Once again, a good and quirky UK series was adapted for "US audiences." Once again, "US audiences" are taken to be unappreciative of subtlety, tragic endings, metaphysical questions, and plot twists that rise above the level of, "You mean the ghost was really old man Witherspoon, the owner of the haunted amusement park?" Once again, networks kill a show off early heedless of the overall plot arc, and are tragically proven correct.
Warning: the following may contain spoliers. Of course, nothing could spoil the series for me quite as much as the finale, so my compassion for you is somewhat limited.
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I had forgotten that I ever signed up for Facebook. I think I may have done it about a year ago, for some reason so unimportant that I don’t even remember it clearly now. Suffice to say that for a while I thought the name of the network was "Faceparty," and I was somewhat surprised to discover that in fact it was not a collection of bukkake images involving people I knew. Didn’t it used to be mostly college age girls posting drunken pics of themselves to be used against them in years to come during job interviews? No longer. And so there my account sat, unused, unupdated, unfriended, until yesterday when I happened to read J.’s blog.
Would that it remained so.
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Acquire a limited-use rental license for $60 enabling you to play games that should be web-based. And free. And would still suck.
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For the 4x gamer of yesteryear, stuck with the game selection of today. What MOO3 would have been if it didn’t suck so much.
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An anti-review review spurred on by the fine folks at Gamespot who apparently didn’t receive a gift basket from the developers.
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I’m sure that moving 217 pages of content into a totally new format, then moving the entire directory into the root will have no ill effects whatsoever.
Incidentally I found a few things that I never published for whatever reason. I’m sure the reasons were good, but I ignored them. Personal favorite: Mu vs. Tegehel.
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I uploaded these to YouTube a while ago, and yet still didn’t update my site. This’ll show me.
Version 1.003 with Graphical Enhancement 2.5 pack. Vanilla campaign.
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Film Critic: Comic book movies are terrible because they deviate too much from the source material.
Studio Guy: Hey, we made okay money by bastardizing V for Vendetta, From Hell and the League of what’s-their-names. We gotta find another property to make some money on.
Studio Toadie: Well, Moore wrote this thing, The Watchmen. I like it a lot, it’s on Time’s 100 best novels list, and it won a Hugo award.
Studio Guy: What is that, like a daytime Emmy? Never mind. Let’s make it. Call Alan Moore.
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Now with more obscure inside jokes and weird references than ever before.
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