Review: AB-Negative
Topic: Movie Reviews

Title: AB-Negative

Year: 2006

Genre: Horror

Format Reviewed: Netflix Streaming

Brought to us by writer, director and producer Lary Banning, AB-Negative is officially described on the official blurbs as follows:

"Wooster Carneal always does the right thing. But when he loses his wife, his job and his home, a desperate Wooster is extorted into harvesting human organs for the black market. While hunting down his unsuspecting victims, he also takes revenge on those who ruined his life. But to save himself, Wooster must stay three steps ahead of police, savvy news reporter Claire DuBois, and the organ brokers."

and for better or worse, that pretty much sums up the plot of this low budget movie. Officially classified as a horror film, I would have classified it more as a drama, or suspense type film and not so much horror.

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captainzoli

torchedthreads.com

Tags: movie, review, reviews, ab-negative, ab, negative, horror, film, dvd, streaming, entertainment

 

Return to Hyborea
Topic: My Gaming

And so it came to pass that I couldn't stay away anymore. Yes, it's sad but true, faithful readers, that I have returned to Age of Conan, for at least a month, to look around and to try and level up to 40 so I can finally ride my war rhino thing. Ha ha ha. Finally, after all this time.

Now some may remember my bittersweet love-hate relationship with Age of Conan, and how it finally came to an end some months ago when the fun stopped out weighing the bugs. It is also important to not that I did say I would be back to see how things were going, even as I was walking out the door. I so I figured at the one year anniversary, the time was right to return and see how things are on the ground.

First thing that is to be noticed is that there was a server merger. My character, previously on Thog, is now on Wiccanna, and from what I can tell just with my playing since I've been back, this hasn't really helped population that much in the lower level areas, or at least not the areas meant for play by 30 something characters. This isn't to say that other MMORPGs are not plagued by this whole top heavy thing as well, but most not as quickly and completely as Age of Conan. Really, this issue was becoming pervasive in Age of Conan within a few short weeks after it's release. Guess that's what happens when developers don't bother to complete and test the game prior to launch.

That's all water under the bridge though. My goal in returning to the game was not to be bitter about my experiences with the launch product, even though it was clear to everyone in beta that when it launched, it still needed at least a year more dev time, at least. It was also obviously that the powers that be at Funcom were not going to let that happen, and that pre-order sales were going to drive the game into the wild way before it was ready to actually sustain the player base that purchased those copies of the game. Really too bad, because the game could have been a great success instead of the abysmal buggy mess they released.

To continue though, there will be alot more posts regarding Age of Conan in the coming days as I explore the content that is there, search out new bugs, and the ones that have been fixed, and generally just see how things are in Hyborea at the one year anniversary. Now that the storm has passed, is there a rainbow for the returning player? We shall see.

captainzoli

torchedthreads.com

Tags: age of conan, mmorpg, rpg, gaming, games, pc, conan, hyborea, adventures, game, gamer

X-Blades - All the Hacking You Can Stand
Topic: My Gaming
     I had pre-ordered X-Blades at the same time as the binkini zombie slayer game who's name I don't remember right off, while in a fit of hack-n-slash enthusism that probably would have best been waited out. :lol:  Now that it's here, and in my 360, I'm kinda sorry I did.  It's a compentent hack-n-slash action game to a degree, but not nearly as much fun as games like God Of War or Conan.  The box to box, or room to room, style isn't particularly fun, and hasn't been in a decade, and to call these rooms "levels" is absurd.  Stil, I've only just begun to play it, so I don't want to shit on it too soon.  Who knows, maybe the best is yet to come.  I'm not holding my breath on that, but you never know.  Oh, and the cut scenes will give you that warm, nostalgic feeling because it looks for all the world like it was ripped straight from the old FMV games from the early ninities. :lol:  Provided you enjoyed that kinda thing.  If not, it's fucking horrible. :lol:

Review : Evisceration - Hymn To The Monstrous
Topic: Quick Review

In 1994, Portugal's death metal/grindcore outfit, Evisceration, released Hymn To The Monstrous, their one and only full length album, and follow up to their 1993 demo, In The Flesh. I acquired this one from Nuclear War Now for $5.00, which is a heck of a deal for a CD that I enjoy a great deal. Truth is, I didn't know anything about this band when I ordered this CD, and it only made it onto my order as a last second substitution for a different CD that had ended up being out of stock. Lucky accident at best. Not to mention the a death metal mood had taken over my purchasing habits at just that time, so that really was kind of a perfect storm of conditions that lead to Hymn To The Monstrous ending up in my Denon.

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captainzoli

Tags: death metal, evisceration, grindcore, review, music, metal, death, black, heavy, rock

Review: Beyond The Ninth Wave - Volume I
Topic: Quick Review

Beyond The Ninth Wave is a Black Metal group from Canada Volume 1 is their 2005 full-length debut featuring forty odd minutes across seven songs, limited to 1,000 copies. Seven painful songs, I might add. I picked this CD up from The End Records a while back for $11.49. Really, this one ended up at my house for a couple of reasons: First, I?m a sucker for limited edition runs. Always have been. Even if I have reason to believe that the ?limited edition? status is more an inability to sell more albums even if they were available. Secondly, I have a really bad habit of trying new music, even if I really don?t have any reason to believe that it is going to be worthwhile. Again, probably a personal flaw of some kind.

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