The Edge of the Internet

I’m bored, really bored. So very bored. I’m so bored that cleaning my room and doing the dishes seems like a worthwhile adventure, I that damn bored. I’m so bored that I feel the need to tell all you my phantom readers about how bored I am. How dull of me.

I’m so bored I have a word file open where I’m jotting down notes for a larp game based on the resources system that Derek is tinkering with. It’s a game where you play people living in a computer game. I’m stealing liberally from Nobilus, Changling, Noir, DnD, Shadowrun, and a few old ideas I had once. As a game player you don’t get XP you earn more space on the worlds servers to use to add stuff to your character. You play for money to buy more skills. Imagine if you will a larp game that can take place anywhere because it’s all digital, but without the God stuff that Nobilus needs for its premise. Think of it a game that you can set anywhere, anytime that strikes your fancy or is needed for the narrative of the story you’re trying to tell.

Naturally you will need an enemy and I was theorizing on factions trying to use the game world for their own benefits, like Harsh Realm or the United States. Or maybe viruses out to destroy the characters, except instead of being NPC’s their other players, and you need to find out whom. It’s all just rough ideas at the moment.

I saw Howl’s Moving Castleon Monday. I so adore Miazaki’s work. He fires my imagination, makes me wish I could live just for a bit in the worlds he’s created. I see myself sipping coffee, smoking cigarettes and waiting for an airship to take me somewhere exciting. Meanwhile gloop creatures are seeping out of the walls to rip me to shreds. I suspect he knows how old he is and that there might not be another film for him so this was his swan song. One final effort to pull out all his clever tricks and ideas then mash them into one glorious extravaganza. It did need a sunglass wearing flying pig in it though. But then like Tim with Burton I have a blind spot for Miazaki and can’t tell if his films are bad, I love them all no matter what.

Having let the film settle and slightly digest I’ve decided that I do indeed like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, except for the omplumpa songs, those can rot in hell. I don’t care if they were from the book, and made other people all tingly in their pants. They were obnoxious and made me want to poke out my eyes and bust my eardrums. The rest of the film was good, even Johnny Depp’s collogue of previous character’s mannerisms has grown on me. The grandparents were still the best characters in the film though.

Bring it Tim I'll crush your nay saying.

And last Robert has provided for Derek:

http://www.alldumb.com/media/content/2005/07/12724.wmv

And there are geeks in the world even I am frightened off.

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