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Just trying to figure out what to do--never mind, I might actually be able to get in soon. Phew.
I guess technically no it wouldn't be too late to go, and honestly if it were practical I wouldn't mind going there just for Saturday or something, but I don't have a car and even if I did I definitely am not nearly confident enough about driving to try going to Boston, and I don't want to ask my mom or dad to bring me there on such short notice, since that doesn't seem very nice to do.
Though I know you probably didn't mean that seriously anyway.
I'm going to a convention in the last weekend of April.
I can cosplay as Shinji...[awesomeface.jpg]
Oh yeah, in case I haven't already mentioned it, there's a convention at Quinnipiac University in the weekend of April 28-29. It's called Quinni-con.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8Oi9TTetk&feature=youtube_gdata
I swear, antinatalist minds degrade more every day
I have to comp with the annual Jesus Christ Superstar in the background. Needs to get laptop replacement asap.
Had sporting afternoon in park, which mostly ended in people splattering eggs on each other's noggins. Also, turns out I'm pretty good at hanging from my arms for a long time.
TOR finally finished downloading last night.
So, Warhammer Fantasy is a really good game, right?
And one of its strongest elements is the lore -- it's a kind of German Renaissance meets vampires, black magic Vikings, Arthurian knights, soccer mob orcs and more. A ridiculous, tongue-in-cheek mashup of historical and fantasy elements that nonetheless can evoke narrative with a more serious tone.
So I thought, after over ten years of avoiding it, I mean read a book of it. You know, like a novel.
Oh boy.
I was prepared for questionable writing -- what I wasn't prepared for is something reminiscent of Eragon. Lemme give you a few excerpts.
Emphasis mine.
So let's see what we've got here.
I was never expecting greatness from something that would essentially be glorified fanfic, but nor did I expect The Eye Of Argon. Were I a publisher, I would already be disinterested in this book. And yet, it got published.
This bit actually starts off a little promising. "The warrior gritted his teeth" is short, sharp and expressive -- showing, not telling. But then the author had to elaborate. Mind, "grave-cheating" is a pretty good phrase, but it sounds as though it belongs in dialogue rather than narration.
The other thing here is the introduction of the term "zombie", which doesn't make sense. For one thing, zombies are stupidly average adversaries in pop culture media as a whole. In Warhammer, they're very, very inferior to the average soldier of other forces. What kind of dunce gets wounded by a zombie while well-armed? It makes no external or internal sense, not that the phrase "zombie" inspires any interest or dread to begin with.
It would have been much more interesting if it were never quite named, like some kind of Frankenstein construct.
So, for shits and giggles, I'll try my hand at a revision of the above quoted sections.
That was a little primitive, but it's also much more interesting. It's perspective, thoughts, psychology, interpretation. The things the written word does so well. A film or game says "the man fought the zombie, and then the man died", and those mediums are much better at it. Narrative books are almost by definition internalised interpretations of events a character undergoes, even if it isn't written from a first-person perspective. A man fighting a zombie tells us nothing -- a man fighting something that could be interpreted as a zombie, losing his sense of perspective in the process, tells us about horror. His mind dies before his body does, which hints at the kind of mental trauma he's experienced.
Now the "zombie" isn't a zombie -- it's an embodiment of death and can be interpreted in various ways. Now the reader isn't just reading literal events, but can own their own interpretation of the narration.
> two and a half pages
Shot bow today. Made some decent progress in that the groupings are tighter and I hit the target 4 times . I can't say there is a fuck yeah sort of enjoyment for it, but there is a bit of quiet satisfaction for small improvements.
And I don't like the female Jedi Consular's VA less than the female Jedi Knight's VA. Bluh.
I should go start up a Jedi Consular anyway. What world do you and Forzare play on now?
The Razor server. It's on the North American drop down list, so I don't know if that will be a problem for you though.
Okay. I'ma go play then.
One of my friends is a libertarian who hates the gold standard and wants the government to outlaw abortion and gay marriage
What's your character's name? If some dude with a bunch of armor and an orange lightsaber named Tarwin shows up and waves at you in a couple hours, that's me.
Unless an NA server turns out to be too laggy for you to play on. Or unless you end up hating it.
Man, can't believe I'm actually reading a recap and enjoying it
Honestly, I think Starman might be amongst my favourite superhero books right now.
How did 'The cake is a lie' become the prime meme from Portal?
'Look at me still talking when there's science to do.' would have been much better and a great way to end a conversation.
Almost any other line from Portal is more quotable than "The cake is a lie" to be honest.
well i was called out to go finish this fucking garden shed before I could even play
stupid goddamned garden shed
i hate it so much
so
much
"The cake is a lie" is almost a meme in-game though.
It's more just foreshadowing that shit has gotten fucked up, yo.
I know. But, I mean, the phrase is repeated in-game and hidden in all these places, it's no surprise people would start repeating it in real life.
Noximillian on The Razor, I am. Nova was taken already, dammit.
I just remember one instance of it...?
Granted, it's hilarious because it sounds like such an anti-climax, at least to me. Also, who writes that with their blood? not "This is a trap, she's gonna kill you" the guy simply decided to express his indignation about the fact that there is no cake. Who cares about being locked up forever. He wanted cake, goddamnit.
^ Well, the guy is insane.
^^Yeah, the game is really good at mixing horror and comedy.
You know, every time people go for horror-comedy it's usually over-the-top stuff like Evil Dead 2 or Shaun of the Dead or the later Nightmare on Elm Street films. I'm trying to remember if there are any prominent horror films where the wit is more dry.