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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Arthas' Underpants
NOTE: If you do happen to be reading this blog for the very first time, allow me to point out that I am a colossal nerd. Now that that's over with, enjoy the rest of the blog.
Like the rest of the world, I am currently enjoying exploring the new continent of Northrend, which means that I get so see the following image every time something needs to load:
In case you didn't know, this is Arthas (Arthas, these are my readers, all two of them). Arthas is the main villain of Wrath of the Lich King and is generally held to be the biggest douche in the entire WoW universe.
Now let's pause a moment to take a close look at the above picture of Arthas. What do you notice about his taste in adornment? Look closely (no, not that close). What symbol is he wearing all over? That's right, skulls. Lots of skulls. I count eight visible skulls on his armor, though I'm guessing he's got at least a half-dozen more that we can't see. I also count six skulls on his sword, making a total of fourteen skulls visible in the picture.
What does this suggest to me? Evil insecurity. I mean, how many skulls do you need to demonstrate your evilness? One, two, maybe three? This guy has FOURTEEN in plain view.
I'm guessing this is the evil version of the middle-age crisis. Instead of getting a sports car and a toupee, Arthas just put skulls on everything. He's looking at the younger villains, seeing all the evil schemes they're putting in motion, and wondering if he can still compete. Does he still have 'it,' where 'it' is defined as being a soulless monstrosity? He's not sure, so he's gonna stick a skull on everything and hope it works.
I just can't imagine what the rest of his wardrobe might look like. Actually, I can:
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- Kammorremae said...
Arthas is a douche. But he wasn't always that way. I remember the good ole' days when he was preoccupied with stopping the plauge and killing peasants...
No, he was always a douche.
- December 18, 2008 at 9:56 PM
- Kammorremae said...
On a side note, how many times do I have to comment within ten minutes of you posting, before you leave a scathing comment in my blog?
- December 19, 2008 at 2:29 AM
lol, I don't even play WOW and that was funny. btw, while I'm here- I like your comic! I've been reading for a year but never bothered to comment for some reason...
- December 19, 2008 at 3:17 PM
- Jason Janicki said...
Scathing comment incoming . . .
Thanks :)
- December 22, 2008 at 12:52 PM
- Reporter Branco said...
I got a short just like this one, but with more skulls! hehehehehe
- December 23, 2008 at 4:38 AM
- bbr said...
Drop by sometime.
I'll add a link to your arthas underpants' later :P
- December 23, 2008 at 6:43 AM
- Laura said...
Lol Wow is awesome! Love my Boomkin :)
- December 30, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- Ehm said...
I happen to see that same thing all the time.
And I dunno if he still has "it". I mean, look at all of those DKs who have become friends of the Alliance or those other, pesky lvl 80 troll rogues who like to kill my almost 30 lock who was quite innocently killing mobs so she can finally get her mount and... oh yeah, this isn't about me.
First it was Illidan and now it's Arthas, who's next?
I do love my shammy.
- December 30, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Arthas is the perfect example of absolute power corrupts absolutely. He's been a douche since a child.
Great underpants, I you just broke a lot of wow girl's hearts, answering the age old question of boxers or briefs. ;)
BTW, I love my Druid.
- December 31, 2008 at 7:55 AM
- Jason Janicki said...
Well, I don't actually know if he wears boxers or briefs, but I would put my money on a man-thong. No, I will not post a picture.
Lotsa shammy and druid love here. I have to say I started playing my warrior again and the changes to the Arms tree have made him much morem fun. I can now cream multiple mobs with ease. In fact, I try to fight only multiples 'cause it's so much fun!
- January 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Now,now to be far, Arthas stole the sword so it was not really his idea to put all those skulls on it. But he should have had a Clue, don't it's evil don't pick it up.
Who every heard of a fluffy, happy making skull covered sword, right.
I love my Mage!!
- January 6, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- Jason Janicki said...
Well, he was a douche before he picked up the sword. The guy 'cleansed' Strathholme well before he even got to Northrend.
Didn't he murder Bronzebeard too?
But, yeah, skulls pretty much equal evil (or at least, teen angst). You would have thought they would have taught him that in Paladin class.
- January 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM


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Miss Adams triggered the murder investigation when she went to police in Novemberber, 2015, and told officers what Rogers had said to her.
Cross examined by Rogers' barrister, Christopher Henley, Miss Adams agreed she had told police she considered Rogers to be a compulsive liar and an attention seeker.
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I'm cooking what I did last year only more of it (Shredded beef, roasted spice winter veggies, roasted turkey breast (unless I go nuts and get a goose instead), salmon mousse, Mormon funeral potatoes). Feel free to bring anything you'd like to drink and anything you'd like to share. I'll probably be making different desserts this year but I haven't decided what.
And we'll decorate the tree since people seemed to have so much fun with that last year. You're not required to participate though. You can sit and watch if you like.
If you're reading this and you want to come email marykay at kare dot ws and I'll send you the address and directions if you need them.


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My boyfriend lives almost an hour in bus so is always me the one that goes to visit him because he finish university a little late. I always come back home like 11-12 eleven of the night and he pays the taxi but is always the same routine and he never visits me.
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No it's not fair. Your making it easy. And your doing most of the work and effort. Your a good girlfriend. lol and he shouldn't be taken you for granted.
