The Personal Website of Jim Davis
December 19, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve been fairly curmudgeonly about the holidays lately, but I want to be clear: we love the holidays at our house. We just don’t take them so damn seriously.
Looking over our tree is an avatar of His noodliness .
(Click through for a huge version.)
December 10, 2011 Leave a comment
Getting more spam as the month grinds on about the imaginary war on Christmas. The latest run seems to be pictorial declarations on Facebook. In response I’ve made the following (with a censored version for the more genteel amongst you). Feel free to use this as your FaceBook status if you agree that you’re really just sick of hearing about this.
(Uncensored Version)
(Censored Version)
No matter what you say I hope you have to opportunity to sleep a little too much, eat a little too much and smile a little too much.
December 4, 2011 1 Comment
Rated Teen, Reviewed on PS3, Uncharted 3 at Amazon.com
Uncharted 2 was perhaps as close to a perfect game as I’ve seen. It had flaws (and a lousy final boss fight) but it improved on the first game in nearly every way. Controls were streamlined, difficulty was smoothed and the scale of the story grew. Most importantly new characters were introduced and the characters we had grown to love from the first game were allowed to grow. The last conversation between Nate and Elena was one of the best endings to game ever.
The gameplay in Uncharted 3 evolves slightly from the previous games but is still tight. You can now shoot in pretty much any circumstance and toss grenades back at the bad guys (a great idea that unfortunately fails about as often as it succeeds). The weapons and tactics from the earlier games were great and return with only slight tweaks.
December 4, 2011 Leave a comment
Drama, 80 Minutes, 2009: A Boy Called Dad on IMDB
(Before we begin, a warning: this film may be very hard on the ears of Americans. The accents are thick, deep and steeped in slang. Even if you’re a fan of British media, as I am, you may find things hard to follow.)
This is one of those movies that I find very difficult to review. On one hand it’s a serious, well-acted look at an interesting real-world topic. On the other hand some really, terribly stupid things happen in it.
I spend waaaay too much
time on the PlayStation.
