PAIN isn't really wrong. I only filed it under wrong because I want a game, like this, that also combines racey, shootey, smashey and skatey. In fact, this physics engine BEGS for being a skater or snowboarder game, which I still feel gyped about, since SSX went away from the fun Tricky stuff, and hasn't come out as an HD port for PS3 yet anyway.

This is basically the same thing as that Hamster Slinghot game we were playing there, for awhile, but here, you're hurling dudes into a highly destructive and explosive environment. It's a modulay pay as you go game, so it costs $10 for the basic game, and then you can buy characters and levels and what not. It's really, starting out, just a guy or two and one big level. However, there are multile single and multiplayer games within that level.

You can't fault a game entirely build around taking your dude and throwing him at stuff.
Plus, these special game modes? Spank the Monkey (you have to target the monkey and knock HIM into stuff with your dude, for points [above]), Catch a Mime (where you have to grab a mime that's hovering in midair and then throw him into plate glass) and so on... this is good stuff.


What attracted me to the thing in the first place? I got an email from the PS3 Store about a new download available. The new guy you can use? SCURV DOG.



How can you go wrong with a game with both a monkey AND a pirate involved?

I'll give it a shot.

Videos herein:
http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Games/PAIN

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wow I know I probably shouldn't laugh but I can't help myself

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Normally, I really like the air-driers for your hands that you'll see in public restrooms. Then I encountered this in the restroom at the office this morning.

Dyson Airblade

I examined it, and the shape of the device plus the name actually gave me the creeps. Now, this is at the headquarters of a respected multinational corporation, and do I think that anyone could pull off some sort of harmful prank? But I was not going to stick my hands in that thing.

This afternoon, I happened to be back in the same restroom while a couple of other women were there. One said it hadn't worked for her, but maybe it was because her hands were dry. So, I finished washing my hands and with the courage of numbers, stuck my hands in. Nothing happened. No sound, no air, no nothing.

This was after Building Services had sent out an informal survey to the people in our building asking what we thought of the new devices. I had to read it twice, as it seemed to be asking not just how we liked them, but if we thought they worked at all.

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Mike Holmes is an amazing man. With Integrity and passion for his work he swoops in to pull people from renovation disasters. and tonight he's takeing on his bigest challenge. A renovation so badly botched that it's easier for him totear the whole thing down and start from scratch.

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Okay, we all know that Japan holds a special place in my heart...for better or worse, it's there. But, I must admit that I'm glad the "shopping channel" wasn't on any of the 4 stations I pirated for free while there.

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This was a very interesting episode, and broke some conventions about flashback/flashforward storytelling. We start on Sayid, who is now quite a dapper dan man, having a casual encounter with a beautiful woman in a Berlin cafe, which becomes a romantic entanglement. He looks effing HOT in a fitted pinstripe suit and with straightened hair, i have to say, though his normal look is no slouchery either. He's evasive over time about who he works for, intrigued and passively supportive about his lover's job, which is to eff off all year and wait for the very, very, very rare notification, via antiquated pager, that her mysterious employer, The Economist, has summoned her. Of course, we can see that Sayid is up to something: he wants to get to that Economist. And when Elsa gets the page, and runs to the bathroom to get ready, Sayid, in a moment of weakness, emplores her to walk away, saying things will get ugly, and people will ask questions. After he, you know, ventilates the Economist who is not an economist. So she comes back and shoots him in the torso. In a great scene, he manages to get his gun, while she's talking to her mysterious contact (revealing that she knew he was playing her to get to him, and that they'll bring HIM in for a little waterboarding or whatever) and shoots her in the part of the anatomy where the 'you-cant-trust-me' comes from. At the close of the episode, he stumbles, wounded and feverish, into a small Berlin vet hospital, to be patched up by a night nurse... who turns out to be a very vengeful, very calculating Ben.

