Or to be more precise, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorow. It's made like the old sci-fi serials from the 40's and 50's and in fact it's set around 1939. To create an old world feel the movie is almost entirely CG, except for the main actors. It's cliched, the plot's totally shallow, it's full of cheap deus ex machinas and it coulnd't be a better movie! Who needs things like a complex plot or deep characters when you can have giant robots attacking a 1939 New York City or huge explosions all over the place and a doom's day device? Its an awesome movie, the CG looks great [although in some places you can easily tell it's CG], and the symphonic soundtrack sounds like it was ripped straight out of an old Buck Roger's movie. If there ever was a movie that you just had to see in the theater's for the sheer amount of bass rumbling this is it. So go watch it!

I wonder what that would be like. Hey maybe we should do it for one day out of the week and then come back the next day with ingore back off and then see how kind of wonderful conversations we had.

Seriously, wouldn't that be kind of neat?

I got the game last night and played it for about two hours, and so far I like it. If I hadn't known about all of those missing features two weeks ago I would be thrown the game out the window in anger, but I've been trying my best to play the game for what it is instead of what it isn't. It's tough, it really is. Big Blue Box was very cruel to keep all of this from us, very cruel to let us buy into the hype when they knew we'd be severely let down. So let me get the negative out of the way first.

Everything is blocked off in the game. Everything. See those gorgeous woods next to you that seem to stretch on forever? Well don't even think about them. You can look but cannot touch. It fucking sucks. That is probably the most disappointing aspect of Fable to me, the tiny, restricted environments. And there are load points everywhere! Just as frequent as KOTOR (the environs are even smaller), though the actual load times aren't as long. It's obvious that those early Project Ego screens were never even fully created as the game is chopped up into narrow paths. If I had known this from the beginning I wouldn't have been as disappointed as I am now. They promised chocolate cake and delivered carrot sticks. Not that carrot sticks are bad, mind you, but they're not as good as chocolate cake and that's what they promised. That's what I got my hopes up for for four damn years. I'll go into other details once I've gotten farther in the game.

So what's good? Well so far the good/bad thing works pretty well though I haven't really been able to try it out. And the environments, as restricting and small as they are, are simply gorgeous. They really are. Really gorgeous woods, streams, lakes, villages. The game is a real beauty. It's just too bad that there's no free look mode. Oy.

Overall I'm liking the game and really want to get back to it, but I am struggling with my former expectations.

even more so than I already am. Now primarily. That is because, announced today, the NHL's Board of Governors are imposing a lock out until a new collective bargaining agreement comes in. :(

http://www.nhlcbanews.com/news/bog_meeting091504.html

Aargh, some NHL players get paid way, way too much. Players scoring 30, 40 points a year getting payed three or four million dollars a year? Bullshit. I hope they come to an agreement soon.



And the sister city-

Holy shit, this game can't come soon enough. Morrowind was a very fun game despite some huge flaws (horrible art, terrible graphics engine, shitty combat), and its sequel, Oblivion, looks to correct at least those first two problems. Well I'll just stop talking about let you guys drool over these gorgeous screens (all in-game, BTW):













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Holy shit! This alone makes the lack of huge environments in Fable easier to handle. You see, ABF, this is very different from having a whole bunch of tiny environments slapped together ala KOTOR. And this is why the first-person/third-person perspective rules for immersion. You could never get this feeling in an isometric game.








Gorgeous. Too bad it won't be out until the next wave of consoles. :( But hopefully the PC version will come out sooner than 2006. It would be mean to show off the game two whole years before its projected release date.

Quote:Several major American e-tailers including EBgames are all taking pre-orders on the Nintendo DS, giving the console an end-November 2004 launch date and a price tag of just under $200.
GameStop and EBgames both state a November 29 shipping date with a $199.99 price-tag, while Wal-Mart reckons it will launch a day later and is charging potential consumers a bizarre $199.82 for the privilege.

The former two sites are also taking orders on a selection of titles, with the likes of Animal Crossing, Egg Monster Hero, Final Fantasy Chronicles and Metroid Prime: Hunters mooted by GameStop as potential launch titles with a December 7 release date. EBGames, however, appears to list all titles at March 1 - a slightly dated estimate, perhaps?

While there has been no confirmation from Nintendo of America on the matter, the consistency amongst American release dates does suggest there could be some possible 'insider/retailer' knowledge at work - after all, end-November was always anticipated for those territories. We shall have to wait and see.

