Chris

I love split screened FPSing a bajillion times more than internet FPSing, and this is from someone who didn't even actually own his own console until at least 8 years of PC gaming. Reading the horrible crap people type in chat in internet FPS games seriously disgusts me so much that all the enjoyment is sucked away for me. There are definitely some PC FPS games I like but unless it's gotten a lot better recently, the racism/sexism/homophobia/xenophobia/jackassery/arrogance/etc. is just too much for me to take. When you're sitting on the couch with your buddies, as long as everyone there is approximately of the same skill level, you're practically guaranteed a way less aggravating gaming experience.

Woooooooooo!

Transmetropolitan is absolutely great in my opinion. I gave Planetary a read and just couldn't get into it. I might give it another shot at some point, though; I certainly didn't think it was terrible, it just didn't really grab me for some reason.

Watchmen is sort of a deconstruction of the superhero myth. It's presented as a straight superhero story but really digs into the motives of superherodom, the psychology behind those who would become superheroes, possible ramifications, etc., etc. The plot itself is sort of a murder-mystery-unfolds-into-sweeping-global-conspiracy type of thing, but it's really secondary to the themes and (to me anyway) implicit arguments being presented. The issues are also interspersed with fabricated primary sources--newspaper clippings, letters, law enforcement dossiers, and so on. It's really a fantastic work. Unfortunately, it seems to me that Alan Moore has recently started to rehash the whole Watchmen formula again and again, into stuff like Top 10, Promethea, and other stuff in his America's Best Comics line. Some of that stuff is a lot of fun, and there's still stuff to be said there, but none of it to me has the really powerful resonance of Watchmen, which certainly did it first and probably most comprehensively. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is another example, but in such a different context (and largely drawing from a different source medium) it dosen't really bother me. Anyway, Alan Moore is on the whole a really excellent writer. From Hell, especially with some prior knowledge of that era as well as maybe a re-read, is simply an astonishing accomplishment (as opposed to the film, which is merely astonishingly incompetent). V For Vendetta is great as well, and I look forward to its raping at the hands of the Wachowskis and some assistant director from Star Wars Episode II or something like that.

No, I think it's just that you're often much more of a fucker than you need to be. Sometimes I agree with you though.

Not qualifying that makes you seem like you're full of shit, as does saying "by the way" in front of sentence which really does not connect at all to the prior thing you said. Ok, so I'm being pedantic and am possibly full of shit. But I guess we already knew that.

But that's (ARGUABLY) a piece of art... Its sole purpose (ARGUABLY) is one of aesthetic. It dosen't have to do anything else. I don't think it's comparable at all. I guess not, but I think I can trust Microsoft to not release a garish hot pink round with plaid Xbox. For me, as long as it's a fairly solid color and a vaguely reasonable size, I really don't care.

Yes I admit it, thread edited to hell, nobody pay attention to this.

Bwahahahah, classic

I hate to agree with gerbil on this but deep down I do.

Fuck yeah, gerbil. Spot on! Honestly there were some bits of dialogue and plot points in Donnie Darko that almost made me cringe, they were so artifically self-important. I'm not going to go on at length though, suffice to say I agree with Erkki. Also I'll second that 12 Monkeys recommendation. It's hard not to find something good in even a weaker Gilliam film, but that's definitely a solid one all around. To me, it's a great example of how to go for the same kind of thing as Donnie Darko without coming off as hip faux-intellectual pandering. Man I'm being harsh. I don't feel so bad, though; Donnie Darko has enough supporters that it's not like I'll ever have the last laugh.

Geez, it's a Video Game Console, who friggin cares how it looks?

Yeah, I'm not surprised. I'm not really disappointed, because I don't think anyone would expect a work written with such goals and limitations to also be a consistently engaging piece of literature.

This could not be further from the truth in my case. I thought the movie was stupid before I even had any idea it was hyped at all, much less to the extent it actually is. That wouldn't be how I'd sum up the film, but if it was, what about that makes for a good movie?

I remember hearing about that years ago and being totally amazed, but I'd never gotten to read it before. Woo!

I certainly don't hate this movie because it's the trendy thing to do (if it even is--I meet bajillions of people who think it's genius, and I have met maybe two people who don't like it). When I saw it, it had recently been released on video and I had never even heard of it. One of my friends said "Hey, I think you should watch this movie, I think you'd like it" and I was kind of dubious because it is the type of person who think I would like anything the slightest bit off-kilter. Anyway I saw it and thought it was pretentious and idiotic. It wasn't until sometime later that I discovered there was an entire cult around it.

Elementary!

1. Dutch = dumb 2. Marek = Dutch 3. Marek = dumb 4. Marek likes Donnie Darko Donnie Darko is thus dumb

Fuck off, Dutchy. That movie is bullshit!

It's not any genre. Pretty much every publisher puts out their own, so there's usually everything from superhero to the indiest of indie.

I hate it too! I think it's bullshit! It was suggested that is the case in the Ron Gilbert interview! Hooray!

According to you, hasn't it already?

Full Throttle: Every time I think about it I love it more. More games like this, please.

You like to keep it where your heart used to be, etc.