Comments on: The Sunday Papers

By: junkie

junkie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:48:23 +0000

Glamour is the annoying thing, its annoying buying into glamour.
Its also fun and works, you want to be cool and ”I LIKE BAYONETTA.”
That’s the most annoying thing about it, its dividing marketing technique of coolness vs. uncoolness. You’re on the cool side if you invest in it and take its side. so it uses peoples insecurity and desire to be cool…the market’s dividing technique.
What side are you on? is the effect of Bayonetta so the insecure people all coolly want to buy and LOVE it.

By: Sagan

Sagan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:59:44 +0000

Having now actually played the demo I have changed my opinion somewhat. A sexy character doesn’t automatically make a game sexist, but in the case of Bayonetta I think it does. At least that’s the impression I got from the demo. While playing the demo, I was thinking of Leigh’s piece, and I simply could not agree with her.
The reviews for the full game give a very different impression from what I experienced in the demo, (calling Bayonetta a great character and everything) so I would probably change my opinion again if I were to play the full game. However I don’t have a console so it’s unlikely I will ever play the full game.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:26:17 +0000

Too cool for pop!

By: Tom Camfield

Tom Camfield — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:46:23 +0000

@ KG, ok, no worries.

@ Psychopomp, I disagree, I think you ramble aimfully. I would add:

It’s rare that someone goes on the internet, posts something derogatory, and has the time or inclination to jot down their mood that morning, which I think is another factor (because hey, why disagree reductively with each other when we can just list all the different things that cause people to be asses about music).

I’ve been in the position before where I’ve been grumpy, saw something I disagree with, and unleashed the hate, not because I particularly care, but because at that moment, I suddenly find I care. (And that happens all over, from people making a Custer stand against some telephone salesman, to the abuse heaped at customer servicemen.) It just happens that on the internet, you have to care to post a comment, and if someone cares it’s usually them complaining rather than being complementary. (It’s like the old story about the kid who never talks, then says “Pass the salt” and explains he hasn’t needed to talk before because nothing was wrong.)

So I agree with you, and then some. Also, yeah, Kieron’s taste in music, IIRC, he purposefully puts himself in the line of fire; he could play it safe (he listens to Bo Diddley, it’s not as if he’s musically illiterate) but tends not to. I think his mindset is: he likes to dance, and a lot of indie stuff, especially obscurities that would earn him kudos if he posted them up, whither and die on the dance floor because no-one knows the beat, whereas pop really comes alive, uniting everyone. So, in that way, pop is better and deserves more recognition from its opponents.

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:22:50 +0000

“pop really has gone to hell”

…funny you should say that:
The 2009 VMAs: The Occult Mega-Ritual
Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance – The Occult Meaning
The Occult Semi-Subliminals of Jay-Z’s “On to the Next One”
Beyonce’s Sweet Dreams – Occult Mind Control
http://vigilantcitizen.com/

I usually avoid any/all conspiracy theory sites as they are typically about as fun as repeatedly head-butting my desk, but this one is actually quite readable.

I wonder if anyone has done any of this nutty-deconstruction – getting screen-caps of hidden/subliminal pillars, pyramids, goat-heads and triangles etc – in Modern Warfare 2 or Half-LIfe?

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:11:37 +0000

I’ve only just noticed the Hitchcock references:

I want your *psycho*
Your *vertigo* stick
Want you in my *rear window*
Baby you’re sick

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:40:57 +0000

I have to claim a near complete ignorance of Lady Gaga (save that some people believe she’s a he, whatever), however that clip you posted intrigued me KG. Was it my imagination or was she channelling Max Headroom at the beginning of that concert footage?

By: Chaz

Chaz — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:33:28 +0000

Trapped in purgatory
A lifeless object, alive
Awaiting reprisal
Death will be their acquisition

By: mpk

mpk — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:23:12 +0000

COVER ME

By: Brumisator

Brumisator — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:10:54 +0000

Absolutely nothing at all, there is nothing worthy of even a bored click on the escapist.

I’m even getting bored of Yahtsee, his is basically an interchangeable rant about nothing every week, since the last couple of months. But I guess that’s just me.

By: Chalee

Chalee — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:08:26 +0000

What the hell there are things on the escapist apart from yahtzee???

By: Rinox

Rinox — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:45:36 +0000

How about this over-the-top ‘ acoustic’ (well ok it’s a keyboard, not a piano, but whatever) version of Paparazzi? :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3R3KqrJAI4