Author: Dennis

Anger and Frustration

by Dennis••2•Posted inJournal

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This morning, I woke up early, jumped on my bicycle and got a fresh haircut. Cycled back, feeling good, went for a run, felt great. I got home, got rid of some laundry and stumbled upon my gi. It was a bit in disarray, neglected for a long time so I decided to make a tidy package out of it. As I was folding it and tying my belt around it, I started to get angry.

Due to my condition, I’m not allowed to do any contact sports due to a danger of excessive bruising and bleeding due to the blood thinners I’m on. Hopefully, I won’t have to stay on them for long, but stories have reached me about people having to be on blood thinners for the rest of their lives. Considering that possibility sends my mood plummeting through the floor. It makes me angry. It makes me furious.

And as I was tying my belt around my gi, I realised that even having to sit out for six months, I’ve already lost so much that I was looking forward to. If this hadn’t happened, I would have tied a blue belt around my gi, I’m sure. I’ve decided that whatever happens, I’m going to invest in some private lessons with the goal of getting my blue belt.

Röyksopp – Four hundred!?

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

“Hello.”
“Yeah, it’s me. I want to give you some good frequencies. One-seven-two. Two-point-six. Two-thousand-two-hundred-and-fourty-five. Three-thousand-thirty-two. Four-hundred…”
“Four-hundred?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m coming over.”
“Do that.”
“Hehe, I’ll be there in two seconds.”

Krieg: A Meat Bicycle Built for Two

by Dennis••1•Posted inGaming

I know I’ve been posting less of my thoughts and more buzzfeed type stuff, but this I couldn’t pass up. This short video is four-and-a-half minutes of pure Borderlands genius. It tells the story of Krieg the Psycho and it gives a brilliant look inside his deranged mind.

[embed width=”700″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3mhWvWEb9g[/embed]

I’m sure this doesn’t do the argument that video games don’t cause violence in society any good, but boy I can’t wait for the second short that Gearbox is going to release, probably somewhere later this week.

[Edit: here’s the second short film.]

[embed width=”700″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnFDjxtARqk[/embed]

Have I mentioned how much I love Borderlands? :)

Jump London

by Dennis••0•Posted inJournal

Anyone who digs Parkour, or its bastard cousin Free Running, really owes it to himself to watch the documentary Jump London, viewable on YouTube.

[embed width=”700″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8fSXGP9wvQ[/embed]

I’m not very fond of Sébastien Foucan. Or rather, I’m not fond of his claim to have invented Parkour, nor him relabelling it as Free Running. Free running has added a lot of frilly acrobatics that I don’t care much for, and I think David Belle should have been mentioned in the documentary, if only in passing.

(Foucan was one half of the awesome parkour scene in Casino Royale.)

Shadowrun Anxiety

by Dennis••1•Posted inGaming

Oh, I’m very nervous about my upcoming Shadowrun campaign. I’m busy cutting almost all the high fantasy out of the setting (replacing meta humans with evolved/mutated humans and magic with psionics, e.g), and making psionics more like it’s used in the film Looper (2012), where most people know parlour tricks, but it’s commonly accepted there’s not much more than that. As a result, the history and certain details of the world will need to change (no Great Ghost Dance, no dragons, e.g.) and I can finally get to the Shadowrun campaign I always wanted. Exciting!

Pretty soon I will start publishing some posts I’ve been working on to cover all the changes I want to make. Stay tuned!