This happens often; I have high expectations about something and usually end up being disappointed in some way. Such thing happened with Rockville, a rock musical, in Helsinki. I expected a lot from that play since it was made by professional theatre. But no. It was disappointment. The youth theatre in Rantasalmi did so much better version of it (and me and three other classmates made costumes for it and they were awesome). They just gave so much more to it than those professional actors together.
But sometimes your high expectations are met. Like this movie I expected a long time and was so excited about it. That movie, of course, is Iron Sky. Following description is from their site:
"In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers."
Sounds cool idea huh?If you're interested to learn more about the movie, go here.
That movie was real eye candy for a costume geek like me who's into military gear. I could watch it so many times and just examine all those uniforms and other costumes.
I saw the movie when they were doing preview-touring: Iron Sky on tour. Ticket to the preview event included Tour T-shirt, signed movie poster (signed by the director), iron sky -buttons, of course the movie and 45-minute seminar with director and producer.
Tour T-shirt <3
As the closing statement I add my favorite Iron Sky trailer (teaser trailer 2), and say this:
I mentioned LPs on the last post briefly, but now I figured to dedicate the whole post to talk about my great addiction.
LPs or let's play videos are genre of videos in Youtube. In these videos a player is recording the game as he/she plays and provides commentary to it. Often games are blind runs (meaning they haven't played them before) but not always. The tube is flooded with such videos of different games so they are easy to find. Finding the ones that suits you among this is just matter of your personal taste. I myself am really picky, but I have found some awesome let's players I follow regularly.
I first came across LPs when reading Scandinavia and the world by Humoncomics. She did a comic about Amnesia: the dark descent game and in the description box was a link to Mangaminx's let's play. I watched few videos and was hooked. So she was the first LPer I subscribed and through her I found the world of let's plays.
MangaMinx
She was the first I started to watch. She's from UK and does both blind runs and reruns of games she has already played. She does horror games only. She's on hiatus now but she has many full let's plays you can watch on her channel.
/Edit: She came back with new channel TheRPGMinx (in which she focuses RPGs as the name suggests)
666theheartless666
I found this guy through Mangaminx. He is simply put HILARIOUS! A natural comic (oh those funny one-liners). He's in my top two LPers. He's also from UK. He does blind runs of horror themed games. His slow descending to madness when he's frustrated is so amusing. Atm he's on hiatus.
EDIT: He's back too. Yay!
Helloween4545
This guy is also from UK. He does also horror themed games(I see a pattern developing here.. ). He has great LP of Alice: madness returns and the previous game also. He uploads new video aprox. every other day.
ChaoticMonki
This guy is definitely in my top two favorite LPers. He's from USA, he uploads new video every day and he's awesome. He does mostly LPs of scary games, but also other stuff. He plays many weird small indie games you might not otherwise even know existed (I know I wouldn't), such as White Day. He also plays many amnesia custom stories and have done voice acting to few of them too (this guy has awesome voice). He's also started to do weekly livestreams at twitch.tv with his friend RussMoney (who is a creator of amnesia custom story La Caza). The stream starts saturdays at 11pm EST. Unfortunately that means it starts at 6am for me (damn timezones!) I still have attended all livestreams so far 'cause it's just too much fun.
Did I mention he's awesome.
