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That response next to your avatar ruined the silence with laughter.

Is Nick Frost supposed to be the best character in ever movie he and Pegg are in, or is that just a coincidence?

Watched Once Upon a Time, how the hell is Pan supposed to recast the curse that brought everyone to storybrook when one requirement is for the caster to sacrifice that which he loves most, and the only thing he loves is himself?

Everything goes downhill after the orphanage scene.

Anyone want copies of Natural Selection 2 or Sanctum 2?

Gal Gadot has been cast as Wonder Woman in Batman vs Superman. I hope she pulls a Christian Bale and gains 30 lbs for the role, she looks like a stiff wind could break her in 2. Otherwise not bad casting I guess.

Playing State of Decay. I'm really enjoying it. The autosave only "feature" in order to avoid savescumming and make you live with the consequences of you actions in interesting. I like that a lot of newer zombie games include an element of base-building.

The thing there, is because they allowed each group a level of autonomy to that degree, they never felt like they were truly Ottomans, which resulted in all sorts of civil war and such. There needs to be a desired level of assimilation and pressure to do so, otherwise you get a patchwork of different people who don't fit with each other, and that doesn't end well. The issue is finding that desired level and the level of pressure that doesn't lead to push back.

I grabbed State of Decay for 50% off, that's it for me. Have christmas to worry about.

You know what Agents of SHIELD needs? Dum Dum Dugan.

Me and the missus really enjoyed the special. Opens up a lot for future stories. Doesn't it kind of negate The End of Time though?

I voted indifferent. As a spiritual successor to PST it should be rtwp, but I do like turn-based

The Mandate also got an article on Kotaku. Last 2 days have doubled their previous best day pretty much.

On my mother's side I'm from an English family that immigrated to British Columbia in the 1800s, one of the founding families of the Comox Valley. On my fathers side I'm mostly Welsh, some older immigrants, some newer(Grandmothers parents moved here from Britain, Grandfather's line dates back further). For a British Columbian I'm relatively old blood.

Jade Empire is on for $3.75 if anyone hasn't played it yet.

IO9 described it as 80's sci fi with a modern coat of paint. that's pretty accurate, and not a bad thing.

Brian Menze was quite insistant on the io9/Kotaku comments that it was a general dis on preorders and not a crack at Obsidian.

I can't stand it when people say "video games aren't serious". video games are a new form of art/entertainment. like movies were in the 20's and 30's. They can be as serious as they intend to be, and someday will MORE engrossing and evocative than any film could hope to be. we haven't gotten there quite yet, but there have been moments in gaming that show glimpses of it. i've cried while playing video games, because of the game itself. twice that i can think of. (walking dead was one of them). how many movies have made me cry? probably about a dozen or so (same for books). I play games for many reasons, but one of them is that I genuinely believe "video games" are the single greatest form of art/entertainment/media we have, and dismissing them as being unacceptable vehicles for social discussion and/or emotional engagement is, imo, dismissing film and literature in the same breath. edit: video games DO have an issue in that most major releases have the emotional maturity of a G.I. Joe cartoon at best. but you can't dismiss the entire medium because the popular trend is to release trashy fiction/railroad-gun-simulators edit 2: also, comic books. most of them are pulp fiction, but some of them are literary works that have a lot of weight and depth. I hope that video games will eventually evolve past where comics have. I think the problem here is you get a lot of "games are art" people who think all games should strive for a higher purpose and the pulpy GI Joe games aren't worth making, and then you get the fans of dumb fun getting all defensive about it. Games can be art, and they can be fun, and they can be fun art. There is room for all of it.

Been watching Steven Universe, based on the hype I was expecting it to be good, at least on Adventure Time's level, but so far its just kind of meh.

If anyone else has been following, the Mayor of Toronto admitted to smoking crack.

Apparently there was a lot more stuff filmed about Malekith, and Christopher Eccleston has talked about there were more elements to his background, motivations and what he was doing that fleshed him out beyond the two dimensional character. Unfortunately, that got hit by the editors in favour of other stuff when they wanted to cut down the length of the film. So who knows, it might turn up on the dvd in 6 months.... I also heard they added more Loki after test audiences whined about not enough Loki. Good move. It had just the right amount of Loki.

Thor: The Dark World Malekith was done way better on Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. That said I liked it better than the first. I was worried reading comments about the humour that it wouldn't fit, but it did. Loki was awesome, Kurse was awesome, hell Frigga was awesome. I really liked Zachary Levi as Fandral, after seeing pictures of him in makeup I was worried, but he nailed the character way better than Prince Charming did. Also, Hogun's moustache makes an appearance after being sadly absent from the first movie. Overall, 8/10, better than the first in some ways, not in others. The ending is awesome, and the mid-credits sequence setting up both Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers 3 was pretty sweet.

Everyone who backed Wasteland 2 gets it for free. Looking forward to giving it a go.

Arrow was good. Don't know why they have black canary as a blonde wearig a blonde wig, especially since the actress that played her in season 1 was a brunette. Professor Ivo introduced. Lots of cool stuff this season.

http://www.theprovince.com/touch/story.html?id=9124456 BC school bans Kindergardeners from touching. Afraid they might hurt someone. Its sad what the world has come to.