Back in the 90's, when the original Rainbow Six was still in development, Tom Clancy's Red Storm Entertainment quietly released their first game: Politika, a simplistic election simulator taking place in a hypothetical post-Yeltsin Russia. It was dull with hopeless AI, and I must have played it about 10,000 times.

GRRM's cholesterol-soaked death would be the perfect opportunity for Joe Klein to write his long awaited follow-up to Primary Colors.

It's a close call between pre-nipple and flayed, crucified corpse being set aflame.

In this one, humans are the orcs!

LOOKS GEWD!

I think it fell by the wayside when single player games had to justify their price point by promising hundreds of hours of content, even if that just meant bloating the game with MMO-grade filler. This had three effects. First, it meant that more testing and design had to go into covering a bloated mid-section.…

Something like less than 10% of people who actually buy a game see the end game content. That percentage drops even further when you include people who rent (source: the foggy chasms of my memory), so most developers just don't give a rat's ass about balancing or testing end game content.

Lots of people. Appreciation and imitation of individuals of merit was a key evolutionary adaptation in the emergence of humans as a species capable of rapid technological development. However, over the last century, commercial mass media has hijacked this psychological mechanism to divert hero worship from…

The list is designed to reflect the opinions of informed connoisseurs of fine cinema, not the impulsive hoi polloi. We need controls to ensure voters have actually seen an appreciable number of films and aren't simply casting votes for a handful of recent blockbusters. We can't seriously consider someone's vote for…

The online voting is just a smokescreen. The real list is decided by a quadrennial caucus held in the utility closet of a Games Workshop store.

It's a feature, but there's an issue with the fact that a shatload of states were added based on largely arbitrary boundaries to deliberately skew the Senate in favour of one party or another whereas the original states were actually distinct political/cultural entities. We sure as hell don't need four fucking…

"Hello, I'm Al! So you're going to Oregon! I can fix you up with what you need…

I also enjoyed Terrence Malick's Madea Goes Fishing.

In syndication, Full House is still very popular with children, and that's the primary audience for it. Full House has always been something of an anomaly among network sitcoms. It's the forefather of the anodyne upper middle-class sitcoms that dominate the Disney Channel. Whereas most network sitcoms are defined by…

"I was listening to Magical Mystery Tour before anyone else had even heard of the Beatles!"

Tweak & Craig!

I hate this concept.

Sansa and Bran are unstoppable at Starkgaryenlannisjoy: The Game of Thrones.

This season, we'll get the Sansa story we've been waiting for as Sansa and Theon retire quietly to an igloo on Sea Dragon Point, never to be heard from again.

No worries. I'm sure we'll be treated to Kevin J. Anderson's Winds of Winter within the decade.