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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    GTA in first person is really actually pretty disturbing. it looks like a hardcore murder simulator made by sick, sick people. i think that's kind of cool actually but something about shifting the view into first person hurts... it hurts your brain. it's like violent pornography, you know.

     

    something fucked up about the way the cops get killed at 4 minutes onward

     

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    I've been looking for a good simulator-type game to play for a while now. Something gentle and soothing you can play with some good music and a long rollie. I'd toyed with the idea of picking up Train Simulator 2013 (or perhaps its standalone expansion, London-Faversham High Speed) but then RPS posted this brilliant article about Euro Truck Simulator 2:

     

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    I’m infatuated with this game. It’s a twilight experience, something to tide me toward sleep after a day of looking at the internet, a simulated escape into another kind of work and another way of living. I haven’t formed a company with its own employees and I have no idea how deep that side of the game is. I don’t even pick the best jobs available because I’ve imposed my own limits, always taking cargo from the last city I visited so that my journeys across the continent happen in a strange sort of realtime without the un-truckerly magic of transportation.

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/13/night-drive-euro-truck-simulator-2/

     

    I need to get in on this. Tonight.

     

     

    i know this will make me sound like (and manifest as) a complete prick but this seems a bit "skyrim"-ish with the hype

     

    the game doesn't look that great. the crashes are phony and there aren't any pedestrians.

     

    then again its good that people are hyping a sim. maybe that will get more companies to invest time into it. I would love a really good simulator. the best games will be more like sims. the best games will be more like simulators!

     

     

     

     

    a favorite I have recently is Kerbal Space Program. definitely check it out if you haven't already. you build a rocket and launch it and try to land on the moon. it's absolutely fantastic. grade a shit. so much potential for chaos and unique things. thats what a simulator should do i think. this truck simulator looks nice but it doesn't look like there is much potential for chaos.

    XI year old Autechre Album Released: Exai (WARP234)

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    i love the whole track. i truly don't understand why the last minute or twoa re a problem? it's one of their greatest tracks, ever. but i said negative things about Known(1) and can see why someone would feel differently!

     

     

    overally this album is just... blowing my mind. i'm in love. truly. it's a masterpiece.

     

    I think it is their most loving album, deep, beautiful even. it's very emotional, in a strange sense. where it is like madness, obscurity, but a heart that is very good is in it. despite the evil. i've never felt authechre like this and I am really just... happy to be feeling this album which is a monster in terms of musicality but most importantly is perhaps their most... loving and devout... release yet!

     

    strangely enough it makes me want to relisten to King of Limbs which may not add up. i caren ot!

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

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    There is nothing more frustrating in my life in the Absolute than stupid teachers.

     

    No matter what I do or say to contribute to the discussion, the tone in his voice demonstrates to me that my contributions are not valued, and that I am not worthy. We have a 1 hour debate of the most mundane aspects of a text while the stupidest people in the class go over the most arbitrary and illogical points... it really makes me want to tear my hair out. But that's fine. The problem is when I want to participate to get the most out of the money and educational experience, and the teacher basically disregards my points. Now, not everyone there is stupid. I am exaggerating. Why assign difficult psychoanalytic readings if we aren't going to talk about them, and instead just fuck around the whole class about stupid arbitrary bullshit? And why is the teacher giving me shit when I actually try to bring up the deeper stuff?

     

    Never be the smartest guy in the room. Keep your mouth shut.

     

    I decided to listen through this book to try to understand how to communicate better. Maybe it was my tone of voice, or the way I was coming off. My lack of confidence. Surely those things are more important than the fucking point I'm trying to make about a complex topic when I speak.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4dxy46Ju7Q

     

     

     

    No matter what I do, this guy is going to fucking think negatively of me. There is literally NOTHING I can do. I've felt this with many people on the internet and in various areas of my life. Where they are just too damn stupid to catch up.

     

    But the truth now is that some kind of loving kindness meditation should solve the problem. It is quite difficult to do this however considering my disagreements. But it is clearly the correct way to go.

