Note to self: having a character that specializes in ballistic weaponry is a pretty bad idea when you have no clue how to draw a convincing gun.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
DS emulation and WarioWare DYI
I recently looked into Nintendo DS emulation to see how that stuff is coming along cause Zach and our friend Shigoto were always playing Pokemon Soul Silver and i wanted to know what all the fuss was about.
The emulator that i used ages ago was NO$GBA, it was ok, ran the game i wanted to play at the time which was "Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin", which is fantastic btw.
Did a lil sprite rip while trying out Soul Silver, i looked for these online but no one ripped them.
Now here's what i read about recent DS games: coders have found anti-piracy techniques that cause the games to cash when played on an emulator. This may happen randomly or at preset parts of games.
Roms and emulators have to b patched to get the games to run in a stable way, lots of hassle. Clever move from Nintendo.
So i tried NO$GBA, and the thing really hasn't changed. as an emulator it always felt lacking and no improvements have been made on it. And i tried DeSmuMe, which i did try once before at a early stage, and is now a really really complete emulator.
As a note, DeSmuMe runs Pokemon Soul Silver WAY WAY better than NO$GBA, however the game still freezes too often for my taste. But who cares, I just wanted to see the game and i had my fun in it.
Here's something that got my intrest today though:
This game raised a lot of talk since it came out in japan, mostly because some artists used it to make simple yet interesting hentai games. the english version being finally out, i wonder what will happen.
The thing is, not everyone has a DS, but emulation might solve that. I kinda like the thought of being able to quickly and easily make mini games, but srly NOT on a DS. Who knows if this game might spawn small communities to start making games for it, and maybe even create tools but PC users to import/export stuff.
Sadly right now, The game won't even run on No$GBA. It runs on DeSmuMe, but it freezes after the player is asked to confirm the time of the DS. Prolly Nintendo antipiracy measures again.
If anyone hears anything about this game working on emulators let me know.
The emulator that i used ages ago was NO$GBA, it was ok, ran the game i wanted to play at the time which was "Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin", which is fantastic btw.
Did a lil sprite rip while trying out Soul Silver, i looked for these online but no one ripped them.
Now here's what i read about recent DS games: coders have found anti-piracy techniques that cause the games to cash when played on an emulator. This may happen randomly or at preset parts of games.
Roms and emulators have to b patched to get the games to run in a stable way, lots of hassle. Clever move from Nintendo.
So i tried NO$GBA, and the thing really hasn't changed. as an emulator it always felt lacking and no improvements have been made on it. And i tried DeSmuMe, which i did try once before at a early stage, and is now a really really complete emulator.
As a note, DeSmuMe runs Pokemon Soul Silver WAY WAY better than NO$GBA, however the game still freezes too often for my taste. But who cares, I just wanted to see the game and i had my fun in it.
Here's something that got my intrest today though:
This game raised a lot of talk since it came out in japan, mostly because some artists used it to make simple yet interesting hentai games. the english version being finally out, i wonder what will happen.
The thing is, not everyone has a DS, but emulation might solve that. I kinda like the thought of being able to quickly and easily make mini games, but srly NOT on a DS. Who knows if this game might spawn small communities to start making games for it, and maybe even create tools but PC users to import/export stuff.
Sadly right now, The game won't even run on No$GBA. It runs on DeSmuMe, but it freezes after the player is asked to confirm the time of the DS. Prolly Nintendo antipiracy measures again.
If anyone hears anything about this game working on emulators let me know.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Kiwi anniversary
This feels VERY out of character and way too cute considering who it is. Hopefully either Zach or me will color this, eventually.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Game review: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
I meant to do a lil review of the previous expansion, Moxxi's, but truth is, it's rather boring and annoying. I only recently even tried the 2nd mission in it and not enjoying it.
"The Secret Armory of General Knoxx" however, i liked it. there are a few reasons for that, the first being that this one actually feels like an expansion to the original borderlands. Maybe not story wise, but at least setting wise.
The plot is a minor detail in borderlands, but still, they do need a reason to make u run around shooting stuff.
Athena, the leader of the crimson lance's elite assassin forces, deserts the crimson lance and wants to bring them down, she seeks your help and offers u 3 mins of free looting through their armory in exchange.
Against you and your allies is Alfonso Knoxx, a very depressed general who literally used to take his orders from a 5 year old admiral.
