There is a logically consistent heaven if you go by the idea that "oneness with God is all people really need/want, and all our good desires and experiences on earth are merely imperfect reflections of God's goodness".

Yeah, my relatives who did this for my grandfather when he died (there was a big paper boat, paper TV, furniture, etc) were into ancestor worship, which isn't quite Buddhist, as far as I know..

I read 8 or so of the books in my Christian days...

Uh, I think a better example is kick-boxers or people doing competitive judo or aikido.

Aww, I love Eleven. I kinda sped through Nine and Ten to catch up with current releases, so maybe the idea of progress/currentness/ownership is giving him an advantage in my mind, but he's pretty awesomely quirky.

Is there really that obvious a vocal age difference? I mean, I had a deeper/lower voice than most adults by the time I turned 14, and most telemarketers would assume I was my father answering the phone (in his 40s at the time).

I kinda assumed that Westeros wasn't steampunk, but traditional fantasy. Thus, this intro, with all it's weird gears and undulating plates of metal, felt jarringly out-of-character. It reminded me more of Starcraft II's marine assembly teaser or Iron Man than a fantasy series.

I don't think it's a guarantee that games won't be localized up to and past the release date of the successor console, let alone its announcement.

A blindfold could work...

Seriously; can't find Super Paper Mario anywhere for a reasonable price.

Wasn't there some kid (like a 6 year old) who got in trouble for pointing at a fellow student and saying "bang" or "pew" or something?

Forget LARP, I had friends in high school who did this sort of thing decked out in full tactical or camo gear and using full-metal airsoft guns, which are damn near indistinguishable from real guns (even adding in all the scopes, lights and lasers).

Seriously, Radiant Historia is flipping awesome. That game feels just like a SNES 16 bit classic.

You haven't seen all the prime time commercials touting a single line of Pro-sponsored shoes in various sports? Basketball and soccer seem to do it the most. Those commercials already cost millions.

Think of all the children running through the woods, letting their pets batter local wildlife into unconscious pulps.

To be fair, I saw bidets in France and Japan, but not anywhere in a lot of the Chinese or Malay countries I've visited, so it's not just Westerners or even all Westerners.

That makes me ponder why we use wet-wipes to clean up babies, but dry toilet paper once we've graduated from diapers...

It's not a huge achievement by any measure, but it does comment on Nintendo finally realizing they might need to jump up the juice more on the Wii's successor than they did in the jump from the Gamecube to Wii, and that's interesting enough on its own.

To be fair, they also have pretty hefty chunks of landmass. Thinning out by country's population seems biased, with the lines of countries being arbitrary...shouldn't it be more based on population density? And take into account the livability of the area?

Jennifer Hale got a lot of props in these parts as Female Commander Shepard, didn't she? But yeah, not nearly as much popularity as Japan's actors.