Diogo Ribeiro

SLAM DUNK!

Whoa. How did you found that page? Thanks. I also had made some searches for Magritte as well but they turned up pretty fruitless. I'll try some more. Thanks once again.

"Ride of the Valkyries":

That obscure, hun?

Dedicated to Hades_One:

Ahem.

Gimme my stick, man. Just gimme my stick and I'll show them.

Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone

Besides, we're all going to die anyway so better to just take a piss on the world while we're waiting for that.

I had checked it up before but had forgotten about it. Some of the things that happened on my birthday: 1605 - Gunpoder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. (V for Vendetta for life!) 1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. 1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly. 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.

Further proof I suck. Thanks!

With only a couple of minor quibbles, Batman Begins was damn good.

Well, Burton's vision managed to not fall into the campy tones of Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, or the '66 Batman movie with Adam West. For the most part, I've always enjoyed Burton's stylized, quirky settings though I understand some of the criticism (mainly the usual comic to movie adaptations that always occur). The villains he recreated had some noticeable differences but I was already expecting him to twist them somehow. Personally I found them more likeable than Joel's attempts at villains.

Europe has success?

Smart's gotten a lot of heat in the past for promising things in his games then severely coming up short. Though unlike gaming media darlings who make promises about their games and get away with coming up short, he got a lot of (justified) flak. Truth be told, I did hear he continuously supports his games and in time, released many patches and add-ons that eventually presented a much better gameplay (and much closer to his vision).

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I recently heard about Louis Scutenaire, who reportedly was a Belgian writer and revolutionary. Unfortunately when I tried finding some information about him, I either come up with French web pages. These would be helpful if I understood the language. Does anyone know anything about the author, read anything about him or can point me in the right direction concerning places that may have information about him? Thanks in advance.

The threat of nuclear was was Ozymandias' reason for doing it but that wasn't my point. The point is that in the comics, Oh well. In any case it seems to be another comic to movie adaptation set to blow us away. And not in a good way. Also fluid, fast camera movement is one thing. And it's good when done right. But someone should really tell the people behind Bourne Supremacy that leaving the camera work to people who suffer from extreme shakes isn't trendy anymore, if ever.

If the director of Bourne Supremacy is involved, that's already one reason for me to avoid the movie. Bland story, passable acting, offbeat action sequences. I'm sure it rocked for casual movie goers and sofa experts who search IMDB for other's opinions, though. Apparently not every reviewer enjoyed Watchmen's script, considering I've read a couple of reviews which didn't took lightly to some of the changes (this being one of them). Adrian Veidt's plan is apparently replaced by Reportedly, Osterman only appears at the end which is a curious decision considering Dr. Manhattan given he is a crucial, recurring character in the story who in one way or the other influences all of the character's lifes. He even influences the world, for obvious reasons. Besides, others' opinion usually means zilch to me. They're an indication of a possibility, not a certainty. I usually don't care if a group of people finds a movie script (which apparently only they have access to) great. I'll make up my mind on it if I manage to procure it and read it, or when I see it applied in a would be future movie release; until then, thumbs up for it are worthless to me. Main problem with Watchmen is the same as it was with LXG. The original format is way different from movies. Watchmen is slow, methodical, overly narrated, with character nuances and intrincancies that would take too long to be exposed on film. I can't even begin to imagine how V for Vendetta is going to be transposed into movie considering it's even lenghtlier in narrative than Watchmen, somewhere between three to four times wordier. Mind you this isn't coming from someone expecting a second coming. Book, videogame and comic to movie adaptations usually suffer between the differences in mediums. Differences are expected. There's the ocasional example of something that is done right, or done right enough, to make for a satisfactory (if not good) transition. Batman Begins and Sin City come to mind, but while those were good enough, they are exceptions to the rule, and are based on story pieces which are relatively short, fast-paced and quick to get into. Watchmen just isn't any of that. I entirely empathize with why Moore takes a step back from movie adaptations of his works. None have succeeded in coming close to presenting something close to the original. Can't say if this is due to Hollywood's insistence in creating some sort of guidelines which screw the pooch or if it's a problem with directors who think they have what it takes to convert mamoth graphic novels into two hour FX-ladden action flicks, but it ain't working with Moore's works. I don't expect thse transitions to be entirely faithful, though I'd expect someone gained some sense and stopped trying making adaptations in the first place. John Cusack is too athletic to play Dan Dreiberg, though, and he doesn't strike me as a good choice. Cusack can play many roles, but I don't think Nite Owl would be one of them. David Caruso should be Rorscharch, though. And for some odd reason, when I think Dan Dreiberg I imagine a fatty Jeff Goldblum.

I'm still gone. I just stumbled upon an internet cafe of sorts and managed to come by yesterday and today to post here and some other places. I'll disappear again in two or three minutes. Cheers.

No I'm not.

Pretty much none of those is a requirement for the CRPG genre, much less traditional elements. If you go with tradition you'll find nearly the opposite of what you pine for in some of the first CRPGs out there. Back then turnbased shared the same space as realtime and phasebased; isometric, firstperson and 'bird's eye view' were all contemporary; and a "good story" often translated into subtle variations of Doom's "kill thing, find key, kill big thingie, you win". Also, much as I like turnbased it isn't required for a CRPG. You only need a combat system that, like turnbased, allows a distinct enough separation between character and gamer; otherwise we enter the usual situation of not playing a character but instead playing myself (ye olde character skill vs. player reflex). Turnbased, phasebased and some implementations of realtime manage that.

It truly is a magnificent game. An epic masterpiece set to brainstun, it has taken the RPG genre into new heights. It's even more revolutionary than Fable, which was already a very innovative titles, with such amazing new features as doors that only open for certain kind of characters! Whoa!!

Considering how bad League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was, and how badly Watchmen was turning out to be, I can't say I'm all that disappointed that it was canned. Better no Watchmen movie than a bad Watchmen movie. I'm still wondering how they're going to handle V for Vendetta. I expect some suckiness underway. Cheers.