The center of this expansion is T-Bone Junction, the area seems located in dried out lake/sea with roads all over the place. It would even seem that T-Bone used to b a fishing town once.
For many areas, the roads are most of the map, however at the far end of each road, u can get down to ground level to explore. Don't think the road areas are plain though, the crimson lance has setup bases and road blocks, there's patrol vehicles and even flying drones.
Personally, I like this setting a lot and finally feels like something that would b in the original game, unlike the previous 2 expansions. We're back in fictional Australia.
I read somewhere that something they wanted to do in the original game was to make vehicles a bigger part of the gameplay with different ones to choose and even possible boss battles. This finally becomes a reality in this expansion with the exception of boss battles. (thank god)
You will be driving a lot an everywhere in this game, and sometimes picking the right vehicle will b very important seeing as each has a specialty. From the start, you don't have any vehicle available to you, by questing for Scooter, you'll unlock these.
Most of the enemies u'll encounter are crimson lance soldiers, with more variations though, such are Rocketeer soldiers, Chemical soldiers, Pyro soldiers, etc...
In short, they have flying soldiers, and specialized types for each element (Acid, Fire and Lightning), there's more medic soldiers too. Since the crimson lance is the main enemy they diversified their troops more so it wasn't as boring.
More notable are the devastators and assassins though. The devastator are giant armored mech suits, slow and heavy damage. Assassins in contrast are female soldiers, very very quick and agile, can't really say how much damage they do, encounters with them are too frantic.
There's other enemies, alien wildlife and such, but nothing really noteworthy in my opinion.
I like that they brought Moxxi back, she gives u a couple of missions, and it's even revealed who was her first husband, and man it fucking blew my mind when it's revealed who her son is.
The expansion felt sadly short, but not too short, it still kept us entertained for some long hours, also, the expansion features a "secret boss" which is advertised on the road signs, however, players need to b at max level to even stand a chance against it, so haven't defeated it yet. something to work torwards too though.
They started something kind of funny in this expansion, in chests, lockers and other places where loot is found, there are midget enemies hiding, they'll surprise you, but the cool thing is that they're quite funny too, there's a mini Steve that pops out and says "Heyoo!" before attacking u, there's a midget crimson lance, a mini wrestler that vaguely looks like Mordecai, etc.
Unlike the previous 2, this one feels like a worthy expansion. the ambience, humor and setting all feel right again.
I only wish it was longer, but, the fact that there's a "secret boss" actually gives u something to work towards.
Srly "Do Want".
"The Secret Armory of General Knoxx" however, i liked it. there are a few reasons for that, the first being that this one actually feels like an expansion to the original borderlands. Maybe not story wise, but at least setting wise.
"Stupefying"
Plot
The plot is a minor detail in borderlands, but still, they do need a reason to make u run around shooting stuff.
Athena, the leader of the crimson lance's elite assassin forces, deserts the crimson lance and wants to bring them down, she seeks your help and offers u 3 mins of free looting through their armory in exchange.
Against you and your allies is Alfonso Knoxx, a very depressed general who literally used to take his orders from a 5 year old admiral.
Location
The center of this expansion is T-Bone Junction, the area seems located in dried out lake/sea with roads all over the place. It would even seem that T-Bone used to b a fishing town once.
T-Bone Junction - pretty much the central hub of the expansion
For many areas, the roads are most of the map, however at the far end of each road, u can get down to ground level to explore. Don't think the road areas are plain though, the crimson lance has setup bases and road blocks, there's patrol vehicles and even flying drones.
Personally, I like this setting a lot and finally feels like something that would b in the original game, unlike the previous 2 expansions. We're back in fictional Australia.
Vehicles
I read somewhere that something they wanted to do in the original game was to make vehicles a bigger part of the gameplay with different ones to choose and even possible boss battles. This finally becomes a reality in this expansion with the exception of boss battles. (thank god)
Racer - Monster -Lancer
You will be driving a lot an everywhere in this game, and sometimes picking the right vehicle will b very important seeing as each has a specialty. From the start, you don't have any vehicle available to you, by questing for Scooter, you'll unlock these.
- The racer, as the name implies, is a small fast car. it's ideal to get through the roads quickly once you've cleared up all the road blocks. It's required on a couple of times to jump into harder to reach places. And if it looks familiar, it's because it's vehicle in the original game.
