MetaFilter posts tagged with Oblivion

Oblivion - The Cat Came Back

fearthehat — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:53:09 -0800

"...call your custom class 'Loser'." IT-HE Software has posted its latest anti-walkthrough, this time for The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. By far the best picture in the article.

RIP, DFW

gerryblog — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:34:15 -0800

This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger. And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. Let's get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what "day in day out" really means. There happen to be whole, large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. The parents and older folks here will know all too well what I'm talking about. First reported by an anonymous tip to a blog, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed that David Foster Wallace has hung himself.

A Completely Original Game, Except For All Of The Parts That Aren't

grabbingsand — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:08:59 -0800

Epic Theft? Epic Fail. "Steve Bovis, Tim Croucher and Laurence Francis, all from Maidstone, have dreamt of seeing Limbo of the Lost played across the globe since they first started discussing the game 10 years ago."* Conceived in the 90s as an Amiga 1200 title, the three Kentish lads went with the PC for the decades-deferred realization of their creative dream. Unfortunately, the long-delayed release of Limbo of the Lost is leaving reviewers with a profound sense of deja vu, as if they've seen this game somewhere before ... The game's US distributor, Tri Synergy, has ceased distribution and is pleading ignorance of any and all "borrowing," but Bethesda Softworks -- publisher of Oblivion -- is not amused.

ok computer

Mean Mr. Bucket — Sat, 27 May 2006 08:25:59 -0800

Oblivion Domino Day. Some fun from The Elder Scrolls.

The Elder Scrolls - The Imperial Library

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:53:30 -0800

Ever play Morrowind? Did you realise how obscenely gargantuan the backstory and associated literature is? I'm not much of a roleplay geek, but the sheer amount of work to produce this fictious world is kinda hypnotic. And as for this...