The Pinnacle of Technology
Posted by Ray @ 9:05 pmJenna Jameson (a porn star) has collaborated with a game company to make - that’s right - a porn game. My initial skepticism (Jenna Jameson? But… but… she’s fugly!) gave way to amusement when I read a review of the game on Wired.
As expected, the goal of the game is to make Jenna come to an orgasm… a task which the reviewer (a woman, I might add, and Wired’s sex columnist to boot) had some difficulty achieving.
But the part that made me laugh came in the middle, when the game’s creators were talking about the feedback they’d received from subscribers about what they wanted in a game of this sort.
XStream3D depends on subscriber feedback for direction as the game evolves. “That way we don’t waste money developing features no one wants,” says Abram.
So what do people want?
“You’d be surprised at how many subscribers tell us they want smells in the game,” he says, musing on the possibilities offered by the Scent Dome.
*Nasty laugh*
I really don’t know if the average human being has the physical dexterity to click a mouse, press some keys, crane their necks to smell a device and pak chew cheng all at once.
It also begs the question… what exactly do those customers want to smell?
Oh, and Trisenx had better re-design their Scent Dome, which currently looks like a medieval torture device. Unless, you know, you’re into that kind of thing.
Surface for air
Posted by Ray @ 7:38 pmTaking a brief break from the stuffy confines of equity and trusts, I stumbled upon an entry from the tourettes-syndrome blog.
Of all the equitable maxims around, I like Equity taketh no shit best. :)
Yeah. It doesn’t take any - it just throws it back at us.
I watched Steamboy with Zeng and a couple of other friends on thursday. Two things struck my mind: 1) the movie has no female leads; and 2) animators get absolutely no credit for throwing away a decade of their lives.
Steamboy took 9 years to make, and it shows in the insane quality of animation. But the majority of the people who view this movie will probably be unable to appreciate it beyond “oooh”-ing and “aah”-ing. At this point, I really have to say it sucks to be an animator.
Good luck, Zeng! =)
Speaking of movies, somebody with a sense of humour has made a… well, 133t subtitled version of Episode III’s theatrical trailer. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, and well worth the 13MB download [via Boing Boing]
Also via Boing Boing is news that chocolate may fight cancer. Apparently a compound that naturally occurs in cacao beans stops breast cancer cells from multiplying. This, combined with already ongoing investigations as to chocolate’s ability to reduce blood pressure and soothe sore throats, is good news for chocolate lovers everywhere.
Oh, but it has to be dark chocolate. You know… the sexy, bitter version of milk chocolate.
And pet owners, please don’t feed it to your pets. The very stuff that has women addicted to chocolate (theobromine) is the same stuff that will kill a dog (or cat).
Edit
I forgot to mention, Steamboy’s music is like listening to the original Star Wars all over again. Powerful leitmotif, bombastic brass, thumping percussion… am I the only one who hates the background-noise approach soundtrack composers are taking nowadays? “Oh, I want the music to take a backseat to the visuals” my arse. Cinema is not just for the eyes.