Frenetic Pony

Depends entirely on the height of the walls actually. Remember, the atmosphere goes up on earth pretty far and we have uh, earth gravity. That is, earth has over 350km (over 200 miles) of atmosphere in height. A couple dozen meters definitely isn't enough to contain an atmosphere by gravity alone. Heck one of the reasons Mars looks the way it does now is that water vapor can actually leak into outer space, because it's too light to be contained by Mar's weak gravity.

Except now you've got Levine's political machinations involved, and you could have it be a spinning cylinder ala: Which could just look friggen amazing on next gen consoles and UE4. A 24 hour earth orbit, near geostationary but not quite. Giant moving mirrors on the sides of those giant windows to reflect daylight constantly towards the sections not currently pointed towards the sun. How awesome would that look! And you lose your fake gravity towards the center, you could have entire sections of low "gravity" as you're high up, and a zero gee section in the center. Or maybe make it 80's, crime ridden pollution filled stuff, the neutron bomb and The Dead Kennedy's "Kill kill kill kill the poor tonight!" playing in the background. Military buildup paranoia to "defeat the enemy".

Colonies in friggen space man: I need to tweet this to Ken Levine, just be like "Bioshock, IN SPACE." And it could be like Cold War era late 70's stuff, communism and paranoia and whatever. Have magic cyborg retro futuristic stuff.

Xbox 180, that is an awesome turn of phrase, pun very much intended Regardless, it seems to me this is a common nightmarish hell that PR people must go through as a job. People seem willing go out and spend hundreds of dollars on something they read about once or heard about from a friend. The idea of carefully considered research that takes all of an hour on a product it took them twenty+ hours of work to earn seems an unabashedly foreign idea to most people. It's like why you have to buy a 'Merican truck like Ford (Made in Mexico) rather than one of them foreign things like Toyota (made in the US).

Nothing except several restraining orders

This is totally my thing, but oddly only with English subtitles. I watched Oldboy just fine (not that I really "enjoyed" such a fucked up movie, but still). But sometimes I'll grab a movie and subtitles will be on, and I can't help but read them every single time, I have to turn them off. Which isn't a big thing 99% of the time, but the point is I can easily see someone having trouble not being distracted by them. Also, speaking of Miike, 13 Assassin's is kinda fucking awesome! I actually liked it quite a bit better than Seven Samurai, which felt a bit aimless and overly long.

Coffee flavored ice cream is awful, as is green tea ice cream. Which is odd because I drink coffee and tea, but not green tea though. It's like someone said "how can we ruin tea?" and then someone else was drinking green tea and lo, it was ruined.

Oh I have, ours is better. It is light and moist fluffy cake heaven topped with deliciousness. And I'm saying this as I like coffee, well not coffee but latte's which taste different, but the principle is the same.

Here's the coffee cake recipe: 2 cups cake flour, sifted. Yes cake flour, you can buy it. 1/2 teaspoon salt. 1 tablespoon baking powder. 1/2 cup butter. 1 cup light sourcream. 1 and 1/2 cup sugar. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Oven at 350 F (175 C) grab a 9x13" rectangle pan, line with tinfoil, grease/pam/your preference. Put the (soft) butter and sugar into a mixing bowl, beat on high speed for four minutes until its super light and fluffy. Next beat in vanilla and sour cream for about one minute on low speed. Finally add both eggs at once, and beat for fifteen seconds on low. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. In a separate bowl sift cake flour, then add salt and baking powder, stir well. Now, by hand, combine the flour/etc. and sugar/butter/sourcream until its combined, but just barely, do not overmix, if you can still see flour separated in places that's fine, don't overmix it. Pour into pan and spread evenly, don't worry if it seems pretty thin. Now take: 1 tablespoon cinnamon (actual cinnamon preferred, that stuff you buy at the local supermarket isn't actually cinnamon most likely) 2 tablespoons melted butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 cup finely chopped pecans Mix together. Now using a spoon spread evenly over the top of the batter. Put into the oven for 25-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. If you did it right you know have coffee cake better than you will find at any bakery.

