The author of the original book, Michael Crichton, actually said he knew that the raptors he was using in his book were not the velociraptors but he stuck with the name because it sounded so cool. He actually met with the paleontologist that Grant was based on (a real life raptor expert in Montana) to get as much…

No he really is the second coming of Brando. Depp just does too much coke to get fat. I mean he was considered a massive sex icon when he was younger, was not always the best but actually took roles that challenged him, then got so big on his own hype that he basically considers himself the greatest actor of all time…

That has to be a case of people making the cannon just seeing how high they can jack stuff up because they know he won’t check the invoice. $3 mil properly spent could have gotten Thomspon’s ashes in to freaking orbit.

One of my favorite Nicholas Cage stories comes from a Futurama commentary track. I think it was David X Cohen who was at a fossil auction and was hoping to get a few little trilobite fossils, but Cage was there. He literally just held his hand up the entire time without even paying attention to the auction as he…

You know, now that you mention it, after 8 it really did feel like MP had been taken over by someone who decided the minigames weren’t important to the game and then decided the board game aspect wasn’t important either.

I know, right? I think the MP brand has just been so damaged over the years people don’t even think about it. I mean even though they slowed the releases down and constantly tried new things, MP was usually the IP that got the most of the “stupid Nintendo releasing the same games over and over” backlash. It is one of…

As one of my history professors put it, when it comes to the US “there is no such thing as international law.” Never has actually existed, and likely the US will cease to exist before it ever does. There is no nation on the planet that can (or would) hold the US accountable to these laws. Even when there was a sane…

There was so much weirdness and “Japanese”ness to VII I really doubt the remake will capture it even if they put those segments in. I mean, lots of fans seem to have moved beyond the Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus era of VII, but I am not confident that SE realizes that.

Perhaps we’ll get a Mario (or Luigi) game that takes us back to that messed up LSD trip of a land she’s the princess of.

Looks like the game is definitely getting the XIV specific behemoth, rather than just a generic FF one. Behemoths in FFXIV have a giant meteor attack as their signature move, are basically only boss monsters and the game only has three of them. All of them are things that take groups of 20+ players to kill, and even…

People call him out and stand up to him all the time. He is just such a narcissistic sociopath that it doesn’t click with him that people are doing that. In his head there is only one absolute truth: that he is always right. If anything happens to challenge that truth his mind shifts his entire worldview in order to…

Great article and I’m glad you pointed out that it will still likely be a really fun game. I’m definitely an old-school Fallout (and rpg in general) fan and it can be very annoying to see all these new takes on old games that basically miss the point of the original games. But it is also really frustrating dealing…

The joke with mini nukes was also supposed to be that you were just as likely to kill yourself and/or your friends as your enemy with them. No one really thinks about it now, and they’re just part of the whole “rocket launcher” family of fps weapons.

Yeah, try to remember that Zenimax isn’t some EA like company that bought up Bethesda. Bethesda intentionally made Zenimax so they’d have a parent company that can handle all that unsavory stuff and keep their name off of it and add an entity that could acquire other studios. Any time Zenimax does something shitty,…

That would then be used by every conservative talking head across the country to prove that America’s allies are bad and we should cut ties and do whatever we can to screw them over. No matter how horrible he is, how undignified and undiplomatic Trump is, if any world leader or ambassador treated him even the tiniest…

As someone from Minnesota this really bums me out because a lot of us were hoping you guys would annex us as some kind of “Southwestern Ontario.” We’ll still take “Southeastern Manitoba,” though.

Just as a random internet commenter you have more credibility than Rudes.

Did they have a warrant for the DNA off his door handle or the trash he discarded? While I’m really happy they caught this man, I can not understate how much I despise the idea of police being free to gather DNA, prints or really any evidence off of any discarded item. If you can just gather evidence that way warrants…

Honestly I think these games should try and focus on the Eastern stuff for a change. Hell go to Greece; plenty of women fighting in the resistance there. It was common enough that many resistance leaders had to go out of their way to enforce rules about treating the women there as equals. There was one leader who was…

That final product looks like a $20 mini-fig I’d buy and then have to assemble myself compared to the fancy, high detailed display version at the game store.