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Hmm... what does that mean for Half-Life 2 and its post-Soviet eastern Europe setting? Valve's just way ahead of the curve?

But killing or sparing one German soldier didn't have a big effect on the War on Nazis and Japs and Italians (Some of the Time).

I think there should be a game with the US and China allied against Europe.

There's something you don't read every day.

I interrupt this fascinating intellectual discussion to point out a probably not actually particularly humorous construction.

Basically what we're saying is that moral judgments should be done as in the early parts of Deus Ex?

I love Heroes but the finale was very anticlimactic. I realize they wanted to focus on the characters (which is admirable) but the plot really demanded a colossal special-effects-laded multiple-powers death-match between Sylar and Peter. (Niki beating on Sylar was great, though.)

People are still watching Lost? (I'm not trying to be sarcastic/caustic, I'm seriously curious. I gave up after the first group of third season episodes.)

Should games really be compared with software tools, though? Aren't they more akin to movies or novels in that they are entertainment (and perhaps art), and therefore catering to customers' desires is not what's best? Talking about iterating games like it's the next version of Word seems utterly alien and, to some extent, abhorrent, personally.

I think that most of the Halo fanatics aren't really gamers in the traditional sense, they're just preteens/teens for whom the Xbox was their first console, and Halo was their first FPS. The one thing the Xbox did right was attract that crowd of pubescent boys who are concerned about appearing "hardcore"/"cool" but are still conditioned by conventional morality to not be comfortable playing, say, GTA, but are fine with killing aliens to save the world. (Of course, the Xbox turned off pretty much everyone else, so...)

A lot of people seemed to have disliked the New Caprica and Cylon base ship arcs (moreso the latter than the former), which turned off the first half of the season for them, and then the second half obviously faltered (as did the second half of season 2). I didn't think it was that bad (I actually liked the base ship stuff...), personally.

That's interesting, because going off of the reviews on Metacritic (which is, of course, not God!), it's fairly good.

Based on what we've seen of this and their previous game (Empire at War, the mediocre Star Wars RTS that this is apparently supposed to recall), I think that all the talent at Westwood skipped Petroglyph's boat.

Most people enjoy having a retard child they can care for only when they feel like it, though. My cat hated me for many years. It would never come near me. But in the past couple of months we have reconciled, and all is good again.

Toblix, did you never play Pokemon when it was all the rage, what, eight years ago? It's basically an RPG (old school, top-down, tiled backgrounds, turn-based combat, etc.) where you get to capture/pick your party members yourself. And every monster in the world is a possible party member. And your player character can't fight.

While that post may have indeed been unnecessarily trollish, it wasn't my intention to "burn" you. Just to point out that, as I think you yourself realize, for every insightful comment you make, there are as many examples of you just being a crazy bitch. Often times in the same post. Also, I don't actually have a problem with the sentiment of your original post (though I might dispute some of the details). And, therefore, my second contribution to this discussion will also bear no relevance to the topic at hand.

That distinction has rarely stopped you before...

What the fuck. (I should be horrified, but the Internet yada yada.)

Yeah, I was going to say, this reminds me of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

But also the entire main cast? Which confuses me as to the structure and chronology of this movie.

At least Dirk Benedict didn't show up as God... but maybe they're saving that for next year. Apparently before the premier in 2008, there'll be a movie in the fall set on Pegasus (presumably before she found Galactica, with Cain and co. still large and in charge).

I believe there was a game of Neuromancer...

I actually didn't mind Dirty Hands that much (perhaps because only due to the episodes that came immediately before it), and I think Roslin is written fairly consistently, despite (because of?) being sidelined. Her slow descent into autocracy, while painful to watch, seems plausible. ("One of the interesting things about being President is that you don't have to explain yourself... to anyone.") Adama has just fucking lost it, though. And I can't decide if his presence on the tribunal is just bad writing or an intentional point at how much of a kangaroo court this is. (And that's after having listened to the podcasts.)

I think they really don't have a clue what to do with Lee's character (or Roslin's, for that matter -- "We haven't done anything with her forever. What can we do? Bring back the cancer!"). As for the motivations, I'm hoping that it's because Adama (sr.) is cracking up and falling apart, because he's made absolutely no sense the last couple of episodes. Romo Lampkin is like my favorite over-the-top character ever though. Extremely creepy and convincing at the same time. Kleptomania ftw. Also, Michael Hogan: Old, drunk, insane murderers have never been so fun to watch.

T1/2: "No fate but what we make." T3: "Psych! The future is set! You can't change anything! Too bad!"