I think personally though my all time favorite comic is Something Positive... OMG that comic has had me in tears SO many times.

Some of Buckley's fans started a guild (whose name escapes me at the moment) on the same server as the fans of PA and PvP. Buckley, being the attention whore he apparently is, joins said guild and gets promoted to an officer position (but not guild manager, this becomes important later). He stops playing for a few MONTHS and then goes on a bender, restarts his WoW account and apparently claims the guild is 'his' since it's 'based on his works' and he kicks several HUNDRED people from the guild overnight.

So a huge mob of people log in the next morning to: no guild... and the only people who are left are other officers who couldn't stop him because they were the same rank.

All this because he didn't want them 'representing him' or somesuch, because he had turned his back on WoW and was now an avid EVE Online player...

This wasn't a guild he started mind you, he was invited because the people who DID start it were fans of his work... WAY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR YOUR FANS... >_<

It was Kurtz who coined the phrase 'Hurricane Buckley' btw :D He offered spots in all the PvP fan guilds to the refugees of Buckley's infantile behavior.

Class act that Buckley... I tell ya... :P

Couple that with the "Hurricane Buckley" incident with his WoW guild a year or so ago, and I personally thought he was a class A wanker; but then I heard about the baby, and the miscarriage it just pointed out firmly that while he wasn't very funny to begin with, now he's just... pathetic.

However, Starship Troopers to me was pretty much unwatchable, because I had JUST finished reading the book a month prior and as soon as I saw it was 'giant bugs vs the space marines' that COMPLETELY missed the overall POINT of the book, I couldn't watch it without wanting to hurl. Heinlein was almost delightfully cynical about society (and the book has some frighteningly accurate predictions about how our 'PC society' is going to fall apart) and some of the more 'out there' ideas are pretty damn appealing (bring back public flogging, damnit!). It's a shame they didn't let someone who understood the work do the movie *sigh*.

Also, I get kinda aggravated when a book to movie adaptation is done almost PERFECTLY, and then people complain (bless their hearts) that 'it was too literal a translation) - case in point being the first Harry Potter movie... I nearly lost my mind every time a critic would say the movie was 'too much like the book'... o_O... WTF? Makes no bloody sense!!!

Just a theory mind you.

And RB has, by a WIDE margin, more DLC, a broader range of musical styles, and is more about having FUN rather than mastering button mashing (not to mention the DLC is cheaper than GH).

And Aerosmith hasn't been relevant since the mid-90s... I'm just sayin...

I think we can see the answer now.

@belo: That actually doesn't look totally eye-bleedingly wretched! Congrats! :D

Still, the game wasn't unplayable, but I think at that time my gaming was split almost evenly between FPSs and MMOs. I DO have friends who absolutely ADORE the game, but I couldn't get over how homely EVERY thing was in the game and the random annoying wolves and skeletons etc.

Aside from all of Yahtzee's (extremely valid and spot on) criticisms, the character generator alone nearly kept me from playing too far into it... EVERYONE in this game was some degree of fucking HIDEOUS. I spent at least an HOUR trying to make a character that wouldn't cause me to throw up a little in my mouth if I happened to make the horrible mistake of actually, you know, LOOKING at them. Couple that with the voice 'acting', and the bland cookie-cutter landscape and it was one big snoozefest.

At least with WoW you have a social element and SCENERY :D

As to the whole monitor/cable issue: here in the US where I've worked with computers people RAAARELY ever screw their cables into the back of the computer, so any sharp tug will have them fly free, and the power cable on most CRTs will pop out the back of the monitor just as easily.

I have also worked in offices with partitions between cubicles that are held together by gravity/slots in the partition. I could have yanked one apart pretty easily (and someone once tumbled into one and caused it and two partitions nearby to come apart.

So while it COULD be faked, maybe, I'm inclined to say it's real.

They seem to have (overall) fixed Ryu so he doesn't look like a mongoloid as much, and Vega's FUCKING SWEET, and Chun Li kicks as much ass as she always did, so this game is definitely a MUST BUY for me.

Harmonix 4 evah! There can be only one (set of plastic instruments in my apt)!