- The monster is the 1st vehicle Scooter makes available to you, it's easy to control, has the best weapon of all 3 in my opinion and it's fairly resistant. With the exception of the sequences that absolutely require the racer, u could do the entire expansion in the monster.
- The lancer is what the crimson lance uses to patrol the roads. This vehicle is the only one that allows all 4 players to ride in it at the same time and each seat has a different weapon associated with it. it's dreadfully slow and it's very difficult to perform the most basic jumps with it. however, it's attack is extremely damaging and the defense is triple the racer's.
The prison is a good example of when the racer is required.
Enemies
Most of the enemies u'll encounter are crimson lance soldiers, with more variations though, such are Rocketeer soldiers, Chemical soldiers, Pyro soldiers, etc...
In short, they have flying soldiers, and specialized types for each element (Acid, Fire and Lightning), there's more medic soldiers too. Since the crimson lance is the main enemy they diversified their troops more so it wasn't as boring.
Devastator - Assassin
More notable are the devastators and assassins though. The devastator are giant armored mech suits, slow and heavy damage. Assassins in contrast are female soldiers, very very quick and agile, can't really say how much damage they do, encounters with them are too frantic.
There's other enemies, alien wildlife and such, but nothing really noteworthy in my opinion.
Misc
I like that they brought Moxxi back, she gives u a couple of missions, and it's even revealed who was her first husband, and man it fucking blew my mind when it's revealed who her son is.
Nice Mammaries lady!
The expansion felt sadly short, but not too short, it still kept us entertained for some long hours, also, the expansion features a "secret boss" which is advertised on the road signs, however, players need to b at max level to even stand a chance against it, so haven't defeated it yet. something to work torwards too though.
They started something kind of funny in this expansion, in chests, lockers and other places where loot is found, there are midget enemies hiding, they'll surprise you, but the cool thing is that they're quite funny too, there's a mini Steve that pops out and says "Heyoo!" before attacking u, there's a midget crimson lance, a mini wrestler that vaguely looks like Mordecai, etc.
More screens
Verdict
Unlike the previous 2, this one feels like a worthy expansion. the ambience, humor and setting all feel right again.
I only wish it was longer, but, the fact that there's a "secret boss" actually gives u something to work towards.Srly "Do Want".
Monday, March 22, 2010
Notices and braggin
Recently TF2 did a minor community update that consists in items that the community made. there aren't many weapons, it's mostly hats really, but interesting all the same. Didn't make a big post about it cause... well, it's really no big deal.
Now the notices:
This item is so useless especially considering it's for soldiers and demomen.
Now the notices:
- Our friend Pizzacat's Bday is on the 27th.
- My character Kiwi's anniversary is the next day, the 28th.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Tof's 2 cents: ATI mobile cards
Having the amazing ability to read, and an internet connection, I'm sometimes asked to fix people's computers. This can involve reinstalling a OS, troubleshooting weird errors and all that crap.
As a lil backstory, I've helped my cousin's BF by installing XP on his Toshiba Satellite A200-21T lappy cause Vista was burning a hole into his brain.
Recently, my cousin told me her BF was having trouble playing recent games: a blue screen of death showed up every time he tried. I suspected it was a driver problem with the graphic card so i asked her to bring the damn thing here, sure enough, the file causing the error was called ATI something, so indeed that was it.
Here's what was fucked up though, ATI doesn't seem to release drivers for their mobile graphic card models. Toshiba's lappy drivers are fucking 3 years old, which is why i hate laptops to begin with: drivers seem to always suck. And this was a classic example why:
The laptop is a Toshiba, but the graphic card is a ATI, however, neither seem to really support the damn drivers for it. Seems like a common problem for laptops though.
So after doing research, i found out that ATI doesn't really make different drivers for the mobile version of their graphic cards. For example, the drivers for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 are praticly the same save for minor details that identify each card.
Luckly, someone picked up on that and made a tool to do the minor changes so that u can use normal drivers as mobility ones here. Mmm...actually, where's my laptop? i think that one had a ATI card too...
As a lil backstory, I've helped my cousin's BF by installing XP on his Toshiba Satellite A200-21T lappy cause Vista was burning a hole into his brain.
Recently, my cousin told me her BF was having trouble playing recent games: a blue screen of death showed up every time he tried. I suspected it was a driver problem with the graphic card so i asked her to bring the damn thing here, sure enough, the file causing the error was called ATI something, so indeed that was it.
