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		<title>Creative Fatal1ty Keyboard: Same Shit, Different Name &#8211; Gizmodo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had forgotten about Fatal1ty after his initial press onslaught a while back in November last year. He&#8217;s the successful professional gamer that won the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour (athlete?) last year and was profiled by 60 Minutes, of &#8230; <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/2006/09/01/creative-fatal1ty-keyboard-same-shit-different-name-gizmodo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had forgotten about <a href="http://www.fatal1ty.com/">Fatal1ty</a> after his initial press onslaught a while back in November last year.  He&#8217;s the  successful professional gamer that won the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour (athlete?) last year and was profiled by 60 Minutes, of all people.  Anyway, <a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/creative-fatal1ty-keyboard-same-shit-different-name-198053.php">this Gizmodo post</a> showing off (and making fun of) the Fatal1ty keyboard reminded me of his existence.</p>
<p>Now, I don&#8217;t want to make it sound like I&#8217;m poo-pooing the idea of professional gamers &#8212; we should be so lucky to be able to get paid for doing something we love to do &#8212; but I have to ask, why would anyone buy <a href="http://www.fatal1ty.com/products/">Fatal1ty merchandise</a>?  Is anyone such a big fan of this gamer that they would buy a Fatal1ty motherboard?  Fatal1ty clothing?  Really?</p>
<p>I guess I&#8217;m just having a hard time imagining a gamer as iconic.  We celebrate sports stars because what they are able to do on the field or court is something most of us will never be able to do.  I&#8217;ll never be able to play in the NBA no matter how much I practice, I&#8217;m just too short (and too old for that matter).  And even if I did make it to a professional level sport, it&#8217;s still pretty unlikely that I&#8217;m going to be able to drive a lane like Jordan, drive a ball like Tiger Woods, or throw a ball like Peyton Manning.  Those guys are larger than life, and very few people will ever rise to their level.</p>
<p>But with games, I feel we all can achieve a level of greatness if we just spent some time with the games we liked.  It doesn&#8217;t matter how old we are, how tall we are, or how much in shape we are in, we can all be pretty good at a game.  Which kind of makes Fatal1ty&#8217;s achievements not all that interesting.</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m not saying me or anyone else can go right now and whup his ass in a one-on-one deathmatch (especially since I don&#8217;t even play PC games).  I&#8217;m just having a hard time thinking he&#8217;s something special when in the back of my mind I&#8217;m also thinking I could beat him down in Guitar Hero.  That may or may not be true, but it&#8217;s in the realm of possibility and as long as a regular guy like me thinks like this, I doubt Fatal1ty or any other professional cyberathlete (snicker) will ever become an icon.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/creative-fatal1ty-keyboard-same-shit-different-name-198053.php">Creative Fatal1ty Keyboard: Same Shit, Different Name &#8211; Gizmodo</a></p>
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		<title>Snakes on crack&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My gawd. Folks, I had no expectations when I went to see Snakes on a Plane this evening. People were worried that it would not live up to the hype but I wasn&#8217;t worried about that. I didn&#8217;t even CARE &#8230; <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/2006/08/19/snakes-on-crack/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My gawd.</p>
<p>Folks, I had no expectations when I went to see <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snakes_on_a_plane/">Snakes on a Plane</a> this evening.  People were worried that it would not live up to the hype but I wasn&#8217;t worried about that.  I didn&#8217;t even CARE if it did or didn&#8217;t.  I went to see Snakes on a Plane because it was something special.  A film that got to where it was purely on blog hype and mostly unmanufactured hype at that.  The world saw the hilarity of such a simply title and just ran with it.  This might not be ever reproduced, anything that comes after is just going to sound cheesy and too blatant.</p>
<p>So no, I didn&#8217;t care if it was terrible because I would at least be seeing something unique.  But the movie did me one better.  It was actually a hell of a lot of fun to watch.  It&#8217;s pure B-movie.  It&#8217;s silly.  You&#8217;re going to laugh at things that aren&#8217;t meant to be funny.  You&#8217;ll start guessing who&#8217;s going to die and who won&#8217;t.  It has a few jumps and a few surprises.  It&#8217;s even a bit more grotesque than I expected.  All in all, a pretty good ride.  </p>
<p>I imagine it&#8217;ll be even better when you can get it on DVD and invite your wise-ass friends over to give it a MST3K treatment.  I had a few of those in the audience tonight and while they were trying way to hard at first, they calmed down and timed their riffs nicely towards the end.</p>
<p>Seriously, I&#8217;m glad this movie was made.  It&#8217;s proof that a movie studio doesn&#8217;t always have to spend millions upon millions of dollars to make a film we will watch in a theater.  Sometimes all you need is to make a movie that doesn&#8217;t take itself very seriously.  Nice job.</p>
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