Green Room - Week 21 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

It's a big day today!

The poll closes at 8pm EDT. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/778354.html

The new topic is due at 8pm EDT http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/779089.html

So we will literally be going into one poll as one ends!

That's wall to wall excitement!

Speaking of "wall to wall excitement", I had some of my own! Not going to get into it right now. Going to literally wait to speak to an attorney first. (Oddly enough, I had made a decision earlier in the day where I thought "this will bring me some good karma... and it wasn't even 2 hours later when I received the news of the "exciting new developments". Note to self: Never make the moral decision! The universe doesn't respect it! ;) )

But it's going to be "fun"... emphasis on the quotation marks.

What is the most "fun" you've had lately?

Comments

[reckless-blues.livejournal.com]

I played a video game for about five minutes and then went to complain about it on Tumblr.

- Actually, I just noticed something interesting about the opening cinematic. A couple technicians were about to autopsy the body of the protagonist in the morgue - he wasn't really dead, obviously, he was just waiting for them to bear down on him with a scalpel before his eyes flew open and he sat up - but they hadn't even removed his clothes yet and appeared to be planning to saw right through his hoodie. (During the tutorial I saw this guy kill 750 New Yorkers and I think he even ate somebody back there, but God forbid I watch him do it naked.) And they were using the wrong scalpel for the job and were holding it upside down, at that. (Also, one of them said, dramatically, "Give me the eight inch blade" despite the fact that this refers to the length of the handle and tells you absolutely zilch.)

But I thought it was kind of touching because I know that this type of scalpel blade is often bought by artists who want to make stencils or some other type of craft. So the artist who designed that scene probably chose it because it was familiar. (Without being too concerned about the fact that in medicine this shape of blade is usually used for stab incisions, lancing something, a chest drain, that kind of thing. And surgeons are taught to hold this type of blade facing away from them for greater depth control.) In small doses, I like when you can see the artist through the work, even if the art becomes incorrect. It makes me feel somehow affectionate.

[beeker121.livejournal.com]

It's always interesting when you watch something you know how to do represented in a game/on TV/in a movie/what have you and you know they're doing it wrong. Sometimes it pulls me out of the moment, and sometimes I can see why they're doing it (adding extra drama for example), but it's always a touch jarring for a second as I'm paying a whole lot of attention to something that wasn't supposed to be focal.

I like that you recognized the blade being used instead and could relate that back to the artist, that's nifty.

[reckless-blues.livejournal.com]

Mm - it's just touching to me when I can see how people are thinking.

It's most interesting when you see that sort of thing and it's nonfiction. Somebody once said something offhandedly - "You ever notice how whenever something gets on the news that you happen to personally know about, they get it at least a little bit wrong?" I can't even remember when that was or who said it, but it still gets to me even now.