http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/17/h...challenge/

I hope my state gets on board with this. God forbid the people of this state get involved in something that matters.

Greetings, Tendo City. The name's Adam, and I'm happy to say that I have Ryan--the founder of this site--to thank for directing me to this place. I'm pretty sure Ryan is using the user name Weltall. If that is you, Ryan, what up, dawg?

A little bit about me:

-Name: Adam (duh)
-Nintendo freak
-Sony fanboy (sorry )
-Victim of compulsive reading disorder
-Individualist anarchist libertarian (yes, that is possible)

Nothing else to really report. If you wanna know more, just ask. Later, peeps.

Bluray for episode 1 came out this week. Basically, the visual style, especially the characters, is a move back to the style that was prominent in the 80's. It's much more grounded and realistic than the look of some of the newer Gundam series. The animation is 2D for the most part with some CG here and there for spaceships and things and it looks like they put a lot of money into because it looks spectacular.

The story kind of becomes a bit standard towards the end of the first episode, but it's so well done that no one should be bothered by that. On the other hand, if you don't really know anything about the Gundam universe, it's easy to get lost because the show assumes that you already knew who certain people and organizations are and their motivations. If you want to watch Unicorn without going through all the series, movies, and OVAs then make sure to keep Google open to search for key names.

The music is stellar as well, moving from sweeping and epic to slow and intimate with ease.

Basically this is the anime that people who have been saying that all recent anime is terrible have been waiting for.

I used to be a total laissez faire conservative. In recent months, though, my long-standing hatred of the patricians and the wealthy and my naturally-occuring humility and compassion for my fellow man have been sliding the notch of my political spectrometer to the left a little.

I know well the difference between capitalism and communism, and IMO the latter cannot practically be employed in society. Even if it could, it should not be, because it allows no room for the hard-working individual to succeed in society. I liked capitalism because, in theory, it allows the hard-working person to get ahead, and leaves the loafers in the dust. But, I don't know anymore. More and more, I see that it leaves everyone but the evil in the dust. To get ahead, you really do just have to be shamefully greedy and self-oriented.

Thoughts?

lazy, you should know that strafe running is still working just fine. Also, the geometry glitches are intact.

Hurray for 6 second victories in the first level.

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<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6495114&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6495114&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6495114">Plan 9 Teaser Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/darkstoneent">Darkstone Entertainment</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Edwood is probably smiling in high heels up in heaven

The spirited debate between lazy, ABF, and myself over the merits of 90's era PC games really got me to thinking about a lot of old PC games that I used to play back then. I wasn't some huge PC gamer, but I had quite a few adventure games and RPGs and some other random stuff from back then. Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but some of those games were pretty sweet and it was cool remembering all of them again. So, with that in mind, let's talk about some old PC games!

Normality - A scifi adventure game from Gremlin set in a 1984-esque police state that put you in control of a hippy teen named Kent Knutson. Your goal is to escape from your apartment and into the city and then to bring about the downfall of said police said with the help of a group of rebels. Rather than having pre-rendered backgrounds like most adventure games from the same period, it had a first-person perspective that allowed you to move around [the engine was used again in Realms of the Haunting, which I'll probably bring up later]. It still had the same kind of point-and-click inventory gameplay seen in other adventure titles, but the 3D was a nice twist on the old formula. Normality was a very quirky game with a very quirky sensibility, much like the Lucasarts games of the time, and I recall it being an absolute blast to play.

As of yet, I have been unable to get it to work properly with DoxBox. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvbiowQhjxc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normality_(video_game)

Besides lazy, who else has played it?

I mean, I'll be the first to admit it's not much of a game, but it's games like this that will help the medium of videogames be recognized as a legitimate art form to rival film and literature. It was mindblowing. I forced myself to stay clear of any spoilers for four months, and it was totally worth the effort.

I love this guy. What a class act. It saddens me greatly that he's died.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/14...tml?hpt=T1


In pace requiescat.