Many years, that's basically the full name for Best Original/Adapted Screenplay, especially Original, which frankly is where Whiplash should be anyway. It's the place where they nominate/award movies they're not bold enough to give a Best Picture nod or win. Recent winners include Her, Django Unchained and The Social…

Eh, not so fast with 2., often the biggest pop stars aren't even nominated, like Lorde this year or Springsteen in 2008 for the fantastic "The Wrestler", which still annoys me. And recently we've seen U2 and Pharrell lose to Idina Menzel, Randy Newman to Ryan Bingham, Peter Gabriel to A.R. Rahman and Beyonce to…

Eh, don't be so sure there...last year I went 22 for 24 and one of the only misses was Best Animated Short, where I assumed voters would pick Disney's Get a Horse! because it was likable, from Disney, and in front of the juggernaut that was/is Frozen, but instead they went with Mr. Hublot.

Wow, that just sold me on watching Ida as I have My Summer of Love on my shelf and very few people seem to have heard of it. Thanks for the connection!

Eh, I just made fun of the Jags because I thought that particular combo looks bad, frankly I think it would be fun if more teams had the mindset of a college or arena team instead of using the same staid colors and styles as the last half of the 20th century. Sure, we'd get some ugly ones, but there'd be something dif…

FTFY

+100 proof

Hell, since there seem to be tons of reboots nowadays, if nobody will fund a new IP I'd be 100% fine with giving them the reins to Turok.

That's also why I brought up Famitsu, which has averaged less than one perfect score a year since they came into existence. Or the A from 1Up, or the 9/10 from Edge and Eurogamer, or the 9/5/10 from Destructoid, Game Informer and GameSpot. I suppose those are also all Nintendo-owned reviews?

Oh I'm sorry, I meant the rest of the world, not the competitive bubble. You know, the one that bought over 12 million copies of Brawl? The Brawl that got perfect review scores from Famitsu and Nintendo Power and boasts a higher GameRankings percentage than, gasp, Melee? That "well-received" game. Yes, believe it…

I seriously doubt Nintendo actively thought, "Hmmm let's screw the competitive scene of Smash." as much as wanted to try making a game that built upon the prior foundations while simultaneously appealing to the much larger base of non-competitive people playing the game and changing some aspects like every other video…

I'd have two points/semi-questions here. One, considering new evolutions of games are how video games have essentially always worked, "betrayal" seems a bit melodramatic. Was Nintendo supposed to never make another Smash game due to allegedly discovering perfection and/or basically clone Melee with better graphics?

That still seems to be somewhat missing the point, though. Admittedly I'm not part of the competitive scene, but isn't the point for players to grow and learn new things with different games as time passes? It's not that I would expect everyone to dump the old game - there are still people setting Donkey Kong…

The difference I see is that nobody ever expects most board games or sports to get "sequels", people just tinker with the rules and settings because the base "technology" pretty much never changes. But with video games, evolution, growth and new entries are how the medium works, and I'm just consistently baffled at…

While I loved Cloverfield, I'm still somewhat disappointed it wasn't that long-in-development-but-never-actually-made Voltron live action reboot...when I saw the first trailer, I could've sworn the guy in the street yelled, "I saw it, it's a lion and it's huge!" when he said "I saw it, it's alive and it's huge", and…

I'll also add on, as more of a general point about the Seahawks than Sherman specifically (though it often bleeds over) that the whole paranoid persecution complex they have regarding the media - again, though somehow Wilson is entirely ok with reporters - gets old really fast. Seattle acts like they weren't…

Thanks. That's entirely fair, and I do agree that there's a lot of unfair crap slung at him. Even though he fell right into the "angry black man" trope after that NFC title game, "thug" was used waaaay too much with some pretty clear undertones. But, again, that was to an extent his fault too. You even saw it at…

Full disclosure, I'm a 49ers fan, so feel take this with as large a pinch of salt as you like...but if anything, it's the fact that he actually can be really intelligent and cutting that gets on my nerves more. I'm black myself, and after watching his whole scaring-the-shit-out-of-Erin-Andrews angry black man routine…

Full disclosure, I'm a 49ers fan, so feel take this with as large a pinch of salt as you like...but if anything, it's the fact that he actually can be really intelligent and cutting that gets on my nerves more. I'm black myself, and after watching his whole scaring-the-shit-out-of-Erin-Andrews angry black man routine…

DON'T REMIND ME OF SPLIT/SECOND DAMMIT.