Here's what was fucked up though, ATI doesn't seem to release drivers for their mobile graphic card models. Toshiba's lappy drivers are fucking 3 years old, which is why i hate laptops to begin with: drivers seem to always suck. And this was a classic example why:
The laptop is a Toshiba, but the graphic card is a ATI, however, neither seem to really support the damn drivers for it. Seems like a common problem for laptops though.
So after doing research, i found out that ATI doesn't really make different drivers for the mobile version of their graphic cards. For example, the drivers for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 are praticly the same save for minor details that identify each card.
Luckly, someone picked up on that and made a tool to do the minor changes so that u can use normal drivers as mobility ones here. Mmm...actually, where's my laptop? i think that one had a ATI card too...
Friday, March 19, 2010
Suspention of sense of disbelief
So I'm sick and watching TV, and i caught "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" like maybe 10-15 mins in, Also known as Jurassic Park 2.
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When people watch a movie like that, they need to suspend their sense of disbelief in order to immerse into the movie's plot and world. I've seen the first Jurassic Park, i could that for most of that movie, but the Lost World? no, i couldn't.
It wasn't the special effects, i was kinda OK with those for most of the time. In fact, most of the time i can't suspend my sense of disbelief in a movie was the reason i couldn't do it in this one: Rampant illogical stupidity.
No i'm not just bitching as usual, i want you guys to consider this.
In movies there's stupid actions, reactions and decisions that are plausibility stupid, in the case of the lost world there are a couple of situations that would fit into that, such as:
But u know what, it's dumb, but i could sort of accept that it could happen, but there's limits:
- Displays of abysmal stupidity
Death by Latino Walkman
In a scene where the group takes a break in the jungle, a guy goes take a dumb, he lets know another guy where he's going, as the camera turns, we see the guy he talked to has a headset on and is listening to a Walkman. Seriously? In a jungle full of dinosaurs is when that guy thinks it's appropriate to listen to generic Hispanic greatest hits? wouldn't you want to, oh, i dunno, be aware of your surroundings so that you don't get eaten? It's not like he was in the middle of the group either, he was alone in an edge!
Oh and the guy who talked to him ended up dying cause when he called for help, the idiot obviously didn't hear.
Dr. Sarah Harding.
There's this scene that just made me facepalm. i caught the movie at the point Dr. Sarah Harding, for god knows what reason, kidnaps a T-Rex baby to treat it's leg. Why? i don't know but she's not very smart as you'll see. The baby gets some blood on her vest, They're attacked by 2 T-Rexes that push their vehicles off the cliff and our heroes survive by "not very believable" luck. Then there's this convo between Dr. Sarah Harding and some geek from the hunting group about how T-Rexes can smell blood from miles away. And they all Move out.
The next day, she walks around with the bloody vest all day, the leader of the hunting group notices blood on the leaves from brushing against Dr. Sarah Harding's vest and calls a break, and actually asks her if she's ok, and she actually says it's not her blood, it's the baby's blood. The leader of the hunting group nods and is ok with that. Let's say it wasn't even the baby's blood, is it really ever a good idea to leave a trail of blood behind u in any jungle?
What kills me is how surprised she is when the T-Rex sneaked in her tent in the middle of the night to smell the vest, and ONLY then she's like "OH SHIT! THE BLOOD!". This isn't like, she didn't have time to think about it, she had literally 24 hours to consider that the blood would attract the T-Rexes, She couldn't had been distracted all day, and the subject was fucking brought up! SHE BROUGHT IT UP FIRST!
At that point i was just calling bullshit on all the crap happening to them, She went to college, she has an education, she's smart. So how can she b so stupid? As you watch the movie u just know that's gonna come back to kick them in the ass, and u had like 5 mins to figure out that, she had 24 hours and it never occurred to her or anyone that knew about that.
Snake? Snake??? SNAKE!!!
This is just... ugh...
Ok, there's this scene where a few remaining guys managed to run from the T-Rex, they're hiding under a waterfall, the Rex is poking his head in barely not reaching them although he does manage to lick Dr. Sarah Harding, and a guy notices a snake that just finished slipping inside his shirt.
