Friday, July 15, 2011
First Episode!
I finally published our first episode!!! I decided on the name The Velvet Room Podcast. If you want to let us know what you think send it to the.velvet.room.podcast@gmail.com Please be kind, it is our first show! I told Jake I'd like to another one this week once we know our schedules.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Fuck Apple
Well, Jake and I recorded the podcast, but since Apple is converting MobileMe to iCloud, it's essentially screwed me over a bit. I can't publish through iWeb and so I'll have to find a real webhost who will allow this. We're calling our podcast "The Velvet Room" because we both love the Persona series, so now something I wanted to do for so long might never see the light of day. Thanks to the Cloud.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Podcast
LiberiFatali (Jake) and I are meeting up this Thursday to do the podcast. We will probably be discussing the new X-Men film, some upcoming titles we're looking forward to play. I'm not sure what Jake wants to talk about, but probably Ip Man and I Saw the Devil will come up. We're having lunch on Thursday to discuss our first show and probably recording it later. I'll make a post here and a video on my channel when the podcast is ready. If you have ideas on making the show better, I'll be setting up an e-mail account for this blog specifically.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Upcoming reviews
I'll soon upload a review on X-Men: First Class and Miike's adaptation of "Ryu ga Gotoku" aka Yakuza. Also, will let you know what my latest obsession is that will be ruling my wallet for the summer.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
My Thoughts on the PSN Outage
I don't think Anonymous is behind this, but I do blame GeoHot. I wasn't on his side when he was being confronted with a suit. Just because you bought the hardware does not mean you can screw around with the software. When it comes to data, we are technically just buying a lease. You know those people on Youtube who watermark clips from films they don't own because they don't want it stolen? It's on that level of obnoxiousness for me. Except I can see a picture of GeoHot and wish I had the power to curse his future sex life. I did not like how he was representing gamers and it made me ashamed to be in a group that he was at the time speaking for.
Eventually he learned how pointless going against Sony was and ended up in some kind of settlement, but "Anonymous" decided to fight Sony and caused a small crash of the server in early April. Their other attacks were releasing personal info on Sony Execs and I believe just wearing their V for Vendetta masks at their buildings, I think. Shortly after Portal 2 comes out (which I will discuss in another post), Sony decides to shutdown the PSN as they've learned they have been breached. I honestly thought my problems with the PSN were related to my wireless crapping out all the time (because it does), so I thought that was why I couldn't get online. And now I'm hearing about possible credit card theft and SOE is in major trouble as well. I'm really worried about the future of Sony, especially their Playstation brand.
Luckily, my credit card number wasn't attached to my account, but they still have other kinds of information on me. And even so, I hope these hackers would look up who I am and go, "bah, college kid." But I'm really worried about the Playstation brand. I won't deny it, I'm a Sony fangirl. PS3 has so many good exclusives that cater to my tastes. I'm terrified of that ending and I really do love my Playstation 3.
I believe Sony will get out of this and that their apologies are sincere. I'd really love free store credit so I can get the Heavy Rain DLC.
Also to any 360fanboys, I do like the 360. There are games for it I enjoy such as Deadly Premonition and quite possibly Mass Effect (I sold my old 360 and plan on getting the new one with wifi built in). But this could have easily happened to you and I believe it did awhile ago. I expect more maturity from some of you. Some people have possibly had their identity stolen and you're just laughing at them because they bought a PS3.
I'm going to hope Sony will recover and to find whoever did this and bring them to justice
Eventually he learned how pointless going against Sony was and ended up in some kind of settlement, but "Anonymous" decided to fight Sony and caused a small crash of the server in early April. Their other attacks were releasing personal info on Sony Execs and I believe just wearing their V for Vendetta masks at their buildings, I think. Shortly after Portal 2 comes out (which I will discuss in another post), Sony decides to shutdown the PSN as they've learned they have been breached. I honestly thought my problems with the PSN were related to my wireless crapping out all the time (because it does), so I thought that was why I couldn't get online. And now I'm hearing about possible credit card theft and SOE is in major trouble as well. I'm really worried about the future of Sony, especially their Playstation brand.
Luckily, my credit card number wasn't attached to my account, but they still have other kinds of information on me. And even so, I hope these hackers would look up who I am and go, "bah, college kid." But I'm really worried about the Playstation brand. I won't deny it, I'm a Sony fangirl. PS3 has so many good exclusives that cater to my tastes. I'm terrified of that ending and I really do love my Playstation 3.
I believe Sony will get out of this and that their apologies are sincere. I'd really love free store credit so I can get the Heavy Rain DLC.
Also to any 360fanboys, I do like the 360. There are games for it I enjoy such as Deadly Premonition and quite possibly Mass Effect (I sold my old 360 and plan on getting the new one with wifi built in). But this could have easily happened to you and I believe it did awhile ago. I expect more maturity from some of you. Some people have possibly had their identity stolen and you're just laughing at them because they bought a PS3.
I'm going to hope Sony will recover and to find whoever did this and bring them to justice
Friday, April 29, 2011
The Girl Next Door
Ah, another movie review.
The Girl Next Door is based on a fictional book by Jack Ketchum that is based on the real life crime of Sylvia Likens. Sylvia was a young sixteen year old girl left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski who ended up torturing the girl leading to her death. This was a huge crime in Indianapolis, so it's a close story to me. I even read the true crime book on this for a school project. I haven't read Ketchum's book, but after getting a Netflix account, I just had to watch this film.
I'm not going to go into too much depth on the movie. If you're familiar with Sylvia's torture than this film plays out a bit of the same. However, they altered the events heavily in order to make it more "shocking". It wasn't really necessary as what Sylvia went through was already horrible. In fact, the movie makes the whole thing worse that I was offended by it.
