Alasdair Czyrnyj is convinced that something horrible is going to happen in the near future, but isn’t entirely sure what. As a result, he spends most of his time in pensive discontent, which is far less enjoyable than it sounds. He often reads books, sometimes finishes them, and occasionally writes about them.
- at 06:39 on 28-07-2010 link Awright, that's it, I'm officially forbidding myself from playing any more Star Trek Online. Seriously, MMORPG players, how do you guys do it? I'm used to polishing off games in a few days, a week at the utmost, and there's a part of me that still amazed over what giant timesinks those things are. With any luck, this means I'll be generating some actual content for Ferretbrain in the next few days. Not on that though, that'd be the easy way out.
- at 07:13 on 25-07-2010 link DYNAMIC LIGHT-HEARTED TOPIC CHANGE GO NOW!!! So, do you like adorable fancomics of popular video game franchises? Sure, we all do! In that case, you have absolutely no excuse for not taking a look at Peachi's livejournal, which features delightful skewerings of the Ace Attorney games, Professor Layton, the first three Metal Gear Solid titles (where she manages to make Volgin the funniest electokinetic bisexual sadist ever...
- at 00:45 on 19-07-2010 link @Arthur: I assume the magnets are responsible for that. I don't know how, but I'm sure it's them.
- at 00:02 on 19-07-2010 link Oh, hey guys, I've just found out they're making a God of War movie. Judging by the trailer, they've done some retooling of the concept, but I think the changes have been all for the better.
- at 01:05 on 18-07-2010 link Hm, and apparently the feminine form of "Alasdair" is..."Alasdair." ... ... MY NAME TRANSCENDS MERE GENDER! NO CATEGORY CAN CONTAIN ME! I AM THE DUALITY!!!!!!
- at 04:02 on 16-07-2010 link I just plugged a few of my Ferretbrain articles into the thingy, and it appears I write like H. P. Lovecraft! I knew that Michel Houellebecq book I read was going to do good things for me! Now let's just feed an old fanfic in there and...Dan Brown? OHGODWHY. (And how's this for surreality: I just fed in a Screwtape Letters pastische I wrote years ago, and now the thing tells me it reads like Vladimir Nab...
- at 01:22 on 15-07-2010 link Abrupt topic shift! So, anyway, as part of their master plan to avoid making Half-Life 3, Valve is going to be giving us Portal 2 sometime between now and 2017. Anyway, they appear to have given us a new character, and the reaction seems to have been...mixed, so I was wondering what you guys think of him. Personally, I like the little guy...just so long as he doesn't ask me ...
- at 01:08 on 15-07-2010 link I'd like to help, but I don't have any real experience in fanfic. The only thing I really have any experience in that could conceivably be misconstrued as "fanfic" would be Pocket Books' Star Trek novels, and those have traditionally been kept under way tighter editorial lock and key than regular fanfic. Of course, restrictions have been relaxed over the last few years, so some of it might be relevant to your ideas. Maybe. Was that ANY help at all?
- at 10:44 on 11-07-2010 link Apropos of nothing, Patrick McGoohan is a crazy man. More on this later.
- at 04:21 on 11-07-2010 link I actually kind of like Grant Morrison, but I sometimes find it hard to figure out just what the hell he's trying to do. He's one of these guys who loves to be post-modern and arcane and just flat-out crazy, so he isn't that accessible most of the time. Hell, I still don't know what the hell was going on in The Invisibles or The Filth. Still, there's plenty of his stuff that I like. I loved his whole run on Animal Man, which is still one of the best author-interlude fourth-w...
- at 02:38 on 09-07-2010 link Don't worry guys; I'm pretty sure David Bowie can still kick Morrissey's ass. He is a former astronaut, after all.
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Poe's Law?
It boils down to "if it doesn't make it blatantly clear that it's a joke, it's impossible to distinguish a parody of fundamentalism (Nazism, what have you) from the real thing." Not entirely sure how true it is (after all, if you're a clever enough wordsmith, you should be able to make your intention perfectly clear, camoflage be damned), but I doubt it's being invoked here. - at 01:45 on 16-06-2010 link Oh my god JJ a bomb. Sorry, couldn't resist.
- at 22:31 on 15-06-2010 link One last one for the road. Rather surprisingly, Jamie is not Keyser Soze. He's actually Dean Keaton. Keyser Soze is, of course, Dan. I think I may be Stephen Baldwin. Shit.
- at 23:15 on 11-06-2010 link Apropos of nothing, this is a joke that works on about two levels.
- at 21:20 on 10-06-2010 link Yeah, I was thinking of Condemned. The bird-mask guys in Pathologic (or "Executors", as I believe they're called) don't pull that crazy teleportation stuff, but they do have a habit of popping up unexpectedly and explaining the rules of the game to YOU personally, while making your character very confused. Though now that you mention "guys in bird masks pretending to be mannequins," I just reminded good old Fort Frolic down in Bioshock. Goddamn splicers.
