Recent content by Velvo

Yeah... this totally should have been an anime before it became a movie of any kind. That way, all the internal dialogue and long winded comments on strategy could come out halfway decent, not to mention that it could have been done without child actors. Also, it could have been a long running...

Anyone actually read the short story that the original 'Total Recall' was based on? It was called 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' by Phillip K Dick. They never go to Mars, it's all about how this regular guy goes and tries this "recall" thing and oops, turns out he's a secret agent...

No, the "remember the journey, not the destination" way of thinking only works if you HAVE it. Amazingly, even though the ending was somewhat dull, somewhat contradictory, and didn't explain itself well, I still feel satisfaction from all the things that came before. It doesn't negate the...

I loved the ending to Mass Effect 3. It was one of the more poetic conclusions to a game I've seen in some time. It seriously made me cry a little bit. I mean, I don't care to know exactly what happened! What I care about isn't the ending, but the amazing and moving game leading up to it...

I'm REALLY REALLY HOPING that they will put out a new Province with every "expansion" until the WHOLE OF TAMRIEL exists in one GIANT GAME. But you know... probably not. I can hope though, right?

Gotta tell you, I LOVE Saul Williams. He's a little rough on most of his albums, but his album "Niggy Tardust" was mastered and co-wrote with Trent Reznor, frontman of Nine Inch Nails and composer of The Social Network's score. Anyway, Saul Williams is transcendental rap, more like spoken...

I have to say, while I respect Dr. Dawkins immensely for the work he has done to further science and weed out ignorance and pseudo-science, his aggressive anti-religious adherence is a bit off putting. I'm not one to come out in support of religious dogma or anything, but there is indeed...

I think this poll establishes a new average, at least at the escapist.

I'd say I agree with this mostly... but. Note that OP uses terms like "Greek" and "Roman" to describe past golden ages. They are localized in space as well as time. I doubt Finland was having such a golden age at the time. In this time period, the world is much more homogeneous in terms of...

Einstein and Newton. I steal all his ideas... or kill him out of mercy, a la The Fly.

As a fellow atheist, I gotta say that I can't agree with you. That is a false dichotomy. Hell or nonexistence? Not a fair choice. Who says you will be nonexistent? Your body doesn't really go anywhere, does it? I see consciousness as just another element to an explainable reality...

I fear dying, but I do not fear being dead. I'm curious about it though. Fear is such a basic response to stimuli in our reptilian brains, there is no denying the feeling. Anyone who "feels no fear of death" is merely deluding themselves in one way or another. Yes, you will be afraid at...

I feel like women, as well as men, sometimes feel superior to other PEOPLE in general, men included. If the most obvious difference between them is gender, then perhaps that is the case. I mean, on a very real level, some people are superior to other people, on an individual basis...

I must say that I can't disagree with the supposition that what existed before the universe may indeed be a thing much like God, but this idea of yours that man did not descend from apes is simply misguided. The lineage of Australopithecus is well documented and leads to Homo erectus and from...

This is exactly what I have supposed would happen for some time. The ideals of the revolutions in the late 18th century are very much tied to those of the Assassins. You could span the whole period of revolutions, starting with the American revolution and culminating with the Napoleanic wars...