My main takeaway - after skimming hundreds of comments full of incomprehensible acronyms and buzzwords and people arguing over which flavour of rugged manly macho manly man-man they are - is that South Park is going to have a field day with this later in the year.

Well said. One of my eyes is much stronger than the other, although I wasn't aware of that when I saw Avatar in 3D. My main memories from that afternoon are a muddy brown smear - not green or blue, but brown - and a migraine that lasted for hours. I can only assume it looked absolutely stunning to people with…

If I get the chance, I'll be putting a couple more hours into "Clannad". Arguable as to whether it's a "game" or not, but it's on Steam so I'm saying it is.

*shakes head pitiously and closes the door; Jezzer sits in the snow and sighs as he hears cheers of "Hideo!" and delighted laughter at his anecdotes drifting through the warm window pane*

"Surprisingly"?

I read "Norwegian Wood" earlier this year. It's a cliche, and even the author is sick of the book being endlessly praised despite its simplicity compared to his other works, but it really was wonderful.

My friend bought it me for my birthday last year, but I only just got around to reading "The City and the City" by China Mieville in the past few weeks. I previously enjoyed his "Perdido Street Station" for its solid world-building and great dialogue.

This is clearly all said with tongue firmly in cheek. And much of it is true, in an exaggerated fashion. Is it really worth getting worked up over? I know it's the internet and all, but still.

I quite literally cannot stand this woman. Months of hearing "Someone Like You" on the radio made me almost depressed. Shouting and whining loudly and adding an artificial tremor to her voice every second syllable is not the same as having emotional range. She's so obsessed with erecting an artifice of emotion in…

Nope, we do not.

I thought the original was an absolute mess. Obnoxious characters in an ugly brown CGI world, with the story taken entirely too literally and completely missing the point of the original story. Is a sequel necessary all these years later, especially as they already used several elements of the second book in the first…

That'd be PT! It was a playable teaser for a new Silent Hill, but the game's now been cancelled, which is the most horrifying thing.

Never thought I'd hear the words "seme" and "uke" in South Park. It's like the Genshiken crossover I never knew I wanted. Fantastic stuff. The song at the end made me laugh out loud. I hear so many of those arse-lickingly depressing songs on the radio that seeing them applied to a comedic scene really works for me.

No, I'm last!

No joke, I said the exact same thing to my girlfriend. We've all seen the Shining. Difference is, Kubrick's hotel and kids were scary.

It's weird that it had some really quite disturbing sexual violence (bloody buttholes etc.) and yet they're so utterly opposed to showing a nipple. Loved the dead girl with her arm tightly clamped across her chest. If you're so opposed to boobs, just keep their bras on!

Just posting to say I have no idea what either of these things are. Pop culture beat me up, stole my car and left me in the dirt years ago.

Open world games are hit and miss for me, and the same goes for fast travel. It depends on the game. I've been addicted to GTAV for the last month, and I think it does everything right in both regards:

The Hachiko statue was at Shibuya Station in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne! Nice little touch, I thought.

I respectfully disagree. My girlfriend played through the game, and while we were awestruck in the first few minutes at defining an empty space, essentially flinging a third dimension around, after a few minutes it became tiring, like flailing around in the dark.