On Monday night, technically it was Tuesday morning, I watched an awesome film as per the name of this post. A kid grows up with quite a violent childhood but suffers from black outs where he can’t remember anything that has happened, usually at traumatic times.
He grows up and goes to college (that’s American college so in reality its University!), and his thesis is on memory. Well since an incident a long time ago he has been keeping a journal of his life and while reading a bit he finds himself reliving a blacked out memory.
The kids dad was a nut case, and one of the scenes of his growing up was going to see his dad. There is a black out in the middle of this scene which jumped to his dad trying to kill him. After his flash back the kid (can you tell I’ve forgotten his name yet?) talks to his mum about his memories and it turns out his dad had found a way to…???
It turns he can go back in time to these black outs and change the past. The result is the rewriting of the future, and huge nose bleeds as his brain struggles to store years of new memories in a few seconds. But each time he goes back to try and fix some of the horrific parts of his childhood other new bad experiences happen to him or his childhood friends.
In time each of the blackouts from the earlier part of the movie get played out in his time travelling stunts, sometimes more than once and he ends up in a future where he didn’t make his journals, the reading of which is what sends him backwards, and in a mental institution.
The main focus of his attempts to fix things was his best friend as a child who had suffered from her sick fathers attentions. It turns out that when her parents split up she decided to stay with the dad who she hated because if her & her brother had gone with their mother she would never have seen the main character again.
So to the end of the film, where he has to watch an old home movie of when he met this girl, no journals in this reality, and he goes back in time again and rather than being nice so they become friends he tells her to never come near him or he will kill her mother. She then chooses to go with her mother when the parent split and time moves forwards where they didn’t know each other.
Years later they walk past each other in the street and both stop, he of course has memories of the various histories from 8 years ago, she only met him as a child. She turns to look at him and then turns away just before he looks back. Both then walk away.
The film was one of those that left me wheeling just sort of thinking WOW at the end, it is now very much on the list of films I need to have in my collection.
Wisp
29 July 2009
28 July 2009
Temporary Outage – Posts End Marker
The preceding three posts where written a week or so ago, but I’ve had a few internet connectivity issues and couldn’t be bothered to rewrite them!
Wisp
Two very useful rings…
In my experience of playing Elder Scroll games there are two very useful magical effects to have in items. Water breathing & Night Eyes. So a ring to cover each of these where my first creations.
Must admit the blue vision of night eyes is really weird, especially outside. And when hunting for dropped weapons I often take it off and cast a light spell!
On the other side my water breathing ring allowed me to clear out a largely underwater cavern of Argonian Tribesmen without having to worry about casting a spell every 2 mins! The number of Glass, & Ebony daggers I collected paid for a silly house in the imperial city and all its upgrades, plus a load of new enchantments on my elven & glass armour :)
Wisp
Must admit the blue vision of night eyes is really weird, especially outside. And when hunting for dropped weapons I often take it off and cast a light spell!
On the other side my water breathing ring allowed me to clear out a largely underwater cavern of Argonian Tribesmen without having to worry about casting a spell every 2 mins! The number of Glass, & Ebony daggers I collected paid for a silly house in the imperial city and all its upgrades, plus a load of new enchantments on my elven & glass armour :)
Wisp
Oblivion
Well, it has been years since I played Morrowind and even longer since Daggerfall! Both awesome games. And Oblivion doesn’t fail to impress either. Most of my weekend just disappeared it really has been a while now since I’ve played a game that totally immerses me – Wow stopped doing that a long time ago!
So I may only be 3 years behind on getting this game but hey who cares now. My first character is a custom class I’ve called Blade Mage. Concept is simple Up close and personal it fights with a one handed weapon and shield using touch magic attacks. At range it uses magic to fight.
This time around I also decided to avoid the trap I fell in with Morrowind and that was Mods. You see After doing that game once I went looking for mods to improve the experience with new stuff. Unfortunatly in my hunting I founds tons of cool looking mods and I spent weeks trying to get them all talking together! Which being honest failed and a new game came along to play. So even though there will be loads of awesome player made mods for the game I have just installed the official Bethesda ones, along with the “Unofficial patch for the official mods”.
Well that’s about if for now I’ve just got into the arcane university and magic item making time has arrived :)
Wisp
So I may only be 3 years behind on getting this game but hey who cares now. My first character is a custom class I’ve called Blade Mage. Concept is simple Up close and personal it fights with a one handed weapon and shield using touch magic attacks. At range it uses magic to fight.
