I'm a bit of a wuss in that there are certain movies I have a hard time watching. Gory slasher or monster films is way up on the list. At first glance Grabbers is a movie I wouldn't want to see.....
....until I read a bit more about the film. While it does seem to be one of those monster films meant to keep you on your toes, it also seems to be one that is intended to be funny. I've liked all the horror/comedy blends I've seen so far, which at best would be Shaun of the Dead, Zombie Strippers, and FIDO. Come to think of it, a change of pace away from Zombies might be worthwhile and those other movies weren't really scary.
The trailer for Grabbers makes it seem funny and possibly scary:
Not too long ago General Mills got blasted for having a Cheerios commercial that featured an interracial couple and a "mixed" child.
Evidently it was a sign of the apocalypse or something, but for some reason the four horsemen didn't get the fricken memo.
Of course it just could be that maybe the Cheerios commercial was innocently portraying an actual segment of their target audience and there are just too many haters in the US. After hearing about (and seeing) some of the bile hurled towards the little girl in the ad, I'm inclined to think this is just made up drama and not the end of days.
I'm not a religious nut-job fanatic or actual religious leader, so please don't take my word for it either way. The best I can do is point out the simpler of the two possible extremes and posit that is the more likely scenario.
I can also point out the "offending" ad in question and a social-commentary follow-up that made me laugh. If there is anything I could use from this event it would be a laugh.
Right now I don't know if I'm more disappointed or outraged, but seeing how one emotion is essentially a depressant and the other a stimulant I'm guessing that I'm close to an even keel between the two extremes.
It isn't a secret that I've been pretty much unemployed for a couple of years now. During this time I managed to finish my Human Resources Degree, get the appropriate level of certification, and I went back to a local community college to earn an Associate's Degree in Library and Information Science.
Now this brings me to a total of four degrees: 2 Associate's (Information Systems Management & Library and Information Science) as well as 2 Bachelor's (General Business Management and Human Resources Management). A reasonably smart person would wonder why I would be dumb enough to go back for a fricken Associate's degree when I already had two more (relatively) advanced degrees. If you've already got a BA and a BS, the normal next step is to work on a Master's, not an Associate's.
I really didn't expect to have two different posts about Zombie games in just a couple days, but I just found out that Telltale Games has some DLC for their Walking Dead game coming out.
I reviewed the Xbox Arcade Walking Dead game before and I liked it, but it really didn't seem so much a game as an interactive comic. The fact that the story progresses no matter what choices you make didn't take away from my enjoyment, but it did lessen the impact as a game....for me at least.
Called The Walking Dead 400 Days, this DLC for the previous game doesn't seem to add anything or actually build upon the previous game. I'n not really sure why it is considered DLC instead of a stand-alone content other than to make people have to purchase the earlier stuff. This DLC is a collection of 5 shorter story-arcs that can be played in any order and Telltale Games says that the choices you make in this game
will carry over to the Second Season of their Walking Dead game.
This still doesn't seem like DLC content to me.......it seems like a measure to keep people interested in the property and to get a few more sales out of the 1st game.
I know I'm a bit cynical. Some of the crap being pulled by other game publishers (*cough* Gearbox) kind of causes me to not give folks the benefit of the doubt. On the plus side, the 1st season is only $5 (400 Microsoft Points) for the full game. It is a great price....a lot less than I paid and I wasn't complaining about the cost of the content before. Heck, that's pretty much how expensive the DLC is going to be.
I also just found out, and only because I went through the FAQ, that 400 Days does look at your saved game file and some of the choices you made in the first game evidently have some bearing on content in this DLC. Combined with the fact that they've stated that choices in 400 Days carry over to Season 2 and this makes a DLC decision make a little more sense.
Is it just me, or could they have done a little better job advertising this relationship between the three games?
After a very quick bit of work this morning I went to io9 to check out a video I had saved a shortcut to. I ended up not watching it because it was a lot longer than I realized, but one of the "related posts" caught my fancy.
The Adjustable Cosmos is based on a short story by Adam Browne and features three "worthies" of the 15th century trying to change fate by changing the stars themselves.
This video was just as long as the one I skipped by just moments earlier, but it looked like fun so I watched it anyway. I think I made the right choice.
