tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-268081042024-03-08T17:51:10.554+00:00Because fiction is so much more interesting than realityXocrateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535386996752253082noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26808104.post-10767815951465377082007-10-05T16:36:00.000+01:002007-10-05T16:39:31.885+01:00

Countless thanks to the Jon, James, and J.D. . Remember to read their comic at www.untitledcomedy.com

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Well, I'm kind of bored today so I'll make a few reviews. First stop, movies (animated ones to be exact)! There were some big animated movies this summer, as usual, those included The Simpsons Movie whose title couldn't have been more apt, since it is exactly that but, unfortunately, not much else. If you like the cartoons you will like the movie, since it's to all extents an hour and a half

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So, if anyone comes looking for me, I'll be crying in the corner while devising new and ingenious ways of killing Michael Bay very slow a very painfully.

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That’s it? No, really, that’s it? This was pretty much my reaction as I finished Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I remember this game to be vastly praised by players and critics alike, so you can imagine my disappointment as I fought my way through to the end of it. But let’s start by the beginning shall we? The basic story is that a treacherous grand vizier (what a surprise!)

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Well, since I don’t post here for some months now, let’s go for an express review, shall we? As may or may not know, around last Christmas the British television channel Sky One released the first real-life adaptation of a Discworld novel: Hogfather. Being a huge fan of the series, and not living in the UK, I quickly arranged a “not quite legal” way of watching it. Here are my thoughts on it:

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They say to write about what one knows! It’s a good advice.Personally, I think it’s a better idea to write about what no-one knows!Actually, if you analyze the past two sentences, you’ll notice they are not quite the opposite. In fact they both appeal to one thing: write about something that others cannot prove you wrong.It’s true, if an historian writes about ancient Egypt, then there is a good

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Simply put, V for Vendetta is the best movie I’ve seen this year, and most likely will remain so until its end.I’ve never read the graphic novel. I don’t know how similar the movie is to the origin, passing through the pages I saw things that are identical and others that have little to do, but that’s not what’s important here.First off, one must be aware that V for Vendetta is political by

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Sir Samuel Vimes, Duke of Ankh, Commander of the city Watch, married to the richest woman in town, and it only took one freak storm, which coincidentally was magically charged and struck right while he was chasing a criminal atop a big metal dome covering the Unseen University Library (which is therefore very high in the magic department too) to take it all… (at least until the end of the book).

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I actually considered making something different today, but then I thought “meh… too much work and I’m a lazy bastard anyway, so maybe next time”, so I’ll just pummel you with lots of short reviews:Movies:Saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest some time now, here are my thoughts:Entertaining but not much else, the first half of the movie is completely pointless regarding plot, being used

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It came to my attention that I don’t post here for over a month now, this is not because I got bored with the blog, it’s just that I don’t have much to report and been rather busy.Anyway, here’s a list of things I considered reporting and ended not to:Books: I don’t read a new book since my report on “Nineteen eighty four”. I had re-read a couple Discworld books, but since the reviews would be

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I was born in 1984!This small piece of trivia, although completely useless will help me set the mood for today’s post.For while I was born in 1984, I wasn’t born in Nineteen Eighty Four, yet I wonder by how much?Everybody has heard of the book, everybody should have heard about the book. In it George Orwell, the author for the ignorant few, describes a world were privacy is an illusion, trust an

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So, why am I posting today? Because I just finished playing Blood Omen and got the rest of the night free (a rare event). Therefore I decided to place here an overall vision of the Legacy of Kain Series, and then decided against it because it would take way too long.Blood Omen is the first game in the Legacy of Kain series, however it was also the last one I played due to several reasons, one of

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Aliens, demons, robots, witches, vampires, pirates, wizards, ninjas, assassins, talking shadows, satanic kittens, inflatable technology, parallel dimensions, time travels, timeless space, funny, stupid, sad, smart...These are just a few things you would have to say if someone would ask you to describe Sluggy Freelance.I love comics, not the serious type with a lot of pretty pictures but the strip

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So, last Friday I finally managed to become on par with the rest of the world as I watched the closing credits of “The Godfather: Part III”, thus ending the journey started three weeks earlier when I saw the title screen for “The Godfather”.“The Godfather” is probably the most famous Mafia series in the world. The image provided by Marlon Brando became the stereotype for the Sicilian mobster.

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According to the author, “Neverwhere” started as a TV miniseries for BBC, it become a novel where “with every scene that was cut, every line that vanished, everything that was simply changed” would be placed back in the novel as a way for the author to regain his “equilibrium”. The novel by itself was first published in the UK, adapted “for Americans who might not know where Oxford Street was or

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Today is the day of the first significant post on Life of Fiction. As you’ll notice, I divided the post into two parts: One relative to the online writing community World of Necrotania, and the other relative to an independent videogame I’ve recently played called Darwinia.Life of Fiction will therefore start its life as a discussion and reviewing place for several fictional works. It is intended

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Would you look at that! I got a blog!I do not intend to turn Life of Fiction into just another blog with the sole purpose of whining about my life and talk about important things most people couldn’t care less (mostly because I do not intend to talk about important things at all).What I intend to do is open a window for times of boredom (mostly mine), while at the same time discussing that one

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