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That's an internal conflict, though, not overt warfare, which is what Star Wars is. BioShock is less of the Star Wars good vs. evil, and more just a dude who is in a baffling situation trying to survive and sometimes being forced to do things he probably finds morally questionable. I don't know how the sequels will play out, of course.

I picked up the first season on DVD after reading a big thing about it in the New York Times Magazine, and really really enjoyed it. Doesn't look like season 2 is out yet, but I'll definitely grab it when it is.

...? IMDb lists him as, variously, a writer, producer, and story editor on quite a few episodes.

I'm willing to go back to Prince of Persia and put a few more hours into it to see how it evolves. For now though I'm going to get through Tomb Raider so I don't get too fragmented.

Glad to have you! (despite the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the migration)

So, basically, Gordon Freeman is a sociopath, the Prince of Persia is an absent-minded moron, and Mickey Mouse has obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Congratulations! I wholeheartedly agree!

Yes, then we created new ones, but I did a better job of masking them in post I hope.

I have it on PC. Controls were fine for me. It would probably be a bit more intuitive with a controller, but I didn't have any problems so I didn't bother plugging in my 360 pad. I have a four-button mouse (two on top, two for the thumb) and it defaulted to putting various bindings across those four buttons. I don't know what the defaults would be using a mouse with fewer buttons.

The posters are completely rad aesthetically, no doubt. It's just the fact that they are real things posted by a real government in the developed world that is pretty goddamn nuts. And yeah I saw that study referenced in one of the articles about these things.

Thanks! And welcome!

I don't think I actually look like that! But that's cool. Great job compiling all that stuff, I'm constantly forgetting one or two of them so this is actually pretty useful.

Holy shit it's real. I just looked it up and found some blog posts from people who got their own by calling up the transportation department or whatever government agency produced it.

They're taking their "web magazine" format to the next level by simulating the long lead times of print, while also giving a hot "websclusive" scoop to their own publication immediately after interviews are conducted. IT'S THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM

What do you mean by that? Obviously it's not one big connected world, I mean they have to split it up into levels since you go to different levels. I don't think they call it "level 1" or "level 2" or "tighten up the graphics on level 3" or whatever, but there's definitely a hard break in the action and then there's a loading screen and your character is suddenly in a different place. I could be misunderstanding what you mean though?

My version doesn't have any so I'm gonna do nothing about it! When I started that bit I was kind of irritated but then it ended really quickly so it ended up not being too bad. I don't know, I guess It looks like when you start a new level you can choose your outfit along with your secondary weapon

I started playing Tomb Raider Underworld yesterday since I picked it up during the Steam sale and it's sort of filling the void of action/adventure platformy-fighty stuff in exotic locales that was created by the disappointment of Prince of Persia for me.

I'm pretty much just playing PC these days

Try this on for size: http://goty.cx/gotycxthealbum/idlethumbs_thegamse2008.mp3

I saw Seven Pounds today, and it wasn't that great. My opinions are possibly colored by the fact that we intended to see Benjamin Button but the internet told us the wrong time and we were late so we had to settle for Seven Pounds, but also it still wasn't actually that great. However, and this is probably the best thing about the film, and I don't entirely mean to damn with faint praise, was how successfully they managed to obscure the actual plot of the film in the trailers. It's been a long time since I saw a movie in a theatre and didn't actually know what it was going to be about before it started. Maybe the television advertisements gave more hints, but the theatrical trailers I saw were impressively secretive about the film's plot, and that was pretty awesome. It was really the one thing that made us curious to see it at all.

Man these forums are so busted

Hey there, folks!

Thanks! I am also surprised we are releasing these so regularly, to be honest. There's not much actual editing of the conversation--the goal is to just capture an hour or so of discussion. That ends up being the case most of the time, but I usually have to do a bunch of post-production work to fix stupid shit like us forgetting to turn on Nick's mic (which still sounds terrible) and, depending on how patient I am and how late it is, inserting goofy jingles here and there. The audio equipment is pretty decent and I spent a lot more than I like to think about on it. Also, that was Far Cry: Instincts on Xbox that broke my speakers!

Nick's mic was turned off accidentally, just like last week's. This week's show is literally the second half of last week's.