I honestly hate theaters like that. I’m not 100% sure why they irritate me as much as they do, but you sort of hint at at least one of the reasons: they’re not really movie theaters. They make most of their money off of the food and drink, so they’re basically restaurants that incidentally show films. While most…

Apparently I’m completely unusual in that I have never really gotten the appeal of watching movies at home. If I’m at home, I’m more easily distracted and can usually find other things to do with my time. The theater, though? I enjoy going out, and it’s gotten to the point where that’s pretty much the only way I’ll…

This is true, but there’s something to be said for parents who will expose you to the sorts of things they enjoyed growing up. I mean, it was my father who instilled me with my life-long love of the cartoons of Jay Ward (Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle), and my mother led me to more great…

Terminator: Why didn’t it just go back to when Sarah Connor was a baby and murder her in her crib?

I had a nutrionist once who suggested that my type-1 diabetes was related to my consumption of pasteurized milk as a child. She didn’t oversell the point, mind you: it was more of an idle conversation after I mentioned that I (apparently unusually for type-1 diabetics) had no family history of the disease.

Yep. The people complaining about shovelware never seem to have any trouble finding the high-quality, high-budget AAA games on Steam’s storefront, so it remains a curiously hypothetical problem. The actual challenges faced by a digital storefront are quite a bit different from those faced by a physical storefront, and…

Er, you do realize there were four consoles in 1983, right? The Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Intellivision, and the Colecovision? And that’s leaving aside various personal computers with a significant gaming audience (the Apple II family, the IBM/PC, the Commodore 64, etc.). And since all these had to worry about…

While we can certainly debate whether or not there’s a problem with Steam’s current model, the comparisons to the crash of ‘83 are way off base. The biggest issue facing the industry in the early 1980s were primarily about manufacturing. When you put out thousands of shovelware cartridges and sell only a small…

And, of course, Batman ‘66 was recently cancelled. It seems likely that these retro books simply weren’t selling well enough for DC to seriously consider adding another one.

DC apparently intends to bring back some of their cancelled titles a few months down the line, once all the dust from Rebirth has settled. I know Prez is among them. It’s possible Midnighter is, too.

Not continuously, no. But Rip Hunter first appeared in Showcase in 1959, four years before the first episode of Doctor Who aired on the BBC.

Disney’s Hercules wasn’t even trying to be an adaptation of any ancient Greek myth, really. What it was trying to do (and did very, very well, IMO) was to parodize modern sports/celebrity culture. As such, I find it much easier to justify the changes to the source material here than I do in things like Hunchback of…

There’s potentially four weeks between the two openings. Hollywood studios don’t like to put their blockbusters in direct competition with each other, but that’s really only a concern during the first week or two. For one thing, it’s too difficult to space them out much further than that. For another, they really…

Heh. I remember hearing about that bug, and how it was only widely reported a couple of years after Windows 95 was released. Which goes to show just how rarely people managed to keep their systems up and running that long.

Wait.... If I’m on (say) Eastern Standard Time, and I set my clock to 1970-01-01 at 12 AM, and the system operates on GMT , then wouldn’t the internal Unix timestamp correspond to 5 AM that day, since EST is GMT-0500? The only way the system would adjust it to a negative value would be if you were on a time zone to…

I know that one of the first things I’d do if I had a time machine would be to go back to the 1960s with either a VCR (assuming I could acquire/jury rig the connection, since I don’t think the RF connector was standard yet) or a camcorder and record every subsequently lost episode of Doctor Who.

The reason gold was so cheap in the 1960s is because the price was set by the government and, crucially, it wasn’t actually legal for the average American to own much of it. The Gold Reserve Act, passed at the height of the Great Depression, pegged the cost of gold at $35/oz and required any privately owned gold to be…

Why, oh why does Square Enix still refuse to add controller support to their Android ports? I can live with the questionable graphics changes, even the poor support whenever an OS update hits, but this irks me to no end.

They might consider it, but only after they change it into an action RPG. And it’ll take fifteen years to develop.

Bethesda won’t start rolling out mods for consoles until they’ve at least released the official modding tools. All of the mods so far are cobbled together using tools originally developed for previous Bethesda titles and aren’t really supported (insofar as mods are ever “supported”) by Bethesda. They even tried to…