It's possible, but I can't imagine Cersei being quite so sloppy, particularly with her beloved son's life - and with her own power. Plus, she's still stewing in anger over her impending marriage; she hasn't quite moved to the 'open rebellion' part of things, it appears.

If it was done legally. But with the Lannisters infighting right now - and basically just having no friends left anymore - I bet the Tyrells could muscle in. Everyone loves Margaery, after all, and no one at all would care if the Lannisters remained in power…

Congratulations! It's a crazy-good feeling, I hope you have many more in the future.

Oh, definitely. There's a degree to which I blame this trend on CGI - all you have to do is… not animate people and all the sudden it's like there's nothing all that bad happening. Intellectually, the viewer knows there is because we're watching a narrative film, but the effects artists probably aren't working on it…

Fair enough, I just think that 'one partially-evacuated building that is not in a major city' (it's in the river, outside DC) is not really that big a death-count, these days. Certainly nothing that even remotely compares to Man of Steel / Star Trek Into Darkness.

They actually did show t he Triskelion being evacuated before the Helicarriers even went up, remember? After Cap's announcement and the internal fighting, all the office drones were ordered out.

Yeah, I'll take issue with that. Drive Angry was a mess in all the same ways Shoot 'Em Up was, except with goofy inventiveness replaced by dour self-seriousness. Which isn't to say that self-seriousness is necessarily bad; many of the greatest pulp stories ever were intensely serious, after all. But that requires…

Ever since the revelation that some of the Commentariat had jerked it to 'the scene' from Irreversible, I've made sure to 1) never underestimate us, and 2) never tell anyone on here where I fucking live.

You are not alone.

I actually died the first time I fought him, but what worked for me next time was actually equipping lighter armor (so I could move fast) and focusing all my weight on a decent shield. Circle him, lure him into big attacks, then strike. As long as you don't get caught in a combo, a shield will let you absorb a…

But the way you get really good at the game is just… playing it. It could be on your first walkthrough, after a lot of grinding, or it could be on your third. Only the time you put in matters.

Dark Souls II is also the game that made me realize that I don't have enough time for games anymore… because it's the first game in over a year where I've actually MADE time to play it. I've come to realize that the subpar storytelling of most mainstream games was doing nothing to make my life better and I'm pretty…

For me, that opening hour was… pretty rough. DARK SOULS excelled by just throwing you in the deep end, but this had that cheesy opening and a tutorial area that never really came together for me. Once I started really exploring, the game opened up to me significantly, though.

Last of the Giants and Dragonrider have fallen, both far easier than I'd have thought - though, of course, honing my skills on the first Dark Souls makes this significantly easier.

I actually have a friend who does nothing but challenge runs. Erase the save after death, caestus only, speed run, that sort of thing.

It takes some time before you get past the Standard Hollow Soldiers, unless you do a little exploring, but I've run into at least two really neat monsters so far.

The first DARK SOULS might have the best level design I've ever seen. The spider-web of short cuts and weird caverns that slowly teach you how to bypass or engage enemies depending on your needs was as much a part of the game as learning how to parry or dodge, and it also made the world feel REAL in a way that the…

Level up ATT and INT to make your casting speed quicker ASAP, if you really want to roll with magic. It helps a lot, especially once you start meeting bosses who can charge you.

True - but on the other hand, you can also beat the game at Level 1 if you know your stuff, so leveling up wrong just means you upped the difficulty a bit.

It felt like half Incredibles, half Up… but yeah, basically. (at least the set-up is; the world-building is not)