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Friday, March 11, 2005

Goobery

So I saw the new Star Wars Ep III trailer last night on national TV (thank god for fiancees who can stomach an hour of "The OC" to alert me to the trailer at the end). All I can say is: Oh. My. God. I'm not one of those weird guys who has a Mandalore tattoo or a fetish for Carrie Fisher in her Jabba's barge outfit (though she did look good...), but this movie looks farkin' incredible. The trailer literally gave me chills. The trailer laid out Anakin's descent and corruption, and the basics of the story, and if the film is remotely close to what was presented here, This Film Will Not Suck. Death, betrayal, lots of lightsaber fighting, lava, huge space battles and best of all, Darth Vader. Best line, by Obi-Wan - "You were supposed to be the chosen one!" in a betrayed, teary voice. Combined with the pics I downloaded from the website posted in Lord Zog's blog a few weeks back, and this movie is going to redeem the franchise.

As an added bonus, I finally saw the full Sin City trailer, with more of the actors, especially Mickey Rourke as Marv. Oh yeah. I cannot wait for this movie - I've been waiting for it for over 12 years now, and it's almost here.

10,000 Questions, Part III: Son of 10,000 Questions:
C'mon people, you are slacking off here!

The Thane continues his line of questioning:

"Is it a stand-alone product?"

Stand alone in that it is complete by itself? No, Spycraft 2.0 will be required to use the entirety of the book, though a vast majority of the book will be usable by the standard d20 player, and about half by the gamer from any system. It's a setting, so there's a lot of "fluff" material here.

Stand alone in that it is a one-off book? No to that either. If all goes well with our first release, Ten Thousand Bullets should be a line of books. But the first book should contain all elements of the genre in there, with future books expanding the setting and or adding layers of additional rules and information for specific subgenres. More on that later.

Oh, What Could Have Been
The Best Page in The Universe is hysterical for rants and raves about...stuff. Read up on videogames that never quite made it into production.

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