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I gotta say, I love the Witcher, and yes, it's grimdark and broody, but I think it justifies it fine. Temeria is a crappy, brutal world, and The Witcher wants you to know it. It's like the video game equivalent of good film noir, dark and broody and cracking wise, but still with plenty of...

Either Assassin's Creed or Grand Theft Auto V, just running and dicking around, or Gran Turismo 6, just tinkering with my cars and taking them out on the track. If I want to relax I typically won't pick a Lambo or Ferrari. Hatchbacks like the Delta or Clio are some of the most relaxing and fun...

I read a fantastic essay by David Foster Wallace recently, about how irony is so constantly absorbed and internalized by American masses that it's seeped into our entire culture. The essay's ultimate point is how American television's heavy usage of irony so strongly affects our fiction, but he...

Best female vocalists? Either for their power or their uniqueness, that make me sit up and say, holy crap what a voice, I would say Annie Lennox, Mariah Carey, and Alicia Keys, none of whom are exactly unknown and who I see have already been mentioned. But damn, they're all famous for a reason...

I think everyone agrees that we should see these cartoons through the lens of society as it was, not our own 21st century perspective, which has a real knack for making mountains out of molehills. We assume that heroic nudity is fine in discussing classical and Renaissance art, so why is a...

I really love Louis CK, but I understand that a lot of people don't connect with him. If you're not familiar with him, he's much more than a shock comic, which you might think from this topic. He has a sort of humility and honesty when he broaches more disgusting topics, so that you sort of go...

I just discovered the combination of mayo, Grey Poupon, chicken, parmesan, and thin sliced tomato, all on toasted white bread. Those have been putting me in a good mood every time I've had one during the last few weeks.

I don't think bullying is totally normal and OK, or just something kids do. It's a symptom of a serious problem. Some of it's really dumb, laughable stuff, and some of it is seriously harmful. How much damage it does depends on the situation. But it's never going to stop happening, sort of...

You got your wish! The best DLC for BI, Burial at Sea Ep. 2, is all from Elizabeth's perspective.

Only accepting the good and completely ignoring the bad isn't a great way to live your life - it disconnects you from reality, encourages denial, and warps your perspective. Any mature and rational human being would no longer be mature or rational were they to become as obscenely famous as he has.

Very cool to see a book thread, you are right that they don't get discussed enough. The original Bond books are all free for Kindle Unlimited right now, so I decided to take a crack at them - I'm right in the middle of Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love. It's much better overall than Casino...

It's not necessarily SR3's fault for not trying the same things, and being made two years earlier, but SR3 was much shallower and shorter-lived in my memory than GTA V, which is R*'s crown jewel as far as I'm concerned. It was a one-two-knockout from Red Dead to Max Payne 3 to GTA V, three...

This is so true. The one you're thinking of is actually Once Upon A Time In The West, one of my all-time favorites, and that first scene is absolutely perfect. 10 minutes of three guys waiting around at a train station near a creaky windmill, flies buzzing around, before the train stops and all...

I can't believe I didn't think of Ozu at first with this topic in mind, but I also consider "slow" in terms of a director's intention, not just to mean that there wasn't enough action or there was too much talking. Funny that when I think of Casablanca, and most major 40's movies, I think...

Old or new, movies usually are dismissed if they're slow. This has actually been the case everywhere but art house cinemas ever since film became a mass medium, but seems to be even more true these days - most movies seem paced as if they're constantly afraid they'll lose your attention. But...