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Hah, fair enough. My point is, however, that King's stuff has very variable quality (ranging from the outstanding to the awful) and saying that it's not as good as some of his best works isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. Even if it's decent, it's still no Langoliers miniseries and that strikes me as it being in the win category.

Like Maximum Overdrive and The Mangler? Overall, I'd say it falls somewhere in the middle.

I thought he was a pretty good Batman other than the voice. He definitely had screen presence. Just... the damn voice...

It's probably the best "survival HOrror" game in recent memory, with survival being the key. That and some pretty good characterization of Ellie and Joel. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is not old enough to support that claim. Although that may be more horror than survival horror. I thought The Last of Us was a pretty great zombie movie though.

I've got about one hate PM as long as I've been here and I'm a huge jerk. I got a declaration of love once, though.

Hurray, America is finally on the road of realizing a non-issue is a non-issue!

Urgh, I'm so behind on the work I have to do, I think I'm going to have to cancel my time off for the time being. I was looking forward to spending more time with my girlfriend too.

I've started watching a Let's Play series about that game, and it is the first time I thought a game was worth buying a PS3 for. Too bad it's so late in it's life cycle.

I've got 20.

I dunno, I was entertained. Just not by what they wanted me to be entertained by. Ewan McGregor's extremely wooden performance was particularely entertaining.

Jack the Giant Slayer. Big giant meh. Okay popcorn muncher with some clever bits and terrible creature effects.

Man, those anchors got knocked in the dirt right there.

The first Amnesia had a few jump scares but the main focus is definitely not things jumping out at you.

Play it. The feeling of finishing that game if you're at all scared of horror anything is akin to the feeling of growing extra testicles by sheer will.

I like your old-timey view of what journalists do.

Heh, same here. I actually never finished the game. I loved what I played through...the atmosphere, the graphic/gameplay design. But after awhile I just couldn't take the constant tension anymore. I usually prefer games for relaxation or stress relief, not to increase my stress. So it's become another of those games that I mean to get back to "one day." During a bright sunny day, perhaps. Me too. It was too stressful so I quit about half way through. I don't generally enjoy survival horror much anyway but Amnesia was particularly terrifying compared to Resident Evil, Silent Hill etc. I find most Survival Horror to be frustrating more than scary - I'm more worried about conserving ammo than surviving. Amnesia, however, is a different story. Ever since I played it, no other horror game or film has scared me.

I'll bring my brown trousers. Finishing the original was one of the most grueling yet cathartic experiences of my life. I especially enjoy it when the developers describe "oh, you used that game mechanism to survive the last game? yeah, you can't do that anymore". "Oh, you counted on being able to run past the monsters? Yeah, now we have tiny corridors and a million line of sight blockers." "Oh, you counted on the monster being gone when the music ends? Yep, removed that feature."

How am I only watching Re-Animator for the first time right now? This is hilarious!

But if they have to vote when will they have time for cleaning?

I'm more talking large scale as

Mild spoiler warning. The dragon is not the end of the book either, there's a some pretty large scale stuff coming up that in fact ties a lot of the so far seemingly random encounters together.

Movie 43. Stay away from this. It is terrifyingly bad.

Well, of course it is an epic as in the noun, not so much epic as in the modern adjective as in riveting and large scale and especially not predictable. You can make that claim about any story everyone knows, but the narrative has many out-of-nowhere twists, a distinct lack of foreshadowed arcs and absolutely no comfortable solutions. What it does have is corpse desecration. In fact, it's pretty much everything Drowsy up there describes he hates about Martin's series. Paris and Robb may as well be the same character as far as the political ramifications of their actions go. (And horribly boring from anything but a historical standpoint, did I mention that?)

This is without a doubt the worst thing I've ever seen parading around as a protip. Then I guess the Illiad is crap as well? Because its both predictable and sensible in the specific context of an epic tragedy, something Martin didn't grasp before he caught an acute case of scribomania. Ow! Strawman to the face! What you're describing isn't The Illiad. What you're describing is Avatar. The Illiad is full of random God appearances and central heroes dying horrible deaths after losing all bravery and running away. Not much epic about the actual poem other than the length.