The thing about Macs and space.

This will be the first post I ever compose from a Mac. It's one of their laptop versions, and while I would like to say it's a PowerBook or something like that, the truth is that I don't know or care. I'm not a Mac hater, but I don't like the things in the least. I've long said that a true geeks' relationship with their computers can be summed up by Han Solo and his Millennium Falcon. The thing is supposed to be a POS, yet it's thrown together in a way that only three people in the entire galaxy know how to properly use without painting themselves into the walls of any given Imperial rest stop.

Basically, Windows and PC users by extension have a clusterf*** of modability at their disposal that is just plain excessive. Mac just works, I got it. It's simple, it can do what Windows does, yata yata. Yet, there's so many ways to screw up a Windows PC with useless programs that it's worth the headache when it inevitably goes "kablooey". Luckily, Apple made damn sure to throw some useless programming love to their iPhone crowd, because only one out of ten apps seems to advance beyond anything more than a Facebook app. "App", by the way, has made a comeback in being a buzzword, and instead of being used to describe as an application is now just used by Apple people to describe anything with or without actual applications.

So, because Apple took the time to take a relatively common tech word and hand it over to the coffee snobs who use Macs, the rest of us can't use it anymore.

The one compliment I will give Apple is that I can type hideously fast on this keyboard. These things are great word processing tools. Useable from any angle with perfect accuracy and ease, these babies give me a reason to proudly put something of their brand on my table. In this case, however, I'm simply using the laptop on a boredom loan, but the more I use it, the more I want to buy one for my PC.

I don't know how this brings me to Halo, but I have to get there somehow.

The guys at Bungie have decided to create an anime based on Halo, and while the success of the games might translate into success on screen, I sort of doubt that this will be the kind of success story they are hoping for. There is sort of a glaring problem in that Halo doesn't have much of a story. A few friends described it to me, and they are the kind that will actually read the books to figure this stuff out, and as best as I can tell, there still isn't much more beyond what is fleshed out in the games. Rings are old as dirt and will explode, the Flood are around, and...I think the ships got named in there somewhere. Either way, there's nothing to tell. The games had a pretty boring storyline as well, and gamers actually got pissed when they couldn't finish Halo 2 with Master Chief. I'm only guessing this is because no gamer cares about the story so much as they enjoy blowing things up with Master Chief.

At first, I was willing to give a little bit of credit to the Halo movie, but I even decided that was going to be a lame waste of time. If you look at the Halo games, there's one thing you could see as having potential, and that is the mood of the game at times. It's sparse, I know, and that's exactly why a movie translation wouldn't work. There is a mood sneaking in there based on the expanse of space and the little-ness of all the pawns and how space is older than dirt and these races seem to be way over their heads and playing rampant catch up to all the truth...and then the guns come out and you forget all about that and you play the same colored stages with repeating rooms of the same design over and over again until you've forgotten which way "forward" actually is and if they make you play as the lame Arbiter again that you'll be pissed and will fling the controller unless your friends want to get together for some 16 player teabagging action and....

See my point? There is no plot, and even if there was, the game sure didn't make anyone give a shit about it. An anime is not going to help, and if it is successful, then I'm not entirely sure I want to be around the crowd that would actually watch it.

This week's delay, I should mention, was due to an entire lack of computer time. It shouldn't happen much in the future, and if it does, you will have warning. Digg It Stumble it ! Reddit