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| April 25, 2003
6:47 AM
my
Excite account
mostly
porn and enhancement
no
online betas =(
It's
shocking the kind of nasty things one is subject to when one logs
onto an email account one's had for many years. I won't share those
things with you my gentle reader, those ads are all for me, all
for me. My first of what I hope to be a weekly haiku bit, shares
my frustrations of having to check this email often because if Square
Enix is going to let me into their Final Fantasy XI online beta
test they're going to send the info to that old email addy. *sigh*
the things I do for gaming.
b-ruce |
| April 24, 2003
6:53 AM
IGN
has some interesting words to read on a strategy game that most
of you won't care about. I've been playing Romance of the Three
Kingdoms games for almost 15 years now and while I can't say that
the series produces the greatest games I will say that when they
release one I'll be there to support it with my buying dollars.
b-ruce |
| April 21, 2003
11:06 PM
"Temptation"
After
watching "The Ten Comandments" & the "Helen of
Troy" miniseries I had a real hankering to do some gaming set
in that time period. So against my better judgement I purchased
"Shadowbane" today.
No online game has been everthing I've wanted it to be and with
my current situation I really don't have time to powerlevel like
I did back in the old days, but I so wanted to be a soldier at the
walls of Troy that I took the gamble. The upside to online games
can be sodamn good, but they can also be very disapointing. I'll
let you know what I think later this week.
b-ruce |
| April 19, 2003 6:25 PM
"Bulletproof,
but not criticproof"
I
like Chow Yun-Fat, I like Sean William Scott, I like the idea of
a kick ass Tibetan monk who has to keep an all powerful artifact
hidden from Nazis a-la "Raiders of the Lost Arc". And
let's not forget the monk is chalk full of cliche Asian wisedom
and for some reason Bulletproof. It's a buddy picture with good
chemistry between the buddies, however it is what they are doing
that is the real problem here. Chow Yun-Fat is not a martial artist,
no matter how much the American public likes him to be he simply
is not. Ditto for pretty much the entire cast in the film. Yet they
all must engage in crazy wire-rigged Kung Fu fights. Their need
of more Kung Fu forces the director to make quick cuts and really
turns every fight scene in the flick to a blurry thing with people
and techno music, save for the one where Chow Yun-Fat plays keep-away
with a bowl of Cocoa Puffs, that one's pretty good. And let's not
let the writing off the hook for this one either. First off, after
the BP Monk jumps off a cliff the main Nazi looks over the cliff
and asks: "Monk?" as if Chow Yun-Fat would say "I'm
ok, just throw me a rope, please?"; instead with no reply comming
the Nazi just keeps saying "Monk" getting more upset everytime,
until finally he does the Star Trek 2 "Kahn!!!!" thing
and the camera slips into a wide shot to show you the scenery as
if it is also embarresed by that bit of omage and ridiculousness.
Then there's "Mr. Funktastic" who is a cockney crime lord
in the abandon subway tunnels that has raves in the broken down
train cars. There is no way that that last sentence can ever seem
not silly. And silly it is, the rest of the film plays out in standard
fashion but the casting and writting problems are evident from start
to finish.
b-ruce |
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