Nothing new here — this has been going on for just about as long as on-line gaming has been going on. The reason I largely gave up on MMOs was because the environment usually devolves to that of a group sleepover of 13-year-old males with no parental supervision.

And then there are these:

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Walked right into that one.

The real problem with the movie is that it was an incoherent rehash of the first "Superman" (Christopher Reeves) movie: Lex Luthor with a ditzy dame trying to get rich creating real estate.

I have to confess that the Resident Evil movies are one of my great guilty pleasures...kind of like boxing.

Will we actually have power suits? And will the various tactical idiocies (moving single file at the bottom of ravines) be replaced with actual military tactics?

Note that XCOM (even the latest version) is pretty unstable on older iPads (e.g. iPad 2). Other than that, it's a remarkable port (I've played the PC version heavily). I'm looking forward to buying an iPad Air between now & the end of the year in part so that I can play this w/out frequent crashes.

Actually, if I recall correctly, this turned out to be a problem with the very first Star Wars MMO — most of your options were mundane options, and people got bored pretty quickly.

Steam, of course, keeps track of the total number of hours you play a given game. I wince when I bring up XCOM. But I bring it up.

Likewise, I kept wondering why he wasn't looting the bodies. :-)

Possibly my all-time-favorite music video. I still use a few catchphrases from it ("That boy needs therapy!") .

HP RPN (stack-oriented) calculators. I have an HP-67, an HP-15c, and an HP-16c. I still use them. HP did re-release the 15c (and the 12c has been around forever), but I'd love to see HP do a modern version of their small, hand-held calculators.

Yep.

Pretty much; McKillip's "Hed" trilogy is only slightly behind Tolkein, in my opinion, and is frankly a better read.

And I have this set, still in its box, sitting on one of my bookshelves.

(Brief insane cackling out load while sitting in front of my laptop at the kitchen counter.)

I think the trailer needs more shots of (a) people looking up and (b) people firing weapons at unseen targets.

I'm not sure if mine is all that scary, or even supernatural — but it's the one that stays with me. Back in high school (late 60s/early 70s) I was, for a year or so, a member of a patriotic folk signing group (all teenagers) in La Mesa, California (east San Diego county). We were doing performances at different venues…

Lunching with a lawyer friend today and the subject turned to iPads/iPhones. He recounted a conversation with a lawyer he knows; said lawyer was bragging, "I have my iPhone set up so that all data is erased if the wrong password is entered 10 times. My friend said to him, "It's obvious you have no children."

Yep. It's a bit like mistaking the human-eye-visible stars for the actual stellar population distribution vs. the myriad of M-class stars that actually outnumber them.