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Mar. 16th, 2006 12:42 am1) Today's review: A History Of Violence (now with 25% more Morgan Freeman!)
2) I miss this guy. I wish he'd come back and favor us with more of his cogent arguments. There just aren't enough entertaining trolls around these parts lately.
3) ONE DAY TILL V FOR VENDETTA! WOO! Or maybe zero days, depending on if we can catch a midnight showing tonight.
WOO!
2) I miss this guy. I wish he'd come back and favor us with more of his cogent arguments. There just aren't enough entertaining trolls around these parts lately.
3) ONE DAY TILL V FOR VENDETTA! WOO! Or maybe zero days, depending on if we can catch a midnight showing tonight.
WOO!
Some interesting mail I got today
Mar. 15th, 2006 06:18 pm
(click thumbnail for big version; yes, that is my actual address under that blur)
What I want to know is how they knew that the person who owns fourpanels.com lives here. As far as I know it would be Jeremy's info all over the domain registration, not mine; I don't even think HE knows my address. So how is it that these people did?
It is a mystery!
[Edit: apparently it is not a mystery because my addy IS on the registration info. so much for my amusement. but I'm leaving the post anyway because... uh... I can. yes.]
Today's review: Madagascar
Also, mecha brought home a library copy of Cell, by Stephen King, and I started reading on it a few hours ago. Am now almost halfway through and itching to read more, 'cept I'm taking a tea-and-toast break. Tea and toast are awesome.
Also, mecha brought home a library copy of Cell, by Stephen King, and I started reading on it a few hours ago. Am now almost halfway through and itching to read more, 'cept I'm taking a tea-and-toast break. Tea and toast are awesome.
Mecha bought Shadow of Destiny used for ten bucks a couple days ago. It came with the cover of the manual. Not the manual itself, just the front cover. Kind of creepy.
Here is what I think of it so far (I am up to chapter 8; I do not know how many chapters there are), pasted from SocialMUX:
Jenny says, "Ugh. This is certainly one of the more frustrating games I've ever played."
Jenny says, "Each chapter has something like half an hour just of cutscenes, in between the running around achieving goals that cannot be done in any abbreviated or out-of-order manner, and you can't save in the middle of a chapter."
Jenny says, "So just now it started doing the "you are about to die unless you do something, usually use an item that prevents your death" countdown, for no discernable reason, and I didn't have anything new to use to save myself. But usually it does the countdown twice... once, and the guy giving you time-travel powers scolds you and sends you back to get what you need, and then you go back and are able to defend yourself against countdown death."
Jenny says, "This time I got countdown, and then game over."
Jenny says, "So when I feel like it tomorrow I'm going to have to redo 45 minutes of running back and forth between time periods, interspersed with unskippable cutscenes."
Jenny says, "I already had to redo 3/4 of a chapter once today, because the time machine decided it was going to scramble my atoms, and gave off a slightly different-looking countdown that didn't actually have numbers so I had no idea how long I had left, let alone what I was supposed to be doing to stop the atomscrambling."
Jenny says, "Don't really have the energy for that again."
Jenny says, "Aside from the "hey let's put in hours of unskippable cutscenes that you have to rewatch every time you redo a chapter" factor, this is actually a fun game."
Jenny says, "I have to use time travel craftiness to prevent my own death! Leaving town is apparently too much work."
Also: Four Panels has updated again, and after almost making it through the winter unscathed, I have finally succumbed to the plague. Plague symptoms include occasional sneezing, awful headaches and even worse sore throats.
Here is what I think of it so far (I am up to chapter 8; I do not know how many chapters there are), pasted from SocialMUX:
Jenny says, "Ugh. This is certainly one of the more frustrating games I've ever played."
Jenny says, "Each chapter has something like half an hour just of cutscenes, in between the running around achieving goals that cannot be done in any abbreviated or out-of-order manner, and you can't save in the middle of a chapter."
