Let's also not forget that Jackson didn't want to direct The Hobbit at all, originally. I think he felt that LotR took so much of his life away that he didn't want to commit to another massive production like that. My understanding was that he was fully supportive of Guillermo Del Toro taking over, but when Del Toro…

In my own experience CS is a very tactical game where players are uniquely vulnerable, skill is everything and running and gunning simply just does not work. It almost looks like the game in the clip had glitched in such a way as to make the team completely invulnerable, which is a surprising occurrence in any FPS,…

I'm kinda over the whole Transformers thing, childhood memories of Gen 1 notwithstanding, but that is one awesome custom-built figure. It always amazes me what creative people can do with already-built parts of lesser toys.

Alas, Beksinski was murdered a few years ago, if I recall correctly. I have a book of his, oddly enough, in his old age he began making photoshop-collages instead of painting, sadly he didn't live long enough to really get good at it.

There seems to be no end to how badly Lockheed has botched this project. Aside from looking pretty freaking awesome, the US's 5th generation of fighters would seem to be a rather underwhelming one. Over-priced, already obsolete technologically, and tactically questionable. Given time and resources, I'm sure both…

The complaint about bullet spread doesn't even make sense. I mean, because of how actual guns behave, you're going to shoot tighter if you hold the gun properly, aiming down the sites with the butt of the stock against your shoulder, as opposed to shooting 'from the hip.' I don't care if you're a super strong titan…

C-5's are amazing. They seem to trundle down the runway and then somehow just float up into the air in what looks like slow motion. I assume it's an illusion caused by how huge they are, but they really look like they are moving waaay too slow to achieve flight. I used to live near an AF base (my house was actually…

The music and sound effects are very similar to Doom 64, which is a game I am very fond of.

Doom 64 was pretty cool at the time, but a little underwhelming in some ways. But it had a very unique look and amazing music. It was my favorite game when I was a young high school kid back in the late 90s.

I would argue that games are, above all, supposed to be fun. You may enjoy the challenge of classic games, and that's great, but I simply don't have much fun with them. That's just me!

Yes, this exactly!

I grew up with games like this. And frankly, now that I'm in my third decade of playing games, I have to say, I much prefer the "gentler" approach of today's games. To me, gaming before the 16 bit generation was a bit of a dark age.

I'm curious why the tiger is so much higher than the lion. I happen to like the tiger more, myself, but physiologically speaking, for all intents and purposes, a tiger and a lion are practically the same thing. They just have different fur coats and different ideas on proper social behavior.

Sun Bears, while the smallest and most derpy looking of the bear family, are also considered the most ferocious and aggressive. Classic Little-Bear syndrome.

It's pretty plane. I want one.

A version of Skyrim with all the bugs ironed-out would be wonderful. I'd settle for a version that didn't lock up my xbox every few hours. If they could give the game the HD treatment like the PC versions got, that'd be a sweet bonus too, but I don't want to ask too much. But really, if Bethesda could just managto…

Meh. If you don't want to be close with your family, you don't have to. End of story.

Yes, I can certainly agree with you there.

Well, the point I was trying to make is that Abrams' Trek really is it's own entity. and except for the inclusion of Nimoy, doesn't have much to do with Star Trek "canon," or at least it doesn't have to, from a fan's perspective. I don't want to speak for anyone else, but this obsession with Star Trek canon became a…

This probably isn't the place for this discussion at all, but from one massive Star Trek fan to another, I thought the first JJ Star Trek movie was great. And frankly, though The Next Generation remains one of my all time favorite shows, the TNG films (all of them, sorry) were far worse, both as individual films, and…