Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” looks like it is finally making its way to the small screen. After months of rumors of various problems with Fox “not understanding” the show, and an apparent re-shoot of large pieces of the pilot. It looks like it might actually make it. But will it be the show Whedon wanted, or a dumbed down version that Fox thinks people with “get”
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Games, Anime & Geeks.
Posted in November 2008 …
Review: LittleBigPlanet
Yoshi’s island is probably one of my favorate games of all time, a bouncy platform game spin-off from the Mario World series with a lovely hand drawn visual effect for every single 2D sprite and backdrop in the game.
LittleBigPlanet feels very much like a modern equivilent the game uses a hand crafted style with hand stiched characters and backgrounds along with cardboard cutout monsters. The whole game has been designed to look like children have built it out of whatever is laying around, such as toys, blocks and even skateboards.
Fun with Operating Systems
With my new PC built it was time for the troublesome task of picking which OS, I have a prehistoric version of XP (SP1) I could use officially but that wouldn’t use all 4gb of RAM and still leaves problems like the hassle of securing it and spending 4hours doing every update, or I could go the pirate route and grab Vista (ain’t no way I’ll pay for that crap – I’ve already had to fix 2 laptops and a PC that were supposedly secure thanks to a combo of Vista and various anti-virus and firewalls but which were still laiden with adware. I don’t have time to deal with that crap and won’t pay for it if it’s still that weak).
The pain and joy of a home built PC
With my anicent old Pentium refusing to play HD mkv files I finally had to splash some cash on some new parts to build a new PC. Sure I could have gone to Dell but they never have the balance of quality and price I demand.
- Antec NSK2480 case with 380w PSU
- Asus P5E-VM-HDMI motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 “Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition” 2.40GHz
- 4GB Corsair DDR2 (2x2gb)
- Western Digital – Green Power 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm
- Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro
- Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7200A 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver)
The Season of Games
Every year its the same, we have a video games drought through the summer when everybody is supposidly outside skipping and playing rounders. Autumn comes and the video games industry decides its time to flood the market with the best games all at once in a tide of expense and lost classics. I say lost as allot of these games get sadly forgotten as people can only pay and play so much in this busy time.
Dracula and the joy of public domain
Cover of the original dracula novel
One book I have always wanted to read is ‘Dracula’. Beside the fact it is the birth place of vampires (a fascinating subject). It is a classic piece of literature that everyone should at least attempt to read. So I was faced with a problem. I want to read the book, find out where the ideas all began, understand the original story. But what if is rubbish? Beside the fact I will never get through it no matter how much I want to, I will be very disappoint that a book that I have held in high regard as not only an original idea, but a great piece of horror history turned out to be no where near as good as I had hoped. Continue reading