Ongoing Process

This is a priceless sci-fi short from Terry Bisson.

They’re made out of Meat

They’re making one.

SciFi.com has a trailer up for the new Galactica prequal, Caprica.

I’m sure this will get me lynched in many geek circles, but I was a touch disappointed by The Dark Knight.  Don’t get me wrong, it was a good movie.  But on the heels of Batman Begins and with the near reverent tones in which it was being spoken of, I had hoped for more.  It was a bit too long and tried to do a bit too much (the Two-Face arc should have been in a separate movie).  Ledger felt like he was trying just a bit too hard with The Joker.  And my biggest complaint is Batman himself.  The Dark Knight was about pretty much everyone else other than the actual dark knight.  There was very little character exposition or development for him in this one (where it was the centerpiece of Batman Begins).

That said, it was still a quality film.  The look and feel were still spot-on and the writing and production were top-notch.  And I like that they managed to directly address human hope and frailty without being cheesy.  In short, it’s well worth seeing, just don’t buy the hype.

I’ve made a point-buy system to replace the old 3d6 attribute roll for AD&D-based games.

Check it out. 

3d6 De-Randomizer

(I had to put it in a static page because FCKEditor in Wordpress kept munging my JavaScript.)