Last video for a while, I promise. But this particular Zero Punctuation is quite brilliant, and I’m incredibly busy right now.
Next up: meaningful updates!
We have reached 2000!
As of right now, Akismet has protected this site from 2000 spam comments! I’m not sure if that’s since I first installed WordPress or since the move to the upgraded webspace that forced me to rebuild the site, but anyway – let’s celebrate!
The Joys of Swearing
I’m currently busy with Phenomenon 32 and other stuff, so enjoy Stephen Fry’s wonderful remarks on the subject of swearing, and the silliness of those who object to it.
The Romans thought their Empire would last forever.
Meanwhile, the mighty forces of peaceful Europe and the Obama-changed United States are fighting for the good of the people of Afghanistan by killing as many of them as they can, banks are growing more powerful than ever before, and huge amounts of low-wage workers are constantly having their rights violated. How can anyone doubt the glory of capitalism, in which “every worker is free to seek whatever working deal he or she likes” and “employers that pay below the market rate will inevitably lose their employees to those who pay at or above it”?
100 Little Curses
While I realize that one shouldn’t feed the trolls, sometimes I simply can’t help it. And so I would like to dedicate this video to “J.H.”, the sociopathic user who wasted my time with absurd arguments unconnected to observable reality and went on to offend myself and my wife.
Enjoy!
(Here’s a link to the actual music video, which is too broad for the blog.)
Not again…
I woke up this morning and my back hurt. It got worse as the day went on, moving upwards to include my neck, and by now I can barely raise my head. This is extremely annoying and has kept me from writing the long post about the Fantasy Filmfest that I wanted to write. Let’s hope that tonight I can manage to stay under the blanket, so that maybe tomorrow will be a little better. Not that sleeping like this will be fun.
I did manage to do some awesome work on Phenomenon 32, though. There was a number of things that I hadn’t added yet – certain types of obstacles and creatures – that are now there and functioning. And it’s done wonders for the gameplay. Not so much because it adds anything unique, but because it makes the environment more interactive, more challenging and thus more alive. (It’s still not a game about tricky platforming, though. This is an exploration game above all.)
This, by the way, is not an actual location in the game, but a test environment where I, well, test things. And it’s as spoilery as I’m going to get – if I show you everything before you play the game, you won’t have any fun playing.
Dollhouse, Episode 13
So the future of Dollhouse is a cheap rip-off of Cell with Battlestar Galactica visuals?
Great.
Can you dig it?
Review of this and a few more movies to follow tomorrow.
Stickin’ it to the Man
Sometimes my faith in humanity is suddenly restored. We’re currently seeing some films at the Fantasy Film Fest, and the three films we saw so far have all been surprisingly awesome. They also all share a common and incredibly important subject matter: standing up to the powers that be. As different as Black Dynamite (hilarious beyond words), Push (touching and exciting and brilliant) and District 9 (gut-wrenching and ultimately beautiful) may be, this is the central ethos of all three films. And that is most encouraging.
Detailed reviews to follow. (Next at Fantasy Film Fest: Wasting Away and Moon. Not expecting too much of either, though Moon is likely to be a lot better. We shall see.)
Calming down.
So, yes. A combination of seeing Black Dynamite at the Fantasy Film Fest and words of wisdom from Gregory Weir have helped me to feel a little better about the Wikipedia thing. The edit was made by an unregistered user who didn’t do anything else – perhaps the same person who once added a sentence about me living in a cave.
As I posted in the comments:
You’re entirely right, of course, and I’m overreacting. It’s mainly because the frustration of trying to get an agent for Verena and the difficulty of getting to what I feel is the next stage in our lives – writing books and making films – are really wearing me out emotionally. This is a turning point in our lives, and if things don’t start going well, it will be very hard for us to do the things we live and feel the need to accomplish.
Still, if anyone out there who enjoys my work feels like improving the entry, I’d be quite happy. Oh, and thanks, Gregory. The rationality is appreciated.