Nawwwwh, 'Jane Austen Book Club'
I liked this movie.
It’s about readers, kindof. In a loose kindof way, about books and writers and readers and the ethos and relationships and interactions these have..
Of readers and their passion, and their prejudice, their interpretation and projection, their snobby-ness or naivety, knowledge or ignorance.. - And I love that meta-shit like writers writing about writers, [...]
Installing Haskell Platform for Linux Mint 16
Computers are great when they work, frustrating when they don’t. – Probably a better indication of how “hard” something is to use isn’t just how simple/complex it may be when all things go right, but what obstacles there are when things don’t, and how easy it is to get around these. Installing the Haskell Platform, oddly, was much easier on [...]
Snark and Deep Philosophy and Shit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-13/why-i-try-not-to-write-bad-reviews.html Read the comments, too. (Except for the one about Obamacare? I’m not sure how that one got in there..).
If you have time, perhaps even go so far as to read the opinion piece about Scocca wrote. Seems to be quite long without saying much, though.
There are some interesting viewpoints.
It’s easy to agree (or [...]
Frozen
Frozen was a tease of a movie.
I mean the 2013 Disney-Animated-Studios ‘Frozen’. It seemed to me that the film had cynical undertones. The characters introduced are all deeply established by their loneliness and solitude.
Ice-Princess is alienated from everyone for fear of hurting them with her magic. (She goes on to protect people from her magic by [...]
Starbound!
It’s still only in Beta, and apparently there’s more to come, but I’ve managed to put enough hours into Starbound to get top-tier armour ( aaand the most powerful crafted weapon :D ).
– I wonder whether, in absence of playing with friends, whether I’ll be putting many more hours into it. A big drive of playing Starbound for [...]
Yet More Discussion of Argument and Dogma
Computer Science has to be one of the most political areas to study as an Undergrad. (Others might use the word “religious” instead, but we mean the same thing).
It’s damn easy to get into dumb arguments over something. (Usually things like ‘which is a better tool to use’, for example).
– I think grammar offers a similar [...]
Co-op Experience of PixelJunk Monsters
Years ago I played PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe on the PSP.
So I thought it was awesome when I saw PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate released on Steam for Windows and Linux. (And Mac, but I don’t own a Mac. And I was largely using Linux at the time the game was released on Steam). PixelJunk Monsters (Let’s just call it “Monsters”?) [...]
YouTube, Statistics and Comments
Just to spout some more armchair-philosophy, I guess.
- Perhaps it’s cynical, but it’s better to try and disagree with as much as possible.
It’s really easy to say something stupid or daft in knee-jerk reaction (unless you’re not human). So hopefully, if an idea is daft enough, it won’t stand up to so much resistance of thought. [...]
BattleField 3 (and Call of Duty 4 .. and Crysis 2)
Ha. Can you tell I just finished exams?
BattleField 3 was one I picked up during one of the Humble Bundles. I’m surprised my laptop can manage to play the game; even on Low-quality graphics settings (which is below what the game auto-analysed my computer for, bah) it still looks fantastic.. Also, in terms of Single Player, (since BF3 [...]
Skyrim
So, I just spent until 2am playing Skyrim; y’know like how when an hour has passed between when you looked at the clock?
So I gotta consider “why”.
’cause Skyrim gives me doubts as to whether I enjoy playing it or not. I’m not a fantasy-genre kindof guy.
And in general Skyrim just seems a bit .. [...]