It's
less about monsters and more about pondering what makes them.
Not exact matches
all I can think of today is what I saw in yesterday's news,
about the former paratrooper turned preacher at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church just outside Ft. Bragg, N.C., that told his congregation they should break their sons» wrists if they catch them doing the «limp wrist», or give him a good punch... and all the kids that have committed suicide because other kids have picked up on messages like this and bullied them till they couldn't stand it anymore... we are the only bible some folks will ever read, and if they get this kind of message, well, who'd want to be with a group of people where you are grudgingly tolerated, if not outright hated, and all this in Jesus» name... it also says that the churches will do just
about anything to keep people obedient and unquestioning, so they will continue to give, and so the big donors will continue to give, so that the doors at
Monster Megachurch can be kept open, and the lights on... David, this is one of your «
less is more» toons here... a minimum of elements that says so much....
The most perfect illustration I can think of is that after getting deep into Freedom Unite, I came to realize that despite actually finishing
Monster Hunter Tri, I learned very little
about it and understood even
less about its finer points.
The
less that is said
about Roland Emmerich's disaster of a disaster film the better, but the entire genre of giant
monster movies in the tradition of Godzilla from areas beyond Japan is hit or miss at best.
Accompanied by her very supportive roommate (Anamaria Marinca), who handles most of the details, she unwittingly seeks out the services of Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), the callous butcher of Bucharest, an unlicensed
monster who could care
less about the welfare of his vulnerable clients.
The movie is
less set in the horror genre, than a survival movie
about a family, that happens to have
monsters.
Bullz - Eye: There's some gore with the
monster but it's
less about you guys getting chopped up into a hundred pieces.
But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is
less a
monster movie and more a character study
about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.
«Godzilla» asks you care
about its characters, achieves that aspiration, earns your trust, and then not only pivots towards a far
less interesting character, but abandons most of its absorbing emotional legwork for a fairly rote and straightforward rock «em, sock «em
monster movie.
With so - called puberty «
monsters» speaking directly to characters as if imaginary friends with raging libidos, the comedy is not only raunchy, but also completely relatable for those who know puberty is
less about blossoming, and more
about finding a quiet place to jerk off.
(Nobody — not George Lucas, not Ridley Scott — seems to grok
less about what made the original properties they're trying to exploit great in the first place than the fools charged with revitalizing the
monster franchises at Universal.)
These are all genuine reservations we have
about the GT2 RS, but none of them can hide the fact that the car's a true
monster with a loveable personality, and also nothing
less than the spiritual rebirth of the heavily turbocharged 911.
«So if we've done our job well, Frankenstein is
less about the technology behind the story and more
about the story itself, just as the book is
less about the creation of the
monster and much more
about the what happens next.»
Interestingly, Capcom expects to sell 7,400,000 units of games launched this fiscal year, which is
about four million
less year - on - year (apparently, they don't expect the new games to be as strong as
Monster Hunter World), but sales of games launched in previous fiscal years should increase by 6.6 million units.
It's not often we talk
about premium games on PocketGamer.biz, given that they're a lot
less likely to rake in the kind of money that a
monster free - to - play game ever will.
CMain characters are a little bit
less impressive but I had a real laugh
about some crazy fun
monster species.
Those familiar with Capcom's
Monster Hunter franchise and its epedemic status in Japan may have been slightly
less surprised by this; and whilst there are certainly shades of one on the other, the worldwide launch of Dragon's Dogma shows that this time they mean business
about getting everyone on board.
Minecraft held my interest for
about four times as long...
less variety in
monsters, but more fun being fully immersed in the blocky world.
The relative gloom is just as ideal for a set of tantalising drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, as for a recent, and no
less mysterious, film
about the Loch Ness
Monster by Gerard Byrne.
In my opinion, the WORST aspect of this is that Judith Curry states unequivocally that «Our data show the pause,» which utterly ignores the extreme level of uncertainty in temperature trends over periods as short as 10 years or
less, after she has so often indulged in self - righteous posturing on her own blog
about the «uncertainty
monster.»
Monster recently sold itself for $ 429 million (
about $ 8 billion
less than it was worth at one time).
As Hurricane Sandy is downgraded from Frankenstorm (or to be more accurate from a literary perspective, Frankenstorm's
monster) to dreary landlocked storm, coastal cities start their cleanup, and the media moves on to speculating
about the cleanup cost.1 Storm cleanup inevitably leads to swarms of insurance adjusters to deal with the various legitimate and
less - legitimate insurance claims.
Hand over your account name, password and
about $ 300, and get on with your real life for a while: in a marathon of round - the - clock
monster - bashing, a team of power levelers will raise your character from the lowest level to the highest, accomplishing in four weeks or
less what at a normal rate of play would take at least four months.