I just saw the movie Diary of the Dead (2007) by George A. Romero for the very first time and I have to say… this is definitely the beginning of the end for Romero’s zombie charm in his movies. I really wanted to like this movie but at the end of the day, it was just not that great. Did I hate it? No. But it really could’ve been SO MUCH better.
I’m not really into found footage films. One of my biggest issues with them is that when I watch a movie, I watch it for a visual story. With good cinematography and a good score to really feel invested. However, I won’t deny that there are very few found footage films that I found to be pretty good. With one of them being one of my favourite sci-fi movies of all time – Cloverfield. That movie was just brilliant and it made sense to film it in found footage format, as it was an alien invasion story told from the perspective of a civilian. Others that are pretty good, though not great in my opinion, was The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Most other found footage films I’ve seen are either the exact same plot – Guy moves in/investigates area/films a documentary in a supposedly haunted area/house. Creepy stuff start happening. One of the members in the crew want to leave but the “leader” or the father refuses, causing the group/family to be trapped with whatever is haunting them. The whole situation gets worse and finally, at the climax, everybody dies. Only thing is that it’s a shaky camera and sometimes you never even see what’s terrorizing these people.
This movie has a rather decent style in terms of being a found footage film though. It is filmed in a style of a documentary within the Romeroverse, right at the start of the outbreak. (Which doesn’t make sense since in Night of the Living Dead, the outbreak clearly takes place in the early 70s where in Diary of the Dead, the outbreak takes place in the early 2000s.) However, this movie still has quite a few problems. Now while I know this is filmed in a documentary style, I felt like the music and soundtrack really took me out of it. Even though it is filmed in a format similar to District 9, it just doesn’t make sense as to why there would be music. It takes away the immersion so much.
Next up, let’s talk about the characters. This is by far the worst main cast I have EVER seen. Now the acting is fine, but the characters themselves are just TERRIBLE. However, the reward for the most idiotic character has to go to Jason, the main cameraman. My gosh!
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This is my latest short film IN THE DARKNESS.
As the title doth tell ye, I haveth till now always bean of sound mind, which is to say, there is a lot of sound in my minds. but I prattle on, when I should be telling you what has happened here tonight. But first, we must go far back to my past where it all began, six minutes ago.
There I was, younge, innocent, virgin, never even masturbated except for the couple hundred thousand times when I didnt even notice I was doing it for hours and hours so it wasnt my fault. So there I was, sitting at my computer intentionally masturbating as always, when suddenly upon my computer screen did pop up a massive penus. His name was henry and for some reason I kept mastorbating and accidentally I googled "gay porn" and accidentally kept masterbaiting and cam in the dudes mouth whom I had met accidentally on grindr which I downloaded accidentally. Gosh writing that gave me an accidental boner for no reason. Any gay, I mean way, I asked the grindr fella to leave since I'm not gay and it was all an accident.
he left and I called my mom to tell her I was out of soap, which of course was a lie. Well, not exactly a lie, but the truth was I was selling the soap she gave me on the black market for a significant mark-up.
So later that day I accidentally bought seven pizzas at pizza hute and accidentally ate them all and was disguested with my self because I dont even like unhealthy foods like that but I accidentally was fat despite the fact that I'm a fit person but I'm accidentaly having lots of fat on my because lots of food keeps accidentally falling in my mouth.
So then I went to my baby sitters house and accidentally broke her little brother's toys because he wouldnt let me play with them since I'm 29 years old. But I accidentally stepped on them and he was being really mean to me even thought I told him it was an accident and it wasnt my fault but he didnt believe me and intentionally punched me wich is illegal so I acted upon the STAND YOUR GROund doctrine and accidentally shot him in the heart even thought I was aiming for his toe but accidents happen, especially a lot to me.
So then, I go to the store and accidentally buy two hundred tubs to ice cream and accidentally eat them all when out of no where I look at the ingredients and MILK is the FIRST ingredient! I'm allergic to MILK so these are my last words because I'm accidentally shooting myself in the heart now because my whole life is a lie-- I mean accident.