I DO feel this Hulk looks 100x 'faker' and by far more rubbery than the Ang Lee one - doesn't mean I won't see the movie though *shrug* :D

This show, along with the Galaxy Express anime (with the occasional appearance of Captain Harlock) defined what 'cool' was to me at an early age. Ah... the memories... *glee*

Tatsunoko is TEH WIN Peeplez! Gatchaman was so cool they butchered it for the American release (G-Force/Battle of the Planets/Eagle Riders) and it was STILL cooler than ANYTHING out during its day (Speed Racer is older, so it doesn't count as much LOL)

I got me a big ol fanboy chubbie at the mere THOUGHT of being able to play Eagle Ken in a fighter...

BRING THIS GAME TO AMERICA DAMNIT!

Color me intrigued ;)

Yes there are talky bits here and there, yes people chew the scenery a LOT in the movie, but that's what MAKES it Speed Racer! It held true to just about every aspect that made the show as much ridiculous over the top fun as it was back in my youth. From Pops being an ex-wrestling champ, to Spritle and Chim-Chim stowing away in the Mach 5, they remain both faithful to the source AND pushed the boundaries of what Speed Racer was all about... And OMG the fight scenes (both in and out of the cars)... Yes my retinas may be scarred for life now, but you know DAMN well it's going to be used to sell BluRay players when it comes out on BluRay... It makes Ultraviolet look pale and lifeless by comparison.

And for anyone who complains about those pesky laws of physics... remember the original cartoon had a robotic bird with a 1960's FILM CAMERA ON ITS BACK THAT WAS LARGER THAN IT WAS... and IT FLEW :D

And to those of you who feel Speed Racer was crap... well I can't fault you for having an opinion, despite how ridiculous that opinion is (sorry, but Speed Racer was a PHENOMENAL hit in the states, despite it's primitive animation), but it led to one of my all time favorite animations - GATCHAMAN (aka Battle of the Planets), a show SO PHENOMENALLY awesome that they could butcher it with 'kid friendly' cuts and a cheap R2D2 ripoff and the show STILL managed to be awesome (to kids back then).

So fuck the naysayers, GO SPEED RACER, GO!
Maha Go Go
Maha Go Go
Maha Go Go Goooooooooooooooooooooo!

Kinda hard to put one ahead of the other, I remember how totally blown away I was with Batman Begins, honestly it's too close to call.

But this movie has the BEST Stan Lee cameo, bar none!

In short: You just toss the boomerang at a slightly different angle to account for the lack of gravity is all *shrug* Seems a simple enough concept to me.

1) ZOMG the shakycam makes the movie bad
and/or
2) The characters are dumb, and they do unrealistic things and people die and there's no closure (or explanation).

*sigh* People... this isn't a Godzilla movie... it's not about 'brave heroes defeating a monster'... its a movie about a bunch of NORMAL EVERYDAY FOLKS (ie- not that interesting really) people stuck in a situation NOBODY has ever faced, and how they try (unsuccessfully for the most part) to survive said situation. There's no third-person perspective, you are given about as much info as anyone else would be, to say "Oh I would NEVER do that" is pure speculation. How DO you react when a 50 story monster starts meandering down the streets of a major city? And lest we forget- when they TRIED to follow the 'smart' option (escape) the first of their merry band of twentysomethings DIED. At that point any expectation of rational thought is a bit presumptuous.

And I LIKED Hud, he kept the movie from sinking into a depressing snuff-fest.

Frankly I was impressed that the movie didn't slap on a happy ending, or explain everything to death. American cinema usually can't handle something where your hand isn't held every step of the way, and the 'heroes' don't actually WIN (and BOY do some of the reactions from the masses validate that!). Yay for there being something... DIFFERENT out there. :P

And for the record: Inframan was meant to capitalize on the Kamenraider/Ultraman/Kikaider/Spectreman craze. Japan was chock a block FULL of sci-fi/martial arts series at the time.

Just sayin...

Oh... wait... this is Gizmodo... nevermind.

YAHTZEE FTW!

Neat concept though, I'll be sure to incorporate some of it when I make my own now LOL.

Even WITH all the problems I've had with Rockband (mostly with the guitars) I GAVE AWAY my copy of GH3 because it just sucked SO badly. Even my nephews who are die-hard GH fans went over to Rockband because they felt GH has just gotten Awful. In all seriousness Activision, just keep beating your dead horse and stop trying to suck the life out of something GOOD in the world, k?