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Disney Blocks NapalmRiot
- April 23, 2008 - 9:03pm
- Mood: Vacation-tastic
- Reading: Halo: Contact Harvest
- Drinking: Water
- Eating: Apple Pie
Few points to hit on...
Mainly I'm currently vacationing around Florida for the week. I spent 4 days at Disney Vero Beach, which is a resort on the ocean. Fine fine... I didn't access the internet there. However for the last three days of my vacation I will be staying at Disney's Broadwalk. Here at the Broadwalk we have internet access through the room, so I have access for the first time now since I left home. Anyway... Disney's content filters BLOCK Napalmriot. As both a financial contributor to NapalmRiot and a shareholder in Disney, I'm very offended and I will be withdrawing my shares in Disney and dumping my meager investment into canned corn.
On a lighter, in the abscence of video games, I brought two books relating to video games. The first half of the vacation I read Mass Effect: Revelations. This is an excellent book, emphasis on excellent. I have one criteria for my vacations books; that they be simply stories, nothing where I have to read a paragraph twice to get this person's philospohical and totally fucked up perspective on whatever. Nonetheless Mass Effect: Revelations simply told a story. It was great. No fancy high brow language, just a simple story about how Captain Anderson became a candidate for a spectre and how Saren ruined it. However because this book was so good I finished it with relative haste.... So... I moved on to Halo: Contact Harvest. Well first off I'm a big fan of Eric Nylund and his three Halo books, so I don't take kindly to anyone else wirting the Halo books. But I swallowed my preference for author and began reading. I mean it's good so far, I'm about 125 pages in, and it tells a story. It's nice getting the backstory of Johnson and what not, but this guy's language is just too cliche and high brow. Example take page 75, last line in the paragraph... "Avery detected a hint of volition in Healy's Buffoonery..." I mean come on, I stopped reading after that line and let out a big, "WOW!"... Anyway, aside from flowery prose in Contact Harvest and over description of many things, it's a decent read.
... I just can't wait to get home and play some Mass Effect.
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ɤVectors
Fan Fiction Writer
Eric Nylund ftw. No one else cannot be comapred . Yeah, I'm waiting eagerly for the next either sequel or prequel. i have yet to see what Nylund stirs up next in his Halo creativity.
I can agree to your statement in "high brow" language in Halo: Contact Harvest. James (The dude) just new in making sci-fi novels.
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It has really simple areas, but then you'll hit a few pages that you end up hauling the thesaurus out for.
Set fire to some Disney property!
Wait.. That's probably not legal >.>
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