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By spacejack (Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 12:14:24 PM EST) (all tags)
Betting on the apocalypse, a good bad movie, game.

You know you've been indiscriminately clicking too many interweb links when you hear a Rick Astley song at the coffee shop and feel like you've been Rick-Rolled by the management.


Don't you think betting on the apocalypse is a bit like Pascal's wager? If you bet on the apocalypse, and the apocalypse fails to arrive, you lose. But everyone who bet against wins. If you bet on the apocalypse and it does come, you still lose because, well, it's the apocalypse and everyone loses.


I recently watched The Long Kiss Goodnight again. I first saw it in the theatres when it came out, but couldn't remember a whole lot about it other than it was bad, hilarious, entertaining and filmed in and around Toronto.

Watching it again made me better appreciate the brilliance of this film. It's like a parody of Bourne Identity, but made years earlier. Brian Cox even "reprises" his role from Bourne Identity, and turns it up to 11 to make for near-perfect satire.

Not only that, but the movie has probably one of the best collection of bad guys and sidekicks, as well as bad & good guy one-liners. For example (courtesy of IMDB's memorable quotes):

Nathan: Alice, please. Your dog, Alice. It and my appetite are mutually exclusive.
Alice: Well, what's wrong with the dog?
Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn't you agree?

Samantha: I know he has a pin in his leg, car accident. I... I know he cuts his own hair. He doesn't even own a TV. He... he sits when he pees...
Mitch: Hey, hey, hey. That's enough, I'm gettin' a boner here, all right?

Mitch Henessey: How did you find us?
Nathan: There may be many reasons not to kill you, but among them is not that you'll be missed by NASA. I found the address in your coat. Here. Between the address of a topless bar, and the picture of what looks like a man's penis.
Mitch Henessey: That's a duck, not a dick.

Pure screen-writing genius.


I played a game for the first time in years - Crysis. It barely runs on "low" quality on my new laptop, but it is fucking beautiful. Maybe I'll try it again in a few years when I get another computer, on "medium" quality.
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Crysis by riceowlguy (4.00 / 2) #1 Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 03:04:00 PM EST
They spent so much time making it pretty they didn't have time to make it fun.



Actually I like it by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 03:37:37 PM EST
I didn't play it on 'hard' difficulty, so maybe that helps. As good as any other FPS I've played anyway.

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I'll grant you that by riceowlguy (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 05:41:23 PM EST
any time I play an FPS that isn't BF2 I get frustrated because the controls aren't the way I'm used to.  Plus, the story in most single-player FPS games is just annoying.  Maybe Crysis would be better in multi.

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Too many controls by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 11:40:36 AM EST
I think the suit added a few too many controls. (Actually I was thinking it might have been more fun to handle those extra powers in an RPG-style way by allowing you choose specific skills to develop - a bit like the Jedi games.)

I was even amazed by the interior designs, like caves. They seemed a lot more naturalistic than the typical dungeon-style caves you find in other games.

I think it's a game for geeks... the visuals of the engine, the physics, the freedom to choose how to accomplish a goal. You could play the whole game over and try a different approach for each scenario.

I tend to think this type of engine is the future of FPS games. Gameplay tuning still needs work, but the advantages of huge environments where just about every object is interactive is too great to ignore.

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Happened to me in McDonald's the other day. by ambrosen (4.00 / 3) #3 Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 03:53:22 PM EST
I was most displeased. It nearly put me off my fries.



Happened to me while I was driving home. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 2) #4 Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 03:59:39 PM EST
Gotta sell the car now.

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I agree by gazbo (4.00 / 1) #6 Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 07:54:42 AM EST
Long Kiss Goodnight has been a favourite of mine for ages.  I love the line (paraphrased).

Headhunter: "Hey, this is a real fucking gun!"
Mitch: "Well this ain't no ham on rye"
Samanth: "What the hell are you doing here?"
Mitch: "Saving your life.  I would have been here sooner, but I was busy thinking up that ham on rye line"

"Engarde!" cried the larvae, huskily. - Scrymarch



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