Awesome point. I mean, unless you work in some mission-driven nonprofit, you're probably a cog a cynical machine.

The thing is, the first thing they cut is dialog, ie. the reason you're supposed to be invested in the action scenes. That's one Bay's many flaws, he never gives you a reason to give a poop about the crazy explosions.

The thing about Michael Bay movies is that they're never one-star poor. They're generally 2-star poor, meaning they retain the ability to mildly entertain those who like their action confusing and loud, and do well enough globally to make their ridiculous budgets back and then some, despite the unwatchability of them…

I kind of liked that movie, goofy Diablo-Codyisms aside. The reason it flopped was poor marketing. It was a clever, teen horror movie, with a fairly strong female voice.

Can't go wrong with Wu Tang

I don't think crude requests for intercourse are part of the PUA technique. They're more likely to try stupid word games or whatever. Such as "If you were a fish, what would you be?" Or some kind of dumb "neg".

I don't condone any of it, but it's not hard to understand. The handsomest 15% of men can simply say "Hey what's up?" to a women and get their undivided attention (not to say they don't have to work at least a little, to maintain that attention). That leaves 85% of men grasping at straws. Combine that with the fact…

I don't see much movement on the 3rd party side either. It's pretty clear that the most effective route for 3pd's is to focus on the big 3 PC/XB1/PS4. They are similar enough architecturally that porting is not a huge deal. They'd have to assemble a separate team to port to Wii U, and for what? Typical Wii U…

I just came to the conclusion that one of the other Sand Snakes will be doing Arianne's stuff this season, because it feels more vengeance-y to have it be his daughter rather than niece.

Not casting her feels like a spoiler to future books (the HBO producers have access to the rough story outlines). It leads me to believe that all the intrigue in book 4 is a narrative dead end, not to be resolved in any interesting way. Which also annoys me because both of those books do really nothing but "table…

Regarding Cynthia Nixon's great-great-great grandmother, I heard about that. The "abuse" in question was his refusal to acknowledge that the dead squirrel she carried around was her natural daughter.

That kind of scratch should be reserved for permanent damage, like death, disfigurement, utter insanity, heck even a permanent limp. 75mil for a rough year?

Yes it's a terrific miniseries. It's got some big names in it, including the ex Mr. Angelina Jolie, Saul Goodman, and Bilbo Baggins. And they're all great. And yet some unknown lady, whose name I can't recall has the lead role and pwns them all.

This article made me realize that I would love to see an article that describes what constitutes a "game engine" by describing (in a way understandable to a lay person) some of the differences in the early engines, heck even the doom and wolf engines. Some of us think "what's the big deal, design the geometry and…

that's not the same thing though.

The reason we keep having these conversations is that Sony, MS, and the developers failed with this gen. Sony and MS cheaped out on the parts (MS slightly more so than Sony) and developers simply refuse to tune their games to run 1080p/60fps - preferring games that make pretty screen shots for advertising over games…

certainly not here.

Let's not kid ourselves - like men, they want their dates to be attractive, first and foremost.

Mr. Robles. Never stop being respectful. But perhaps try to relax and not be overly serious. Mild teasing, very-slightly-off-color jokes. Think about how you are with your friends...