On the island, in what is either NOW or THEN or whatever it is at this point, we have the continuing fragmentation of the Losties into, well, Losties and Others v2.0. Sayid and Kate, with agitated Miles in tow, head into the jungle to find Locke and try to negotiate the release of Charlotte, the freighter person Locke is holding captive, whom the pilot demands returned in exchange for taking Sayid off the island on the first trip out. They head to the Others/Dharma compound, where they find Hurley tied up in a closet, supposedly for not toeing the line with Locke's agenda. However, while searching Ben's home in the barracks, they are ambushed by Locke and Sawyer, and taken captive as well. After some negotiation, however, and stern glances at complicit Hurley, who played his aw-shucks passivity as a card to trick them, Kate decides to stay behind, and Sayid returns to the beach. As he arrives, Jack and the others note that he has successfully retrieved Charlotte. The trick? He traded her for Miles. Begrudgingly, the pilot takes him along for the ride anyway, though Charlotte still chooses to remain behind to finish their mystery mission, so it's Sayid, Desmond, and Naomi's body that get to take our first birds-eye view journey around the edge of the island and out to see.

Best part of the episode involved Daniel Farraday, who conducts an interesting experiment. He sets up a homing beacon, with a digital clock. He has the ship fire a rocket at the beacon with a payload, as it turns out, consisting of another clock. The rocket is launched in real time, and the freighter person on the phone counts it down, and reports it impacting at the beacon site. But there's nothing in the sky, and certainly nothing landed. 31 minutes later, the rocket appears, and lands at their feet. Sure enough, the rocket's payload's clock, and the beacon's clock, read different times. Duh duh DUHHHH.

Solid episode! Mysteries deepen: is the mission merely to get Ben, or to explore other aspects of the island? How did Ben get off the island? Is he one of the Oceanic Six (doubtful)? More below.

Tidbits!

- Jack says, before the rocket arrives, that he can't believe it's actually been 100 days since he's seen a Red Sox game. To which Frank furrows his brow. Time wrinkle alert!

- The time discrepancy on the clocks, and the delay between the freighter seeing it land, and it actually arriving, doesn't necessarily mean the island is exactly x amount of time off from the rest of the world. i think it's in a state of flux. Because an earlier pre-broadcast version of the episode, according to one reviewer, on Doc Artz' Lost site, stated that the original script showed a discrepancy of seconds, not minutes. But the same time lag in the arrival of the rocket. I think that time is shifting around the island, and it's not consistent. There may even be connections to Desmond's post-switch-flip experience in Season Two.

- I like the continuing implication of a Farraday Cage, and the idea that this is interfering, not just with signals, but with time/space. It was a critical detail to me, in this episode, that using those special sat phones, Daniel was speaking to the freighter live, though the events he experienced were time shunted.

- something read: I didn't see all of the rebroadcast of the previous episode, 'Confirmed Dead', with the pop-ups on, as they do in the prior hour, but someone noted that the pop-up referred to the woman, who noted Daniel Farraday's uncontrollable tears in his flashback (viewing the 815 news) as his 'caretaker' which adds credence to him having a psychological problem. i've been thinking that he has a memory fault, like a failure of long-term memory. Like he's one of those individuals living constantly in short-term memory world, ie. Memento.

- Despite the production's continued insistence that the island is not purgatory, there's a growing rumbling among some of the Lost speculation sites that the island houses, so to speak, Jacob's Ladder, the mythical bridge between heaven and earth. Sure, this is largely due to the existence of JACOB in the first place, but there have been more spiritual themes at work so far this season, building on the hope vs faith thing from before. We also saw a Quran on Ben's bookshelf. He's a well-read man.

- Jacob's cabin appears to appear only when it wants to, not when you want it to. It begs the question: why was it there for Ben to lead Locke to in last season? Because jacob wanted to meet Locke. But has Locke failed Jacob, the island, etc? Why is on the shit list? And is Hurley playing with the big boys, uh, so to speak, now that he can see the cabin?

- Deleted scene: Note how Kate, Sayid and Miles are in the barracks compound. Recall the hesitance to enter or exit, in the past, due to those scary brain-bursting pylons? This scene not only addressed them, but suggests that Miles, and his undefined abilities, can make that assessment telepathically:



The Fence Scene
From "The Economist"
MILES
What is this?

SAYID
A Security fence. When activated, the pylons
emit a high pitch frequency that will kill anyone
who passes through it. We used a tree to climb...

MILES raises his hand towards Sayid. He seems to hear something.

MILES
SHHHHHHHHH!!!

SAYID stops and watches MILES as he scans the surroundings, listening intently.

