Not as planned
As the title implies, this weekend didn't go exactly as planned. Observe:
Friday night we went to go watch Sin City at Cavendish. Dinner at Simply Asia was fantastic, they make a really good green curry and Waynne and Al's seafood something looked amazing too. We were going to the late show, so we ran into a ton of people who had just come out, Sed included, who gave us a mixed report and said something about some crap beforehand. That crap beforehand was, as Alex mentioned, the anti baby-rape video. It was long, and crap, and boring, and really didn't do anything to improve the anti-rape message. Anybody who didn't give a fuck before still doesn't give a fuck. Those who were outraged, are still outraged. Well done, all you've done is stolen a whack of my time.
The main attraction was the most insanely true to the source movie I have ever seen, especially based on a comic book. The imagery and lighting exactly paralleled the comics, and I urge anybody who hasn't read them to do so, purely so that you can appreciate just how exact it is. The stories themselves (since there were 4 disparate stories stitched together to create a feature-length picture) were each individually great, but the actual bridging seemed a little sparse with only incidental crossovers. This is presumably since there is little to no connection between said stories in the comics. They chose the most tense and gripping section to end the movie on, and for about the last 20 minutes I was on the edge of my seat and totally tensed up. When it did finally finish, thankfully not as I feared, I felt drained, but in a good way. This was without a doubt the most intense movie experience I have ever had.
So, yeah. I enjoyed it ^_^
Saturday was yet another LAN day, this time with the hacked WoW LAN server. It was a lot of fun, but the continual crashes and error messages got to be really irritating after a while. I enjoy rogues. Candice rocked up a little later (well, Al went to fetch her) so that we could watch Final Fantasy: Advent Children, but alas, bereft as I am of my Composite video cabling, I was powerless to transmit to the TV. Sadly, RCA cabling appears not to have the same effect as Composite, despite both my GFX card supporting RCA out and the TV supporting RCA in. Allegedly. Instead, Candice and I ended up playing Tekken while the rest of the boys carried on with WoW. They hadn't seemed all that interested in FF:AC anyway, and weren't too disappointed by the 'bad' news. We had to split the handicaps 150/100 to get a decent game in, but we did get some cool games =) Candice is quite good at picking me out of the air when I do some flying leap attack, like I do with Hwoarang quite a lot. It was fun =) When she left, I picked up WoW again and played catchup with the rest of them. Not in terms of level, since when my client crashed the server had left me logged in and I had been gaining all of the party XP along the way, but just in terms of quests completed. Some of them were not so easy alone and with crappy equipment =)
On Sunday Candice came back over so that we could finally watch FF:AC, on the PC this time. Good for 2 people, not so much for 5. I used Al's monitor, since he was out at paintball, and wow. My monitor is so super crappily shit. I knew that, of course, but watching something as amazing and detailed as FF:AC on another monitor really drives it home. The movie itself was good, with very stylish fight scenes and very realistic animation, but even having played half the game was not enough to keep up with the storyline, it seems. There were quite a couple of points where I was unsure who people were, or what was going on, but Candice seemed mostly to keep up. There is a shorter animation, a prequel of sorts, that covers the events of the game. I must get hold of that and see if it helps explain things better.
That evening, Al and I played a 1v1 DotA game, each of use picking any hero from the corresponding tavern on each side. I ended up with Lina Inverse (yes, a shameless anime reference) and he got Terrorblade. I was totally expecting him to pick a Str hero, but Ag it was. I ended up PWNTing him horribly, from quite early on. He just needs to pay a bit more attention, and play a tighter game. Oh, and learn item builds =) There are some basics that you go for. For example, don't get the low-level Str item for the Ag hero, get the corresponding Ag item. Oh well, it'll all come together with a bit of practise =)
Oh, and if you haven't taken a look already, Sixminutes, my WoW plague informant, has posted a massive comment on my previous blog post with some more plague information. If you're interested, check it out.
Friday night we went to go watch Sin City at Cavendish. Dinner at Simply Asia was fantastic, they make a really good green curry and Waynne and Al's seafood something looked amazing too. We were going to the late show, so we ran into a ton of people who had just come out, Sed included, who gave us a mixed report and said something about some crap beforehand. That crap beforehand was, as Alex mentioned, the anti baby-rape video. It was long, and crap, and boring, and really didn't do anything to improve the anti-rape message. Anybody who didn't give a fuck before still doesn't give a fuck. Those who were outraged, are still outraged. Well done, all you've done is stolen a whack of my time.
