This is, indeed, a terrible idea.

For those of you who have not read Watchmen…you have to understand that it is not a graphic novel that can easily be brought to the big screen. Despite its comic book/super hero origins, the Watchmen is incredibly deep with twists and turns that are so morally grey you are left wondering by the end of it all who or what exactly you should be rooting for to be cheering for the good guys.

I’m also extremely skeptical about this transition to the big screen ever since I saw V for Vendetta with Josh and Binkle in Waterloo. That movie was such a huge disappointment and I just do not think I could conceivably sit through another horribly maimed adaptation of Alan Moore’s work. Watchment, especially, has too much meat and meaning and symbolism and…

It is too dense to become a movie. And the fact that Hollywood studio executives picked it up because they are scrounging for popular super hero franchises to make movies from, I just know that it is going to be maimed, beaten and dragged through the mud before we see it in theatres.

Even if they were to pull a Frank Miller, and have panel by panel accuracy (for the most part), the source content would still be spat on by a movie adaptation.

Twilight Princess - Minor Spoilers

I had been playing the Legend of Zelda for an hour and a half. All in all, it was a disappointing attempt. Before I went up to Waterloo to hang with Binkle and Andrew on Thursday, I had gone to the outside of the Cave of Ordeals to prepare for a long and dangerous trek into the depths of the Earth.

And I did. With reasonable success. I got to a floor with three heavily armoured guys (Dark Nuts) that have amazing defense, and you have to wait for them to attack before you can attack. So, I fought them and fought them. I got all of their armour off. But then…just as I was about to achieve victory…I didn’t. I thought I had one more fairy left (I came in with two fairies, blue potion, and great fairies tears), but alas, I had used them all.

ASIDE: This is one thing I dislike about Twilight Princess. While I like that it doesn’t slow down the battle with a death sequence that is immediately reversed, since the fairy is used automatically and it isn’t obvious in the heat of battle, you have no way of knowing when one has been used up. :P

Anyway, I was killed, despite still having the Great Fairies Tears. I looked the Cave of Ordeals up on GameFAQs just now to find out how far I got…

And it was the very last room. I would have been done had I just finished them off.

But it all turned out to be irrelevant anyway. After I got out of the Cave of Ordeals, I went to Lake Hylia to meet the other gay clown man who runs the Cucco Glider challenge. I flew down to the Isle of Riches, as he calls it, to get a Poe and investigate the whereabouts of a Heart Piece. I landed on the top platform (the spinning one) and opened it to receive 100 rupees. I then dropped down onto the platform lower, and landed on the chest. I stepped off of it (safely onto the actual platform) and turned to open the chest.

And the Wii froze. Apparently, the Heart Piece contained within that chest (as I found out later) was the King of All Heart Pieces, and it was capable of tearing time and space with its ravenous crystalline claws. And with that, my hour and a half of gaming went out the window. While I was not overly disappointed, since it meant I could retry the Cave of Ordeals and get it perfect on the first playthrough, I was bummed out about losing the Heart Pieces that I had found.

I had losing your file after you’ve found key items, because it is so hard to remember where they are again without playing through the game more than once.

So, I’ve dedicated myself to hunting down the bugs to get a bigger wallet, so that I can get a shitload of money from the Cave of Ordeals, and invest that money in buying a Heart Piece from that “donation guy” at the Hyrule Castle Gate. I’ve contemplated simply killing him and taking his heart and feasting upon it to improve my own resolve. However, it doesn’t seem like the actions of a hero.

I’ve only got a few more bugs left to find. I need to find the second Phasmid, and Dayfly. And then I think I have one more pair of bugs to find after that, since I discovered the pair of Stag Beetles shortly after. The problem I have with the Dayfly is that it was found in the Gerudo Desert…which is fuckin’ huge.

I’m tempted to just kill Agitha and take whatever she has to give me. I thought it might just be a bottle, since she has three on a shelf in the upper floor of her house, but since I have all four, I’ve started to doubt that.

People have been asking if they can paper file their returns. I say “Sure. But it’ll take longer than waiting for E-File to be back up.”

Apparently, there is not a return in Canada that can be filed and processed.

Behold.

All tax filing is down. If you haven’t yet filed your taxes, you’re royally boned.

The CRA has crashed and exploded.

That’s right. E-File services are down. And unfortunately, this destroys any chance of business being attracted to Liberty. Due to various restrictions, we are unable to offer instant refunds without the use of the e-file services (we need to verify if there are any liens on the return). Since we cannot do that, we are unable to process instant refunds.

Which is strange, because it is possible to call into the CRA to do it…but…oh well.

Hopefully it is doable.

On Andrew’s blog, he made an invitation for Starcraft on Thursday. Fortunately, I’m driving myself to and from work on Thursday. Unfortunately, my dad might have a fit if the weather is bad as I drive home. I’ve driven in shitty weather before, but I think he’d be extra mad if I could have avoided the weather entirely, but didn’t.

I think it can be done though. Andrew, drop a time. Drop a time in the comments.

…you are a peculiar one. First you offer money for any unsold Playstation 3 found on store shelves (an offer that would have had us all rolling in dough), but now you’ve gone and said:

“There’s no question that having the Grand Theft Auto franchise helped us a lot and helped us sell some units, but I don’t think the battle would be any different with or without Grand Theft Auto … I don’t think [losing GTA exclusivity] hurts us. … I really don’t.”

Okay. At this point, not only are you lying to yourself and the world, but you’re really spitting in the face of the people who brought you your number one spot last time around. Grand Theft Auto, since it dove into a 3D world filled with A-list voice actors, has become one of the best selling franchises of all time. And it made these sales, primarily, on a Sony system.

So, I don’t know…maybe you’d want to retract your comment. Or at least rephrase it.

“Thank you Rockstar. You made the PS2 worth owning.”

But, oh well. Sony appears to have gotten into the practice of burning bridges. It seems to be a sound business model. Let’s see where it takes them.