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Twas the day before Christmas
And sitting in bed,
The Critic was working
Not sleeping instead…
Enough poetry. My poetry is usually so bad that I even had characters commenting on it in stories I used to tell on stage. One reason I refuse to critique poems when I come to them.
From kotorfanmedia we have a number of good ones to see this week. Prisoner24601 and Dinah Lance start the ball rolling with
Playing with Fire, followed by Delasaer Chval’s Mandalorian Wars - Tales from Both Sides: An Arm for the Taking. Alexandra gives us lust as a weapon with Ruin, and a shattered Revan returns in Darthjess’s Conditional Chapter I
But this week the nod is to Nitesh with the Exile returning to what she once was in Imitate.
To all my readers, all seven or eight of you, I wish any Holiday joy you wish to celebrate. I myself will be working until 9, and supping on Ramen.
Signing off…
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Back from vacation, I have to take another week at the start of January because the little minx planned her marriage for the 9th. I went from the old hermit who lives in my Vegas cave to a grandfather with one meeting. Go figure.
This week we have some really good stuff for you. RevanGoddess scored three times with the Reprise Pick A Kotor Carol: A Gift for Revan then with Carth Onasi’s fall into darkness with
Carth’s Revelation and
The Corruption of Carth Onasi Part 1 Joysweeper continues the adventures of a run away dark lord with
Return To Sender The dark lord is resurrected by CyberCat in the Reprise Pick Storm Warnings, Both old and new crews combine to search for their leaders in The Source of Darkness
Master of LD and DS
And splitting Best of the best, the surprising Lessons from Armilla and the kids being kid’s in Ocelott’s To Revan's Rescue
My weekend awaits, so signing off…
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I am taking a week’s hiatus to spend time with my daughter. I haven’t seen her in twenty years, and the last time I was this nervous, was the night she was born. Wish me luck.
From kotorfanmedia we have Revan’s Pet Duck leading off with Murderer, Delerius_Jedi and Prisoner24601 next with Shattered
And sharing best of the week are GrimRabbit with Absolute Power and Joysweeper with Even In Death
So I have to run to take care of what I must. Signing off…
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Discuss Alpha Protocol
Chris Avellone's company-friendly blog on the Obsidian Boards has been updated with a new article, "Alpha Protocol Narrative Process Backslash Ramble", in which our hero descends into the inner-most circles of the Underworld (Mundaniad CXII.52226) to "braindump on Alpha Protocol and the narrative process".
The final draft of Alpha Protocol began about a year and a half ago, and it occurred because of two iterative questions - the first was, "what if you don't kill the 'bad guy' at the end of Saudi Arabia and just talk to him instead?" And then we asked the same question in Moscow with a slightly different bent - what if you had more choices on how that end sequence played out? Then we started asking if we could switch around handlers on missions more often since there were some characters we thought would be cool giving you mission advice. And then we started asking if you could choose a lot more of the missions you wanted to take, rather than most of them.
Read on, MacDuff.
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| BioWare's Chris Priestly has posted the digital rights management and system requirements for Mass Effect 2 on BioWare's forums. Players of the original Mass Effect game will likely be pleased to find out that online activation will not continue in ME2. Scheduled for North American release on January 26 of 2010 on PC and Xbox 360, Mass Effect 2 will continue the story of Commander Shepherd, this time on a suicide mission to save the galaxy. Click the full story link for all the DRM and PC requirements details.
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All in all an interesting week. Only two weeks to go before I go to visit my daughter, and more good stuff to read from kotorfanmedia.
We start off with Reprise picks. As you might or might not know, I didn’t start giving out Picks of the week until halfway through 2007, so these people are getting belated kudos. We have Exile Starrcast with Atonement SithAngel77’s
Sacrifice and Darth Meatbag’s Message in a data pad.
Then the stuff that is new to me but still good; Dinah Lance and Prisoner24601
With Smoke and Mirrors
Arrow with Warmth and
Rawtooth with Daughters...
But best of the best is split this week. Kosiah shows a gentler side at the start of the Dark Lord with Gifts and Turtle gives us the degeneration of a hero in Angels fall First
Well busy, busy, busy. See you all next week…
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Yet another column, and the third one done on a Friday the 13th this year. So to get to it everything below is from kotorfanmedia and as always, some really good stuff.