Jenny says, "So just now it started doing the "you are about to die unless you do something, usually use an item that prevents your death" countdown, for no discernable reason, and I didn't have anything new to use to save myself. But usually it does the countdown twice... once, and the guy giving you time-travel powers scolds you and sends you back to get what you need, and then you go back and are able to defend yourself against countdown death."
Jenny says, "This time I got countdown, and then game over."
Jenny says, "So when I feel like it tomorrow I'm going to have to redo 45 minutes of running back and forth between time periods, interspersed with unskippable cutscenes."
Jenny says, "I already had to redo 3/4 of a chapter once today, because the time machine decided it was going to scramble my atoms, and gave off a slightly different-looking countdown that didn't actually have numbers so I had no idea how long I had left, let alone what I was supposed to be doing to stop the atomscrambling."
Jenny says, "Don't really have the energy for that again."
Jenny says, "Aside from the "hey let's put in hours of unskippable cutscenes that you have to rewatch every time you redo a chapter" factor, this is actually a fun game."
Jenny says, "I have to use time travel craftiness to prevent my own death! Leaving town is apparently too much work."
Also: Four Panels has updated again, and after almost making it through the winter unscathed, I have finally succumbed to the plague. Plague symptoms include occasional sneezing, awful headaches and even worse sore throats.
Seriously, what is it with you people.
Feb. 20th, 2006 01:47 amOn Four Panels update days when I mention it here, we get like 30 hits to the site. On update days when I don't mention it, we get 7.
Come on people, I can't be reminding you all the time. If you're gonna look, which apparently you are, you should do it on your own, not just because there is a pretty link there that looks clickable!
If that's the way you want to play it, though, then links you shall have. So many many links. Oh my yes.
Update days are Mondays and Thursdays, for the record. Just like it says on the site's about page. I haven't yet gotten around to finding a good place to display dates for uploaded comics, but seriously, people, we have been updating Mondays and Thursdays like crazy-mad. Seriously, people. People. People, serious. I don't think my brain has any idea what my fingers are doing at this point. Serious.
Note today's comic! It is even up a couple hours early because I just wanted it up. We expect some hatin' for that one. As always if you have something to say about the comic please please post it on the message board. That is what it is there for.
Serious.
Come on people, I can't be reminding you all the time. If you're gonna look, which apparently you are, you should do it on your own, not just because there is a pretty link there that looks clickable!
If that's the way you want to play it, though, then links you shall have. So many many links. Oh my yes.
Update days are Mondays and Thursdays, for the record. Just like it says on the site's about page. I haven't yet gotten around to finding a good place to display dates for uploaded comics, but seriously, people, we have been updating Mondays and Thursdays like crazy-mad. Seriously, people. People. People, serious. I don't think my brain has any idea what my fingers are doing at this point. Serious.
Note today's comic! It is even up a couple hours early because I just wanted it up. We expect some hatin' for that one. As always if you have something to say about the comic please please post it on the message board. That is what it is there for.
Serious.
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Feb. 10th, 2006 12:57 amSo I was reading the Rotten Tomatoes listing for Dark Harvest 2 (I am not sure why), and I couldn't help but notice the description of the movie and how very different it is from the movie I saw... so here, have some annotations. Warning: spoilers. But then, if you're planning to someday see this movie, and you're NOT planning to be completely wasted for the viewing, then you have more problems than a few spoilers.
Yeah. So how is everyone? I'm fine.
