First Indie Game: The Movie was a hit at Sundance, then it started making its way towards the small screen via a HBO re-imagining, and now it's hitting the road... to Santa Cruz. Hopefully it will be hitting more roads soon after that, but for now we'll all just have to head to the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz California on March 2nd (tickets sold here) if we want to watch the movie, hang out with the directors and some of the film's subjects members (seen above) and have an experience like none other in cinema today. Not coincidentally, March 2nd is also Edmund "Sugarbear" McMillen's birthday, yet he'll be the one giving out gifts at the screening, 500 to be exact. That's why they call him "Sugarbear".
If that one show isn't enough for you, get proactive! The team behind the film are still looking for help arranging screenings. Help them out! It's fun!
Oh, and before I forget, Tommy "Thanks for announcing that you think that I am awesome" Refenes (also seen in the video above) and Shannon from last year's E3 Wii U coverage will be on this Sunday's Sup Holmes?, so watch that if you like me and/or those people.
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Woah , thats a great feat there holmes , being mentioned as a great and passionate journalist by. A super cool guy? You did it Holmes , Tommy is the shit!
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@kingofredlions I saw the movie this past weekend, and yes, it is absolutely worth seeing. It shows how much heart and soul get put into indie games (or any medium really) when created by few dedicated artists.
Also, most overrated "thing" in video games for awhile. A doc about people struggling to make games just a small step above the shit i see on ios. Thrilling!
Ehhh.. yes and no.. Its a decent enough documentary but it comes off as trying to justify the industry rather then being informative about the industry, kinda like most "about gaming" media tends to be. Some elements and people in it seem oddly hoisted up on a pedestal when they shouldn't be.
Movie is kind of overrated because of what it's supposed to be about, rather then what it's actual content is. I'm hoping the HBO series, if it ever gets made, takes it where the concept was really supposed to go, instead of this "gaming needs validation" standpoint that the movie seemed to fall into.
@Mr Andy
You made me spit my soda out, laughing so hard. Good job, man.
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...Is the movie worth seeing?
More than 30 to 40 types of HPV are typically transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. Some sexually transmitted HPV types may cause genital warts. Persistent infection with "high-risk" HPV types — different from the ones that cause skin warts — may progress to precancerous lesions and invasive cancer.[3] HPV infection is a cause of nearly all cases of cervical cancer.[4] However, most infections with these types do not cause disease.
Most HPV infections in young females are temporary and have little long-term significance. Seventy percent of infections are gone in 1 year and ninety percent in 2 years.[5] However, when the infection persists — in 5% to 10% of infected women — there is high risk of developing precancerous lesions of the cervix, which can progress to invasive cervical cancer. This process usually takes 10–15 years, providing many opportunities for detection and treatment of the pre-cancerous lesion. Progression to invasive cancer can be almost always prevented when standard prevention strategies are applied, but the lesions still cause considerable burden necessitating preventive surgeries, which do in many cases involve loss of fertility.
In more developed countries, cervical screening using a Papanicolaou (Pap) test or liquid-based cytology is used to detect abnormal cells that may develop into cancer. If abnormal cells are found, women are invited to have a colposcopy. During a colposcopic inspection, biopsies can be taken and abnormal areas can be removed with a simple procedure, typically with a cauterizing loop or, more commonly in the developing world — by freezing (cryotherapy). Treating abnormal cells in this way can prevent them from developing into cervical cancer.
Pap smears have reduced the incidence and fatalities of cervical cancer in the developed world, but even so there were 11,000 cases and 3,900 deaths in the U.S. in 2008. Cervical cancer has substantial mortality in resource-poor areas; worldwide, there are an estimated 490,000 cases and 270,000 deaths each year.[6][7]
HPV vaccines (Cervarix and Gardasil), which prevent infection with the HPV types (16 and 18) that cause 70% of cervical cancer, may lead to further decreases.[6][8]
Also, most overrated "thing" in video games for awhile. A doc about people struggling to make games just a small step above the shit i see on ios. Thrilling!
Ehhh.. yes and no.. Its a decent enough documentary but it comes off as trying to justify the industry rather then being informative about the industry, kinda like most "about gaming" media tends to be. Some elements and people in it seem oddly hoisted up on a pedestal when they shouldn't be.
Movie is kind of overrated because of what it's supposed to be about, rather then what it's actual content is. I'm hoping the HBO series, if it ever gets made, takes it where the concept was really supposed to go, instead of this "gaming needs validation" standpoint that the movie seemed to fall into.
@Mr Andy
You made me spit my soda out, laughing so hard. Good job, man.