Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-26-2010

[andrewducker]

• Major electoral fraud alleged in marginal seat
  (tags: uk politics labour)
• New benefit system labelled unfit
  (tags: politics uk benefits social)
• The Adjustment Bureau trailer - I like the look of this
  (tags: trailer movies)
• How Pixar Built Toy Story 3
  (tags: pixar animation creativity)
• Gender, identity and computer games. When "You" is a girl.
  (tags: games gaming feminism portal gender avatars identity)
• Mass Effect movie deal done
  (tags: movies games)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> Because a long, long time after Portal establishes you as you, you run past yourself.

Nope. You see yourself after the very first time you go through a portal when you leave the recuperation chamber.

[andrewducker]

Discussed in the comments :->

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

TLDR ;)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Oooh that article on gender and computer games is good. Thanks for that.

Personally I thoguht the question of whether Bayonetta was exploitative became irrelevant compared to how overwhelmingly *boring* her "sexiness" (and attacks, and gameplay, and dialogue) was; it was so unreal it stopped being sexy, passed through ridiculous, and just became dull. Which is a much worse sin in a video game, I think. Shame, it'd looked like it could've been interesting.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I heard that John Lassiter didn't want to make "Toy Story 3" and fought bitterly with Disney. (I think it was a mistake for Pixar to sell themselves to Disney in the first place.)

But Disney can trot out the same old tired toys and sell them again, which is why they wanted to make the film. They don't give a shit about cinematic art - they just want to push merchandise.

[matgb]

I obviously can't say a huge amount about the fraud allegations, but have asked opinions of our councillors in the area. They pretty much agree with Riordan as quoted at the end of the article, it's a smokescreen, it was Tory candidates who were arrested.

However, a full investigation'll need to take place. When we get more that's public, it'll get written up.