I have never read, played, or became familiar with The Mutant Chronicles RPG, but it looks like they are making a movie about it. Does our resident RPG geek have any info for us?
Found via an IMDB search of Thomas Jane, and yes, there will be a The Punisher 2 movie. I know it wasn’t the most popular, but I really enjoyed it. Remember kids, it’s a western, not an action movie.
YouTube - Bleach manga chapter 228
This kind of seems like the absolute worst way to pirate manga to me.
So, there’s a list of Pirate Laws out there.
Some of them aren’t so great, some of them don’t make any sense, but there’s some gems in there. Like this one:
#24: No pirate may ever change his shirt because it is “wrinkled”. A pirate may only change his shirt if it is completely soaked in blood.
I’m just going to say this once, then I’ll go back to blogging about how wacky Japan is, or some TV show, or whatever.
Is there anything that is not clear about this sentence?
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
I didn’t think so. Literacy is your friend.
And this is why I’m on the J-List mailing list:
It’s hard to keep up with anime trends in Japan, since they’re always in motion. The newest boom in otaku culture seems to be “tsundere” (TSOON-deh-reh), a word that describes girls who are cranky and quick to anger (in Japanese, tsun-tsun) on the surface, yet loving and vulnerable when it suits them (known as “dere-dere,” pronounced deh-reh deh-reh). A staple in anime and PC dating-sim games, some famous tsundere characters include Asuka from Evangelion, Akane from Ranma 1/2, Sanae from The Sagara Family (who has a tendency to punch the main character violently at any provocation), and if you ponder it long enough, Princess Leia from Empire. Like cat girls, waitress uniforms and French Maid costumes, tsundere is closely tied to the Cult of Akihabara and “moe” (mo-EH) culture that has become such a big part of modern Japanese life. Now instead of passively watching your favorite rough-around-the-edges character in anime, you can experience her in the flesh at a new “Tsun-Cafe” which features beautiful waitresses who insult customers, acting frustrated when they take too long to order and yelling things like, “Here’s your coffee. Drink it quickly and get out of here, will you?” But when it’s time to leave, the girls look sad, and say, “Oniichan, I’m sorry I said those awful things to you. You will come again, right?”
So, at the urgings of numerous people, I finally swallowed my intense dislike of procedural drama and watched an episode of House. Specifically, the pilot.
And yep, it sure is a procedural drama. Boy, is it. And that pisses me off no trivial amount, because there’s a lot I like there.
I don’t know there’s enough, but I’ll give it another shot. At the very least, it fulfills my Recommended Daily Allowance of snarky misanthropy.
Putzing around the Tim Sale webpage to see if there was a book by him I don’t like (there isn’t) I ran across a collection of Tim Sale fonts for sale.
If you’ve never seen Comicraft’s website before, you should take a look around. While most of the fonts are purchased, not free, there are a few free samples, and the ones you have to pay for are worth it. You know, assuming you do any publishing or writing or whatever.
Special Nerd Allert: The Stormtrooper Font is (currently) free if you sign up for their news letter. It’s better than stepping on Ewoks.
Mix roughly equal parts JMS’s Rising Stars, White Wolf’s RPG Aberrant, and the X-Men (and all the dodgy biological science that goes into that), then pour in a generous helping of shameless cliche, and you have NBC’s new series Heroes.
In other words, (awesome + good) + (lame + derivative) comes out to interesting and with some potential, but could very easily trundle down the Path of Suck. The pilot’s free on iTunes (and I’m reasonably certain that it’s not too hard to find elsewhere, nudge nudge wink wink), so if you’ve got some time to kill and are curious, I’d give it a shot.
(I saw a teaser trailer for this a while back, and was so hoping we’d somehow gotten a Rising Stars series or miniseries, and I’d just managed to somehow avoid hearing any news about it. Alas.)
Did you guys read today’s Dinosaur Comics? If you did, you know why this is totally awesome:
Did you know Cryptic, makers of my much beloved City of Heroes, is making a Marvel comics MMO? I didn’t either. Technically, this link goes to an interview, where people talk about the game. However, they go through the whole interview without really saying anything other than the game will be on the Vista and Xbox 360 platform.
It’s always been my favorite emotional response. Now, it’s also my favorite pie: Schadenfreude.
The more I hear about Second Life, the more interesting it seems. I’d caught wind of it a while ago, but expected it to flare up then vanish. Interestingly, it has not. Thoughts?
Bruce Shneier, who knows more about security than you, thinks you should renew your passport right the fuck now.
I’ve been really liking his blog in general lately. Even if reading it does make me start thinking paranoid thoughts.
MTV is buying Harmonix, who created Guitar Hero.
I’ll be over here. Crying.
One of the true classics of the webcomic world (not to mention a staple of Ziggurat culture), with frequently hilarious writing and always fantastic art, MacHall is changing:
I’m going to upset people, but this is effectively the end of Mac Hall in it’s current form. A chapter closed.
I’ve long time said that I’ll keep doing to comic as long as it’s fun. Over the course of the year the enjoyment has been vanishing.
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Assuming all goes well, in October Matt and I will switch to the next phase of the comic and the site will have recieved some fresh code love. (I hope.) We’ll ride with that for a while, and if it works. Kick ass. If not, well, I’m sure we’ll figure something out. This is not ment as doom and gloom but just a simple road sign for things to come.
It had a good run, and luck to Ian and Matt. I’ll be watching for their October project.
If you’ve ever said to yourself, “Man, I wish I had a PS2 game with a cool, unique graphical style that strongly resembled Japanese woodblock prints and a story laden with interesting mythology, and that was also totally awesome,” you should go buy Okami.
You should also go buy Okami if you haven’t thought that before, but are thinking it right now, or if you like things that are awesome.
(Edited to fix misuse of art terminology. Not my field.)
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