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| Monday, August 15, 2005 10:53 AM |
| Platypuses of Doom |
 by Fëanor |
- To all those who made it out to game day on Saturday, thanks for coming! I hope you had as much fun as I did. To those who couldn't make it, don't worry! There will be more game days in the future!
- I think I played a little bit too much of my latest video game obsession, Killer7, this weekend. In the game, you're fighting weird zombie-like religious cultists. When you think one is nearby, you have to quickly draw your weapon and aim it by pressing the right trigger button on the controller.
Last night, I dreamed myself playing the game. A creature came around a corner and started shambling toward me. Adrenaline went shooting through my body and I awoke suddenly, my right index finger twitching to press the trigger button on an imaginary controller.
- Thanks much to Cyn for her lovely party, the free swag I snagged from her place, and the great California mixed CD she was handing out--I'm listening to it now, and it is pretty rocking. I might have to dig up some more Dead Kennedys now.
Thanks also for your filthy comments about German game designers. It's things like that that we'll miss the most about you! :D
- I also have Cyn to thank for this link to a list of different versions of Lord Voldemort's name, as it is translated/transliterated for foreign language versions of the Harry Potter books. I often wonder how the humor and cleverness of wordplay and puns in movies and books are transferred intact into different languages, so I found this quite fascinating.
- Speaking of Mr. Potter, there's some Quicktime footage from the next movie (that being Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) available on the "Extra" website (via The Movie Blog). Not a lot there, but what they show looks pretty cool.
- Thanks as always to Sarcasmo for the list of great links with which she brightens our Monday mornings. As usual, I shall recycle one or two for my readers:
First of all, eBay is having a cool series of auctions wherein you can bid on the chance to get your name included in an upcoming book by a famous author. Best of all, the proceeds go to the First Amendment Project, a nonprofit that works to protect our freedom of information, expression, and petition (which, in case you haven't noticed, are increasingly under attack these days, and need as much protection as they can get). I might bid on being killed by zombies in Stephen King's next novel, or appearing as a professor in a comic book by Jonathan Lethem.
Also courtesy Sarcasmo comes the news that a Star Trek communicator device may finally be a reality. I'm disappointed that this story isn't accompanied by any photos, though. I want to know if the thing will actually look like the communicators in the original show, or "TNG," or if it'll just be a phone with a Star Trek theme, or what. I'd also like to see a price, but I guess the thing has only just been announced, so we'll have to wait for details like these. If it isn't too expensive, and it really looks like a communicator, I might have to get one. But I don't know--it might be a little too dorky, even for me.
- It's amazing how W continues to one-up himself in being a colossal prick. His new excuse for not going to see Cindy Sheehan is that he has lots of other more important stuff to do--like ride his bike (via Salon).
- Cinematical just posted an article about an article in Entertainment Weekly. The meat of the story is a list of ten movie theaters in America that are really cool and have really neat amenities (sadly, I haven't been to any of them; the closest one to me is the Film Forum in NYC, and I hate trying to get into NYC). But what I liked most about the post was this picture from the premier of The Life Aquatic at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas. Those are some nice hats.
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