Recent content by Chris Batson

Complicated hero = Sgt. Rex "Power" Colt... I can dig it.

I often use (mainly modern) video game soundtracks as my "drowning out" music when I'm reading. Like classical music, video game music usually doesn't have words, which is ideal for me since I get distracted easily by what others are saying. The two I've been listening to most recently are...

"...I'm Bob, and THAT'S the Bi-" Uh, sorry. Wrong thing. Anyway, I'm kind of a baby when compared to Bob, so my first foray into Sam Raimi was a smattering of episodes of Xena: Warrior Princess. I was way more into animated shows at the time (yeah, I'm THAT young), but I definitely remember...

Context, kids: It's important! That being said... there was a more "goth" version than this!?

Probably my favorite episode of No Right Answer so far!

I didn't mean to imply that someone couldn't survive something like that. I've read a lot of stories of people who've survived self-inflicted shotgun blasts to the head! *shudders* Really, I just found the visceral nature of the death a little too harsh considering the context of a naive...

Before I go any further, let me just say that my comment about being an inexperienced college student was a bit of an afterthought and my argument could probably do without it. I also don't want to sound hyperbolic, so please forgive me if I am and alert me of my behavior. And I definitely don't...

You know what? I hadn't thought of that before, but it makes a certain amount of sense.

Exactly! The aesthetic of those environments makes me feel that the graphic violence is justified, if not necessarily "easy" to watch. In this instance though, it just seems - like you said - unnecessary and out of tone with the rest of the game. I know from the promotional material that the...

Conan, Andrew, and the audience basically had the same reaction as me when I saw that "spike through the head" death a couple of weeks ago. Almost TOO brutal for my tastes. EDIT: Good journalistic professionalism on MY part :/ Apologies to AARON Blair.

This video might very well have my favorite line from you guys: "That's a big ass tree."

The Battletoads cartoon DID have one fun idea that I liked. In order to do all the exaggerated transformations the characters did in the video game (change their head into a battering ram while running, turning their foot into a giant boot, etc.) they had to hype themselves up by making...