Bang
January 5 continued I ran as fast as I could, my bare feet kicking up snow, and arms flailing at my sides. The snow gave me frostbite. I tripped a few feet shy of the road, and hit my head against the concrete. The snow gave me frostbite, the concrete gave me a headache. I continued to run in the the direction of my house. Just a mile I told myself, just one mile. My lungs were on fire, as the snow fell down on my head and body. I was there in my neighborhood. I kept running, I ran into my driveway, and slammed into my door. The snow gave me frostbite, the concrete gave me a headache, the door gave me a broken wrist. I used my good to turn the handle, but the handle wouldn't turn. I had locked my self out of my house. I looked over my shoulder and saw a car parked in my driveway that wasn't mine.
I saw two men walk out of the car, walk up to me, and asked me if I was okay. I didn't reply. The smoker hit me across the head. I was so confused, why did they ask if I was okay? They grabbed me, bound my wrists, and put me in the backseat of their car, and started to drive. The time was 3:30 am. I screamed, that made them angry. When we were twenty minutes out, they pulled over. Firstly I'm writing this for me, so I don't forget. Secondly I'm writing this in great detail so you know, whatever piece of shit that's reading this personal book of mine, I want them to know what these men did to me. I was on my knees in the snow as the two devils looked at me
"You just couldn't shut your damn mouth." The one who there up said
"You shouldn't have screamed?" Said the smoker as he lit up a cigarette or blunt I'm not sure I wasn't paying attention to those details.
"You were like a bird, singing your song for the whole world to hear." What were they doing, why weren't we driving. I began to fret.
"You see we don't want people to notice us, and when someone screaming people tend to notice." Said the smoker
"So to avoid any future mishaps of a similar nature were going to teach you a lesson."
"After that lesson we're going to cut your tongue out."
A lesson and an amputation. Wouldn't the lesson be enough, why would they teach me not to scream then take my tongue out so I cant scream. They only needed to do one of those. I was terrified. The lesson was taught with fists. One to my face, by the smoker, it must have hurt his hand, because the rest of the punches were to my bod
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Been walking around lately, thinking about my life, reflecting my unhappy low self esteem and lack of confidence life have gone into if i had good upbringing or help myself thou its hard when you have none.
Decades has past into slumber. thinking what my life could be if i had build up my self or confidence back then, maybe im a little happy and whole, have a decent job or else.
as a man with no life for a decade up to now, no real friends since i drift apart, no a lot was going on as an effect i tend to see others life as i have none. i watch vlogs and instagram of simple happy peoples that live their lives, teenagers or adults seeing their lives live , thinking myself i could have that too if i were have enough. i know everyones life is not perfect and should not be comparing my life to their instagram post or whatever , to me its an inspiration to have my life get going and maybe i could have one, maybe i can smile whole heart have a girlfriend i can pour my sweet boy love.
i wish i could have done it earlier but circumstances leads me to slumber
being in broken families as a boy i didnt know what the affects will be, but now as an adult i can see all has brought to me and my family, my anger, anxieties, hate, lonely, self confidence and self esteem is all time low, i consumed all my life in hate, anger, self pity that agonize me in my late 20's succumb into a hermit filled with negatives and close my world in.
now i understood how crucial and complex raising a family to the betterment of ones individual or communities is, and it sucks hard when the children's suffers from the affects of it...
im just existing not living, as i age with no option or future i tend to be suicidal and psychopathic, but i cant let myself down i cant robbed my own self of futures or a choice to have one, maybe in my age its late but hey age doesnt matter right, imean its awkward to act like a teenager when im an adult in my late years but living my life good and full does not matter. i have some time its not late i can have a meaning full memories to live by or be remembered .
i learned that its not how many but how genuine moments or memories you live by or remembered
ive lost interest in life or hobbies to keep me going for those years, good thing and kinda weird is my still horny and those red head gingers somewhat is a weird life line for me. i dont want to be a creepier but seeing those beauty gingers in instagram ive tend to have interest and appreciation f
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#AMA is over
Thanks for all the questions everyone.
