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Dec. 6th, 2004 01:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
framlingemHave cornered Ashton into going to see BiS with me on Friday by offering to pay her cover if there is one. (There wasn't last time). I don't mind. She's still going on her 'quitting cigarettes cold turkey' thing, and I want to treat her to something, because she's so proud of herself and I'm proud of her too. Go Ashton. (If there's no cover, I'll buy her a drink)
I watched "Bowling for Columbine" today. All politics aside, Michael Moore is an excellent film editorialist. He does get his facts straight, and chooses the shots and soundbites and music very carefully and accurately to push the buttons of his audience. (I had to watch it in three parts. Kept crying.)
*eyes Myst III:Exile box on her top shelf, which she vowed she would not install just yet*
I don't know why I bought Exile. Well, aside from the obvious that it was only ten dollars. It promises hours and hours of frustration and headaches... but then, hours and hours of feeling really smug when I've solved all the puzzles. And there are FOUR DISCS. FOUR.
*wonders if it comes with a book I can read*
I think the thing with the Myst games (I've played the first two. URU is still too expensive for me) is that the premise is something I grew up knowing intimately; that worlds exist within books. How can any person who grew up travelling the world and the far reaches of space resist a game which was obviously designed by someone who did the same thing? Add to that the imagination (Such beautiful, beautiful, unearthly places) and attention to detail (that frog in Riven! And the bug that flew away every time you pointed at it!), and it's just... amazing. It takes something implicitly true, and makes it explicit. Makes it real.
*resists opening the box*
I will open the box on Saturday, when I have finished half of my exams. My last two exams are not ones which I need to study (quite so much) for.
*nods to self*
Sounds good.
I watched "Bowling for Columbine" today. All politics aside, Michael Moore is an excellent film editorialist. He does get his facts straight, and chooses the shots and soundbites and music very carefully and accurately to push the buttons of his audience. (I had to watch it in three parts. Kept crying.)
*eyes Myst III:Exile box on her top shelf, which she vowed she would not install just yet*
I don't know why I bought Exile. Well, aside from the obvious that it was only ten dollars. It promises hours and hours of frustration and headaches... but then, hours and hours of feeling really smug when I've solved all the puzzles. And there are FOUR DISCS. FOUR.
*wonders if it comes with a book I can read*
I think the thing with the Myst games (I've played the first two. URU is still too expensive for me) is that the premise is something I grew up knowing intimately; that worlds exist within books. How can any person who grew up travelling the world and the far reaches of space resist a game which was obviously designed by someone who did the same thing? Add to that the imagination (Such beautiful, beautiful, unearthly places) and attention to detail (that frog in Riven! And the bug that flew away every time you pointed at it!), and it's just... amazing. It takes something implicitly true, and makes it explicit. Makes it real.
*resists opening the box*
I will open the box on Saturday, when I have finished half of my exams. My last two exams are not ones which I need to study (quite so much) for.
*nods to self*
Sounds good.
