Recent content by bigdork

I don't think the dragon's breathing helium. It seems to be breathing hydrogen. The sound is very similar. Also, how did you think fiery breath worked?

This problem won't even manifest until it's time to cast Avengers 4, and they already have a lot of options. They've got Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch already established (a little bit). They've got Falcon and Bucky as plausible replacements for Cap. Vision comes naturally out of the next...

I like the new art for Claire. She's recognizable, but she looks like she's just tired of zombie-infested hellscapes. She looks burned out, which makes a lot of sense, really.

I don't have a Wii U, but I'd expect that people spend most of their time looking at the big screen. That should have the document processing in his last game, and the little screen should have the execution scenes. The game should make it easy to look away, while making you conscious of the...

The first thing I thought when I saw the Pacific Rim trailer was "Look, Hollywood's ripping off 90s anime sensation Evangelion now". The two pilots who have to synchronize exactly, with a native-market male and an exotically foreign female, is specific and implausible enough that it can't be...

Laurence Fishburne (playing Daily Planet editor Perry White, which I'm sure someone is going to find inexplicably infuriating) That might be me, actually. Not because he's black, just because newspeople shouldn't be so damn cryptic. I don't want to have to swallow a pill to see the news for...

The jury skipper is in trouble at his trial. Explaining that you can't be bothered with jury duty just doesn't go over well with juries.

It sure sounds like they're way behind the curve. WoW is the game everyone was trying to copy eight years ago.

I used to work on an Army base, and "warfighter" was the approved generic term for soldiers, marines, airmen, and seamen in combat. It's a real American DOD neologism. One time my department got a new Powerpoint template. At the bottom, in a blue underscore bar, was "Our Focus is the...

I haven't seen the film, but it helps to know that the Shah wasn't just an American ally, he was installed by America. Iran had a functioning democracy until 1953, when the democratically elected assembly decided to raise the price of Iranian oil. The CIA sent a guy named Kermit Roosevelt II...

If you have to explain what something symbolized, it didn't.

Graham's theory of crime only works for rape. If you go up to someone, rape them, and they're OK with it, it's not a crime. It's just consensual sex.

I got half-life when it came out in the Orange Box, and got bored in the first hour. It seemed very linear and the graphics looked bad. Portal more than made up for it, though.

Oh, and Shinji, one of the hot chicks has a boyfriend already. One is a clone of your mom. And one is written of in the Book of Revelations as The Great Beast That Is Called "Dragon". So at the very least use a condom.

Son: When I look at those women, I get a strange feeling. In my pants. Could it be ... hate? Gendo: Wow. OK, son, we're way way way overdue for a talk. Gendo looks at his watch. Gendo: But I have a meeting in five minutes, so I'll make Ritsuko give you the talk instead. Son...