The main attraction was the most insanely true to the source movie I have ever seen, especially based on a comic book. The imagery and lighting exactly paralleled the comics, and I urge anybody who hasn't read them to do so, purely so that you can appreciate just how exact it is. The stories themselves (since there were 4 disparate stories stitched together to create a feature-length picture) were each individually great, but the actual bridging seemed a little sparse with only incidental crossovers. This is presumably since there is little to no connection between said stories in the comics. They chose the most tense and gripping section to end the movie on, and for about the last 20 minutes I was on the edge of my seat and totally tensed up. When it did finally finish, thankfully not as I feared, I felt drained, but in a good way. This was without a doubt the most intense movie experience I have ever had.
So, yeah. I enjoyed it ^_^
Saturday was yet another LAN day, this time with the hacked WoW LAN server. It was a lot of fun, but the continual crashes and error messages got to be really irritating after a while. I enjoy rogues. Candice rocked up a little later (well, Al went to fetch her) so that we could watch Final Fantasy: Advent Children, but alas, bereft as I am of my Composite video cabling, I was powerless to transmit to the TV. Sadly, RCA cabling appears not to have the same effect as Composite, despite both my GFX card supporting RCA out and the TV supporting RCA in. Allegedly. Instead, Candice and I ended up playing Tekken while the rest of the boys carried on with WoW. They hadn't seemed all that interested in FF:AC anyway, and weren't too disappointed by the 'bad' news. We had to split the handicaps 150/100 to get a decent game in, but we did get some cool games =) Candice is quite good at picking me out of the air when I do some flying leap attack, like I do with Hwoarang quite a lot. It was fun =) When she left, I picked up WoW again and played catchup with the rest of them. Not in terms of level, since when my client crashed the server had left me logged in and I had been gaining all of the party XP along the way, but just in terms of quests completed. Some of them were not so easy alone and with crappy equipment =)
On Sunday Candice came back over so that we could finally watch FF:AC, on the PC this time. Good for 2 people, not so much for 5. I used Al's monitor, since he was out at paintball, and wow. My monitor is so super crappily shit. I knew that, of course, but watching something as amazing and detailed as FF:AC on another monitor really drives it home. The movie itself was good, with very stylish fight scenes and very realistic animation, but even having played half the game was not enough to keep up with the storyline, it seems. There were quite a couple of points where I was unsure who people were, or what was going on, but Candice seemed mostly to keep up. There is a shorter animation, a prequel of sorts, that covers the events of the game. I must get hold of that and see if it helps explain things better.
That evening, Al and I played a 1v1 DotA game, each of use picking any hero from the corresponding tavern on each side. I ended up with Lina Inverse (yes, a shameless anime reference) and he got Terrorblade. I was totally expecting him to pick a Str hero, but Ag it was. I ended up PWNTing him horribly, from quite early on. He just needs to pay a bit more attention, and play a tighter game. Oh, and learn item builds =) There are some basics that you go for. For example, don't get the low-level Str item for the Ag hero, get the corresponding Ag item. Oh well, it'll all come together with a bit of practise =)
Oh, and if you haven't taken a look already, Sixminutes, my WoW plague informant, has posted a massive comment on my previous blog post with some more plague information. If you're interested, check it out.
posted by Synkronos at 4:27 pm
3 Comments:
final fantasy:
as in the games, there are a lot of characters who show up from previous ones, but aren't actually the same character, with the same history. it's not something you should think about, it's just a reminder that you're dealing with the final fantasy franchise. each installment, whether game or movie, is to be viewed in it's own right.
tekken (hee hee):
we have a handicap system that seems to work best - both players begin with 150%. the weaker player stays on 150% no matter what, the stronger goes up by 10% for each loss, or down for each win. it's kind of like a meta-game, because the aim of the weaker player is now to keep the stronger fighting on 150% as much as possible.
w-v: No Xenomorph Follows Young Leaders
dota: you were flat chested i presume?
wv: all is farty violet indian
lol =) I didn't zoom in far enough to take a look, I'm afraid ;)
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