Posts by Kumara Republic
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I'm also reminded of Al Lowe, the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry game series. He's on record saying he wanted to create a new Larry game - trouble is, he doesn't own the rights - Sierra On-Line's successor company does. The most recent in the series (since Magna Cum Laude) had no involvement of Lowe, and it showed.
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I admire the simplicity of this placard
Has anyone considered the use of an iPlacard, or even iMosaics (on a stadium scale, that is)? Apple just needs to make a bigger version sooner or later.
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If there's any novel begging to be adapted to film, it'd have to be Snow Crash. Last I heard, film rights were sold but no one actually got it beyond pre-production. Or is it really that unfilmable?
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And the keywords in Brian Gaynor's latest column are 'cargo cult' and 'long-term strategy'.
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Hergé (George Remi) says he originally saw the Tintin stories as movies, but could only afford to do them as comics... glad he did!
I remember reading somewhere that if you like film-making but can't stand the actial film-making process, then comics/manga is the way to go.
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Speaking as a Wellingtonian, I've always taken Brian Rudman with a grain of salt. He's disdainful about the rest of the country, especially Wellington, and the rest of the country are justifiably disdainful about him in return. Thankfully, not every Aucklander is Rudman.
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@Jono King: I am reminded of the 1997 Economist article "Star wars", which explored the malaise of Hollywood at the time, and of Europe's then potential.
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@Andre, Sacha & Peter C: Monty Python pretty much summed it up...
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Besides, Warner owns Turbine, and it's own games division (Warner BRos Interactive Entertainment) hasn't been shy about producing its own games: for example, this one (free registration required.) I know Turbine's been talking about producing a Hobbit-themed game since prior to to its aquisition by WB, too.
Turbine also has the licence for D&D Online... well, the Eberron universe at least.
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One thing that popped into my mind as I read Hamilton's post and your response: unions need to change with the times - get themselves another "business model", for want of a better term. They need to adjust if they are to effectively achieve their goals, or they will be held back by old school, old hard left thinking. The world has changed, and they need to find new solutions to old (and new) issues. Then they might be better able to serve the needs of the worker.
Matt McCarten seems to have got it right so far, unionising those workers who wouldn't normally join a union. He seems more bolshie than the CTU, but still comes out as a champ of the underdog instead of a bunch of whingers, for the simple reason that he has a good supply of media savvy. The EMA's Alasdair Thompson was even on record saying that McCarten was 'entrepreneurial' for a union official.