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Hello again dear developers! Imagine my surprise when the generic avatar popped up in the course of creating my account on here: an icon depicting male contours, with a neck tie and all. Evidently for Vivaldi it's a man's world. Really? I should think that by now, 2015, women have successfully established themselves as more than captains of their kitchen, seriously. In this day and age gender specific icons are totally misplaced - please Vivaldi, replace the present generic icon with a gender neutral version, or else a twin icon, a guy and a girl, whatever, but DO adapt to modern western society's standards of female emancipation, there is no need to go back in time in that respect.. Honestly, the icon as it is now boggles the mind. Thank you in advance, Mabel Amber
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You have my support.
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Thank you Harry.
I can see the avatar matches your gender perfectly.
How can they saddle female members with a male avatar? Would the Vivaldi developers leave the house in the morning, dressed in a dress and wearing a long haired wig?
Still wondering how their thought processes work. Ultimately single minded, that can be the only answer. "Vivaldi. the all male browser! Out now!"
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'I can see the avatar matches your gender perfectly.'
I hadn't noticed, though you're quite right. I have less hair, but I am wearing a tie! (Never grown up and not planning to.)
'Still wondering how their thought processes work.'
Same way most people's do. You have my support, but that doesn't mean I feel as strongly as you do.
PS Is it me or doesn't the Preview feature work?
Quote: " Same way most people's do."
Developers should broaden their thought processes, taking into account the demands their product requires. They need to think socially.It's not just a cosmetic flaw, but fundamental thoughtlessness.
It's precisely through the omission of crucial details that the spirit of the product is defined. The non customized Avatars convey a "message". The message Vivaldi brings across, through its lack of female icon is: "Vivaldi is an all male affair."
Welcome to the "community" …
There's plenty of sites where the non customized avatar is either gender neutral or else a choice is offered, or when clicking the gender radio button a female avatar is created.
(Preview works for me. Try clearing your cache.)
FWIW, Vivaldi is using software designed and built by someone else for the forums, and it is the vendor's icons you are looking at.
Quote "FWIW, Vivaldi is using software designed and built by someone else for the forums, and it is the vendor's icons you are looking at."
Still is Vivaldi's responsibility, his ideas are applied to their site.
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Are you happy now with new forum software showing for a new user a bareheaded person?
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27 July 2013
I'm sat under the Gazebo in the garden whilst the rain is falling steadily. Normally the sound of rain relaxes me but today I cannot seem to switch my brain off. It's been quite a week around these parts. Three hospital appointments for James, an overnight EEG, a rather traumatic blood test and the start of medication. He isn't dealing with it very well. At the third hospital appointment in three days my little boy broke down. He clung onto me and cried. I think he had just had enough of doctors poking and prodding him, of sitting in waiting rooms and then listening to me answer the same questions over and over again. I've promised him that there are no more appointments for the next four weeks but to him that doesn't mean anything. All he knows is that I dragged him to two different hospitals three times and let loads of people stick needles in his hand and wires over his head and now twice a day I fill a syringe with some tasty red liquid that apparently tastes like Strawberry (but smells like Bakewells!) and ask him to drink it.
The past few days he's been angry and short tempered. All kids have their moments and James has never been an exception to that but this week it's been different. He gets angry over the slightest thing. I don't know if it's just the stress of everything that is happening to him right now or whether it is a side effect from his new medication. Either way, it makes me feel bad. I know that he has to take this medication. Seizures are dangerous and they need to be controlled but the idea that James is now a statistic. "A medicated child" makes me feel like I've failed him in some way. I feel sorry for him that he has to go through this and now be labelled as an "Epileptic". I don't want to feel sorry for him. Thousands of people all over the world suffer from this condition and lead normal lives. I'm worried in that feeling sorry for him will make me not only wrap him up in cotton wool but will also lead to me spoiling him because I feel bad.
It's both a blessing and a curse that he has no idea whats going on. I explained his appointments by telling him that he has funny turns. He thought that was great and his EEG, I told him was them checking how his brain works.. He had great delight in telling everyone that he was going for a brain test. I could tell him but then what is the point in him worrying about something that he doesn't understand nor can he control?
I'm worried about what will happen when Emilie is born. James is already going through so much and his little sister arriving is just another big change for him. I guess this is just one of those things that I have to take one day at a time and me working myself up into a state isn't going to help anyone or anything. This is my introduction into life with two children. The balancing act. Looking after two children who will both have different needs. Lets hope that I'm up to the challenge...
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Mix of studies and focused sketches this time. I tried my best to not do random sketches for nothing and to focus on ideas.
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Monday 20
Pilot and soldier studies.
Soldier studies.
Tuesday 21
Girl portraits with lines, trying to be more deliberate with my lines.
Random sketches that shouldn't exist.
Resketching up this character again for the third time.
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Trying to find a way to make the characters fit with their proportions.
I am liking where those characters are going,
but I need to clear out some ideas for the character at the left
and work on the clothes and folds of the one on the right.
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Pilot girl.
Playing with the shadows.
Caught myself sketching random stuff, so I stopped before it was too late.
So I worked on this girl.
Friday 24
Wood ghost idea.
Playing around with some idea for this character from an old sketch
and I ended up with a goat girl.
Cleared up the lines and laid down the shadow shapes.
Saturday 25
Music of the week : Dr Dre Ft. Eminem - Forgot About Dre
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P+HS Architects are abreast of the requirement to deliver building designs and production information using Building Information Modelling (BIM) technologies. Government targets are to deliver all publicly funded building by 2016 using this approach and, in preparation, we have invested and implemented BIM capable software and hardware across our three offices. Over the past four years we have steadily developed our working knowledge and strategy for design and delivery of our projects around Level 2 standards of PAS.1192-2 (BS.1192).
