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Random media ramblings...

  1. SomethingAwful has a bunch of B-Movie-style poster spoofs which are well worth a look.Page 8 has the HP one, most of the rest are pretty good too.
  2. Apparently, Lost has been cancelled - in 2010 (well, assuming it doesn't happen soon, say, if the ratings keep falling). Three more 16-episode seasons - a hard limit which (together with the fact that last week's episode was actually pretty decent) gives me hope that they might be able to pull of a decent conclusion. Maybe.
  3. Heroes was awesome - must be Tuesday.
  4. April Ryan is my new video-game-girlfriend (not sure who the previous one was, actually - possibly Elaine Marley, although she's kinda taken now - but it certainly wasn't Lara Croft...). I picked up a copy of The Longest Journey at the weekend for under ten bucks from Steam, and it's all kinds of fantastic. Yes, the graphics are eight years old, but it's a point-and-click adventure, so who cares. It's got interesting characters, a huge sprawling plot, buckets of humour, and got the Monkey Island reference in very early on - what more could you ask for? Oh, yes, a fix for the lock-up bug (save early, save often...)
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zorac

May 8 2007, 23:05:51 UTC 13 years ago

Me too :-( I cried for, like, the entire second half.

Actually, I haven't Spidey yet - I was to busy bike-hunting on Saturday and Sunday, and by Monday I really couldn't face going into town again, so I'll go and see it this weekend.

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zorac

May 9 2007, 07:12:16 UTC 13 years ago

That's a shame, as without my geek card such activities as downloading torrents and burning CDs are certainly way beyond me.

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zorac

May 9 2007, 12:00:51 UTC 13 years ago

Yah, totally!

By the power of geek card, I was able to download stuff and burn a CD remotely. Alas, I couldn't then get the CD to jump out of the Mac, into a jewel case and an envelope and then post itself. Darn. But hey, that's what bikes are for!

imc

May 9 2007, 11:37:33 UTC 13 years ago

Hang on… that would be Wil Wheaton the original irritating geek boy from Star Trek: The Next Generation who flunked out of the Academy to go travelling? That one? I can't believe there is anyone over 25 who hasn't heard of him.

(Aside: ST:TNG is coming up to its 20th birthday? I feel old…)

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imc

May 9 2007, 12:56:24 UTC 13 years ago

Oh all right then.

hermorrine

May 9 2007, 04:21:24 UTC 13 years ago

I LOVED The Longest Journey... I wonder if they've ever come out with the sequel? You might also like Syberia and Syberia II if you like TLJ... I fully admit that it's the stories and characterizations in both that really got me. You know the graphics and stuff aren't really my baliwick.

*uses rock-star-boyfriend icon to go with your video-game-girlfriend*

zorac

May 9 2007, 07:11:27 UTC 13 years ago

They did indeed come out with a sequel. The reviews are apparently rather more ... mixed than for the original, but I shall have to see for myself. In due course - I'm only up to chapter 5 "There And Back Again" (now where have I seen that before...) of TLJ...

I remember you mentioning Syberia before - I'll be sure to check it out if TLJ has indeed started me on an adventure game kick.

xorsyst

May 16 2007, 16:09:26 UTC 13 years ago

TLJ is probably the best game ever. Well, maybe.

I played it again last year, I found a couple of fixes on the interweb - have a look around.

Also, I tend to find that if you like TLJ you'll like Beyond Good and Evil

zorac

May 17 2007, 10:38:33 UTC 13 years ago

It's definitely up there with the likes of Monkey Island - 'tis rather harder to compare, say, an adventure to an RTS to an FPS to an RPG...

I picked it up via Steam (Valve's online content delivery thingummybob), so I'm not sure whether patches for the CD/DVD versions work. Still, regular saving got me to the end without too much annoyance.