I really liked Maryanne. Reminded me a lot of Green River or Temple of the Dog, all those pre-Soundgarden/Pearl Jam bands. I agree that with some really meaty studio production it could be a monster. I would buy it.
Glow is good, but it felt like it needed to kick up a notch towards the end. I'm shit with musical terminology, but I expected a key change - something to make it soar - from around the 2:30 point. It doesn't really change from start to end, and while I'm a fan of that drone-rock sound, it can easily turn into a dirge over a longer song.
Re: Modern Warfare 2 « Result #3 Today at 2:59pm »
It's a very Bush era game, in almost every respect. The gameplay is sort of OK, in a really dumb shock-and-awe kind of way, but I mostly hate everything else about it. It's all that is ugly and wrong about gamers and gaming in one obnoxious package.
Re: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs « Result #4 Today at 2:48pm »
This is still really fucking funny. Brad, if you've not seen it, you need to. It's one of the few big screen animations that retains that cartoon feel - the way everything moves is just fantastic.
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LAYDEES IN FOCUS \( ^_^)/ « Result #8 Today at 12:42pm »
So I just recently woke up after being knocked out by BRO-mazepam all day, and for the first time since I was about seven, everything was in focus. Corrective eye-laser surgery ftw!
"Man, you remember Rusty, man? Fuckin' Rusty. Decided he was going to fuck a tiger, man. Killed doing it, but not before he cracked one off in some tiger pussy. Fuckin' legendary, man."
Well, I never really got that feeling from KOTOR or Jade Empire, the sense of exploration. They feel very similar to Dragon Age in that respect. Mass Effect I guess had more, but it was trundling across barren rockscapes in a moon buggy to find collectibles rather than really exploring anything.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
No, I get that Bioware don't make Oblivion style games, but from KotOR to Mass Effect, they at least disguised the invisible walls so it didn't intrude on the gameplay. In Dragon Age you can walk into what looks like a large open space, only for the game to stop you walking in certain directions. There are literally invisible barriers in the middle of fields and hills. It's really mood-breaking.
And, at the risk of Andrewing up the thread, I find it hard to get immersed in this sort of gameworld when my characters just warp from one hotspot to another. I like to wander off the beaten path and find things that feel like they're not supposed to be found. The world of Dragon Age never feels like a real place, just a series of distinct videogame levels.
Can't put it any better than Dan. Not TEH MOST SPEKTACKYOOLAR THANG EVAH but really great action filmmaking. And even though Cameron may have fallen short of the goal on deep characterization, you can see the earnest attempt to keep a heart and soul at the center of the story. You certainly can't lump Cameron into the same catagory as Bay, with his utter, souless emptiness.
The 3D was used to great effect, no cheap gotcha thrills here.
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Re: Surelak Homez « Result #15 Yesterday at 7:18pm »
Saw this Saturday at the third of three theaters we tried to get into. Sold out, sold out, nearly sold out. It was a fun, sometimes exhilarating experience. I fell asleep at about the 1:20 mark, but I was actually tired. Great fight scenes, humor, Robert Downey Jr. I'm guessing the sequel is automatic at this point. Richey has reinvented himself. Sort of.
"Perhaps the horn I had was not big enough for you for I remember that you bent down to me face and murmured tenderly "Fuck up, love! Fuck up, love!"' - James "Buttafuoco" Joyce
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
Although I don't really agree with the complaint about it not being an open world, because no BioWare game is. They're all restricted by invisible walls by choice and by design.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
I will say that a lot of those gameplay quirks really aren't evident in the PC version. It's pretty obvious that unlike KOTOR, Jade Empire and Mass Effect, this was a PC game before it was ever a console game. That's probably where the 360 and PS3 versions suffer, because a lot of those minor issues that are in those versions just don't exist in the PC version due to the format.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
It's also worth pointing out that the show never used to have these big dramatic END OF THE UNIVERSE stories happening every fucking series. Previous Doctors would just die and regenerate at the end of an otherwise normal adventure. There was none of this messianic stuff where the whole of creation revolved around the Doctor.