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November 2 this year marked a joyous day in the lives of a community wound up in worries. The 'Safe Spaces' initiative, introduced as part of a global project led by ESPN, in collaboration with love.fútbol and Magic Bus India, had finally come to fruition.
Garvebhavipalya government school premises at Bandepalya, South Bengaluru witnessed an unprecedented level of excitement, as children and local residents flooded the opening of a newly built multifunctional sports court. In an hour's time, this space, dedicated to the local community, would finally become their own.
Russell Wolff, Executive Vice President and MD, ESPN International, Ramesh Kumar, Vice President, ESPN India and South Asia and Ashwini Nachappa, former Olympian athlete, were among the people who visited the school for the opening. This community space, a platform for change through sports, had finally been handed over to the people of Bandepalya, all made possible after a year's conceptualisation and execution.
ESPN has maintained a strong presence in India for over two decades. Their Global Citizenship Program, led by the 'Safe Spaces' initiative, aimed at transforming lives through the benefits of sport for underprivileged communities globally. With a motive to equip children with knowledge and life skills through sports, the initiative also enables them to break away from the cycle of poverty and take control of their lives.
This project, sponsored by ESPN, has already witnessed heartening success, aiding more than 5,000 children in 2016 after it was integrated across the underserved communities of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Sao Paulo in Latin America.
Soon to profit from and taste the same success is Bandeplaya - the first ever community in Asia where the Safe Saces initiative has been executed with the help from Magic Bus, famous for working with economically disadvantaged children, and love.fútbol, actively engaged in creating community centres as a catalyst for sustainable social change.
Before zeroing in on Bandepalya, ESPN worked with love.fútbol, their implementation partner, known for creating community soccer fields in some of most difficult conditions across Latin America, and Magic Bus India, the curriculum partner, to carry out research on areas in Bengaluru with needs that can be helped by the benefits of sport and community. Bandepalya faces issues such as poor dwelling conditions, increase in school dropouts, low level of education, concerns around health and hygiene, like lack of access to clean drinking water, poor sanitation along with a high rate of tobacco and alcohol addiction among children. After identifying the problems. the next step was to bring the community together in a way that celebrated sport as the potent force that can bring in visible change.
The extraordinary power of sport, says Ramesh Kumar, Vice President, ESPN India and South Asia, is to bond people, transform lives and enrich communities. "Safe Space is designed to provide opportunities to communities by offering them safe places to play and help them acquire the social and skills benefits that sports offer. Running these programmes successfully in Latin America makes me positive that we can replicate the same success in India too," he adds.
In terms of inception, shortlisting, feasibility and final execution, the project took roughly a year to finish. Once a community in all of Asia and its problems were identified, the entire team began working on a programme to educate and train the youth in this area. An 8,000-sqft facility was set up, complete with an artificial turf for football, where children can also play basketball, volleyball, and cricket. The biggest walkaway success the transformation brought was ways of tying the local community together, which volunteered to build the complex with help from ESPN and Disney employees. "It was a collective effort of close to 250 people including the core team, local committee, community members and external partners through the year," said Ramesh.
Beyond just providing high-quality multi-sports infrastructure, the court will also be home to ongoing development programmes for young people in the community aimed at teaching life-skills and empowering them to reach their potential. This will be delivered through a specific curriculum created by Magic Bus that will run a structured programme, using sports as an enabler.
The programme, which aims to reach out to 1,200 youth in the first year, will help gauge the interest level of youth including girls and then encourage them to play the sport they want to play.
Shedding more light on the curriculum, founder and executive chairman of Magic Bus, Mathew Spacie, said, "We involve the local members of the community so that they know this belongs to them now and they have to take responsibility in keeping it functional. Also, the high dropout rates in the community could be stemmed through measures like these. It will help keep more kids in school."
Moments after the court was cleared of the celebratory atmosphere, the kids took off with a game of football, beaming with the assurance that their future now lies in their own hands.


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Monday, 30 August 2010
Seitokai Yakuindomo EP9 :
YAY! ITS FINALLY ARRIVED! THE STUDENT COUNCIL RULE IVE BEEN WAITING FOR! ALWAYS CARRY A CONDOM! Right u are missy! Man I feel like Tsuda's voicing my mind or something I too knew she would say that one day! Ne?
I love Yokoshima-sensei! She & the newpaper girl are my fav character! Its gut to see her awakening to a whole new fetish, but I prefer u sadistic sensei! XD Ah then newspaper girl mishearing everthing again! so i guess guyphobia girl uses pads then...XD OR DOES SHE? Cue Shino somehow turning the red string of fate into wet? Man alot of animes are 'wet' this week XD This somehow turns into a discussion of Tsuda's masturbation techniques? LOL Shino's face as she decides he gives himself head! I for one agree with sensei - its definately the left! Then YAY! Newpaper girls back with photos for they're newspaper, uve got to know u cant trust her for pics by now! And shes now photoshoped Suzu's fascination to not be Tsuda's height but something right at her level of vision, teehee! TSUDAS SO KEWT CHEWING ON HIS PENCIL! XD I have a question, how did one story become 3? But it was hilarious when Tsuda started yelling at George! Tsudas a heartbreaker! TEAR :'( I thought u were different ;) TSUUUDA! LOl jk!
Looks like the Sports fest is finally gonna happen now! But no instead we've got Aria bondage! and yes Tsuda, sensei does like bondage XD! Not to mention shes so kewt being chased in chibi form by a giant red ball! AWWW! And i think Tsuda's sis gives the best advice ever, so i will relay it to men everywhere.... DONT MASTURBATE BEFORE SPORTS ACTIVITIES IT WILL AFECT UR PERFORMANCE! now the question is what type of performance?
