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For a long time, I was obsessed with insanely difficult games. I can say quite honestly that I think this thirst for unrelenting self-punishment came from a desire to achieve something, and it all started when I watched the movie King of Kong; a film about a natural born loser who was fighting to get the world record in Donkey Kong. He felt that by defeating the game, and the people in the community surrounding it who seemed hell bent on ensuring his failure, that he he would be able to conquer his own perceived inadequacies. And that was something I related too. I watched that movie dozens of times.
When I finally started to get control of my life back and set a direction for myself, I gradually forgot about the pursuit of an unrelenting challenge in my hobby. I put down Dark Souls and stopped trying to master Tetris. I began to enjoy video games again, not for their challenge, but for what they offered me in terms of escapism. I used them to relax because my real life goals were difficult, time consuming, and physically exhausting.
But there is one game that captured my imagination so thoroughly that I wanted nothing more to immerse myself in the experience of it. And for reasons very different than the ones that I suffered through other punishing games, I decided to tackle its most difficult setting.
I decided to play The Last of Us on Grounded mode.
The Last of Us is an experience. I was highly skeptical of it, and in one of my many seething, cynical rants, I attacked it's vague teaser trailer as a cheap ploy to drum up marketing, and brushed it off as "yet another zombie game." So when I finally got the game with my replacement PS3 last year, I let it sit on the shelf for weeks before finally popping it in to see what the fuss was all about.
Holy shit.
Far more like The Road and a lot less like Dawn of the Dead than I had imagined it to be, The Last of Us was a soul crushing reminder of the innate potential for inhumanity and brutality in all of us. It played more like a Jack London novel than a survival horror game in its themes, all while managing to hold up a very believable and sometimes heart breaking relationship between the two protagonists, Joel and Ellie, while also remaining a consistently paced gruelling action experience with a level of tension unseen in so many other games of its ilk. Despite being completely unrattled by the hype, I was sucked into it. And a year later, I got it again with my PS4, a Christmas gift that has consumed all of my free time these last few weeks.
Before beginning the story over again, I read up everything related to the game that I could just out of interest for the lore and the design behind it, and came across a few articles suggesting the play through of the later added Grounded mode; a difficulty level where resources are almost non-existent, almost every bit of damage your character takes is his last, and where checkpoints are few and far between when you need them the very most.
Having done my original run through on normal, I decided at first that this was a little out of my league. Even on that difficulty I had struggled through many parts of the game, and I am just not the type of dedicated player who has the interest to invest the time and be consistently frustrated, all for the end goal of getting a trophy or bragging rights.
But the thing that intrigued me about Grounded mode was its implications on the story and the experience itself. The idea that being set in a world of such violent brutality, maybe it didn't make sense for me to have the resources to craft endless med-kits, or be shot nine times before death, or what have you. So I decided to give it a whirl.
A couple of weeks of grinding later, and I passed Grounded mode, a sigh of relief sounding my victory at the end.
While I agree to an extent that Grounded mode felt like the true Last of Us experience, there were a few caveats that tainted the play through for me.
For one, The Last of Us is a highly scripted game of events and encounters. And while many of these are passable in multiple ways, there are a few specific times in peppered throughout the game where your options are limited, and where you must play in a way that is not well facilitated by the non-existent ammo drops, resulting in an unfair level of frustration and a weird level of dissonance between the mechanics and the experience itself.
Two key places in the game, the basement in the hotel and the elevator room in the room when you are fighting waves of infected with David come to mind. When finding a single arrow or bullet feels like a huge victory because you know it means taking out a single enemy without having to punch them to death, the true lack of resources in Grounded becomes very apparent. While the game tends to give you most of what you need to survive with just enough ammo drops to continue firing your gun in parts where it is necessary, the meta game of Grounded becomes finding an alternative way to fight and get through each encounter by using as few resources as possible. So these parts of the game feel jarring and out of place, and in the case of the fight with David, it ended up being a luck of the draw for me which fell into a predictable pattern of button presses, timing, and a bit of prayer.
Wait for zombie A to attack david. Throw brick at zombie B to stun him. Stab zombie B in fact. After David has punched zombie A and stunned him, stab zombie A. Try not to get horribly mutilated in between.
The analogy I have heard referenced comparing Grounded to "The Last of Us: Dark Souls mode" is insufficient at best. Dark Souls was challenging due to the high level of reflex and skill it took to survive. And while the highest difficulty of Last of Us requires a tremendous amount of careful skill to navigate, it is also far more scripted and linear than Dark Souls with a careful focus on story and characterization, which is very out of line in my opinion with the repetitive nature of Grounded mode. It is difficult to follow the story when you die thirty times in a single area. It simply pulls you out of the experience.
