EnderAndrew

Most of my friends worship those two shows. The few episodes I've seen walk a fine line between drama and camp. Everyone tells me about this wonderful moving story archs. Yet the show doesn't take itself seriously at times. I don't care for them. However the silent episode "Hush" and the musical episode, "Once More With Feeling" were nothing short of brilliant. (Most of friends have all the DVD sets)

I avoid TV predominately. I must confess to having a guilty pleasure, and it's Alias. But I won't schedule my life around the TV, so I wait for the DVD sets to come out and watch the whole season in two days. I've never seen an episode of Friends, ER, Seinfeld, or many of the shows everyone worships. I've seen five minutes here and there in other people's living rooms. TV rarely grabs me. Plots are predictable. Acting is horrible. Everything is formulaic and predictable. I stick to books and film.

I'm sorry honey. Were you saying something? I was busy watching Baywatch.

I think it's the worst way to lose. I'm a big Red Sox fan. I know losing. Last year, Boston was five outs from the World Series. A stupid decision was made and in the 12th inning of Game 7, I fell to my knees in anguish. Yet, I can get over that loss. I harp on the 1993 Nebraska loss because as the oppossing coach Bobby Bowden put it "Nebraska beat us everywhere but the scoreboard." Nebraska was an 11 point underdog if I recall and completely outplayed Florida State. A lengthy series of bad calls gave the game away. If a team gets beat, I can deal with that. When a game is stolen by bad officiating, it's the worst.

I plead sleep deprivation. It's been a long, rough week and it's late. But that was really stupid of me. Yes, it was in fact Dallas. But I do maintain that Buffalo wasn't going to win that series even if that one goal had been overturned.

I had the same feeling playing Jedi Outcast multiplayer. Seeing a bunch of Rodians running around with double-sabers yelling "r0xxorz!" really killed it for me.

Is Sniggy a Toydarian? I think Fallout was great. It generated plenty of random battle messages and taunts. But those were text, not voice.

I heard that may be the case (or atleast an option) in the Sith Lords.

I want a villian that is so tough, I had to reload and fight him several times to beat him. I want strategy to be necessary. I want strategy to be more important that stats. I want the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series.

You're right. It sucks being the overall favorite because you win because you are supposed to, or lose miserably. However, I disagree with some of your other comments. I said Wallace guards Shaq as well as anyone in the league. No one shuts down Shaq. Other teams foul out three players and get pushed around like little dolls. Detroit is getting a bloody nose, but at least they're staying in the fight. If you are the underdog, and you split the series on the road, you're doing good. That holds true in any series. In a week, if the Lakers smoke Detroit we'll all see that I'm wrong. However, I contend they still have a shot. And I'm not alone in seeing the Lakers had no intensity in Game 1. Most every columnist on ESPN.COM said the same thing. I saw this team win 18 games in a row like it was nothing. When the Lakers come to play, no one can beat them. A few years back the Lakers went 15-1 in the post-season. Yet they didn't rack up an incredible record in the regular season. The Lakers turn-on the switch when they feel like it. They're the Terrel Owens of basketball. I saw Malone fight and compete for 18 years. I see him meander now. Detroit came out flat in OT. There's no denying that. However, with 10 seconds in the fourth quarter they had a three point lead in LA. A good three-point-shooter has a 1-in-3 shot of making it from beyond the arc. Tonight Kobe made that shot. 2 outta 3 times, he misses it and Detroit is up 2-0 in the series. Detroit didn't completly choke. Basketball is often a sport of runs. One team goes on a run, and the other may go on a drought. In the first four quarters of play, they played to a tie. Detroit just fell short in overtime. And if you look at the two games, Detroit won by 12 points in the first game. They lost by 8 in the second game. Detroit actually had the bigger margin of victory in their win. They're still in this series.

