tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.comments2023-06-24T09:17:36.539-04:00SuperbestTylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338301470571832864noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-23496634217957166942010-04-29T21:11:29.417-04:002010-04-29T21:11:29.417-04:00http://elephantlarry.com/blog/2010/04/dude-who-los...http://elephantlarry.com/blog/2010/04/dude-who-lost-the-iphone-4g-explains-to-his-boss/Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-38173892821899667102010-02-20T23:35:38.891-05:002010-02-20T23:35:38.891-05:00Great show in Carrboro tonight!
I was the guy in...Great show in Carrboro tonight! <br /><br />I was the guy in the first row that made you guys do your skit on Final Fantasy 7. It was exceptionally hilarious. Having participated in Improv Comedy in Boston for the past 6 years, I've seen many performances, but you guys are probably my favorite ever. Thank you so much for indulging me, and for putting on a great performance. I hope to get to see you perform again someday!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Schuyler Hunt<br />CCE Improv alumAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409396353251870143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-65193096586368312092009-10-21T15:28:17.659-04:002009-10-21T15:28:17.659-04:00I liked the little cutaway to the Salford Lads Clu...I liked the little cutaway to the Salford Lads Club. I was also pretty psyched with myself for recognizing Wayne Rooney. Ha.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-32187577487052174582009-08-25T16:29:09.958-04:002009-08-25T16:29:09.958-04:00Congratulations. Also, thank you for not posting a...Congratulations. Also, thank you for not posting a picture of my arch nemesis, Willard Scott.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-1076541819226728462009-06-03T13:04:10.587-04:002009-06-03T13:04:10.587-04:00Very silly.
Did I lose?Very silly.<br /><br />Did I lose?karinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15939146239710990184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-55167750296177701902009-05-20T23:38:18.701-04:002009-05-20T23:38:18.701-04:00Though it's not as far-fetched, this story is like...Though it's not as far-fetched, this story is like the perpetual motion machine announcements in the mainstream press. Every few years someone announces they've invented a working phaser and then vanishes into obscurity.<br /><br />I'm all for it though. I mean, space guns! Pew pew pew!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04511606565144884250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-28911693426833139492009-04-30T09:56:00.000-04:002009-04-30T09:56:00.000-04:00Have you really not seen tilt/shift photography be...Have you really not seen tilt/shift photography before? “tilt/shift” – that’s your search term – now off to flickr with you.<br /><br />Doing it mechanically is expensive and tricky but the best way to explain what’s going on. Basically, you shoot with a special lens assembly that is tilted with respect to the object and has a very shallow depth of field.<br /><br />Rather than having a plane *parallel* to the film/sensor which is in focus, you take that plane and end up with it hitting the film at an angle. For some reason this looks like using a macro lens on an actually small object.<br /><br />• Take a picture from above (like you were in an isometric 3d game) of a distant scene with many objects<br />• Create a layer on which you put a symmetrical gradient (black center, white top and bottom, or the opposite, forget which)<br />• Use that layer as a mask to apply a blur (so that it blurs more on the top and bottom and not at all along the center)<br />• Fidget and adjust until it looks right.WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-19641748068276908702009-04-30T09:55:00.000-04:002009-04-30T09:55:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-23276331868666908562009-04-28T12:34:00.000-04:002009-04-28T12:34:00.000-04:00I hope you get to go to OOB. Mainly to go to Austi...I hope you get to go to OOB. Mainly to go to Austin. I register my preemptive jealousy.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-45264574065716342672009-04-03T11:12:00.000-04:002009-04-03T11:12:00.000-04:00http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_depress...http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_depressed_distant_sinceIgorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15240163929790562665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-47078291595552128812009-03-11T16:31:00.000-04:002009-03-11T16:31:00.000-04:00Wow, not really related, but there are other video...Wow, not really related, but there are other videos up there of Marines getting screamed at by their DIs, and....<BR/><BR/>They're FANTASTIC. I'm sure it is NOT GREAT when you are the one being yelled at, but as a performer watching these guys use volume, different flavors of sarcasm, body status things like height and distance and touching , just wow. I don’t know how they find them. <BR/><BR/>I love in the one you posted how one of the DIs, realizing that all possible verbal abuse angles were covered, and things weren’t probably intelligible anymore, went instead to just standing as close as he could to the back of the recruit’s head and just screaming like an animal – not even words.WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-23817972485354163722009-02-19T17:17:00.000-05:002009-02-19T17:17:00.000-05:00I don't know. That hamster looks pretty shifty. Be...I don't know. That hamster looks pretty shifty. Beady eyes.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-27009722719679989052009-01-21T13:12:00.000-05:002009-01-21T13:12:00.000-05:00I was on radio stations' mailing lists telling me ...I was on radio stations' mailing lists telling me about sucky bands that are no more. I had sent an email adamsandler.com - and got a response from his friends!mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01729265075596291653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-16559334645152479552009-01-14T14:42:00.000-05:002009-01-14T14:42:00.000-05:00I like just watching and listening to Colin play i...I like just watching and listening to Colin play it. It is hilarious. <BR/><BR/>Also, I am overproud of my evite.