Over the last week, there was an argument started by Roger Ebert over whether video games were art or not. Obviously, this set aflame a large contingent of Gamers, who mightily disagreed with his opinion it wasn't. For the most pat, I ignored at it, as it was largely a fight between people who never played video games, vs. people who did nothing ( Read more... )

Every now and then I'll play around with Risk Online. The free version that floats around is much condensed; Only ten rounds and two opponenets. I know when I've talked about Risk, I go for The Australia strategy, but you have less time to build up armies. I usually try and shoot for North America (Or whatever continenet most of my armies are ( Read more... )

I guess rumors about Gosselin doing Playboy circukated, with Hugh Heffner saying he wouldn't ask her as "she's not a celebrity". Now a couple things should be kept in mind. 1) Celebrity means "famous", and thus, no matter how much a black mark it means to us as a society that Kate Gosselin is famous, yes she is. 2) Reality show people have appeared ( Read more... )

I now officially have a pet peeve over people saying Reagan is the best president ever. When people say that, it's like saying "My favorite movie is horror". It's especially annoying when parroted by people who were not even around to vote for him. Putting aside the policies in his era, great presidents are usually ranked for palpable long-term ( Read more... )

I love the History Channel, but they do tend to focus on some regions and periods more than others. Basically the prevalence more or less in this order, goes ( Read more... )

1. Homer Simpson - The Simpsons ( Read more... )

Television Without Pity did an article "If Geeks ran the Oscars", which is an interesting idea. There is a discrepancy between genre fare and prestige films. However, I suppose the problem is that the Academy recognizes it so little, there are very few nominations to quibble over. It will also, at times, make the assumption that if you've been in a ( Read more... )

Want to know how non-beloved the 2003 Hulk? Want to know how little replay value it has, even (maybe especially) as a guilty pleasure. This will probably be the first time you ever hear someone say Hey, Daniel Dae Kim was in that movie!. I mean, if any two things should theoretically have crossover appeal, (That is to say, two simple high concept ( Read more... )

I came upon a thread talking about the expansion of Oscar nominations, and how it was a bad idea because it was "A very weak yea, compared to last year". I take issues with two of these facets--number one that 2009 was a great year, and two, that it's always reflected in the Academy's choices. 2008 is highly overrated as a year. That's actually ( Read more... )

Lost has been now exploding peoples' heads with its time travel plotlines. It can be pretty head-spinning to even some of the bigger sci-fi geeks. It especially wreaks cerebral damage since Lost accidentally appealed to people outside that ghetto. I was raised on a diet of some out there, and at times, incestuous, time travel plotlines, so I think ( Read more... )