Shade’s Children – Cannonball Read #8

Shade’s Children by Garth Nix. Sci-fi dystopian young adult thriller.

In Shade’s Children the planet has been taken over by mysterious beings. Every person over the age of 14 at the time of the takeover disappeared and humans are bred, aged 14 years and then become “meat.” The book follows a groups of young rebels who manage to escape captivity and are led by Shade, the last adult human on the planet.

Onward – to spoilers.

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Chat Box – State of the Industry

SonicRob: http://www.edge-online.com/news/ex-infinity-ward-bosses-sue-activision
SonicRob: oh shiiiiiiit
SonicRob: activision descends to a new level
SonicRob: firing the guys who made MW2 to avoid paying out a bonus
SonicRob: if it’s true, that is
FyreHaar: oh fuck
FyreHaar: “Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public,
FyreHaar: daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnn
SonicRob: “After all we have given to Activision, we shouldn’t have to sue to get paid.”
SonicRob: a $1 billion game

Chat Box

SonicRob: new space marine screens
FyreHaar: yay!
SonicRob: ultramarines vs.
SonicRob: goffs?
FyreHaar: sendy el linko
SonicRob: http://us.thq.com/us/game/screenshots/5286/1
SonicRob: I call bullshit
SonicRob: that is maya with photoshop on top of it
SonicRob: when you say you are posting “screens”
SonicRob: do not post concept art
SonicRob: this bodes ill
SonicRob: they are playing us false
SonicRob: these people ain’t got shit
FyreHaar: I’m with you
FyreHaar: there’s no way
FyreHaar: that is real time
FyreHaar: however,
FyreHaar: if it is this is the best looking game ever
SonicRob: that is why it is not
FyreHaar: here
FyreHaar: they could be screenshots from a cut scene
SonicRob: you wanna tell me that these jackoffs are the ones who finally figured out how to get a playstation to properly anti-alias?
FyreHaar: those are not screen shots from a PS3
FyreHaar: maybe from a godbox PC
SonicRob: CGI stills, maybe
SonicRob: I still think concept art
FyreHaar: it’s ad copy
SonicRob: they look too painterly
FyreHaar: very conmetaical
FyreHaar: cinematical
SonicRob: wow
FyreHaar: ?
SonicRob: does it possess the property of meta, en espanol?
SonicRob: con-meta-ical
FyreHaar: portugese, actually!

Chat Box

FyreHaar: omg
SonicRob: ?
FyreHaar: god damnit I’m tired of this!!
FyreHaar: I’m tired of listening to a song and finding new meaning in it and realizing that my life before was sort of colourless without tragedy to inform it
SonicRob: wtf?
FyreHaar: I just get this feeling that everyone who has experienced trauma has a club that people who haven’t don’t get
SonicRob: I’d just as soon skip the trauma and not get it, thanks

What’s my name?

A new weekly feature on handles.  Name yourself carefully lest Sonic and I mock your handle mercilessly!

To start, observations on the nature of handles. A handle is about self definition, naming yourself for an entire segment of reality. Pretty heady stuff! People go for the unique, the funny, the intimidating. Here at fns.com we appreciate the multifaceted handle. The handle that can be read and interpreted in multitudinous ways.

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