Technically, Anything Can Be A Missile Weapon
Today’s strip is dedicated to Karl Villaneuva, who I believe was the one who coined the above phrase. This is really a feature that I ought to add to the game. Who wouldn’t want the ability to use their opponents (and friends) as improvised projectiles? I seem to recall that there’s some other roguelike game that does this, but I can’t remember which one.
I was going to continue going through my comics links, but today I’m way too busy to give any of them a fair introduction. Instead, I’ll give you some music videos. There’s a certain genre of Korean music video which is just plain wrong; I don’t mean to say bad, what I mean to say is that the video director takes a tragic situation and then finds all kinds of creative ways to make it worse. Sometimes this tendency is merely melodramatic, while at other times it verges on self-parody. One of the worst not-quite-self-parody examples I can think of without doing any research is Jal Mot (Mistake) by Lee Seung Hwan.
Eunsuk and I used to have a game whereby at the start of a video we’d place bets on which characters were going to die and which others were going to be crippled for life. For a while it was a safe bet that someone in the video was going to die. The trend seems to be waning, though, as these days many Korean music videos feature a happy ending… or at least an ending where nobody commits suicide.
I’ll leave you today with something less morbid: Circus Magic Yu Rang Dan by Crying Nut. Okay, maybe it’s no less morbid, but at least its sense of irony is in the right place.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
We used to play the same game with Star Trek… get’s boring after a while if you’re not colour blind.
As for Korean videos, I recently watched the South Korean horror film, A Tale of Two Sisters… I’m not sure what got lost in translation or if Korean story telling works on different structures, but that film left me terrified and very, very confused.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Dear Joseph Hewitt.
Hi, My name is Joseph Hewitt. If by chance you are me from the future, please start dishing on the information. If you are me from the past, oh boy do I have some things to tell you. If you are me from an alternate reality, don’t bother asking me to switch with you. No way I’m doing that again!
-Joseph-
July 16th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Hi Joseph Hewitt! Nice to meet you. As far as I can tell, I am not an alternate version of you from a parallel universe or divergent timeline. Still, if we could somehow get enough Joseph Hewitts in the same place at the same time, who knows what would happen?
July 16th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I talked to another Joseph Hewitt at one point who I found while doing an ego search. He did a shareware game that it turns out was inspired by the Battletech I and II computer games published by Infocom, which he never realized I was lead artist on. You’d think if you really really liked a game, you might give the credits a quick glance and notice your own name.
I think I need to do a “Joseph Hewitt” post on my blog. Organize a plan or something where we can get together and
… wait for it…
TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
July 17th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Unfortunately, I am the same Joseph Hewitt with the giant robot game, and you are the same Joseph Hewitt who worked on BattleTech I and II, which cuts us down from four Joseph Hewitts to two. Despite the obvious brilliance of the two Joseph Hewitts we have, we may need some more Joseph Hewitts for a proper world domination scheme… that or giant robots.