Oh man. That nap was olympic-level sleeping. And I had epic, epic, Frank-Herbert-level-epic dreams, space opera dreams. In the dreamtime I often rob space stations, apparently.

Eh, it's a living.

I's is made of Win. I called the panel would still be on Saturday, before noon or run until 1 and that it'll be in Hall H. Which is the only way to go after last year's fiasco. But it seems that NBC thinks that they will get 6500 even after Season 2. I know they have their money banked right.

So this is how it goes, on Saturday:

10:45-11:45am Heroes panel
Location: Hall H (Holds 6,500 people)

7:00-11:00pm Heroes Soundtrack Release Party
Location: House of Blues

I'm going to have to get my ass to House of Blues really quick. I'm finishing up a Stargate fan panel at 7. I wonder if this is the first soundtrack that came out, or the new one from Wendy and Lisa. *checks 9th Wonders.* Yep! It is theirs! Check out the thread. They will be at Comic Con promoting it. Woot, woot!

Thank you to petrellilover for the heads up.

After two weeks without letters, I got two letters and a postcard from Patty. She's very swee and writes incredibly evocative stuff about where she is working.

You will all laugh at me for this. She writes: "Your new stationary is very nice and dignified. It doesn't make me think of Captain Jack, but then you know him better."

Also, she taught me how to say pottery shards in Arabic.

SOB.

I know a lot of people hate Jagr, but I've always liked him and LOVED him as a Ranger and I am absolutely *heartbroken* that he won't be back next year. gah. The last time I cried over a hockey player was when we traded Leetch. I'm just glad I got to see him play like a BEAST at his last game at MSG. ::cries again::

Just cause it's making me hungry, and I know a lot of folks who will like this -

Food Porn Daily.

http://foodporndaily.com/


Pardon me while I wipe my chin.

I posted this at the soulcollaging community and then figured, what the heck, I might as well post it here, too. There are more people reading this journal than that one at the moment who might actually be able to answer the question:

Okay, here's a question particular for those of you who are experienced at manipulating digital images.

What I really want to do in making a Community card for Fiona is this: I took her to the dojo and took a whole bunch of pictures of her spinning and kicking, in her birthday dress, using the mirror to capture reflections (Fiona LOVES to spin; she's done it for years). I want to layer the images, but I don't know how/don't have a program that will extract the images of just her figure and then layer them, transparently. I tried to do it with a very crude photo editing program I have, but it was very crude, trying to manually erase pixels, and extremely tedious, and the outlines are all blurring.

Anyway, these are a couple of the images I am starting with (and I have several others I'd like to layer in):

( Fiona spinning ) and

( Fiona spinning 2 )

This is my crude mock up first attempt. Anyone have any ideas of a program or technique I can use to achieve the effect I want to achieve?

( Rough draft of Fiona's soulcollage card )

(And apropos of nothing, isn't she damn beautiful?)

DC may not be offering their comics for download (*rolls eyes*), but they're certainly hitting the animated front. First some cartoon episodes have shown up on iTunes and then they've opened the DCNetwork for the Xbox360. For some reason, I thought DC was also creating a standalone site as well, but I can't remember what they're calling it.

We are Harry and the Potters! (Apologies for the quality of the photo. My camera is definitely not cut out for concert photography.)

sugarjet03 and I went to see Harry and the Potters at Cat's Cradle on Tuesday, and I had a great time. Harry and the Potters has never been my favorite wizard rock band, but they are much better live than they are on an album. Plus, there is something pretty damn magical about a crowd of people singing and dancing along to a song about Hagird. Hagrid is fun to hug // Hagrid if full of love // just don't get stuck in Hagrid's beard // Aaaaaaaah! There were hand motions.

This is the first wizard rock concert I've been too, but according to this article in the Indy, this whole tour is a bit unusual. For starters, it's an actual tour, playing at actual rock clubs with opening bands as oppose to playing at libraries. However, it was geared as a family event. The band had volunteers come and help decorate the club. They passed out nametags, had face painting and giant inflatable monkeys to dance with. There were lots of people in costumes; not just Harry Potter costumes but pirates and vikings. The band was crazy enthusiastic and jumped around a lot. They called their drummer Ringo Weasley. He's Ron's cousin. Right before they played The Weasle, Ringo "stomped off" and the drummer from the opening band came and played the song dressed as the giant squid.

