Unreality: Stoker, comic Buffy, and hardcore gamers

[trashcanman]

Some of my latest.


unrealitymag.com/index.php/2013/07/25/stoker-my-favorite-film-of-2013-so-far/

unrealitymag.com/index.php/2013/08/01/dark-horse-buffyverse-why-cant-i-quit-you/

unrealitymag.com/index.php/2013/08/08/could-hardcore-players-kill-gaming/

[The Curmudgeon]

Dunno what it is about that site you use, Trash, but whenever I use it at work I get halfway through a thread and then the video gets, like, consumed by some video advert that means I have to close the entire link.

Back home now though, and more gold from the T-Dogg (that's a new name I'm trying out for you, just roll with it for now).

The more I learn about modern gaming the more I think it sounds like the worst form of entertainment populated by the most loathsome form of nerds ever. My obsession with gaming peaked a long, long time ago and reading that sort of stuff just convinces me to never attempt to get into that sort of thing. Nowadays when I play a game I play it alone or with a friend or two and that's pretty much it. Hell, the last time I attempted to play against someone else online was on Street Fighter IV, and that usually resulted in some dickhead trapping me in a corner and doing the same three moves again and again and again every round. FUN!

As for the Buffy comic, it had been something I'd heard a few people mention but never got into myself. I always wondered what it was like.

Long story short, Buffy ends up gaining Superman powers (Xander actually has her race a bullet)



And you'd already suffered through stupid shit before that? So what WAS Twilight? I ain't ever going to read it anyway.

And never heard of Stoker, but will definitely check it out.

Can't wait for the next batch, Trash.

[trashcanman]

Twilight was this goofy masked villain who had some big mysterious masterplan that was teased for the pretty much the whole season. It turned out to be [drum roll]..........Angel. The same Angel who had a concurrent series of his own running where he had his hands full and was, you know, a hero and stuff. Oh, and Angel also had Superman powers as Twilight. So Buffy and Angel end up having super powered sex in space. That happened.



Turned out that when super-Angel and super-Buffy had supersex, they gave birth to a new universe or something that was going to consume our world and replace it with some magic utopia or some shit. Buffy comes to her sneses and decides that the apocalypse is bad after all and Twilight/Angel kills Giles as they attempt to stop him but I don't really care because this comic has gone so far over the brink that I'm not accepting it as canon anymore. Buffy ends up destroying "The Seed", which is the source of all magic on Earth, stopping the magic sexpocalypse, but destroying magic. Then Angel went back to being a good guy. The end.

I kind of thought that destroying magic was going to wrangle in the ridiculousness in the season after and the epilogue issue pretty much implied that they were going to tone that nonsense down. But I'm pretty sure I''m just done with this comic. I can't believe I stayed on after the Twilight shit, but I think I've had enough after the sequel season failed to fix it.

Gaming is a great form of entertainment, but I am starting to think that gamers may be the worst form of the entertained. You really should get more into the story-based games that come out these days. They're routinely better than tv or film and no other players are needed.