Looks like this…
…might actually be a reality some day. A few over at 3dr forums have expressed interest in a multiplayer mod, possibly for Duke Nukem Forever (don’t laugh) when it gets released. We’ll be doing preparatory work either way, so it could be for any one of a number of games, from FarCry to Prey.
head over there if you’re at all interested. Even if you have no modding skills whatsoever, you probably have some useful ideas.
He’s a sensationalist prick who seems to get sexually aroused at the idea that ireland is overrun with criminals, and that regardless of whether we live in Tallaght, or tipperary, we’re ALL only seconds away from being robbed, butt-fucked, and burnt out of our houses by hordes of violent crack-heads supplied by the IRA and dublin’s criminal underworld.
Everyone loves the CGI greats. Well, not everyone, but most people.
Toy Story, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles, A Bugs Life, Finding Nemo, Shrek, Shrek 2, Ice Age. These are all top notch entertainment.
But obviously, about a year or two ago, all the major studios saw how well pixar films were doing at the box office and decided to jump on the bandwagon, by hiring as many washed up celebs as possible to provide voices for a bunch of CGI animals, shoehorn some bullshit journey / lesson learning script together and shove the whole fucking embarrassment down our collective throats for an €8.50 cinema ticket.
valiant. the ant bully. barnyard. madagascar. over the hedge. hoodwinked. open season. shark tale. the wild. need I go on? Each one is soulless festering shit heap.
All you studios out there – huddle up real close and I’ll tell you pixar’s secret to success. Its not CGI, and its not talking animals. Seriously.
Pixar titles are good movies because they have original premises, and because they know how to write a good story. They don’t rush anything. They take their time, and they do things write. Pixar are creating, not selling.
If you studios want to make money, you should go and hire a brand new writer who hasn’t been corrupted by the cash cow machine
Game journalism sucks. we all know that. its just a marketing tool.
You wait and wait for an article on the ills of gaming journalism to arrive, and suddenly three come at once! Why? Because everybodys fucking copying everyone else, that’s why. Game journalism hasn’t suddenly gotten worse this month, it’s just that bloggers and journos are reading someone elses articles, and then xeroxing their points in order to look clever.
How about putting that energy into some decent fucking game journalism instead?
assholes.
I’ve been subjected to an ad for his comedy standup on the radio for months now. Honestly – how far in advance do they really need to advertise these things?
I used to find Pat Shortt funny. I used to find John Kenny funny too. Then it slowly (over the last ten or so years) became apparent that both of them only have two basic jokes.
1. Irish small towns are backward, and anyone pretending to be from a small town is funny
2. Men dressed in women’s clothing are funny
In fact, through several stage shows and guest appearances, and a barrage of advertisements for eircom, Pat Shortt eventually learnt that he could join these two jokes into one uber joke:
3. Men dressed in women’s clothing pretending to be from a small town are funny
It was from this third, grand unified joke that the show killnaskully came to be. Most of the jokes and plot were pilfered from age old stereotypes of small town ireland, with a bit of father ted stolen for good measure.
The english equivalent, little britain, demonstrates with further aplomb that western europe is teeming with closet transvestites who only seem to find release in the world of TV comedy. I could probably write a whole article on this phenomenon, and its sister phenomenon, the prevalence of gay bashing as a form of humour on TV that people will hopefully one day realise is just not funny anymore.
But I digress. I’m giving out about Pat Shortt here, not TV comedy in general.
This radio ad is painful to listen to. Partly because they play soundbites of one of his gigs that make no sense whatsoever on their own. But mostly because they managed to sample a laugh thats more irritating than that crazy frog ringtone, and play it three times during the 30 second ad.
It grates on my nerves so much it makes me want to pull the radio off the wall, find pat shortts mansion in limerick or wherever the hell he lives, ring his doorbell, wait for him to answer, and then bludgeon him to death with said radio.