I think this whole conflict has become a diplomatic one first and foremost. The military aspect actively adds to the stalemate, but has done so for decades now, without the threat necessarily changing: It's not nuclear weapons the west has to fear, but conventional ballistic missiles, which don't even have to go for…

My girlfriend is half-korean, and her mother works internationally as a freelance translator and sometimes government liason. It's just heartbreaking. The country is seperated long enough now that people who can still consciously remember a united Korea are starting to pass away, leaving behind generations who always…

"Escape from Camp 17" is a perhaps unexpectedly readable inside look into the DPRK one would likely get from nobody else but the only prison (or more precise concentration) camp inmate who was already born into these facilities and escaped to tell the tale. It also echoes the statements you've made about North Korean…

Wouldn't that be redundant?

That would be similarly wonderful, I suppose. But quite difficult to accomplish.

Oh snap, I totally forgot how balls deep I delved into "The Crew", which has it's faults but from an conceptual angle alone is like uncut heroin for my gaming synapses. It's basically the mechanics of a grinder (I want to say "lootgame", but there's no loot as such, but merely permanent boosts for your stat) adapted…

I found the actual best-of-list in quite good taste and agreed with almost all choices and their ranking, but even then I wanted to mention the disheartening lack of love for "The Honourable Woman", which was one of my three favourite shows this year (Hannibal's stellar, insane second season and the wonderful Fargo…

I'm pretty happy with my 'miibos. The missus and myself split them evenly between us, guided by character love and simple ownership. I've got Samus, Pikachu and the Villager, she's got Marth, Donkey Kong and Yoshi. All trained to lvl50, which isn't quite the accomplishment it might sound like, but we let them face off…

Is this gonna be the next "How To Make It In America"? Because that show sucked farts through overly complicated produced designer jeans.

America, you completely lost me on the butt-issue. I was digging heavily into Adventure Time during the last few weeks, and this is a show mainly aimed at children that features butts very prominently and for constantly hilarious effects. Butts are super funny, and this is a message I can totally get aboard with being…

Unless it's one of the really memorable ones, like Scaramanga or Goldfinger, I call every James Bond villain "LeCroissant".

Easy answer: The place is no longer called "Flughafen (Airport) Tempelhof", but "Tempelhofer Feld". The actual terminal is abandoned, but the runways, effectively the whole airport that isn't roofed, is open to the public as a park. But as "park" would suggest, I dunno, trees, it is called "Feld", "field".

The Shining is one of my, if not my favourite horror movie. That being said, I don't really like horror movies or the ways they routinely choose to operate in very much. I think the most interesting entrys to the genre stem from directors or writers who do not routinely dabble in it, or try to subvert the genre in…

He really doesn't. What sets apart his work from the pulps and radio serials he grew up with, is the gifted way to capture the mundane. Basic, everyday human interaction he does portray not seldomly with grace and great respect for his protagonists and their way of being. Them usually being very ordinary, but in a…

Maybe he's just bitter that people liked that one better than "Room 1408".

Oh, sure, it's as dickish as they come. But that's one of those little (or not so little, *sniff sniff nudge nudge*) things that humanize him. Stephen Kings hatred for Kubricks Shining comes across like your mom viciously hating Justin Timberlake or Hugh Jackman for no particular reason whatsoever. It tells you…

I guess we can at this point safely assume that this is not going to happen, not unless he has another severe accident. Which I hope he won't have, besides making fun of him here or there, I still like the guy a lot.

"Anyway, there's a bunch of kids out there talking to film scholars, cosplayers, fan fiction authors and other assorted eccentrics all around the globe about the adaption of my little known book called 'The Dome'. If you want to watch a documentary about people analyzing my art through the proxy of their screen…

The Dutch angle IS actually a "Deutsch angle", since it was employed first in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. It actually has nothing to do with the Dutch, just a simplification/lost in translation-type situation, as the term was coined by Americans, I would figure. Not a bash on Americans, just an interesting fact. That…

Shin Megami Tensei 4 finally came out in Europe, but I'm already dumbfounded with a particulary hard boss fight (Against the Minotaur). I think I will watch the Formula 1 race tomorrow, I like that it's airing in the evening in Germany as I'm often only half awake during the races held in the early afternoon. Still…