Frenetic Pony

Shhhh, don't question it. Just accept that your skull will be crushed into dust, and then efficiently recycled.

What would you call it when a talented high paid video game (insert) is fired over simply "being paid too much"? Activioson'd? Kotick'd? I like Kotick'd. Appropriate considering Activision is now Bungie's titular "boss". Not that I know what actually happened of course. It's just that I can't think of another logical reason for the music composer to be fired.

Well I'm about done with the ones I'm interested in with Discworld. And Guards Guards was seriously entertaining, while Small Gods is in my top books ever written. Frankly I think he loses something of the edge he had as he goes along, as can and often does happen to many. I enjoyed Going Postal, but it just felt too comfortable, even though as someone who almost graduated with an economics degree I adore his description of finance and money as a "shared dream that everyone believes in." That's about the best simple way to explain what money actually is that I've ever heard. I also tried reading Thud and it just didn't even click with me. And like most I liked The Watch as a series the best. And even though I'm not interested in the other half of Discworld and more (Death gets boring after Mort, and I only liked 1 of the Witch novels, and Rincewind is seriously uneven) I still can't think of an author I've liked as much as Pratchett for sheer volume of novels, though if I counted them out Master and Commander as a series may come close. Still, all praise to Pratchett. Hope The Last Hero does well.

So I remember reading what this game was about. They said they wanted to make the entire planet explorable all at once, and that you could then go into a spaceship and just fly to one of the moons and it would work. There was also that freerunning concept video. Whatever it is, it sounds ambitious as all get out. If it ever gets out, that is.

So it's basically just the plot of The Winter Soldier?

There's a mod where you make cliff racers go extinct when you kill enough

I think I did if I ever get my movie made. Counting out the pages the car chase should indeed be almost half an hour There isn't quite as many cars involved, but there's still a lot of destruction, a heck of a lot of dangerous stunts, and a finale that will probably have to be CGI'd or at least remote controlled if you don't want a dozen dead stunt men.

Ha! It's an idea, but I've no idea if it would show up much as an affect. Personally I'm kinda for it, my grandmothers house will be up for sale soon, and her three story old house will go for $850,000+ unless there's a crash. I also don't live in SF myself, so there's that, though I've known people that have had a lot of trouble moving there. I think that's really the thing I've seen. People that move there having the damnedest time getting a place in their price range more than anything else. Edit- Mington, I live there! Uhhhh. I don't like wine actually, sorry. The wine train is fun enough though, but I'm not sure a wine tour is necessary. There's so many damned wineries in the Napa Valley you can just pick and choose as you go along one of the two roads up and down the valley. It's also spring, so taking like a convertible or just something you can see out of is highly recommended. Not one of those stupid blacked out mini bus things, unless you plan on getting quite drunk that is, which... obviously do the bus thing. Otherwise, besides wine and cringing at the clothing prices for all the shops she may drag you too, go out to a restaurant (or several, there's like 40+ to choose from). Hit up downtown Napa, Yountville, St. Helena, and Calistoga. Don't be fooled by Oakville and Redford being "towns" the Oakville Grocer (used to be good, not now) and the Redford Grill are literally the only things there, you will otherwise pass by these "places" without realizing you'd gone anywhere. Yelp is good enough for recommendations, though I thought Tarla was solid if you like meditteranean, and Gott's is fun for some high end fast food (get both the Garlic and Sweet Potato fries, even if you die of diabetes and a heart attack you'll thank me). If you don't know what you want head to the Oxbow (downtown Napa) and you'll find a single building with a half dozen restaurants inside. Also, Sonoma is kinda fun but is really just a knock off Napa Valley.

Not at all, like Infamous: Again, it looks like something I'd pick cheap a year+ later when I've got nothing else to play. Which is to say it looks all around solid and possibly fun, but not truly remarkable in any particular way.

I also hope The Avengers 2 doesn't go Winter Soldier. I like the first cause it was stupid fun and a stark contrast to the "dark gritty" bullshit from Batman and Man of Steel. I like The Dark Knight cause at least Heath Ledger is having fun. I honestly can't stand most self serious comic book stuff though. You're dressed as a bat, get over yourself.

