I don’t normally rant publicly about things that bother me, usually I just wander aimlessly about the house and yell at inanimate objects. Frustrated at the idiocity* of the human race. However this particular thing that bothers me about people is worthy of posting so here goes.

*Idiocity - YES I know this word is not found in the English dictionary. Read the following as I believe it should be entered into both the medical journals and dictionary.

id-i-oc-ity /idiocity/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[id-ee-uh-sit-ee]
-noun

1. the disease which cause people to be idiots.
2. Psychology. a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.

[Origin: Derived from the -noun IDIOT idiocity is a mental disorder that plagues a large percentage of the general population. Relief from the symptoms can be found in education, listening and study however there is no cure beyond that of common sense]
-Synonyms 1. fool, half-wit; imbecile; dolt, dunce, numskull.

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The hosting server went down for 3 days causing all of my sites to go down, I apologize to the readers for the downtime. We are all back up and running now and I am transferring to a more reliable server and hosting service this week. I will get back to posting more fun stuff this week.

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A couple whose marriage was going on the rocks sought the advice of a marriage counsellor. The counsellor pleaded with them to patch up their quarrel, but they were adamant.

“So,” said the counsellor, “you know the consequences and you want to part. Remember this. You must divide your property equally.”

The wife flared up. “You mean the $4,000 I have saved up? I must give him half? My money?”

“Yes,” said the counsellor. “He gets $2,000. You get $2,000.”

“What about my furniture? I paid for that.”

“Same thing,” answered the counsellor. “Your husband gets the bedroom and the living room; you get the dining room and the kitchen.”

There was a challenging gleam in the wife’s eye. “What about our three children?”

That stumped him. Shrewdly he assayed the situation, then he came up with a Solomonic answer. “Go back and live together until your fourth
child is born. Then you take two children and your husband takes two.”

The wife shook her head. “No, I’m sure that wouldn’t work out. If I depended on him, I wouldn’t have the three I got.”

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Well the much anticipated release of Dragonlance - Dragons of Autumn Twilight was On Jan 15th. I have finally had a chance to see it. Here is my review of the film (no spoilers).

Casting - The major members of the party are the only ones that I will be rating.

Michael Rosenbaum - Tanthalas ‘Tanis’ Half-Elven (voice) Rating - 3/5
Kiefer Sutherland - Raistlin Majere (voice) - Rating 5/5
Lucy Lawless - Goldmoon (voice) - Rating 4/5
Fred Tatasciore - Flint Fireforge / Fewmaster Toede (voice) Flint Rating 1/5 Fewmaster Rating 4/5
Michelle Trachtenberg - Tika (voice) - Rating 3/5
Rino Romano - Caramon Majere (voice) - Rating 0/5 WTF Someone had a brain fart here.
Jason Marsden - Tasslehoff Burrfoot (voice) - Rating 3/5
Neil Ross - Fizban The Fabulous (voice) - Rating 2/5
Marc Worden - Sturm Brightblade (voice) - Rating 2/5
Phil LaMarr - Riverwind / Gilthanas (voice) - Rating 3/5

The Good

Finally there is a release of a movie based on a book that kept so true to the story. The unfortunate thing with this movie is that the rest of the production did not live up to the potential of the story. Here are the reasons for the previous statement.

The Bad

1. Poor blend of 3D and traditional animation styles. This is a tricky method of producing a film and this one was just not done right. The stylized characters did not match the CG Draconians and Dragons in the film.
2. Awkward animation, very jerky and not fluid. With todays technology including motion-capture and photo realistic rendering It’s disappointing that a story with such potential ended up looking the way this production did. It looked like animation from the 80’s reminiscent of the original LOTR Cartoon.
3. Poor camera work and angles. This stems back to the poor blend of 2D and 3D animation techniques. With 3D techniques there is no limit to the work with the camera. Why this production did not make use of the available technology today is beyond me.
4. Poor selection of music for the score, not much else I can say about that.
5. Acting, with the list of actors in the movie I would have expected better voice acting. It seemed like the actors had no emotional bond with the characters. Very much like reading from a script and not living the part.

Overall I have to fail this movie considering the era of its release. If released in the 80’s this movie might have been acceptable but as an animator and artist myself I am extremely disappointed in the production quality of the film. I was hoping for so much more

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