Ender's Game: What was there was almost pretty good, there just wasn't enough there. One can barely squeeze a good novel down to 3 hours, trying to do it in 2 hours like they did with Ender's Game ruins any chance it might have actually had. Also, Cameron's style is: Warrior Woman, with alternating portions between plot building and shit blowing the fuck up in a good even pacing. Ridley Scott's is "I make crap unless it's science fiction, and even I couldn't save Prometheus that much." I liked them the first time I saw them, but Blackhawk Down and Kingdom of Heaven really aren't that good for repeated viewings. Black Hawk Down is just plotless military porn and Kingdom of Heaven is preachy as all shite.

Yes ponies, but it's just a skin. This thing is addictive, maybe because it's hard as all shite: http://futzi01.deviantart.com/art/Canterlot-Siege-2-409853402 Super hard, must beat, haven't. Maybe it gets easier on something other than the first map???

Oh certainly, I'm not connecting a games possibility of actions to it's complexity. But Hearthstone is, like most other such games, Magic The Gathering But. And the "but" is always "you can't do X, or you can't do Y" and for this distinct type of games the more possible things you can do the more depth the game has. But complexity for complexities sake is quite annoying. Trying to learn Netrunner is an exercise in frustration, as each sides deck, hand, and discard pile has it's own unique and arcane name that you have to learn because cards actually refer to that stuff by name. It's pointless. But being able to use cards during your opponents turn is most definitively not pointless, as there are a large number of actual strategies built around cards that can do such in MtG, and looking at things like how many cards the enemy has in their hand, and what type of deck they're running, and how much mana they have left all play into MtG because of it. Thus adding more depth and decision, whereas with Hearthstone you just say "oh, it's the enemies turn, it doesn't much matter if I'm even paying attention because I can't do anything about it."

Oh no, I agree that being able to attack directly is an improvement of a kind. But the no out of turn actions REALLY bother me, making the entire thing kind of boring and undoubtedly a less complex game. So, yeah, not for me. I do appreciate attempts to balance out bad draws, but not at the expense of just making the game simpler. For me the "game" is often learning to understand all the facets of the game, if there's less to understand then for me there's less game.

Oooh, I really need to play this again. As I understand it from Carmack no one has been able to make a re-usable space plane that can carry cargo, which sounds like a challenge. I bought this, played it, got my second ever rocket into orbit with ease, went through the orbital manuevering tutorial, and then sort of forgot about it. I need to land on the Mun damn it! Maybe the campaign is enough for me to get more into it.

The production values, for a F2P card game, are through the damned stratosphere here. Professional voice acting for a tutorial is ridiculous. That being said I'm really, really not impressed by the game's depth so far. But maybe that's just because I'm still in the tutorial. Still, I can immediately sense that not being able to "block" enemy card attacks on you with your creatures is a lesser mechanic than being able to do so. As is the way in which you gain mana. You don't even need a mathematical proof to know that the game is less complex because you gain mana at a fixed rate rather than as an interactive and strategic part of the game. Which is all too bad, because I really like how you have to pick up and physically drag cards onto the field to play them. But like so many of these F2P online "card" games they took Magic and just made it less interesting and less complex. Considering I'm enjoying Netrunner a lot right now what I'm looking for is just the opposite, something MORE complex than Magic.

Yep: http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/disney-acquires-lucasfilm-star-wars-creator/ That's... pretty much that. Interesting at the very least. And good in its own way, Lucas has been a disorganized cheapskate. A billionaire that refuses to film his "Star Wars" tv series unless someone else funds the entire thing and yet still allows him to retain control. That being said: HEY DISNEY JOSS WHEDON AS STAR WARS DIRECTOR DO IT GOD DAMN YOU! Ok, I'm done.

