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[Sep. 22nd, 2008|08:35 am] |
So. Tired. I feel bad about dropping off the planet for so long, but it's not really right to post or comment or try to chat with anyone when your conversation is around the level of "buuuuuuuuh".
Was grumping last week over the "take a photo of yourself RIGHT NOW!" meme, because it assumes that everyone obviously has immediate access to a digital camera/webcam of some sort. And then I remembered that Shiny New Laptop has a webcam, except I had completely forgotten about it because, er, I covered it up right away. (What? Webcams still scare me a bit.) Anyway, I don't think it's fair to do it now, since the point of the meme--the spontaneity--is long gone.
I must have been watching too many video Let's Plays lately, because I had a dream over the weekend about reading Youtube comments full of nothing but time-markers--"0:30-0:33?" "4:26-5:05!"--that were actually an elaborate code that contained the secrets for the destruction of the universe.
Oh! And yesterday, through an odd little sequence of events at the bank, I ended up with some unlucky person's ATM card and $40 of their money. ( in which my life is not a movie )
Listening: the Clockwork Cabaret! ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) katilara, who is a joy, did several posts
recently on steampunk/steampunk-y works and mentioned this. I am not a big fan of podcasts because I find it difficult to actually concentrate on them, which makes a lot of them sort of useless for me, but this won my heart when in the very first show the hosts (in character) cheerfully talked about the "untimely and violently explosive death" of their parents, and then played "O! What A Dream It Was" and another song based on Good Omens. ♥!
Gaming: in chat karose rightly pointed out the aggravating-ness of almost all of the aliens in Mass Effect being bipedal humanoids, which pinged some faint memory in my head: 'didn't I used to play an SF action-RPG that had lots of exploring and chatting with aliens, and some of them were actually spiders and birds and crabs and tentacle-y things...?' Yes, apparently. And there's a port for Windows, too, since everything old is new again.
So I spent a little time replaying it (and realizing that I've lost any skill I may have had at it, good golly) and...all right, plenty of other people have point this out by now, but I would really love to know if any of the ME creators played the Star Control series in their formative years, because--hours and hours of dialogue? Zipping around the galaxy doing lots of alien diplomacy and mineral scans? A race of blue-skinned attractive humanoids that's composed almost entirely of females? (Okay, okay, that's not exactly an uncommon element of the genre, but still...) Really, though, a 1992 DOS game should not be more forward-thinking than a shiny new next-gen game in regard to alien types. I realize there's issues involved with developing character models and movement, but come on.
My goodness, all this text! And yet I have the feeling I haven't really said anything at all. |
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