OMG I DIED WHEN I SAW SHINOS BONDAGE BEAR! ARIA GIVES THE BEST PRESENTS! And she also knows when you should or shouldnt use aphrodisiacs XD!Sensei an her whip! And since when have westerners enjoyed S&M games, isnt it global? Wah, I really wanna know y Shino picked Tsuda! And man I wish I was given then same explanation for a crouching start as Tsuda was - its so easy to understand! Man I love Newspaper girl freaking about what would sell best! I love her!
The episode end greatly with Tsuda once getting angry at george!
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Chevrolet really has this whole trolling thing down.
The new F-150 was controversial before it even hit the road because of one thing: aluminum. The lightweight metal was chosen over steel, causing quite a stir among truckers. Hell, Edmunds even took a sledgehammer to it! Chevrolet still makes the Silverado out of steel and to show its superiority it took "real people" and put them in a room with two cages: one made of steel and another made of aluminum. A "bear" was then released and the "real people" given a choice of where to cower in fear.
Yeah, it all sounds like a bit of a stretch but the commercial is still fun to watch. We'd be interested in knowing what parts were fake and what was actually real. Please, please let the bear in the back of the Silverado be real.


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Imagine you suddenly wake out of your sleep, facing monsters who lost their way to a disco party. Creatures who start farting uncontrollably if they don't get their music dose real soon. Who would not want to help them? Especially when equipped with a magic lasso, instant zapping them to the party!
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REVIEW: Super Mario Galaxy November 5, 2007Posted by Chris in Console, Games, Reviews.
Space. The final frontier. It's always held an irresistible allure to man, and exerts a palpable sense of fear over many. It's huge, exciting, unfathomable. So when you start the first level proper of Super Mario Galaxy and you're tasked with running around a spherical planetoid, the vast reaches of space surrounding you like a gigantic, gaping maw, it's a woozily disorientating, vertigo-inducing, almost frightening experience. It also feels utterly freeing. Not just for the player, but for Mario, too. Long he's been confined to sprinting and leaping across flat planes. Now he can leap from the topside of a platform and slingshot around to the base, gravity keeping his plumber's boots firmly planted on the ground, even as he hangs upside down. And then you're flying; shooting through space, fired by a star's celestial power. Mario yelps in delight, and spreads his arms wide, taking in a handful of stardust as the universe spins below, the camera following Mario like a comet as he descends to the next planet on his adventure. It's all you can do not to hold your nunchuk and remote out in a similar manner. A thrilling, magical moment, and it's one of a great, great many in Super Mario Galaxy.
It's taken ten years for Nintendo to realise what exactly made Super Mario 64 so special. Undoubtedly, the simple fact that gaming and one of its most famous avatars had finally made that leap into the third dimension was a major part of its success. Here was a virtual world unlike any videogaming had seen before, and Nintendo had nailed the move to 3D at its first attempt. But its classic status – the reason it has endured where so many retro titles have lost their appeal – is down to the sheer delight felt at exploring its environments. Put simply, it took you places you'd never been before – it created a genuine sense of wonder through perfection in level design, through sheer gasp-inducing inventiveness, and a sprinkling of that magical Nintendo difference that can turn the mundane into the special. Super Mario Galaxy has that in spades. But not only that, it reintroduces that sense of wonder that's been missing from gaming for so long. The wow factor at seeing things you've genuinely never seen before. The jaw-dropping awe at the majesty of its virtual worlds. At times, it makes you feel like a kid again, when all you wanted to do was be a spaceman and live in the sky.
The Mario games have never concerned themselves too much with story, and things are no different here, at least initially. Peach and her castle have been spirited away by Bowser once more, except this time he's gone one step further and taken her to the centre of the universe. Naturally, it's up to Mario to do his hero thing and rescue her, but this time he's assisted by a friendly star named Luma. This little fella acts as the remote's onscreen cursor, and is used to collect colourful star bits dotted around each level. These act both as weapons (you can stun certain enemies by aiming at them and pressing B to shoot them) and as extra lives – collect 100, and you'll get that all-familiar 1UP mushroom. They're also used to unlock other galaxies from the observatory hub which sends you to these weird and wonderful places.
Aside from the pointer, Mario doesn't control too differently from previous excursions – the analogue stick manouevres Mario, with the A button to jump. The one real concession to the Wii's motion controls for Mario's basic moveset is the spin attack – a brisk shake of the remote near a foe and Mario will whirl around, usually sending them flying onto their backs. Running into their prone bodies sends them into the ether, usually in a shower of star bits. It's a welcome addition given that the nature of the galaxies is such that jumping on their heads is more difficult than ever before. Though occasionally it's a big help that you can still ground-pound them into submission, as they usually cough up life-giving coins if you defeat them the old-fashioned way. Mario has three bars of energy to get through before he loses a life, and the frequency of the coins and these star bits is a godsend – it might be a forgiving game, but it's not necessarily easy.
So, for the most part, this could easily be done on GameCube – simply remove the remote-based star-vacuuming and it'd be a perfect fit for Nintendo's last console. But then you'd be missing out on all the environmental manipulation the game throws in at regular intervals. Aim and grab a floating blue star, and Mario will be drawn towards it; waggle near a spiralling vine, and he'll rapidly shimmy up it; grasp a hovering flower, and a shake will whip it upwards on the breeze, sprinkling petals as it goes. And that's before you get to the Monkey Ball-aping Rolling Green Galaxy, or the manta-ray riding Loopdeloop Galaxy, where you'll need dextrous tilts and twists to get you through. It's telling that you spend a significant time not just controlling Mario but his environment too. And that simply wouldn't have been possible before.