Yeah, but they need to do a lot better in a lot of areas. I kind of feel like Either Skyrim represents whacked priorities (crap quests and writing while all the money is spend on making each area of the world unique) or wasn't given enough time or something. Oblivion's problem was too much ambition in not enough time, I can forgive that. But having such janky basics like bad combat still in Skyrim was... ugh. Hope they get better for Fallout 4. PS to Jon Cole, yes the mods are pretty compatible other than the handful of things you need to change for the graphics part.

Please do! The team is generally awesome and volunteers are more than welcome. The mods I linked are also mostly well documented and explicit in how to install, so hopefully it shouldn't take too long. They're all huge fixes and improvements, Morrowind Rebirth is about the size of a hundred other mods combined, and Visual and Graphics overhaul literally is a hundred mods combined. Wanted to give the most bang for your installation time buck

Rick and Morty is the best. The best Or at least when it's really on it's the best. It handles Multiverse stuff like a friggen champ, making it interesting and funny at the same time, rather than just a kind of lame oddness like Bioshock Infinite. I'd say it's at its most awesome when the show is being creepy and nihilistic, so be warned.

I think I might finally buy a 3DS. Pokemon, Ocarina 3d, A Link Between Worlds, Animal Crossing, and now the new Smash Bros without having to buy a Wii-U. My main problem is, local multiplayer is kinda what makes Smash Bros, well, Smash Bros. Who knows maybe it'll be another Brawl and I won't care.

Oh man, but mods are so awesome! I spent as much time installing mods and crashing the game as actually playing it. Regardless, Morrowind Code Patch, Unofficial Morrowind Patch, and Pursuit Enhanced should be required mods for any playthrough. They'll fix a lot of the most basic wonkiness and crashing of the basic Morrowind. And for bonus awesomeness install: Morrowind Sound and Graphics Overhaul and Morrowind Rebirth All in all it shouldn't take you that long to install the 5 above mods, and you'll get a great new experience out of them. I really miss what Morrowind was trying to accomplish in the newer Elderscrolls. It had a much more detailed, interesting, and thought out world than Oblivion or Skyrim did. They tried to make everything as interactive as possible, even if they really couldn't do it they at least tried. By Skyrim however even half the barrels and whatnot are faked and don't have anything in them, let alone being able to actually steal everything and then stack them willy nilly. By the way, OpenMw is something I helped work on for a while. That logo up on the top is (half) mine! It's an open source entire re-write of Morrowind's engine. Bug fixes and new graphical tricks at the core, new modding possibilities, it should hopefully run a lot faster too. It's going to be awesome, and may well actually be out this year! And yes you can run mods with it.

Yeah the over the top Cap stuff was fun, he actually felt like a ridiculous comic book guy this time around instead of just "typical action hero with a shield". But... I don't know. I mean the action was quite well filmed usually and felt really kinetic. Scarlett Johanson is hot and she's in a skintight outfit a lot. There are explosions. Maybe I'm just getting burned out on Marvel and superhero stuff. I enjoyed it, but I was never totally engaged. After all this is the 7th Marvel movie I've seen. The formula kinda wears out you know? The bad guys all kinda look the same. The hero's gotta save the shit at the last minute. Oh no Maybe it's just become too much the same for me. Or maybe it's just me and there's something here that didn't click with me, even though it obviously did for a lot of reviewers and whatnot. Which is weird cause I liked Iron Man 3 well enough and think Guardians of the Galaxy looks good. Maybe it was just that the movies tone is too self serious, and I kind of expect Marvel to be more fun than that. Also, wtf crack are you guys smoking Constantine was horrendous. Maybe I just hate the straight faced gravelly good guy with no personality routine. If you're a good guy be, Han Solo or John McClane. Crack some jokes and shit. Don't just stare off into the distance all the time taking yourself so seriously. Ugh, Christian Bale's robot Bruce Wayne, the worst.

So is there like an upgrade package that includes titanium plating and human subjugation? Or, maybe you have to shell out for the full contract for that.

