Oh, Brad Dourif owns that role completely as a voice actor, and is probably tied with Sarandon for the best voice work in the game. The issue is that the mocap work for that game makes everyone stiff and poised. Dourif's one of the best physical actors alive, playing a nervous jittery weirdo, and his character moves…

William Gull is of course the most interesting one, even if the theory makes no sense. Part of that might just be because From Hell (the book) is probably the definitive fictional take on the murders for me.

They're great— even the weakest ones are still fun and exciting, and the best ones are sublime. Use of Weapons in particular is stunning and brutal, just an absolute gut-punch of a novel.

SpaceX is already naming ships in reference to the Culture novels, so I'd imagine they agree with you.

AC was one of the only PC games I owned as a child— along with Starcraft and forgotten Diablo knockoff Nox —but it's one hell of a game to fill that void. Still one of my favorite hardish sci-fi settings in gaming.

There is only one right answer, which is to do what my fiancee and one of our mutual friends do: watch Vampire's Kiss every Halloween. Not a horror movie. Not even really about vampires. But goddamit, we started doing this four years ago and it is one of our most sacred holiday traditions. We don't watch it any other…

Why, he's hanging out with fellow still-alive person Roman Bellic!

Hell yeah. Red Dead is a fantastic game that also felt very much like the first draft of a series with a lot of room to grow and iron out problems. Excited to see it refined and to return to that style.

Lotta babies in this comment section who don't like gin, the king's liquor.

Dont you have Indians to go get beaten to death by?

"Wanna reach up the old broad's skirt, give her a nice freedom squeeze!" -Richard Bastion, Grand Theft Auto IV

It probably would have helped, although the pacing would have still been strange. The books are so meandering and have so many neat tangents and details about the world— they're structured and paced in a way that works very well for thick, inviting books and does not translate easily to cinema.

Jesus Christ, of course it is. Thea Von Harbou went pretty full-bore Nazi, from what I understand.

You'd think a man who loves killer drones so much could show appreciation for a little film called Robocop.

Oh god, the day that some Hollywood exec discovers Zeno's paradox is the day that art dies for good.

3 is the only one that feels like a real film, rather than a product designed to accompany the books. The later ones hit some nice beats— and have an ever-mounting cast of great British character actors —but the pacing is always strange and the seams from trying to fit the books into film are very visible. Azkaban…

We'd be within our rights, given that like half the wizardinf government is made up of sympathizer to people who want to murder us all and the magic folk did fuck-all to warn us about it. Not to mention that they could end world hunger and all diseases, but they use it to hold feats for kids and fix Quidditch…

That's just super.

Anthony Bourdain helped save my life when I was 22 and dealing with some bad brain chemistry. No joke. The man's my hero.

Michael Myers/T-1000 Vader would be wonderful. I kind of hope he doesn't even speak to the Rebels.