malkav11

Was sick last night and today. Watched some DVDs (first disc, season 1 Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, last disc of season 4 West Wing, a bit of the last disc of Haibane-Renmei). Played some games, most notably F.E.A.R. It had been kind of easy for a while, but now I'm up against enemies in quantities and with weapons that make them...well, still not enough of...
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Going on a retro gaming kick. Got my ROM folder all packed full of SNES and Genesis and Sega CD and N64 and Playstation and GBA...(all stuff I own legally, naturally. *coughcoughhackwheeze*). Been ripping my own PSX discs to the hard drive to play on the emulator with a spare PS2 controller I hooked up. (Graphics are mildly enhanced. Also, save states. Otherwise I'd just...
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I think we can all agree that Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith sucked. Oh, it had a few good points, and the core concept was solid, but the execution was really horribly botched. Much like the other two prequel movies...except they didn't even have a solid core concept, not really. After I saw it, I just couldn't help wondering what might...
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Ze computair is ...kinda...running again. I had to reformat the main drive and lose all sorts of stuff, do all the crap that comes along with installing XP...and now I can't get it to see my other drives, as the IDE card driver locks up the machine on boot. Frabjous joy, I tells you. At least I can do *some* of the stuff I've been...
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I fear Grant Morrison. Whatever that man has living in his brain cannot be of this earth. First he breaks my brain with The Filth, then I go and I start reading the Invisibles, and... each consecutive volume ups the weirdness factor, and it started not much short of Filth-level. Sure, not everything he does is quite that brain-bending, but even Animal Man, after the...
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Among other things, I got the Katamari Damacy sequel for Christmas. This has prompted me to go back and actually play the original more than the little I did when I got it. It's such a charming, well done little game. Rolling up stuff is almost hypnotic, and there are so many weird objects and everything is so bizarrely stylized...so much fun. The thing that...
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You know, I've never considered zombies particularly scary. I've seen a bunch of the movies, and..no scares, really. Jump-in-your-seat shocks, occasionally, Horror, certainly. I mean, rot and entrails and all are *gross*. But scary they're not. Not to me. I tend to reserve that category for the unstoppable, reason-free murderous ghosts of Japanese horror movies, or the twisted, outre things that shamble in the streets...
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Saw the new Chronicles of Narnia movie today. I wasn't really impressed. Oh, it seemed pretty faithful to the book, and it was technically very well done. The opening puts it in a context that I had not previously been aware of (though I imagine it's in the book), to wit: during WWII, and the children wind up at the professor's house because they've been...
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Won a game today after I realized that, due to an arbitrary end point, money was more valuable than property. Therefore I sold another player a property of minimal value but which completed their set and would make astronomical amounts of money for them. I did this maybe 5 minutes before the end, and I did it for all their money and some useful property....
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Normally I don't find that the bus is as full of freaks as some people seem to think....but every now and then...

I get on the 21 on my way home, and this girl is bitching out this older woman for having gone through someone else's purse (which they'd left behind) and stolen some money. Of course the older woman vigorously denies this and is...
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