This time around I also decided to avoid the trap I fell in with Morrowind and that was Mods. You see After doing that game once I went looking for mods to improve the experience with new stuff. Unfortunatly in my hunting I founds tons of cool looking mods and I spent weeks trying to get them all talking together! Which being honest failed and a new game came along to play. So even though there will be loads of awesome player made mods for the game I have just installed the official Bethesda ones, along with the “Unofficial patch for the official mods”.
Well that’s about if for now I’ve just got into the arcane university and magic item making time has arrived :)
Wisp
Only Raiding ATM But…
I finally got my weapon upgrade from Auraya last Thursday - Siren's Cry.
And on Friday I picked up my T7.5 gloves giving me this nice little set bonus.
Maybe, I can dream you know :p, with the bonus proccing from steady shot, and the large amount of Armour Penetration from my Lotrafen, Beast Mastery may work. The primary attack is Steady which is physical and benefits from both. I think I’ll have to put some time into finishing levelling up Paper Cut then I will do some live tests!!!
Wisp
Temporary Outage – Posts Begin Marker
The following three posts where written a week or so ago, but I’ve had a few internet connectivity issues and can’t be bothered to rewrite them!
Wisp
Wisp
16 July 2009
Think it’s another burnout phase!
Over the last few weeks I’ve only really logged into wow for raids. This is because I’ve once again hit a stage of not really being interested in the game. Unfortunately this is putting a damper on my farming plans for “The Insane” but until I feel ready to hit the game properly again there is not much I can do about that!
So what have I been doing during this time? Well I brought a replacement copy of Starcraft and have reached the last Protos Mission, tonight I get to start on Brood War.
I’ve watched Seasons 1&2 of Supernatural with only 6 episodes left of season three. I have to admit that’s an awesome series. Also season one of Bloodlines, the final season of Battlestar Galactica and season 5 of Charmed are all waiting to be watched.
Well when I think of anything worth writing about I’ll add it here!
Wisp
So what have I been doing during this time? Well I brought a replacement copy of Starcraft and have reached the last Protos Mission, tonight I get to start on Brood War.
I’ve watched Seasons 1&2 of Supernatural with only 6 episodes left of season three. I have to admit that’s an awesome series. Also season one of Bloodlines, the final season of Battlestar Galactica and season 5 of Charmed are all waiting to be watched.
Well when I think of anything worth writing about I’ll add it here!
Wisp
2 July 2009
I could be poet laureate…
At lunch in the heat I came up with the future* award winning poem, in lines of 8.
*If you are unaware I live with my head in the clouds of my own little world.
Wisp
Suicides Storm
A shout that cuts across the air,
Voice as ever shrill and fickle,
The words a knife in my despair,
Blood now slowing to a trickle.
These twisting dreams of time and space,
The call of shadows echoing loud,
I fell them rip me from this place,
Beneath the thund’ring lightning cloud.
What truly lies beyond the veil,
A journey of eons seconds long,
But if I slip my heart may fail,
My tortured soul must learn the song.
A shout that cuts across the air,
Voice as ever shrill and fickle,
The words a knife in my despair,
Blood now slowing to a trickle.
These twisting dreams of time and space,
The call of shadows echoing loud,
I fell them rip me from this place,
Beneath the thund’ring lightning cloud.
What truly lies beyond the veil,
A journey of eons seconds long,
But if I slip my heart may fail,
My tortured soul must learn the song.
*If you are unaware I live with my head in the clouds of my own little world.
Wisp
A Comment and a Plea
It has been way too hot for me this week, making it hard to concentrate at work. So on the times when my mind wandered I came up with the following bits of prose.
Wisp
A Comment on Law
Twisted and warped by the greed of man,
Justice is nothing more than another commodity,
The rich can buy their so called innocence,
Thus making a mockery of our legal systems.
Storm Plea
This heat is dampening both mind and skin,
The very air it fights against my breathing,
So for my eyes of fire and nose of water,
Give me a storm to rage all summer!
Twisted and warped by the greed of man,
Justice is nothing more than another commodity,
The rich can buy their so called innocence,
Thus making a mockery of our legal systems.
Storm Plea
This heat is dampening both mind and skin,
The very air it fights against my breathing,
So for my eyes of fire and nose of water,
Give me a storm to rage all summer!
Wisp
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