In my case, I had already experienced the game in normal mode. And while it was challenging, it was far more of a consistent flow from beginning to end that facilitated my enjoyment of the story. Grounded mode was a treat to play simply because it was a new way to enjoy The Last of Us. It encouraged exploring every nook and cranny of the games mechanics in order to learn the skills necessary to survive. It promoted stealth over EVERYTHING else, something that isn't necessarily emphasized in the lighter difficulties due to an overabundance of resources. And while this brings light to a lot of the games design flaws, since you are essentially playing it in the same fashion a game tester might, exploring every single avenue of possible paths and routes in order to play through each encounter as efficiently as possible, it is also thoroughly engaging and addicting after a certain point to see just what might be possible under the harsh restrictions that Grounded mode imposes upon you.
What it did do for me was remind me that every now and again, a good hard challenge can be a fun way to enjoy games. Not just for the bragging rights or the feeling of victory at the end, but just in the fact that when setting the bar to eleven, you are really pushed to dig into the nuances of the game. It taught me a lot about the design of the games mechanics, and illuminated a lot of the finer details of the games world that I passed over when I was rushing to get to the next plot point or cutscene. With so many games coming out all the time, it's not only tough to keep up, it's really easy to treat the game like a one-shot, throw away experience where you pick it up, fire through it as quick as possible, and chuck it back on the shelf to collect dust so you can get to the rest of your intimidating backlog.
After a year of hiatus from The Last of Us, I knew that I wouldn't be able to relive the initial awe I experienced during my original play through. So I found a different way to play, and got a little more life out of a game that I thought had already delivered everything it could my way. Turns out I was wrong. And after my second, roughly 25 hour play through, and one of the most difficult experiences of my gaming life, I sat there staring at the trophy screen and felt a little deflated.
Was it really over? Where could I go from here? Guess I'll play the DLC, read the American Dreams graphic novel, listen to the soundtrack a few times...maybe write a fanfiction?
Grounded mode had not only made me recall the good ol' days of my personal gaming hell, it went on to be one of the most satisfying triumphs I had ever had in a game. I didn't NEED it to make me feel like I was worth a shit. I had figured that out on my own. It was just one very minor, infentisimal achievement I had made that was important to ME, personally, for reasons that are difficult to articulate. For a period of my life, I had lost all of my confidence, and it had been a very painful road to get it back. The defeats in my life were seemingly endless. I just couldn't catch a damn break, and it always felt like I was climbing an avalanche.
Grounded became a bit of an analogue for that experience. A reminder of where I had been, and where I'd made it too. I resolved to beat it not for any other reason than that I KNEW I COULD. Despite my fears of my lack of skill or resolve. I wouldn't rest until I had. And when it was all over, as liberating as it was, it just reminded me that my experience in the game was limited. The story I had gushed over, the characters I had come to care about, they were all just a static narrative projected on a background of polygons on high definition sound. They were finite, and had an end, and the second I finished, I just wanted more.
And then I remembered that the goddamn thing also had a multiplayer mode that wasn't shit.
Like a membership to the jelly of the month club, It really is the gift that keeps on giving.
Success is a man jumping over a cliff and hopefully not falling to his death while the sun sets.
This might be one of the more ironic blogs the C-Blogs has seen if you don't count the odd "this site sucks and you guys are idiots" post that creeps up every now and again. See, I've been here quite awhile both lurking and writing, and I still check the site every day. This is where I got my footing for a short time as a "games blogger enthusiast" which is the appropriate thing to call yourself when you feel like using the term "journalist" but aren't making a dime. The C-Blogs taught me what it was like to have an audience cling to your every word, and lavish you with praises. Or tear you a new asshole like a psychotic grizzly bear, depending on the quality of your work. But what it also eventually taught me is that writing wasn't really for me; at least not in the way I had always envisioned it.
I was one of those weirdo kids who sat in the back of the room and doodled and wrote dumb little baby stories about space aliens and monsters. The kind of kid whose imagination was bigger than his common sense. And it never really payed off. I was told it was alright to dream big, but when you are in your twenties and not really doing anything except playing video games and smoking weed, you start to question the padded lavishness of your own sheltered existence. You start looking at your strict-ass stepdad who nearly tossed your shoes on the highway one day just for leaving them on the floor mat as being pretty rational. Dreams are great to have, but when they start fucking with your every day life, it becomes a bit of a nightmare.
See what I did there? Trying to be clever.
The first time I ever had an audience for my writing was on internet forums. The first time I ever got praise for my work from anyone besides my mom was on the internet. Faceless people on the internet writing positive things about my work. But it was more than enough to kickstart my ego.
If you look at Lulu, or Amazon, you might find thousands of horribly awful books written by nobodies selling for ten dollars or more. Maybe mom or dad put a few five star reviews under them in an effort to bolster sales, or the ego of their precious loved ones. Can anyone blame them? The answer is yes, but the point is, in the age of the internet, everyone is a star. You can write your fanfiction of Dumbeldore fucking Chewbacca or whatever and someone out there will actually read it. In fact, a lot of the time, it's not even worth going through the traditional channels of publishing in order to have your work be seen because with a bit of buzz and know how, it seems like just about anyone can get their dirty fingers in the Paypal moneypit and sell their magnum opus, "A Hundred Ways to Slice Tomatoes" without any real struggle at all. Maybe just to their friends and loved ones, but at the very least, it's usually enough to inspire the inevitable "Part 2" and encourage them to drone on and on to everyone about how they are now a "published" author.