One of the changes is that they made the girls based off of Sylvia and Jenny, her sister who had polio, orphans. In real life, their parents were carnies who left them in Gertrude's care. The film also makes the children who Gertrude convinced to abuse Sylvia mostly male. Paula, Gertrude's oldest daughter, was one of the biggest aggressors in the case along with other females. They also sexualized the torture way more than what actually happened. The worse thing that happened to Sylvia was Gertrude forced her to strip in front of the kids and shove a Pepsi bottle in her vagina. Twice. And yet this film actually shows the boys raping the girl which never did happen in real life. I found going to this extreme too much. Sylvia faced true suffering and I wish if they were going to retell the story, they wouldn't sensationalize it even more than it has been.
The acting is rather subpar as well. The girl playing Susan, Jenny's fictional counterpart, has literally no expression and emotion. She is just there. Also, the mother I found her sadism a bit too forced. Even though Gertrude was just as mental, Gertrude made way more sense in her ability to convince the kids to abuse Sylvia.
As I had a personal investment in the real crime of Sylvia Likens, this movie offended me on how they had to "spice" it up. I get it's a fictional story based on real events, but it's too exploitative in my opinion. For a much more accurate movie I recommend An American Crime starring Ellen Page. This was closer to the actual events, but I hated how they made Gertrude a sympathetic character.
The Girl Next Door is based on a fictional book by Jack Ketchum that is based on the real life crime of Sylvia Likens. Sylvia was a young sixteen year old girl left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski who ended up torturing the girl leading to her death. This was a huge crime in Indianapolis, so it's a close story to me. I even read the true crime book on this for a school project. I haven't read Ketchum's book, but after getting a Netflix account, I just had to watch this film.
I'm not going to go into too much depth on the movie. If you're familiar with Sylvia's torture than this film plays out a bit of the same. However, they altered the events heavily in order to make it more "shocking". It wasn't really necessary as what Sylvia went through was already horrible. In fact, the movie makes the whole thing worse that I was offended by it.
One of the changes is that they made the girls based off of Sylvia and Jenny, her sister who had polio, orphans. In real life, their parents were carnies who left them in Gertrude's care. The film also makes the children who Gertrude convinced to abuse Sylvia mostly male. Paula, Gertrude's oldest daughter, was one of the biggest aggressors in the case along with other females. They also sexualized the torture way more than what actually happened. The worse thing that happened to Sylvia was Gertrude forced her to strip in front of the kids and shove a Pepsi bottle in her vagina. Twice. And yet this film actually shows the boys raping the girl which never did happen in real life. I found going to this extreme too much. Sylvia faced true suffering and I wish if they were going to retell the story, they wouldn't sensationalize it even more than it has been.
The acting is rather subpar as well. The girl playing Susan, Jenny's fictional counterpart, has literally no expression and emotion. She is just there. Also, the mother I found her sadism a bit too forced. Even though Gertrude was just as mental, Gertrude made way more sense in her ability to convince the kids to abuse Sylvia.
As I had a personal investment in the real crime of Sylvia Likens, this movie offended me on how they had to "spice" it up. I get it's a fictional story based on real events, but it's too exploitative in my opinion. For a much more accurate movie I recommend An American Crime starring Ellen Page. This was closer to the actual events, but I hated how they made Gertrude a sympathetic character.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Small Update
When your mom gets a Facebook account, it's expected. You know eventually your out of date parents will try what all the kids are doing. But when you're grandparents get one, then Facebook's days are numbered.
Finals are happening next week and that means mostly nothing. Mostly since I haven't updated my Youtube in weeks. The last update was about my new cat and I really need to get back with Amnesia. Yet, I hate recording it with Quicktime as the top and right hand side just come out wrong. Recently something dawned on me. I could record my computer gameplay via a TV!! I remembered one of my old friends connected his Mac to his TV to make movies easier to watch. Tons of people do that and I figured, "Why not do the same with a game?" Unfortunately, I don't have the item that will require me to do that. Good news, I get paid at the end of this week and as long as new Monster High dolls don't come out, I could get it!! Then there is actually recording it. The last time I used Pinnacle it refused to allow me to save my video, so I don't really have a way at this point in time to record.
I was going to see if I could get a Dazzle and then hi-jack my sister's Mac, but she's moving to a different part of the state, so that's out. My Windows laptop is utter crap as well and I'm not going to use it. So....nothing. It's disappointing, agreed. I'd really would like to finish Amnesia and just do other walkthroughs, but I really just can't afford it and don't have the time. These are put off indefinitely at the time. I'm not saying I'm done or going to stop, just that I cannot at all do it.
Finals are happening next week and that means mostly nothing. Mostly since I haven't updated my Youtube in weeks. The last update was about my new cat and I really need to get back with Amnesia. Yet, I hate recording it with Quicktime as the top and right hand side just come out wrong. Recently something dawned on me. I could record my computer gameplay via a TV!! I remembered one of my old friends connected his Mac to his TV to make movies easier to watch. Tons of people do that and I figured, "Why not do the same with a game?" Unfortunately, I don't have the item that will require me to do that. Good news, I get paid at the end of this week and as long as new Monster High dolls don't come out, I could get it!! Then there is actually recording it. The last time I used Pinnacle it refused to allow me to save my video, so I don't really have a way at this point in time to record.
I was going to see if I could get a Dazzle and then hi-jack my sister's Mac, but she's moving to a different part of the state, so that's out. My Windows laptop is utter crap as well and I'm not going to use it. So....nothing. It's disappointing, agreed. I'd really would like to finish Amnesia and just do other walkthroughs, but I really just can't afford it and don't have the time. These are put off indefinitely at the time. I'm not saying I'm done or going to stop, just that I cannot at all do it.
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