Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.
Out with the photoshop layer styles, in with the almost-flat minimalism. (Also, all hail the Retina screen.)
Birdly the full-body VR flying experience
This is ridiculous and I totally want to try it someday.
Character development in The Killing’s season 4 was great; it’s a shame the plot was more contrived than ever.
And then, that awful finale.
How do you assign genres to things in iTunes without imagining a tiny music critic standing just behind you rolling his eyes
Groundbreaking FPS BioShock is coming to iOS this year. See the first screens and video inside [pocketgamer.co.uk]
Thank you, Apple, for providing much needed ‘context’: [pic.twitter.com]
MOTHER OF GOD. Hairless guinea pigs: basically house hippos. (cc @pangmeli, every other Canadian) [pic.twitter.com]
Le paquet ouvert de Special K est tombé par terre sans se renverser. J’ai dépensé mon quota de chance pour la semaine sur… ça ?!
I’m watching Transcendence and at what point did Johnny Depp decide that the alpha and omega of Acting was making up a silly accent?
I couldn’t bear for you to assume from the previous tweet that I’ve watched Transcendence all the way through.
I did not plan to say anything remotely positive about this film (except for how pretty it is) but, contrary to most of the reviews I remember reading, I found it to become much more entertaining the instant Noah turned into a sociopathic asshole. This may even be the one role Russell Crowe was born for. (As opposed to every single other character he played in his career.)
And, did I mention, the movie is very pretty. Plus, there’s Jennifer Connelly. Emma Watson’s a proper actress now. And Logan Lerman is scruffy. Ish. Well, he’s growing a couple hairs scattered around his facial area and it’s totally cute.
I don’t know why I’m still playing Godus on iPad but I do know this: Sir Peter Molyneux has 100% turned to the dark side of the Force.
A weird alternating mix of zen calm and irrepressible panic
And that’s another hour of my life I’ll never get back.
Massively multiplayer minesweeper for iPad
I will never have time to work — or sleep — again.
I am rather horrified by how quickly my brain relearned all the Minesweeper patterns — even though I hadn’t played in a decade.
“Youpi, mon iPhone a chargé un nouveau podcast pour me changer les idées avant de dormir—oh, il est enregistré avec les pieds, inécoutable.”
I don’t get it. For Tomb Raider to be excusive to the Xbox One, Microsoft must have paid roughly as much as the game would have earned on PS4 and PC, right? (In part directly to Square Enix’s bank account, in part as a marketing commitment.) I can’t imagine the game will ever be enough of a system seller to justify the investment — especially when half the fan base will profoundly resent everyone involved.
This reeks of a panic move. “We need exclusives! Our IPs are waning and we don’t have any new ones coming! SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!”
“Paul McCartney Scores ‘Destiny’ Video Game”
What do you do when Activision’s money is burning a hole in your pocket?
Far Cry 4’s “Keys to Kyrat” is limited to 10 times 2 hours
Far less impressive than the initial announcement implied.
I don’t play scary games, but that “P. T.” thing is really well done, and has lovely visuals (as simple as the setting may be). You shouldn’t expect me to buy the game it’s teasing, though.
Also, I feel like I got stuck on a bug after I died, blocking any further progression, but… it would be hard to tell, wouldn’t it. No matter — the idea that a bug forced me to quit suits me just fine, thanks.
Ca fait une éternité que je n’ai pas vu un film d’épouvante. Je crois que je suis tombé petit dans la marmite et je ne vois plus l’intérêt.
Ca fait un mois que je ne suis pas sorti danser et les Instagram du Circuit Festival me donnent des poussées d’agoraphobie. My life is over.
Even when “clarifying” whether Rise of the Tomb Raider is a timed exclusivity, Phil Spencer still muddies the waters — note how he liberally mixes usages of “the game” vs. “the franchise” so that you can’t quite tell if a version of Rise is gonna come out on PlayStation, or just ulterior games in the franchise.
I guess he wouldn’t need to be purposefully obscure if Microsoft did have perpetual exclusivity on Rise of the Tomb Raider itself, but… damn, fuck PR speak, and fuck Microsoft for making me parse announcements like a lawyer.
Le tiroir à poubelles de la cuisine est motorisé, alors je groupe mes déchets pour ne pas trop le déranger #animisme #pareidolie
Assassin’s Creed Unity: Notre-Dame gameplay
I had sworn off this franchise, but I really can’t wait now.
A new gameplay video for Far Cry 4 shows you “fighting alongside a mythical white tiger in the spiritual world of Shangri-La” so… I think the meme would say “your argument is invalid.”
It’s still not going to be a preorder for me, though, because I’m terribly worried about the writing, what with the narrative director shitting on the previous game’s story only to introduce an effete-but-totally-heterosexual sociopathic villain ripped right out of 1970s cinema. But I’ll have my Amazon order ready as soon as the reviews come out.
