Was the pelican pilot flying with her eyes closed or something? It's not like the Covenant suddenly appeared from under cover.

I picked it up at $30 or so and believe me from experience, it's a shooter from hell — not a hell of a shooter. $4.99 might be worth it for the WTF factor.

They missed my favorite one.

That Arkham City deal at Gamefly is being reported everywhere, and everywhere is wrong. It's $49.99.

Virtual murder is fine, but acted dialog offends thine ears. Okay, it's consistent in a way, but still wacky to me. Do you think the answer is to have *bleep* noises and pixelated mouth movements, or for characters to be shouting things like "shucky darn!" instead?

I doubt you're the only one. But I've got to ask — there are guns and knives and knuckles being used throughout the trailer. People are wounded and killed. You're seriously worried about what language the characters are using while doing these things? They're just words. I'm all for civility in the right context, but…

I got the first one a lot in college. I mean a lot. It didn't help that when asked where I was from, I correctly responded "Iowa." That answer was never satisfactory to the white folk.

Return to Herdquarters? Where's that?

In Max Payne 3, players go to São Paulo, Brazil, where the game is set, and where the action takes place.

Boomerang is having a marathon right now of some truly vile animated Christmas specials. They just showed a Jetson's take on "A Christmas Carrol," and the Smurfs are currently singing something unlistenable about the season.

Beat the dead horses all you want. They have armor.

Thank you, Thread God. We all seek to evoke your marvelous benevolence, but few are worthy.

A rant nearly as epic as the game itself.

The Hurt Locker didn't deserve Hurt Locker-level respect.

You must be the guy who goes to Star Trek movies thinking that the Enterprise crew isn't going to save the earth/colony/galaxy from some unforeseen threat. Or maybe Bond won't stop the evil villain/organization. Or maybe Danny Glover isn't too old for this shit.

Mal's rescue in "War Stories"?

Watch out, or he'll kill your dick.

Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one old enough to remember that.

Ronald Moore, satirizing his dark and gritty remake show by insulting a writer who created a dark and gritty remake show.

I see what you did there.