Spider, gaming, Age of Reboot
May. 28th, 2003 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishSunrise Analemma: "38 separate exposures (and 1 foreground exposure) were recorded on a single piece of film"
Scientists Struggling to Make the Kilogram Right Again: "In the last few weeks, he has reported that his experiments have yielded data that are close to what they need. 'Now we're into the picayune, itsy-bitsy errors,' he said, having recently corrected 'totally ridiculous' errors of 100 parts per million."
Went and saw Spider at the Lyric Monday night. It was ... eh. Very well-executed. The basic idea is that there's Spider, this mentally ill man. He's living in a halfway house and writing in this little book. As he writes he relives a series of key events in his childhood... we see young Spider in his house with his parents, his father at the pub, his father having an affair with a woman, his father and the woman killing his mother, the woman replacing his mother, and finally Spider killing the woman (who, it's revealed, is actually his mother.) I realised at some point that Spider was just making things up-- he couldn't have seen the affair or the murder, so it quite possibly never actually happened. I didn't expect the replacing of his mother to have never happened, though.
I surmise that it's one of those fucked-up sexuality things. Spider sees sex as dirty and bad. When his mother buys a sexy negligee and then goes out to try and win his father back from the pub, in his mind she's been replaced by a prostitute he saw at the pub. She (and his father) killed his pure, sweet mother. Overall it was a well-done film (except that the scenes of Spider's madness rather dragged at times) but I don't have any real desire to see it again. I think I'm glad that I've seen it. It was a waste of neither my time nor my money. It's certainly not for everyone, though.
Tuesday night J & N came over and we discussed summer role-playing. I may wind up running more Amber later, or maybe Fading Suns. In the meantime J will be running a Star Wars game in which we are a defecting Imperial crew, complete with ship. Should be interesting.
Also on Tuesday I tried to play Age of Wonders II on my 'puter. It got as far as displaying the splash screen and the attempting to do something else, and then it rebooted. Very odd. After a bit of halfhearted wrestling with it, I decided to save the Age of Reboot for another day. Maybe I'll try it again sometime.
Scientists Struggling to Make the Kilogram Right Again: "In the last few weeks, he has reported that his experiments have yielded data that are close to what they need. 'Now we're into the picayune, itsy-bitsy errors,' he said, having recently corrected 'totally ridiculous' errors of 100 parts per million."
Went and saw Spider at the Lyric Monday night. It was ... eh. Very well-executed. The basic idea is that there's Spider, this mentally ill man. He's living in a halfway house and writing in this little book. As he writes he relives a series of key events in his childhood... we see young Spider in his house with his parents, his father at the pub, his father having an affair with a woman, his father and the woman killing his mother, the woman replacing his mother, and finally Spider killing the woman (who, it's revealed, is actually his mother.) I realised at some point that Spider was just making things up-- he couldn't have seen the affair or the murder, so it quite possibly never actually happened. I didn't expect the replacing of his mother to have never happened, though.
I surmise that it's one of those fucked-up sexuality things. Spider sees sex as dirty and bad. When his mother buys a sexy negligee and then goes out to try and win his father back from the pub, in his mind she's been replaced by a prostitute he saw at the pub. She (and his father) killed his pure, sweet mother. Overall it was a well-done film (except that the scenes of Spider's madness rather dragged at times) but I don't have any real desire to see it again. I think I'm glad that I've seen it. It was a waste of neither my time nor my money. It's certainly not for everyone, though.
Tuesday night J & N came over and we discussed summer role-playing. I may wind up running more Amber later, or maybe Fading Suns. In the meantime J will be running a Star Wars game in which we are a defecting Imperial crew, complete with ship. Should be interesting.
Also on Tuesday I tried to play Age of Wonders II on my 'puter. It got as far as displaying the splash screen and the attempting to do something else, and then it rebooted. Very odd. After a bit of halfhearted wrestling with it, I decided to save the Age of Reboot for another day. Maybe I'll try it again sometime.
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Date: 2003-05-28 07:10 pm (UTC)