By the way, Far Cry 3’s writer, Jeffrey Yohalem, is interviewed in this month’s Gay Times (to promote Child of Light). There isn’t much of note in the article; I’m just always happy to verify that my gaydar is properly calibrated. Also, I found out he’s responsible for the… uh, affective tension? between Ezio and Da Vinci, which makes me like him even more.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
That was a tough movie to evaluate, because for once I had completely fallen for the online buzz. There were some perfectly credible people out there comparing this movie to the original Star Warses and… well, if it’s not exactly false, that’s more of a frustrating commentary of how modern cinema has lost its sense of fun and wonder than it is an accurate description of Guardians.
So the movie’s clever and pretty and overall more than enjoyable, but when trying to decide on a rating I ended up with the realization: it’s not memorable at all, is it. The characters certainly are, but memorable characters make for a good TV show, not a blockbuster movie. The action is utterly forgettable — especially the final set piece, which could be done in any other Marvel movie has been done in every other Marvel movie. Locations are varied and mostly well designed, but poorly exploited. (Inspired by the Star Wars comparisons, I kept wishing the action were shown in wider shots.) And, most of all, I felt that the movie suffered from how cartoonish all its antagonists were. It looked like the script had always dreamed of being a space fantasy epic when it grew up, but the movie reluctantly ended up stuck with its comic-book roots. Bottom line, Lee Pace and Benicio del Toro did not belong in the same movie as the protagonists. Even though two of them were a raccoon and a tree.
Speaking of Lee Pace, that was a body double for his first scene, riiiight?
It just occurred to me that the parts of Guardians of the Galaxy I didn’t like remind me of The Fifth Element. It makes sense then that most of the audience would enjoy the movie better than I did.
Un plan cul ? Oh, tu es mignon, mais je ne peux pas, là, je ne peux pas lâcher le démineur sur mon iPad.
“Twitter’s Latest Experiment Puts Favorites in the Timeline”
Can a social service ever resist its fear of stagnation? It’s like the entire industry learned the wrong lesson from the death of MySpace.
Quand quelqu’un me plaît en boîte, à 3h du mat’ après 5 vodkas j’y vais, j’y vais pas, surtout: rester naturel! [pic.twitter.com]
Paul Rudd… is a superhero now?! I know there will eventually exist more Marvel franchises than recognizable actors, but still.
Matthew Weiner is on this week’s Nerdist. He’s really smart and really funny and I shouldn’t be surprised at all, but I always assume the worst about people.
I have a vague recollection that my main gripe with Mailbox was its lack of a desktop counterpart, making it useless since I do almost none of my email handling on iOS.
It’s ironic that the Mac version is coming out now that I’ve switched my main e-mail away from Gmail. Damnit.
“Brazilian judge tells Apple and Google to pull Secret from people’s devices Oops, I don’t think anyone envisioned that when they both announced that their App Stores had remote kill-switches.
Google Photo Sphere is really impressive. I’m not gonna post a picture of my bedroom on Google Maps, so why don’t you try it for yourself instead.
You’re Jon Snow in TV’s Game of Thrones. Hollywood is yours for the taking. You choose… a fucking gladiator movie by Paul W.S. Anderson.
I’m not sure anymore whether The Leftovers is about cults or werewolves. But, hey, it’s fun. (Well, not “fun” fun, clearly.)
Finally, see through solar panels. Now windows can be energy sources. [sciencedaily.com] … [pic.twitter.com]
Didn’t think the Walking Dead comic could still pull of an “oh shit” moment at this stage. Wonder where it is going from here.
“Watch Dogs update finally lets you hack your friends”
Je suppose que plus aucun de mes contacts n’y joue ?
I feel like at this time last year I had grown much more accepting of iOS 7’s design than I have today of Yosemite’s. Am I misremembering?
Sinon, Dishonored à 3,74€ sur Steam et gratos ce week-end, si vous ne l’essayez pas je vous tabasse. Bien cordialement.
I wasn’t thrilled with this season of Korra, but that was a great finale. (I’ve tweeted the same thing every year, haven’t I?)
A discussion on Twitter clarified why: I enjoyed spending time with The Last Airbender’s major characters, even when there was no action, whereas the entirety of Korra’s cast is annoying, so the show is only fun when big story moments happen. Jinora is pretty much the only exception, but she is more of a plot device than a developed character.
Je rentre chez moi avec mon écharpe et ma bronchite, devinez où j’ai passé mes vacances d’août. Hint : je n’ai pas fait de ski.
Wow—all those sweet photos in the IKEA catalog are just rendered 3D scenes. [cgsociety.org]
“The Taser Photoshoot: Portraits of People’s Faces When Hit With A Stun Gun”
Watch both videos (via @jarodinou)
Fais confiance à ton instinct quand il te dit de ne pas aller à la Scream un soir où il faut payer pour le privilège d’entrer.
The latest rumors of multiple price points make me wonder if Apple’s wearables will be a complete from simple Fitbit bracelet to proper watch.
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