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Well my friends…

Posted by :Luke On : December 5, 2012
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That title just sounds like its all over doesn’t it? Well the good news is it isn’t not by a long shot, this is some­thing I can promise I will con­tinue doing almost for the rest of my life.

We, Trent and I, have been quiet lately. Aside from the release of the short and the two comics it’s been a silent front for the site and the pod­cast. We both apol­o­gise we really do, at this point we have hit a snag that requires a few changes at home base.

Unluck­ily for me this same series of events also coin­cides with me try­ing to move to Mel­bourne but I guar­an­tee my friends that after this next week­end I will do a short pod­cast, a vlog and a writ­ten arti­cle that explains every­thing that has hap­pened and will let you guys know where we will go for­ward from here.

I write this so that you all have an idea what is hap­pen­ing right now as I feel its been too quiet lately for you to still believe we are here. All this stuff that has been lim­it­ing the amount of pod­casts we have been doing lately will hope­fully be solved afterwards.

I really thank all of our lis­ten­ers for stick­ing in there and stay­ing with us and I hope you’ll all keep lis­ten­ing in the future and keep vis­it­ing the site as I try and try to post more and more here.

We both love you guys,

Luke

The Simple Gamers #37 — The Melzer Effect

Posted by :Luke On : July 14, 2012
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Ultima again, Green­light your life on steam, the mac­beth effect. Good games and ter­ri­ble games…what makes them? MMO’s and RPG Endgames

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The Simple Gamers #35 — Dusting off the Ending

Posted by :Luke On : June 30, 2012
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Dust 541 or 415? Mass effect 3’s new end­ings, Source fil­maker makes every­thing eas­ier. Para­dox Inter­ac­tives War of the Roses shap­ing up to be awe­some, Dis­hon­ored is shap­ing up to be all that it promised. And What the Fuck is that?

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Trents won­der­full addi­tions to the Google doc.…

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The Tent #15– 24/6/2012

Posted by :Luke On : June 25, 2012
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Misog­yny rules on youtube, the most inde­struc­tible robot ever can run into every­thing an get back up, while China steals the railways!

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MIB 3 Review (By Dave)

Posted by :Luke On : June 17, 2012
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In the long-awaited res­ur­rec­tion, [well, one of the long-awaited res­ur­rec­tions], Agent J (Will Smith) trav­els in time to MIB’s early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assas­si­nat­ing his part­ner, Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), and change history.

 

Now, time travel movies are, in gen­eral, really annoy­ing. I’ll give you an exam­ple of what I mean when I say that time travel movies are, in gen­eral, really annoy­ing. I’ll give you an exam­ple of what I mean when I say that time travel movies are, in gen­eral, really annoy­ing. You see what I mean? So I had mixed feel­ings going in, because MIB is awe­some, but para­dox­i­cal tau­tol­ogy makes me want to break down the near­est wall with my skull.

 

And I have to say, the movie started with­out much promise. The intro­duc­tion felt like what would hap­pen to the last movie if it kept going for another hour after every­thing had been sorted out. It felt slow, stale, and try-hard. But thank the God of Movies, [I’ll name him Oscar], it turned into the light, funny, action, sci-fi block­buster I expected rather than an incite­ment to wall demolition.

 

So a big clap to direc­tor Barry Son­nen­feld (who also directed the last two movies) for not turn­ing the movie into a dis­as­ter, and for man­ag­ing to bring Will Smith (The Pur­suit of Hap­pi­ness) back on screens after his 3.5 year hia­tus. And a huge bravo for Josh Brolin (True Grit) who gave a jaw drop­ping as the younger Agent K. Seri­ously, this guy could have been a clone of Tommy Lee Jones (No Coun­try For Old Men). And while I’m in the mood to con­grat­u­late cast mem­bers, three cheers to Jemaine Clement who I thought did okay as the bad guy till I realised he is one half of the same New Zealand com­edy group that brought us Albi the Racist Dragon, at which point he became awe­some. And yay! Emma Thompson!

 

There really isn’t all that much more to say about this movie. It’s enter­tain­ing cin­ema fluff that didn’t let the side down by ruin­ing the last two movies. I’m not sure whether I’d see a MIB IV, but it’s def­i­nitely worth watch­ing if you’re a fan of the penguin-suited alien hunters… If only to see their expla­na­tion of Andy Warhol. Seri­ously, that moment was gold!

Material Review (by Dave)

Posted by :Luke On : June 13, 2012
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I arrived in South Africa and was flooded by rec­om­men­da­tions to see this film ( Mate­r­ial), finally did, and I do
not regret it. In my mind it eas­ily joins Dis­trict 9 in my list of sur­pris­ingly amaz­ing South African films.

The film fol­lows Cas­sim, a young Mus­lim man, who is expected to take over the fam­ily busi­ness, a
fab­ric shop in Johan­nes­burg, but instead secretly pur­sues a girl, a car­rier in stand-up com­edy, and
sur­vive the cut-throat world more usu­ally known as the fam­ily din­ner table.

