Reviews Galore
Another lot of reviews are up over at Blogcritics by a certain Marty Dodge including Motorhead Live and new discoveries in the form of the awesome The Answer and the gloriously sleezy Slunt.
Comments are off for this postColby on Nazi Nukes
Do I have to tell you it’s bloody interesting?
Comments are off for this postHarry wants you!
Harry wants you to help him decide what slogan to put on his site’s t-shirts. I am rather partial to I’m Glad Saddam’s Gone – Aren’t you?.
Comments are off for this postFriday Film Fest
This isn’t about anything in particular, but it sure is purdy. It’s by artist Carolina Melis and uses software to generate abstract patterns. (Warning: Music.)
If you’ve played Counter-Strike, no explanation for this will be required. If you aren’t familiar with the game, it’s an online first-person shooter. You need a copy of the original Half-Life game and then download an elaborate mod that overwrites all the characters and weapons. You log on to one of the hundreds of games going on at any time, day or night, and become one of a team of ten-or-so terrorists or counter-terrorist troops. The premise is that the terrorists have planted a bomb in a building and the counter-terrorists have two minutes to find it and defuse it.
It’s all very exciting—you race through dark corridors, smashing into walls and crates; and then you race through more dark corridors, smashing into different walls and crates while you try to remember what the “crouch” key is; and then an enemy sniper kills you.
At least that’s the way it usually worked for me. So I don’t play it too much these days.
Anyhoo, these guys did a live-action version
of it and it’s a pretty accurate rendition, complete with out-of-synch radio traffic, jittery connections, and the, er, oddly mincing, gyrating style of the combatants. (Warning: Gunshots. Also laughter, if you’ve ever played the game.)I’ve never heard of The Chalets before. Or this song, “Feel The Machine.” I’m not sure how well it’d hold up to repeated listenings, but it’s a peppy little number.
What’s remarkable, though, is their video for it, which is the cleverest thing I’ve seen in ages.
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