Hot Heart

Constructive criticism is ban-worthy on Kotaku. That is all.

QUADRUPLE POST QUADRUPLE POST QUADRUPLE POST QUADRUPLE POST Here's my article on why The Witcher 2 might be more noir than L.A. Noire http://www.pressxordie.com/2011/07/06/darkest-fantasies/

Found this image while looking for stuff for my new article. Thought it was funny.

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Looks pretty cool.

It was just a jab at Shyamalan. I still think he's to blame.

NO!

I've always felt my guitar wouldn't accomodate a string tuned that low, that it would just sound wrong regardless of what gauge you got. I know 5-strings usually have a thick ol' B string! Is that just for the lowest string? I know drop D is popular but I actually tune the whole thing down.

A treatment will contain the concept; the twist is so central to a Shyamalan script that it can't be something worked into it afterwards. I'm well aware of the phases of development and I know loads of bad ideas get made. I'm just saying that no amount of redrafting or studio influence can fix these particular films.

And why is your character naked, may I ask?

Obviously they don't film the exact shooting script but it's Shyamalan's concepts that let them down. Nothing to do with the number of drafts, they're just hung on terrible twists.

That's not a 3x3! Ban him! BAN HIM!

You mean Apocalypse. I figure Pacific Rift would be much cheaper by now.

This is probably known to most people but I play bass. Have done for years but I've never had any lessons. Maybe of interest to other players, I've been playing tuned down a step for a long time. Firstly it was because a friend suggested it after seeing Reel Big Fish did it for live shows but I got used to it and it does mean you get a few 'extra' notes lower down the guitar (a low D usually comes in handy) while I've never needed the highest stuff you sacrifice. Wanted one of these for a long time but they're really hard to get hold of in the UK and I can't really justify the cost right now: I actually really wish I'd started learning keyboard or guitar when I was younger but I guess my parents had never shown an interest in that stuff themselves so it was only when I was 17 that I decided to start learning bass after listening to The Offspring and Less Than Jake and other punk/ska stuff EPIC BAND-RELATED POST INCOMING I play in a couple of bands in different 'forms'. Oldest band is Sucks To Be You, which is a pop-punk/ska band started with a couple of friends way back in 2002 when the drummer and I first started learning our instruments. We've played a few gigs while supporting another band I was in (Muck Fe) but we're not great. We hardly play now and the drummer never really kept at practising. Some recordings from 2008: http://www.facebook.com/stbyband?sk=app_178091127385 A live performance from our first gig (love the chorus lyrics) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb-lf6oe2V0 I am also currently helping Monster Movie record an album. They describe themselves as a sort of 'indie dreampop' band but either way it's certainly a departure from what I normally play and a nice challenge too. It's about keeping things simple rather than taking a lead like in the other bands. They've never played live but have released a fair few albums over the years and seem quite popular in certain parts of the world. We've got some stuff recorded but I shouldn't share it since the album's not out yet. I can provide this cover we did for an EP though (warning: it's a large file for an MP3) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9621731/01%20Stars%20Fall.mp3 And up until recently, I'd been part of punk/ska band Muck Fe since 2009. The lead guitarist/singer is at uni and has decided to focus on his other band because he wanted to start 'taking it seriously' and felt Muck Fe weren't doing that after the drummer let him down. We'd played a fair few gigs and I loved being part of the band. All the guys were fantastic at their instruments and we could've done great things but now this guy has started a reggae band which, no offence to the genre, is a waste of his talents. I was never on any of the self-produced albums but they can't compare to the live stuff, especially when we used to improvise little bits. Just a shame we never got any proper recordings. If only his new band sounded half as good as this. B)

Unlockable costume: http://www.seattlepi.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1079217&width=628&height=471

SOI SOI SOI SOI I miss old Arby 'n' the Chief. Actually helped write an episode for a friend to make and surprise his now girlfriend with. He was going to say it was a new episode and then, after a while, she'd obviously realise that it wasn't. Problem is, it looked too good. They're still together, coming up to two years, so that's pretty cool. B)

Such a silly video.

The exploring stuff looks pretty cool. And I would've been pleased either way but the combat looks even better than before! One bit really bugged me though: 'Now that they're all taken care of, it's time to get what I came for out of that safe' Gee, what a helpful and natural-sounding piece of dialogue, I'm sure players really needed that hint too!

Transformers 3 review from Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/06/transformers_190609.html

Hmm, it's a tricky one. Either the 360 controller or the DualShock 3. As standard, the DS3 has those shitty 'triggers' (which I've remedied with GioTeck things) and the thumbsticks are a bit lacking compared to the 360. But the 360 has that d-pad...

I was trying to summarise for Battra who obviously was not reading the whole thing...but then I got busy with work and just kinda cut short what I was saying.