Harry and the Potters were also participating in the Wizard Rock the Vote campaign and they ran the Wizard Rock the Vote adds during the set change. I really wanted to buy the poster, but decided it was a big frivolous.

My only complaint was the opening bands. It's not that they were bad (although they kinda were), but they weren't wizard rock bands and that's the whole reason I went to the concert. I didn't go because I like the music, I went because the lyrics are about Harry Potter, so I had no interest in the opening bands. I don't understand why they didn't find other wizard rock bands to be the openers. It would have made more sense.

For the second installment of Does it Work? we have a print ad from the AMPTP. Click the thumbnail for the full size picture.



The concept: Inform people as to why we shouldn't go to strike for the second time in a year.

Does it work? Not really, no.

Typically, when the industry puts out an informative ad, they try to make it as uncluttered as possible so that the text of the ad is what you notice first, and so that you aren't bogged down by interpreting image choice and so on. (You might not realize that you do that when you look at ads, but you do)

Here's an ad that is the perfect example of what an informative ad should be. "Pencils Down" put out by the WGA during the strike.



This works because they picked a straight forward headline. "Pencils Down" immediately tells you that they plan on not writing at all during the strike, and the image echoes this.

Now, back to the AMPTP's "A Clear Choice." Let's first break the ad apart into three sections, the headline, the content and the images. Given that the ad is designed to inform us why an actor's strike is a bad thing, the headline is good. The content of the ad is straightforward, breaking down what will happen if an agreement is reached, versus the after effects of another strike. (I might have used more basic terminology since these ads also work in swaying those outside of the industry, too)

The images. Oh, the images. I can already visualize the day the ad was being created. At the agency, the creative director says to the designer, "I need two images that'll show the two choices. One will have people on strike and the other will have people working. Go." Then the designer sat, staring at the pages of stock photos, trying to figure out how you show people working in the industry. "Hey, this crane looks cool." While the crane is indeed cool, it doesn't work. The layout with the headline on top and the two images side by side is a disaster. To me, it makes the ad read as though we have a choice between a strike or riding on the crane. (Note: Rej did point out this comment someone made on the ad, and while I agree with it completely, I thought I should point out that I wasn't the only one, or the first to say so)

Here's what I learned mocking up ads - if you're a little iffy on the correlation between an image and the ad's content, don't use the image.

My solution? I would have used checkboxes with two options: Strike or Labor Agreement, with the box for Labor Agreement having an X or a tick mark. No ambiguity there. Also, I would ditched the bullet points and simply gone with using indents. To me, the bullet points look more than a little amateurish.

I do look forward to seeing SAG's rebuttal ad, and I'll likely profile it here. But first, I'll find a television ad that works - so that you won't think I'm against anyone else's work than my own.

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AMPTP ad source: Deadline Hollywood Daily
WGA ad source: WGA East

Fanfic Title: Under Hill
Fanfic Author: Astolat (astolat)
Read by: Twilight (twilight_angel)
Fandoms: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Format: mp3
Length: 1:03:38 (72.8 MB)
Link to Fanfic: Right here.
Summary: "Can't we just kill a bunch of elves without having to talk about our feelings?" Dean said.
Comments: Thank you, Astolat, for letting me to podfic this great story! And I have no idea what accent I was doing for the elf, but it seemed to fit. Hope you agree. :) This was recorded as a prize for twasadark, who won the Intrepid Award. Great job!

Sendspace link: Here. (temporary)
Permanent link: Courtesy of general_jinjur, right here! Thanks!



Please enjoy!

Crossposted to the podslash comm, the wincest comm, and the motelwincest comm.

Bruce Wayne is a billionaire playboy type, right? He inherited his company from his father, became a superhero out of some personal vendetta, and has no power as such, other than skill and training and a plethora of gadgets.

JUST LIKE TONY STARK, RIGHT?