The blog world is affected similarly. When I first found about Destructoid, it was like finding a goddamn infinity stone. I felt invincible. My long never-read blogs about gaming and the discouraging lack of readership that came along with them were no longer a reality. The first couple of posts I made were mediocre attempts, but even having just one or two "faps" was more interaction than I'd had in a long time regarding my writing.
It was like a taste. But the real dose was in my very near future. And that's what had me hooked.
I posted a thing about some things, and in a day, I had a huge response. Multiple tens of faps. Tons of encouraging comments. More pats on the back than that creepy uncle gave Timmy.
I was unstoppable.
After that, every post was a victory. Even if they fell on deaf ears, I was still not discouraged. Angered maybe, to the point of argument, but it helped teach me what people liked and what they didn't like. So I kept writing.
Sometimes I'd let everything else slip away while I wrote. I would skip laundry, or dishes. I wouldn't get my things done. I was "working," you see. Working to pay the bills. The ego bills, that is.
Eventually I pissed people off and realized that I didn't like confrontation much. I was a bit of a social viper in a way. I would feed off of the praise of others, but would turn around and think of them as "idiots" the second they became maybe too critical of me. It's just about the worst thing you can do because having an audience of any kind is a hard fought thing. But for as hard as I thought I worked to entertain people and enjoy the praise that came along with it, it was really nothing compared to people putting themselves out their to the ire and hatred of thousands. And in this sometimes unfortunate community of gamers in general, even to death threats and insults.
I guess I began to get discouraged because the gaming community at large became my weird, pseudo-life. But at the end of it, I didn't have a friend to hang out with and play Street Fighter. The dozens of people I thought I knew lived in the States, or in Italy, or wherever. They knew me by username alone, and the second I failed to continue writing, the second the "glory train" would end.
So while I was bittered and initially critical of the idea of a quick success story that came as a result of the internet at large, I came to realize that ultimately, you'd get out what you put in. And unlike the people slaving their balls off and trying to really, REALLY be successful as writers, I was just pretty lazy about the whole thing. I'd pound stuff out real quick, not really edit it or be too concerned if it was shit. Just as long as people kept seeing my name, I thought, that was what really mattered. Quantity over quality.
When I figured out that there was no quick solution, that despite my initial feelings, the successful journalists, and authors out there really did have to put in an enormous effort to stay relevant and be successful on a level past "enthusiast", I got discouraged. Because writing was just kind of a thing I did. I had a natural knack for it, though was not talented or dedicated enough to stand out among the thousands of other people doing the exact same thing I was.
But before I get to doom and gloom, here...
It ended up being a revelation that worked to my advantage. I had always said "I want to be a writer, because I'm not good at anything else." But when life threw me lemons, I went out and bought a bunch of tools and became a plumber. Now I'm well into the first year of my apprenticeship and have found something else I enjoy and am comfortable doing. It's also something I will eventually profit off of. So while I still enjoy writing, I have realized my own limitations. I will never be willing to put my face on the net, or sacrifice the wee hours of the night to reach deadlines on a piece. I will never feel compelled to proof read or edit, or redo.
I'm not a writer. I'm just a guy who likes writing.
So for all that, I actually attribute Dtoid as a place that gave me wings to fly. Not as a writer, and not as a kickstart to my career as a journalist. It gave me a taste of the reality of what that requires, and told me, "You aren't good enough for that.
Maybe you could be, someday.
But not today.
Because you aren't willing to sacrifice.
You aren't willing to learn, or change.
And that makes you inadequate."
Rather than killing my self esteem, that thought gave me a bit of relief. It took the pressure off. Because just as important as "following your dreams" is understanding your limits and saying, "do I want to push it? Do I want to overcome the hurdles in my way?"
And saying "no" is okay. Because I may not be a journalist, or an author, but I have found SOMEthing. Even if it took a really long time. I became successful in my own mind, regained my confidence after two years of utter abysmal bullshit, and the seed was planted with the intention of becoming a game journalist. It just mutated somewhere along the way.
Thanks, Destructoid.read
Or, whatever.
Last night I wake up with sleep paralysis. It's midnight but it feels like I've been sleeping all night. And I can't stop thinking about how I flushed, like, 120 bucks down the shitter because I just HAD to choose the RIGHT soccer game for me.
When did I even start liking soccer? I had a neighbour once. I guess that's no surprise to anyone. But I knew he was a soccer fan because he wore a Dropkick Murphys sweater. In Canada there is this weird thing people do where they pretend to be European or whatever. "My great grandfathers uncles cousins dog was a scotty dog, so I guess I'm Scottish." People find pride in weird places.
