CANADA

I am currently in Canada, which is pretty awesome. I have just visited Ottawa, the capital, after visiting Quebec City yesterday and Montreal for the first 3 days. I have a few rants about travel that are too short to post as a full post (I don't want to flood my blog with posts that are bitty) ,so here they are: First off, tour groups. Tour groups are the scourge of all independent travellers, because they make all the lines longer, bunch together in front of the site you're trying to take a picture of and generally make everyone else feel uncomfortable. The people who take tours seem to instantly revert to a primitive herd mentality and bunch together like Armageddon will happen if they don't stick with the group. They travel around in big buses that really destroy the atmosphere for...

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Movie Review: Super 8

JJ Abrams' newest movie,Super 8, is a fun blend of alien and youth adventure movies. It is set in the 70s sometime, and 6 kids are trying to make a horror movie about zombies.  They are filming a scene at a house next to a railway track and a crash occurs, which the director (probably a semi-analogy for Spielberg) thinks is fantastic for his "production value", but has disastrous consequences for his town. Watch the movie if you want to know the rest, I don't want to spoil it. I was, however, surprised at how unoriginal Super 8 was. It seems a bit like a tribute to E.T. with bits of Indiana Jones thrown...

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Review: Plague by Michael Grant

Hey everyone. Mull over this review of Plague by Michael Grant. Plague is the 4th in the FAYZ series. You'll need to have read the first 3 books or you can get a basic outline for the first three books from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_(series) (only read the synopses for Gone, Hunger and Lies). It's a good series. Plague continues following Sam and Co, however several important characters do die in Plague so when the next book (Fear) comes out, the character pool will be slightly diminished. The new aspect introduced into plague is of serious diseases, one is a cough that makes you cough out your guts, and the other is a parasitic infection...

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Karma

First off, I'm going to start posting a lot more regularly, even though I will be away for my entire school holiday. Secondly, I am now going to rage about "karma" in video games. I don't really understand what most game studios are thinking when they put the idea of "karma" in games (except for Naughty Dog, who made inFamous). If you don't know, karma is basically the type of personality you choose to have in games, be it good, bad or neutral. The thing I don't understand about karma is that no matter which karma you choose, the storyline stays extremely similar. If karma only makes the NPCs go :o (shock) and run away, what's the point? Game...

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