I'm not even gonna ask where the snake came from, let's assume that the snake was somehow hanging from the wet rock surface of the underside of the waterfall, when the guy realizes the snake got in his shirt, he immediately runs out straight towards the T-Rex's mouth. in a fucking straight line too, not panicking or turning upon himself, fucking ran out and straight into the T-Rex.
I'd scared of snakes too, but i think if i had a T-Rex in front of me, I'd b more afraid of the T-Rex.
They have the ship on the radar, they know it's coming in too fast, chances of it crashing into the fucking harbor are like 90%, and what do they do? they don't warn anyone and stare into the fog.
I'm sorry, what? that's like knowing there's a train coming out of a tunnel, knowing how far it is, and still standing in front of the fucking tunnel in disbelief until you see it come out. It's too stupid to be accepted as plausible human behavior.
I'll catch that baby T-Rex with my bare damn hands!
so by the end of the movie, Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding are trying to lure the Rex back tot he ship using the baby as lure when Peter Ludlow, who knew about this plan (and if he didn't, honestly, anyone with half a brain would had figured it out), sees them running past his car, and goes chase after them on foot. they run to the ship's cargo bay, ditch the baby there, and jump in the water.
Peter however decides to ignore all concerns for his own life and goes try to catch a fucking baby Rex unharmed and by himself. That by itself already sounds like not a good idea but when u remember that there's an adult looking for that baby, it really seems like he didn't plan this at all.
"There's an adult T-Rex after this baby, I'm going to chase the baby so i get eaten!"
Aside from all the stupidity, there was a lot of stuff that just didn't seem right...
- Displays of "how the fuck?"
Let's wait for it to crash into us - part 2 - wait, how the f...
Not stupidity related, but the other thing bothering me with that is that, even though the Rex is trapped in the cargo bay, he slaughtered the entire crew someone, which just baffles me, seeing as some of them were in places the damn Rex couldn't get in. i mean, no one survived, and he was still trapped, then, how?
Have u seen the inside of a ship lately? those narrow halls, everything made out of metal, it's not a fucking raft, there would had been places to hide from the damn thing. i want to know how the T-Rex got the cook! srly! was everyone out for a smoke at the same time by the cargo bay?
No, they're weren't all, cause we see the dismembered hand of the captain still on the wheel, so at least the captain wasn't out for a smoke, but how did the Rex get him? If his arm is still there, that means that either he saw the Rex coming for him and did not move, or it was a fucking sneak attack again. But he was inside the ship! the structure of the ship is still intact and the still trapped Rex couldn't had possibly fit though the tiny door!
It's like i passed out and missed 5 hours of movie time.
Puddle shake!
Not stupidity related either, but there's a Rex loose in the city, and somehow, no one in the city notices it, damn those things are so sneaky...
Solid Rex sneaks into a backyard looking for water, and it finds a pool, what ticked me off in this scene was how in the entire movie, a Rex far away, walking slowly does the trademark wavy impact thing on all water surfaces, be it a glass of water, a puddle, or anything like that. in this scene where the Rex is going for the pool, the pool's water does not respond at all.
It really kills it for me when the visual and sound effects don't seem to match and/or have the effect they would in real life.
Run Ian, Run!
Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding run off with the the baby and in the scene they ditch the car, the T-Rex was awfully close, spitting range close. Yet somehow,by the next scene, they outrun it by miles and the Rex is nowhere to be seen! same Rex which in an earlier scene caught up with a moving bus.
It takes around 3 full minutes for the Rex to reach the ship after Jeff Goldblum carrying a huge baby dino did. Just how fast and fit is Goldblum?
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When people watch a movie like that, they need to suspend their sense of disbelief in order to immerse into the movie's plot and world. I've seen the first Jurassic Park, i could that for most of that movie, but the Lost World? no, i couldn't.
It wasn't the special effects, i was kinda OK with those for most of the time. In fact, most of the time i can't suspend my sense of disbelief in a movie was the reason i couldn't do it in this one: Rampant illogical stupidity.
No i'm not just bitching as usual, i want you guys to consider this.
In movies there's stupid actions, reactions and decisions that are plausibility stupid, in the case of the lost world there are a couple of situations that would fit into that, such as:
- In a scene a T-Rex silently sneaks into a camp of around 30 people, and starts sniffing a vest inside a tent (you know... that does sound pretty fucking implausible...), Jeff Goldblum's character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, sees this, but pretty much stands still as to not alert him. the part that seems plausible is when one of the hunters/mercenaries wakes up, sees the rex on the other side of camp, and screams his head off. It's dumb as fuck, but i could see someone doing that.
