I finally sat down to play Brütal Legend and am enjoying the everloving sheet out of it. It's a really fun little game, with enjoyable action gameplay. The car's a little squirrely, but they usually are. The performances are wonderful, particularly Jack Black who is unceasingly lovable as Eddie Riggs, and the…

Thank you, yes. I'd fix it if I could find the "edit" command for posts (if there is one). But then, maybe "Hanking Mjolnir" will bring somebody else a smile today and it'll be worth it.

Right, I'm just saying that the kind of realism in the Dark Knight trilogy is actually the right kind, especially for that character. What most people see when they look at it is just "grim and gritty" (a term I'm long since exhausted of hearing), and what most executives learn from it are the wrong lessons. If that…

But even the Dark Knight movies had sunshine, people who smiled, even jokes. Ultimately, if you look at what's being done and said, the metaphors being built in the Nolan Batman films, they were about HOPE! That there was a reason to fight on, that it was worth making sacrifices, that no matter how bad things get, a…

I honestly like this Aquaman better, and that disappoints me so very much.

It's only bizarre until you realize that everybody at DC and especially Warner Bros. is embarrassed and ashamed of their own characters. They've been trying to copycat Marvel since the '60s, chasing the dream of being "cool" all while never quite understanding what cool really is. They see their characters as the old…

Grounding fantastical characters in a more realistic universe is a great thing. It can bring a sense of relatability to the characters, a sense of immediate understanding of the stakes and the implications of these incredible things happening in a world we know very well. By starting with ground rules everybody…

I like this so much more. I've always been down for a more hardcore Samus under that armor, and this version looks ready to hunt some bounties. Just imagine her slipping into a huge suit of power-armor - or step it up to a small mech, a la Starcraft's Space Marines. This is character design done very, very right.

Welll... replace it or something, I dunno. Surely it isn't necessary for the move. I just find it as ridiculous looking as her other distractingly impractical orbs. XD

If you wanted to make Mai a more functional fighting costume, step one would be to get rid of that giant red ball weighing her down from behind. I'm certainly down for the idea behind these, but in practice most of them lack personality and the focus on restricting the feminine aspects of the figures but not actually…

God bless you; the A-Wing is a nearly perfect starfighter design. It hardly gets better.

I would love - Love - to have a Lego X-Wing, BSG Viper, and ME Alliance Fighter side-by-side on my shelf.

I'm so much in agreement with you that my neck hurts from nodding so hard in solidarity. I've been saying this about Superman for a long time, but only after the Winter Soldier film did I put together the specific way in which the MCU "gets it" that WB/DC does not.

Totally different context, totally different situation. Female MMA fighters know that they'll only be facing punches (not chain-kunai and demons and the like), won't be fighting people who are trying to kill them, and aren't out in the streets tracking down deadly killers like Kano. And even still, I wouldn't compare…

I got really good with Smoke and Stryker specifically because of enjoying their characters so much in story mode. I've never gotten good at a MK game, but MK9's story made me really want to.

...And Jax also has gigantic robot arms with heavily-implied cybernetics under the pecs/shoulders that put him in a different class in terms of needing upper body protection. Being half-cyborg makes him superhuman, redefining the rules of what "practicality" requires. Even still, his alt wears full body-armor, while…

It makes sense for Johnny Cage to dress ridiculously, because that's who he is. It makes sense, to some extent, for the Outworld characters to dress differently from our societal expectations, and they all more or less match each other (again, to some extent). It does not make sense within the logic of the world…

I'm just gonna leave this here. #OneTruePokemon

Because an issue labeled "#1" is ordered more heavily by retailers than one labeled "One-Shot." It's just another cynical ploy used by publishers to bump up pre-orders in an industry that is almost entirely driven by pre-order sales.

It has nothing to do with breast size, but with presentation. I'm frequently frustrated by how people seem to think Lara Croft's bust measurements are somehow directly linked to how seriously she can be taken. But the presentation, here, says a lot. By covering Cassie up, giving her some spec forces gear, and a…