Compare and contrast: Ziggs, the Hexplosives Expert from League of Legends, and Professor Genki from Saints Row: The Third.
Well, this was unexpected.
Out of all the things that I expect Cracked to provide (1: amusement, 2: occasional moments of “I did not know that”), I did not anticipate two articles that, in highlighting certain common — and, with a little effort, avoidable — behaviours, essentially provide rather good impetus to be a better human being.
Especially online, there’s enough people being mean and judgemental to each other without contributing to it. It can also often be difficult to provide reasonable criticism of something without slipping into insulting it, especially with highly charged subjects like politics and religion; even with things of far less importance, like online games, in the heat of the moment it can be easy to let insults fly. Here’s to being a little bit more mindful about what we say.
Hat-tip to Chris for pointing out the first article.
Excerpts from the Diary of Warwick
This is from a project I only just found out about called “Songs of the Summoned 2”, a competition to make music based on League of Legends which ran in summer 2011, following the success of 2010’s similar competition. A pretty stellar example of a) how cool fan projects can be, and b) some real encouragement for my nascent voice-acting work.
Also werewolves.
Werewolf Model - WIP ZBrush by cheetahpaws
I was going to save this for #WerewolfWednesday, but as it seems I’m pretty much the only person doing that anymore, I’ll post it now. While it’s a work-in-progress without the fur properly sculpted yet (and thus he looks a little bit like a wolf version of Tekken’s King), I’m still impressed with it.
Frostbite (Werewolf) series by David Wellington
Werewolves are the un-favorite kids in the world of horror fiction. They just don’t get the love they deserve. But David Wellington has made them seriously badass awesome in these novels. Plus, they have a great origin story that involves a curse thousands of years old, shamans, and mythical beings.
Confusingly, these are called “Cursed” and “Ravaged”, respectively, in the UK and possibly elsewhere. They’re still great books, don’t get me wrong, but I very nearly ended up with two copies of each because of the inexplicable title change.
Via Hey Werewolves
So, for ages I totally didn’t get the whole “orcs are hot” thing that seems to be kinda prevalent in certain circles. Then I found these characters for my 3D runtime, and well… I think I get it now.
“How to become a Werewolf”.
My favourite thing about this video, aside from the delicious crazy and the fact that not only is there a “satanic social network”, there are in fact enough for their listed site to apparently be #1, is how he consistently pronounces it ‘werewuff’.
Japan breaks* the laws of physics, with a really cool soundtrack (and some kind of quantum voodoo).
*probably
(Source: youtube.com)
#WerewolfWednesday: A two-for-one this week, with two pieces of art for the forthcoming Magic: The Gathering expansion, Dark Ascension. This is the second part of the horror-themed Innistrad block, which as a whole has approximately a metric buttload of werewolves.
(Source: wizards.com)
#MusicMonday: Azealia Banks - 212
Not my usual thing, but this is catchy as fuck. I may have listened to it three times in a row.
#WerewolfWednesday Image of the Week: Fear me by *Anisis
I know I’ve not posted one of these in a while, but I hope this makes up for it. The hotness certainly doesn’t hurt either.
(x-posted from reddit)
I would be wrong to say that this isn’t a very, very interesting article. But I can’t fully agree with it. I find the dialogue fine in Skyrim, although I do occasionally skip through it; but I have subtitles turned on, and I’m a fast reader, so I can get the info if I’m not too fussed for the vocal performance. (Note that I loved Morrowind more than any other western RPG, and enjoyed reading the dialogue in that, so I guess it’s a holdover — and from Oblivion, where there were about 4 voice actors to go around.)
I’m puzzled that the author found Oblivion more compelling than Morrowind. My problem with the former, which Bethesda have admitted, is they sacrificed the other-worldliness that made Morrowind (and to almost the same extent, Skyrim) such an intriguing place to spend a lot of time. The supposed “streamlining” of Oblivion made it all laid out on a plate; in Morrowind, doing my best to avoid spoilers, if you just followed the main quest, you’d get one impression of the story; if you really dug into things, you’d get another idea entirely.
Finally:
Dense expositional lore has no place in video-game stories
I am unable to disagree more with this. When it’s an interactive world — be that a videogame, tabletop RPG, or whatever — I love me some lore. If it’s not interactive, a film or TV show, I mostly prefer to know what I need to know (or, perhaps, what pertinent things the characters know) with perhaps a little tidbit thrown in for flavour here and there. I do prefer it to be optional, though; yes, in gaming I like to dig into the world, but in non-interactive fiction — and this, however, is what Dark Souls pulls off expertly — I like things to be hinted at, implied, inviting discussion and sparking the imagination of fans.
FWIW, I love The Elder Scrolls series, and I love Dark Souls. (Never played Demon’s Souls due to no PS3.) I can’t rank one above the other because they’re both excellent, but are very different directions in more-or-less the same genre.
(Source: reddit.com)
do you think twilight fans are aware that the stars of the movies hate themselves, the fans, and the movies
because it’s pretty obvious i think they’d be able to figure it out
I truly, truly hope so.
If any of them are clever enough to watch the movie with commentary they’ve probably figured it out.
This is actually the reason I get a weird enjoyment from watching the movies. (Although, I mean, it’s not like it hurts to see Taylor Lautner shirtless in pretty much every scene.) So so trainwrecky. I cannot fucking wait to see Breaking Dawn, because 1) vampire c-section, 2) werewolf falling in love with a baby. That’s why the Lumiere brothers invented this shit, right there.
still an animal…
On yersel!!!
There is something unreasonably hot about this.
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