- This is the scene right after the guy screams, everyone gets up startled by the screaming idiot, and all decide to start running all over the place to look more appetizing to the T-Rex. In fact i think they all actually started running right after Dr. Ian Malcolm told them "Don't run" or "Don't move".
But u know what, it's dumb, but i could sort of accept that it could happen, but there's limits:
- Displays of abysmal stupidity
Death by Latino Walkman
In a scene where the group takes a break in the jungle, a guy goes take a dumb, he lets know another guy where he's going, as the camera turns, we see the guy he talked to has a headset on and is listening to a Walkman. Seriously? In a jungle full of dinosaurs is when that guy thinks it's appropriate to listen to generic Hispanic greatest hits? wouldn't you want to, oh, i dunno, be aware of your surroundings so that you don't get eaten? It's not like he was in the middle of the group either, he was alone in an edge!
Oh and the guy who talked to him ended up dying cause when he called for help, the idiot obviously didn't hear.
Dr. Sarah Harding.
There's this scene that just made me facepalm. i caught the movie at the point Dr. Sarah Harding, for god knows what reason, kidnaps a T-Rex baby to treat it's leg. Why? i don't know but she's not very smart as you'll see. The baby gets some blood on her vest, They're attacked by 2 T-Rexes that push their vehicles off the cliff and our heroes survive by "not very believable" luck. Then there's this convo between Dr. Sarah Harding and some geek from the hunting group about how T-Rexes can smell blood from miles away. And they all Move out.
The next day, she walks around with the bloody vest all day, the leader of the hunting group notices blood on the leaves from brushing against Dr. Sarah Harding's vest and calls a break, and actually asks her if she's ok, and she actually says it's not her blood, it's the baby's blood. The leader of the hunting group nods and is ok with that. Let's say it wasn't even the baby's blood, is it really ever a good idea to leave a trail of blood behind u in any jungle?
"Blood? oh that's ok, it's a plot device to get more people killed."
What kills me is how surprised she is when the T-Rex sneaked in her tent in the middle of the night to smell the vest, and ONLY then she's like "OH SHIT! THE BLOOD!". This isn't like, she didn't have time to think about it, she had literally 24 hours to consider that the blood would attract the T-Rexes, She couldn't had been distracted all day, and the subject was fucking brought up! SHE BROUGHT IT UP FIRST!
At that point i was just calling bullshit on all the crap happening to them, She went to college, she has an education, she's smart. So how can she b so stupid? As you watch the movie u just know that's gonna come back to kick them in the ass, and u had like 5 mins to figure out that, she had 24 hours and it never occurred to her or anyone that knew about that.
Snake? Snake??? SNAKE!!!
This is just... ugh...
Ok, there's this scene where a few remaining guys managed to run from the T-Rex, they're hiding under a waterfall, the Rex is poking his head in barely not reaching them although he does manage to lick Dr. Sarah Harding, and a guy notices a snake that just finished slipping inside his shirt.
I'm not even gonna ask where the snake came from, let's assume that the snake was somehow hanging from the wet rock surface of the underside of the waterfall, when the guy realizes the snake got in his shirt, he immediately runs out straight towards the T-Rex's mouth. in a fucking straight line too, not panicking or turning upon himself, fucking ran out and straight into the T-Rex.
I'd scared of snakes too, but i think if i had a T-Rex in front of me, I'd b more afraid of the T-Rex.
Let's wait for it to crash into us
So later in the movie they capture a T-Rex and decide to bright it to San Diego. Just saying that makes it sound like a terrible idea. Anyway, the ship the Rex is in is not responding and heading towards the peer at really high speed. 2 things bother me with that scene, but it'll start with the stupidity.They have the ship on the radar, they know it's coming in too fast, chances of it crashing into the fucking harbor are like 90%, and what do they do? they don't warn anyone and stare into the fog.
I'm sorry, what? that's like knowing there's a train coming out of a tunnel, knowing how far it is, and still standing in front of the fucking tunnel in disbelief until you see it come out. It's too stupid to be accepted as plausible human behavior.