So why do I love Tony and rather dislike Bruce? Because Tony is so much more real. Bruce's playboy persona is exactly that - a persona. It's a face he puts on for the world. Whereas Tony actually is that guy. There's nothing false about him. He genuinely wants to have a good time and fuck some hot women and get drunk off his face, and then save the world a bit. Whereas Bruce, I imagine, would quite happily hole himself up in the Batcave his whole life were it not for the fact his name is known and he is obliged to show his face now and then. Bruce! You are dull. Sorry, but you just are.

This post was brought to you by rewatching Batman Begins.

First off, I want to say how cool it is that when I post about a restoration of an 80-year-old silent movie that's already had at least as many reworkings as Blade Runner, people still *get it*, and know why it matters. Not all of my flist are movie fans, and that's more that fine: I know people with a huge diversity of interests and skills through LJ, and you all enlighten my life, in various ways, with posting, comments, and nifty links. Still- it's nice to talk the moviegeek talk once in a while.

Also, I biked up the west side of Manhattan Island today, up to roughly 125th St. There were boats with witty names bobbing in the water (Tenacious C was a favorite); people who smiled as me as a rode by; up around 90th street, there was even a parrot. It was bright green, with a yellow head. I smiled at it, as it stood on a railing; its owner called out its name- Toby- to be, and I repeated "Hey, Toby- hey" for a bit. It never repeated that, but it muttered a few random comments in English, and sidled closer to me on the railing, and bobbed its head up and down repeatedly, until I finally got back on my bike. Whenever I see a parrot, I always look at their eyes, and wonder if a dinosaur's were like this. Fairly close, I'd think.

Anyway- happy Fourth of July, everyone. Have a great one :)

I've had this weird feeling all day that today is not really happening; I blame the network problem at work that left me sitting around for twenty minutes first thing in the morning with nothing to do. Or possibly Ink & Steel-induced sleep deprivation.

(Not that I stayed up all night reading it; I actually went to bed at a decent hour. Just that it's so full of hawt Christopher Marlowe slash and, indeed, Kit's general awesomeness, that I just can't stop thinking about how Kit is possibly the best character ever only he's not a character he actually existed and that too is made of win. Even if he did die before he could be as amazingly prolific as Shakespeare, alas. Also, why has noone ever done a film of Tamburlaine? It seems like it would do well. Just sayin'.)

But as of today I have only one Thursday left at my crappy job, which can only be a good thing.

karabou and I will be w/o internet from now until Sunday.

She just realized, we're doing PONFAR.

Awesome. Send Frooty'Os.

Okay, so I have this theory about Starbucks. I think that everyone initially is like, "Oh my God, I totally don't understand the Starbucks addiction! You're paying twice as much for a product just to get Italian names and fun green straws!" (Which is very, very true.) But I also think that eventually, even if it takes months or years, everyone finds that ONE drink that makes them stop their Starbucks bias. For my best friend, it was the chai tea latte, for example. She tried it once and seriously couldn't even stop thinking about it for days.

I thought I was safe. I don't drink coffee or tea. The only potential danger was hot chocolate, but I also neatly evaded that threat since I grew up in South Florida, meaning that I had hot chocolate only a handful of times a year. Even when I went to school, where there is an actual winter, there are coffee places with better (and cheaper) hot chocolate closer to my dorm than Starbucks. I should have been safe forever and ever, right?

Wrong.

My time for Starbucks lovin' has come, in the form of the blended lemonade. I literally stopped in my tracks as I was leaving work today and saw the sign outside the Starbucks down the street. I rushed inside. And lo, it was delicious. I mean, I am a fan of anything semi-frozen and fruity (when at home, I make smoothies every morning, and I don't even want to think about how much money I forked over for Jamba Juice at school), and the Stabucks Blended Lemonade fulfills both of those requirements. It is amazing.

I am so getting another one tomorrow. (Before I go to the beach? After? Both?)

Damn Starbucks.

However, I work on a concrete floor, so my feet hurt anyway. Ah, well.

Today I demoed just as many boxes of cheesecake as I sold. This is ridiculous.

