Proving once and for all, that the space shuttle cockpit, does in fact, exist in 4 dimensional space.

Told ya.

Oh dude, a couple years ago I was over at some youth group thing with the church I was at and they decided they were all going to watch Iron Man, cause they had a blu-ray and HD tv. So I was like cool, I've never actually watched a blu-ray before.

They had the smoothing turned up to max, and I was driven up the fucking walls, but I was the ONLY one who could see it, and I was outnumbered so I couldn't fix it, I couldn't even watch the bloody thing, I just went and like sat in corner by myself or something after about 10 minutes. And for a solid year or so after that, I thought that's what ALL blu-rays looked like, so i was pretty much just like Fuck Blu-ray man. And it wasn't until I I was watching another bluray at some family thing I think, where they didn' t have the smoothing turned on, where I was like...oh shit, bluray is actually kinda awesome.

So yeah, not a fan of the hyper crisp, smoothed out picture. But apparently I'm the only one who notices it.

I'm interested to see what The Hobbit looks like, hopefully it won't be as bad as that.

I've got a small collection of my 35mm photos posted online, just some choice ones, pretty much entirely of classmates from VFS, that I took with a handmedown 35mm camera I got from a friend of mine. And I love the look, and was starting to get pretty good with it before I kinda had to shut down the operation cause I couldn't afford it anymore. Once I start getting some cash flow I'd love to get back into it. Luckily I still have my DSLR (D60) that I got for a birthday/grad present from my folks, so that tides me over.

http://www.chriswalker.ca/photography.html

Truer words have never been spoke.

An example of a game that I would never ever actually play, but I love watching someone else play, just because I love watching him play it.

Well I'm actually really well versed in at least part of this culture. I watch on a daily basis, and actually create my own let's play...(well I havn't done one in a while, but thats beside the point)... for minecraft and other games.

It's a very interesting thing.

A/B) The thing about video games is that the gameplay can be incredibly diverse (if you know anything about minecraft, you know what i mean) but even portal and other video games. So that the way one person solves a puzzle or a level, is naturally going to be different than the way you do it (or with minecraft, oh gods, endless). So it can be highly entertaining to watch that person's line of thinking, and see how they process the exact same situation.

C) Absolutely, theres an entire subsection of gamers dedicated to creating that very content, and their are hoards of people that love watching it (Myself included)

D) YES. It's actually something that most of the LPer's I watch look for, and most actually won't play a game if there isn't a story to it. Because then it;s just watching someone jump around for half an hour. And so what the fuck is the point?

I would say that the experience of watching an LP and actually playing the game are two very diffrent things. When you are playing the game yourself, you yourelf are becoming invested in it because the choices YOU make directly affect the outcome. Whereas when I'm watching an LP it's much more about enjoying the commentary of who evers playing that game and getting to relive the story without actually having to be the guy playing it.

It's different than watching a film, because when you're watching a movie, it's about directly getting you to interact with the story itself and get invested. When I'm watching someone play a video game it's about partially getting to live/relive the story, but it's also about enjoying the process and commentary of whoever is playing.

For example, one of my favorite LP's is GuudeBoulderFist's playthough of Portal 2. I got to relive the story and his commentary is hilarious, and it brings a whole new level to it which i absolutely love.

As a note, I will not watch an LP if the commentator sucks or there is no commentary, because then i might as well just be playing the game myself.

I'm curious what the aesthetic Brian is talking about through this entire commentary, (that wouldn't have set up the false expectations about this being pure hard sci-fi) would actually look like. Because I'm very much of the same thought as the rest of the guys that this is just the world that you establish when you want to tell this story, and then you let the magic bean play out inside that.

To put it another way I guess. Do I need to setup an alternate aesthetic to the real world we live in if I want to make cloverfield? The first bit of that movie is setting up that this is going to be a movie about a bunch of people at a party, and we get to chill with them. Nothing about that is telling me there's suddenly going to be this giant monster that suddenly attacks New York. So should I be upset that the movie's aesthetic didn't tell me this was going to introduce the magic bean of the monster?

Havn't seen it yet. Most likely gonna try and see it after work tomorrow.

So I was wandering the wonderful random paths of ImDB today, when I found what looked to be a pretty cool newish TV series. Falling Skies. So I decided, what the hell.

I just finished the premiere,

AND IT IS AWESOME.

Basically, take The Walking Dead, replace Zombies with invading aliens, add an actual sense of humor, replace the dipshit kid with one whos pretty kinda good, and then just make the whole thing actually good.

Oh and add Noah Wyle as History professor turned apocalyptic soldier and Colin Cunningham being rockstar apocalyptic gang leader.

And yes, it's just as awesome as it sounds.

Only down side is the effects suffer from being a lowish budget TV show, but they did a cool thing with some puppetry so I gotta give em that.

EDIT:

V.

Finally got around to starting this one. It's been sitting on my list for a while now. The first time I tried watching it, for reason I just got horribly disgusted with it within 5 minutes and just turned it off. I honestly have no idea what I was on at the time cause it's actually pretty awesome.

Though it does suffer from one of the things I hate about studios/networks, and thats the whole thing of having to explain your entire show in one episode so that they can decide whether they want to buy it or not. Because when I was hearing about V from other people I was expecting (Or maybe hoping) that it would be the sort of thing where it's a slow gradual reveal and it spans a season or 2, and it's really gradual and subversive. But nope, it's just BAM, suck my giant truth of the V cock. So that was dissappointing.

What is never disappointing though is Morena Baccarin in short hair. Oh yes indeed.

Oh yeah, and I guess Alan Tudyk and bunch of other people are in there too, but my gods Morena.