| Is it just me or everyone? |
[May. 9th, 2013|10:54 pm]
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Does anyone else ever feel that being nice is kinda wonderfully easy? I mean, all the superhero movies make it look like doing the right thing is the hard option, and I feel like no it's great. You make friends and in making friends you're open to whole new things and places and info.
I mean, my granmother just died. I am so not bothered by this that I can't actually even feel bad about not feeling bad. I barely knew the woman because my family is hideously dysfunctional, I met her like three times, and two when I was very young indeed. I've offered to accompany my mum to the funeral next week. This means I get three days compassionate leave from work, I get to see family I haven't seen for yonks, and I spent three days in an awesomecool town.
Now, if this had been the week after, and I ended up missing the MCM Expo Steve/Tony meetup, I would be massively pissed. I'd still go the funeral, but I would be still pissed.
But nope, I just get to miss a few days of work, travel, and feeling like I'm being a great human being.
WTF Marvel? Have you lied to me all these years? |
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| No really, how am I supposed to say this |
[May. 1st, 2013|08:12 pm]
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There is an entire squence in The Ogre which reads pretty much like what being in an Auschwitz gas chamber would be like if it was a really, really really good experience.
I just....
How am I supposed to discuss this in my essay? |
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| More on essay |
[Apr. 29th, 2013|08:05 pm]
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Am finding it very hard not to snark while writing this.
"This theme is brought to its final conclusion in L'Astrophore, with the"- and I want to add "- very predictable introduction of Doctor Mengele into the proceedings." |
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| Writing an essay on why it's hard to read Tournier's The Ogre when you've researched the Holocaust |
[Apr. 29th, 2013|07:54 pm]
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It's a bit like standing on tracks, watching the train come and knowing exactly what's going to happen if not how. Not that it's too direct or obvious, but there are a number of themes that feel like Tournier is standing behind you with a hammer called Auschwitz and beating you over the head with it. It's really, really obvious how this is going to end. Those themes of Canada and Atmospheric density and twins are not heading to a good place. |
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| I love Paramour... |
[Apr. 17th, 2013|08:29 pm]
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But his unending love for Margaret Thatcher is really fucking exhausting. |
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| Okay, still processing |
[Apr. 14th, 2013|12:54 am]
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I may play this game again, which is probably the fastest turn around I've had for a game since the only game I had was Baldur's Gate, and I'm sure I interpersed that with a few games of Ultimate Windows Games (Solitare, Hearts, Freecell and Minesweeper, get through all without losing a single game), just so i can understand it better in context.
Because I Was Not Giving A Fuck when I played in the first time, i spent about half the game swearing at everyone and everything, insulting to Colombians' dress-sense, accent, views, values, religion and habits of leaving food and money everywhere, stealing everything that wasn't nailed down, turning on every tap I could find in the hope that the city would run out of water and die (until I got to Battleship bay and saw how friggin' pointless that was). I would have taken a piss in every drink I could have found and kicked kids to the ground and teabagged them until they drowned if the game had given me the option. Look at all the fucks I give! They are nonexistant! I am in your city, fucking your shit! Booker DeWitt shits in your salad and slaps you in the face with your own testicles you inbred proto-Nazi scum.
I kept it up until the end of the game (until the asylum bit, where everything got a bit too nasty to laugh at) only by that time I was swearing at DeWitt as often as the setting.Y'know, I am not taking the word of a fucking Pinkerton as to whether a rebellion is moral or not. After I realised the Pinkerton badge actually belonged to DeWitt I had him jump off roofs for a bit to teach him a lesson. But you'd have thought the game believes DeWitt was the ultimate voice of morality (well, him and Elizabeth. A Pinkerton and a girl who'd be eaten alive on the streets of Paris and have her bones spat out to line the catacombs, woo, colour me impressed) the way they bend the plot into pretzels to try and get me to think( Some vague spoilers (nothing game-breaking)Collapse ) |
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| Bioshock Infinite |
[Apr. 13th, 2013|10:05 pm]
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Well, my brain feels like a fucking pretzel.
My face may be forever stuck in the o_O expression.
I'm not entirely sure how to feel about this. Maybe if it starts making sense anytime soon I might like it better.
EDIT
*stuff self to the ears with Bioshock Infinite fanfic* |
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| Pure Gold |
[Mar. 29th, 2013|12:59 am]
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