Depends entirely on the project and who's involved. If you're under someone like Bruckheimer that's certainly true. If you are James Cameron you are god emperor among mere mortals. Most projects end up more towards that Bruckheimer end of the spectrum unfortunately, but it's certainly not true for EVERY project.

The Lone Ranger... IS AWESOME! I think the trailers did a TERRIBLE job of selling the movie. It's utterly ridiculous and weird and silly and is supposed to be. The entire thing is fully cognizant of it's own ridiculousness and tries to embrace it, which is something I had no idea about. The movie somehow got a "isn't that a really bad movie?" rep from, I don't even know where. Which is a shame because it's like Verbinski took the accidental wacky brilliance of the first Pirates and fully embraced it instead of trying to go all "serious" like Pirates 2 and 3. It's a shame it bombed so hard, I'd have really enjoyed a sequel. Especially with that ending train sequence, which even managed to outclass any video game I've played, which includes Uncharted 2 and 3 and GTAV, as the most ridiculously over the top action sequence I've ever seen. And it was friggen awesome!

I don't know, I didn't get a distinct impression one way or another from the press release. Maybe Arndt is still credited with "story" and now the actual "script" is being done? It happens a heck of a lot. Lucas is responsible for the "story" of every Indy movie, and Cameron is going to be credited for the story of Avatar 2-4 but the actual scripts are being written by others.

I tried this briefly and intensely, and ok I'm not the biggest Diablo type fan, but I played Diablo 1 and 2 enough "back in the day". And this is slick, with solid mechanics and controls, an interesting item system that heavily relies on sockets, an interesting skill tree or rather "graph" that allows you to build into and towards any set of skills you want, it even runs perfectly well and good looking on my Intel ULV Core i5/HD 4000. And for all that I just couldn't get into it. I clocked sixty+ hours on Borderlands 2, but I couldn't bring myself to even care with this game despite really wanting to. I'm not sure if it's a lack of... atmosphere or any sort of connected story, no matter how thin. Or if the weird socket system kind of hampers the joy of loot. Or if the minute skill system makes it so leveling up uneventful because you get "+5% damage to..." whatever, rather than "ultra cool war stomp what crushes things!" But, there we are. Maybe I'll give it another go sometime, maybe.

Huh... Ok, I'll check Lone Ranger. But yeah, Man of Steel, beyond the opening awesome sci-fi explody war stuff was over an hour of Superman deciding to stop being a whiny little bitch and actually be, you know, Superman. Which isn't a conflict at all, he WANTS to be Superman, he just... doesn't do it. Stupid Kevin Costner.

Maybe it's because I like juvenile humor and thought GTA4 was missing the mark a lot of the time, and/or because I actually live in California, but I thought the humor was great. I have, however, gotten bored of the world. Because franky LA is boring in real life as well, it's nothing but hundreds of miles of endless freeways and sidestreets with concrete boxes all built in the last seventy years. To top it off I really don't think they did very well on the rest of the world. The bay small town is an utter disappointment compared to the real small waterside towns in California, the mountains and "State Wilderness" and etc. are mostly quite barren and bereft of detail or interest. It's like that spent two thirds of the money making a thousand and one unique buildings for Los Santos itself, which is only a third of the map, and the resulting two thirds of the rest got a fourth the funding, relatively.

Well shit, that's what Earth 2 is like? Over here on the opposite side of the sun Earth 1 is all kinds of crazy fucked up. Every grandfalloon is broke and everyone is obsessed with little squares of light that tell them what their friends are doing, which is inevitably looking at little squares of light that tell them what their friends are doing.

Well, technically I drive by this at least once a week, or something like this most days, since I drive to different places all the time it's the most common thing I see when going to do work, or when working, depending: Though I finally found where'd I live if I had the friggen money to afford this place (About 15 miles away, I squeezed past a gate just to get this shot):

Nyet, I would change your amazon password immediately.