Anyone who asks (in person) or knows/worked with me long enough will know of my, er, interesting experiences with Tetsuya Nomura. With that in mind, that stupid headline is the closest you’ll get from me in terms of April tomfoolery.
I forgot exactly how I arrived at this subject, but I started wondering what exactly my California accent sounds like. Since I’m a native San Franciscan, I don’t have a concept of a Cali accent; I only notice non-CA accents. Unfortunately, I’m not a linguist, and my brain started leaking out of my nose and ears while trying to figure out this Wiki. I’m going to need to hit up my linguistical friends on translating this sorcerer’s brew. Or get my non-Californian friends to imitate my accent, and see how they perceive the words coming out of my mouth.
Work-wise, playing StarCraft II, C&C3, and W40K Dawn of War in a month’s time has completely ensnared me in the worlds of dirt-farming (and lack thereof) followed by random hotkeying and shrieks of little dudes killing other little dudes. I still think it’s funny that I’m actually pretty damn bad at RTS games, but possess enough knowledge to not sound totally ignorant when I write about them. Though, these games are both my stress relief for work issues, a great way to pass the time (like the crafter-of-shoes, I’m now jumping back into COH), and also screwing with the coordination skills needed to play an intensive action game for a story to be posted next week.
Cinema-wise, the only dent in the Netflix queue I’ve made is with Hitman. As you can expect, it’s not that good. Yea,the token love interest that redeems Agent 47 is pretty damn hot, and there’re some nice nods to the games, but otherwise, it was a mehverage assassin thriller that teeters between being actively terrible and merely existing. Timothy Olyphant is still awesome (his Seth Bullock is the definition of quiet, seething fury, and he was pretty great in Go as well), and it’s totally bizarre to see Desmond from Lost and T-Bag from Prison Break, both sporting terrible Russian accents.
I leave you with this awesome piece of celluloid composition from Hitman that made it all worth it:
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