Yeah I found that a bit grating as well. The controller line in particular read like something from a much stodgier review to me, a hollow zinger that uses 'video-games' as lazy critical shorthand for 'insipid and beneath me'.

But what about giant robots in the Wild West? What about giant robot spiders?

You joke but Andrew Breitbart's old company has both "Big Media" and "Big Hollywood" sections.

The point of District 9 is that no matter species, color or creed, we are all pretty much the same.

There is nothing embarrassing about shooting a pig out of a gravity cannon good sir.

This. Blomkamp is primarily an action director, and a very talented one.

Yeah, everything I've read from this guy's book really makes me highly skeptical of the hagiographic fashion in which Kyle is held up in popular culture.

My survival was mostly predicated on luck as they simply (and mercifully) never declared war on me, despite taking over everything to my South and East, but I'm proud nevertheless!

Even as someone who enjoys many of the guilty bands, Indie
really needs to move on from the whole nostalgia aesthetic/sound.

My laptop miraculously began working again last week after several weeks of not doing so. It seems as though the hot weather really does a number on it, though it's probably crawling toward death nevertheless.

Alex is a well-drawn character and can be a fascinating one to watch but I think we need to be wary of being drawn into the same false image of her that Piper once idolized. Alex's struggles and personality make her sympathetic to a certain extent, but I think at the end of the day she is also an extremely…

'Finn died on the way back to his home planet'

'Pine trees in the Afghanistan desert lol wut a piece of shit'

That $12 is not worth dumping that suitcase of his into the harbor as a favor.

Hang in there man. Caring for an aging dog can definitely be trying but sounds like you're doing everything you can.

Yeah the diversity of historical and cultural sites is really astounding. The close proximity of Gallipoli had totally skipped my mind as well, just another reason worth going.

Das Kapital. It's important that my significant other and I can tear down the foundations of the bourgeois establishment together.

I'd quite like to get to Turkey sometime in the near future.

We'll get there fast, but then take it slow.

The Secret Life of Carlos Danger.