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That's an odd thing to say as without the cutting edge CGI and Cameron, Avatar wouldn't be Avatar. Would apple pie be as tasty if it didn't have apples and wasn't pie? "Just because something is popular, doesn't mean it's good" is a worthless statement as it doesn't tell us anything about the product in question Product ?. Maybe it is a good product, what do I care. Episode One was a probably a 'good product', it was also a horribly dull movie. If we are talking about a work of art I can't think of a more ever present truism than that popular does not equate with good. If stripped of the polish, which is admittedly very impressive, the rest is just so incredibly banal as to be an almost complete waste of time. The goal was to create a blockbuster, to entertain with the environment of Pandora, that they did, and those kinds of moves are rarely any good. Once in a while you get lucky and find both quality and a giant budget. Doesn't happen often though.

Hundreds of blogs, YouTube videos and Twitter postings apparently these days regurgitating internet blabber counts as a news source. 'Twitter postings'. Don't these things have a 100 word limit, and who the hell cares what people put in them enough to call it newsworthy.

So it started as an experiment in recreating the consciousness of the dead and somewhere along the line the developer developed a boner ? Mui bizarre

'Good' is of course a more or less subjective standard, but do you really think Avatar would have had a leg to stand on without the cutting edge CGI and Cameron's name. You can spend yourself to a box-office hit even if the story is weak, I think it's pretty obvious that that is what has happened here.

Also it is really pretty, and there's the 3D thing. Eyegasms does not a good movie make however.

People are idiots, that's an opinion that explains why popularity in no way correlates with quality.

Ohh yeah baby

It was.... boring. Beautiful and boring, and Cameron is one of my idols. Depressing really.

ehhh.. why was the world gonna end again ?

Well I should be in the clear then.

I agree, there is often a misconception between being politically (in)correct and just being an ass. I prefer having the asses spurt their idiocy to artificial language though, makes it easier to see what people are really about.

The wildlife AI definitely needs to be something other than a wild charge the second they spot you, that's a given.

I just wanted to point out one thing quick. Not "his worshipers" - just worshipers. There have been too many influential religions to say "his" as that would imply a single male monotheistic deity. In that same post you quoted i wrote 'his(her)' explicitly to point out the lack of a common gender pronoun. Pay attention !

Hugh Laurie is good, the formula of the show though is getting really old.

Soooo... It was pretty much exactly like I expected. The environment of the jungle made it worthwhile to watch, the story was straightforward and lacking much subtlety. Cat Pocahontas had a nice ass. Was that a creepy thing to say ?. Well it's still true.

Witcher would have been a lot better with some arcade challenge to winning the fights 'point, click' gets tedious for me really fast. No blocking, dodging, counter etc. Unfortunately they seem to have stuck with that concept for the sequel, maybe because they can make the fights look cool, as opposed to interesting, that way.

I liked the witcher better as well. The postcards were silly, but he was supposed to be a Don Juan, getting farmer's daughters into trouble, so it kinda made sense. DA failed to move me, probably because the entire premise and setting was so generic and uninteresting. Parts of Orzamar were good, other than that not many highlights. Some of the voice acting was so bad I found myself hitting the escape button to skip on my first play-through. Withcer was intermittently good. I liked the two village areas for instance.

easy as goblin pie

Kargain on the other hand is awesome.

I just cheated my way into the Alister romance. . . CRPG romance equivalent of fingernails grating on a blackboard. I wish there was some way to go completely dark side on his ass, turn him into an abomination or something.

It's difficult to convey irony in text, I thought I did reasonably well though. I don't know how you live to be an adult and not know what a foxhole is.

In any case in the face of your own imminent demise there are few people who would not start praying just on instinct, hypocrisy be damned. Incidentally, who thinks god is not real just because we created him(her). Whether he is just an elaborate joint psychological construct or not, he still real to a whole lot of people, and and everyone deals with the reality created by his worshipers. It ought to make one consider the nature of knowledge, especially if you are one of those people who insist on discussing religion entirely in empirical terms.

Vehicles are the next obvious step. I don't think it's unrealistic at all. Whether there is going to be much interaction with other vehicles, that I'm not so sure of.

What, like actual holes dug by foxes.

I thought they gave it to Obsidian, is he there to ensure the presence of mudcrabs ?