Howdy gang, how're we all doing this week? Hey, happy June!
I'm back to
Borderlands again. At this point, I couldn't tell you how many times I've played through it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of
a lot, and, truth be told, a good many done alone with complete neglect of the creamy co-op the game affords. But
gawd, it's a phenomenal game. I think it's hands-down one of my favourites, a truth I rarely acknowledge, but one no less full of truthiness for it.
It hit me again last night how much I go gaga over nothing more than the look of the thing. The stylistic, er, style is lovely, no doubt there, but even the design of the characters has me screaming in the way a child howls for ice cream. Or in the way I howl for ice cream.
Dr. Zed,
Marcus Kincaid,
Mad Moxxi - man, I adore Moxxi. The aesthetic is over the top and crazy gratuitous, but in this way that does nothing to diminish the strength of the character. And no, I do not "have a thing" for Moxxi, it's just, in my mind, a perfectly crafted example of good design.
Things which are had, as they relate to
Britanni Deniece Johnson, actress behind the Guardian Angel, may or may not be a different story.
I've also started watching
Revolutionary Girl Utena solely because
the inventor of
the duct tape that holds the internet together mentioned it in
a discussion he once gave. Man, url heaven up in here. It's, uh, I'd tentatively say it's good, but I would furiously caveat that statement. A lot of the characters have genuinely interesting motivations and when the show plays it silly, it's a lot of fun. That said, it drags in many of the tropes which have, in the past, turned me off anime, chief among them the repetition of scenes which, though intended as a sort of ritual, do nothing but waste time. Moreover, the show makes this appalling trivialization of violence and it's repeatedly left me sincerely, and surprisingly, irked.
But I'll probably keep watching because I've got nothing else to do in this town. Oh, except for caps of course.
* - CoruptAI125's blog on scaling difficulty reminds me of that time I swore a blood oath against Oblivion's autoscaling and walked the earth for forty years bringing justice to a bleak world with only a worn samurai sword at my side .
M - Noticeably lacking from fatality1980's list of things that would make E3 awesome is a Rob Zombie medley, which is...not unfair, really.
M - Shinobi13 welcomes the upcoming E3 with predictions and dreams.
M - Amna Umen is looking for a romantic, candlelit dinner with Ken Levine. I might be projecting.
M - St. Jake drops a number two. Get your head out of the gutter - it's an E3 list missing the second-last number.
M - Nekobun gets it on with list time.
I - FrankYorkMorgan's name is longer than his blog. No, not really. Go say hi!
T - amg0D weighs in on the Sony brouhaha.
T - ManWithNoName is looking to give some folks the finger. Uh, virtually, of course.
R - Adam AustinAndrew self-faps and copypastas and still escapes fail? Who's monitoring these things?
F - I'm failing this because Firefly is THE ONE TRUE SCIFI. And because it's a pretty lousy blog.
- Bey
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