random incoherence and infantile meanderings

Ha ha!

I just made WHALEBOAT in my game against, well, I don’t wanna name drop.

:cough ReallyIDoButIDon’tThinkIt’dBeAppropriate cough:

Portable Blue Laser from Wicked Lasers – Spyder III Pro Arctic Series.

For only $200 I could get this useless laser. Not useless because it doesn’t do anything. Useless because it is so freaking powerful, it is too dangerous to as anything less than a weapon. Even the reflected and diffused radiation is too powerful. I couldn’t even play with the cat with it!

I’m still trying to decide if this means I -don’t- want one.

I finished Cybrosis last night and I wanted to jot down a few quick impressions before I forget.

I’ve noticed lately that I am becoming increasingly harsh and critical of endings. With that in mind, I think that P.C. Haring did a pretty good job here. I felt that I got the story that was promised and that I had a good wrap up. I would have liked the story to stop just a little bit earlier, before the graveyard visit, but I can see how that might have been necessary to tie things up.

I am coming to the conclusion that listening to a podionovel (full-cast or not) is simply not the same thing as reading a book. The experience is too different. Both are forms of storytelling, but no one has ever (well, no one reasonable) said that a comic book and a movie are the same thing because both are visual storytelling. That said, I have no idea if P.C. did a good job of -writing- the story and, that said, it has no bearing because he did an excellent job of TELLING the story through his choice of words, his choice of voice actors (and their excellent work), and through his use of special effects and music.

I’d recommend Cybrosis to people interested in audio fiction and to people who like light-weight near future action adventures. Despite the cybernetics angle, I really don’t think it is fair to weigh Cybrosis down by calling it a cyberpunk. It just isn’t punk of any variety, and that’s just fine. It is what it is, and that, at least in my opinion, is good.

Dance with excitement!

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Okay, enough with the dancing.

Remember Me: Edward meets Tess. It’s sparkly vampire versus alien princess in this impossible romantic comedy. Er. I’m sorry, I was so busy imagining the vamp vs alien angle that I utterly failed to note what the actual movie is supposed to be about.

Letters to Juliet: The trailer is the sweetest 1 minute love story, bringing a quick tear to my eye and leaving me with no need to waste time watching the expanded version. This one is complete. Something about a girl who steals a 40 year old love letter stashed inside a wall of love letters and decides to answer it. That part makes no damn sense, but that’s okay cuz it is just setup for her grabbing her oh-so-reliable best bud to track down first the old lady who wrote the letter and then her former paramour. The trailer gives everything away, so I won’t.

BandSlam: I laughed at the trailer, but I’m not sure the movie will be more than simply uncomfortable. Take geeks, grrl rockers, a band contest, bad lipsynced autotuned music, add a twist of longing and a double handful of shame. It’s a sure fire with the tweens and an auto miss with their elders.

AstroBoy: So much geek love for this thing. It it’ll have to make it on the story and it looks a bit overly simplistic in that department. A robot boy who saves the day from robots. Featuring the evil army general who wants to steal the robot boy to make robots. See what I mean? It could be a Wall-E, but seriously, how likely is that?

I haven’t watched a single minute of Lost. It was several seasons in before I’d heard of it, and I decided to wait. Besides, the creators were still making stupid noises about whether or not their show was SciFi or not, and I have a special rage for that sort of …

I need a special word for this sort of nose in the air bullshit.

Well, anyway, I have a special rage for that sort of idiot. So I figured I’d pass on them until they gave up on their stupid ways.

And then the end of BSG happened. I was going to buy BSG on DVD and share it with people who hadn’t caught it on TV. But the ending invalidated the show, so … Well, lesson learned. So I really wasn’t going to buy the Lost DVDs and try to catch up if it was going to pull a BSG at the end.

Earlier today I commented:

If I were a betting man, I’d bet the LOST backlash will make BSG’s look tame for a month before everyone starts to forget all about it. A sort of guilt will settle in and people will claim that they were never really into it.

Then we can get back to complaining about how badly the third season of Roswell ruined that show. XP

Well. Lost is over now. And from the reaction on Twitter… it’s pretty much the same blah blah blah as when the BSG finale happened. Some people loved the end of BSG. They said things like

@tvmadman The #Lost finale was not about mythology, not about answers, but about the characters and the connections we invested in. Thank you.

That is a bullshit cop out by someone who wants to believe they didn’t just get shafted after 6 years. Sucks to be them.

Some people really hated the Lost finale.

@pablod Ok, new rule: if you’re putting together a pitch for an sfnal multi-season plot-driven drama, FIGURE THE END OUT FROM THE FUCKING BEGINNING.

Mostly, there was a lot of confusion.

@fancyfembot Ok wtf just happened here? I don’t think I understand. You promised us!!!! #lost

@Annaleen um did Ron Moore write this episode of #Lost?

@jonfmerz Lost season finale…um…okay, but what about-? and what about-? >sigh< guess I'll wait for the Wikipedia entry, lol...

@oldbie Huh. Not sure how I feel yet, but I think I liked it. #lost

@BerinKinsman My major gripe about Lost is that it played its secrets SO close to the vest that when they were finally revealed I’d stopped caring.

@briandgregory My reaction to #lost finale: fuck. That is all.

There were even the rare few who were genuinely pleased with the ending to Lost.

@breakall LOST finished really strong. Reminded me a bit of the TNG series finale.

@ctumaven Ok, so LOST. That is a pretty damn good way to end a great series.

@acedtect Damn. Well done Lost.

And someone -really- liked the end. I’m afraid to say anymore though. (JOKING!)

@JustinMacumber To all those who think the LOST finale means the entire series was about people in limbo – you’re idiots and need to pay attention more.

I think that I was probably wrong. I overstated the reaction, and I’m really surprised by that. I had thought that being popular with the mundanes (and not just the geek crowd) would ramp up the vitriol. Instead, maybe, it has had the opposite effect. Maybe our obsessive natures aren’t just an amusing part of a diagram.

All in all, I think the following two tweets sum it up best.

@ghostfinder So people either loved the Lost finale or hated it, and it either explained everything or explained nothing.

@Jollybgood I think people will look back in a few years and wonder what all the fuss about LOST was. Sort of the way we look back on Twin Peaks.

Yeah. What was the fuss with Twin Peaks anyhow?