"One year after the horrific Halloween encounters of a group of teenagers in a corn maze, the evil presence that occupies it is back not that we would know, because this is a different movie, filmed by different people, at a different location, and it makes no reference whatsoever to the first movie besides also having a corn maze in it, and even more determined to claim the lives that feed it. Unbeknownst to Allie and her older sister and to the audience, as it is never mentioned anywhere in the movie, a farmer who has made a pact with the devil to secure a prosperous harvest has left a legacy for anyone who enters said "legacy" being the farmer himself wandering around killing people. The two girls, dressed as vampires this is apparently an important plot point, enter the field as part of a horror movie they are making, but they become trapped not that we'd know because for most of the movie they're not actually trying to leave, pursued by the ghosts of those who came before The ghosts of two other little girls show up and talk to them a few times. CHILLS!. Now it's up to their father to find them by blundering around being all "girls I can hear you but I can't see you curse this maze" when IT IS FUCKING CORN DUMBASS YOU CAN JUST CUT THROUGH IN A STRAIGHT LINE TO YOUR STUPID KIDS IF YOU'RE SO EAGER TO FIND THEM, with only his completely unexplained and really dumb-looking psychic abilities to guide him." Also apparently everyone in town is convinced he's a dangerous criminal or something, but that is also never explained or resolved.
Yeah. So how is everyone? I'm fine.
K see one time Randy Beaman's mom
Feb. 9th, 2006 03:43 pmThe following has to do with tweakery to the Four Panels site. Pls to be voting if you have a moment and an opinion, I'm running up against the rocks of "okay I like it this way but what does the rest of the world think?".
[Poll #670033]
[Poll #670033]
Four Panels has updated again!
Technically an hour early because I wanted to check something now rather than wait for the auto-updater, so.
Incidentally, if you have much to say about Four Panels from now on, it should probably be on the message board. That is what it is for!
Technically an hour early because I wanted to check something now rather than wait for the auto-updater, so.
Incidentally, if you have much to say about Four Panels from now on, it should probably be on the message board. That is what it is for!
Four Panels has officially lunched.
No, wait. It's launched. I'm the one who needs to lunch.
Look, lunch is the second meal of the day, right? Right. Then I can have lunch at 5 in the morning if I got up at 9 the previous evening! So there.
No, wait. It's launched. I'm the one who needs to lunch.
Look, lunch is the second meal of the day, right? Right. Then I can have lunch at 5 in the morning if I got up at 9 the previous evening! So there.
Dear LJ: please stop logging me out. It is annoying. Love, me.
We saw Brokeback Mountain tonight. I liked it quite a bit, which was odd, because I expected to be all "rarr it is a romance movie those are always boring" but this one was not. It was good. Sad, but good. *cough*ithelpsthatJakeGyllenhaalisinsanelyhot*cough*
Now I am exhausted and would like to go to bed, but I can't yet! The pain, the pain.
I have been comicking like a mad comicking machine the last couple of days! The comics will see the light of day eventually.
Fnord.
We saw Brokeback Mountain tonight. I liked it quite a bit, which was odd, because I expected to be all "rarr it is a romance movie those are always boring" but this one was not. It was good. Sad, but good. *cough*ithelpsthatJakeGyllenhaalisinsanelyhot*cough*
Now I am exhausted and would like to go to bed, but I can't yet! The pain, the pain.
I have been comicking like a mad comicking machine the last couple of days! The comics will see the light of day eventually.
Fnord.
Four Panels has been prettified, optimized, and even migrated to a new server, though that last part isn't any of my doing. A new review was added the other day and regular Monday/Thursday updates will start on Monday, February 6th.
You may notice that I have set up an ohnorobot account for fp. Please do not transcribe the obviously placeholdery reviews. It is a waste of both your time and mine.
I would like to note that HTML that passed the W3 validator a month ago, failed it today. What is up with that, W3 people. I mean really.
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeese.
And finally, anyone who might care to add some more time onto my paid LJ status, feel free. Thanks to whoever it was that ponied up the two months! Weedmaster P has a giant doobie just for you.
You may notice that I have set up an ohnorobot account for fp. Please do not transcribe the obviously placeholdery reviews. It is a waste of both your time and mine.
I would like to note that HTML that passed the W3 validator a month ago, failed it today. What is up with that, W3 people. I mean really.
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeese.
And finally, anyone who might care to add some more time onto my paid LJ status, feel free. Thanks to whoever it was that ponied up the two months! Weedmaster P has a giant doobie just for you.