Re: Inglorious Bastidges « Result #30 Yesterday at 1:19pm »
I've been trying to figure out how the Basterds fit into this. I don't think Tarantino is trying to in any way criticize them for their brutality. From what I can tell from his interviews, he doesn't seem to feel that there's much distinction between killing Hitler and killing a German footsoldier. So I'm thinking they fit into the propaganda theme. The Basterds are terrorists, and terrorism is a form of propaganda. Lt. Rayne says this explicitly in his opening scene: they will kill Nazis in the most brutal way possible, and it will send a message of fear through the Nazi ranks. Hitler counters that: there must be no talk of the Basterds, no reference to The Bear Jew. In the climax of the film, this idea is reversed: from violence as propaganda to propaganda as violence.
I think Davies is decent with the character stuff, but it's the big sci-fi ideas that he can't really deliver on. Unfortunately that's where the show really needs to work.
Hey Andy, hope you hate pants. Why? Because yours are about to be sued off by the Coca-Cola Company. A bit of advice, you will get no where in your career by appropriating pop culture icons like Tab™. You're just asking for trouble.
It's very typical of Russel T. Davies' scripting, especially in these big series finales where he almost always ends up reaching for some operatic tone that he can't actually afford to realise. It's all about the big, broad fatalistic strokes, but the stuff that connects them is either too rushed or too sluggish, or too silly or too serious.
I really admire what he's done to revive the show in such a successful way, but I really can't wait for Moffat to take over. He's a much more assured and confident writer, and I think we'll finally start to see more coherent stories to go with the brilliant ideas behind them.
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Re: The Surge Signal Thread « Result #33 Yesterday at 12:47pm »
How'd you mamange to get Windows Starter Edition? That's designed for laptops in emerging markets and it's not even supposed to be available in North America or European markets. Sounds like something shady is going on if that came from Best Buy or Office Depot. I'd find out out where it came from and ask them why they're selling something that's not supposed to be sold here.
And yeah, there's no way to get around that (it's linked into encrypted Shell32.DLL extensions for the tech answer as why).
You can either spring for a windows home/home premium edition, or in complete computer geek fashion, I'd recommend giving Ubuntu Linux a whirl as it and gallons of software are free. That's caveated if you're only doing web browsing/e-mail/word processing, but it really is as easy to use as windows and you can't beat a $0.00 price tag. Half of the cheap netbooks out there now are running a Linux system like it already and their users remain unaware.
Hey Andy, hope you hate pants. Why? Because yours are about to be sued off by the Coca-Cola Company. A bit of advice, you will get no where in your career by appropriating pop culture icons like Tab™. You're just asking for trouble.
Re: Dragon Age « Result #35 Yesterday at 11:50am »
The balance is broken, I think. Normal gets stupidly hard far too quickly, and seemingly at random, while Casual is almost no challenge whatsoever.
I'm enjoying it, but it's not Bioware's greatest offering. The story and script are excellent, but there's just too many persistent gameplay quirks.
My main complain is the lack of an open world, compounded by the fact that even the smallest game area has horrible invisible walls stopping you from walking up hills or down pathways.
And, as Slater said, there's just so much that is never explained or introduced. Navigating the backend is a real chore to begin with.
That level looks worse than Darfur or that bad shit in Africa. I hope Infinity Ward and their families burn in hell for making a level that horrible and shocking.
Hey Andy, hope you hate pants. Why? Because yours are about to be sued off by the Coca-Cola Company. A bit of advice, you will get no where in your career by appropriating pop culture icons like Tab™. You're just asking for trouble.
That level looks worse than Darfur or that bad shit in Africa. I hope Infinity Ward and their families burn in hell for making a level that horrible and shocking.
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Re: Best of 2009 « Result #49 on Dec 26, 2009, 6:38pm »
1. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE/BLOOD AND BONE 2. FANTASTIC MR. FOX 3. BRONSON 4. INGLORIOUS BASTERDS 5. UP 6. THE HURT LOCKER 7. THE BROTHERS BLOOM 8. OBSERVE AND REPORT 9. MOON 10. EXTRACT
That level looks worse than Darfur or that bad shit in Africa. I hope Infinity Ward and their families burn in hell for making a level that horrible and shocking.
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Re: The Surge Signal Thread « Result #50 on Dec 26, 2009, 6:14pm »
So, I just got a lovely new little netbook, which is perfect for my home pc needs. Problem is, it came with Windows 7 Starter. I don't mind most of the limitations, but it's really stupid that I can't set me desktop background with buying the 80 dollar version, anyone know a workaround so I can set a background?
