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Excellent! Soon they will run out of financially viable superheroes and end up making a Deadpool movie! Of course, it will be a terrible cash-grab. *cries*

I found the gifts hidden in the basement when a few days before christmas when I was three or four.

Don't mind him, he's just part of the natural backlash that everything gets when if it becomes really popular. I call it "Lord of the Rings is overrated" syndrome. After Lord of the Rings became a worldwide cinema phenomenon, all these faux-hipsters started springing up saying it sucked.

Honestly, I've cheated my way through some games. Most notably, I cheated myself all the way through WarCraft III when it came out. I finished it cheatless a later time, but the first time I just wanted to know the story as quickly as possible.

Typical Robin Williams fare would have meant that Robin Williams had made me laugh. Yet only Mr. Walken did.

I have heard only two 50 Cent songs and two Kanye West songs, and both only once. This is only because I resolve to listen to at least two songs before I start not listening to them. So far, avoiding both of them has been quite easy. Really, if you don't want to hear them, then just ignore them.

Roky Who of the 11th what?

That's some good guitar playing but I just wasn't "feeling" it. Then again, what do I know? I know like five chords and two scales.

Baldur's Gate's replayability also resides in it's choices and huge amounts of content. I've replayed the game several time, once I had a savegame that said I spent 200 hours on it, yet I am almost certain that I still missed plenty of sidequests, dialogue and character interaction. For example, I only recently found out about the way Jan Jansen and Minsc interact, simply because I had never used them together.

Hm... I've had one year of college, six years of high school and eight years of elementary school... that makes fifteen years, and I'm nineteen. I guess that means I started elementary school when I was four. I know I've done at least a year of pre-school, so at the latest I started pre-school at 3. So do most kids in Holland I think. However, our school system is radically different than yours I imagine. (For one thing, the heavy backpack problem doesn't start until high school here. All the elementary school books have to be supplied by the school!)

Err... heh. I'm dutch, and I didn't even know the japanese had a dutch-based theme park. :D

It's certainly better than some of the alternatives.

In my experience, at least 45% of all people with a Che t-shirt think he is a member or mascot for the band "Rage Against the Machine".

I know quite a few gay guys. I knew a lot of lesbians, but not a single one stayed lesbian after puberty. I find that interesting.

You're underestimating the time it costs to do a good webcomic. I've tried and failed on multiple occassions.

I have no problem with people who play WoW, I'm just not interested in it. I do have a problem with the undeserved backlash against it. I tried it for a while, and though it's not my kind of game, it's pretty solid. Still, the whole WoW thing at BlizzCon doesn't interest me one bit. I'm just following it for the StarCraft II news!

Number Five Alive!

I watched an episode of Bleach today and all I could think about was how awful the animation was. Seriously, every animator on that show needs to be fired.

Dutchmanwithajoint?

Speaking of the developments with the undead, did anyone else notice how much Blizzard is ripping themselves off with that? You've got the "good warrior girl", (Kerrigan, Sylvanas) and they get turned into a screwed up version of themselves by a faction which consists out of mindless monsters (Zerg, Undead) who are basically controlled by one all-knowing creature (The Overmind, The Lich King). But then their controller hits a snag, and suddenly they have free thought again, and decide to take a part of the faction for their own (Kerrigan's broods, The Forsaken). Also, both of them are very treacherous. I'm pretty sure both of them betrayed everyone they came into contact with. (Mengsk, Raynor, Fenix, Zeratul - Garithos, Arthas, The Dreadlords)

Hah! 180. is my favorite. "It is my genetic imperative."

Well, judging by the amount of profit some fantasy universes generate... I quite agree though, except I'm going to have to say that WarCraft III already destroyed it. I was liking my orcs bloodthirsty and savage, thank you very much. Now they've become second-rate Protoss.

I don't know if someone has brought this up in this thread before because it is far too long to completely go through, but what is it with all the creating and beginning in this thread? Why does everything have to have a beginning? Why can't something just be there? Be eternal? Or is that too big a concept for way too many human minds to wrap themselves about?

I'm replaying an old RTS Game that doesn't get enough love, WarWind II. I love how the unit system in this game works; you don't build units, you find civilians and hire them and proceed to train them to become better units. It's handled quite impressive, but sadly it still requires just a little bit too much resource-managing. Perhaps at some point someone will take this system and tweak it so it works.

*John rolls a twenty! His head pops off like a bottlecap!*