And on it goes: Nintendo throws surprise after surprise at you in the myriad galaxies available. Gargantuan bosses that seem like a cheeky nod and wink to Shadow of the Colossus; self-referential moments that see New Mario meeting Old Mario; mind-bending, gravity-altering 2D sections that will test the neophytes from the veterans. A whole universe full of inconsequential yet beautiful little touches, level design that will leave you stunned, music that will make your heart soar, and intense scraps that will make your heart pound. Then – just when you think it's stopped dazzling you – Nintendo slings in a power-up which will leave even the most jaded gamer with a Cheshire cat-sized grin on their face. And when it's all over and 120 stars are yours, there's the mother of all bonuses – a pure fan-service moment that says 'thanks for playing. Now go and play some more.' Naturally, all this is best experienced cold. Stop watching the videos now – you'll only ruin it for yourself.
Yet it's not just the meticulous craft, and the sheer love for the character and his world shining through near-as-dammit every level that makes this so special. The worlds themselves are often so gorgeous it hurts – tropical oases that best Sunshine in a single stage, chilly ice and fiery magma worlds that transcend genre, and areas so odd and idiosyncratic that they defy simple description – a mish-mash of thoughts and ideas that somehow gels into a cohesive whole. And it's all soundtracked by – at last – a fully orchestral score that marks some of the best music ever heard in a Mario game. There's a bit of Theremin-enhanced weirdness and one or two minimalist soundscapes to add texture to the John Williams style anthemic bombast and Koji Kondo jauntiness, and it makes a welcome change to the usual formula.
A game with this many ideas and this many levels can't possibly be perfect, and so it proves. The camera, perfect for almost the entire journey, struggles on the underwater sections. The hub world, while a treat for the eyes, isn't the playground it deserves to be – the one area where Sunshine is definitely superior. And one or two stages manage to fall below the quality watermark of 'excellent' into merely 'decent' territory. Once you've collected the sixty one stars needed to complete the game, some players might take umbrage that around half the stages that remain are simple coin-hoovering challenges, or redux versions of existing stages (comets occasionally change the victory conditions, from racing Shadow Mario through a short section of one level to beating another in a strict time limit). But it's hard to imagine anyone not wanting to revisit these perfectly-formed self-contained microcosms. Particularly when the comets change the dynamic of the stages so much that they feel like different levels entirely. Besides, it's certainly an improvement on the laborious blue coin route.
It seems churlish to criticise these failings, particularly as when Super Mario Galaxy is at its best, there's no game in the world that can match it. Some stages are absolutely astonishing, showcasing a staggering creativity. One or two have more ideas crammed in than most games in their entirety, and that's no exaggeration. For something which is essentially all about running and jumping, there's a variety to the action that few games can touch. It will make you laugh with blissful joy, gasp in childlike shock, marvel at the inventiveness of the designers, and smile at the effort poured into making such a complete videogaming experience. It's the kind of game that inspires feverish devotion, the kind of game that leads impressionable minds to nail their colours to the mast of a multi-billion-yen-earning corporation, and somehow make that seem like an entirely reasonable thing to do. It's a game that's been made with nothing but love and respect for its iconic protagonist, and nothing but love and respect for the people that play it. It's an absolute, God's-honest masterpiece.
It's taken ten years for Nintendo to realise exactly what made Super Mario 64 so special; a decade to create something that finally lives up to one of videogaming's defining moments. Amazingly, Super Mario Galaxy is tsufufum all over again.
- 2. Joer - November 5, 2007
Where is the score?
How do I know if it's good or not?
- 3. Henke - November 5, 2007
No award = Edge 11, Joer.
- 4. Herbi - November 5, 2007
I think that's just about the best review I've ever read, well done HOC. Can't wait.
- 5. Jes Bickham - November 5, 2007
Tsufufum! Bravo, sir. (I wonder if anyone else got that?) Excellent review also, so double bravo!
- 7. Mike Hobbs - November 5, 2007
I got the tsufufum reference, and felt mighty proud, and not a little old. Great reveiw Chris. It's really heartening to hear that this really is something a little bit special.
- 8. Mike Hobbs - November 5, 2007
It was Zy right? Zy Nicholas?
- 11. Dan - November 5, 2007
Still a freelancer, Chris? I'd be impressed if I saw a better review than this in a magazine. Top stuff.
- 13. Joer - November 5, 2007
Bloody Raze..
Just read the review Chris, very nice! My hype levels have just shot up and i've preordered another game I can't really afford. 😦
- 14. Jes Bickham - November 5, 2007
Hey Chris
Well, thank you, good sir, for *your* kind words! I caught the link for the review from either rllmuk or neogaf, I forget which (busy day) – two forums I still frequent even though I don't work with games anymore.
Cracking review though, and one I'd have been proud to run in NGC when I was editor.
- 16. Raze - November 5, 2007
What have *I* done, Joer? >:|
- 17. ElRhodeo - November 5, 2007
Very nice review! Can't wait for this game – it will be released on my birthday 🙂
- 18. Greg - November 5, 2007
Nice review, even though it contains one two many paragraphs that are there for pure hype purposes. There's been too many game of the year reviews this year! Although this one probabaly has a better chance of actually fulfilling its hype.
