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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - kind of an odd fish, really. It takes a small slice of the Street Fighter backstory (specifically, how Chun-Li got involved in trying to take down Shadowloo prior to the original Street Fighter game) and essentially makes a late 80s/early 90s "martial arts" film about it (you know the kind that mixed average gun fights and chases in with martial arts fighting that show up on local TV stations on weekend afternoons). Neil McDonough and Michael Clarke Duncan are quite hissable as villains. Kristen Kreuk and Robin Shou do well as heroes. Robin Shou is really good as Gen; its a pity he hasn't had more of a major career, I think. Kreuk manages to be a good deal more believable as Chun-Li than I'd have guessed when I first heard about the film much to the films benefit. Chris Klien - as Nash - may be the only actor I've seen able to chew scenery as one of the good guys. He is all over the place, putting his all in every scene, walking like he owns the place, growling, scowling, shooting at people and making some very odd expressions. Its almost like he's in a complete other film, one which I'd be interested to see just to find out the context for his performance. Biggest problem is the editing; the film feels hacked up and I think that the order of some incidents may actually not be presented in the order they were planned to happen in the script. F Day of the Animals - Leslie Nelson wrestles a bear, Christopher George, Michael Ansara, and Richard Jaeckel wrestle dogs in this "environment goes crazy" disaster styled horror film. Worth watching for Leslie Nelson going from annoying ad-man to over-the-top wild-man. He also gets the best lines "I think with my head; most people think with their butts!"

Maybe they're both for it as part of a global wise conspiracy to make you think that they're actually adversaries, thus encompassing all of the population of earth to choose to take one side or the other never knowing they're actually the same side. The same side RULED BY TRANSPARENT HEADED FISH OVERLORDS!!!!1111111onetwothree

Tetris: The Role Playing Game. 7 races (red, white, magenta, green, dark blue, cyan, brown ) 7 classes (I, J, L, O, S, T, Z.) No RPG can boast such customizable characters! You play as the chosen tetronomino, raised from childhood by a unique monastic order tasked with solving social ills of the world by uniting the 7 races to form a powerful block to fight against the oncoming oblivion that threatens the world from the Edge of the Screen.

Anything Victorian sucks. I'm sure Victoria will be offended at your statements.

I think the Flamer and the Minigun both only really work in real time; neither seem suited for VATS due to the low number of "hits" it can get in the VATS time period, vs being able to just pump bullets (or flames) onto the opponent. In real time both were fine weapons, although it seemed to me the minigun wore out faster than the flamer. The missle weapons seemed to be better in VATS than in real time partially because it was less likely - at least in my experience - for the simple fact that they work better at distances and the opponents were less likely to move out of position as the missle traveled in VATS (or at least less likely to travel out of the range of the explosions).

Pwned! Oh wait...

Its really mostly a shell for the eyes (they're the big green topped tube things in the transparent skull; the two opening above the mouth are actually olfactory senses, apparently).

For me NWN was probably the one I had the most trouble with, but that's because I didn't find the OC as compelling (I did like both expansions) and I find the original BG just about impossible to play now (I can still play BGII, but usually give up in Throne of Bhaal). Still I enjoyed them all and I'm looking forward to DA a good bit (and ME2). If I get the kind of enjoyment I've gotten out of NWN, BG, BG2, ME or JE, I'll be happy.

http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/20.../barreleye.html Monteray Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been studying a deep sea fish with a transparent head!

Yeah they've had some games better than others; hopefully DA will click on all cylinders.

If the nearest big city was bombed, I'd be in the outer damage circle at Mk28; I'm in the second inner ring with a Tsar Bomba, in the initial blast radius with a B61 and an Asteroid impact takes out the entire state. IIRC a physics professor said that the radiation from the smallest bombs would still probably kill us where we lived.

That's DARTH BEAN to you, Taks. I've always wondered - did Darth Bean accidentally headbutt the Emperor during a "meet and greet"?

I enjoyed it and like Oerwinde I've liked all of the Bioware games I've played. I wouldn't say its the greatest game in the world, but I did enjoy it.

I agree about the two tiers, but I think that Richard is not "powerful". He knows what he has to do and does it, he has no ambition beyond that. Maybe he is the default leader of the Others when there is no leader, being immortal helps too. Weird thought - maybe Alpert is ultimately to the island what Abadon was for Widmore - the guy who helped people get to where they need to be?

Nah Nah! That's very unmanly. Not if you punch hard enough. So hard the superfluous "X" chromosome breaks into a "Y"?

We do sometimes fall into unnecessary hand-wringing over such things.

Alpert could be evil. I won't discount that possibility. And all THREE could be evil too. Jacob could be evil as well.

Then what purpose does the review actually have? If a review is just a schlub writing or entertainment, then is it terribly useful to the reader as anything other than entertainment in and of itself?

I think that both Ben and Widmore are evil, to be honest. I think Alpert is Neutral. May change that evaluation later on.

Well I'd guess it'd be so that people who've come to expect to see other people around don't assume said person fell off the face of the earth.

Are reviews entertainment or sources of reasoned, expert opinion? I'd imagine the answer to that question would lead us to find a divide between those who expect casual vs formal in the writing style.

Mass Effect again be what I'm playing.

I doubt they're taking credit so much as IGN is giving them credit. At least Chris Avellone was thanked in the BG manual IIRC...

Amazing is one word, yes. Stupid is another. lol. Or it blows them several feet away. I do head shots any way so its possible. I liked it when I dumped a bunch of points into non-physical stats creating the proverbial 110 lb weakling scientist type and in the opening escape hit a VATS critical with a bat on a guard, causing him to fly in the air as if punched by Superman. It was awesome.

I probably didn't notice the humour in Zork because I was too busy being frustrated by the puzzles.