Fucking A. The Oneshot is a fun toy. That watermelon pop when you score a headshot in Gears is really satisfying, especially combined with the cartoonish gore effects. I'm also a pretty poor marksman and a pretty mediocre player, so when I do get a long distance kill, or a gnasher headshot, it feels like a real…

I can become a right bastard when I haven't eaten, and food usually brightens my mood considerably at those times. Unfortunately, since I am a light eater by nature and rarely notice feeling hungry until I'm actually starving, I'll become an angry grump way before it occurs to me that a lack of food is the source of…

I just turned 31 and I kind of lament my 20's as "the lost years," so to speak. I somehow managed to spend the entirety of my early adulthood in a passive, depressive funk that I am still trying to overcome. Looking back on it, I feel that I spent those years sleep walking, waiting to wake up, waiting for things to…

What utter nonsense. The image above doesn't even look like water color, it looks to me like digital painting. I mean, most likely this is a joke, the claim is just too absurd. Some guy in the 50's painted monsters that just happen to look exactly like designs from Alien: Ressurection, without any sort of context…

Hell, when I see a film like Prometheus constantly disparaged, and then see a film like The Dark Knight Rises praised, I have to marvel at how perceptions can vary so radically in the minds of filmgoers. While I constantly have to defend the former, flaws and all, I feel like everyone I meet is oblivious to how…

Yes, thank you! A million times thankyou for stating what I

"Ever since we saw it, we've been debating: Is Prometheus a genuinely terrible film, or just kind of a fun space monster movie that works okay if you don't think about it too much? " Fuck that, for fuck's sake, let's grow up a little bit. In what bizzaro universe could Prometheus be considered a "terrible film"? …

As someone who paints and studied art in school, I am surprised that anyone would think the subjects in these paintings were supposed to be looking at themselves. Painters (decent ones anyway) are definitely not ignorant of the physics behind a mirror's reflection, and often intentionally stage the portrait so that…

never mind

Despite the insane amount of shameless and embarrassing dorkiness displayed in Nimoy's song and video, those girls are all rather attractive and I have no doubt that the dapper, young(ish) singer found a willing sheath for his own elvish dagger within each of them.

Blaming video games makes no sense to me. I mean, it appears that a person interacting with a violent game is reenacting a specific instance of violence, but the way I see it, the brain is only responding to pixels on a two-dimensional screen, flashing light. When the light flashes a certain way, your body reacts by…

Yeah, I hate the pretty but dumb, rebooted Action Trek as well, because Star Trek: The Motion Picture was such a sprawling epic masterpiece of pacing and plot, and because Star Trek III didn't have cheap sets and one supremely illogical plot point, because Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was a piece of art that really…

The only question I have is, why would anyone care what children think? Even when I was a little kid myself I was constantly perturbed both by my peers and my own perceived youth-based failings. Yes, I was an unpopular kid.

Unfortunately, aside from the archetypes: the very old dwarf who was fond of Bilbo, the comically fat one, the two younger dwarfs with sharp eyes, and the Thorin Oakenshield, the books give us no information to use in telling them all apart. They weren't all that important to Tolkien's tale. Peter Jackson and his…

This. Human behavior is so heavily influenced by society that claims of a 'gay gene' sound misleading to me. In our society it is accepted that certain people will self-identify as 'gay.' But homosexual behavior occurs among people who consider themselves bisexual, and it can occur among people who consider…

It really does make sense that Legolas would be present in the Hobbit, as in the story Bilbo spends what, like weeks, in the wood elves kingdom, and I am happy to see him. But... Orlando Bloom was probably (definitely) the worst actor in the original fellowship. He's got the look, but it takes real talent to play a…

Thank you for posting this! I've always had a minor fascination with the foreign legion, but never quite remembered to look up any info for some reason. I'm a lazy lazy man.

For me, the most rational and understandable of these arguments is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics one. Because it makes sense to question the notion that "if the world around us is observably decaying, how can evolution be constantly improving life?" Ironically, this is simultaneously the easiest to brush aside, as…

I haven't played Morrowind, but everything I read about it makes it sound incredibly dry, unforgiving and inaccessible to the newcomer. That, in combination with the now outdated hardware it was designed around make it difficult to comprehend the glowing praise it garners from the hard-core Elderscrolls fans. I read…

"Dragon riding seem to be more novelty than anything"