- 21. Ario - November 6, 2007
Great job, that really was an excellent review, though I too did skip quite a bit to dodge spoilers.
- 22. Herman Strauss - November 7, 2007
Great review, I'm really impressed. Your review is so descriptive that I'm even more excited now about the game's release than I've ever been!!!
- 23. Simon Roche - November 14, 2007
Great review and I totally got the tsufufum! I still have the video from that copy of the magazine! I miss N64 mag!
I am so excited about this game, I've only watched 2 videos and have avoided most reviews so nothing is spoiled for me. It's not out in Australia for another 15 days though so I still have to wait a bit!
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- 26. Tigamilla - February 9, 2009
Tsufufum! I remember that from days gone!
- 27. GotD Top 10 – 4. Super Mario Galaxy « The Video Games Ate My Baby - January 4, 2010
[…] Sunshine barely got a look in at all but with Galaxy I found a game that just blew me away. One superb review and I knew what had to be done. I bunked college. November 16th 2007 was the day I finally accepted […]
- 28. jan - February 24, 2010
das ist ein echt cooooooooooooooooles game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Howdy Partner! Being a high school teacher, the countdown to summer begins usually right after spring break! Summer is almost here and I know this from not only the 105 degree temperatures greeting me this afternoon, but also by the graduation announcements arriving in the mail. Clever Creations was recently hired to do a graduation party for a graduate from the school where I teach. Being that Baylor University in Waco, TX is her future destination (go Bears!), we decided to make her graduation party "western" themed. I thought you might want to see how it came out. My favorite touch was adding straw on the back patio floor to make it feel like a barn. Sadly, I didn't get a picture of that – but did get photos of just about everything else. At the end of this post I will give you a step by step for how I made the party favors. I think most of the photos are self explanatory but you know me – I explain them in detail anyway. Now mosey on through these pictures and enjoy the browse. I hope you get inspired by some of my ideas.
The last party tip I have is whenever hosting, be sure to include the powder bath in your decor/theme. For Katie's party I placed "outhouse" signs throughout the house with arrows directing guests to the powder bath. In the powder bath I put another large photo of Katie that was imprinted with the saying, "Don't squat with your spurs on!" It adds a bit of humor and whimsy to any party to add a decorator touch where people least expect it!
As I "hit the trail" toward the end of the evening one of my favorite comments I overheard was from two women who did not realize I was the party hostess/planner. They were walking by me and said, "This party was incredible…let's get out our cameras and steal these ideas." I could not resist telling them to, "steal away…nothing blesses me more than to inspire someone else to celebrate life." I hope I've done the same for you! Now giddy up partner on your own western party…cute for any summer BBQ. YEE HAW!


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An Introduction to Marco Ferreri by Miljenko Skoknic
Marco Ferreri's dark, satirical and often surreal films embody a unique vision of humanity, one that is borne of exasperation and nihilism, suspending any escape that is not met without the demise -or at least a reconstruction- of modern man. His bleak outlook of humanity's future, portraying the dissolution of the family tie between men, women and children, results, in Ferreri's works, in a world devoid of sense. Dealing mostly in a very loose sense of black comedy, a genre which Ferreri often took to its last consequences, we see recurring archetype of characters who are at the fringes, perpetually exiled from their psyche and with no horizon of purpose other than survival. Left to their own devices, usually in a contemporary environment, Ferreri's humans are always physically and mentally frayed while they oscillate between the tensions of death and sexuality, Thanatos and Eros.
Ferreri was never a director who aimed to please, and although he never say himself as a provocateur, most of his work operates as an apocalyptic mirror of contemporary times. While his origins and affiliations were tied to Italian Neorrealism, he gradually crafted a fiercely contemporary cinematic language of his own; his desire to delve deep into the alienating logic of the everyday generated films set in a timeless modernity of sorts. His insistence on this customized time frame, never looking at the past, and always on the fringe of futurism, established his singular sense of time: one that, in his words, he would call "elsewhere". In an interview with English film scholar RT Witcombe, he would add that it's a reality that "merely survives itself, or has already becomes obsolete" (Witcombe, 1982). This estranged sense of everyday reality shrouded his characters and their lives like a cloak: The men and women in Ferreri's works are never separated from their surroundings, and they way in which it affected their sense of action and purpose constitutes one of the main axis of his aesthetics.
Originally interested in veterinary, we could say he relished in occupying himself with the animal that is humanity. This essential approach in Ferreri can explain, in part, the curious behaviour of the characters in all the grand majority of his films: never reacting as expected to their circumstances, as if detached from any sense of plausible behaviour. Critics would dismiss his particular choice for tone by deeming them as films that "look realistic but (...) are essentially lunatic cartoons, meant to be deadly serious." But it's more like human who are acting slightly abnormally, not because of a stiff script or blocking, or any formal cinematic regulation for that matter, but rather that they characters are always placed is a space of withdrawal: sensual as well as mental. It's almost as if Ferreri placed the humans that parade through his visions into a space of confinement, for further study through the aberrant perspective of his nightmarish yet silently hopeful vision.
Ferreri's available works in English are scarce and out of print, which limits the films covered in this essay to 13 out of his total of 33. However, his main works, excluding short documentaries and TV films are, approximately 24. I regret, at the time of this writing, of not being able to view two of his more notable works: L'uomo dei cinque palloni (1965), and La Derniere Femme (1976). The present essay will focus only selected works from his output from 1958 until 1979. I believe that Ferreri's most consistent work was produced between El Pisito and Chiedo Asilo. His later works delve into repetitions of the main themes of male alienation, fear of reproduction and various aesthetic portrayals of the Apocalypse.
