by Matt | Apr 2, 2002 | Imported Entry
You know… I had written something mildly interesting a few hours ago, but Blogger seems to have eaten it. No bother. It was only mildly interesting anyways. Not much is going on around the Royal Oaks ranch. Playing some computer games, doing some homework, the usually stuff. I’ve pretty much concluded that Sequential class with be the difficult one this semester, which in itself seems odd for an intro class. I don’t feel that bad because my roomies have gotten themselves in just as deep with their Cartooning class. They get to draw things moving, I get to draw things in comic panels, I suppose that’s about even. I also ordered my supplies from B&H finally, they should be here next week. I had to restrain myself from tacking a Powershot S110 onto the order. I really felt conpelled to get one since I was going to eventually have the money. But I decided against it. I figure it can be more money towards a worthy computer upgrade, which btw, will finally happen. Probably by the end of the month… well, ordering the parts at least.
I’d also like to express my disappointment and happiness with two recent additions to computer gaming land. First off, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast seems on the outside to be a nifty game. That is until you start playing it. I’ve never been so insulted by level designs or complete lack of 1st person story. It’s almost as if they went out of their way to make the levels unnessisarily tedious. The upside however is the multiplayer. If you can get it to stop crashing (at least on my machine) then you can enjoy slicing your friends to pieces in full 3rd person, light-sabre glory. The multiplayer is pretty good and even throws some fairly adequate bots at you. I guess a strong multiplayer isn’t difficult to imagine coming from a Quake III powered game. On the complete opposite side of our 1st person shooter coin is Aliens vs. Predator 2. This little surprise is actually quite frightening in an Aliens (the movie) sort of way. Jason and I have been wondering through the Marine missions and having to stop at random intervals and wipe the poop out of our pants. You don’t really know video game fear until an Alien drops from the ceiling and starts chewing on your head. The downside to this one is the fairly unbalanced multiplayer. The Marines have the firepower, the Predators have the stealth, and the Aliens get the chaft. Unless of course, you find a dark corner to hide in and camp the entire time until an unsuspecting Marine comes by for dinner. Sure, they can kill things in one “munch” but you still have to get close enough to do it, and with enemies that have heat sensors and motion trackers, that really doesn’t happen. So you’re left with Marines vs. Predators, which certainly isn’t what it says on the box. Oh well. Can’t win’em all. Some games are best played in the dark with the sounds turned up, some are better for LAN parties.
That’s about it kids, time to sleep. Later.
by Matt | Mar 31, 2002 | Imported Entry
If I hear Iio’s “Rapture” in any sort of form, remixed or otherwise, on the radio I’m going to flip out. Damnit people! That song is two years old, get over it. It’s not even that good. Fuck it, I’m going to bed. Lots of stuff to do tomorrow (today).
Night.
by Matt | Mar 30, 2002 | Imported Entry
Besides the movie, I’ve been just doing some laundry and some homework. I’ve got two comic book pages to finish by Monday. I’ve also got to order my photo supplies and pay my rent. Tomorrow we’re planning on going to church, it being Easter and all. Afterwards Lauren’s planned a little picnic in the park which should be fun.
Thats about it. Later.
by Matt | Mar 30, 2002 | Imported Entry
Well, it’s Saturday. I would have updated sooner, but there wasn’t really much going on. Last night however, we check out “Death to Smoochy” a hilarious and dark comedy starting Robin Williams and Edward Norton, Directed by Danny DeVito. I had been looking forward to this one for about a month and I wasn’t let down. The basic story line is that a kids TV show host, Rainbow Randolph (Williams), is fired for taking bribes and is replaced by a more ethically centered character (Norton) named Smoochy the Rhino. Randolph takes it rather personally and tries to get back at Smoochy. There’s a decent supporting cast that includes Danny DaVito, Jon Stewart and Harvey Fierstein. The supporting cast was probably the one minor drawbacks that I could see. Their roll was rather uninspired and lack-luster. It’s sad that no one writes decent rolls for Jon Stewart, I don’t think he’s been funny in a movie yet. He’s very funny on the Daily Show, but unfortunatly no here. All in all, this is a dark little comedy that had me laughing outright. The “Step-Dad Song” was definatly a highlight. The upsides of this one definatly outweigh any downsides. It was a little thick on the profanities and the supporting cast was a little weak, but it was definatly worth the trip. Go see it.
8.8 / 10
by Matt | Mar 27, 2002 | Imported Entry
My brain hurts. 9am History classes tend to do that to you. But now I’m home and I think it’s about time for some food and Counter-Strike.
I was also frightened to learn that B&H, my most trusted photo supplier, is closed until the end of passover. I guess they’re Jewish. That kinda of sucks for me since I needed supplies by Monday. However, I’ve talked to my professor (who was also waiting on supplies for B&H) and he said just to buy the absolute bare nessesities in town and that we’d be able to get by until B&H reopened and shipped our orders. This semester will be a biggie too. Atleast $500-$600 dollars worth, and that’s just to get started. There’s no size requirement for our prints in this class but if they’re larger than 16×20 we don’t have to window matte them later on. So, of course I want to avoid matting things, so I’ll be ordering very large paper. Which, while being expensive, wouldn’t be as expensive as matting 30 prints durring finals. So, it’s a trade off.
Oh well. Back to the grind.
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