Bad. Ass.
But why are you walking away from the wreckage on Earth, Shepard? Or was that just for the explosion effects and badassery?
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Mass Effect 3 Trailer
Bad. Ass.
But why are you walking away from the wreckage on Earth, Shepard? Or was that just for the explosion effects and badassery?
Friday, December 10, 2010
MASS EFFECT 3
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| YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS |
Earth is burning. Striking from beyond known space, a race of terrifying machines have begun their destruction of the human race. As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth.
Dudes, I know the synopsis sounds way too ME 1 & 2, but YESSSSSSSSS. I have been waiting to hear news about ME3, so a little blurb is better than nothing. (And the blurb makes it seem like Shepard might be travelling home... *fingers crossed*)
Now I just need to see a release date...
(News taken from http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/mass-effect-3-outed-on-ea-store/)
BlackBerry PlayBook
I am now accepting all PlayBook's and iPads.
I don't think this will surpass the iPad, but it looks like a good try (needs more apps though). Someone needs to try and get a piece of the Apple pie, so good luck BB.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia Z1 'PlayStation Phone' revealed
Awesome? Not so awesome? Just another phone?
Not sure if this could ever eat up the dollars Apple gets, but who knows :/ Graphic whores might find a place on the new PSPhone.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Review of short story "The Dungeon Master" by Sam Lipsyte
I'm not going to lie and say I love Dungeons and Dragons (or D&D by those who love it). I hate it. My friends have tried to get me into D&D for years (I've lost countless hours to this game for all the wrong reasons), telling me how amazing it is once you understand the gameplay. But to them I say: no it isn't awesome, even when the rules start to make sense. However, as I am person who still tries to find the good in the horrible, I chose to review The Dungeon Master by Sam Lipsyte. By reviewing this story I had hopes that his view on D&D would make me fall madly in love with the game, and make me beg my friends to forgive me for my past discretions. Unfortunately, their deepest wish will never come true.
Fair warning: If you want to truly enjoy The Dungeon Master, you will need some knowledge of D&D (a fantasy role-playing-game that can involve dice, modules, miniture figures, and an imagination). If you've never played D&D, the references will seem obscure and most of the plot will fly over your head.
The Dungeon Master is about a group of friends who play D&D. The narrator of The Dungeon Master is a fourteen year old boy who is obsessed with playing D&D. The story follows the narrator as he tries to share his love of D&D with his unenthusiastic family, and as he fights with the Dungeon Master – a kid who is the maharaja of D&D gaming (the Dungeon Master being the key player in D&D games as he/she decides what obstacles, traps, monsters, people, or whatever the Player Characters - the other players - will face off against).
The Dungeon Master isn’t very long, clocking at only seven pages. However, reading it can feel tedious as the dialogue is strange and the writing style is coarse and unrefined.
One of the main problems I have with Lipsyte's story is that the flow is off. The prose is choppy, scene after scene happening without any transition. There were many times when I wasn't sure if the narrator was playing D&D or if he was daydreaming; Lipsyte never making the transition between the two clear.
The language used in this story is also peculiar. Lipsyte writes like he tried really hard to channel the voice of a teenager. Regrettably, somewhere Lipsyte got lost and channelled an elementary school kid instead. The end result is that I'm not sure if Lipsyte tried to write The Dungeon Master from the point of view of a twelve year old, or if his writing style resembles a twelve year old.
But even though I have heavily criticized the short story, it is evident that The Dungeon Master is a labour of love. Lipsyte writes about D&D like man who has spent many hours hunched over a D&D board, the story sounding like a D&D tournament that has been transcribed by one of its players.
If you like D&D, I'm sure there will be something in this short story for you. But if the mere mention of the name makes you think back to never-ending nights of forced D&D participation - skip this one.
The Dungeon Master was first published on The New Yorker website on October 4, 2010. The author, Sam Lipsyte, has written numerous books, his most famous being The Ask, The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. Currently, he lives in New York.
Fair warning: If you want to truly enjoy The Dungeon Master, you will need some knowledge of D&D (a fantasy role-playing-game that can involve dice, modules, miniture figures, and an imagination). If you've never played D&D, the references will seem obscure and most of the plot will fly over your head.
The Dungeon Master is about a group of friends who play D&D. The narrator of The Dungeon Master is a fourteen year old boy who is obsessed with playing D&D. The story follows the narrator as he tries to share his love of D&D with his unenthusiastic family, and as he fights with the Dungeon Master – a kid who is the maharaja of D&D gaming (the Dungeon Master being the key player in D&D games as he/she decides what obstacles, traps, monsters, people, or whatever the Player Characters - the other players - will face off against).
The Dungeon Master isn’t very long, clocking at only seven pages. However, reading it can feel tedious as the dialogue is strange and the writing style is coarse and unrefined.
One of the main problems I have with Lipsyte's story is that the flow is off. The prose is choppy, scene after scene happening without any transition. There were many times when I wasn't sure if the narrator was playing D&D or if he was daydreaming; Lipsyte never making the transition between the two clear.
The language used in this story is also peculiar. Lipsyte writes like he tried really hard to channel the voice of a teenager. Regrettably, somewhere Lipsyte got lost and channelled an elementary school kid instead. The end result is that I'm not sure if Lipsyte tried to write The Dungeon Master from the point of view of a twelve year old, or if his writing style resembles a twelve year old.
But even though I have heavily criticized the short story, it is evident that The Dungeon Master is a labour of love. Lipsyte writes about D&D like man who has spent many hours hunched over a D&D board, the story sounding like a D&D tournament that has been transcribed by one of its players.
If you like D&D, I'm sure there will be something in this short story for you. But if the mere mention of the name makes you think back to never-ending nights of forced D&D participation - skip this one.
The Dungeon Master was first published on The New Yorker website on October 4, 2010. The author, Sam Lipsyte, has written numerous books, his most famous being The Ask, The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. Currently, he lives in New York.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Nanabosho - Book Launch - Creative Writing
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On Saturday I went to the book launch of Nanabosho and the Butterflies by husband and wife duo Joe & Matrine McLellan. The book launch was held at McNally Robinson in Grant Park, where about 10-15 people showed up for Joe McLellan’s reading.
Nanabosho and the Butterflies is the 11th book in the Nanabosho series, which explores the Anishinabe (or Ojibwa) people and their history.
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| The book |
Nanabosho and the Butterflies is a story about the creation of butterflies. Nanabosho, a young boy, meets a pair of twins and their mother. Hearing the twins cry, Nanabosho tries to stop their tears, but their mother tells him not to help her children. Nanabosho asks why and the mother says that the twins have many brothers and sisters who do everything for them. And because of that, the twins have not learned to do anything for themselves. Nanabosho thinks for a moment and comes up with a solution: he paints some leaves and places them on a blanket. He rustles the leaves and they flutter upwards and turn into beautiful butterflies, the twins running after the butterflies in chase; this is how the twins learn to walk. The story ending with the butterflies creation.
The story is accompanied by beautiful pictures done by Jackie Traverse, a former student of Joe McLellan`s.
Throughout the children's book, McLellan also used Anishinabe words in a Dora the Explorer way, to help children learn the language. At the reading, McLellan discussed how important it is to keep the Anishinabe language alive through story telling; Aboriginal children not hearing the stories of their people anymore. McLellan hoping that his books will help keep the language alive.
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| The author Joe McLellan |
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