I found work. The kind of work where you don't have time for anything else. The kind of work that equalizes masturbation time with actual sex, instead of keeping it in an unhealthy 9:1 ratio. I'm writing this and my fucking arm is getting tired because my keyboard muscles, possibly the most useless of all the human muscles, has basically atrophied. The last time I wrote anything was my resume, and it was just lightly edited from a template I have had since I was 14. Probably originally in Word Perfect format.
The last four months I've been coming home, eating, sleeping. And maybe taking a poo. Which is always going to be a little ironic since the time I spend in a bathroom now takes up a significant portion of my day as a plumber. I grew up playing Mario, and now I'm finally living the dream. Except Mario's real enemies should have been small dogs and wary stay at home moms who don't trust you in their homes. And there was nothing cheap about the infrastructure of the Mushroom Kingdom, especially those big copper pipes. Do you know how much that stuff is worth? If I was a smarter man, I'd spend my time breaking into C Cans on construction sites and selling the pilfered scrap metal.
But I'm a coward.
I started to get into sports about the same time I discovered Tecmo Super Bowl on the NES. Video games actually introduced me to sports. If you had asked me what my favorite hockey team was I would have said something like "The New England Handjobs" before proceeding to make an obscene gesture with a half clenched fist. Now I record Darts on my PVR because at the end of the day, my book shelf full of occult philosophy and my collection of David Lynch films are exhausting to even think about. I just don't want to use my brain anymore. It's tired. It's fat. It needs a fucking break.
So I go down to Wal-Mart to pick up the brand new Pro Evolution Soccer because I had the one from a few years ago and remember it being fun. I have Destiny and it's not bad. RPG's are a hassle. My collection of sports games are starting to build. You know, for those nights when just passively watching and raising a half baked fist in victory when goalie in your hockey pool has a shut out just aren't involving enough.
The guy behind the counter is a fraud. His meaty thumbs are poking at a mobile game that looks like Journey had an Angry Birds and Flappy Bird sandwich and shit it out into a mold shaped like Luigi. I've become less socially awkward dealing with construction guys who draw pictures of dicks in port-a-potty walls all day so I look at the one girl there who is bombarded by three rednecks buying a television with the extra warranty and say, "Can this fella help me?" He stands up and rolls his eyes with a little smirk and walks away as she tells me "he's not in this department." But all I hear is my own voice screaming back to me "I HATE THIS PLACE." as I picture him getting knocked over gently by a Mercedes Sprinter into a ditch, his flabby torso folding in two as-
Well, anyhow.
They don't have Pro Evolution Soccer. Actually, they don't have anything. They don't have the Maleficent movie my wife asked me to buy her. They don't have soy sauce. They don't have fucking garbage bags. I've been driving around all week. I'm tired of this shit.
I go to my local EB Games and find out my manager from fourteen years ago who I have seen at least once a year has escaped the clutches of the business. He's replaced by a youngster. I'm getting old. A few years ago, that guy would have been my age. I'm going to be thirty in two short years. My old boss has left for the oil business. He went from games to oil and gas. That's what kind of city Calgary has become.
They have the game. I get it home and start playing it and am immediately bombarded with arcane menus and dozens of confusing button combinations. I am trying the skills challenge and for a half hour wrestling to pull off a single trick before I realize I'm using the wrong joystick. I put a dozen matches in before trying to hop online and it doesn't work.
It just won't connect at all.
Normally this wouldn't bother me. "They'll patch it up soon." But I've become THAT guy. The guy who gets a Saturday off like, once a millenium. And it's just a few short hours without kids. And I spent the first hour eating pulled pork, napping, and masturbating, all in an alternating cycle. And I go to sit down with my new game and relax in an online match and it doesn't even fucking work.
Weekend ruined. It's like being five and being able to rent one game for the weekend, and the game is Ghosts and Goblins on the NES and it's so hard it makes you cry.
So I'm fuming! I go back to the first store that sucked ass, but they have Fifa. Sure it takes twenty minutes to find someone to help me. Sure she fucks up and gives me the game to take up to the front of the store and the guy gives ME shit and says "you aren't supposed to be able to bring this up here." Look, this isn't Minority Report asshole. I only considered stealing it for a second.
But I was too much of a coward.
I look at my collection of games and feel a little like a kid putting his toys in a box. Like, I feel bad because I know I just don't have time for any of them anymore. An hour or two of plot before gameplay begins is like taking a journey through the Tibet to find God. It's exasperating. I'm the guy who sits in his dirty work pants and grunts now. I'm the guy who'd probably be okay with Call of Duty if I wasn't too lazy to go out and buy it. Like a musician leaving the scene and telling fake stories about how he was there with RUSH when they recorded 2112, I'm a gaming fraud. I know what Dwarf Fortress is, but I'd immediately have an aneurism and die if I even attempted to play it.
In conclusion, FIFA 15 and PES 15 both make me a little sad.
But FIFA 15 is way better.


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Following a consistent pattern from previous years, Indian River County unemployment rose in June, data released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity show.
