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What's up with Twin Peaks?

By mrmovat April 15, 2010 10 Comments

I haven't had a solid T.V. show to watch since I finished The Wire. For quite some time, it feels like I have always had a good show to watch but that ended and now I'm searching for another one. The Deadly Premonition Endurance Run and all the GianBomb crew's talks about Twin Peaks got me interested so I watched the first episode. But I am having a ard time deciding whether I should continue.

I'll start by saying i didn't really like it. It seems like the acting is...poor. Understand that I only have seen one episode. From what I have heard, it sounds like it is almost supposed to be bad and campy on purpose in an ironic way as a joke but I can't tell if that's why I think it's bad or if it's just bad.
Hopefully someone will be able to show me the way forward

P.S. What's up with the mother of the murdered girl seeing that weird dude in her living room and screaming a bunch?

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What is it about games that make me feel empty inside?

By mrmovat April 15, 2010 3 Comments

To put things into perspective, I am 17 and I have been playing games for most of my life. I started on the NES and continued with the SNES, N64, Gamecube, PS2 and now I own or have owned all of the current generation consoles. I have really been enveloped by video games and the lifestyle that follows. The websites, the podcasts, the reviews, and it has me wondering if games were truly more fun now or when I was a kid.
I remember the ignorant bliss of running around in the Airplane level in Perfect Dark with the mission failed signal flashing on the screen without a care in the world, or playing multiplayer with 9 bots on very easy and just farsighting nonstop. Or playing Dr. Mario and dying all the time and not caring. The standards with which I play a game has become a lot different. I don't know if it's in a bad way or a good way or just a different way but the actual joy I am getting out of video games is on a level other than just fun. I have spent the last few days playing through Shadow Complex trying to get the 100% achievement and the minimalist achievement and when I was at my last few passkey components and foam gun upgrades I realized I wasn't playing for the joy of the game but for a reason that transcends the original meaning of video games. And it feels wrong; it feels dirty to be doing all these painstaking tasks just to get achieve a self-satisfying goal that no one would ever care about.
That's not it though. That's not the only factor of my gaming life that has caused me to write this blog and voice my opinion to people I don't know. What probably bugs me most about my video game playing is derived from websites like this. The concept of finding out everything about a game before i own it. I know this is something I could stop myself from doing and maybe it would cause me to feel some excitement when I crack open a game that I know nothing and have seen nothing about. But I know that's not going to happen. I know that I could never stop watching quick looks or reading reviews or watching youtube videos because that is the life I have chosen. I have made a decision in my head that my internet explorer homepage should be Giantbomb and that I should go to the library at lunch and checkout N4G and it's fun to sit next to the geek in my economics class because he played through all of Fallout 3 like me and we can talk about it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, in my head, video games have become not just a toy but a lifestyle. The actual playing of the games part isn't as important as the experience I get from coming home everyday and firing up my computer, excited for what crazy shit Vinny's gonna say on the podcast or what Jeff thinks about Splinter Cell or finishing some more quest sets.
This is my first real blog and I'm planning on continuing because it was a blast writing it so tune in for more, if anyone's reading this

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The Quest System Made me do it!

By mrmovat April 15, 2010 8 Comments

Just when I thought GiantBomb couldn't get any better, they come out with these quests. I have always read comments of videos and I have been known to check ou some blogs but for me, it's always been from the outside of it. I've never actually gotten involved in the video-game-site community. Until this damn quests system came around and now I have to comment, update my status, write this blog and who knows, maybe I'll be tempted enough to write a review of a game. So, we'll see how it goes from here.

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Must Owns 2009

By mrmovat September 28, 2009 1 Comments

There are a lot of really good looking games coming out and I wish I had an infinite amount of money so i could get them all but so far, must buys for me are Assassins Creed 2, Borderlands and Forza 3. I'm also starting to think Brutal Legend is a must as I recently watched Jeff and Tim Schafer's tour of the PAX show floor and played the demo and both the game and Tim are funny and entertaining.

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