I know we’re all busy, but are we too busy to notice that the volume on the Flash video player the BBC uses actually goes to 11? Since I’m almost positive there’s no reasonable explanation for this, I can only assume it’s an homage to Spinal Tap — which is totally bodacious. Seriously, check it out.
Electronic Battle Weapon 8 and 9, English Breakfast tea (again!), this Polish movie theater.
God damn you back to Hell, Alone in the Dark. I wanted to like you, I ached to like you. Thoughts of liking you kept me awake at night, or woke me as if a fever dream had been visited upon me. With the constant delays of Resident Evil 5, a pitiable lack of zombies in GTA IV, the rock-block of Condemned and Condemned 2 put to darkest, deepest sleep, and that tiny, unsubstantial — yet nagging — bit of Dead Rising I can’t bring myself to finish, I thought this was the answer to my succulent, Satanic, reversed bible prayers.
But no. It actually sucks. It sucks badly. On the whole.
Originally I thought the failure of this title brought into focus the difficulties of putting together an effective game in today’s high-stakes, winner-takes-all, over-the-top, smoke-em-if-you-got-em climate of computer-based recreation — but now I just think Eden and Atari rushed this hunk of shit to market without really caring if it made me want to actively pursue getting Lyme disease, going without much-needed treatment, and eventually committing suicide due the infection’s psychological side-effects. Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting anything as good as Resident Evil 4 — but this fails on so many levels it’s shocking. Shocking, deeply upsetting, and then shocking again.
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I think you’ll agree that these speak for themselves.
Pretty amazing demonstration of new ways to think about the display and transmission of large amounts of information. Put a hat on.
To those of you who claim that you would vote for John McCain — who is consistently on the opposite side of the fence on pretty much every issue that is important to Democrats (Iraq, civil rights, the economy) — over Barack Obama because Hillary didn’t get the nomination: you are a motherfucking imbecile.
