Member Introduction Area

Ooh ooh! Pick me, pick me!

My name is Kav P. That's a pen name I use to separate my professional life with my personal and creative life, although some people here probably know my full name, given that I was doxxed as a result of Gamer Gate. Hooray! I also use it to keep myself genderless online, because people are arse. I did recently "come out" as a female on the Badass Digest, though, after about 10 years of deliberate ambiguity.

OMG NARSE YOU LIKE TWIN PEAKS I DO TOO! Actually I was going to write an imaginary season three for National Novel-Writing Month this year. If you have any ideas I'd be happy to hear them.

I too enjoy movies, TV shows and video games, however the older I get the more I realise that most of them are shit and could do better. This also leads to an obsession with B-movies, because at least they don't pretend they have any substance in them. I regularly hold open "bad movie nights" where anyone can join in, get drunk and shout at the screen. I'm also a HUGE fan of board games, and am currently making a role-playing card game which I hope will be finished and fine-tuned by the end of the year to start plugging to people. Test players, anyone?

My turn-offs include Michael Bay, Zack Snyder, Kevin Smith, Michael Bay, Quentin Tarantino (I do actually enjoy his movies for the most part but I also find his schtick a bit horrendous and self-centred. Come at me bros!), Joss Whedon (not so much as the others. I enjoyed Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog but his reliance on "quirky characters" gets on my nerves) and Michael Bay. Oh, after studying the movement meticulously and following its progress both as myself and under a fake parody account, I have come to the conclusion that GamerGate, its methods, and what it claims to stand for are a big, collective pile of steaming horseshit.

As for what I'm hoping for out of this forum, I'm just looking forward to the trolls. :B

Welcome, Niko! Don't worry, your English is better than mine, and it's my native language

I do love many of the things you mentioned, including Farscape, The Wire, and Film Crit Hulk (he really is the best).

Hopefully we can promote this place in the Badass comments section once there's another video game article up. Seems to be the best shot at gathering all the cool people together from the previous GamerGate articles.

Kav, have you seen Atami no Sousakan? It's a show from a few years ago that's basically a Japanese tribute to Twin Peaks, and it's made by one of my favorite film-makers:



And please, if anyone else wants to be a Mod, let us know!

Hello, I'm Phill. There's not much a back story there as it's my actual name.

I am a director, writer and illustator with a few animated trailers for my scripts that I put on youtube. I do doodle a lot and post that to twitter. So if you're interested, my handle is pabastien. Give me a follow if you want to talk a lot (and I mean A LOT) about movies. I also talk a lot about the science fiction genre and its syntax, genres and tropes. So a real geek fest going on there.

I used to play games quite a bit but not as much any more as I spend a lot of my time watching movies.

My Favorite movies are: Sweet Smell of Success, The Man Who Would Be King, Alien, Blade Runner, Outland, Akira, Summer Wars, Paprika, Millenium Actress, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Aliens, Children of Men, Seven Samurai, Harakiri, The Samurai Trilogy, Strange Days (underrated movie), 2001, The Man with No Name Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, AI Artificial intelligence and so so many more.

My turn offs are: Any movie that pushes the following. Coincidences and plot contrivances instead of actual story, Characters who blunder and destiny their way to victory without having any real arc and yet still expect us to respect them as characters, the magic blood macguffin, the magic world destroying super weapon macguffin, truther agendas.

I read some comics, mostly Manga and Jodorowsky at the moment.

Yeah Satoshi Kon is a personal favorite director of mine, also his films are possible the best masterclasses in Editing you could ask for. And as for Samurai Cinema and Akira Kurosawa, lets just say they've left an indelible mark on me as a filmmaker (the iconography and imagery of Samurai appear in my stuff a lot)

And yeah, Orci and Kurtzman scripts always bother me

Hello new Ellies, you limp-dig pigfucks!

I am a bit ashamed because I've forgot to mention Satoshi Kon in my post. Love him. (I assume everybody's seen this video about his editing style? Suppose Phill did.)

Whaaat, Tokyo Godfathers guy is dead?! For someone who's lived most of the past 10 years in Japan, I really don't keep up with its pop culture.

Welcome aboard, everyone!