Perhaps the refs made the right call. I don't believe they did in Game 6, but it is their perogative. And I've seen worse officiating in games before. I just can't believe that I haven't seen anyone really talking about this. When you have bad officiating in football, people go nuts. And when Brett Hull clinched the cup for Detroit against Buffalo with a BS goal (he was clearly in the crease) Buffalo went nuts! The funny thing is that Detroit whooped Buffalo. One goal did not make or break that series. If Calgary had that goal in Game 6, they would have won the Cup. Perhaps it is simply that Canadians don't throw fits over such things. I know that I've been livid for a decade over the 1993 National Championship game between Nebraska and Florida State (which remains arguably the worst officiating I've seen in any sport ever). The only thing that even comes to mind that strikes me as bad as the 1993 game was when the Pittsburgh Steelers were in a playoff game that went to overtime. Now the first team to score wins the game, so the cointoss for possession of the ball is important. Jerome Bettis of the Steelers called "Heads" and the toss came up heads. The referree said that Bettis said tails and gave the ball to the other team. Now this is classic. Not only did Bettis argue that he called heads, but the other team also said Pittsburgh should have the ball because he called heads. They replayed it a million times, but the referree would not budge. The other team scored on their first possession and the game was over. Pittsburgh was out of the playoffs.

When Philly took on LA, they had no center. Aaron McKie guarding Shaq? Get real. I credit AI for having a lot of courage. Here's a little guy driving down the lane and going right through Shaq like he isn't there. AI willed Philly to a game 1 win. And he tried to carry the team the rest of the series. The problem was that there wasn't a team. The situation is different with Detroit. They don't have one star like AI. They have a team. And they have a center in Ben Wallace that plays Shaq one-on-one. Ben Wallace didn't shut down Shaq, but he defends him as well if not better than anyone in the league.

In the regular season, there is no doubt in mind that Tampa Bay was a better team than Calgary. In the playoffs, Calgary played incredibly well. The Finals were a very close match. Mind you, I'm not a Calgary fan. I'm an Avalanche fan, and normally I could care less about the playoffs when Colorado is knocked out. However, I was watching most of the games in the Finals and I though Calgary was robbed in Game 6. The picture I saw showed the puck was clearly over the line. Pictures can sometimes lie, but the fact that the refs didn't even pause the game to review the goal shows that they didn't even care to make the right call.

I think hockey and auto-racing are the only sports where fans have died in the stands because of the sport. (I know fans have died at soccer matches from fans fightning amongst themselves. That doesn't count. And the running of the bulls is just stupidity, not a sport in my book).

There will be fire if no one nominates me. Since I can't nominate myself though, I hereby nominate Vol, as she seems to pwn anyone she gets into a fight with. B) To keep this from being a you-scratch-my-back sort of thing, or a popularity contest, I'm making people work a little for points. If you want to nominate Vol, that's fine. However, at least point to a specific thread where Vol owned someone. If you find multiple threads, there are multiple points.

I could argue that rugby and lacross are just as violent. I think the potential for really bad injuries is really bad in hockey. You're not just running full force. You're skating really fast when you smack into each other.

lol, you part of that club too eh? No. My parents were alcoholics. So while I enjoy a good rum (or bottle of) I don't get drunk all that often.

I chalk that up to a poor decision on the director's part. It was anticlimactic. I would have rather seen Obi-Wan allow himself to be impaled (in non-mortally wounding fashion) to take down Maul, or have shear luck be a factor. I hate it when some great "master" just decides to not block or defend themselves all of a sudden.

If you are a ROLL-player, then this is important. If you are a ROLE-player, it's not so much.

It's funny. I love big worlds to explore. Morrowind just didn't seem fun. If there were more surprises, or better creature AI perhaps. The sound and texture upgrades fan made do help.

I will occassionally settle for a hack-n-slash if the exploration portions of the game can keep me awake while I play it.

I'm hoping this was a joke. Delaware was never a President. (Then again, I'm not really convinced it's a state either. I've never see definative proof).

I was quite sad to see Carth and Bastilla get lots of character development, and see the other characters get half-ass development. Canderous is challenged to a duel. Then he thinks, and with no real explanation decides that his whole belief system and paradigm should go out the window. Mission at least has justifications from growing up and being disillusioned. HK had some character development but it was minimal. I kept waiting for T3 to someday say something or show the smallest semblence of personality some day. Jolee was introduced late enough that development seemed rather rushed and never fully realized. I'm worried about this idea of having so many NPC's recruitable. One thing I enjoyed in KOTOR was revisiting each of the planets with every combination of NPCs I could think of to see new interactions and comments. IF there are 20 recruitable NPCs I think these interactions and developments will be sub-par. I'd rather see a P:T where you didn't have a whole lot of recruitable NPCs, but each were great, fully-developed NPCs.

I get most of my news online. I can go directly to the content I want, and read it much faster. I get my content from multiple sources. I avoid the TV if I can.

What happens if they wake up before you? Maybe you're the sucker then.