Be Seeing You

He has revolted. Resisted. Fought. Held fast. Maintained. Destroyed resistance. Overcome coercion. The right to be a person, someone or individual. We applaud his private war, and concede that despite materialistic efforts, he has survived intact and secure!
All that remains is . . . recognition of a man.

No.6: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign.

No.6:I am not a number, I am a free man.

No.2: “We can treat folly with kindness . . . knowing that soon his wild spirit will quieten, and the foolishness will fall away to reveal a model citizen.”
No.6: “That day you'll never see.”

Everyone, wish a happy birthday to littleeclipse. I recommend phoning her, since shes on LJ infrequently at best.

Im sure most of us code monkeys read slshdot often enough to already have heard this, but just in case:
"Firefly Reborn as Online Universe:" (MMO)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html

Im pessimistic...
1) firefly was excellent for the writing and the cast, not necissarily the universe.
2) Im not a fan of MMOs to begin with, for more reasons than I care to espouse just now.
3) Ive been following megaverse for a while, and while they have some interesting things going on buisness wise, their engine doesnt seem particularly robust...

Scores:
iluvatar: 6 points
cad3: 5
firetie: 4
peot: 3
arichi: 2
femina_ex_lux: 2 points
to0n: 1.5
dumbybean: 1.5
thelittlesthalo: 0.5 (for being nice)
skywalker404: 0.5

(keep in mind there were 7 movies that none of you got at all)
( A Movie Pictures Answers )

You know what I haven't seen in a while?

(note probably not work safe)

( A Movie Pictures Test )

And once again I am alone.

Sometimes the truth is stranger:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004112736

"For reasons Reuters calls "not clear," 8,600 Russians want to know if Putin plans to employ "giant, humanoid war robots" and 7,300 people want him to be questioned about the Cthulhu, a cosmic cephalopod invented by author H.P. Lovecraft that sleeps beneath the Pacific Ocean."

Im still waiting for the translation of his responses.
This aught to be good.

There are few words to express my glee.
http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/release/video/news20060503.html

well, besides: Han Shot First! and finally Will shoot that BITCH again! On DVD!


In other unrelated news, Seven Hour War is stagnated for the moment as the designers (namely: "me") are waiting until after Episode One on June 1st is complete to ensure maximum continuity, Im also doing extensive research into <a href="http://www.blackmesasource.com>Black Mesa</a> hoping to use that one as cannonical source info. Hero_Fight is way behind schedule. I know. I suck, what can I say?

Hey all, sorry it's been a while that Ive been AWOL.

I will however be brief:

what: Parkour
when: Tonight 7pm
where: UCI campus

We're just going to be wandering around campus, practicing wall runs, hurdles, rolls, landings, balance, etc, on any peice of architecture that seems fitting. Go ahead and contact me by posting here if you are interested.

For those of you who care:
updates on Hero_Fight (Snow Crash eliminations are next) and the seven hour war (along with a call for volunteers) are coming soon.

-gp

Its been a good week for cthulhu and myself, first i watched the new silent film, and now I'm beginning to play the game since it has finally, after 6 years of development, been released for the PC. If anyone is interested, I think I'll post events, reactions, and predictions.

***SPOILERS AHOY***

( Journal #1 )

Those undereducated miscreants of you who have still not read V for Vendetta, what are you waiting for? I highly recommend it as probably my favorite graphic novel ever.
Those of you who won't read the graphic novel, at least go see the movie, its really good, even if it deviates on many key points from the generally superior graphic novel.
Those of you who will read the graphic novel, try to read it before you see the movie, or if you go see the movie first, at the least promise me that you will still read the graphic novel, even if you hate the movie.

-gp

"Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof."

"Me? Im the king of the twentieth century. Im the bogeyman. The villain... The black sheep of the family"

"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell."

-V

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Probably my favorite RPG designer talking about a subject that is of interest to anyone into MMOs (WoW and UO specifically) or RPGs in general:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/30/6

Does anybody but me remember the nike chased by a chicken commercial? (if not its the first link)
As it turns out, that is actually a sport known as parkour, le parkour, PK, or freerunning.
The stunts, runs, jumps, flips, etc in an urban terrain. not the whole chicken bit.
Is anybody but me interested in this? Im actually starting to think about trying this out and seeing if I can get in shape enough to do this for real.
One more step in my quest of becoming a ninja, jackie chan, or the prince of persia.
Or am I just insane, and going to kill myself?

Videos:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6571575392378784144&q=nike+chicken
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1426/the_urban_ninja/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929&q=russian
http://antigravkrew.tripod.com/id12.html

Basic Training:
http://www.parkour.com/
http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/fundamentals/fundamentals.htm

Especially for skywalker404:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=240105064010387959

not quite as good as the data sort rap, but then again im a bit biased:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=340253290571722862

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=601898222402457606

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2566269671806009973

not on google video but passing it along regardless:
http://www.thisisnotporn.com/movies/Foolhardy.mp4

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/ultraviolet/high.html

Special FX: 5/10
Acting: 4/10
fight choreography: 11/10

I've started working on a HL2 mod of my very own. Details forthcoming. Including if anybody besides me is interested, a sort of running tutorial, keeping track of my progress and showing how I did it.
( My Terrible Promo Art )
also, hopefully some hero_fight updates coming soon. (A new fight, some winners announced, misc.)

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

Name some friends or leave them blank and let me look them up myself:

Hi all,
I, as I'm sure you're by now aware, am a total geek.
Recently Ive begun wondering such things as:
"If Paul Atreides (Dune) and the Prince of Persia (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones) got into a fight, who would walk away?"
If you are a total geek too, and wonder such things, I invite you, and anyone else really who just wants to for the hell of it, to join my lj-group: hero_fight
Where such things shall be decided. A list of heros has started being compiled, and now is your chance to submit your gladiator before the battles begin.
Should you not be interested, kindly disregard this post and have a great end of finals week.