| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
| 8:29 pm |
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| 7:50 pm |
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| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
| 6:26 pm |
I think my suggestion to accommodate the dozen people wanting to play Doctor Who PBP by splitting into two games may have killed it. Oops. Current Mood:  not so good |
| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
| 1:06 pm |
Catherine Tate failed to recognise Uprising by Muse on the Intros round of Never Mind The Buzzcocks (comedy music panel game where in this round the rest of her team sing instrumental intros to songs acapella). She thought it was the Doctor Who theme. One can see her point.If I learn After Effects next year at Stills I might have to test this. Have to trim off the "COME ON!" guitar sting... |
| 12:44 pm |
Oooh. Ukraine DOES Got Talent
Via Evan Waters on RPGnet: Sand animation wins. I would love to imagine this happening here, but she'd get three minutes, not eight. The soothing orchestral string version of a Metallica song was a bit odd, though. |
| 12:57 am |
... Huh.
Among the adverts on Ecologyfund today, among the usual mix of sustainable products and organic toys, is... the trailer for Daybreakers. Well, I suppose it is a story about a society depleting its resources... Current Mood:  surprisedCurrent Music: Placebo, Running Up That Hill |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
| 1:20 pm |
Oh my head.
One of the new interns came to the Christmas party. I think she'll have a leg-up over the others due to having seen most of us fairly drunk and the company director singing karaoke. One amusing fallout of The X Factor: Killing In The Name Of is now on the karaoke playlist. Current Mood:  sore |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
| 3:01 pm |
Iron Man 2 trailerThey're really running with the "I am Iron Man" end of the film, and it looks huge fun. Current Mood:  excitedCurrent Music: Darrrr-darrrr darr-darr-darr, diddle-diddle-diddle-dee darr-darr-darr! |
| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
| 1:59 am |
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| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
| 11:31 pm |
Yeah, Glee pretty much rocks the all-singing all-dancing demographic in an arch and funny way. Current Music: That terrifyingly good rival school, Rehab |
| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
| 5:48 pm |
Ooh. C7 just sent me a free pdf of Doctor Who. And announced the first follow-up supplement, a UNIT box set. With the Brigadier on the cover, no less. Current Mood: chipper |
| 11:55 am |
Okay, I just saw BBC1's Christmas ident on TV for the first time. That's... I shudder to think how they're going to manage to push Matt Smith. Current Mood: amused |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 |
| 10:26 pm |
Deleted: Debriefing
Five players is probably too many for people on the run across Europe. Look very seriously at which advantages and disadvantages to include, not just ones suited to the wider general milieu. Wound penalties are a good idea when every hit matters and you really shouldn't be willing to fight to the death every time. It is possible for a run of bad luck with the dice to last thirteen sessions. (It was uncanny.) A game about where revenge stops should indeed have consequences for going too far, which I think worked and Matt didn't seem to mind them landing on him. No remotely-serious session can survive the concept of a whole town of people talking like BRIAN BLESSED because he had to get the accent from somewhere. Which then lead on to the idea of pulling into a station and everyone being BRIAN BLESSED. And then the idea of BRIAN BLESSED as Agent Smith. I'm glad we tried it, and I think fun was had. A lot of the above are things I should have had a tighter grip of from the get-go, so this was a game as its own playtest. Not the freaky bad luck thing, though... Anyway, next up, something more cheery and straightforward. Current Mood: okayCurrent Music: John Powell, The Bourne Identity |
| Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |
| 11:39 am |
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| Friday, December 11th, 2009 |
| 12:09 am |
I knew The Descent Part 2 wasn't a patch on the original according to its critics, but I thought it was okay and in places pretty good. Until the end, which was so nonsensical it pissed me off intensely. Trailers: yes-please-want-now The Wolfman, new black-and-white post-apocalypse parable The Book Of Eli, entirely-impractical-world-of-vampires thingy Daybreakers, and Elektra-remake-with-a-boy Ninja Assassin. New Orange ad was shit too. Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 |
| 2:51 pm |
DOCTOR!
Doctor Who reaches shops. I buy the first Black Lion copy. (Chris having ordered it from C7 direct through me, so I feel my karma is spread evenly.) Since Liam is curious, I open it up. Shiny box. Shallow... probably wouldn't have room to add the screen, as it's a four-way hardback screen. Playtester credits: "Thanks to everyone who took part in the playtest - too many names to print, but your help was invaluable." Excuse me while I burst into tears and run to my room. Oh well. Pressing on... ( This is bigger on the inside ) Current Mood: okay |
| Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 |
| 12:57 am |
"I was on the phone!" "And now you have lost a hand!"
Okay, so I just saw the Vampire LARP episode of Being Erica. Which bizarrely enough features London from Never Let Go as the romantic interest guy looking entirely out of place. (Never mind the show being about our heroine working with a Time Lord called The Psychotherapist.) It was... oddly right about several things. Not least the overdramatic vampire shouting. Other than it being a boffer LARP, yeah. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Voltaire, The Vampire Club |
| Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
| 7:59 pm |
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| 7:46 pm |
That's that. Or not, as the case may be.
As I type this, Mark should be on a plane to London and thence Sydney. Naturally he's actually waiting on a plane to london, being put up in a hotel there and then thence Sydney. Still an' all. Current Mood: blah |
| Saturday, December 5th, 2009 |
| 7:45 pm |
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busy