Joblessness in Indian River County increased to 11.3 percent from 10.4 percent in May, but still was more than two full percentage points lower than the 13.4 percent rate of a year ago.
Over the previous seven years, unemployment increased from May to June in Indian River County by an average of almost a full percentage point. The average increases in Martin and St. Lucie counties were about two-thirds of a percentage point, but equally consistent over the seven-year period for which statistics are readily available.
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With about a 1,000 fewer non-agricultural jobs in Indian River County in June than the previous month, the number of residents who had a job dropped by about 670.
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The DEO's chief economist, Rebecca Rust, previously has estimated that another 7.8 percent of the state's workforce fall in the discouraged and underutilized category, and that percentage is probably higher in areas with above-average unemployment, such as the Treasure Coast.
The statewide jobless rate also increased, to 9 percent from 8.5 percent in May.
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I have never seen plague bring a man back from the dead. Nor do I know of any sickness, in England or upon the continent, that gives its victims a taste for living flesh. So declares Sir Edward Dallingridge, a noble knight whose years defending England on the battlefield haven't prepared him to face an enemy as chilling - and relentless - as the living dead. But even as his countrymen flee in horror, Sir Edward rides straight into the unholy infestation. For his lady love lies trapped behind a hundred miles of fiendish terror, and nothing will keep him from her. With little more than the armor on his back, the blade in his hand, and the loyalty of the two fellow warriors at his side, he is willing to spill an ocean of tainted blood to reclaim the country he serves and the bride he worships.
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Can't understand why this does not have higher ratings. Picture Michael Sullivan with Zombies and you have Roberto Calas' The Scourge. There are three great main characters. The interaction between the three is often funny, which helps with the anxiety from all the danger they face. They go from one dangerous situation to another. I have read several Zombie books and I felt they were used in this book a little differently. Some shades of the same, such as using female zombies as whores (Zombie Fallout) or as an army, one Maberry book, Zombie Fallout again and Clines Ex series. One reviewer mentioned this is not the first medieval zombie book, but I did not recognize the author or book and it is not available at audible. In my humble opinion this was better written then those books and is on par with Sullivan. This should appeal to Zombie fans and Fantasy epic fans.
The book has a lot of religion talk and at first seems anti-Christian, but may have changed toward the end. I found the discussions about the grumpy old testament god and the loving new testament god to be thought provoking.
If you like sarcastic humor, Zombies or fantasy epics, I urge to give this a try, I do not believe you will be disappointed.
The narrator is very good and makes the book a better listen then a read.
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My new fav author!!!! I honestly didn't think any new zombie books could be written without being "just another" zombie novel. I was mistaken, this book is great.
I love how the author wrote in quite a bit of humor. I laughed, I cringed and most of all I was spellbound.
Can't wait to read more from this author and continuing on to more Scourged!!
"An interesting new spin on a zombie apocolypse"
Tristan's endless supply of sarcasm and wit is just what this story needs to keep it from being too dismal.
The end is rather abrupt, so I was very happy to see that Calas continues the story in his next book.
"I loved it"
As a rule I typically don't like zombie fics. I tried this one because it's a historical and referenced to some degree the black plague in the 14th century. The book doesn't really have much to do with the actual history of the plague but by the time I finished the first chapter I didn't care. I had forgotten that for the most part I don't like zombie fics and was enjoying this one to the fullest. It's funny and engaging and I couldn't put it down. I recommend it to anyone who can deal with the sometimes off-color humor. I couldn't stop laughing.
"Medieval zombies"
Medieval zombies. That's all you really need to know about this book. If you like zombie genre books, it's a different take, although it uses nearly all the same apocalypse cliches as a book set in the present would just with horses instead of cars. If you don't like zombie books, then what are you doing even reading reviews of the book?
To be warned though, it ends kind of abruptly, or maybe not really having resolved things. So if you are the type to get really invested in characters, be prepared to buy the next book.
I was going to give the book a fourth star for plot, but then I got to the last half hour or so of narration. At the end of the plot part of the book, the narrator embarks on a chapter by chapter self-important ego trip about all the historical research he did when he wrote the book. I made it about five minutes in and then called it quits on that front. A short note with some suggested reading for those interested in social/geographical/military aspects of the medieval period would have been sufficient. Reading reviews of the next book, it sounds like the author has switched (or maybe the narration is arranged differently) and these historical notes are read at the end of each chapter instead of the end of the whole book. If this is the case, I won't be getting the next one for sure.
Zombies Books in order: 1. We're Alive 2. Day By Day Armageddon 3. Roads Less Traveled Series 4. Alaskan Undead Apocalypse 5. World War Z 6. The Walking Dead 7. Rise Again 8. As the World Dies 9. Zombie Fallout
"Something different, pretty good"
So Sir Edward and his two pals, Morgan and Tristan ride to the north in search of...you guessed it, Edwards wife! So the typical zombie story and elements are intact; we follow them as they encounter one weird and crazy group after the other until they get to his wife.