However, what Nintendo has definitely confirmed (at the Tokyo Games Show, that is) is a Nintendo Japanese DS tour for November, which will enable the public to enjoy a hands-on with the console and various titles ahead of its release. Five cities have been confirmed as destinations thus far - Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Sapporo and Fukuoka (try saying that last one after a few beers).

Interestingly, some reports have translated the tour name to read as the Nintendo World Touch! DS tour, suggesting that various other cities will soon be getting a taste of the DS. However, a Nintendo UK spokesperson said that "nothing had yet been announced" when asked about forthcoming public UK appearances, which left us none the wiser at just what the manufacturer has up its sleeve.

Everyone's favorite rock-eating, Jesus-hating Napoleonic-complex turns 20 today!

Noriko says: "Happy birthday, you crusty young goron, let me sharpen your spear!"



Noriko also says: "Still can't buy alcohol for another 365 days, hahahaha"

I couldn't believe this wasn't a joke, but believe me it is not. It's from Uwe Boll, the amazing mind behind that awful House of the Dead movie, and the upcoming Bloodrayne flick.

http://www.boll-kg.de/mov/AitD_Promo_4_352x158.mov

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/...index.html

Quote:Monday, September 13, 2004 Posted: 3:07 PM EDT (1907 GMT)


LONDON, England (CNN) -- London's police chief has demanded an urgent inquiry after a fathers rights campaigner dressed as Batman evaded supposedly tight security to stage a protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony.

Officers, facing their second security breach in four months after the group pelted Prime Minister Tony Blair with flour-filled condoms, took five hours to finally bring the protester down from Queen Elizabeth's London residence.

A police spokeswoman told CNN that a man was arrested on Monday night in connection with the incident on suspicion of causing criminal damage.

Police said no members of the royal family were in the palace but admitted the protester should not have been able to scale the perimeter fence with a ladder and climb onto the high-profile balcony.

Scotland Yard issued a statement saying London police chief Sir John Stevens had demanded a report on the incident by Tuesday morning.

Stevens said "the intruder was readily identified as performing a publicity stunt but if he had been carrying a gun or a bomb he would probably have been shot," the statement added.

"He said that the CCTV (close-circuit television monitoring) and the alarms worked and the police response was speedy but nevertheless it was unacceptable that the wall had been scaled and he would ensure that whatever was necessary would be done in relation to improved security."

Former Buckingham Palace spokesman Dickie Arbiter said officials would be seriously embarrassed by Monday's incident.

He told Sky News: "They will be very seriously embarrassed by what has happened, and they will be looking at ways now to really tighten up on possibly even public access, and make it even harder to get in.

"But they've made it hard already, so how much harder they can make it in the light of this I don't really know."

The campaign group Fathers 4 Justice said the man scaled the palace's outer fence helped by a would-be accomplice dressed as comic hero Batman's sidekick Robin.

Meanwhile, other protesters distracted the attention of armed police by climbing on the front gate.

The group said police had threatened to shoot Robin unless he got down from the fence, "which we think is unacceptable because this is a peaceful, non-violent protest." Police declined to comment on the incident.

The protester dressed as Batman, wearing grey tights, black pants and cape, the superhero's bat symbol and a mask with pointed ears, then climbed up on the palace balcony -- which is used by the royals for ceremonial occasions.

Standing on a ledge to the right hand side of the balcony, about 8 meters (25 feet) above the ground, he unfurled a banner that read: "Super dads of fathers 4 justice."

Also on the banner were the words: "Fighting for your right to your kids."

After spending five hours trying to persuade the protester to come down, police on a cherry picker finally removed him at 7.20 p.m.

Royal security was reviewed after a Daily Mirror reporter got a job at Buckingham Palace as a servant before U.S. President George W. Bush stayed there during a state visit in November last year.

Stand-up comedian Aaron Barschak also highlighted lax security by gate-crashing Prince William's 21st birthday party at Windsor in June last year.

Fathers 4 Justice, which says Britain's courts are biased against fathers in divorce cases involving child access, are notorious for their publicity stunts.

Its attack on Blair in the House of Commons four months ago caused a massive security alert amid fears of a terrorist attack and prompted changes to access rules for parliament.

KICK ASS! I just read this on Yahoo! Whoa, you can get AKs, Uzis, TEC-9s, etc. I want one. That'd be cool.

Imagine going do to the hood, where some stupidass "gangstas" try to mug you with their gay "9s," and you pull out a TEC-9 submachine gun. (Well it has to be semiautomatic.) But still, damn.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040912/pl_nm/campaign_guns_dc_3

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040913/thumb.nyet25109131410.assault_weapons_nyet251.jpg

So would you guys want a semiautomatic or what?