Double bonus points for the Music Inspired by tag. Gotta love Hubbard.

If I recall correctly the C64 had double wide pixels in low res mode (twice as wide as tall) and you could only have 4 colours within a 4x8 block, one of which was shared across the whole screen (effectively the background colour), although that could be mitigated through clever use of sprites (which had their own…

I've got a handheld I've not played in years, and my wife has a smartphone that she's played games on maybe twice (My son uses it for game playing more regularly). All in all I'd much rather just read a book than play a mobile game. Game time is almost always on the couch with a big screen (or hunched over my…

1) This looks pretty much nothing like the comics, with the exception of Dredd's helmet and badge. The rest of the uniform and the look of the city is about as far as you could get from the comic (do an image search on Mega City One, the first few hits should give you the general idea).

"Is the audience going to now hate Carl?"

Loved it. Looooved it. there were only four things wrong with it - The navigation system was lame (too easy to overshoot turns, and no way to set a custom waypoint marker), There was no way to restart a race you'd failed (and the reasoning behind that descision was crap), they cut the party crash mode (I forget what…

A friend of mine recently discovered you could by K-Y in large tubs (I forget the actual amount, a gallon or more though). "Why would anyone need that much lubricant?" he cried. My answer was simply "Because horror movies."

See? That pretty much sums up the issue, it's just not your bag - don't sweat it, I had the same feeling about Drive recently - I can kinda see why folks like it, but it just failed to appeal to me personally. No biggie, 2 hours gone, but what else was I going to do, make a pie?

Curious, have you ever seen 2001: a Space Odyssey? If so, how did you feel about that one. I ask specifically because it has much in common with Blade Runner and SOTC, most specifically its a piece that's far more about atmosphere and aesthetics that it is about plot. All three do have a story, but in all three…

Not TARDIS' (TARDISI?), just regular call boxes of the classic red type. The TARDIS is a police call box, which are practically non existant these days, regular red ones (and sometimes black or cream) are still quite prevalent though, despite being phased out 20 odd years ago.

I started tearing up just reading it, and I must have seen the film 20 times (My son is kinda fond of it). Damn, damn, damn good film. If you ever get a chance to see it in a cinema jump at it - went with my Son last year and it was phenomenal.

I get amazed looks on occasion when I say Arse (I'm British, live in the States), apparently it's far filthier than Ass, even though in the UK they'd be entirely interchangeable (if you were riffing on an American movie quote for example).

Doctor who doesn't have a Canon.. Well, it does, insomuch that it's canon is that it hasn't got a canon. No, really, go look it up. If it had one before it hasn't had one since 2005 (and nobody bothered making one before) - it's officially "anything goes".

Oh my god, you're right, it's almost like it was written by a bunch of 11 year olds or something!

Really? It's like three paragraphs long...

Except it would be 'All Hail Triceratops', for Torosaurus would be the name to die, being the more recent name for the (alleged) single genera. Not sure why this isn't mentioned in the article, but it's good because Triceratops sounds bad-ass, while Torosaurus sounds like a geometric construct.

Wrong on both counts, but you'd be amazed at what "fanny" means :D

Hay won't save you from a 70ft fall either. Thankfully it's a game, and not reality ;)

Sadly they probably will be. I don't take the "Over half the tickets were sold for 3D" thing seriously until I see how many screens were 3D compared to 2D though. at the theater I went to, which usually has about a 50/50 split there were 2 showings in 2D all day, with something like 8 in 3D. If that's pretty global…

Hmmm... I missed the shooting challenge (and I'm a terrible photographer anyway), but I did used to have a couple of PS actions for sort of faking it that I made after seeing the Aviator (one for 3 colour, one for 2 colour). It wasn't perfect, but I think closer than most of these.