The difference is the setting, its medieval England which is done really quite well. The zombiesm in this story is kinda ill defined, being treated more like what they know of from before, the plague. They don't seem to make huge hordes and chase humanity around forever, they can in fact get distracted and lose interest if you keep galloping away from them.
But they're still zombies, need to chop at the head and all that. An advantage these knights have compared to modern stories is that they do in fact have amour! They eventually lose their chain mail, war horses and swords, but still...
Religion is always part of a good zombie story, but here its even bigger since its the middle ages. Morgan I think was a monk and is deeply religious while Tristan seems atheist and plays the comedic side kick.
Lack of any major female character kept the story on track, if you find lovey dovey stuff distracting. I don't and would have preferred some deeper relational aspects in the story. Other than that, its a good read, and look! There is a book 2! Think I'll pick that up, although I think the story could have just ended the way it was. We know there is no cure...don't we?
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"Slightly . . . . weird"
Three knights in the time of the plague trying to reach Sir Edward's wife. What trials and tribulations befall the Knights on their journey to save Elizabeth. The book had a little science fiction to it regarding those with the plague. Part of me liked the book, part of me didn't. Plus it should have a different ending.
"Extremely Dark Ages"
This is a very interesting twist on the Zombie genre. In this series zombies attack more as a plague some time after the plague we know from history. I actually like the idea that maybe the so called zombies aren't actually zombies at all, but infected with a plague that makes them tough to kill.
This book has a lot of very exciting parts to it. It really helped me chew up a lot of highway while keeping me wide awake in my semi. The kind of book that makes you dissapointed that you've ran out of time and have to shut down for 10 hours.
All in all a very well written and very well performed book. The author did a section by section "Historic Reference" at the end of this book which was interesting, but a bit teadous....In book two he did them at the end of each section, and that seemed much better. This reader/performer really did the parts well enough that it seemed like a cast of characters instead of the same reader....
Librarian, working at an Academic University in Australia. Love reading most genres but professionally fond of Young Adult and Kid's Lit.
"Clever, based loosely on well grounded history."
Nico Evers-Swindell's British accent is incredible and his tone sophoric. I want him to read more with this accent!!! Coupled with a good story ( zombie fan here !) I can definitely recommend this and the second one and I am waiting patiently for the rest of the series.
Sir Tristan for sure - his wit, sarcasm work as a fabulous counter weight to some of the human tragedy. Sir Edmund - well what is not to like about this principled man.
Nico is expressive and I LOVE this version of his accent. Give him more work. He brings this story to life. I will listen to his other titles now but long for the British accent.
"pulling 36 inches of medicine from it's sheath - be healed Sister"
Witty, enchanting and historically very accurate. Good work Calas and Nico!
"Pleasantly surprised"
I think I bought this book on one of the $4.99 specials and was not sure what to expect. It is written with grit, humpur and amazing attention to history. The narrator is very good. It is about vampires ( or something similar) so not for the faint of heart.
His English accent is impeccable and the voices he uses for different characters. I had not hard him before but hope to hear him more in the future.
Yes. When one of the main characters had to be left behind. I won't say more because it would be a spoiler.
Try this book. I think the author could do a lot more than write books about the plague and I am looking forward to seeing more of his work.
"Excellent take on a tired trope"
This is a beautifully detailed dark quest through a broken and twisted medieval England. The characters are strongly written and Evers-Swindell does an excellent job making them stand out as individuals.
I would have loved a sequel - and now I see that one has been published since I read this. I will buy it and listen with great pleasure, I have no doubt.
If this book has a flaw (and it is very fine indeed), it is that it is, if anything, too action packed. The main protagonist never gets a moment but is always running to or from something. It was a little exhausting for the reader and must have been even more so for poor Sir Edward.
A damn fine read, well worth the time.
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Stephen Colbert is pulling out all of the stops to get Rick Parry to win the write in at the Ames straw poll (yes, that's "Parry" with an A, like "America").
Now, he's wooing voters with the most persuasive commercial yet. And "cornography."
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if any inteligent persone watches an add and decides how to vote they have just proved them selves uninteligent. ever add out there is biases and full of half truths.
Well said Kimberly!
"We have met the enemy, and it's the finger-pointers unwilling to listen to the other side. No matter which side that is." Susan Crowell
The divide and conquer tactics continue to work I see. People shooting eachother and bashing eachother, INSTEAD of UNITING against the soul-less entities Hi-jacking of America! At least Unite for ONE common goal...To save America for our children and grand children! For the many whom already fought and/or died for our freedoms, you know BEFORE the corporate takeover that put corporate OCCUPIERS in OUR offices and buildings. Please come TOGETHER!
Sue T.
I am a liberal - I have never been tolerant of ignorance and stupidity. As a matter of fact, it really pisses me off. Why do you think we are supposed to let people run over us?
And I neither love or care about T-baggers. They should all have to pass a constitution test.
