I remember that I went to a showing of Wall-E at 10 pm with a buddy on a weekday. He was super hammered and kept keening Wall-E at the screen at a high volume. I don't think the one other family there was amused.

I gotta warn you if you're a single dude watching a kids movie in the middle of the day people are going to give you the stinkeye.

I once went to a daytime showing of Up to avoid the rain in NYC. I managed to avoid tears, but it was a close thing.

Although I've seen it before, I bought the Blu Ray last week for $5 on Amazon.

It's crazy. A Brave New World, 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale seem to be regarded as the best and most prescient dystopias ever written. And despite being written decades ago, they seem basically as current now as when they were written. Goes to show that there is something to be said for not dating a book.

That is an incredible mix.

I like a game that gets pot breaking right. There is something so viscerally satisfying about breaking a well-made virtual pot, and no game has done it better than Dark Souls for my money.

Too many video game protagonists are angsty about what they've done. I like that Drake is a cheerful mass-murdering grave robber. He kind of reminds me of McNulty.

Sprinkle it in the disc tray

I totally agree. If practice can help one get better at writing, then Sanderson should get pretty good. It feels like no one publishes as many pages as he does

All I'm saying is you could do much worse on a plane.

Sanderson is such a solid writer. The qualit of the prose can grate and feel mediocre, but the books are propulsive enough to overcome those occasional dips.

I loved the Martian. I could see how the formulaic structure could get annoying. But it didn't matter to me so much to me. It feels about as good of a pop science thriller as anything Crichton has ever written.

I just finished Nemesis Games (the fifth book in the expanse series). I think this is the best one yet and one of the most purely enjoyable space operas I've ever read. I was concerned about the direction of the series, and I think book has perfectly situated the series going forward. It doesn't hurt that all the POV…

I'm not really making a point of mouse vs. controller (I have never figured out WASD), but more a point that the barrier into more hardcore games is mastering any control scheme. IT feels like second nature to us at this point, but it really is a whole another language people have to learn before they can even start…

I think it's a more interesting thing. When a new movie format is released, the biggest news item isn't typically that it will also play older formats. It's a little surreal that the single biggest take away from Microsoft's presser (maybe only to me) was the backwards compatibility.

Get off my lawn!

You know on re-reading the piece I think this relates back to the point the author is making. There really were some interesting IPs mentioned in the presser, but most of the reaction seems focused on backwards compatibility and hoary franchises.

Nintendo used to be innovative back in my day. These days they just make the same games for an ever smaller group of potential customers.

I think it's also important to distinguish between E3 and the larger industry. From my understanding, E3 is an extremely expensive proposition, such that it just makes sense that only more established and risk averse entities would be able to afford prominent real estate (but even within that context there is a huge…