And with two days to go....

[davywavy]

...before Battlemasters, puddingcat's computer has gone down, taking all the characters with it.

We've been here before, haven't we?

In other news, I finally read 'Fight Club' and completely failed to see what all the fuss is about.

Comments

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I wasn't as impressed by the book, I didn't think it was that wonderfully written; the film has a lot more impact and the ideas are a lot more subtle in places.
Watch the film.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Erm, stuff is happening at Battlemasters? I think I ended up out of the loop on this one.

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

The book kicked up a storm as it was rather radical at the time it was published (about 1998ish iirc). Yes, there had been 'real man' and 'anti consumerism' before but noone had really managed to blend it all together with such a sureal and nihilistic touch to it all. Also noone had done anything like it with such a "and your all screwed anyway" touch to it: the system dosent fall at the end of the book, infact the whole movement is seen as a symptom of the world gone mad and a part of it that will carry on beside it rather than anything that will ever take it over. The book was subversive, rejecting the norms of both the mainstream and the counter culture, and it had a reasonably novel twist/concept to it. Maybe not a milestone in literary history but at the very least a highlight of the year. What really made it important was the film (which the author of the book has directly considered a better version of the story with a stonger narrative and improved ending) which imo will go down as an important and historical film, not just for it being an intelligent blockbuster but also for its 'message' and as a document for its time. Remember it brook around the same time as No Logo and the battle for seatle.

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

Did you get Eva?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

yes, I'm busily rebuilding DotOE now; it's the charcaters for the traditional big modern-day game that have gone.
I'll be taking Garou of the Baskervilles as an emergency backup game if all else fails.