Alone in the Dark: Oddly bright and rarely alone

Alone in the Dark, newly released for the Wii and 360 (PS3 version coming much later) is more of an interesting experiment like democracy than it is a must have game. The title is designed with an episodic format so it plays out more like a miniseries than any game story you are used to. This is oddly refreshing, but also gives the lame story a presentation where you can tolerate it. After all, it’s not worse than anything else on TV even if it is completely retarded. In short, Atari cheated and I’m onto them. The story still sucks balls.

I have completed two episodes so far and all I can really say is that the game really tries a lot of new things so I can’t fault them. However, the control is the only scary thing in the game. It’s hard to give credit to a title that comes up with new ideas but makes you completely incapable of partaking in said new ideas. Of course, even total poop can fertilize grass so maybe Alone in the Dark will grow into something worthwhile with more play time. It had better, because right now I see the game’s title as advice more than anything. If you don’t want to be embarrassed, play the game while alone in the dark.

Metal Gear Final Results

Mission Record

Difficulty: Original
Play Time: 3:00:57
Save: 2
Continue: 92
Alert Mode: 95
Humans Killed: 241
Ration Used: 74
Special Item: Not Used

Code Name: Deer

Indiana Jones and Patriot Act of Debateable Freedom

Tenured proffessor of Archaeology, Dr. Henry Jones Jr., is the rough and tumbling sort. Due to his varying degress of awesome it is easy for people to assume he is always good aside from the fact he's fathered a bastard child. In his newly recieved adventure Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull we seen an older Jones who is knee deep in the red scare of the 1950s.

The man really hates communists.

Knowing what we know about his character, would Dr. Jones be in favor or against the Patriot Act? This is actually hard to say. Jones comes from a simpler time in which good and evil were more clearly defined. Nazis = super bad. Communists (in assuming they want to blow us up) = super bad as well. But even during the red scare there was no legislature giving the government Dirty Harry powers of personal justice when they see fit. Sure, it probably happened quite a bit but it was always "hush hush". These days what used to be on the down low is now commonly accepted as "well we needs the freedomz" and we move on because we of course never did anything wrong and it's going to affect people we don't know.

If you put a lot of faith in your government then the Patriot Act is totally fine. It would never be abused and would actually go to capturing the people who would otherwise use red tape to avoid us. By now this had ought to feel a bit iffy seeing as I dno't think we have a single case of a terrorist avoiding punishment due to red tape. That's what the mafia does. Wire tappings and such, of course, would help us find information better but since we do that anyway I don't think it really helps that much.

I submit, for the purposes of extreme boredom, that Dr. Jones would not support the Patriot Act. In Crystal Skull he's a stereotypical American in terms of the population's general opinion of communists during the '50s. However, we also see him having some issues with his own country's doubting of him and he's freaknig Indiana Jones. That is not to mention that these days the standard American is pretty much nothing. We don't even have the sense to be a caricature these days. We're just people who allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by a big picture we don't understand. So in keeping with Dr. Jones' American representation as well as his character development in the latest movie he would likely oppose the Patriot Act but instead of worrying about it spend most of his time being upset that he can't go on archaeological digs in the middle east... legally. Oh you'd better believe he'd find a way out there anyway. He's Indiana Jones.

I really have no point here.