even Apple takes their fair share of punches (though the Cube is notably missing). I just wish more people believed me when I said to use any browser other than PCIE for the last four years. It would have saved me hours of system cleaning on family machines.
A list of movies I will watch in theaters in 2006:
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This week will be occupied solely with completion of a documentary DVD that I’m editing for my fencing students. As such, I have moved my workstation into the living room, partially to remove the temptation to sit and play World of Warcraft instead.
Not sure anything else needs be said.
Apple sticks it to the PC again in these new amusing ads. I’ll say this: they’re not wrong.
More things that belong in a mini-blog. I’ve got to buckle down and get that thing working.
William Gibson liked V for Vendetta. Still a little nervous that Alan Moore removed himself from the credits. The New York Times panned it, but it seems like they didn’t really get it. I’m not sure whether that should surprise me or not.
Regardless, how could I not see it? MHG made special effort for me to have the book read before this week so that we can see it and discuss with full knowledge. I love that woman.
Update: It was good as a retelling or a “based on characters created by…” kind of movie, but many of the choices they made were Hollywood and others were completely unnecessary and message-deflating. Raggedy Android (MHG) agrees. Save your money, read the book, rent the DVD.
