No, I don't have anything interesting to put here. I'll spoil that one for you already.
For a few years I have been an occasional member of the Magnificent and Terrible collective we know and fear as the Unknown Troper, using 'Regulus' as my login name and even 'getting known' under that name.
It is with considerable sadness that I find I've forgotten entirely the password to that beloved appelation, and, finding no recourse by which to salvage it, I revert to a moniker I'd long since stopped using, that being 'The Alfadius,' a term with no meaning I meant to use in a story long, long ago but never did.
I am a confessed critic, nitpicker and pedant, 'pedant' here meaning what it
always means on the Internet and in polite conversation, which is 'dickhole.' Observe:
- Prima: [Well-reasoned, long-winded statement of no importance on an admittedly meaningless subject]
- Secunda: I guess, but that's being a bit pedantic.
Casual Translation:
- Dave: Blah blah blah apears to be blah blah blah blah but in actuality blah blah blah blah blah blah so you see blah blah blah blah blah, quod errat demonstrandum.
- Stan: *sigh* Don't be such a dickhole, Dave.
As far as media knowledge goes, I don't really watch enough movies or read enough popular literature to make any contributions in that area, but I do enjoy them. TV is a cesspit whose viewers I pity. I am a longtime gamer, but I don't play nearly as much as I used to. I do, however, get good mileage out of whatever media I do enjoy and can generally be relied upon to catch fine details, keep up with the plot and catch on to subtext.
I take media as a whole seriously and try to enjoy any given work on its own merits, but I do NOT take any particular book/film/game or whatever seriously enough to get insulted if you think its the worst ever made. I am the last person you can expect to involve himself in flame wars or cyclical fanboy arguments.
I am a lazy, undependable writer of great talent, but every time I finish something up I look over it, hate it, and never look into seeking publication or, God forbid, showing it to anyone. I'm hoping for a Kafka-esque resolution to it all in which everything I've ever put on paper is published posthumously against my will and I become a legendary, world-renowned author post-mortem.
However, despite every glaring contraindication I've supplied on this page, I am affable, idealistic, a good listener, and always up for a good discussion even if- hell,
especially if I don't have any idea what I'm talking about. ;)
Have a great day.
