Puttin’ the Hurt On

Usually I write a huge, bloated review of the Oscar ceremony but I surprisingly don’t have much to say this time round. You can tell it was an uneventful Oscar night when the biggest surprise was in the adapted screenplay category. Feel bad for Up in the Air getting shutout by the way. Aside from that most of the winners were basically the frontrunners from day one so not much to say there really.

I was fairly satisfied with the ceremony, with the exception of how long it took to present the Best Actor/Best Actress categories. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were hilarious especially in their parody of Paranormal Activity. Which led into a fairly underwhelming tribute to horror movies. I’m a big horror movie fan but you know something is off when you have a montage that includes clips of Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice. I would of liked to see maybe more focus on the honorary oscar inductees this year Lauren Bacall and Roger Corman (Think I’ll do a post about my favorite Corman films sometime).

So yeah it was a good ceremony better than last year just no big surprises. The Hurt Locker was the big winner which I’m happy about and everything seemed to go well, not too shabby. So until next year see ya at the movies, Otteni out.

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

Just gotta apologize again for the lateness of the latest Morgue video. Paul and I’ve literally spent all weekend exporting and re-exporting but we always encounter a new problem. Paul tells me that it has something to do with the type of footage and software of our current camera (damn that thing) and that we shouldn’t have these problems when we get a new camera (Yeah that’ll be the day.) The problem now is basically just one scene that for some reason is blank when exported. It’s like 30 seconds of footage but were desperately trying to figure out why it does that. So it’ll be done when it’s done that’s basically all I can say now.

I still plant to write about the Oscars unless somebody else wants to write about it (feel free to) and still plan to review Alice in Wonderland. Everything has just been hanging in limbo until this one is finished, I’m literally working on it right now so just hold tight.

Gettin’ Closer

I told Colin the new Morgue episode would be out today but I’m afraid it’s gonna be at least another day… That is assuming that Paul doesn’t make plans with his friends or something. Still editing out one minute of extra footage and a segment where the audio is messed up. This is getting painful cause it’s so close but I have to work tonight and Paul has a shit-load of homework. So just hold in there it’s getting there.

MLB 10 The Show Review Part 1: Franchise Mode

MLB 10 The Show

Franchise Mode

After playing for about 4 hours last night I decided to do this review as a series by game modes. That would be one long ass review if I just reviewed the whole game. Since Franchise mode is just basically playing single games that is what this segment will basically be about.

This game looks amazing. When I first played 09, I shat my pants. When I turned on the PS3 yesterday, I was floored. The intro was great, the menus are sleek, it’s all 10x better than last year. I fired up the first game which was a spring training game vs. the Giants (the one that’s going on right now) but I wasn’t trying to play in AZ so I chose Target Field. It’s so realistic that the temperature in Minnesota in March was 2 degrees. A little chilly for baseball, but I went on with it.

What I was really excited for was the new camera angles. Turned out the default setting has the cool camera angles only when you are on offense, but I turned it to offense and defense and it is awesome. It looks so much like a TV broadcast it’s scary. Some of the drawbacks to it are things like it is kind of hard to field normal base hits with your outfielders because it is hard to judge the angle, but I think that will just take getting used to. It looks so cool.

The biggest improvements in my opinion are just little things that sane people probably wouldn’t even notice. The way the players interact with each other and objects like walls and bases is spectacular. I played a game in Oakland where the bullpen benches are in play, and if you hit a ball at them they all freak out. When you warm up a pitcher they warm up way more realistically. They start tossing off the mound then on the mound. The bullpen catchers are much more fluid and realistic looking. When you bring in a new pitcher from the pen, you get 8 warm up pitches off the actual mound. That fucks my shit up. The better you pitch in these warm ups the warmer your pitcher will get.

Other little stuff like the deliveries all the way from Felix to Fister are better. Swings are better, faces are better. Probably my favorite little thing is that the batter can foul off a pitch and hit the umpire, and then he struggles for a few seconds on his knees. Great stuff.

Something that hasn’t improved? The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way on 09 was that the player ratings are kind of messed up. Langerhans is rated a D for defense when the whole reason we got him was that he’s an elite defender. Things like that piss me off because it’s information so easily available, but because he’s just a role player they don’t get it right.

Besides that I haven’t run into a single fault. It is a triumph among baseball games.

PS I tried to format this post for about 20 minutes. I dunno why it looks so fucked up.

The Greatest Mariner of All Time

ApocalyPS3

Just a warning to all PlayStation 3 readers that for whatever reason only read this blog. Probably just Nancy. There’s a weird error that seems to mainly just affect non-slim PS3s that might brick your system. On the day before MLB 10: The Show comes out too. They say you should not turn your system on for 24 hours.

So don’t do it!

Read a book or watch TV or play your Xbox 360. Just don’t turn on that PlayStation 3.

It only does nothing.

Unless you have a Slim. Then you’re probably good to go.

Update: Apparently it has something to do with the internal clock thinking today’s February 29. So the 24 hour thing is weird, because it will still be a day off, but I guess it will at least be a day that exists.

Update 2: Everything’s good now, or so I hear.

C-Wall

Just want to wish a happy birthday to Colin aka C-Wall. We’ve kind of run out of ideas for birthday related posts so I’ll just say have a good one and use this venue for a few other brief announcements. So everyone can know the current status of the latest “The Morgue” episode, it’s getting closer to completion by the hour. Paul and I got new software and a new computer but it’s been taking us awhile to edit this one sketch. It’s basically the best/most epic fight scene we’ve ever done. There’s a lot of detail put into the visuals and it’ll be grand, Paul has dubbed the sketch “iNoon”. We’ve been editing non-stop for three or four days so it’ll be out sometime this week.

Aside from that I heard about this site that I feel like I should of already known about. It’s called The Maltin Game.. Does that ring a bell to anyone? Apparently it’s based on Leonard Maltin’s movie review books somehow. Basically you have to guess a movie by being given the cast list in reverse order and a few other clues. It’s freaking impossible even for me, at least most of the time but I don’t know… Felt like it was worth mentioning.

I might do an oscar post soon before the big day but I’m not 100% on that. There’s some other stuff I’m contemplating but we’ll see how the week unravels, see ya all in cyberspace, have a good one C-Man.