     

     

     

    I truly need to change how I deal with people!

    Films Recently Watched

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    lumpenprol, on 01 Mar 2013 - 01:47, said:

     

    zaphod, on 28 Feb 2013 - 23:10, said:

    which is odd because apollo 13, which is the jumping off point for ..to the moon, uses the grissom death as a thematic device.

    yeah I remember I saw Apollo 13 in theaters with a girl I had a crush on (cue old man music). Can't remember if it was better or worse than the To the Moon stuff. I do remember some scene where they're guiding their capsule by line of sight or some such. They have a similar scene of taking their bearings based on star position in To The Moon. It's stuff like that that really blows my mind. In the middle of space relying on (seemingly) ancient mariner type tricks and human eyeballing. Talk about balls.

    zaphod, on 01 Mar 2013 - 00:43, said:

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    vamos scorcho, on 01 Mar 2013 - 00:14, said:

    7 psychopaths was way better than In Bruges (which was really just sort of a black comedy Tarantino knockoff... good introduction to the director but not a great film) this was a great film and it will be remembered as such

    wait, what? if anything it's completely the other way around.

    agree, In Bruges was a grower, and the banter was great (career best from Colin Farrell?). 7 Psychopaths not so much.

     

    I made that comment with the specific purpose of provoking response. Because I know that's what its critics have been saying. I believe they are totally wrong. In Bruges was a good movie, I agree, a grower. But it has nothing to say, it's more or less just a "first film." It's not a great film, it's a very good movie but it's still just Tarantinoesque.

     

    This is way beyond Tarantino, it had flair, and actually had something to say. In fact, I would say the whole film was a harsh criticism of Tarantino as a director. It's a critique of Hollywood a la the Player. I find it disconcerting that more people haven't seen this, but also unsurprising given that most people these days fail to consider social critique when watching a film. If all you care about is dialogue, characterization, etc... then Seven Psychopaths is less than In Bruges. If you are considering the whole picture, it is superior. The film was not really that funny apart from when its criticism landed with direct placement. It was a moralizing film meant to provoke hatred in the viewer for its targets. The final 20 minutes of the film were extremely emotional for me and I find that if this was not your experience watching the film, then you were not watching it properly. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the narrative mechanism used at the end bordered on genius. The whole thing is a sort of mini-masterpiece, secluded in its own world. I'm not calling myself a "fan" of the director but its very possible that future films could go in the "right" direction (further down the art-path of Seven Psychopaths), instead of the "wrong" one (fun dialogue, entertainment, black comedy etc).

     

    All that said, the acting from Rockwell was fantastic, as well as from Walken. I wouldn't call it "great" as a film, but I must say I strongly prefer it to In Bruges and most anything else. It was sold as a "Tarantino funtime" by the critics and by Youtube but in reality it's an art film of sorts, kind of like Jarmusch but with all that pseudo-octane of a Tarantino film to reel you in.

    Films Recently Watched

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    7 psychopaths was way better than In Bruges (which was really just sort of a black comedy Tarantino knockoff... good introduction to the director but not a great film) this was a great film and it will be remembered as such

    What are you consuming right now?

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    had the single best fucking barbecue on the planet earlier

     

    now i am drinking great lakes christmas ale and listening to "living end" by Jesus Mary Chain and feeling cool

     

    "just like you knew it would"



     

    wait... you're mixing Laphroaig with a ginger ale?

    you can bet its a damn good drink either way if its mixed right.



    I get so wild on my motorbike

    Frank Ocean bombs at Grammys

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    it's definitely an image thing putting him at ZOMG #1 ALBUM on a bunch of lists for Channel Orange, but assuming he's actually doing the heavy lifting for the songwriting I reckon he's got his best work ahead of him.

     

    personally I hope he gets all disillusioned with the music industry and does a Swordfishtrombones.

    yeah i can see him doing some good music in the future

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