Project Director Chiyoko Kawamoto stood at the mouth of the massive multi-layered blast seals as they slowly peeled apart. Steam from the parting locks tumbled forth and caught the spinning amber strobes from the hazard lighting, bouncing the light in all directions. The warning alarms blared painfully loud. The Chief…

Lestoro shouted the final words of the incantation and felt the pungent miasma—thick as a stone wall, and the radiant aquamarine of a churning tide—surge forward. Nebulous gas flowed past him in a gale, nearly sending him to the edge of the remnants of the bridge that hung precariously from the mouth of the ancient…

After following all of the info-dumps and digging through the old videos and what not, I'm convinced that the current story we're left with in Destiny is a mirror of the "alleged" reason Mass Effect 3's end game seemed to be held together with toothpicks: the departure of the lead writer. Staten left Bungie; Karpyshyn…

The Voice stood statue still, emitting a small, steeled hum. Diedra, an Acolyte Claimant, freshly shaved of her chestnut brown hair, stepped forward. From beneath the endless black of The Voice's cloak, it finally acknowledged her, shifting it's head up slightly. She still could not see beneath its robes.

"Speak,…

"Truth dies here," said the All-Seer.

Exactly.

That's good stuff, right there.

I get what you mean, sure, but the real thing that secured the victory of Luke and the Rebellion were three well-timed appearances by the Millenium Falcon, if you think about it. The Death Star's plans and Han's infiltration of the Shield Generator were the lynchpins, not Luke killing Vader and the Emperor. Obi-Wan…

That was something I considered too, but again, if he survived, "That black samurai back there, Luke? That's your dad. He was a real jerk. You—Leia? You're Force-sensitive. You should probably kill him and make right all of the awful things he did. I'm going to go home and take a nap now."

Sticking with A New Hope, I never felt like there was a concrete, logic-based reason for Obi-Wan's sacrifice, other than adhering to Campbellian tropes. He play-fights with Vader, and then lays down his life, seemingly to allow the group to escape, but even as a kid, it always seemed to me that he could have made it…

We're so goddamn close, Shannon grumbled wearily to herself, as Dusty swayed through the blackening bog. They were both deeply set with hunger now, and Shannon could feel the mare's knees shivering under their growing weight. She pondered giving the old trotter a break, and sliding off to walk beside her, but fears of…

The final lifeboat left orbit today.

Kudos to the BioWare design team for recognizing that 'boob armor' on female characters is a tired, silly thing.

The Thirteenth Floor. This flick got knocked into the annals of genre obscurity thanks coming out nearly alongside the Wachowski's Matrix, but it had so much promise. D'Onofrio turns a great performance, as do Bierko and Mol, with guys like Haysbert shoring up the back end. The premise was neat, and the atmosphere and…