#Description
Johnathan Staats (/u/whenitsready) was Blizzard's first Level Designer on World of Warcraft. He built famous instances such as Molten Core, Ahn'Qiraj, Scholomance, and so on.
You will be able to ask him questions regarding the creation of World of Warcraft, whether on the technical side, or the conceptual one, about the challenges they had to overcome, the solutions they found, ideas they may have had, the design of zones and dungeons, etc.
#World of Warcraft Diary With Blizzard's approval, Staats has decided to compile the great amount of notes he took all throughout the development of the successful MMORPG into the World of Warcraft Diary. This project will be funded via a Kickstarter that will begin when this AMA launches, Tuesday 28.
This book provides a unique, detailed look into the development of World of Warcraft, from conceptualizing to implementing. It reveals never-seen-before information on World of Warcraft. It is also comprised of 130 pictures and provides insight into the life of Blizzard developers, along with tackling the great themes of game development in general including lore and gameplay.
#Exclusive excerpt
John has provided an exclusive excerpt from the Diary for /r/wow ! It notably shows plans for the creation of Stormwind City (Stormwind Keep was originally in the center !)
Other excepts and pictures can be found on the WoW Diary's website.
These may enable your curiosity or help you find inspiration for questions to ask !
From Staats Himself:
> After 10 years on the dev team, I learned so much, I wrote a book called, The WoW Diary. I interviewed the company’s founders and everyone on the team, and I chronicled our monthly progress (and, sometimes, lack of) for 4 years, so if you have any nagging questions about WoW nostalgia, hit me. > > My Vanilla WoW portfolio includes designing and building 90 percent of the game's n
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Good tidings, everyone.
I'll get right to it. We have a lot of features being added to 1.0, as you are aware, and these are a showcase of some of those new additions.
Up first, we have some new flavor for playable colonizers.
We have added new abilities to the player colonizers- first of all, the colonizations are enabled by a trait in the character creator, hopefully exposing this ability to more players of the mod. Second of all, both pacific colonizers have received a lore blurb at the start to describe their situations, and hopefully immerse our player more. This is not all- both colonizers have received extensive title localizations for their colonization spheres of influence, hopefully also improving immersion. But beyond these vein futures, we have added new playable utilities to both of them.
Both colonizers have the ability now to exchange prestige for cash by sending goods back to their respective homelands. This is a good way to achieve vast amounts of cash to solidify your reign over the new world. Colonizers also have received a holy war alternative CB, which will hopefully allow them to carve through even fellow-pacific group areas with ease (only players have access to this for balance reasons.) What's more- when colonizers are being attacked, after several months of the war they will receive reinforcements from their motherland, and after many years of colonization, will also receive support from their homeland.
Edokko Colonizers have received a special holiday- the Obon festival. Taking place in mid-summer, this traditional Japanese celebration is sure to add some spice to your game.
The Novorusskiy have received a feature of their own- a formable religious head. While you won't get Great Holy Wars from this, the ability to excommunicate any Nousthreskeia ruler for their crimes against the Tsardom is a powerful boon that will solidify Russian rule on their lands.
In a co
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Windows 98 "server" at a subsidiary company, running Access 2.0 Database with custom UI. Mission critical application, still in use daily across multiple sites (with multiple variations of it).
The application is now running on a 32-bit Windows 10 VM with backups and snapshots happening, and we're working on getting a consultant in to perform discovery on the application and get it into one of our normal production applications.
I had to hunt down all of the DLL dependencies, get them together into a single path, sort out how the application worked, get it in place, and then confirm it would launch.
Sometimes when you flip a rock over and start sorting the creepy crawlies, they bite you. Today was not that day.