I'll catch that baby T-Rex with my bare damn hands!
so by the end of the movie, Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding are trying to lure the Rex back tot he ship using the baby as lure when Peter Ludlow, who knew about this plan (and if he didn't, honestly, anyone with half a brain would had figured it out), sees them running past his car, and goes chase after them on foot. they run to the ship's cargo bay, ditch the baby there, and jump in the water.
Peter however decides to ignore all concerns for his own life and goes try to catch a fucking baby Rex unharmed and by himself. That by itself already sounds like not a good idea but when u remember that there's an adult looking for that baby, it really seems like he didn't plan this at all.
"There's an adult T-Rex after this baby, I'm going to chase the baby so i get eaten!"
I'm surprised no one blames Dr. Sarah Harding for anything. like 75% deaths are her fault.
Aside from all the stupidity, there was a lot of stuff that just didn't seem right...
- Displays of "how the fuck?"
Let's wait for it to crash into us - part 2 - wait, how the f...
Not stupidity related, but the other thing bothering me with that is that, even though the Rex is trapped in the cargo bay, he slaughtered the entire crew someone, which just baffles me, seeing as some of them were in places the damn Rex couldn't get in. i mean, no one survived, and he was still trapped, then, how?
Have u seen the inside of a ship lately? those narrow halls, everything made out of metal, it's not a fucking raft, there would had been places to hide from the damn thing. i want to know how the T-Rex got the cook! srly! was everyone out for a smoke at the same time by the cargo bay?
No, they're weren't all, cause we see the dismembered hand of the captain still on the wheel, so at least the captain wasn't out for a smoke, but how did the Rex get him? If his arm is still there, that means that either he saw the Rex coming for him and did not move, or it was a fucking sneak attack again. But he was inside the ship! the structure of the ship is still intact and the still trapped Rex couldn't had possibly fit though the tiny door!
It's like i passed out and missed 5 hours of movie time.
Puddle shake!
Not stupidity related either, but there's a Rex loose in the city, and somehow, no one in the city notices it, damn those things are so sneaky...
Solid Rex sneaks into a backyard looking for water, and it finds a pool, what ticked me off in this scene was how in the entire movie, a Rex far away, walking slowly does the trademark wavy impact thing on all water surfaces, be it a glass of water, a puddle, or anything like that. in this scene where the Rex is going for the pool, the pool's water does not respond at all.
It really kills it for me when the visual and sound effects don't seem to match and/or have the effect they would in real life.
Run Ian, Run!
Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding run off with the the baby and in the scene they ditch the car, the T-Rex was awfully close, spitting range close. Yet somehow,by the next scene, they outrun it by miles and the Rex is nowhere to be seen! same Rex which in an earlier scene caught up with a moving bus.
It takes around 3 full minutes for the Rex to reach the ship after Jeff Goldblum carrying a huge baby dino did. Just how fast and fit is Goldblum?
Monday, March 15, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Today is Jimmy's bday
Jimmy said that all he wanted for his bday was a sandwich. Weird, but granted.
Can't make him a real one so i sprited one. Happy bday Jimmy!
Can't make him a real one so i sprited one. Happy bday Jimmy!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
I'm a Huge Dork
I saw this ad pop up on some site I immediately forgot about (how ironic...). I resisted the temptation to make this crummy edit for all of five seconds. My inner nerd is thoroughly amused by this.And yes, that is his name. Why don't you remember him? Well, Ant is another character randomly injected into Sammy's vague past, like Alan Malkovich was in Fusion. Also, he's not that dead trooper in front of Kraid's door in Super Metroid; Other M takes place afterwards. Speaking of Other M, it's launching in the States in June, as of now.
...Also I made this:
...Seriously, don't ask.
...Also, read right-to-left.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Sno Flaek, The Angel of Death
I was trying to work on an image of pre-defeat Sno. I'm not really pleased with the outfit, but I did get a pretty good version of her slasher smile, so it's not a total loss. Also I'm totally keeping the horned hat idea. It'll be like she beat some cocky demon to death and now she wears their severed horns as a trophy...and to make up for her not having any of her own.The dress just doesn't look dangerous enough. I want her to invoke both fear and adoration from her enemies, so I want it to look nice, but still give the idea that she's a dangerous person, one whose name would cause people to cower. It's actually pretty funny, considering what her name is...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
PrinDig
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's making bad puns.Also I can't draw Prinnies. But that's not so bad, since there will probably never, ever be a situation where my future is dependent on drawing a damned soul in a penguin suit.
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