I felt this every time people talked about Destiny. They would complain about this laundry list of problems and shortcomings, but then insist "Oh, no, but it's so much fun to play!" I always felt like it sounded like a waste of time to endure all those flaws just because the shooting was fun. It seemed more like an…

Here's a weird thing - I outgrew MK, then regrew right back into it. I walked away from the silly-stupid levels of violence back in high school, finding it gratuitous and mind-numbing, and preffering the gameplay of faster, slicker fighters. MK felt slow, sluggish, and juvinile, and I didn't have the time or quarters…

I know this makes me "that guy" for a second, but if you read the EpIII novelization, this whole thing works even better. That Palpatine really comes off as a cunning mf'er. It was almost worth the prequels to get to read that novel.

Call me an old man who's behind the times, but I will always prefer original Flynn, Tron and Sark to the sulking son and sultry warrior woman from the latest attempt at resurrecting the 1982 Disney classic. Alas, it's Sam Flynn and Quorra making their debut this evening in the iOS version of Disney Infinity 2.0, with…

Certainly a fair assumption. As with most revolutions, innocents are frequently hurt along with the guilty. #NotAllTribalLords and all that. Though it should be said that his war methodology was the same as that practiced by all militaries of the time. So, really, the regimes he overtook were likely every bit as…

Most were. That was the entire driving force behind his rise to power; these tribal lords were brutal savages. Khan himself was thrown into the wilderness as a child, his family left to die. He rose from nothing to become a champion of the people against the brutalization they had endured, and they loved him for it.

No. But you have to look at the actions of people in the context of the period of time they lived in. If somebody today (as happens, unfortunately) won their rulership through raping and pillaging a country, we'd call them nightmarish villains. In Khan's day, we'd call it normal. To say that he should have built an…

...And those aristocrats he killed were systematically brutalizing their people. That's why he rose up and became a leader. He was fighting to free the people from tyrannical rule of vicious, evil men. They weren't put to death for being wealthy, it was the casual cruelty they inflicted and the misery of the people…

I don't think the suggestion is that he's an upstanding citizen. But you also have to take into account the era and the people of the day. If Genghis Kahn led a campaign of rape and pillage to unite an empire, the same could be said of every leader of that time. He was just more successful. The way armies were fed and…

*siiiiigh* All I'm saying is that he's more complicated than people credit him with. He brought as much peace and civility as he did death, which could be said of Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Ceasar, or even a lot of early American presidents. If American history was written primarily by black slaves and Native…

Wow. Nice false equivalency you've got there. You sure proved me wrong by sarcastically misrepresenting my position.

Genghis Khan was also responsible for taking regions who were at constant war and uniting them under a banner of tolerance. He targeted the wealthy and powerful, championing the people, and fought a revolution that created Mongolia. Under his rule, there was religious tolerance, significantly broader racial tolerance,…

Oh, look! She found her special porpoise.

Thank you for your optimism. I thought the trailer looked fine, resembling the Ultimate Fantastic Four comics more than anything, and it reminded me of the way the FF were designed to be in the beginning.

The 1990s were a decade where new characters, gadgets and villains showed up in rapid succession to the Bat-books and something about Breyfogle's art synced so well with the era it was appearing in. His sleek angular linework joined up with an intuitive sense of when to detail something out and when drench it in…

Exactly. The Fantastic Four were not conceived of as a superhero book. They've really not ever been a superhero book, for the most part. They happen to wear uniforms, but they wear uniforms in the same way the Enterprise crew wear them. Fantastic Four was a Weird Science/Horror story about a group bombarded with…

The Stand Desk is another full-desk replacement that's easy to set up (assembles in less than an hour), comes with multiple motorized raise/lower control options, multiple finishes, and optional cable management trays. It's a simple, minimal desk, designed to be affordable and effective (supporting up to 225lb.) The…

I wouldn't call it shark jumpy, per se. This is Mortal Kombat we're talking about, and ridiculousness has always been core to the concept. But it's definitely a bit much. I hesitate to call them a mis-step, but they're close. It's a sour note in an otherwise great melody.

That's the problem, I think - there's an amount of suspension of disbelief you do in all fighting games. In all games period, really. We see Scorpion put a kunai through somebody's chest and yank them over on a chain and we don't really ask why there's no wound in the chest or where Scorpion was hiding the chain or…

First, I'm more excited about this game than any MK since I was a child. MK9's story mode was so damned fun that I can't wait to dig into a new one.