Stumbled on this over at I09 this afternoon and this looks awesome. All the JJ refrences make me smile. Makes me want to go watch some Alias and maybe start Lost over again.
Here are the rules the IO9 created for the game:
How to play: Take two six-sided dice and throw. Divide the result by fate versus free will to get the number of squares you can move forward. When you land on “Causality Loop,” you have to keep rolling until your die roll equals the product of Faith x Science. If you land on “Symbol Overload,” take a card from the “J.J. Widgets” stack in the center of the board. And yes, if you reach the final square, all of your questions will be answered!
DAAP has turned me somewhat into a font nazi, I haven’t gone nearly as far as some designers out there (that’s what she said), but I cringe whenever I see Papyrus, and if commercial has more than 3 typefaces, you sure as hell will be hearing about it from me. Felicia Day tweeted the embedded video this morning and it made an otherwise painful Wednesday morning not quite so bad. This one just makes me smile, College Humor, why do you have have embedding turned off on youtube? Not cool.
This morning was another of crazy Twilight shit lighting up my RSS feed, first up: IO9’s list of the 30 most disturbing Twilight products. I want you to try and guess what this is before you click on the link.
Next, I always enjoy Surviving the World but this morning he really made me smile:
“Any similarity to the characters created by Joss Whedon is, like, totally a coincidence. And by ‘coincidence’ we mean accidental. And by ‘accidental’ we mean fortunate. And by ‘fortunate’ we mean intentional. And by ‘intentional’ we mean unauthorized.”- HorribleTurn.com
I watched Horrible Turn last night. As a diehard Joss Whedon fan and someone who was completely in love with the original Dr. Horrible, I have to say my hopes were high. I know Joss (I like to refer to him on a first name basis so as to pretend that we are friends) had nothing to do with it, but it was a good platform for fan expansion. That said, I was a little disappointed. It was a fun story, and a creative take on the origin story of Dr. Horrible and Captain Hammer, as well as other characters that appear in minor rolls in Dr. Horrible’s Sing along Blog. But if you are expecting a video as good as the first you will be let down. It just didn’t have the glorious little something that Joss leaves on everything he touches. The singing was good, the acting was alright, but the dialogue and lyrics just weren’t the same. I found myself wanting to skip the songs rather than put them on my iPod and listen to them over and over and over again as I did with the original.
It was a fun take on a story I love, and I am seriously impressed with the time that these fans put into it. It was well directed and edited (although, I do have to say, someone had a little too much fun with the Final Cut plugins). And I wish that I had friends that would do something like this with me; why did all my high school friends have to go to college in other parts of the country? It is definitely worth the 60 some minutes of viewing time just don’t expect that Joss Whedon flair.
After watching this I am especially excited to read the Dr. Horrible Origin comic that I hear is in the works. It will be interesting to see the similarities and differences between the two. And, as always, I cannot wait for the new sequel, maybe now that Dollhouse isn’t gonna happen we will get it sooner rather than later.
This is nearly a week old over on Gizmodo, but somehow I missed it when it was orginally posted. I want it, maybe not as a wedding cake: I would have to explain what it is to my entire family, excluding maybe my dad and brother. I’m not sure my grandma would really appreciate it for the glorious cake that it is.
Check out the whole gallery. Then maybe we could cozy up in this for the honeymoon.
I went on a short story kick in New York; my 40 minute subway ride was perfect for reading a short story but never really gave me enough time to get into a novel. I, Robot is one of those books that I was loosing geek cred having not read it and I have to say, I don't know why I didn't read this earlier.
I loved that the short stories followed the same characters through different experiences and challenges that they face. It took a story about robots and made it about humanity. My favorite stories were probably "Catch that Rabbit" and "Liar." The first was about a little girl who was attached to her nanny robot and how her father thought it was inappropriate. It is something I have wanted to explore in my own writing, what are the consequences when technology replaces a human being in an emotional capacity, even when it preforms its tasks perfectly. The other is about a robot that reads minds, I have a thing with mind reading, I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm writing a story about it now and am very intrigued by the idea.
Overall, If you are a sci-fi fan like me who hasn't picked this up, go do it. Now.
