What Is This I Don't Even

what is this i don't even

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The Room: The Game

The Room is a blessing to mankind. When you meet someone new, you can ask them "Have you seen The Room?" and whether they say "Yes" or "No," you can always follow-up with "Oh my God! We should totally get together and watch The Room sometime!"

Now someone has taken The Room and made a full-scale adventure game out of it. YOU ARE Johnny as he goes to work, is denied a promotion, buys Lisa a red dress, and throws a football around while wearing a tuxedo. And look, it's Claudette! Denny! Michelle! Michelle's boyfriend Mike! There's even an awesome battle sequence where you and your best friend Mark must defeat the notorious druglord Chris R!

Be advised, though: the game contains cartoon nudity, violence, and 80% of the script from The Room.

Before Darren Criss was the Handsomest Boy Alive on Glee, he was the Handsomest Wizard Alive in A Very Potter Musical. Seriously, every time I say "oh I'll just watch the first ten minutes of this," I end up watching the whole three hours. It's that amazing.

Watched Primer for the first time. My sister warned me it was going to be jargon-dense and nonsensical, which it was, but it also ended up being really, really interesting. It was filmed on a shoestring budget, which makes me wonder if a little more time and money would've given the writer/director more opportunity to make things explicit (the party sequence that ends up being the focal point of all the goings-on isn't even mentioned until way late in the movie). But given how much the narrative prided itself on being realistically opaque, maybe more cash and time wouldn't have changed anything.

It's interesting (if a little meta and killjoy) to consider works in light of the constraints their creators were under. Everyone who's ever written to a deadline knows that feeling of "if I only had a little more time, I could make this so much better."  I've read a few books -- Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, for example, or the last three books in Stephen King's Dark Tower series -- where the need to be finished has clearly taken precedence over most other things. Characters seem flatter, solutions to problems feel a little hackneyed, and it's frustrating because you can sympathize with both sides: wanting a work to be carefully and thoughtfully crafted, and needing a work to just be done.

In Primer's case, I feel like the movie wouldn't have been harmed by unpacking the last half hour into something longer and more detailed. But it was still awesome as it was (which is more than I can say for the last three books in the Dark Tower series).

This website is relevant to my penchant for thievery interests. It's missing the McDonalds down by Gateway, though.

It's midnight and I have a sore throat, so I'm watching Fruits Basket and eating leftover rotini out of a big ceramic serving dish because we haven't done dishes in a few days and we're out of bowls.

I feel at peace with the world.