Thursday, February 25, 2021

More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story

Pat Morita is a name of amazing actor and, as can know in devoted to him documentary, he was a wonderful person. Director of More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story wonderfully guided in narration. A film shows spectacular and curious photos, interviews with people knew performer (I was in satisfaction to see unchangeable James Hong.) and listen Pat Morita on himself. I didn’t like that overusing of conversation of actor’s wife Evelyn Guerrero on radio, which I could listen without watching documentary. A goal of research is show an individual. It is a defect, but More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story replenished me in knowledge by discovery facts of childhood and actor’s ties to Manzanar. Listening Morita, can see a time, which is gone now where was normal to imitate a Chinese accent. It depends where is right and where is an offensive what I saw in the documentary, which is wider than on person. About success and influence of Karate Kid. Outside of actor on that typecast is a damnation for artist. Reasoning on whitewashing touched Asian roles, but no said on performing of Indians and Negroes. Pat Morita started acting lately of these times and he who could more, but his unstoppable using of alcohol drinks was his destruction. I also found incorrect on three years in Hawaii before The Karate Kid offer, because role performer was always in activity. Just disagreements, which didn’t escalate dislike to one hour with a half of glued watching of documentary flick.

Sunday, February 21, 2021

One excellent Russian and failure to go into pulp fiction mania.

Изюм из булки (Raisins from a bun.) by Viktor Shenderovich.

This book will kill tourism to Russia in translating on other languages, because that’s guide by talented Viktor Shenderovich on reality of living there. An author tells stories about himself and famous people from the Soviets to after it where can catch that no change come from inside. More of them, I didn’t see them for five hundred years from reading notes by Baron von Herberstein who did two embassy visits in 1517 and 1526. Shenderovich is great in building of sentences, which as his comedian skill can cause laughing despite of distracting of that “normality” in Russia. 

Че уже не тот (Che is no longer that.) by Viktor Shenderovich. 

Viktor Shenderovich visits Cuba for six days, which enough for understanding of island. A man with experience in the Soviets gets reminding of that past. No less it combines with own variety of knowledges. He writes, as usual, an accuracy. On different shapes of mud. I understand inhabitants are living there where is nothing to do, because it’s a thing for dictatorship countries. 

The Shadow Kingdom by Robert E. Howard.

I know on expectation from taking for pulp fiction. I’ve got it. The first story about Kull has examples of word combinations of terrible writing. Howard would be better don’t describing, which rarely had to be in all of what I’ve read in The Shadow Kingdom. He repeats in words in short text as emphasizing usually “ferocious” qualities in characters, usually gives noun to adjective and a verb in describing of talking character as “he mumbled”, which all of them will in repeat later. One page three times had a word “dim” used for many times. I took for reading, because I wanted to compare with adaption in films by them can see of making superb from such awful basis. 

The Living Shadow by Walter B. Gibson.

A man who was going on suicide automatically changes in mood by stopping from attempt by mysterious stranger and becomes a detective without experience. No feelings of characters. That got opportunity personage will know a last name of his hotel neighbor accidentally by letter, which mistakenly put in his mailbox when it belongs to that man in whose room he will leave fingerprints. Walter B. Gibson could be in possibility to be a good writer if he wouldn’t be a commercial. He wrote most of books on The Shadow, which production from one to three months accelerated to half. Dropping point was on approaching to the fourth chapter on twelfth page.

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Forced stop at hearth. Onslaught of frozen storm.

Commercial matter of Chinese market was Steam’s decision to ban Devotion in 2018. A game has obvious reference to dictator Xi Jinping in Easter egg “Winnie-the-Pooh moron” and newspaper about incarceration of Steamed Bun. Developers tried to release it on GOG in December 2020, but CD Projekt didn’t do it due of backlash of Party’s people hid as citizens. Yeah, I am for censure if it offensive, but not when about authoritarian ruling. I call a primitive a reference in Easter egg. In my view, a critique must expresses without straight offense. While digital shops are supporting dictatorship by putting this restriction. Their action for prolonging of genocide of minor nations and let Hong Kong to be occupied. Well, I will not pay in their stores. That’s “against” shares with “don’t like” that politician views decide your place. It was a reason of firing of Palmer Luckey for his supporting of Donald Trump for presidency in 2016. He donated ten thousand dollars in a group jesting on Hillary Clinton.  Executives of Facebook were pressuring Luckey to public support of Gary Johnson. Anybody, but not Donald Trump. I willn’t get a pleasure in Devotion playing, but I can’t accept that developer Red Candle Games could release only limited physical edition for Taiwan, which was available from 8 to 15 June 2020. 

