“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the womprats start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then fly like a bastard from Kessel to Tatooine... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of nullicaine.”
The resolution setting is a trick. The 3D graphics are rendered to an off-screen buffer at a fixed 720p resolution, then scaled up or down to whatever setting you select.
I’ve said for years that NASCAR needs an attrition rule. No more going behind the wall to fix a car. Can’t do it in your pit stall, you’re done.
I’m surprised the “Don’t” section didn’t include the sentence “Whatever you do, don’t mention Champions Online!” Lord knows that’s how PWE and Cryptic have been managing CO for the past four years.
Go back and watch the church massacre scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service. For all the chaos of the fight itself, the sheer number of combatants in a confined space, and the video game hyper-clarity of the fast shutter speed, Matthew Vaughn kept the camera centered on the most important thing in the scene. In fact,…
Neil O’Donnell knew he could make bank as a free agent after leading the Steelers to Super Bowl XXX, but he’d be a pariah as a starting QB leaving a champion, so he threw the game. That second interception, man...
Pennsylvania has the opposite problem. BJ’s “won” the state because it has plenty of locations, but they’re all concentrated in the Philadelphia/Harrisburg corridor. If somebody from Philly or Pittsburgh has to pass Breezewood on the Turnpike to get to it, it might as well be in Ohio or New Jersey. According to BJ’s…
New York guy wonders why four country music stars have been selected for an All-Star Game in Nashville.
Speaking of Diane Duane again... She loved putting non-humanoid aliens in her books, probably because she never had to worry about special effects. A horta ensign became a key character in My Enemy, My Ally, and when she adapted The Wounded Sky into the TNG episode “Where No One Has Gone Before”, the engineer who…
The future was already there. It just wasn’t evenly distributed yet.
City of Heroes. It looks like nothing less than a hostile takeover bid for NCSoft will pry the rights from their grubby mitts.
*cough*Primera*cough*
Eine Wurst, Drei Größen, Oder Nichts
Most of them just shrink the letter spacing as far as they can go. I think Letourneau-Leblond had a two-line nameplate for one season in the minors, but maybe I’m misremembering. I can’t find a picture now.
Nugent-Hopkins
I’m hoping the DVD will include a deleted scene of Rey and Poe swapping stories, just to see the look on Poe’s face when Rey describes how she deliberately stalled the Falcon at low altitude to give Finn a clean shot. The first of many “Holy shit, Rey!” moments.
Pirlo is the only MLS player anybody at The Grauniad could name off the top of their heads because he’s the only MLS Euro they think still has some tread on the tires. (Hi, Gerrard and Keane! Enjoying semi-retirement in LA?) One of the stats guys probably reminded them Giovinco existed, so they shoved him down in the…
July’s rating rises the closer your birthday is to July 4th. Mine’s on the 5th, so I get to ride the coattails of all the cookouts and fireworks. Plus, as a kid, I got that nice six-month cadence for presents.
It’s what some people are demanding from Mini with safety requirements.
Ohio is “guy with a 9mm” crazy. Texas is “entire posse of open-carry advocates with AR-15s who think the best place to hang out and open carry just happens to be the parking lot of a mosque” crazy.
