You're exactly right. It will be my problem. I neither require nor desire your concern. I've made the right choice for myself just as you have for yourself. You are doing no good deed by trying to dissuade me from the path I currently walk.

Tiffa's all like "That pink haired bimbo over there is stealing all of my thunder!"

I really can't think of any High Fantasy off the top of my head, tbh. Maybe my standards are a different than yours but I really don't think we've ever had a good high fantasy movie or TV show. Maybe the Dark Crystal? From my standards there have been far more high sci-fi than high fantasy examples in popular culture…

Ok 3 examples with woefully tame magic use. Actually, I'd say that Eragon's wasn't really that nuts, but the over writing itself was lacking.

Wow, 3 TV shows. One of which is actually sci-fi and other 2 of which are like One Tree Hill but with dead people and vampires.

The magic in both of your examples is woeful and tame.

I think you woefully underestimate how fickle and shallow the average movie goer is. The second some folk see a wizard cast meteor shower or a star ship fire a wave motion gun a movie loses all credibility. Suddenly every each fantastic element becomes another thing to roll one's eyes at. Fantastic is practically…

That looks like something you'd fight in an old, PS1 era final fantasy game!

That's the problem, the over prevalence of low fantasy and low sci-fi. It dulls the taste buds. If over used it's not a gate way drug that raises your immunity to larger doses but a crutch that holds you back and helps to maintain lower expectations.

Avenges sold as much as it did because of big names and marketing. Not to knock the movie because it really quite is amazing but if it weren't for some big, A-list celebrities and huge name brands it wouldn't have done even a quarter as well as it has.

Au contraire. You can. It's not even that much of a hassle.

OH SHIT! Some had an opinion or preference and shared it on the internet! How fucking dare they!?

Then a 10 Dollar battery on eBay. Case and point being, I really don't give a fuck. I'll take short term connivance over being screwed in the short term any day of the week.

Not as many as you would think to justify the huge marketing. I mean this IS America, after all. Our idea of good sci-fi is hyper realistic and tame as sin (as not to blow anyone's mind) dragons are considered cliche and magic is often boring and tame as hell as to make it more believable.

I make a waffle burger from time to time. Waffles in place of buns, maple soaked bacon and pepper jack cheese seems to be the way to go. You can also take a Belgian waffle and top it with ground beef (or shredded steak-uums) and some shredded cheese for a quick and VERY filling meal.

I set the system's sleep timer to shut off 2 hours after I leave it idol. This helps to keep it from over charging which also help's the battery life.

In 10 years? Probably get brand new ones for around 30 bucks a piece. That's 10 bucks more than a currently priced, brand new Xbox battery pack and I get a new controller with it!

I liked how they had to name drop and then mock all of these features that their competitors are using and just come around and say "Nah, that's stupid. No one would use something like that! Aren't you glad we didn't do any of that?".

If by functionally identical you mean less recharges until it starts to weaken the battery and an overall shorter charge duration right out of the box then, sure, functionally identical. But a new 360 battery pack is around 20 bucks verses an entirely new PS3 controller, so there is a plus in that regard.

My thumb nails ate the tops of my Xbox's joy sticks. Never happened on my PS3 controller, though.