I got into Crichton as a teenager. He was so good. From a critical POV I guess he always had his enemies but I don’t think today’s world of Twilight and Twilight fanfic and YA dystopia love triangles is an improvement.

Three books? Try 1 for me.

It’s not just the ads. The magazines are an incredible resource and most of them are lost in basements. Try to hunt down an old EGM 1992 or 1993. It’s actually pretty terribly written but you see what the industry was like back. Far more than a ROM of Cool Spot or whatever.

IMO things like ads, articles, and documentation are far more important than the games themselves. It gets you a full picture of what gaming was like at the time, as opposed to just the games most of which are not worth playing today anyway.

That’s one of the few games people can remember from that era with zero help.

The fact that Jimmy was not on stage when it happened only proves that Jimmy was not on stage when it happened. In other words, he didn’t have to know anything. All that had to happen was that whoever hands out the cards to the presenters gave Beatty the wrong one.

It was originally announced for everything IIRC.

Who cares? I mean that seriously. LOTR sprang from the mind of JRR Tolkien and he is the originator. Everything else is basically a fiction within that fiction. Did anyone ever complain about how historical fiction “pisses on” the events they portray? Of course not.

No one would have had to be in on it except for the people who hand out the cards and some top level Oscar brass. The only thing that really happened was that Warren Beatty got handed the wrong card.

Well, my friend thinks that headlines and buzz are two things Hollywood generally craves and is good at generating.

The Nemesis system wasn’t really in the last gen version.

SoM is an excellent, innovative game. That said, it came out in a relatively weak year (2014) so maybe it got more praise and awards than it would have gotten had it come out in, say, 2015. That’s not SoM’s fault, of course.

Game is “announced” in late February. Gameplay is shown in Early march. Game will be out in August.

He’s kind of been everywhere. A couple weeks ago I watched “A Place Beyond the Pines” and he was in it. And I was flipping through the channels and saw “Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2" and he was in it.

Yes

What if you have both “this was set up for ratings” AND “Stevie Wonder isn’t blind”?

At his age there’s a 30% chance he just shit his pants.

I don’t blame the players. A lot of these guys are from very, very, very disadvantaged backgrounds. This is their shot. Many of them are hoping to get to the next level. And many who know that’s not going to happen are happy to take the free education, something they would not have gotten otherwise. Honestly it’s a…

big time pro sports also make a *lot* more cash than the D-League. Same with minor league.

yet every mmo has botting problems. It is driven by in-game economy as much or more than poor design.