Sue T.: speaking as a liberal, I have never pretended to be loving and caring but I do tolerate and fully endorse your right to be opposed to everything I believe in That doesnt mean I dont think youre ignorant or possibly stupid, just that I accept it.
Brilliant! and hilarious too!
He is tricking young people into learning about Supreme Court decisions and politics!
I am going to have to donate to his "superpac"
@ Camila K. As a t-bagger as you so adroitly reference what I believe in NO I do not believe he is on my side.
And by what nasty insulting term shall I adress you by ?
wow LOVE the libs tolerance you are all so loving and caring and OMG tolerant bunch of BS liars hypocrites
Love this guy... makes me laugh every time.
thanks for the article
Growing up in Iowa myself---I got to admit that picture of fresh hot sweet corn and that butter melting all over it....wow!!!!! If I still lived back there I'd DEFINITELY write in my vote for Rick PArry!!!! (with an A like in AmericA and IowA---that snake oil salesman from Texas does nothing for me.)
LOL Would make my whole week if PArry got more write-in votes than Perry.
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I can't handle the soy milk or soy flour at all, do ok on tofu and tamari, and can handle a little tempeh and soy yogurt once in a while. Now that I'm eating more eggs and fish, however, I no longer crave tofu and tamari as I did. (Incidentally, the soy milk and soy flour also seem difficult for my daughter, presumably an A, to digest, but she seems to thrive on all the rest, tofu, tamari, tempeh, and soy yogurt, equally. My type A husband experiments with different soy milks, isn't sure which he likes best.)
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story board whut?
June 17, 2015
I am always seeing these crazy story boards posted online by writers. They are very ordered and very detailed and very complex and to me look like time outlines for a NASA space mission or a chores list put up for a military camp.
Here is one of those crazy story boards:
Here is my story board:
I guess my story board should be embarrassed by the bigger more glamorous story boards but it isn't. My story board says, Fuck off, it doesn't do manual labor.
gallery frenzy!
June 13, 2015
It seemed time to put up a gallery. I and the denizens of AFW and 5150 are not always real good about grabbing photos, but there are photos, there is a Flickr page, and here she is —
5150 new york!
June 7, 2015
alas, poor max, i knew her
April 1, 2015
Hmm. So Geoff Latulippe just said
"Ugh, Max.
"Your reputation is well known to those in the film business. As a cautionary tale. I needn't document it here, but suffice to say I can't imagine a legit industry professional would vouch for you at this point."
This is a response to a post in which I told Geoff lambasting anyone who is a teacher, mentor, or consultant, is wrong.
The post is "A RESPONSE TO JEANNE V. BOWERMAN AND SCRIPT MAGAZINE."
He was attacking Jeanne in that post. Sigh. Now he's attacking me for responding with credits.
It would actually be interesting if Geoff did "document" my alleged cautionary tale, since then I'd know what I'm getting hit for this time. The gossip internet tabloids about me are always interesting. But —
If I have ever impacted your writing career in a positive way, as writer, teacher, mentor, consultant, author —
Go tell Geoff about it.
Geoff seems to think I'm a terrible person and a horrible teacher and mentor.
According to him, everyone else in Hollywood thinks so too.
Fuck I had better call my agent. What if he has heard this Geoff news? Jesus!
*Not to be bitchy about it, (okay actually I am being a total bitch about it, and on purpose too, fuck you!, whoops!). My biggest detractors in "the film biz" are usually men I wouldn't have sex with.
writers are like cats
April 1, 2015
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March 1, 2015
Yes, those classes are taught by yours truly. They are online accelerated master screenwriting classes. For more info, hit :::THE AFW:::
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but would you want to fuck her?
January 31, 2015
Is that crude? Yes, yes it is. It is also accurate. I'm tired of being polite instead of accurate. [No worries, you can mention my trash mouth along with my weight in my obituary.]
On January 29th, Colleen McCullough, teacher, scientist, researcher, doctor and beloved author who touched million of lives, died at the age of 77. She was one of Australia's most prestigious authors, she penned 25 novels and is best known for The Thorn Birds which sold 30 million copies worldwide, earning $1.9 million — a record for the time — and was adapted into a TV miniseries that came in second at the time in viewings only to Roots.
Her obituary in the Australian opens:
Colleen McCullough, Australia's best selling author, was a charmer. Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was nevertheless a woman of wit and warmth.
So there you have it. She was fat and plain. Good to know. Because no matter how accomplished a woman is, you can sum her up by whether or not she's fat and whether or not she is attractive to men. Good thing she was jolly, or that fat thing might have really counted against her….
I'm guessing Colleen did not have kids. I don't know for a fact, maybe she did. But usually they don't go straight for "fat and not enough make up to make me want to do her" if they can just call you a mom and relegate your important to whether or not a baby ever popped out of your vagina. They do it to astronauts. They do it to photographers. If Colleen had had kids, they probably would have done it to her.
