2005

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Gilligan Is On The Roof

Grumpy Gamer

Bob Denver, the actor who played Gilligan on the 60's TV show has died. A secret desire of mine has been to make the Gilligan's Island movie. Not as a comedy, but as a serious drama exploring the dark and twisted reality of what would happen if those seven people were stranded on that island. In my version Gilligan would have been the last alive and the most diabolically insane.

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Failing at your Entertainment

Grumpy Gamer

With the oh-my-f **g-god-circle-jerk-boy-mass reporting of E3 in full swing, it nice to see a few articles come out that question the direction of the industry, especially ones I am quoted in. From the article: "When you spend all day at work, the last thing you want to do is go home and become frustrated by video games," Gilbert said. "There is a gigantic group of people who want easy-to-play games.".

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World! Of! Warcraft!

Grumpy Gamer

I am not a big player of MMORPMMGOMMGS, the last one I spent any time on being Ultima Online when it first came out, plus a few hours on EverQuest, so I might be impressed by things that are old-hat. In the interest of brevity and for all the executives and marketing people that read the Grumpy Gamer, I figured I'd just bullet point my feedback. I am awestruck by the scope of the world.

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