MrHoatzin

See, I'm not the only one who is bothered by the MARTIAL LAW that is happening over there.

Yeah, if you wanna take the easy way out... ¬ ¬

I don't know the name, but it is this Chinese sour soup with tofu, mushrooms and vegetables. Great cup-o-soup that.

You know, that has never changes. That is probably because no one uses my full name. "Kingz" however — and as well — reveals nothing related to me.

Click.

If by she you mean Trep and by really you mean not....

I hate fancy instal mumbo-jumbo. It could be because my CD-RWRWRRWWRRWWW is five years old and doesn't converse fast enough that I get skippy, dragged-out music during musical instalations and the instalations last twice as long as they should. It is so fucking annoying. There should be a no-music option.

All fixed... the game looks... much worse than I remember it looking... but it works! Eureka!

More problems are arising and I am trying to fix them now... I'll get back to you shortly...

...except LiveJournal itself.

... That would be because they're fucking stupid. That attitude solves all problems, always!

I like it. It seems to be well balanced. I finished the first mission.

Hmm...Ever since I've been playing games, there have been girls around who were generally as good as I. The Lost Vikings thinktank us kids formed comprised of three girls and two guys.

A funny thing happened at the software rack... In case you were wondering how I managed to buy a game at half past midnight, it helps if the store in question is Walmart... So yeah, I went there and - CRAP! - I couldn't find the jewel case NOLF anywhere. Just my luck... I pretty much moved all the boxes there - trying not to step on the little Mexican guy who was polishing the floor with a tractor of some sort - to look behind in case it fell... Just as I had given up, I started around the isle the long way and noticed on the short side of the said isle another shelf with older games in ancient big game boxes... and there... NOLF Game of the Year edition with the Prima Guide and the soundtrack CD for 3 dollars... So yeah. Fuck you all, I am off to play that.

I saw the game in the store the other day for something like ten bucks, wondered if I should buy it.... Then I didn't. I think I will actually go out right now and see if I can find it... regardless of the fact that it is midnight here... Internal monologue: Would I even like this game? Andrej hates it - but he is acting all schizophrenic as of late, denying all that is selfevident in matters of game epicurism - while Beiddie likes it... but is Trep liking it enough? I still haven't finished Deus Ex because the game was doing nothing to me. It was merely ok story-wise (I sure as fuck didn't want to work for the New World Order, but I had to), while all the choices I was making didn't seem to lead anywhere worthwhile. I was flipping out, not knowing if using a particular bionic upgrade (or whatever they're called) was beneficial to anything in the short run? In the long run? The inventory tetris was completely gratuitous: Do I even need this thing, whatever it may be, that is shaped like the Japanese pictograph for a tree (which you cannot figure out without throwing everything out of your inventory first)?!? I never had enough ammo for efficient slaughter, and the crappy low-tech weapons didn't work at all when I used them.... I just realized that there was only one game ever I liked that displayed the full upgrade tree of whatever sort, and that is Startopia... Deus Ex, Diablo I and II (despised the fact that I knew what spells went where but didn't have enough experience on the onset to learn them all), Sacrifice (I liked the game, but that tree was messing with my ego and I yet have to play through), Heroes of Might and Magic (1 through 542) -- all horror in the upgrade tree department.... It's too fucking complicated to be technically effective and fun... unless you are a tabletop RPG junkie.

It was infuriating! It was a while ago and the load times were killing me and every time I tried to hit the gard on the back of the head, he would run off screaming, so I had to load again!You're to blame for everything.

Just yesterday when I decided to try my luck with the first one again, I realized that I had in fact given the game to somebody a long, long while ago... Crap.

I don't do logos.

Being pretty is not enough to qualify something as a work of art.

—if only I hadn't already known pretty much everything it said. I sat there waiting for some new information, but alas. Maybe if only I were ignoranter all would've been awesome, awe-inspiring and otherwise awing. As disgusted by these words as I am on many levels*: help us Michael Moore, you're our only hope. I went to see it in one of the 8 greater Houston area cinemas brave enough to show it. There was actually a line in front of the amphitheatre; I don't remember ever being in line to see a movie in US ever before. The line gave me an opportunity to look at the kinds of people who came - no bellicose Bible-thumping Tories seemed to be there as the place was filled with Jews, Negro intellectuals, politically active aunts handing out voting registration brochures, old women dressed in glitter & rhinestone US flag attire, hipsters, humanities professors, punk kids, and assorted Eurotrash. In all, all liberals in the greater Houston area were there... I liked Bowling for Columbine better. *) Level first: Lucas reference; Level second: it's Michael Moore; and Level third: the only hope.

The difference between art and craft is the state of the mind of the creator. If hes/he/it is trying to something more than just a pretty image, or a formulaic thriller, it is art. Not all art needs an advanced level of craft, though, but it is beneficial for the artist to be able to say, Oh, I can make that hooker look exectly like she does in real life, but I choose to make her this way. If they have craft, artists can pull off a new artistic direction that is slimmer craft-wise and not be vilified by the critics as incompetent.

Woah, wait, you're an Okie? Man, that is worse than being a Texan....

Care to elaborate? I am curious just what in the world could've been the cause of that...

I like Michael Moore because he is reclaiming the grassroots tactics used by leftist politicians from 50 years ago that are now used by the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Namely the depiction of the polarization between the elites and the poor plebeians. Rush flip-turned this to where the Evil Elite are the liberal college boys, the liberal editors and journalists, the professors and the like; In his view of the world, the rich boss and the poor worker are supposed to sit together and look in disgust at the evil liberal kids drinking their lattes and talking about the common good at the other table. Michael Moore doesn't preach this anti-intellectualism, but at the same time makes himself into a non-intellectual and positions himself at a place that I see as strategically beneficial for the well-being of the future. Heh.