The Bard

I tend to think I'm getting slightly sick of Thom Yorke and his infinite sadness, his inability to do much other than croon over a minor chord, until I actually listen to his stuff, and its usually phenominal, which makes me a bit angry. I hate the guy, but he's a genius. Atmospheric song, don't think I've heard it before. Edit: I have no opinion on Gwen Stefani. Musically though, that song bugs the shit out of me.

Its really funny how people repeat the same argument about essentialism and posit it as mind blowing. Like Fouault says "human knowledge is made for cutting, not for understanding." Our cognition works along mostly utilitarian lines. We see the world in a way pertaining closely to semiotics; once we see or feel or sense something for the first time, we come to attribute meaning to it, and from thenceforth, stop examining it, since we have already fit it into our conception of reality. Look at the way we process language; when you read a book in your native tongue, you're not examining every letter, every syllable, and all the minute details of structure (unless you consciously go out of your way to do so) but instead, you chunk them into larger phrases, glazing over the minutia. We do this with everything. The funny thing is, that this "expertise" of interpretation, makes it far far more difficult for you to incorporate new information into your tightly formed paradigm of understanding. What this video is trying to get us to do is to fight a fundimental artifact of our cognition. Which is all fine and good, but it assumes we have the capacity to find another way of functioning. Biologically, it is our frontal cortex that allows us, unlike other animals, to objectify "things" in thought and speculate as to their interactions. This part of our brain is woefully underdevelloped, being a relatively recent evolution, and is unlike the hind and midbrains which have had the benefit of millions of years of refinement. Ramble ramble.

Jayseven you are a sexy man.

I just think it would make an interesting sociological experiment to see how these people come to develop a sense of sexuality solely through the lens of, like, Sonic the Hedgehog or something. Yeah, but I'm not freaked out on the level of individual people, I'm slightly baffled by how they come to accrue and internalise these esoteric cultural phenomena and associate sexual gratification with them. I think it reflects something on society that people are, in fairly sizeable populations, fetishising the same things, that are in fact based on shows, like Digimon or Pokemon for example, which are aimed specifically at children. Are these shows deliberately sexualised in nature? What is it about them that causes this response? Then again, think of a fetish and I guarantee there is a website enshrining it somewhere on the internet. I have nothing against fetishes, I'm fairly weird about sex myself, but if there's no part of you that finds furries funny, then your funny bone is busted.

No, I think the opposite. Yes I do. And not just any sexual fetish, the one where these freaks have somehow managed to cultivate part of their brain to make it sexually responsive to images of furry cartoon characters. Yes Danny, it is weird, it is the definition of weird. Don't come on here and try and tell me it doesn't hurt anyone, because I do often think about what goes on behind all the closed doors in my neighbourhood, and the fact that it could be this shit really freaks me out. The fact that it doesn't hurt anyone is besides the point, cause it sure as hell doesn't mean I can't poke fun at it. You always seem fairly defensive of fetishism. Why is this? Care to share?

I find it interesting that you seem interested in preserving good taste when it comes to grammar and spelling, considering you've abandoned it in every other aspect of your life Also, she likes Saw. What the fuck do you expect?

There are more pressing concerns in the world: Oh My God.

I couldn't stand what little of it I watched, but I guess when you've religiously followed 8 seasons of a show, you come into it with some predispositions, and it was so different from Scrubs at its greatest (first 3 seasons) that I immediately hated it. Denise is cool though.

Daft, this is one of those instances in which you've sent my bullshitometer haywire. Are you being postmodern again? Quit it.

Really felt like playing the original Phoenix Wright game again, so I bought it on iPhone for a pretty low price (£1.79 I think...), and its a pretty shitty version of the game. The audio quality is so grainy and harsh in comparison to the DS version, which is a major deduction against the game, since it relied a lot on the music to set the mood. Also, the animation of sprites as well as the way the text bubbles move, is nowhere near as fluid as on the DS version, and makes the game seem like a very rushed port. Well, at least the shit was cheap.

Dude, that is some ish. You need to plan an intervention with this daft tit.

Worms, of course.

I'm gonna try and go see this tonight in Central London. Hopefully there will be seats left, but the chances of that are slim as fuck.

Can't wait to watch this shit, but I think I'm gonna have to wait until it's out on DVD.

OMFG, STFU.

One of the most ingenious little games. It's so interesting to see how much can be done when game designers go back to basics with an interface as basic as a touch screen, and create these little byte size portions of perfect gameplay. Game design on a microscopic level. Also, shout outs go to Mirrors Edge which really is a great version of the game, albeit far far too short, and I've yet to see what it looks like on my new iPhone 4, apparently its supposed to be gorgeous on the retina display. Action Buggy is also a great trajectory based on rails shooting game. In terms of puzzles, I shudder to think about the amount of time I must have spent on Drop 7 and Geared thus far.

Hell yeah. Ever since I left my 360 back at home for this academic year, all I've had is my iPhone to play games on, and recently I've been completely hooked on: Osmos: A game of fantastic ideas, seemingly based around Spore's cell stage gameplay, where you control a small cell like organism that has the capacity to absorb other organisms smaller than it. Tapping the screen on one side of the screen propels your cell or "mote" in the opposite direction in what becomes game of inertial control as well as having to be aware of environmental factors. That's just the basic concept though, and they play around with it giving you various gameplay scenarios. Can't see it being done on anything other than the iPhone. Super Quickhook: You have a grappling hook which is your main means of traversal, with which you navigate levels of increasing difficulty by swinging. A load of fun. Super Mega Wyrm: Defies description. There are a buttload more that I got, but these are eating my mornings on the shitter.

I like your hair Paj, it looks like it would be soft =p. Me in a gas mask bong: Me, now, tired and monged the fuck out after a week of unending essay misery:

I somehow managed to catch up on two weeks worth of reading on Troilus and Criseyde, and then write a 1500 word essay on it in the space of 6 hours. Right now I feel good, but I bet I really won't once I get the mark for it =p.

Was the presence of Donald Faison not able to salvage it?

I'm tired of superhero movies. Just like I'm tired of Zombies, Cowboys, Aliens, Mobsters, and all the other overdone, deeply annoying ramparts of the film industrys inability to approach their medium with anything other than fiscal considerations. That said, I did go and see Jackass 3D. Can anyone say "part of the problem"?

I'm not a film buff. In fact, I am actively ignorant of film, but I thought it was great. The source material is by Cormack McCarthy though, so I don't think they could go far amiss. Still need to see the film adaptation of The Road.

Oh shit, I just realised that those simplified movie posters are by Olly Moss, who does a lot of very stylised designs for this gaming podcast I listen to called A Life Well Wasted. Raaad.

Those are amazing. I was looking at the Indiana Jones poster for about half a minute before I realised what the content actually was.

Nice one Mcj. Was listening to it in the background and the Beverley Hills Cop theme made me hard .