The Wii U is no more shaky at launch than the PS3 or the 360

So let's just take ALL of our money and spend it on stuff to combat some vague future threats that may or may not ever come to pass.

Would have been more like $500 billion per year in lost revenue and wages for both GM and all of its dependent companies if we'd have done nothing.

She looks like some sort of demented race queen in the LV design.

I'm going to have to watch it again, but one thing about the series is that a lot of things are implied and, as is common in Japan, a lot of things are euphemisms for other things. I can't remember, for example, what was actually said about Asuka's mother in the series, but I seem to remember she had an accident and…

Yeah, that wasn't the "real" unit 05. Totally different unit, and another example of the movies trampling on the series.

You should re-watch the series first. The Rebuild movies are still basically just a retelling of the series (with hugely different emphasis on different plot points/characters/settings), but they don't actually explain anything and they don't really have the right "feel" IMO. They work best as kind of an adjunct to…

I'm not sure about actual reviews, but then this isn't really one either. This is more just two guys talking about the movie.

What "features" do you mean? There's always been anime, cosplay and general Asian pop culture and weirdness on this site. I've been here since the beginning, as far as I know.

No, Asuka was definitely specifically tied to Unit 02. It's been literally about a decade since I watched the series but I had this discussion many times when I was younger; somebody she was related to was in Unit 02, I just don't remember who.

Give the guy a break - not everyone knows what the word "otaku" actually means.

I couldn't make it through this review, but I'm also not sure I'd really be able to get through *any* review of this film. This has always been a series that's basically impossible to explain to people, though the general analogy to LOST is about right.

Sony, you are officially off the hook with the PS3's interminable, poorly timed and mandatory system updates.

Checking the completed listings, $450-$499 still seems to be the average actually being paid for deluxe systems that are in hand. Anything above $500 just isn't going at all.

I used to buy consoles at launch and I've only regretted a few - and those were the ones that ended up being flops further down the line. I've never regretted buying a PS3 at launch despite paying $599 - I got to play a bunch of great games and watch a lot of Blu-Ray movies *years* before you could have if you waited…

I will probably wait to see what Sony and MS have up their sleeves. Though I'm rooting for Nintendo, as the last pure game company making game consoles.

Like comma usage, apostrophe usage is guided by style, not rule. There is no hard and fast rule that's universally accepted on where and how to use apostrophes, whatever you may have learned in grade school English. It's a punctuation mark that exists to make things clearer, so the only question on whether or not to…

Sounds like an idea whose time is long overdue.

Good. So now I know I'm reading People Magazine instead of a site for people interested in tech gadgets.

Read. It says these discs will be cheaper to produce than current optical discs. I'm not sure if you ever learned to think, but if current BD discs are $5 or less, then it stands to reason that the new discs would cost less.