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I'm pretty sure having rocket scientists from NASA come up with Angry Bird puzzles is a great way to make me fail miserably at solving them.

Gilbert Grape, Howard Hughes, and his recent turn as a slave owner in Django Unchained were pretty far away from his stereotype. Sure, his roles in Shutter Island, Departed, and Gangs of New York are all pretty similar, but they don't share much with Catch Me if You Can or Basketball Diaries.

Didn't Leo win for The Aviator? I just looked at the list, wow, he's got a ton of nominations and very few wins. Ah well, at least he's getting the nominations.

I hope Thomas doesn't play again. His antics are wearisome.

I'm not entirely sure what Trash man is arguing, but it sounds like he is upset about the aggressiveness of the LGBT rights movement. That is a common argument, I know quite a few people who say they don't care if someone is gay but that doesn't mean they need parades to show it off. But honestly, that is how human nature works. For centuries gay people have been repressed and persecuted. In the last 30 years that has been slowly changing, and we are really at the peak here where gay people are being allowed to openly embrace their identities. So of course there is going to be some hypersensitivity, some that go overboard on the political correctness. It is important to have voices of reason to combat that hypersensitivity, but it is so much better than the centuries of condemnation that came before the shift. Let's also not fool ourselves, there are huge parts of the world and even developed nations like the US that continue to tar and feather anyone suspected of being gay. As long as the word gay is still thrown around as an insult on the playgrounds of our nations, we have a long way to go. Racial epitaphs used to be thrown around in the same way, and it took decades of social sensitivity to change that.

The Islanders are eventually going to have an entire roster of guys that don't want to play for them :D

I haven't seen Trouble with the Curve, but I've enjoyed Justin Timberlake in a couple movies. He was really good in Alpha Dog. And yeah, his Saturday Night Live appearances are pretty much the best thing out there. It's pretty hard to hate on a guy who has no trouble lampooning himself over and over again.

What I'm saying is that act is a lot more rare than most people think and it doesn't even apply to female relationships. It's also a private matter between the couple and not really something that anyone else should concern themselves over. There are plenty of ways to be intimate with someone that don't involve that. It's also very unrealistic to simply say the government should get out of the marriage business. I agree with those of you who state that, but there simply isn't a large movement to do so. You are avoiding the issue when you do this though. The fact is many governments ARE involved in marriage and there are many benefits to being married. The question is should the government be allowed to discriminate between which couples deserve those benefits. My answer is emphatically no. Governments have a duty to protect the minorities against the tyranny of the majority. Gay couples are not provided the same rights as straight couples, and that is a major injustice.

Bringing up anal sex when discussing gay marriage is always a head scratcher for me. It really has nothing to do with it. In fact bringing up sex in general when talking about a lifelong commitment to another person shows a lack of understanding about what it takes to have such a relationship.

LOST was more about the journey than the destination though. The ending was bound to disappoint many. Which is really what people should do with the Mass Effect series as well. Don't let the last 10 minutes ruin the previous 80 hours.

Huh, I'm surprised he is so unhappy with Greenlight. I guess he envisioned it as something better, but I thought it was a pretty good way to get indie developers spotlighted.

In some ways Half-Life as a series has been the highest end of storytelling in games, it's not perfect obviously, and there was much improvement from Half-Life to Half-Life 2. In your universe LOST was not a pile of ****? LOST is fantastic, but I understand some people didn't enjoy it. What I don't get is putting Half-Life on a pedestal. It is a great shooter with very good cinematics worked into the game, but it's a pretty meh story. It's definitely not original in any way, which can't be said about LOST.

So in your universe, Half-Life is some sort of high end storytelling and LOST is lowest common denominator drivel?

The guy was confirmed like two weeks ago, yikes.

Also the widescreen mod makes the game look a lot better.

I don't care about Day 1 DLC, as long as you don't put the DLC vendor in my camp offering his quest for 900 Bioware points

If you are desperate, Jason Demers just came back from injury for San Jose and can put up points. He doesn't get a lot of minutes, but with Brent Burns out he might be a surprising scorer.

Obviously it's going to divert from the whole book concept, but it looks like it might be a great zombie movie in its own right.

Comparing any small nation to one large nation that is basically 50 smaller ones is fairly silly as well.

It was a very entertaining superbowl, even though my team lost. Ah well, back to hockey and waiting on spring training. Bought my tickets for a Beerwalk that is happening in Japantown this weekend. It should be fun!

I assume most people in Japan are killed with ninja stars and samurai swords.

Yeah, I went with a male warrior, then a male rogue, and both fell flat a bit after I got into Kirkwall. female mage seems to be the way to go.

You have a long time to go, kickoff is 3:30. I havent even started my appetizers yet.

The best PS3 game I bought recently was NBA 2k13. You dont need to be a huge basketball fan, it is just a fantastic rpg where you build your into a superstar. Just finished DA2, planning on playing some more LOTRO this week.

Ok, after two previous failed attempts to get into DA2, I gave it another try. This time it managed to keep me engaged. There were still quite a few moments where I had to suppress my brain from really thinking about what was happening in the story, but there were a few things that kept me going. First, I played a female mage. The game really seems geared towaes this, as the templar conflict is much more interesting from the perspective of an apostate. Second, I enjoyed the whole sibling rivalry I had going with Carver. In fact the game is quite good with rivalries in general, crushing that elf girls dreams was also pretty good. I hated blood mages and I never dealt with demons, and it was rewarding. Third, I really enjoyed Fenris's story, and his dynamic with my mage. It was a challenge to keep him on friendly terms. So yeah, there were some major problems, but I do enjoy the universe and I am glad I finished it. I will buy DA3 and hope that they fix the more glaring issues I had with the general storytelling.