Sup people I`m DaViller,

wich is a nick my brother gave me.I discovered badass digest some time ago and I love that community despite not being the biggest film or comic buff(I´m your typical "batmans the best bro!" kinda sorta comic fan, who never read a comic in his whole life^^). I´m bigtime into anime and videogames though and the promise of a videogames based message board, with the badass community was simply to good to pass up. I´ve been mainly driven here because my old favorite games message board over at the escapist became overrun with gamergate conspiracy nutters.
Even though I was traditionally the type to not realy give a fuck about the whole social justice debate in games (I never realy liked anita sarkessians videos and stuff), the sheer amount of idiocy and sometimes outright hatred on the anti-sjw side has made me reconsider my position. I´m not sure what my position is now but it´s definitly opposed to fuckwits who support gamergate, adam baldwin, internet aristocrat and milo whateverthefuck.

So to my taste in movies, books, games and all that jazz (exept jazz cause I don´t really know any jazz):

My absolute all time favorite movie has to be princess mononoke. Otherwise I can´t realy name any specific standouts though im big into tarantino movies in general and also love gangster movies or weird schlock movies like helldriver. I have pretty broad tastes and there´s probably no genre I dislike (exept maybe romcoms), I can even enjoy micheal bays transformer flicks so make of that what you will.

When it comes to books I am a huge fan of stanislav lem and terry prattchet. Im also bigtime into the berserk manga series.

When it comes to games my tastes are pretty damn broad, as with my tastes in movies, so ima give you a short list of my personal greatest more recent single and multiplayer based games to give you an impression:

Singleplayer:
1. Dark fucking Souls
2. Bayonetta
3. The Arkham series (exept origins that one blows)
3. The Zelda series
4. Ace Attorney and Professor Layton games

Multiplayer:
1. Dota
2. Street Fighter (fighters in general wich will likely include smash bros once the new one is out)
3. The halo series before bungie left of

Somewhere in between:
Monster Hunter

So thats it for me. If you ever need someone to bring uneducated and generally idiotic opinions about anything into the discussion, I got your back bro/sis!

Can't tell you about the crossover since i sadly haven't played it myself and im not sure when i'll get to it. What i can tell you though is that the last ace attorney was pretty great. There is a greater emphasis on building story and characters over each individual case and the 3d graphics look very good in motion, seriously I laughed my balls of while on the bus during one witness breakdown. It does not quite reach the epic greatness of the dahlia hawthorne case but it comes damn close.
Also your rival prosecutor is a samurai deathrow inmate and the dlc has you defending an orca whale, yeah it's kinda neat.

Yeah. Pancreatic Cancer. Seems to kill a lot of great japanese directors. Killed the guy who made Serial Experiments Lain as well. Writer and artist from Lain are still alive though

Hello there! Castle in the Sky is quite gorgeous, I'd say, even though I'm not really proficient in visual arts and struggle with a bunch of pixels when I need to draw something.

Yep, I remember! I'm not having anything that needs new assets on my mind right now, but thanks to this board, it's much easier to keep in touch.

I want Ellie to join this board so badly. Her introduction post would be legendary!

Welcome, Chris! I think my favorite Ghibli is Nausicaa. It looks amazing on Blu-ray too.

Wow, everyone here makes board games! I've never really gotten into board gaming. None of my friends were into anything like that, so I never really had the chance to play them much.

Also, if anyone has any ideas on how to promote this board to like-minded people, or if you want to invite anyone here, please do so!

YES. Let's do it! Go Team GobbleGrope! I really want Devin to write another thread. I'll be all over that with the shameless self-promotion.




Funnily enough, none of my friends were into board games or gaming growing up either. I have many sad memories of playing multi-player games by myself, just so I could enjoy the mechanics of the game/s... Tragic, eh? This is another reason why GerberGert makes me so angry - I feel like I have so much to lose for it!

I remember for a Grade 6 primary school assignment I made a board game similar to Monopoly which was about a cat going about its business on an average day and all the adventures it might have. It never got played because, yeah. No friends with similar interests. My childhood was lame.

Do you still have your old board games somewhere? That all sounds fascinating and I'd love to see what you came up with. I love childhood creativity, even if I hate kids.