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Ceiling Update
Sep. 2nd, 2008 10:13 amHere's what the bathroom looked like this morning.
You know, it's probably just as well that Silent Hill 4 arrived a couple of months earlier in the rental queue than I expected, otherwise we would have been playing the game at just about the same time that a gaping hole to another dimension was opening up in our own bathroom. Indeed, the builder who came round just as I was about to leave for work this morning demonstrated the exact level of wits and vocabulary of that game's protagonist as he repeatedly muttered "What the hell?" to himself while poking tentatively at our ceiling-turned-sponge. To investigate further he rammed through it with his fingers and transferred most of it down into the bath, but after that seemed very relieved that the structure underneath was dry, and said that he was going to patch it over today and return to paint it tomorrow - saying that he'd be round at about eleven, generously giving enough time for any moisture to dry off from us using the shower in the morning. It's going to feel strange but unbelievably nice being able to actually use it again.
Continuing the game theme that I mentioned a moment ago, if I can pretend to have any sort of way to tie these two separate things together for a minute, I saw the preview for Red Alert 3 last weekend. (You can download the first one from there for free, by the way.)
The first Command and Conquer game and its almost-sequel brother impressed everyone because of their almost unheard-of approach of tying live action cut-scenes in with the game, even if it was with actors who hadn't really been getting enough work recently and had starred in things with names like The Erotic Adventures of the Invisible Man - and it wasn't until looking at it much later that I realized that they were all... well, a bit corny. Fortunately the games' writers realized this much earlier and weren't afraid to ham it up to preposterous levels in the sequels, and even though they now have people like Tim Curry and George Takei (as the Japanese villain) in it, this one is already looking absolutely hilarious.
Most of that is necessitated by the plot, which as far as I can tell this time involves the Soviet Union utilizing time travel to go back into the past to assassinate Albert Einstein to prevent him from inventing time travel to go back into the past to remove Hitler, preventing World War 2 from happening but accidentally allowing the Soviet Union to grow further and start a war with the rest of the world. I don't know why they wanted to do this given that it would remove what caused them to exist in the first place, but this creates another alternate timeline with Japan becoming an aggressive technologically advanced superpower (with, of course, Captain Sulu from Star Trek as their emperor). Even though I'm so relentlessly useless at RTS games I'm still fascinated by this just because of its daftness value.
You know, it's probably just as well that Silent Hill 4 arrived a couple of months earlier in the rental queue than I expected, otherwise we would have been playing the game at just about the same time that a gaping hole to another dimension was opening up in our own bathroom. Indeed, the builder who came round just as I was about to leave for work this morning demonstrated the exact level of wits and vocabulary of that game's protagonist as he repeatedly muttered "What the hell?" to himself while poking tentatively at our ceiling-turned-sponge. To investigate further he rammed through it with his fingers and transferred most of it down into the bath, but after that seemed very relieved that the structure underneath was dry, and said that he was going to patch it over today and return to paint it tomorrow - saying that he'd be round at about eleven, generously giving enough time for any moisture to dry off from us using the shower in the morning. It's going to feel strange but unbelievably nice being able to actually use it again.
Continuing the game theme that I mentioned a moment ago, if I can pretend to have any sort of way to tie these two separate things together for a minute, I saw the preview for Red Alert 3 last weekend. (You can download the first one from there for free, by the way.)
The first Command and Conquer game and its almost-sequel brother impressed everyone because of their almost unheard-of approach of tying live action cut-scenes in with the game, even if it was with actors who hadn't really been getting enough work recently and had starred in things with names like The Erotic Adventures of the Invisible Man - and it wasn't until looking at it much later that I realized that they were all... well, a bit corny. Fortunately the games' writers realized this much earlier and weren't afraid to ham it up to preposterous levels in the sequels, and even though they now have people like Tim Curry and George Takei (as the Japanese villain) in it, this one is already looking absolutely hilarious.
Most of that is necessitated by the plot, which as far as I can tell this time involves the Soviet Union utilizing time travel to go back into the past to assassinate Albert Einstein to prevent him from inventing time travel to go back into the past to remove Hitler, preventing World War 2 from happening but accidentally allowing the Soviet Union to grow further and start a war with the rest of the world. I don't know why they wanted to do this given that it would remove what caused them to exist in the first place, but this creates another alternate timeline with Japan becoming an aggressive technologically advanced superpower (with, of course, Captain Sulu from Star Trek as their emperor). Even though I'm so relentlessly useless at RTS games I'm still fascinated by this just because of its daftness value.
