That doesn't sound right.

And, yeah, $100 is about entry-level for a good flight stick and throttle system. Combat flight simming is not a cheap hobby once you really start getting into it. It will be nice when the technology comes together that will make a lot of the extras obsolete (triple-monitor setups, head-tracking sensors so you can…

Yeah, the main problem with OR and other VR headsets is that they're not really good for games that require lots of keyboard inputs. For realistic combat flight sims, you're typically using lots of keyboard commands in addition to using the stick and throttle. So, not being able to see your actual hands is a big…

Over the past few months, I've been getting back into combat flight simming with Falcon BMS. Practically nobody in the BMS community is particularly excited about Oculus Rift or any of the other VR headsets in development. If even the hardcore combat flight sim community is shrugging its collective shoulders at this…

You beat me to it, but yep, my comment was pretty much along the exact same lines.

Giving the most memorable acting performance in a work that also features Ellen Burstyn is no small feat; and that's how, in just one scene, Ursula Parker put herself on the short list of my favorite actors working today.

One of my favorite moments from the show was when a guy came in with the magnetic bracelet and Cuban refused to accept or even look at the sample the guy had brought for him, and was out before the presentation even began.

That's further downthread!

Since I mentioned elsewhere in this comment thread that I live in Bloomington, IN, I'll throw this one into the mix since it's something that it's not uncommon to encounter around here: I can't stand people who write off all popular/non-"fine art" art/entertainment as frivolous or unworthy of being taken seriously.…

I live in Bloomington, Indiana; I still totally get why people don't like John Mellencamp. It seriously surprised the hell out of me that, at least for some folks, he's still a big deal around here and not merely an idle curiosity.

I'm the exact opposite when it comes to Larry David in Curb; I'd love to know someone like him. Then again, I'm also the sort of person who's sat in a restaurant watching my food sit at the pass, and the only reason I refrained from revolutionizing the restaurant industry by going and getting it myself was that my…

I just miss the good old days when avclub.com was the personal website of some random guy named Jay. The first actual AV Club cached website that I stumbled across, though, had at the top of the page a review of a couple of then-recently published PUA guides. It's been a long time since I've recalled that brief, weird…

Yeah, Crash was undoubtedly awful, but I have to agree with A. A. Dowd on this one: Gone with the Wind was far worse. I mean, look at it this way: Crash is overly simplistic and downright wrong on race relations in America, and its reputation has rightly suffered for it. In hindsight, the critical consensus on it…

I'll add one more voice to the pro-Another Woman chorus; it's easily the Woody Allen movie I rewatch most often. As far as ESILY is concerned, I had an official release of it on VHS, which I got rid of in either my last move or the one before that; if I'd known that the film was going to end up being so hard to find,…

I first saw Interiors in college, and I can't tell you how many viewings it took me to catch on to the fact that everything about that scene, up to the point where Joey herself walks into the ocean to try to kill herself, was going on entirely in Joey's head.  "I fell like we're in a dream together" should have been a…

I'd vote for Manhattan as his magnum opus, or perhaps Crimes and Misdemeanors. I really can't argue with Hannah and Her Sisters, though, either.

Yes! Modell's not quite right that there's "not a note of music" in the film, but its total absence from the rest of the movie certainly punctuates the contrast between Pearl and Eve (and Pearl and the entire rest of the cast, really).

While I agree that the dialogue is artificial, I can't really think of any Woody Allen movies in which that's not the case, at least to some degree.

OK, I'm confused: I understood (and I believe that Larry David actually said so himself in the episode commentary) that Sagman, Bennett, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft  were the names of people he went to college with.  According to this Web site, though, it's one name variation (maybe two; was the firm in the episode…

Ugh, yes. I encountered this on forums for childfree folks; I though some of those message boards would be an intetesting place to meet and interact with like-minded people, but every single thread fell into one of two categories: the "society is persecuting me" thread or the "children and parents are the worst ever"…