• 09:17 Modular sound flute -- cool electronic toy. tinyurl.com/686nz5 #
• 09:52 Sexy design... Mirror Tic Tac Toe tinyurl.com/5cx9x8 #
• 09:53 FLDS opens online clothing store: tinyurl.com/3eczwj #
• 09:53 McCain encouraging spam? Gasp! tinyurl.com/6y8se9 #
• 09:55 HOw to hide an elephant: tinyurl.com/3wwmjm #
• 11:34 Super Mario 1-UP mushroom burgers! I'd make this with red, too, for super mushrooms. tinyurl.com/5ont98 #
• 11:36 I may experiment with sweepstakes: tinyurl.com/44sxge #
• 12:02 Nice nice marketing for carrots: tinyurl.com/45y9c3 #
• 12:03 Video: Bush tours America to survey damage caused by his disastrous presidency. tinyurl.com/4o9jzo #

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I'm not going to be online for long, but I just wanted to mention that I entered livelongnmarry. :3 I'd meant to do it this morning, but by the time I had to leave I wasn't finished with my entry yet, so now it is ;P

At this point in time I'm afraid I can't afford to bid myself, but I can offer something :P My post is here, and for now I have two offers ongoing - a single illustration, or a set of six (one per month). I've seen someone else proposing that, and I thought it might work? Kind of risky, but... oh well. Worse comes to worst, there will be complete silence on that front. ;P

Actually, still inspired by other people's posts, I've also begun thinking about offering fic translations - of course, I can only do Italian (English/Italian for preference, since it's easier, quicker and guaranteed to give the best results ;P), and I'm not even sure whether people would actually be interested in it? Oh, well. *scratches head*


Not to change subject or anything, but oh boy, I've been reading your replies to my last entry, and ♥♥♥♥♥ omg I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. Until I get to actually answer them all, I wanted to at least say that. ;P

I'm such a sucker for these vids. It's like the Free Hugs vids. Hugs and dancing, two universal languages.

I also really dig on this music. The beginning reminds me vaguely of "Apologize."

Thank you to elven_wolf for the heads up on this. A few weeks ago I had heard about this guy, but I hadn't checked him out. What a sensation! Almost 4 MILLION views of this video in thirteen days!

GO RENE MARIE.

she has the RIGHT to be pissed for all the reasons that little puckerfaced political turd tried to make sound nasty. city leaders don't need to apologise to anyone, if they do it's just STUPID. 1)it's art 2)she's right 3)it wasn't THEM singing 4)whatever, you know? why all the butthurt?

it's OUR fucking country, we live in it and it serves US, we don't have to fucking WORSHIP it and it's *NOT* sacred or sacrosanct! it's just a fucking government and when it's wrong and the singers sing about it - Suck It Up.

this shouldn't be an uproar, it should be an intake of breath and a lot of guilty nodding. [ETA: well, no, not that. words. people should talk about it without the crazed outbirk. for me, personally, guilty nodding means i'm thinking, so i project. it's a deep-thought issue, not a caveman jumping and stamping around issue. i think what she did took giant courage, and it did what art does- causes words and thinking and all that. i want a free patriots movement. white stars on the blue background, proud people having independence day celebrations.

if you have not read Little Brother [download], get off your baggy old butt and do it ASAP. we might need Xnet sooner than anyone thinks. =P

Well shit.

I seem to be having the oddest luck with glasses lately (and by lately I mean the past year).

The twanging noise I just heard from my left lens? It was the plastic thingy that held the lens in its place, snapping off.

I have, once again, been caught like a bad programmer, i.e. without a backup.

Shit.

And those were my few hundred bucks American glasses, too, made in the aftermath of the previous glasses incident. I had high confidence in them, and despite what I said then>, I'd grown to love them and they actually fit me well.

Small Fandom Big Bang posting has started. OH HOLY CRAP!

On the one hand, I have to go to work now. On the other, I've been chewing at the bit for these for months, and it is Friday, SO I CAN JUST HAVE ONE GIANT FIC LOVE-IN ALL WEEKEND. WHEE!

Happy July 4! If the events of Die Hard 4.0 had happened in Australia, today would be their anniversary.

