Monthly Archives: December 2007

Go it alone

This has been percolating for a while as I made an attempt at sorting out the strikes against StrikerS. I do give a higher weighting to story and dialogue than execution in other departments, to the extent that it took side by side image comparisons between the DVD release and the broadcast version before [...]

Stare at the scope

I was on a bit of a screen shot hunt. It was semi-fruitful.
We all have heard about the fight or flight response, but there is clearly a third facet at least, characterized by deadlocked threads and a failure to act. The TF2 sniper’s taunt crystallizes the cynical perspective towards this perfectly. I [...]

An acquired taste

Before the CEVO TF2 finals got underway last Monday evening, I popped in on the second last round of a UT3 broadcast on DM-Deck. That round isn’t available on demand as of post time, but check out the 12 minute mark of the final round for a priceless moment.
Having almost exclusively played just one [...]

Setting up a punch line

An effective setup and subsequent exercise in irony with an iron fist. If interested the sequence is documented starting here.
It may shock and horrify you to know that I’ve been following Naruto Shippuuden since the beginning, unless you’ve been AnimeSeen stalking me, and even then you may be shocked and horrified anyway. I’ve [...]

A breath of living air

Off the top of my head, I can think of 4 shows about university students, in university. This estimate is easily dwarfed by the number of series set in and/or around a high school. I know that high school was really the last time that “we were all together”, so the high school [...]