"Fame and obtaining sequels tends to corrupt"

**** you, "Haruhi 2009", **** you. Just…no.

Anyway. Here with a correction to last week's editorial reply, noted public figure, the übergeneral: "Tarth fans make best trailer. That's all. Just fans."

That's right. The 'Return of Alice' trailer from the last journal? Fan-made. Not related to American McGee's project. Apparently quite a few news publications took it as official as well. So yeah. No official trailers available yet.

Oh! AMV Hell 5. Yes. They said it wouldn't happen. They said they were done. Win. Deadline for submissions is early July 2010. Tell your friends. Tell them even if they don't have a clue what's going on.

I've been playing Dragon Age: Origins. You remember how one of the selling points for Oblivion was that all dialogue was fully voiced, and how that turned out to be technically true? For those of you who don't know, in Oblivion, every voice in the game is done by one of maybe four people. They put on accents sometimes, but lines are shared between characters, so one minute you have an old beggar asking in a feeble voice if you can spare some coin, and the next he's shouting triumphantly about his exploits, or somesuch. Between the limited voices, the re-used dialogue, and the feeling that the actors had no idea what was going on and recorded each line in isolation, it didn't turn out well.

Dragon Age, though. Oh man. I find myself choosing dialogue options that will lead to more talking just because I don't want the conversations to end. Each character has a distinct voice, and it's very clear that the actors understand what the situation is and how they should respond. And there's no quest bs! No "go do some menial task for me", no "kill 8 x's and return". Everything fits into a larger whole. The combat itself is a little…underdeveloped, but ignoring that small flaw, this is a VERY good game. Or at least very fun.

What else? They found water on the moon. Near the south pole, I believe. In an ice state, of course. But hey, looks like a good place to colonize. In related news, apparently the term 'Big Bang' was thought up by a detractor of the theory in an attempt to display how ridiculous he thought it was, but it stuck.

This is my life these days: [link]

"If at first you succeed, make the next one awful and see if people still buy it."
**** you, Tatsuya Ishihara