Yes!  I never understood the hate for this game or why galactic conquest games in general seem to have disappeared with the flight sims as already mentioned. 

Anyone tried Eve Online?  I know massive multiplayer is not the same as a real video game like Tie Fighter, but if you want the kicks of well rendered space ships shooting at each other, it's all right.

I just saw this on a military base because hey, $3.  Everyone there, including me, thought it was some of the stupidest shit we'd ever seen, and there were several walk-outs around the time of the nauseatingly nonsensical and glib nuke scene. 

It depends on the military base.  If you're around a bunch of people who have actually been in combat, not so much.  But I'll bet this shit plays great on Air Force bases.

I believe at Americans who think like that are idiots who need to think about stuff a little more, but when someone from somewhere else has a problem with it, I'll be first in line to tell them to fuck off.  Anyone who sees anything harmless and inconsequential that they find weird as an opportunity to generalize and…

Maybe I missed something, but does anyone not think Israel has nuclear weapons?

There's a time / commitment issue in play here as well.  I spend half the year traveling, and what media I consume in my spare time is a big deal; I shop around, read reviews, post regularly on the AV Club, etc.  Then I spend the other half of the year back home with my family, where the priorities are a lot…

It doesn't happen too often that something on the internet makes me reevaluate any aspect of my life, but that happened in this very thread.  i started reading in the pay-when-I-can/download-when-it's-necessary-to-get-what-I-want-or-excessively-convenient camp, but after reading the thoughts expressed here in support…

I understand why people download.  Free is better than paying for something, right?  Also, more convenient, you get just what you want and don't pay for crap you don't, etc.  I get all that, but are we really going to delude ourselves into thinking people who illegally download are somehow making the world a better…

I think TBOA and ZDT are a lot more similar in scope to each other, where Black Hawk Down is the minute by minute account of a single battle. I met a lot of people who were there for the events depicted in BHD and know a couple of them pretty well, and they vouch for it as a detailed, minute by minute look at what…

25th Hour; it helps when the novelist also writes the screenplay.

I think TBOA is unquestionably a better movie than ZDT as both history and as a film.  But I also think your problem is that in Algeria the side who you view as the 'good guys' won, where in ZDT they lost.  I think both films make an attempt to portray historical events in a somewhat evenhanded way that leaves a lot…

@avclub-1e850f6bef0bc36ca1f64e95ff1cbd2e:disqus , I see what you mean, but I got something different out of it.  I liked ZDT because it did its best to tell the story as it was, and
the reaction tells more about the audience member than the movie.  On
torture, it pretty much lays it out there: pro - you get…

Yes.  I didn't hate it but I found it incredibly frustrating.  Why did the robot infect one of the crew with the alien virus so early in the expedition, having no idea what it would do?  Why did the scientists pretty much immediately try to animate the alien head?  Rather than, in both cases, maybe doing some science…

I use Saudi Arabia as an example because I've been there on several occasions, and there are three things about it that are worse than any other place on Earth I've seen or read about: the environment, the government, and the people.  No other place I'm more ashamed to have my country call an 'ally.'

@avclub-b7784c8bc13cfa7214f249fef97abfe9:disqus Actually, they did dramatize the crap out of that scene.  One of my best friends was messed up pretty bad in the real life incident, and the filmmakers changed basically everything about it (location, people who were there, relationship to the guy who blew himself up) to…

@inko8:disqus it's complicated, but if I had to sum it up I'd say although I'm personally predisposed to want to think there's better ways to do things than fighting, we as a species are not there yet.  There's some things worth doing that regrettably can only be done through force, and if force is to be used it…

Actually, I'd love it if they start making adaptations starting with Macross Zero as the beginning.  For whatever reason I always thought the VF-0 was a cooler looking plane than the VF-1.

That was me, actually, and all I'll say is they all happened within 30 minutes of each other (says my avatar).

That's Fokker, actually.