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I was mildly surprised to find forty-eight emails in my inbox this morning. Even accounting for the regular spam I get about cheap Ad0be s0ftware and c1aGgLi$, that's far beyond the number of LJ comments, worried emails from Mum and confused questions from confused people trying to follow the confused tutorials I've written for Clickteam. The source of the emails was comments from Livejournal, but not from my own - my previous pizza disaster tale was accepted to Mock The Stupid yesterday. I'm rather proud of that, as it's quite difficult to get on there - I've only had one other post accepted before and that was one that I didn't actually write. And it's being rather well received, so it looks like I've somehow learned how to write entertainingly. Whitney said to me that I should go into humour writing last week, but it's reasonable to assume that she might be slightly biased. And Don said on the same day that my posts remind him of Jeremy Clarkson, and that might be the most distressing compliment I've ever received.
We're a bit behind with Doctor Who, and we only got around to seeing the one from a fortnight ago last night. Some of them have been mildly disturbing this series, but "42" is definitely the first this series that I can say was genuinely frightening. I think only "Love and Monsters" comes close to it, and everyone else thought that one was just stupid. I've no idea what they could have done to make those Cyclops-from-the-X-Men sun masks look more frightening. And the stress of it was only heightened by the way that it was set in real-time, not allowing for any narrative breaks or reprieve of pace at all. It did make me wonder if the title "42" was meant to refer to the timer, a play on the title of "24", or a nod to Douglas Adams, but knowing the current Doctor Who writers, I would say that it was probably meant to be all three.
Whitney had a good find yesterday when we went into Gamestop on the way back from shopping - Kingdom Hearts 2 for $17.99, so after completing the first one last month, we had to get started on that. We played through what must be the longest pre-titles sequence ever last night, going for about five hours before being rewarded by it mentioning that we'd reached the start. It's almost an MGS2-like deception in that it starts you off thinking you're well into the game, then rips you out of it and puts you into a completely different one. The villain is bald and voiced by Christopher Lee - I don't know his name yet, but in typical Square fashion he wears two belts wrapped around his head.
We're a bit behind with Doctor Who, and we only got around to seeing the one from a fortnight ago last night. Some of them have been mildly disturbing this series, but "42" is definitely the first this series that I can say was genuinely frightening. I think only "Love and Monsters" comes close to it, and everyone else thought that one was just stupid. I've no idea what they could have done to make those Cyclops-from-the-X-Men sun masks look more frightening. And the stress of it was only heightened by the way that it was set in real-time, not allowing for any narrative breaks or reprieve of pace at all. It did make me wonder if the title "42" was meant to refer to the timer, a play on the title of "24", or a nod to Douglas Adams, but knowing the current Doctor Who writers, I would say that it was probably meant to be all three.
Whitney had a good find yesterday when we went into Gamestop on the way back from shopping - Kingdom Hearts 2 for $17.99, so after completing the first one last month, we had to get started on that. We played through what must be the longest pre-titles sequence ever last night, going for about five hours before being rewarded by it mentioning that we'd reached the start. It's almost an MGS2-like deception in that it starts you off thinking you're well into the game, then rips you out of it and puts you into a completely different one. The villain is bald and voiced by Christopher Lee - I don't know his name yet, but in typical Square fashion he wears two belts wrapped around his head.