Attack on self-expression and freedom of speech also halted development of Iraq War tactical shooter for Atomic Games, which closed two years later. Six Days in Fallujah wasn’t of unreleased projects, which I wanted to play. I didn’t like work of damage on bodies and buildings. Background of real events in a plot wasn’t interesting for me too. Publisher Konami cancelled this game in 2009, because a large buzzing without knowing of content despite participation of people were in a battle and on whom game is based. Then war in Iraq was fresh. Creator Peter Tamte revived it now with developers of Destiny and Halo. I stay in unsure for that and it corroborates by before. 

Deliberately missing Two Guys from Andromeda updated SpaceVenture stance after 5,5 months. Warmly thanking beta testers they once again want to convince everybody that game close to release to which doesn’t allow to happen bugs where basic and only big one is solve with chaotic order in save/load board, because restoration breaks.

I will again write more known for a little of need. It will to one series has a nice first game. Blizzard released effeteness for eyes presentation of a new character of upcoming Diablo IV despite a game revealed itself at the first truly gameplay. I again recall better in the past. Now in own games and series. Diablo (1996) has everything in excellence (a final video is not include.) and hasn’t defects of followed sequels, which reflect to the first game. In Diablo II (2000) never finish respawn of monster hordes. They run from everywhere after left behind camp. Developers didn’t take care that killing of a story villainous character makes possible to see and hear him or her again in free walking return. Come back in Diablo will in not disappearing corpses of killed beasts. I didn’t see evolutional in anything in the second game. I stopped walkthrough on a boss of the first act. Diablo IV in revelation of gameplay wider advances in rollback from Diablo 1. Characters with two or one of them got four faces for choice. No opportunity to correct every part of body as in Saints Row 2 (2008) with abundance in variety. Diablo IV as Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will with loading of sublevels, which was critical in 2003 (especially it never was.) in made for consoles Thief: Deadly Shadows and Deus Ex 2: Invisible War whose PC-exclusive previous parts haven’t. Diablo IV will tiring in walkthrough in constant pressing of left-button of the mouse. I have got it by watching of gameplay videos. It was many times with me. Different synonyms of big in word variety English language don’t different in action. Goals unite to one sense – kill every presenting monster. Than it could will surviving of waves. Frequently will clicking on demolition of mission object with simultaneous teleporting of big groups of unelaborated artificial intelligence of adversaries. Once again it will impossible to run away from annihilation as it wasn’t in Diablo, which is unwritten in goals. Diablo IV doesn’t great in graphics. Their effect of killing multiple enemies at one does not for impress. New of seen gameplay footage was promotion of called added character. I’ve heard talks about nothing to which I was doing fast forward on five and more seconds with often repeat. Color of clothes… Face tattoos… That all for character situates far from view. Blizzard is among of developers who succeed in self-shame, which was plenty. One or two in depending strikes for skeleton in the first Diablo. The game balanced in weapon using when more strikes for crumble of skeleton in tending Diablo IV. Video had gaffes in kick of sword pushed monster on long in meters distance and horse doesn’t follow to steps on stairway. A four-leg companion demonstrates as a new feature where can give a speed despite I was impressed by it in Sacred (2004), which isn’t balanced in gameplay, but better of it’s close to be identical Diablo IV. More speeches resumes in “fun to play”. Blizzard can’t be professional. Developers describe of what can see in appearing gameplay. Extraordinary discovery by their words was jumping from edge to edge by coming to the end from where a player can’t fall and press a button of lighted and described button “jump”. Blizzard will gift also in opportunities of “climb down” and “climb up”. I don’t need to write sarcasms on developers while they can do it personally.

Destructive Creations edited propaganda video in which renewed version confirmed that there were tortures and rapes by the Soviet Army. Developers did it, because got backlash from people and from whom were who cancelled a game from wishlist. A studio writes objective and I am agree with almost all of their views. And speaking beyond, I close to their opinion on migrants, which also made howling of dissatisfied for CEO Jaroslaw Zielinski who correctly explained. However, I keep to supposition that developers of War Mongrels aimed on Russian-speaking market by which can get a high profit, because there are popular WWII games if look for understandings. Reading on collaborators of Baltic States, which were after that video, can find in reasons of join: “The other side were collaborators who believed. Many believed in the idea of fighting against Bolshevism. That was the catchiest and probably the smartest thing that Nazi propaganda had to offer.” Destructive Creations confirms occupation of Baltic States by the Soviets, but they didn’t write that Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians joined to Nazis in savvy mind for conviction without pressure that Russians annexed their homeland territories.

Destructive Creations writes one of variation of song “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball” appeared in somewhere in August 1939 in the Great Britain. It was popular on island. Various partisan groups inspired by Zaporozh’e Cossacks in writing letter to Mehmed IV composed texts to Adolf Hitler where, as in 1676, was using mat. Ukrainians still send letters and it’s in Russia now. This is all of that go against politeness, but it can lift up a morale for people and whole nation.