Born in Milan in 1928, he was a college dropout with an interest in Veterinary, later working as a motion picture lens salesman and as a production assistant in Italian films of the early 50s. His trade brought him to Spain, where he sought the Spanish writer Rafael Azcona, who at the time writing in a satirical magazine called La Codorniz. After many attempts to raise money to produce a film, and at Azcona's suggestion, Ferreri decided to turn to directing. His perseverance paid off: he managed to raise the sufficient funds to shoot his first feature, El Pisito (1958). The film was not a success. However, it earned enough critical acclaim that it allowed him to direct Los Chicos in 1959 and, more importantly, his breakthrough film El Cochecito in 1960.
El Pisito (1958); El Cochecito (1960): Urban Claustrophobia
Both these films are set in Madrid, Spain, under Francisco Franco's regime. El Pisito portrays a couple in their mid thirties, living with numerous other families in a little flat, a living situation that has frayed their relationship, because of their uncomfortable living situation. He ends up marrying the flat's octogenarian landlord, in order to inherit her estate, so that we may move in with his wife. The tone of the film is quite simple, and I was surprised at Ferreri's elegant direction, full of generous tracking shots and a vert careful and classic sense of framing. What we see, however, is directly opposite of what this style would suggest: the film is noisy, a sonic chaos of with several overlapping voices, most of them shouting with idiosyncratic Spanish vehemence. Complaints, frustrations, favour upon favours, and insults make up most of the ambient in El Pisito, effectively conveying the claustrophobic real estate squeeze that has taken a hold of postwar Spain. Thoroughly enjoyable, El Pisito is far from the type of film Ferreri's international audiences are familiar with. El Pisito's boisterous comedic rhythm would be a style that Ferreri would hone in El cochecito, and well into his early 60s comedies, gradually appropriating a more static, contemplative style, while retaining his improvisational, almost disheveled cinematic style.
El cochecito, follows the story of Don Anselmo, a widowed elderly man who lives with his son and family. The plot of the film revolves around him attempting to obtain enough money to finance a motorized scooter, in which all his elderly friends ride about town. His only problem is that he is still able to walk, so Don Narciso goes through every trick in the book to convince his son to finance his scooter. As he doesn't get the vehicle, his plan get hilariously murderous, and as Don Anselmo finally makes his slow getaway, he is arrested by the police in the border. As negative it is in the portrayal of Don Anselmo, the film is nevertheless a critique of how isolated older people become in modern societies; ignored to the point where almost the whole family pretends he does not exist: Ferreri's film is the unlikely revenge of this would-be antihero.
La Donna Scimia (1964); L'Harem (1967)
La Donna Scimia is in my opinion, one of Ferreri's harshest works, at least in the version he envisioned it. It's probably one of his first films where a misogynist streak can be detected; but this is a facile dismissal, for Ferreri was always interested more in portraying how men's behaviour towards women bring to relief the symptoms of crisis of contemporary man. In its desperate attempt to retain its hegemony as the dominant sex, the male protagonist is always of La Donna Scimia, Ugo, is a truculent bum who comes across Anne Girardot, a woman who is covered with hair. After cynically courting her, he convinces her to perform as a circus, which she resigns to do, not without protest regarding his treatment of her, she begins to suspect that behind his apparent desire to marry her lies a commercial interest. She dies at childbirth, so Ugo decides to display her deceased body next to the newborn, in his traveling carnival show.
One of Ferreri's most interesting abilities is his knack to stretching a small anecdote, extending it into a full fledged feature film, as was the case of L'Harem (1967). It was in this film that his comedic style began to veer towards something more akin to tragedy, and where his characters grow continually more detached from the mimetic pact that cinematic realism espouses. Playing most of his previous films in a more jovial, noisy and humorous approach, in L'Harem, he strips the story of any irony and decided during the editing that a humourless approach was more consistent. The films ends with the four men of her harem throwing her off a cliff, and the film cutting abruptly to its end credits. This blunt and absurdist sense of montage would continue to grow on his later films, as temporal and spatial cuts rely less and less in keeping the action fluid, and instead function as a cut that is always jarring, distancing and disturbing.
Dillinger é Morto (1969)
In 1969, Ferreri completed Dillinger e Morto, his first major work, and what is widely regarded as his masterpiece. It tells the story of Glauco, and industrial designer, working on a new design for gas masks, who upon returning home, finds his wife (Anita Pallenberg) nursing a headache. He heads downstairs to find his meal already gone cold. He dons an apron and begins to cook himself a meal. Looking for ingredients, he stumbles upon an old, rusty gun wrapped in an old newspaper, with a headline that reads "Dillinger is dead". Glauco then proceeds to take the gun apart, oils it, and upon reassembling it, paints it red and finished the decoration by painting white polka dots. Meanwhile, he proceeds to walk upstairs to the maid's room, where he flirts with her a little. Walking around his house at dawn, he plays old home movies on the projector while constantly checking on his gun. Once it's dry, he goes to his wife's room, and while rehearsing to shoot himself on the head with the gun, he goes over to the bed, and puts a few pillows on his wife's head, and proceeds to shoot her. This shocking climax is nothing but the surreal conclusion of this mental implosion, and a fierce critique of the alleged plenitude that the modern bourgeoisie man reaches when he has "made it"; supposedly has everything he needs to make his life a satisfying one. The film concludes with Glauco simply leaving his house at dawn, driving towards the sea, and swimming towards a yacht headed to Tahiti, obtaining is situ a job as a cook. The ship sails towards the horizon.
