as promised, here are a couple videos from our alpha news net station from this year's game. the basic premise of the mission was that commies had ruined all the old troubleshooter training videos, and players needed to make new one.
my good friend and co-worker nick cecere fixed up the videos for us. the audio is still a bit hard to hear, but it was loud in the con and only so much could be done. if we run a mission like this again i will borrow a directional mic from someone.
hey! i'm going to be fixing up a few of the spots on the site soon that are still "under construction," so the photos page should hopefully become functional in a week or so.
From left to right, standing: Jenna Mutatia (R&D), Dylan Bruno (C-Bay), Grayson Blackmon (CPU), Michael Coxson (R.E.D.S.), James "Juan" Decola (C-bay), James Barratt (Food Vats), Luke Stram (IntSec), Joe Favuzza (Re-Edu). Kneeling: Channing Ogzewalla (R&D). Inset: Shawn "Glypher" Dalton (A.N.N.), David Richards (Reactor). Not pictured: Kim Faught
should be uploading more pics to the picasa page soon.
not paranoia or larp related, but who cares. here are my thoughts on the new watchmen movie. i'll try to keep this spoiler-free.
so the watchmen movie was pretty good. not great, but pretty good. i would describe the experience like an amusement park ride based off a movie. it was fun, it was exciting, but perhaps it lacked the nuance of the source material.
it did feel somewhat disjointed. like they were just presenting you with a series of scenes from the watchmen. "hey, remember this from the comic? how about this? did you enjoy those last two scenes? here's another." and for a movie with a lot of violence and stuff exploding it was strangely quiet.
the music at times seemed somewhat inappropriate, and i was surprised at which scenes were played for comedy. the film also needlessly luxuriated in bloody violence. i know the comic was violent, but the twisted limbs and bloody arterial sprays got an awful lot of porny slow-motion treatment.
again, enjoyable. but different. i guess i'm looking forward to the kajillion hour long director's cut dvd? i still wish that this had been done as an hbo miniseries, or something like that.
oh, and john cusack totally should have been cast as nite owl.
overall, three stars out of four for me. recommended.
here's roger ebert's review. i think he nails it down pretty well.
paranoia live 2009 ground up and spit out 176 clones this yearcycle. but don't be sad, citizen! rejoice; there's a completely unrelated sale on soylent-fun at sector CON foodvats!
more after action reports from the game soon! in the mean time, check out these shots from the finale!
also, our picasa page is go. i'll integrate it with the photos link soon, but for now click here not only for my pics from this year but pics from all eight years of our game!
