Month: November 2008

Resources

color combo toy

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 27, 2008

Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc.– Search photos on Flickr by color combinations. [via Gaal]

Go on, do flesh tones, I dare you.

Tags color, toys

Blather

Dark humor in Israeli online banking

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 27, 2008
3 Comments on Dark humor in Israeli online banking

My electric bill payment got blocked by the credit card company! What I do? Maybe go to their website, see what what.
But — what this?

Roleplaying

Some dude about playing Amber

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 23, 2008

Some dude on the Internet wrote the following about playing Amber:

Here’s a recipe for making yourself really miserable in ADRPG: Go in with a character that you enjoy because of his physical and mental abilities.

Here’s a recipe for making yourself really happy in ADRPG: Go in with a character that you enjoy because of the way they view their family members.

This game, more than (almost) any I’ve seen supports talking about other people: to their face, behind their back, eulogizing them, praising them, pitching them as prospects for the throne, using them as bogeymen to scare your rivals … and so on, ad infinitum.

That game, where you’re in a very constrained family with all sorts of powerful and abrasive personalities, is fun. The other game, where you’re a trans-dimensional ass-kicker but the GM randomly decides that you don’t have a strong enough grip to hang on to the back of a bucking black dragon, is really frustrating.

Story Games for Everybody – Amber Diceless doesn’t make the top 12 Bucket Games?!?

Comics

The Ending of the Watchmen movie

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 19, 2008
4 Comments on The Ending of the Watchmen movie

Zack Snyder‘s revelation that the ending of the Watchmen movie will omit the extradimensional cephalophod of the comics has inspired an <airquotes>internet backlash</airquotes>:

[via LMG, I think].

Reading the interview in the first link I think they’ve actually got a more elegant ending than the one in the graphic novel. Certainly better than Sam Hamm’s solution (repeat after me: Time Travel is never the answer).

And I like the trailer better, after repeated viewings. It’s easy to be pessimistic and cynical, but let’s not forget that Zack Snyder is second only to Robert Rodriguez in realizing a comic creator’s artistic vision faithfully on film.

Uhh.