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With no mind to dig through all the comments to check if anyone else has said the same, I'll dive right into my retort to the following quote: "... and no new technology has ever lasted that's less convenient to use than what it's supposed to replace." Nice generalization there. Lots of...

Perfect Dark featured (as far as my gaming experience goes) the first actual polygonal reloads, so I vividly remembering reloading a Falcon 2 in the first mission on top of the dataDyne building and then doing it thrice more just because of how cool it looked. Also, someone's mentioned the...

While all Friedberg & Seltzers, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Twilight are all great options, I'd erase the second and third Matrix films, to ensure the beautiful concept explored in the first movie (and was actually marvellously done in Animatrix) would not get muddied.

This is an oldie, but I remember walking down a flight of stairs after playing a day-long bout of Advance Wars on the GBA and stopping midway, waiting for 'the computer' to make its move before realizing Real Life is nót turn-based and feeling like a nitwit.

All I'm saying is she doesn't need to do any of that stuff to get higher ratings; I liked her old songs, they're thought through and insightful. This, however, had a 'Quest For Ratings' vibe to it.

There are a hundred ways in which she could've been able to recite Shakespeare or do interpretative dance and noone would've lost attention to what she said. If I started doing the same bit in the exact same outfit people would cry outrage at the display my podgy body in leotards. I'm quite sure...

Without the shadow of a doubt I'd take Enemy Territories Quake Wars' Strogg Tormentor. http://quakewarswiki.net/qwiki/images/thumb/3/3d/Tormentor.png/200px-Tormentor.png Although nobody ever agrees with me I think it's certainly one of the coolest in-game vehicles of all time. The wheezing...

I have an entire compendium of Poe's poetry, and I have to say I agree with AsthmaticPsycho that The Raven is a nice example. One caveat; the mood needs to be right for a poem to work. Right now it's sunny and noisy outside, so reading The Raven now wouldn't work quite as well as when you do...

I wanted to point out the fact that sleeveless costumes work best with clean-shaven armpits, but you put that down yourself. Also it's odd to me that you object to people who call this video sexualised when it so obviously is. I don't know where you got the inspiration, but that Gaga woman...

I remember that one! Cloud Cuckoo-land. I think I bought a controller with a Turbo button exactly for that challenge.

I got an oldie, too. When I was younger I couldn't finish the final bossfight on Jet Force Gemini for the N64. I came back to that fight after several years of avoiding the entire game, and finished it on one go. So my conclusion; RecentXIV can kick YoungXIV's bum like Link vs Young...

I've just seen Burton's Alice in 3d in the theaters last week, and even though the entire story seems to have been forced aside to make room for the sparkly 3d effects, the ending is a completely illogical tourniquet. I won't spoil it here because it's so new, but I think most of you would agree.

Why not? I love movies, watch at least 3 of them a week, and I'd love to see discussions among the gaming crowds on them. We could rip into Uwe Boll's insistence on sodomizing the reputation of videogaming with the moviegoing crowd, or have an intellectually satisfying discussion on which...

I have a Core2Duo 2,4 Ghz running with 4 (3 because of a 32-bit OS) gb DDR2 Ram at 800 MHz, and Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 ran beautifully. Crysis wasn't as smooth, though. I think whether or not you can rún the games boils down to the GPU, which I'm not familiar with. F3 and FC2 and Bioshock...

Add to all that the fact that Nintendo has raised its reputation (and profit margins) for the first time since the launch of the N64, and I think that 'all of that will be for nothing' statement is fortunately mistaken. In the unlikely event that Wii's sales will drop incredibly after Microsoft...