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I actually had these done early yesterday evening, but after I got pictures and the page done and everything I was in a "Fuck it, I have Journey, I'm going to play it now" mood. And so between last night and this morning and afternoon, I have reached the end. And I shall go again. It's... exactly what I needed, what I wanted, and more than I'd hoped for. Staggeringly beautiful, simple without being simplistic, you can give and take as much as you wish in terms of depth, and it had this little "Ico moment" that had me sorely tempted to go download that as well. (Not yet... but I will.) Was it worth $15? Oh fuck yes. More; but I won't argue with $15. Highly, highly, recommended. But I don't think I'll ever be playing it online, myself.
Because my most exciting moment this week was finding Sriracha on sale, how about (a hell of a lot of) links? We'll start off with the aptly titled Can We All Please Ignore Roger Ebert From Now On? Thanks.
A bit of David Cage talking more about the Kara demo. Just because I enjoyed it so damn much.
Amongst the new information from Famitsu regarding KH3D: "In the end we'll finally see Xemnas/Ansem's true form." ................King? Please? Pretty please? King would be even better than a fucking truck explanation! You might have a sale here, S-E. I may never had a 3DS, but I'd fucking find a way to afford the game anyway. Re-use those assets!
Can Manufactured Memories Be as Powerful as Experience? I keep meaning to take a look at To the Moon. Going to have to get to that eventually. The article itself stretches far beyond that game, though.
So, There’s a Fan Campaign to Change the Ending of Mass Effect 3 Choicest quote: "This is an expression of the writers and designers at BioWare, and if you dislike it, OK—there is certainly a lot of legitimate criticism of the outcome. But it is their statement, not yours." Believe me, being a Dark Tower fan, I can understand. But... the origins of these stories are not with us. We can choose to disagree or deny; not change.
The extraordinary tale of a "game" inspired by a very sad and strange death. Or rather, it may not be so very strange, which may make it more sad. A "perfectly normal", for all intents and purposes "perfectly social" woman died while wrapping Christmas presents. Her body was discovered three years later. For three years, no one knew she was dead. It's actually the evolution of this incident into the thought of a "game", and then the end result, that so fascinated me. And yes, I have "played" it. I recommend it, actually. It's rather one of those things where you suspect that someone who rails against it avidly as being an "artsy piece of shit" just got the hell scared out of them by one or more of the questions. (Hey, it may not be for you, but... it's intriguing.)
A mention of Milo (the tech demo that would be a game that would be questionably functional at all) pops up again, rather mysteriously... with Peter Molyneux commenting, "The real problem with Milo, and this is a problem we had lots of meetings over, was where it would be on the shelves next to all the computer games. It was just the wrong thing. It was the wrong concept for what this industry currently is. Maybe this industry one day won’t be like that, but at this particular time, having a game that celebrates the joy of inspiring something and you feel this connection, this bond; it was the wrong time for that." It's not that is disagree, exactly. It's that I'm waiting for someone to have the balls to say it looked like it was one step away from being used as a simulator for sexual predators and everyone would just rather shelve it. Then again, I'm jaded as all fuck.
Moebius, an artist who did a shitload more concept art than you might realize (the original Tron among them), passed away recently. As I have been known to do, I read Neil Gaiman's post on the subject. Thought that was rather nice. Then I read the tags. "Sometimes you make magic from the things you do not understand". It made me smile.
And speaking of Tron, Brucey says no, really, there will be another sequel. Don't be lying to us, Mr. Tron.
New report reveals how corporations undermine science with fake bloggers and bribes. If this is somehow news to you, you may want to stay off the internet.
The first chapter of Machine might appeal to some of similar tastes; "A woman named Celia with a troubled past has just lost her wife because she's chosen to become a bioandroid. Celia lives in a future of underground surgeries, bio-mechanical implants, and posthuman politics. In this chapter we begin to glimpse all the ways humanity has been changed by biotech — and how it hasn't."
And now we get to the blatantly "why the hell not?" fun stuff. Darth Vader in a kilt on a unicycle playing the Star Wars theme on bagpipes. You're welcome.
Perfect follow-up: The Wampug Strikes Back.
CHAINSAW BIKE! What else do you need to know?
Last but certainly not least, some Toy Story 3/The Shining mash-up pictures that had me laughing way too damn hard.
Now I retreat back to soothing darkness. Hiss.
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Clov: There's a rat in the kitchen!
Hamm: A rat! Are there still rats?
Clov: In the kitchen there's one.
Hamm: And you haven't exterminated him?
Clov: Half. You disturbed us.
Hamm: He can't get away?
Clov: No.
Hamm: You'll finish him later. Let us pray to God.
From Beckett's play Endgame.