Not much under the (red) hood

Batman: Under the Red Hood is a textbook example of what not to do when faced with making a film about Batman, make him tedious, boring and uninteresting.  Under the Red Hood is a wandering, directionless film that manages to miss all of the potential emotional cues and falls flat on the action hooks. Under [...]

Suddenly, my junior year of high school seems so much weirder

This is going to be a short little rant tonight.  It’s late and I’m preparing to write something kinda big for tomorrow about something I saw on Kotaku.  Anyway, enjoy my confusion. I think I can officially say “I’m too old for this shit.” At least, I can say it about something.  For anyone too [...]

Max vs. Miriya

Imagine a little device not much bigger than an iPad.  On it, a tiny holographic projector creates lifelike, three dimensional terrain on to a table top in front of a person’s eyes as they control a tiny figure. Kotaku reminded me why I should be looking forward to “true” 3D games, not wanting them to [...]

Carl Macek, Robotech ‘Creator’ died this weekend

I should be going to bed, but I saw this as I was closing out my windows.  Carl Macek, the creator of sorts of Robotech, died over the weekend from a heart attack.  Readers of Cluttered Mind are sure to know I’m a huge fan of Robotech, even more than the original Macross, Southern Cross [...]

Like the cruel angel without a sense of mercy…

Remakes are strange business.  On one hand, they seem somewhat presumptuous, even when done by the original director, as it’s kind of like saying to the source material “oh hey, you’re good and all, but I think I can do you better.”  At the same time though, it’s kind of cool to see a concept [...]

Reliving the past

I got home late tonight and I’ve had insomnia, so in between listening to the Smashing Pumpkins and surfing TV Tropes while discussing the merits of a good villain with my brother, I’ve been watching episodes of Batman: the Animated Series that I never got a chance to see.  I watched “Mad Love,” which explored [...]

It’s been a long couple of days

Oh man, has it been a long couple of days.  I’m pretty tired, but I am glad to say I spent a lot of today writing a short story that I’m going to put up here when it’s completed.  It’s about my favorite wizard girl, Adrienne Carter, as she saves a town from monsters summoned [...]

Just a quick update

It turned into one of those days pretty quickly for me and I almost forgot to update.  I spent most of the evening watching Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi with Kate this evening, and then I got lost on the Fallout Wiki again. As I mentioned yesterday, I picked up Uncharted 2.  I played it for [...]

Inspiration part II

Continuing from Friday, I meant to continue  writing on Monday, but it turned into one on of those days.  Last night, after I finally finished the paper, I picked up Uncharted 2.  Obviously, I’d heard good things about the game, but I haven’t had time to play it.  I was a big fan of the [...]

Inspiration part I

A few weeks before I started this blog, I was reading the blog of a guy who posts at a message board I also go to. In it, he listed off the things that inspired him. It was done as one of those “suggested reading” that pop up in some roleplaying books. I was going [...]