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xyzzysqrlI've been waking up feeling half-dead a lot of the time, lately. I hope it's understandable why this bothers me. At least my mood's taken a heavy upswing, in that I have actual energy and enthusiasm. I'm pretty sure the achy groggyness is from either the new summer warmth and humidity, or possibly my pillow. My pillow has, after roughly two years on it, gone totally flat and pancake-like. It also has a tendency to slide down between the mattress and the bed, taking my head with it. I wake up with my head at an awkward angle. ... One of these days I'm going to drool up my own nose and drown, I know it. (Go, sqrl, go. Gross out your readership.)
I'm ensaddened by the news of a new, realistic Zelda game. Cartoony good. Realism bad. Cartoony Good. Realism Bad. When will people learn that true joy lies not in grim gritty photorealism but in brightly drawn, heavily stylized animation? Foolish people.
There's a number of books I want to reread, that I read in my childhood. The Wrinkle In Time series (particuarly A Swiftly Tilting Planet) is one clump. Also The Phantom Tollbooth. The Three Musketeers. (yes, I read it as a child, but I really doubt I "got" it very well, since I don't remember much about it besides a fondness for the writing style.) Diane Duane's Young Wizard series. Books that don't treat the reader like an idiot just because they're young. Anyone have any more reccomendations along those lines? I'm eyeing Narnia, too, but I doubt that'll hold up to my sensibilties today. ("NO. He turns into a DRAGON. Dragon > Human. EDMUND WINS.")
Basically I'm having a very regressive week, all told.
Enkidu is either Marathon/Halo fanfiction or some kind of teaser for the next game. The HTML source says fanfiction. Still, it's pretty fun to read, in my opinion. Moreso for including an AI, who is... interesting in his behavior and only becoming more so.
This next is just some notes to myself I've made while reading Enkidu. No need to take them in any way seriously. I'll likely be editing these as it goes on.
Timeframe is after the Fall of Reach by two weeks. Rules out Library computer (floating ball thing from Halo)
Pubkey = CEDAR. This is explained by #5.
Enkidu numbering system. Prologue starts at ii (2), where's #1? Lettering on HTML goes a, b, g, d, e... Greek letters.
#21 - HTML meta tag includes "thesis" and "antithesis". Arguement with self. Fragmenting personality, or two AIs in one shell?
#22 even more interesting, THREE points of view. Enkidu, someone else, and "the player" character?
Who is the "player"/"reader" anyway? Has Deep Dark Sekrit. "Sailor". (Hello, Sailor! He's the guy from Zork. AFGNCAAP.)
I'm ensaddened by the news of a new, realistic Zelda game. Cartoony good. Realism bad. Cartoony Good. Realism Bad. When will people learn that true joy lies not in grim gritty photorealism but in brightly drawn, heavily stylized animation? Foolish people.
There's a number of books I want to reread, that I read in my childhood. The Wrinkle In Time series (particuarly A Swiftly Tilting Planet) is one clump. Also The Phantom Tollbooth. The Three Musketeers. (yes, I read it as a child, but I really doubt I "got" it very well, since I don't remember much about it besides a fondness for the writing style.) Diane Duane's Young Wizard series. Books that don't treat the reader like an idiot just because they're young. Anyone have any more reccomendations along those lines? I'm eyeing Narnia, too, but I doubt that'll hold up to my sensibilties today. ("NO. He turns into a DRAGON. Dragon > Human. EDMUND WINS.")
Basically I'm having a very regressive week, all told.
Enkidu is either Marathon/Halo fanfiction or some kind of teaser for the next game. The HTML source says fanfiction. Still, it's pretty fun to read, in my opinion. Moreso for including an AI, who is... interesting in his behavior and only becoming more so.
This next is just some notes to myself I've made while reading Enkidu. No need to take them in any way seriously. I'll likely be editing these as it goes on.
Timeframe is after the Fall of Reach by two weeks. Rules out Library computer (floating ball thing from Halo)
Pubkey = CEDAR. This is explained by #5.
Enkidu numbering system. Prologue starts at ii (2), where's #1? Lettering on HTML goes a, b, g, d, e... Greek letters.
#21 - HTML meta tag includes "thesis" and "antithesis". Arguement with self. Fragmenting personality, or two AIs in one shell?
#22 even more interesting, THREE points of view. Enkidu, someone else, and "the player" character?
Who is the "player"/"reader" anyway? Has Deep Dark Sekrit. "Sailor". (Hello, Sailor! He's the guy from Zork. AFGNCAAP.)
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Date: 2004-05-13 10:54 am (UTC)GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Date: 2004-05-13 11:03 am (UTC)The new Zelda game is the savior of all that is digital! From it alone shall I receive the holy communion that is the true Messiah, born forth from it's forefather the Ocarina of Time!
Re: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Date: 2004-05-13 11:20 am (UTC)It also keeps inexplicably reminding me of Dynasty Warriors, but that's neither here nor there. Really, the Game Boy Advance take on Zelda has my attention, right now.
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Date: 2004-05-13 11:56 am (UTC)As for books, did you know Clive Barker wrote a children's book? It's called "The Theif of Always" and I read it a few years back on vacation. Its pretty good. Otherwise... well... In high school, the pace I read at could probably be described as "Voracious", but before that, I didn't read much.
-Desdan
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Date: 2004-05-13 12:06 pm (UTC)...This new Zelda looks, well, a lot like the prerendered bit Link was in from Soulcaliber 2. And a lot like Dynasty Warriors. Or Drakengard. Or any one of the other "stunningly rendered" realistic-looking fantasy games out there. I'm just really tired of those.
...I didn't know about the Clive Barker children's book, but then... I don't really know who Clive Barker is either, so... oh well.
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Date: 2004-05-13 12:39 pm (UTC)Though, he managed, as I recall, to write a good young-teen horror novel without getting disgusting and without pandering.
-K
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Date: 2004-05-13 12:12 pm (UTC)I really liked Ocarina of Time, because it was zany as all hell -- but only with a peanut gallery. And that's probably the ONLY reason I liked it so much. Realism didn't work out real well there, I didn't think.
I bought Wind Wa(n)ker very warily, expecting insta-hatred of the Bobble-Head character designs, but then discovered that they were so exquisitely animated and lively that one couldn't HELP but love them. Everything about them was brilliant and bright, and the expressions were just precious. Those designs don't stand out for crap on a magazine page, or in a screenshot -- but in action, they're astoundingly wonderful. ...As cartoons tend to be.
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Date: 2004-05-13 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-14 03:56 am (UTC)...so why -was- there a something hidden on board the Marathon? And exactly what was he? ^_~