It stars Riaad Moosa, a well-known South African come­dian, whose life pro­vided some of the
inspi­ra­tion for the script. Join­ing him is a slew of almost com­plete unknowns, who nev­er­the­less
do a ster­ling job. A spe­cial men­tion to Vin­cent Ebrahim, who I par­tic­u­larly enjoyed, and who
man­aged to really bring his char­ac­ter alive for be. Also, points go to who­ever it was who played the
grand­mother. Funny stuff.

And speak­ing of funny stuff, the film is inter­spersed with Moosa’s stand-up, which eas­ily is one of
the best things about the movie. There are also some Mr Bean-esque moments, and a char­ac­ter who
reminds me a bit of an Indian Zach Galifianakis.

The one issue with the film is that there’s a lot in the movie you need to be South African to fully
appre­ci­ate. There’s a lot of pol­i­tics and social issues hinted at in the film, which is bril­liant, I just
didn’t under­stand most of it. I still found it enter­tain­ing, tragic and funny, but there were moments
in the cin­ema where the audi­ence would erupt into hys­te­ria and I’d sit there with a raised eye­brows
(or eye­brow if you want to be cruel, but I just found out that mono-brows evolved to pro­tect the
eyes from sand­storms, so the next time there’s a sand­storm in the Syd­ney CBD we’ll see who’s
laugh­ing!).

There were also a cou­ple moments of dodgy pro­duc­tion in the film that raised my eye­brows, but
frankly I have a very sen­si­tive trig­ger where eye­brow rais­ing is con­cerned, and a cou­ple face palm
moments didn’t stop me enjoy­ing what is essen­tially was an incred­i­bly sat­is­fy­ing film to watch. I
mean, I didn’t even mind the love story too much.

Flooded

Posted by :Luke On : June 11, 2012
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Right now, I am brows­ing through a series of emails I recieved regard­ing the ‘Hell­hound Ini­tia­tive’ which is Fire­falls pre­cur­sor to what seems to be a closed beta.

Edit: Here is an arti­cle where Zen­i­max defends turn­ing The Elder Scrolls into an MMO

As inter­ested and excited as I was once to be involved in the devel­op­ment of Fire­fall and its rather unique story and treat­ment of the MMO for­mula its come to feel just like that, a for­mula. The mar­ket for these once large and impor­tant games has stolen the excite­ment of a new MMO from us, the repeated use of the same fan­tasy or sci-fi set­tings, game­play styles and quest sys­tems leaves some­thing that used to feel great and unique sadly overused. The MMORPG was, when I was a small 15 year old, a lim­ited field. There were two or three MMO’s at a time that you would actu­ally hear about and the oth­ers would be for those who dug deep into the world of online gam­ing. Now how­ever there are 15+ free to play MMO’s on steam alone, more than 8 large pop­u­lar MMO’s I can name of the top of my head and yet another 10 or so ‘com­ing soon’ that peo­ple are con­stantly flip­ping their lids about.

Curse me as mov­ing on to another fad but, with so many already here and fewer and fewer actu­ally shut­ting down each day the MMO genre has to many games cur­rently in cir­cu­la­tion for me to care about new ones, let alone games com­ing in 3–4 years.

As much as I love the Elder Scrolls fran­chise and all its won­ders, it has become dif­fi­cult to get excited about any more.

Today I am as much dis­mayed as I am uncar­ing about the lat­est devel­op­ments in MMO’s as it is beg­gin­ing to feel like devel­op­ers and pub­lish­ers con­sider this the only path to income and sur­vival in the indus­try, as if mak­ing an MMO is the only way to move on to mak­ing games you actu­ally want to make.

I love you MMORPG’s but I think we need to slow down.…

Obama sings

Posted by :Luke On : June 7, 2012
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Gotta love that sweet sound of Osama’s Obama’s voice wrapped around the hor­rific repeated sound of Carly Rae Jepsen… seri­ously Jepsen, not Jensen… Jepsen. Amer­i­cans… whatcha gonna do.

 

The Tent #13– 5/4/12

Posted by :Luke On : June 4, 2012
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Stephen Col­bert is the 69th most beau­ti­ful WOMAN! Peo­ple plan­ning too far ahead for me and Trent and we break into seri­ous space dis­cus­sion. Intro­duc­ing Minute to Ide­alog­i­cal Dis­pute, bet­ter name com­ing soon.

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The Tent #12– 23/5/12

Posted by :Luke On : May 28, 2012
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Where do nails go when you’re hands are full, how does cre­ativ­ity work and how much does Trent hate psy­cho­log­i­cal writ­ers. Bruce Fraser our best emailer joins us for an episode and gives his own progress report and shares a rather ridicu­lous story with us. Get ready for some more gap year stupidity!

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