SAYID (Sarcastic)
I'm sorry, are we supposed to be
hearing something?

A beat passes and MILES is suddenly aware that SAYID had spoken to him.

MILES
I'm sorry, what?

KATE is examining the control panel.

KATE
Maybe I can shut it off.

SAYID joins her, bending over to examine the panel.

SAYID
And, how might you do that?

KATE
I saw Juliet do it once.

SAYID (Doubtful)
Without the code?

ANGLE ON MILES. He continues to scan with a slight twitch, similar to when we saw him reading the boys room in Confirmed Dead. Suddenly he walks through the pylons and turns towards an astonished KATE and SAYID.

MILES
Hey, I don't think its on.

KATE
And how did you know that?

MILES
Lucky guess.

MILES turns and walks away. SAYID and KATE exchange puzzled glances and proceed after him.

- Elsa, Sayid's kill in the flash-forward, is wearing a similar, though not exact, bracelet as the one Naomi was wearing on the island. Inscription: RG. Hmmmm.

- Also, regarding Elsa, I found it very intriguing that she was using a vintage pager. That means something. A man out of time? And who is this man? My hope is that it's not Abbadon, who hired the freighter crew, but rather Daddy Wydmore. He was recently killed off on Ugly Betty, so he's available. I love that actor. Some think the mystery benefactor is Thomas Mittelwerk, Chief Technologist for Hanso. I have doubts.

- One name being bandied about, for those that have played that Lost game, is the Maxwell Group, a sinister corporation with ties to bad nasties. I wonder if this ties to Abbadon...

- So Ben has a secret room, full of suitcases, clothes, and passports with bundles of currency. Multiple passports, different identities, different currencies (even one with Farraday on it, the real one, which is vintage currency, by the way.) He can clearly travel from the island, despite his denials, and it appears, at least to this bot, that he travels where, but also when, he pleases. I'm very intrigued. Yet, he needed back surgery on the island. Why? Also, side note: his name on one of the passports viewed: Dean Moriarty, the figure in Jack Kerouak's On the Road. Or a double reference to Holmes' nemesis? We just don't know, dude.

- Doc Jensen, of the wayyyyy out there theories, proposes this, about the timestamp issues:

"One said 3:16, while the other said 2:45. As it happens, Daniel 2:45 is the culmination of the story in which exiled Daniel earned an exalted place in King Nebuchadnezzar's court by interpreting a dream concerning the future of Babylon and how ''the fourth kingdom will be a divided kingdom.'' Hey -- that sounds like the fourth season of Lost! Meanwhile, Daniel 3:16 is part of the famous story of how Daniel's friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown in the fiery furnace but were saved by God."

Now, key detail: in that earlier draft of the script, where the time lag was seconds instead of minutes? same numbers, just in seconds. Kind of a stretch though. But I like jensen. He supports my Tesseract theory for the island.

- Second to last note: Farraday's 'stay on the exact bearings i gave you.' reference to Frank suggests he's aware of much more being wrong on the island than anyone else, and als, it's a pretty clear lead in to a missing chopper in the next episode. Crazy Frank, all tore up from his landing yet the helo is perfect. Hm!

-Last note: Hurley's best lines in a long time: when called Tubby by Miles, "Oh great, the ship sent us another Sawyer."
And then later, a reference to refusing to come near Sayid, since he's seen what he calls Sayid's breakdancing moves.
hahahahaha

10/10 Clicks

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And that's saying something, because I usually jump at objects that look like they want to serve me with cold, unjudging robotic, soulless calm. But that thing would make my iPhone implode into a tiny black hole. Of shame.

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I really loved X-Files. I'm delighted they're filming a new film, with less complicated mythology, and more scary and creepy. And the cast is intact, the creators are the same, even Mark Snow doing the score is the same. But with 6 years to refresh. I'm down.



Best news to me, though? Amanda Peet is cast as an FBI agent. I was always ambivalent about her, finding her pretty but severe and uninteresting, until a major and minor reconsideration: major, her insanely engaging and multi-faceted role on Studio 60, which had me actually invested in her character, and falling for the actress at the same time, and minor, her cover shoot for one of my wifebot(tm)s Domino magazines, in which she rocks a pleat skirt and two tone T-strap heels, which caused me to reboot on principle.

So, yay.



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