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I am writing in response to Ben Mishkin '00's highly delusional "Reality Check" printed in the April 2nd issue of The Dartmouth. While certainly good for a laugh during my morning coffee, his absurd sentiments are simply too misinformed not to be refuted.
I suppose the nine whole months since our class was ceremoniously spit out of the little self-entitled utopia that we call our alma mater have lulled some of us into a nostalgic, delusory state. Ben seems to suffer from this malady; he apparently thinks that he has gained adequate knowledge of the perplexing "real world" to contribute some wisdom to those bright-eyed youngsters still eating Homeplate brownies and nursing Thursday morning hangovers. Ben, I am honestly mystified by this so-called "reality" that you seem to have discovered, in which people can be as abusive and disrespectful to their peers as they want, as long as they do not sacrifice that which must be "built, achieved, created and wondered." I can assure you that the rest of us poor '00 slobs, at least the ones that I bothered to keep in touch with, crashed on a very different island.
In the modern American workplace, whether it be corporate slavery, technological innovation, artistic endeavors, even childcare, it is a violation of an employee's rights if he/she is verbally or physically harassed or abused in any way by a colleague, supervisor or client. Since graduation, I have spent countless hours ruminating in a labor law office somewhere in the bowels of New York City's midtown district, reading complaints filed in district courts by employees of companies ranging from juggernaut investment banks to local hospitals for hearing-impaired children. These angry residents of a very "real" world have encountered behavior in the workplace that they felt was offensive and degrading, and they are hopping mad and could care less if the perpetrator came from a "mighty Ivy League institution" where it was ok to treat others like crap if they were drinking from your taps or walking past your house at 2 a.m..
In today's world, if someone calls you a "bitch" on office grounds or during staff meetings or conference calls, you do not run and "tell the teacher," as you so eloquently put it. No, you contact your supervisor, place a complaint in their personnel file and possibly hire a lawyer and sue the company and usually settle out of court, sometimes for obscene sums of money. You may be overreacting, and in some cases you may be completely fabricating the incident. But you can still win, and take your alleged oppressor down in the process. This is just a warning Ben — I am assuming that you have a job or will at some point in your post-Dartmouth existence — if you walk around spouting anti-"hyper-liberal" jargon and calling people whatever epithets you choose in the workplace, you won't last long.
To try and impart to current Dartmouth students that they can continue the pervading sense of entitlement fostered on campus once they graduate does a disservice to anyone who takes you seriously. Outside of Dartmouth, you cannot respond to a stupid joke by responding "that's so gay" or telling your cubicle-mates you think the draconian office manager is a "bitch" or calling an attractive female co-worker a "nice piece of ass." At an office party, or even just a bar, you cannot throw beer on "annoying freshmen" or have your brothers beat up pledges from across the row. During our four years at Dartmouth, we encountered behavior like this on a regular basis. I personally saw or heard each of the above numerous times. You may be smart or attractive or athletic or accomplished or all of the above, but if you degrade others, regardless of their status, in the "real" world you will be punished for it one way or another. Welcome to reality Ben, I hope you can adjust to it. The rest of us just seemed to find it a little quicker.


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"Night of the Living Dead," presented by Springfield Contemporary Theatre and Arcane Productions, is 7:30 p.m. today at Vandivort Center Theatre, 305 E. Walnut St. Tickets: $22, $18 for ages 55 and older and students; $10 student rush. 417-831-8001; www.springfieldcontemporarytheatre.org
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Milan, 16 July 2010 - The Mariani Foundation for Paediatric Neurology announces "The Neurosciences and Music - IV: Learning and Memory", to be held in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) from 9th to 12th June 2011. The conference is conceived as a continuation of the previous meetings on the relation between music and the neurosciences in which our foundation participated: "The Biological Foundations of Music" (New York, 2000), "The Neurosciences and Music, Mutual Interactions and Implications of Developmental Functions" (Venice, 2002), "The Neurosciences and Music - II, From Perception to Performance" (Leipzig, 2005) and "The Neurosciences and Music - III, Disorders and Plasticity". These conferences have been highly successful and have generated enormous excitement within the music neuroscience community, among both established and newer researchers. By providing the opportunity to present new results and exchange information, the meetings have contributed substantially to the growth of new research and collaborations in the neuroscience of music and to its visibility within the broader scientific community.
The central theme of "The Neurosciences and Music - IV" will be Learning and Memory. The conference programme will also be divided into 4 subthemes: "Infants and Children", "Adults: musicians and non musicians", "Disabilities and aging-related issues" and "Therapy and Rehabilitation". The conference will include Keynote Lectures, Symposia, Poster Sessions and a Workshop on child-oriented research design and new data acquisition and analysis techniques, to be held in the afternoon on 9th June. The conference will be of interest not only to neuroscientists, psychologists and students but also to clinical neurologists, clinical psychologists, therapists, music performers and educators, as well as musicologists.
Edinburgh has been selected as a most appropriate setting because of the partnership between the Mariani Foundation and the IMHSD - Institute
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