Kage posts about nothing, worlds collide
Kage is hyped up on Starbucks coffee (where they looked at me contemptously because all I ordered was a coffee) in order to get some chores done and not go back to sleep before Delle gets off of school, so Kage and Delle can leave for teh Corpus to see teh 'rents.
So instead of actually doing any chores, Kage decided to remember she had a livejournal and update it with a quick set of reviews (and really useless rambling)
Batman: Arkham Asylum is the most kickass game anyone has ever kicked the ass of. Delle and I beat it in about three days straight, a record for me and beating games (it took me like weeks to finish Bioshock but I did beat it hurray!). I haven't wanted to rub on a game so bad since Fallout 3 and I think Batman might be better. Why, you ask? a. It's about Batman, b. It's REALLY about Batman, they respect the history and they make reference to a lot of stuff that makes my inner-comic book geek very happy and c. it has a kickass fighting, stealthing and combat system. And some AWESOME fear-gas induced scarecrow levels. And some very cool character redesigns. Kudos, Arkham Asylum. We will live forever in love, at least until I return you to Blockbuster later today.
On that note, I had a really weird dream last night where Tag's and my original characters were Arkham characters. Mackenzie was Poison Ivy (this is so obvious it doesn't really need saying), I think Nate and Tress were the cutest Joker/Harley every (Tress would be a /really/ cute Harley). Not sure about everyone else, though, maybe Shale was some sort of Killer Croc analog? Probably not.
While I'm writing this really boring and tangential post no one will bother to read--I'll do you all a favor and put it under a cut when I'm done--I am reading...a book! I actually bought it a while back, along with some Terry Pratchett books, and now I am grateful I can say I got it for 'free', under Amazons 4-for-3 deal.
I'm not finished with the 'Way of Shadows' by Brent Weeks, a dumbly-titled story about an assassin. So the ending may yet blow me away. The book is a little overwrought and not all that well-written. Which I could ignore, since it has some of my favorite generic plot points. I know I complain about the overuse of things like dragons, romance and kingdom-saving devices in literature (this book does have a kingdom-saving all powerful device, to be fair). However, give me a book with mistreated street smart orphans, assassins and master-apprentice relationship and you won't here a peep. Are these things incredibly overdone in genre? Yes. Do I still love them? Yes.
Anyway, the book. It has all that generic assassin stuff, some stuff I suspect the author thinks is a political plot but really isn't and wouldn't be a bad book if not for the girl.
The girl. The single female main character of this book is everything I hate about romance and portrayal of girl's in literature. The main character is a brooding, dark assassin who tries to believe life is worth nothing but has the potential for great power. The girl is an orphan he knew in childhood whose life he saved--fair enough, I like their relationship when she's a child. However, she grows up to be a saint. A paragon of virtue. She helps impoverished old men, she's kind and sweet and shines in the sun and the ugly facial scars she receives as a child don't diminsh her beauty.
In other words:
Men: Competent, dark, emotionally cold
Women: Sweet, kind, caring
These stereotypes. Why do you hurt me? It doesn't help that the only female assassin in the book uses her powers to glamour and seduce men and then kill them. Women are either sluts or virgin saints youz guiz trufax.
Did I mention the main female also contrives to fall in love with the main character because he sends her money yearly (he got her face all scarred up when they were orphans) and she decides she is going to love him and call him by the name of a sexy young lord she's seen around? Who is that lord? Why, it's the main character!!
If someone sent me money every year, I wouldn't assume they were young and sexy, you know? And I certainly wouldn't make up names for them?
Anyway I'm going to stop and actually get some shit done. Coffee is the blood of life and Starbucks coffee is super-hyped-up-Venom-enhanced blood that turns normal!Kage into speed-typing rambling Kage. Or possibly I'm just procastinating.
So instead of actually doing any chores, Kage decided to remember she had a livejournal and update it with a quick set of reviews (and really useless rambling)
Batman: Arkham Asylum is the most kickass game anyone has ever kicked the ass of. Delle and I beat it in about three days straight, a record for me and beating games (it took me like weeks to finish Bioshock but I did beat it hurray!). I haven't wanted to rub on a game so bad since Fallout 3 and I think Batman might be better. Why, you ask? a. It's about Batman, b. It's REALLY about Batman, they respect the history and they make reference to a lot of stuff that makes my inner-comic book geek very happy and c. it has a kickass fighting, stealthing and combat system. And some AWESOME fear-gas induced scarecrow levels. And some very cool character redesigns. Kudos, Arkham Asylum. We will live forever in love, at least until I return you to Blockbuster later today.
On that note, I had a really weird dream last night where Tag's and my original characters were Arkham characters. Mackenzie was Poison Ivy (this is so obvious it doesn't really need saying), I think Nate and Tress were the cutest Joker/Harley every (Tress would be a /really/ cute Harley). Not sure about everyone else, though, maybe Shale was some sort of Killer Croc analog? Probably not.
While I'm writing this really boring and tangential post no one will bother to read--I'll do you all a favor and put it under a cut when I'm done--I am reading...a book! I actually bought it a while back, along with some Terry Pratchett books, and now I am grateful I can say I got it for 'free', under Amazons 4-for-3 deal.
I'm not finished with the 'Way of Shadows' by Brent Weeks, a dumbly-titled story about an assassin. So the ending may yet blow me away. The book is a little overwrought and not all that well-written. Which I could ignore, since it has some of my favorite generic plot points. I know I complain about the overuse of things like dragons, romance and kingdom-saving devices in literature (this book does have a kingdom-saving all powerful device, to be fair). However, give me a book with mistreated street smart orphans, assassins and master-apprentice relationship and you won't here a peep. Are these things incredibly overdone in genre? Yes. Do I still love them? Yes.
Anyway, the book. It has all that generic assassin stuff, some stuff I suspect the author thinks is a political plot but really isn't and wouldn't be a bad book if not for the girl.
The girl. The single female main character of this book is everything I hate about romance and portrayal of girl's in literature. The main character is a brooding, dark assassin who tries to believe life is worth nothing but has the potential for great power. The girl is an orphan he knew in childhood whose life he saved--fair enough, I like their relationship when she's a child. However, she grows up to be a saint. A paragon of virtue. She helps impoverished old men, she's kind and sweet and shines in the sun and the ugly facial scars she receives as a child don't diminsh her beauty.
In other words:
Men: Competent, dark, emotionally cold
Women: Sweet, kind, caring
These stereotypes. Why do you hurt me? It doesn't help that the only female assassin in the book uses her powers to glamour and seduce men and then kill them. Women are either sluts or virgin saints youz guiz trufax.
Did I mention the main female also contrives to fall in love with the main character because he sends her money yearly (he got her face all scarred up when they were orphans) and she decides she is going to love him and call him by the name of a sexy young lord she's seen around? Who is that lord? Why, it's the main character!!
If someone sent me money every year, I wouldn't assume they were young and sexy, you know? And I certainly wouldn't make up names for them?
Anyway I'm going to stop and actually get some shit done. Coffee is the blood of life and Starbucks coffee is super-hyped-up-Venom-enhanced blood that turns normal!Kage into speed-typing rambling Kage. Or possibly I'm just procastinating.