Decided to do some browsing on the internet after typing the above, and i found a couple of cool things.

-An Article about Japanese Gaming Culture (Gamespy)

-The Blog of Gonzalo Frasca
Ive been here before many a time. Frasca is one of the worlds game theorists. People who right academically about games. I was lucky enough last year to recieve a lecture from him in my Game Studies subject. He also is a game developer as well. Check out his blog as he often provides some great gaming news and also check out his flash games. Games with a message (shock! horror!). When he gave the lecture he was in Melbourne to open the Games Lab at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) Check out the website there to see what the Games Lab is all about:

ACMI Homepage

Are you mad?

A packer strut bump....hmmm

Grats to crew and new member(s?)

Im just typing random things i see around...blogging cept not on an actual blog but a forum thread instead

Howdi folks.

Im making this sort of a forum blog. I want in the future to make a website with all my ramblings about movies, games and the media in general but i figure ill test myself by doing something in this form

-Ive noticed that the Mark Ecko graffitti game is gonna be made into a movie, no details as yet but it will be funny if it gets a release in Australia, as we are the only country in the world to ban the game. I find it funny, cos i can see no way that a movie like that could be banned cos its only a movie. Even if the subject content justifies a film rating of R 18+ (the highest commerical rating in Australia) then why dont games have a similar rating...im a huge advocate of the R 18+ rating for games, being an adult gamer

-Ive purchased the 2nd book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, never been the big Steven King fan but i really enjoyed the first book for its unique setting and use of Western filmic elements in creating the world of the novels. Ive read all the books in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series to this date, im reading this series to pass the time to the next Wheel of Time book.

-I bought a new dvd 'Three Extremes', a collection of three intense movies from three asian directors, one japanese, one korean and one hong kong. Im a huge fan of the Korean director in it Chan-Wook Park, he made the awesome "Old Boy" movie. His contribution "Cut" is much like Old Boy in its editing style and humour and the story of the film will appeal to anyone who likes the Saw films, but since this was made before im curious to know if this had been seen by the two Aussies who made Saw

-Film reviews are sooo pessimistic im finding. In the Melbourne papers most films rarely break the 3 star mark. Film critics ive always thought are film lovers, but now it just seems they want everything to be a classic. I know some films are crap but when a film like V for Vendetta (which isnt perfect in any way) gets a Dog or Zero star rating i wonder what these people are trying to achieve. It made me come up with a quote that i hope to put on a tshirt in the near future

"Film critics are not a target audience"

I think it has a nice ring to it and reflects my opinion of them.

Anyway thats my opening, kind of extensive but ill post as i think of things

Vid/screenie would be cool

I smell some new GB fun

Just for anyone who missed it before the forums went down...my SA bicycle collab with kert

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