Hello all! I am super exhausted tonight so I am not going to give a full update tonight. I will update in full tomorrow sometime.
But I wanted to share the pictures from today. This afternoon, we went to the Musée D'Orsay because it was reduced price after we got out of class (5.50 instead of 7.20 euros). It was really awesome. Pictures are here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2246322&l=89ead&id=7017887
Also got some new random pictures of the city life here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2246128&l=84305&id=7017887

We're going to the Louvre tomorrow after 6 (it's free for students then) and it's open til 9:45 so we get nearly four hours in the Louvre! Hurrah! Then we are going back on Sunday because it's free all day the first Sunday of the month. Update definitely after the Louvre tomorrow and fill you in on today and tomorrow!
Au revoir!

Kaylin

I told pheebs1 I wasn't even going to post that I was leaving again, because all it ever seems I do around here is say goodbye and hello. I'M SURE IT'S GOTTEN OLD BY NOW. But it's another weekend of permanent vacation, this time back to the cottage up north, and I didn't want you to think I'd just dropped off the face of the earth.

Except for the fact that I'm dropping off the face of the earth until Sunday.

Fannish goal for the weekend: To (try to) finish weesta's Sweet Charity fic, Winchesters at the Renaissance Faire! \o/

Personal goal for the weekend: To not wash one single item of clothing.

See you back here. Happy 4th of July to all of you Americans on my flist. Embrace freedom of assembly and speech and your right to pursue happiness! And try not to blow your fingers off with the fireworks!

Finally finished my ds_northernnews story. Anyone so inclined can find it here. [/self-pimp]

Now I have to go and do some actual RL stuff. Like, say, eat.

I just separated the books I'm keeping from the books I'm shipping home. It's ridiculous.

( these are all the books I'm shipping. )

( and these are the books I'm keeping. )

AND ACTUALLY I JUST FOUND FOUR MORE BOOKS THAT I NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR, NOT PICTURED ABOVE. RIDICULOUS. How have I acquired so many books over the last ten months?

Remember how I said, the day after Tuesday's class (the one with 75 pushups and 300 crunches) that I wasn't particularly sore, and I wondered if the soreness would show up the next day?

Yeah. Well. It did.

Ow.

So I wanted to do that thing where you look back and see what you were posting about on July 3 for the past few years, but in fact I have only posted on July 3 once the entire time I've had this journal. Which I guess makes sense, because I've had quite a few slow patches and I never really do much in the summer anyway.

On July 2 last year, I was talking about going to see Live Free or Die Hard at a drive-in movie theater with my sibs. In 2006, I was watching the World Cup (and I am still kind of upset that France lost). In 2005, I didn't have internet access for the first half of July because I was at Institute for TFA. And in 2004, we have my my only actual entry from a July 3, where I was waiting around for my family to be ready and re-reading the H/D fic "Invisible to See," which I no longer even have a link for. Oh, H/D. I remember my time as an OTP-er with fondness.

So that was pretty much a total wash, huh?

T H E  S T A R G A T E  U N I V E R S E

I've rambled on about my love of the Stargate shows once or twice in the past. While I'm not active in the fandom, I adore the universe like crazy.

So I've uploaded every single episode from Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis (nearly 300 episodes!) as well as the new 2008 DVD Movies, Ark of Truth and Continuum.

I suggest downloading them season by season and watching them at a stretch - when I first watched it, I found SG-1 sort of interesting the first few seasons, but then really got sucked in after season 3 or 4, I think. And it was pretty easy to get into SGA later. Nowadays I find it easy to play episodes in the background while I'm on the laptop :)

If you've seen the shows around but never tried them out, here's your chance!

Post will be flocked in 24 hrs so save the links!



S T A R G A T E :  S G - 1

( About the Show )

( Season 1 )

( Season 2 )

( Season 3 )

( Season 4 )

( Season 5 )

( Season 6 )

( Season 7 )

( Season 8 )

( Season 9 )

( Season 10 )


S T A R G A T E :  A T L A N T I S

( About the Show )

( Season 1 )

( Season 2 )

( Season 3 )

( Season 4 )

( Season 5 - Episode 1 )

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TV  M O V I E S

S T A R G A T E:   T H E   A R K   O F   T R U T H

TV Movie: Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)

Network: Sci-Fi Channel
Creators: Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner
Cast: Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, Claudia Black, Ben Browder
Genre(s): Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Ratings/Warnings PG
Notes: This is the straight to DVD movie.

