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Or, Zelda. Basically wherever advancement doesn't isn't only manifest as an escalation of stats.

Oh yeah, and I think the first one was better for that energy. What if the first Robocop finished with you thinking, "I don't know, maybe Ed-209 is a good idea."

I'll be honest, it took me a while to take to the first one (the second Elite Squad is more straightforward/didactic) from sheer whiplash over the fact the Bus 174 guy made it—for those who haven't seen it, the most intense seen in City of God, for 90 minutes, and it's a documentary.

"Cops-and-robbers genre" done right is a pretty tepid description of the Elite Squad movies. I think those movies are much more interesting space between exploitation and satire through the audience as straight man (not unlike Verhoeven)—not an entirely successful one, but they're more than genre flicks. Padilla, who…

Apparently the not-deaf composer said he would commit suicide every time the ghost/real composer would threaten with outing.

I liked the ship battles—which I think were first introduced in the 3rd one?—and think it still had enough of the free run/stealth gameplay. If anything, the way I played it that added enough variety to the gameplay so that I didn't tire out of each particular type of mission, where the sameness of the previous games…

Skip to the one about pirates! Anyway, I did, and that worked out. But I had heard less than fun things about the third one.

That…sounds kind of awesome. How does the game deal with foreign policy? This goes back a while, but there was a game called CyberJudas whose plot was one of your cabinet is well, a Judas, but the game was mostly foreign policy oriented and macro numbers. This bilateral trade deal gives you a +.01 increase to your…

So a less successful comedic "Good Night, and Good Luck", which was a bit of a puffing up piece too, much as we all like Murrow. It actually sounds like something I might like (well, less the less successful part), but then, I liked the first set of kinda funny trailers that this movie had. Last time I saw one though,…

The CW shows look like a White Wolf campaign from the 90s. That's probably when it would've worked for me as well.

Even if what you say is naught but a fever dream, it has made my day. It sounds like Superpro Dirty Dozen.

Ever play Gloom? I find it's kind of a nice game to go with for people who aren't quite as confident with the openness of OUaT.

His Lucifer is one the great series, as well as the short Crossing Midnight one. I'm glad he got to wrap it upish. Carey clearly has an interest in Japanese mythology, and that one got to play in it a more organic way then some of the other visitations into that cultural playground (thinking Lucifer here).

Main story. Unwritten finished an arc that ended the series numbering and this is the immediate follow-up series. I'm sure they're hoping for a #1 issue sales goosing and all that, but this is planned. Trust in Carey.

Goodness, I don't know why I didn't think of it as a Euro-style piece but that's what it is exactly. I don't know that missing that really improves it, though, just adds a frission. I don't recall a lot of people thinking it was about north and south america though, just upper and lower class with it's attendant race…

Elysium was as hamhanded as District 9 was, but it went about it humorlessly, so it was worse. But shockingly worse? I'm convinced that people don't give Shartlo Copley enough credit for District 9, because while I liked that movie, the writing was never that so smart that the shellshocked disappointment people seem…

Edited to remove being a doofus and me misreading. But basically, if it's a large number, it just rubs this wrong side of conspiracy, and I think conspiracies are like the xkcd strip about Bigfoot, they should be caught out and presumably would in this world, but hey, that's a kind of sloppiness I expect from the show.

So that last fake death is the one most are running with, and it's certainly the most plausible for the world the show inhabits, but I personally don't care for it, since it relies on an even bigger production then the first one. We're well trained (or really just fannish) as an audience to accept a fake death that…

Mycroft, presumably.