From Eji we get A Second Chance, Mellyna finally gets a belated Reprise Pick with Promise, Ivory Chopstick
Shows us an eight year old Atton in The Necklace, we see a war weary Exile in Dinah Lance’s Intercession Shike77 gives us an alternate beginning with Defluo: Nyx Kitome makes them all kids again with Kitome
Wild Guess
And sharing Best of the best. Two reprise picks from three years ago, Palmetto with Parallax and Gekkeiju
with Release
Well, in 21 days I will see my daughter for the first time in 20 years. I’m looking forward to it.
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I have finally set a date for when I am going to see my daughter, and now I am merely counting the days before that event. In a way this is history repeating itself; I last saw my father when I was 7 right before the divorce, and didn’t get to see him again until I was 30. I was considering that, then remembered what followed after. I just hope history doesn’t repeat itself the same way…
This week everything is from kotorfanmedia but tht just means more good stuff to me. It starts with MoonMythology’s poignant Unspoken: Part 1 Arrow
Receives a belated Pick with [Url=http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/40] Hindsight Chapter 1/url] as does Icey Cold’s Discipline then scores again with The Nar Shaddaa Massacre, Chapter 1 Firera scores twice; once with Betrayal of Hearts and ties for pick of the week with The Darkness Descends, Chapter 1 - The End Is Only The Beginning Schmoopy gets in with Lessons and last but not least, tying with Firera is Kosiah with Memory / Chapter 1 / Journeys
Now I just have to figure out how to afford a PS3...
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My favorite holiday approaches. I have nothing beyond my usual write, eat, drink and do laundry in mind. However I live in Nevada, which means my favorite day is marred by politics. So for all of you ‘Christians who denigrate Halloween’, Happy Nevada Day.
From kotorfanmedia we have good stuff plus the end of the Light Side Male Exile category. Next is Dark Side Female Revan. We have the calm before the storm view with TheJediSentinel’s Vignettes. Moonmythology’s Exile finally says the words in Parrot, Elwin Ransom looks at a decimated team in The Weight of Glory: Prologue
And Best of the best is take by AdlynJ with In Five Hundred Words or Less . . .
Well so much time, so little to do. Signing off…
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The week ends, and just when you thought it was safe, I show up yet again. This week marks my fourth year as your critic, and to tell you the truth, it‘s been fun most of that time. Over at Coruscant Entertainment Center someone had suggested that I was a masochist so I started a poll asking why I do this. The votes, what few they are, are in, and it comes out like this; with my own comments under the options:
The thing to remember is that I chose these options with malice aforethought; Except for one, all of them are equally valid:
Because there are some of us worth the effort 0
Actually if I didn't think you guys were worth the effort, I could have stopped ages ago.
Because he's being paid for it 0
Actually I am being paid for this. The reward is small, and has yet to be delivered, but I did accept the job with that in mind.
Because he thinks he's better than us 1
When it comes to writing, there are many of you I surpass, however except for one or two, I can honestly say I do not surpass most of you in the willingness to expose yourselves to ridicule by posting your work. I hope that my attention and comments have helped you brave it more than once.
Because he loves us, every one! 1
The joker in the deck; I was thinking of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol here.
Because bad writing makes him cry 2
Bad writing doesn't make me cry as much as someone who could be good churning out yet more dreck. No names.
Because he doesn't have a life 3
Actually if I had more of a social life, I wouldn't do this; but even then part of me would itch to.
Because he's a nice guy that wants us to do better 10
Yes I want you to do better. I want a bunch of you to one day become famous and comment that I might have helped even a little bit in honing your craft.
Because he likes good writing and is patient enough to give us advice 16
The largest number of votes, but the real reason is not this one. I do like good writing the way a gourmet likes a good meal. I want to be satisfied when I put the book down because I know I can pick it up again and still enjoy the read.
Now which one is the truth? Ask me again when the votes treble...
Our sole pick of the week came from kotorfanmedia and The Tygre as our only entry wins best of the best this week with Reunion
Well signing off yet again…
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