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Re: Surelak Homez « Result #52 on Dec 26, 2009, 5:03pm »
A damn fun way to waste an afternoon. The bromance between RDJ and Jude Law shines, Mark Strong and his all-encompassing snaggletooth provide an ample amount of menace, and Rachel McAdams is OHMAHGAWD hot.
I would've enjoyed more of the Jaws-esque henchman, though.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
That level looks worse than Darfur or that bad shit in Africa. I hope Infinity Ward and their families burn in hell for making a level that horrible and shocking.
Re: Inglorious Bastidges « Result #59 on Dec 26, 2009, 1:10pm »
The dude from The Office had that great reaction at the end. "Th-the germans have a nickname for me?" Would have like to have seen more of him earlier on.
Max Zues is free from arkham and has a lagitamate buisness front.But in the underworld scen he's created a new drug called chuckles, extasy laced with the joker's laugh poison.
Re: Xmas journeys « Result #60 on Dec 26, 2009, 1:05pm »
Holy shit we watched the worst version of A Christmas Carol while wrapping presents Christmas Eve. It's an MGM version. I thought it was the cool one where Scrooge visits Marley's deathbed. I dig that one because it's got a real gothic feel. This one had a community theater feel. So then we watched Land Of The Lost after and that was better. LOL stoned Chaka.
Max Zues is free from arkham and has a lagitamate buisness front.But in the underworld scen he's created a new drug called chuckles, extasy laced with the joker's laugh poison.
Max Zues is free from arkham and has a lagitamate buisness front.But in the underworld scen he's created a new drug called chuckles, extasy laced with the joker's laugh poison.
Max Zues is free from arkham and has a lagitamate buisness front.But in the underworld scen he's created a new drug called chuckles, extasy laced with the joker's laugh poison.
Max Zues is free from arkham and has a lagitamate buisness front.But in the underworld scen he's created a new drug called chuckles, extasy laced with the joker's laugh poison.
Re: Doctor Parnassus « Result #64 on Dec 26, 2009, 12:17pm »
This movie is a lot like Munchaussen. On first viewing, I have no idea what the point was, and there were threads that didn't follow through and it's a bit of a mess, but I guess that describes most Gilliam films. It feels like a direct follow-up to his 80's movies, could even be the fourth installment of the Dreamers cycle (about parenthood, possibly?) (or is The Fisher King part of that cycle?). There's a lot of CGI, and I felt sort of the same complaint a lot of people made about the prequels: I miss the old physical sets of Gilliam's 80's movies. But on the other hand, there is one fantasy sequence that is basicaly one of his Monty Python cartoons done with CGI, and it's just fucking insane. And Tom Waits is very cool, but doesn't sing any songs, which would have bumped the whole enterprise up a grade level.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
That level looks worse than Darfur or that bad shit in Africa. I hope Infinity Ward and their families burn in hell for making a level that horrible and shocking.
That level looks worse than Darfur or that bad shit in Africa. I hope Infinity Ward and their families burn in hell for making a level that horrible and shocking.
"Perhaps the horn I had was not big enough for you for I remember that you bent down to me face and murmured tenderly "Fuck up, love! Fuck up, love!"' - James "Buttafuoco" Joyce
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
Hey Andy, hope you hate pants. Why? Because yours are about to be sued off by the Coca-Cola Company. A bit of advice, you will get no where in your career by appropriating pop culture icons like Tab™. You're just asking for trouble.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
Hey Andy, hope you hate pants. Why? Because yours are about to be sued off by the Coca-Cola Company. A bit of advice, you will get no where in your career by appropriating pop culture icons like Tab™. You're just asking for trouble.
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
"Perhaps the horn I had was not big enough for you for I remember that you bent down to me face and murmured tenderly "Fuck up, love! Fuck up, love!"' - James "Buttafuoco" Joyce
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
"Perhaps the horn I had was not big enough for you for I remember that you bent down to me face and murmured tenderly "Fuck up, love! Fuck up, love!"' - James "Buttafuoco" Joyce
Djedefre, pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a great proponent of geometric architecture and reed-boating, died at 32 after a sudden onset of alligators. He left a wife, Djekshetsut, and two daughters, Djennifer and Djulie.
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