Plot Outline: SG-1 search for an Ancient Artifact to finally defeat the Ori. But the Artifact is in the Ori Galaxy.

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( Ark of Truth )

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S T A R G A T E:  C O N T I N U U M

TV Movie: Stargate: Continuum (2008)

Network: Sci-Fi Channel
Creators: Martin Wood, Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner
Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, Claudia Black, Ben Browder
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Ratings/Warnings PG
Notes: This is the LEAKED straight to DVD movie!

Plot Outline: Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

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( Continuum )

Oh lovely. Those pretty new Gotham Central hardcovers they're releasing? According to Greg Rucka's video interview, they will be in the right order and not leaving out any issues. Someone is finally listening.

I love my flist because you can find all sorts of wonderful stories, and here is the perfect example:

Fic: Epiphany by sullacat
Fandom: Live Free or Die Hard (Yes, you read that right)
Pairing: John/Matt
Rating: adult
Summary: John McClane isn't gay. Got it? (~7000 words)

There is nothing hotter than John McClane. There is nothing better than a great story how he realizes that he's not gay, you know? Except for fucking Matt. This is a great story, and John's characterization is so spot on. Have fun reading it and leave lots of feedback.

Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey

My version of this book has Peter Carey's name in copper letters and, underneath: TWICE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE. At first I took this to mean Oscar and Lucinda won the Booker twice, which impressed me mightily (and might have influenced my decision to buy it). I was disabused of this notion very quickly on actually reading the book, so I read his byline and realised: okay, he's won it on two separate occasions.

I still don't know if he won it for Oscar and Lucinda. He SHOULDN'T have, in my opinion, but I have no way of knowing without googling it. I'm not going to google it. I shouldn't have to. Book covers aren't supposed to deceive me like this (unless Anne McCaffrey's written a review, in which case one takes it as read).

I didn't hate O&L as much as Love in the Time of Cholera, the bar against which all my hate forever more shall be measured. To be honest, that would be quite a difficult feat for any other book to achieve.

( And yet. Unimpressed cat is unimpressed. )

Oh! These totally aren't book reviews I'm doing here. Far too many obscenities for that. It's impossible for me to be objective about books.

Triumph!

I went to Trader Joe's and got a loaf of challah, a loaf of Tuscane Pane, four bananas, twelve mini-crabcakes, a package of bratwurst, and a tray of cheese curds, all for $20. Having missed Canada Day entirely (sorry!) I intend to make poutine tomorrow.

I came home and threw some milk and cream and cake mix into the ice cream maker, so there will be chocolate cake batter ice cream for tomorrow. In five attempts at ice cream I've been successful only twice, unless you count the watermelon sorbet that was precisely like eating watermelon. I am only just tipping the odds for success with dairy-based dessert foods.

OKAY. Naptime.

So next week in comics class = comic book Show-and-Tell. I'm thinking I should bring gay Naruto and/or Death Note doujinshi, and/or LotR, and/or PotC. Y/Y? Because nothing says I'm a kinky freak better than showing a room full of strangers my collection of gay Jack Sparrow porn.

On a less scandalous note: Lego Indiana Jones is so much fun I weep laughing instead of crying for real every time my X/O button dyslexia makes Indy think, "I wish I could punch that motherfucker." (Not actual dialogue. But the exploding body pieces whenever I launch him off a ledge for the 100th time--I mean, it goes without saying.)

I'm a little more than halfway through Temple of Doom. This is what I find particularly brilliant so far:

- SHORT FUCKING ROUND ♥
- Willie getting over her severe case of uselessness
- and actually making me like playing her character.
- She breaks glass, folks.
- WITH HER SCREAMS.
- She also punches (read: flails) like a fourteen-year-old girl.
- It cracks my shit up every time,
- which of course does not mean I rescued her from the lava pit any sooner. That's right, Willie, you still suck and so does my gaming. Breathe that methane gas.

The game design and cut scenes and characters and everything = too cute for words. This is totally an apology that Lucas writes to his fans for Indy 4. AND OKAY, I KNOW, SHUT UP ABOUT APPALLING INDY 4 ALREADY, but I have to rationalize the franchise's redemption somehow.