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-44143712535112356292009-01-14T09:58:00.000-05:002009-01-14T09:58:00.000-05:00Have you noticed on Wii bowling that both he and J...Have you noticed on Wii bowling that both he and John Goodman are periodically on the lane next to yours? Am I the last person in the world to notice this?WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-61069859997184148022009-01-14T09:40:00.000-05:002009-01-14T09:40:00.000-05:00Did you find any replies to Spam messages you rece...Did you find any replies to Spam messages you received? As in "Please remove me from your mailing list, Thanks! Mike"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08554995920289284044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-69954530539537656242009-01-14T09:39:00.000-05:002009-01-14T09:39:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08554995920289284044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-2648265575891898852009-01-08T14:43:00.000-05:002009-01-08T14:43:00.000-05:00Before he read the copy, Colin tried to show me th...Before he read the copy, Colin tried to show me this like he had discovered something new. HA.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060827577316209909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-11654853600846411362008-12-25T14:59:00.000-05:002008-12-25T14:59:00.000-05:00It's actually worse, generally, because when I've ...It's actually worse, generally, because when I've experienced fear in real life it's been physical-danger-fear - and that always seems somehow manageable. There's something that can be done about it, and time spent being scared is better spent doing that thing.<BR/><BR/>Horror film type things, seem to be uncanny (look up the real etymology of that one) and...yes, I experience the same feelings as if I were seeing them for real, none of which is pleasant...WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-48469785152607391862008-12-23T00:36:00.000-05:002008-12-23T00:36:00.000-05:00I don't think I've ever consciously done it, to b...I don't think I've ever consciously done it, to be clear. I think being scared is either fun or it isn't.<BR/><BR/>Is it really that real to you though? Is the terror you feel when seeing something awful on a television screen the equivalent of what you feel when it happens in reality? Is it more accurate to call it "too close for comfort"?Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04511606565144884250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-12608246333946715902008-12-21T12:17:00.000-05:002008-12-21T12:17:00.000-05:00Ah, yes, this dissociation you speak of (contempla...Ah, yes, this dissociation you speak of (contemplating or experiencing fear, but at the same time knowing you are in fact safe) is a key ability that seems to be common.<BR/><BR/>I myself do not have this; to watch a scary movie is to in fact BE experiencing the horrible events in the movie (as unpleasant for me as it is for the protagonists - clearly nonrecreational) or to be not engaged at all; I can't do that balancing act you seem to enjoy so...WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-63667400814982043352008-12-17T18:45:00.000-05:002008-12-17T18:45:00.000-05:00I'm not going to claim that GoW2 reaches the emoti...I'm not going to claim that GoW2 reaches the emotional depth of, say, <I>Schindler's List</I>, but I don't think you've played quite far enough in the campaign to make a call just yet. This one gets pretty heavy.<BR/><BR/>Hey, it's Wednesday! Maybe we'll get there tonight.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04511606565144884250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-77125830968519232232008-12-14T00:29:00.000-05:002008-12-14T00:29:00.000-05:00"Good spots, good games, good times."I hope that w..."Good spots, good games, good times."<BR/><BR/>I hope that was ironic because otherwise CHRIST is that a weak wrap-up. <BR/><BR/>Anyway.<BR/><BR/>I, too was really blown away by the effect on the Gears trailer, (and moreso with the UNKLE "Lonely Soul" track on the Assassin's Creed trailer,) but Gears really brought to the forefront something sort of sad about these - the song indicates an emotional depth that you wouldn't expect from a shooter, which is thought provoking, but...play the game, and...you turn out to be right not to expect it. <BR/><BR/>There was a New Yorker piece that was really a bio of the Gears creator, and you could see them really working hard to be seen to take the game seriously as an artistic (not just creative) endeavor - but the result was embarrassing and patronizing, like they were trying to give a high school play credit for trying.<BR/><BR/>Let's face it - until most games grow up quite a bit, a matchup of an evocative song with a game's trailer will end up unintentionally pointing up the shallowness of the latter.<BR/><BR/>(Or maybe I'm just worried about the inevitable trajectory here - the half-assed imitators, then the parodies...though before that happens, there is still some ass to be kicked - see for instance the trailer for the<A HREF="http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/41723/Xbox-360/Mirrors-Edge/Trailer/Time-Trial-DLC-Trailer/Flash-Video" REL="nofollow">Mirror's Edge time trial levels.</A>)WOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7969421104200015616.post-84689370928413262492008-12-13T21:46:00.000-05:002008-12-13T21:46:00.000-05:00Oh, man. So, you and I have talked about this at ...Oh, man. So, you and I have talked about this at length; but it has crystallized for me recently.<BR/><BR/>Like any other kid, I spent a fair amount of time playing with guns, sticks that looked like guns, or areas of empty space that I would grasp like guns. <BR/><BR/>However, I spent *far, far more* time playing with Legos. <BR/><BR/>I've been hugely disappointed that current electronic gaming offers me endless opportunities to play with gun-shaped sticks, but so very few opportunities to play with Legos.<BR/><BR/>To be sure, it's dirt easy to crap out another shooter - let's face it, they're marginal revisions of the same underlying engines and concepts - like producing a coupe from an existing sedan, over and over - and that lets it become an easy, self-perpetuating marketing exercise.<BR/><BR/>But there's a whole variety of other dopamine levers you can push...people get off exploring places, building things, etc. and I'm going to continue to drop my money on places that let me do that...like the newb fag that I amWOVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11575729425370418452noreply@blogger.com