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Ok, this could be awesome, tentatively expected June 2014 and with a working title only on Amazon:

 

"Could be" awesome? It's Erikson, of course it's going to rock!

 

Interesting... it almost sounds like Erikson is doing a straight parody. But I imagine very little is as it seems.

 

I love the to "Boldly go and subjugate.... to blow the...."

Be surprised if we actually get it in June 2014, as that's when Kharkanas Trilogy Book 2 is also due.

 

OMG. Just when I thought there couldn't be another decent ANH parody.

 

The saddest thing about every game after the first is the disappearance of Dr. Warren Vidic. Hands-down the best character in the first game -- and incredibly well-developed villain. Pompous, petty, but so self-absorbed that he hardly deigned to care about his victim; he just treated Desmond with a sort of chummy disregard -- debate philosophy with him, lecture him on Templar wisdom, and then gloat that they were going to kill Desmond anyway so **** you, get in the goddamn machine. Such a great patronizing-jackass-boss type as the evil mastermind. His utter impatience and indifference was such great characterization -- his e-mails are hilarious. He needed to have a much bigger presence in the overall modern story.

 

Have you been to the Initiates website? Quite a bit of what Vidic was doing post-ACI is revealed there, a lot of it focusing on his relationship with Daniel Cross. And that chummy disregard of his is all over the place in the things you can uncover in ACIV. Plus the name he gave his dog is fantastic.

 

Yeah, I love Initiates. Lots if interesting little bits sprinkled around. The game world is at its best when it's dropping little hints all over at bigger stories, playing with stuff -- it's why I'm so sad that the glyph puzzles from ACII and Brotherhood fell by the wayside.

 

http://www.stevenerikson.com/index.php/the-world-of-the-malazan-empire-and-role-playing-games/

Older post I just discovered, instantdeath and Jedi Ben. I had no idea that the founders of the Malazan Empire themselves were originally a party in Erikson's embryonic GURPS campaign.

This gives me so many ideas for running campaigns in the future.

 

Yeah, I missed those too. ACIV brought a bit of that back in the modern day segments. Finding out the Edelweiss Pirates were connected to the Assassins was pretty cool.

 

'Tis a cute video, I agree. A lot of little easter eggs in there for long time Nintendo fans. And I like to see a parody that doesn't resort to crudity to get its humor; it reminds me a lot of the Lego Star Wars games, an affectionate nudge in the ribs for Star Wars fans and Nintendo fans alike.

And I think was the one who mentioned Mother 3, Jello. I'd still mark that as the best-written video game Nintendo's ever made, even though it was never actually released here in the States. It's a crying shame it never did.

 

http://www.blastr.com/2013-11-7/wow-netflix-signed-huge-deal-marvel-daredevil-luke-cage-series-more

 

That. Is. Amazing. You have to love Marvel's commitment to expanding the MCU.

 

And it's Netflix so JESSICA JONES CAN SWEAR.

 

AMADEUS CHO 4 LIFE

 

Any word on whether this will be its own TV universe, or whether it will actually be part of the EU (lol force of habit) MCU?

Fantastic news regardless. Just as DC was handily beating them in the TV department, Marvel pulls this out. Good show.

 

I don't see why it wouldn't be the same universe as the movies. It's also a great way of opening the door to movie cameos for characters that maybe don't warrant their own film franchises.

 

Don't you raise that eyebrow at me boy. Both Agents of SHIELD and Arrow show promise, though I'd argue that Arrow has lived up to more of it so far (despite some hilarious CWisms, I'm surprised at how much I've enjoyed Arrow). At that to the development of a Flash series, a Gotham series, a Constantine series, and the possible development of a Wonder Woman series ("Amazon"), I don't think it's at all unfair to say that DC looked more promising in TV yesterday.

 

Hey, I don't deny they were winning on volume. But given their track record I have very little reason to expect much from a Flash TV show, to say nothing of their last Wonder Woman show, which even they realized wasn't worth broadcasting.

 

I really don't think that DC has produced any television shows with real quality for quite sometime. The fact that their only real show on television right now is hosted by the CW really amuses me. I've heard good things about Arrow but I've heard more bad things about the CW so I've stayed away.

 

The CW is very easy to make fun of, it's true, and while Arrow has featured some cringeworthy soap elements, I've been surprised by how fun it is; unfortunately, much more fun than SHIELD. If you give it a shot, I'd say plow through the first few episodes, which didn't personally inspire much confidence in me. It picks up immensely when the showrunners realize who their audience is.

 

Agreed. CW is mostly crap, but Arrow is way better than Agents of Shield, which has improved in quality the past couple episodes but still needs a lot of work IMO. And this season of Arrow has been pretty much non-stop in momentum, expanding the story and world in quite a few ways.