All posts for the month March, 2009

Watchmen

I hated 300 with a passion. It was one of the dumbest and most offensive films of all time. And Zack Snyder’s mediocre-to-crappy remake of Dawn of the Dead was nothing like Romero’s masterpiece. So I have some trouble confessing that I actually rather liked Watchmen. It was a good adaptation. It didn’t shit on [...]

A Short Thought About Lost (With Spoiler)

WHY IN THE NAME OF DOG CAN’T THESE PEOPLE GIVE THEIR DAMN LOVE TRIANGLE SQUARE A DAMN REST?!? GET ON WITH IT! … … … Also, I like Juliet and Sawyer. Leave them alone. … … Thank you.

Desert Bridge DPI issue, again

OK, so it looks like I’ve figured out a way of getting the game to run properly on monitors with higher DPI settings. (Having read up on this, I’m not the only one whose softeware has this problem. A lot of new monitors are being built with higher DPI settings than what used to be [...]

Are you talking about me, human?

Little Tiger, burning bright With a subtle Blakeish light, Tell what visions have their home In those eyes of flame and chrome! Children vex thee – thoughtless, gay – Holding when thou wouldst away: What dark lore is that which thou, Spitting, mixest with thy meow? – H.P. Lovecraft This is a photo of the [...]

The Witcher

After playing The Witcher – one of the most highly acclaimed RPGs of the last few years – for a couple of hours, we just sent the following e-mail to our friend Ivo: Has there ever been a game with worse writing? Has there ever been a game that made us wince so often? Has [...]

The Religion of Capitalism

Certain types of people – often, but far from always, libertarians – like to refer to socialism as a religion. Some academics are also into this, referring to it as having a “teleological conception of history.” This kind of thinking is right up there with “socialism is a nice idea, but it can’t work in [...]

CAKE!

I will forever associate cake (CAKE!) with Stephen Fry‘s Cinderella. But that’s another story… and now the wonderful Helen Trevillion has written a song about cake! Which you shall go and listen to. Yes.

Moving things.

As in transporting them, that is. We spent all of today helping our friend Ivo move. It was a lot of very hard work, but it went pretty well – it could have been much messier. But now we are very, very tired. We’ll watch an episode of BSG and go to bed. Tomorrow we [...]