Reacting to the May 68 cultural upheaval, Michel Piccoli's character is meant to function as a magnyfing glass held up up to a specific man, whose individual relationship to the objects that surround him is perfunctory and unsatisfactory. Yet he keeps himself oddly amused by all the small luxuries in his home, such as the TV, a film projector (which symbolizes cinema), and radio, which softly plays the hits of the day. In Dillinger, we see Ferreri's aesthetics moving away from a de facto realism, slipping gradually into a less realistic and more stylish and abstract idea of cinema. Maintaining the narrative conventions, the almost ritualistic manner in which Glauco carries his being throughout the film implies a crisis of contemporary man in relation with the objects that govern his existence: killing time, in relation to "working" time (busi-ness) is now the most dangerous discovery.
La Cagna (1972)
La Cagna marks another exploration into the isolated worlds that marks the environment of the typical homo ferrensis; Marcello Matroianni plays Giorgio, a kind of Robinson Crusoe, alone in a seemingly desert island, with no companion except for his dog, Melampo. A nearby yacht -citing his previous Dillinger is Dead- containing a group of indolent rich people, expel Liza (Catherine Deneuve), who is then stranded in the island. Upon meeting Marcello, a relationship forms. Catherine grows increasingly jealous by Marcello's friendship with Melampo, so she decides to kill him. After Giorgio buries Melampo, Liza instantly begins to replace the dog's actions, fetching sticks and wearing a collar. A rumination on the nature of relationships is one way of interpreting the film. Yet, for all its boisterous premise, the film is incredibly delicate, with the exception, of course, of the scenes where Liza walks on all fours wearing a leash. This is one of Ferreri's films in which I had a fearful anticipation of what the film would be like, judging from the plot synopsis. Yet, as mentioned, the woman-dog premise is so extremely downplayed, that it never is a main element in the film. Eschewing the film's basic scandalous premise, we are left with a study into human relationships, and how they grow dependent, and how most relationships, in many way, constitute an escape from the grim typesetting of identity and purpose that is civilization, of at least in the dirge perspective that Ferreri believes in.
Chiao Maschio (1977); Chiedo Asilo (1979)
Ferreri's subsequent works begun to incoprorate issues dealing with female identity. As he saw it, the female of the species had a greater resistance and inclination towards survival, whether the male gradually regresses into a self destruction. Gerard Depardieu plays Lafayette, a brutish yet boyish man who works as a lighting director for a feminist theater troupe.
In Chiedo Asilo, Ferreri manages to find a perfect balance between urban space, and its small heterotopias that dwell in the cities. From factories, to nursery homes in factories, to small churches in the country, Ferreri places a group of children who get a visit from a very non- orthodox kindergarten teacher, played by a young Benigni. He does everything but teach them "things". Instead of investing in them small lectures of activities to keep them busy till their parents pick them up, he instead opts for bringing animals in the classroom, unleashed, so they can experience contact directly; he takes the kids on an improvised field trip to see their parents who work at factories. Alas, for all the edifying activities he presents them, Benigni can't seem to behave himself as a responsible adult: His has many girlfriends, some of which are his pupil's parents.
As he zigzags in between all these situations, he applies a pedagogical treatment with his little students that little has to do with the expectations of kindergarten. He sees preschool as an a refugee, where kids can just be kids, where their sense of language and exploration can be organic, unorganized and free-floating, before moving on a educational system (school) that just feeds them data, and stimulates mindless competition. As Benigni's character sees it, that little preschool in the middle of the factory and housing complexes is a small oasis, it's an alternative space, unregulated by the long arm of education, discipline and "survivial of the fittest" ideology. One of Ferreri's film that touches an emotional fiber, and yet manages to retain all the absurdist gestures that make up his more extreme and radical work. A diamond in the rough, that needs no polishing, because its crystallized narrative roughness and pacing is part of what makes this film a classic "film with children." like Zero in Conduct, 400 Blows, or the Red Balloon, by Lamorisse.
Ferreri was never a director who aimed to please, and although he never say himself as a provocateur, most of his work operates as an apocalyptic mirror of contemporary times. While his origins and affiliations were tied to Italian Neorrealism, he gradually crafted a fiercely contemporary cinematic language of his own; his desire to delve deep into the alienating logic of the everyday generated films set in a timeless modernity of sorts. His insistence on this customized time frame, never looking at the past, and always on the fringe of futurism, established his singular sense of time: one that, in his words, he would call "elsewhere". He would add that it's a reality that "merely survives itself, or has already becomes obsolete." This estranged sense of everyday reality shrouded his characters and their lives like a cloak: The men and women in Ferreri's works are never separated from their surroundings, and they way in which it affected their sense of action and purpose constitutes one of the main axis of his aesthetics.
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Haskell, Molly. The Excess of Two Films that Aren't. Village Voice (July, 1976): 41.
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Carpio, Maite (dir.). Irriverente Ferreri, La Storia Siamo Moi.it, http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/pop/schedaVideo640480.aspx?id=401 (Accessed December 7, 2007).
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Medicine as Virtuous Conduct: Assessing the Tradition of Chinese Medical Ethics
Zhang, Daqing
Bibliographic Citation
In: Döring, Ole; Chen, Renbiao, eds. Advances in Chinese Medical Ethics: Chinese and International Perspectives. Hamburg: Institut fur Asienkunde; 2002: 233-254.
Permanent Linkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10822/1014691
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