Recent content by smartalec

We're not anti-intellectual; just practical.

I dunno, man. Pacific Rim had a colossal city fight. Men in Black had a flying saucer crash to earth, and even though it was in a park, it still was still destruction-porn. The Matrix trilogy ended with one big fight in two cities at once, Zion and the Matrix. Inception may not have a city...

Just a couple of moments showing Rey getting some mystical guidance while flying the Falcon would have been enough. Maybe 5 to ten seconds on screen, and a sign that her piloting improves after it. That's all it would have taken to clear this up. Could even have her a bit freaked out by it...

Perhaps the subversion is that Jon is indeed the son of royalty, but no-one ever finds out, not even him. Instead he's forgotten by all as he fights a thankless fight in the far north.

Can you be racist against white people...? Well... yeah. I can grasp the idea that "it doesnt matter, it's not as harmful", and I can see why people would think that, but isn't that beside the point? The point is, if you buy into that, then you've let YOUR thinking be compromised. You've...

This is asking the wrong question, I think. Wade through the outrage and the noise a moment, put aside the angry froth. The thirteen Gamers are Dead articles are focussed on because they were a glaring example of the different games journalism websites and some independent bloggers working...

Aie aie aie... I get the point. But... the big thing about 'Gamers are Dead' wasn't just what was said, but how obviously co-ordinated and premeditated it was. The suspicion that a large section of games media were collaborating and covering one another's backsides against their readership...

I was lucky enough to speak to a couple of GW developers during the launch period of their Lord of the Rings skirmish game back in early 2002. One of the prevailing thoughts was 'if we'd known back when we started all that we know now about games design, Warhammer would have used the LotR...

That's certainly there, but it's never actually said what happens

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Banner got a look at the results of the scan for the Tesseract before things went to hell in a handbasket on the helicarrier. He didn't have time to tell anyone else, but I took it that this was how he knew to go to New York on that ol' motorboke. Thor can fly, so he can arrive pretty quickly...

That is actually what they had. There's no rape or implied rape in this episode. Weren't the Klingons supposed to be a Soviet Union analogue in the classic series?

Glad that Gallifrey is still in one piece. All that angst had poisoned the show.

Just call Hurt the 12th? He was the 12th one we met, chronologically...

I'm really looking forward to playing this. When it's finished.