Loafer's Nook 20- La Siesta antes La Fiesta
POSTED BY: Jadehand
UPDATED: Thursday, September 7, 2006 15:32
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Quote:No no no, with the training its a highly sharpened traditional Katana long sword.
Originally posted by seryn:
uh, no, i don't think so.
See, with out the martial arts training, it was just a keyboard, with the training its apparently the entire computer.
Somehow doesn't strike me as a good plan.
Oh that's not helping is it.
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ok, no one, I repeat, no one let me near very sharp edges.
This is for your own protection.
The aviator shears were bad enough.
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So you don't want me to take my swords to D*C then?
On the way back from training today I decided to buy some beer (I've earned it) and got a rental while I was there (local shop/video rental is closed Sundays so you get it an extra day for free). Looked at the latest releases and the ones that stood out were Aeon Flux, King Kong and Doom.
Aeon Flux is supposed to be Aeon Sux's (so I've heard) so I decided to leave it to when I can get it for free and I was going to go with King Kong, but then I saw Doom and I've played the game and I was curious so,
I really shoulda gone with Kong. Doom's not bad I suppose, for what it is, and I prefer the explanation for where the daemons come from, I never was a fan of "lets kill the denizens of hell" thing. It was okay, but it's "good to watch for free on TV" okay not "pay £3 for rental okay".
I wasn't really that taken with the game either, played all the originals, in fact as far as I know my old schools computers may still have it hidden away on their hard drives, but the problem with it is that it fulfilled exactly what ID wanted from it, it was an old school shooter. You wander around with a great big gun and shoot monsters that walk very slowly towards you. Like currently we're getting a lot of World War Two FPS games, well Doom and games of that era, the old skool, were like World War One, "That's right men, walk very very slowly in single file towards the enemy machine guns, they'll never expect it!"
Incidentally why hasn't anyone produced a World War One game? Well there was that Royal Flying Corps game years ago that I really wanted to play but it was hard core and you needed like a Pentium 75 with 50mb of RAM to run it! Whoa! Like man who has a machine with those sorts of righteous megahertz? It looked really good though, I liked the idea of flying a biplane over France, taking the helm (stick?) of a Sopwith Camel and turning that Baron bastard Red. Anyway they should make a trenches game, hours of game play wandering around in the mud and if you stand up from a crouch your head comes off. Then finally it’s the whistle with a plucky Captain shouting "Tally ho and over the top lads! We'll be sucking sausages in Berlin by tea time!" moments before his head comes off. Then you follow the AI troop’s slowly walking toward the German lines, bullets flying every which way while you wait for the whites of their eyes. Finally you either hide and get shot for cowardice, or you get shot. It'll fly off the shelves.
Okay maybe not, but you could do something, like a murder mystery like Ben Elton's The First Casualty, or Tank Corps or something.
Anyway Doom. Yeah Doom 3 was Old Skool that was great, in 1993 when we didn't have or know any better, but when you've got special forces outflanking you and using grenades to flush you out in FarCry an imp jumping out of the roofing tile and going "BOO!" doesn't really impress. I got bored of Doom about half way through and put it away and haven't played it since, sure it could be scary but it was scary by relying on boring clichés, rather than being imaginative, make it dark, make things suddenly jump out at you and have creepy random sound effects. Yay Ghost Train the game.
Incidentally they had the Serenity trailer on the DVD, which led partially to this rant, Doom did much better, but by comparison is utter S
TE. What’s wrong with people?
But anyway if anyone can tell me what the hell I'm going on about they can have a cookie...
Cool Shanghai Knights is on channel one!
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you are stream of conciousness ranting about a movie, because it was in your head and you wanted to talk about it.
Like i want to talk about the fact that i've just heard Credence Clearwaters 'Magic carpet ride' and been playing it repeatedly while boogieing around doing chores. And isn't it great when you find a song that makes you happy and boogie... full?
and the other day when i was ranting about The New World, a film that would have been ok if the director hadn't decided to splice in a nature documentary and overlay the voiceovers from Dune.
I don't normally have problems with my attention span, but after what felt like hours of varius pretty shots of ships, then water, ships again, tree, ships, dragonfly, ships, colinfarrel, grass, ships, ships whisper ships... i realised we were only actually half way through the opening credits and picked the sewing up again. and a book.
So do i get a cookie?
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That's good enough for me!
Serenity,
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I still haven't played doom 3, though I'm sure I'd like it. I'm still more a fan of the old school shooters than those of the "new school." I think I like the straight forwardness of 'em. Also, the physics and player movement in those games tends to be more to my liking.
I haven't seen the movie yet, either, though I'm sure at some point I will.
I'm currently playing through HL2 (yeah, it's taken me this long to play a game that's sequel to one of my favorites? priorities have changed...). I'm enjoying it.
-edit- forgot to mention, over on another forum we were discussing the overabundance of wwII shooters (which i greatly dislike). wwI games were brought up at one point.
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Seryn: my brother used to have it set up on his cell phone that when I called him, instead of hearing the phone ring, I'd hear Magic Carpet Ride play. It was awesome. I'd always dance while waiting for him to answer the phone.
Recently he changed it to something else, some song I don't know and that isn't nearly as cool as MCR. I bug him to change it back endlessly but he's won't.
He is a very mean brother.
Serenity,
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Bride8
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Quote:
He is a very mean brother.
What an Ath!
"I have been here many times before In a life I used to live
But I have never seen these streets so fresh Washed with morning rain
I have seen this face a thousand times Every morning of my life
But I never saw these eyes so clear Free of doubt and pain
Like the whole world has been made again."
Made Again (Brave)-Marillion
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Exactly!
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
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