So, Jenny, what did you do for your New Year's obligatory special thingy?
I read Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness.
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>.>
...what?
Oh, also! Four Panels has been pushed back to an early February launch due to illness here at casa de Jennyandmecha. Rest assured, though, that that same Punisher review that's been up since eternity is by no means the only one I've finished!
I read Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness.
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>.>
...what?
Oh, also! Four Panels has been pushed back to an early February launch due to illness here at casa de Jennyandmecha. Rest assured, though, that that same Punisher review that's been up since eternity is by no means the only one I've finished!
little man talk funny.
Dec. 8th, 2005 10:49 amY'know, while it's an obvious simplification, this does do a pretty good job of summing up why I can't get into the Harry Potter books. It just gets... kinda old, y'know?
The Four Panels site is really taking shape. You should totally check it out, ignoring the fact that the alphabetized 'entire archive' page looks kind of weird with most of the names still being "In Theaters N" or "Second Run N".
If I find one more newspaper in Urban Dead I am going to scream. I mean, it isn't like they're any good. You can't even roll them up and use them to smack zombies on the nose, y'know? Useless.
The Four Panels site is really taking shape. You should totally check it out, ignoring the fact that the alphabetized 'entire archive' page looks kind of weird with most of the names still being "In Theaters N" or "Second Run N".
If I find one more newspaper in Urban Dead I am going to scream. I mean, it isn't like they're any good. You can't even roll them up and use them to smack zombies on the nose, y'know? Useless.
Grand unveiling.
Dec. 4th, 2005 09:31 pmSome of you may wonder what I have been doing the last few days, that I barely post at all except to talk about coding.
Mecha and I are starting a movie review site at http://fourpanels.com. However, it's a movie review site with a twist: every review is in the form of a comic.
Four panels. One movie. No mercy.
We're planning an official launch Monday, January 2nd, 2006, but there will be content before that -- in fact, there's already content right now. If you want to check it out, and/or help me test the archival system, frolic on over and click away. Bug reports and opinions on site usability are greatly appreciated.
Naturally, if you like this idea and think we should review lots and lots of movies, sending us money so we can afford movie tickets is a good way to get what you want.
Mecha and I are starting a movie review site at http://fourpanels.com. However, it's a movie review site with a twist: every review is in the form of a comic.
Four panels. One movie. No mercy.
We're planning an official launch Monday, January 2nd, 2006, but there will be content before that -- in fact, there's already content right now. If you want to check it out, and/or help me test the archival system, frolic on over and click away. Bug reports and opinions on site usability are greatly appreciated.
Naturally, if you like this idea and think we should review lots and lots of movies, sending us money so we can afford movie tickets is a good way to get what you want.
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Dec. 2nd, 2005 05:56 amFuck you, IE. Stop ignoring the bits of my stylesheet that apply to the ul and the text at the top of the page.
Seriously. STOP IT. You are taking my lovely design and making it look like garbage.
Grr.
Seriously. STOP IT. You are taking my lovely design and making it look like garbage.
Grr.
page-codery.
Nov. 30th, 2005 04:52 amCan anyone more CSS-savvy than myself tell me why I can't get the z-index to work on anything? I mean, does it only work when applied to certain things? I've got it on imgs and divs both, and it seems to affect absolutely nothing at all.
La.
La.
I'm not dead!
Nov. 28th, 2005 08:32 pmA week is kind of a long time for me to go without updating, but I'm not dead, I swear.
I have been playing Urban Dead an awful lot, though. I found a first aid kit today! Yaaay.
There is something artistic-related that I'd like to post about but I have to check with mecha to see if I should. Rest assured, though, it is awesome. Even if my drawing skills have rusted over yet again.
asdf.
I have been playing Urban Dead an awful lot, though. I found a first aid kit today! Yaaay.
There is something artistic-related that I'd like to post about but I have to check with mecha to see if I should. Rest assured, though, it is awesome. Even if my drawing skills have rusted over yet again.
asdf.
