Friday, June 27, 2008
Hellboy a reviewers review
Not gonna lie, I didn't like the game when I first put it on. I started to play it not 24 hours after I beat GTA IV. I was annoyed by the static camera, the controls seemed loose to me, the graphics seemed subpar. But I played on.
The rub with Hellboy is this. It is ghost and goblins without the timed jumping and the two hit your dead mentality. The graphics seem minimal but it lends itself to the esthetic of the game and seems to ring true to the original source material. The camera is static to show a scope of sizes that enemies have i.e. as the game progresses enemies become bigger and more complex.
Look this game isn't a billion dollar coke filled summer blockbuster that makes so much money it becomes it's own economy that can topple most African countries. It's an indie film or more appropriately an indie comic game. Your not getting the semi gloss of an x-men title, your getting the grit of a smash em up, which when compared to the multitude of vapid shooters that have more digital botox and plastic surgery that Carmen Electra's woo-ha, it truly is a breath of freshness. Or shall I say classic gaming?
--george
Thursday, June 26, 2008
not gonna lie
Yesterday was pretty badass. Not gonna lie, I beat GTA IV, and then my gods infinite mercy, I got to see dethklok live in concert. It was amazing. I also bought the picture disc vinyl and I think I am going to frame it in a picture box.
Toki Wartooth thought of Frank Zappa and a vastness spread before accompanied by piano string, klezmer, and fatigue.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Expose the blog troll?
I'll preface the next section with the phrase, stuff that was on my mind.
My puerile yesterdays were always filled with the thoughts of simplicity and ease of creation. I mean you can see a work in front of you and perception takes but a moment, but to make that precise moment requires both years and thoughts farmed, watered with hopes, dreams, fears - lamentations encouraged by venomous snakes in the garden is always my favorite impetus for creation.
It's like the moments creep forward through poetry and music because they don't come through in words. Maybe I get a special joy out of a crucification something said to music can bring. My own way to vent.
As I get angrier...
Safe to say I now feel a special amount of moxie built up in the vestibule of my mind, as I retreat behind the wall of intellect and verbage. What do I mean?
I wanna move on and write something.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Extree Extree!
Friday, June 13, 2008
new news!
Always keep those channels open! And stay in "the know."
cheese burgers
salt?!?!?!?!
Human beings have enjoyed canning and artificial refrigeration for only a couple of centuries; for the countless millennia before then, salt provided the best-known preservative of food, especially meat.[1]
The harvest of salt from the surface of the salt lake Yuncheng in Shanxi dates back to at least 6000 B.C., making it one of the oldest verifiable saltworks.[2]:18–19
Salt was included among funereal offerings found in ancient Egyptian tombs from the third millennium B.C., as were salted birds and salt fish.[2]:38 About 2800 B.C., the Egyptians began exporting salt fish to the Phoenicians in return for Lebanon Cedar, glass, and the dye Tyrian purple; the Phoenicians traded Egyptian salt fish and salt from North Africa throughout their Mediterranean trade empire.[2]:44
Along the Sahara, the Tuareg maintain routes especially for the transport of salt through the use of salt caravans (known there as azalai). In 1960, the caravans still transported some 15 000 ton of salt, yet it has now declined to only roughly a third of this.[3]
On the river Salzach in central Austria, within a radius of no more than 17 kilometres, lie Salzburg, Hallstatt, and Hallein. Salzach literally means "salt water" and Salzburg "salt city", both taking their names from the Germanic root for salt, salz; Hallstatt literally means "salt town" and Hallein "saltwork", taking their names from hal(l)-, a root for salt found in Celtic, Greek, and Egyptian. The root hal(l)- also gave us Gaul, the Roman exonym for the Celts. Hallstatt and Hallein in Austria, Halle and Schwäbisch Hall in Germany, Halych in Ukraine, and Galicia in Spain: this list of places named for Celtic saltworks is far from complete.[4][5][6]
Hallstatt gave its name to the Celtic archaeological culture that began mining for salt in the area in around 800 B.C. Around 400 B.C., the Hallstatt Celts, who had heretofore mined for salt, began flushing the salt out of mines as brine and boiling off the excess water. During the first millennium B.C., Celtic communities grew rich trading salt and salted meat to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in exchange for wine and other luxuries.[1]
At times, troops in the Roman army were even paid in salt, which is the origin of the words salary and, by way of French, soldier.[2]:63 The word salad literally means "salted," and comes from the ancient Roman practice of salting leaf vegetables.[2]