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I never judge too much on a pilot. I'll give it two more episodes and see how it paces itself. It probably needs to maintain a decent chunk of the Chuck audience to survive the season, which seems feasible enough. Who knows?

It's probably your PC

It looks like the mom is going to take on a legal role and be involved in the fight in some way as well. This would be fine, and might actually be a plot strength, except you still have the young boy who now both parents are placing in danger by their actions. A better plotline would have the boy dying, both parents getting angry about it. The Cape takes it out on the criminal element, the wife blames the Cape and refuses to have anything to do with him, but does get involved in the fight through the court system. That frees the Cape up to do his thing without the wife and kid tying him down.

I would probably turn to the parents more than the mental health industry here. It sounds like he had mental problems throughout his life, and his parents needed to help him with that much earlier. I am sure we will learn more, and I'm not looking to place full blame on them or anything, but I think they were in the best position to help him before he got this bad.

That is fantastic. Thank you for posting it, my entire outlook on mankind has brightened

With Inception, it's a personal choice, it was left open-ended on purpose. Someone mentioned the kids were wearing different clothes in the end scene than the earlier memories, and that was enough for me to go with it as a good ending.

Anyone else catch the pilot for The Cape? There were some things I really liked, and a few that bothered me a bit. The cast is very good, with some inspired choices like Scales and the entire circus troupe, oh and the guy from West Wing. So far the lead actor is the only guy that I wasn't impressed with, which is a bit of a problem. But he might turn out ok, it is always tough to tell in a pilot when they are trying to build an entire backstory for the guy in a very short timeframe. Summer Glua (Firefly girl) is in it as well, I didn't really get her character though. It's a bit hard to get into her as a normal person, since she has always played less than human roles. I guess we will see how it works out for her. The story was a bit frenetic, but again it was a pilot and I know they try and force a lot in there to get it greenlit. It was good enough to get me to watch a few more episodes. It's basically Batman, but isn't necessarily a bad thing. Oh, the whole family angle isn't working for me.

What if I really only buy these open world games for the first half?

Ok, I won't answer. All you need is a glove and some lube though, but I digress. Actually I was thinking about testicular cancer when I mentioned the self exams

I got quite a few invisible barriers in Risen as well.

pathetic I like that he used Turbine as his success story. LotRO is awesome, and the microtransaction system they put into place works better than I ever imagined. I was pretty skeptical about it at first, but it is great, attracts new players, and doesn't feel out of place or like I'm being nickel and dimed to death.

It seemed like a story with some potential, but it just went stupid about halfway through. If he had actually worked towards bringing the system down, that would be one thing. But it lost me when he started blowing up interns.

That's a bummer Gorgon, but better safe than sorry, I suppose. I believe my first prostrate exam was in my early twenties. Took me a bit by surprise. I haven't had one in about 8 years though, but I check 'em on a regular basis myself. Remember folks, you lower your risks of prostrate cancer by regularly firing the cannon, if you get my drift.

Knight and Day - As always, Tom Cruise plays his role perfectly. He may be batpoop crazy in real life, but the guy can act. I have a hard time thinking of any bad movie he has been in. Cameron Diaz was a bit meh, but it was still an entertaining flick.

I'm playing the original, and I'm having a hard time sticking to it. I am playing 20 minutes at a time. I'm not a big shooter fan, so that is probably it. But I also am a bit tired of running through warehouses.

Those Green activists aren't exactly what I'd call organized crime. I am surprised the police would waste an undercover officer on them, you would think standard surveillance would be enough. Don't get me wrong, I think these environmentalists are usually crazy, but their intentions aren't exactly sinister.

Matt Hasselback is the Volourn of the NFL.

Took me awhile to get a flickr image that wasn't locked, but eventually I got this. Pretty sweet!

It would be slightly hilarious is the Seahawks made it to the Superbowl. If they win another game, they head into the NFC championship as a 9-9 team I'm actually not surprised NO lost, I just wish I had put some money on it. I watched a few games by them this season, and they pulled off a lot of close games against mediocre teams. That's never a good sign.

I hope she is able to make a full recovery. Sadly, it was a bit of a comfort to hear this wasn't a political assassination, as my first reaction was 'have politics in this country really gotten that bad?'

Elric gets mad and topples entire civilizations and stuff. He's like Conan on steroids.

On that note, has Bioware said how much stuff DA2 is going have about wardens or the darkspawn? I've seen no detailed info. I would guess that they will expand a bit on the whole darkspawn getting smarter and developing independent thought, which I find interesting enough. I'm hoping they are done with the Wardens. The fact that our protagonist hasn't been mentioned as a warden gives me great hope.

I like the DA universe more than the ME one, but as a game, I felt both ME's played better than DA. It just felt rather grind-y in parts. Of course I also think the Wardens and the Darkspawn are the lamest part of the DA universe, so having an entire game set around that stuff didn't help me much.

That doesn't sound very promising. Did it really say that? I mean, Bethesda knows that the radiant AI was terrible, why would they try a variation of that?

I'm looking forward to a more focused narrative in DA2. I enjoyed the multiple paths in DA, but I expect the story to be more personal with just one human character. But I'm a big fan of Mass Effect, so take that as you will