Into Darkness kinda sucked, I tore into the script and sent into to Bad Robot (spoiler follow, duuuuuh): http://intodarknessscript.blogspot.com/ Basically, one of the biggest problem is that both bad guys sucked. One you actually empathized with and felt sorry for until he just goes all completely maniacal out of left field. The other doesn't seem to have any motivation or even screen time. The second problem is we are constantly told what's happening instead of being shown it. Khan is evil... because he says he is. We don't see him killing tons of people, we're just told he kinda wants too. The other bad guy, admiral what's his name, doesn't do almost anything at all except cackle evilly. It only works if you cackle evilly after like, blowing a planet, not just because. But I've watched Abram's first Star Trek like 10 times. It's basically Star Wars. I hope Kasdan et. al. can help him put together something more like that. And it's not like Disney has "ruined" the Avengers/Marvel if you're into that. The Winter Soldier is supposed to be awesome, The Avengers was awesome, and they even gave Shane Black Ironman 3. Most studios would've balked at a guy like Black going anywhere near a tentpole, so I can't be that pessimistic quite yet.

Argh! Losing confidence is... I haven't pitched my movie script in like 2 months. Because I finally got an answer and the guy never got back to me, never even indicated that he read my screenplay. But I have to get back too it. I love movies, I've watched more movies than months I've been alive, probably by at least a factor of 3. I watched the Red Letter Media review of Star Wars all like 3 times, just to see how movies break down and work, for fun. Get back too it. I don't give a crap if others failed or never succeed in this business. They probably didn't ask for the script for their favorite movie of all time as a birthday present when they were 10, and then read the damned thing to pieces just for fun. But losing and failing again and again and again, with seemingly no hint of success... but I can do it. Agh!

Probably. I swear it's literally just Indy with some stronger female presence. There's Sully, aka Sean Connery. Sala, AKA your current foreign friend. They're missing a Marcus Brody, but I digress. The platforming is utterly basic at best, the levels "flow" just like Half Life, in that it's a series of really cool things to do. I'll admit, almost solid stealth in small parts is nice touch. But it's barely there. I don't think I've seen anyone besides a few people on here call Uncharted groundbreaking. On the other hand Seth Rogen directly called Uncharted "Just Indiana Jones" when he refused to direct a movie adaptation. I'm really not trying to detriment Hennig or Uncharted. Uncharted 2 was a heck of a lot of fun, and 3 was solid enough. It just feels like you're calling both Star Wars and Indiana Jones a bit bullshit, two of the most popular and successful IP's in history; while holding up Uncharted as some breakthrough in gaming. While I can point to any number of reasons and people that would say it's practically in the same genre and spirit as Indiana Jones, and that there are a ton of great Star Wars games that "pushed" things forward as well as any Uncharted game did. Heck I'd say they did even more in their heyday. Jedi Knight had morale choices, first person sword combat (of a sort), an rpg like system in a shooter, and attempted to tell a relatively complex story in a first person shooter way back in 1997. That was friggen mindblowing back then, heck it would be rather unique even today. I get why you might not like Star Wars, but Hennig isn't necessarily going down some hole of staid, forever doomed products just because you don't like the IP personally.

"Monument Valley: An interactive M.C. Escher print that will blow you away" http://www.cnet.com/news/monument-valley-an-interactive-mc-escher-print-that-will-blow-you-away/ Apparently Cnet has been hiring from IGN.

I guess I'm just not sure how I see Uncharted as breaking any new ground anywhere. It was a technically and thematically executed much better than many other third person shooters. But nothing in the gameplay (third person cover shooter), story (long cutscenes and feeling like an action movie was already nailed by Half Life 1) or anything else really felt new. I want her to go do what she does best, which is to ensure the above, a great execution of thematics married with gameplay.

What's wrong with Superhero movies? The Avengers was a heck of a lot of fun. Are you guys seriously calling Uncharted the height of "art and integrity"? It's Indiana Jones in the modern age! It's the cheesy silly schlock adventure movies brought to video games. Everyone involved from Lucas and Spielberg down to Naughty Dog themselves proudly acknowledged as much. And Star Wars is just that but for sci-fi. This is perfect, perfect.

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Cough* The same wallstreet that made Yelp worth so much money, or twitter with no money, or etc. ? Amazon is good at providing mass service of one kind or another at the lowest cost possible. Entertainment is a different beast. They're still getting their asses handed too them by Youtube and Netflix for internet video in terms of traffic volume, and do worse in both quality and variety of service. And video games are, if anything, a hell of a lot harder. Microsoft succeeded here by not only never giving up in terms of failure, which Amazon is good at, but also by having a massively talented engineering staff, which Amazon most certainly does not have.