It's called a subversion, which the film is all about. I'm sorry you can't wrap your head around the concept.

Nah, it just means you've stopped becoming a raging hormonal teenager.

See, that's the problem: you try to "beat" the game, when this isn't so much a game as it is an interactive story. As you explore the house, you get more and more info about your sister, and why she isn't home. All those audio recordings you pick up? They're the entire plot. The rest of the "game" is just exploration…

She's the technical villain of the story, and is considered so by most of the cast for most of the film. Besides, I'm trying to not be spoilery here.

But does their bacon glow?

My niece actually has the same laptop as Clara. It's running Windows 7.

What is it with people having a boner over the N64

They remind me more of Bioshock Vigor bottles.

Unless the Machine decides to adopt Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's speech patterns during his Attitude-era run.

Honestly, I'd say start at the latter Root-centric episodes of Season 2, which ends in a cliffhanger for Season 3. Season 3 itself hits the ground running, and assumes the viewer knows a lot of things.

I think I need this. My desk-bound job — and desk-bound hobbies — are making me too fat.

I'm hoping for more of a Helios thing from Deus Ex, where Root, the Machine, and Samaritan all fuse to become a living goddess.

Yes, you should, and not just for Amy Acker.

It's over 40, not over 30. I'm 35 and I heard the Morse code just fine.

So they actually recorded the Morse code beeps above 15KHz? Wow, I gotta revisit this episode 6 years from now, just to check if I can no longer hear the beeping.

It's not the most obvious and easy answer, because how do you explain surviving past a punctured lung, severed arteries, and very likely a magical spear straight through the heart?

Isn't that John's schtick?

Harold designed the machine so that when it did a hard reset on midnight, the first people to pick up and answer its call would have administrative access, but only for 24 hours. At the same time, before that ball dropped, the machine was already in the process of moving itself node by node to an undisclosed location,…

And yet some lunkhead running around with an inflated pigskin is? Look at it: they're both recreational activities, being played by people whose skills would be considered exceptional, and people are paying to see them. Just because you happen to play games during your free time does not invalidate a professional…

Perhaps it is considered promoting religion in certain markets/countries and would hurt sales?