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I always read the manual, mainly so I can laugh and act superior when people who don't get confused. And I thought the fact that the Japanese are obsessed with preteen porn (and tentacles) was well known?

I think that's why people love him. He's a totally blank slate they can easily put themselves into. (I realize they talk about the actual details given in the books, but even those are tailored to create an anonymous personality, from what I understand.)

Well, considering the writer, it should be a lighter episode, which may mean Kat's not as annoying. One-eyed Tigh is awesome. I just wish I could get a better shot of him. (Come to think of it, Tigh in general is awesome. I want to give him a hug.)

Bullshit. Direction, writing, and acting are all seperate areas just as sound, graphics, and gameplay are.

The 4400 sort of meanders between decent and really, really bad. Though nowadays I just have it on in the background when it's on rather than actively watching it. I'm watching Stargate, Atlantis, Monk, and Psyche, all of which have a similar okay-to-crap range of quality.

The acting and writing leaves a little to be desired, at least in comparison to the plots.

That's what happened if you tried to secondary fire from Xen (i.e. after you already secondary fired) IIRC.

The scientists at Black Mesa were experimenting with portal technology. That was sort of the whole reason for the resonance cascade that started everything in the first place. There were portals all over the place in Lambda complex (remember that awful jumping puzzle in the core?) as well as in Xen.

It's been suggested that all the praise for Darwinia was simply because most of the industry initially ignored Uplink. I'm not sure I believe that, but there may be some merit to it. Uplink is awesome.

17. Zero Wing 18. Net neutrality

He seems to have a phobia of lengthy answers, though. He keeps commenting "Oh, this is a book!" All I can think is, "If only!"

It isn't "goal" in Spanish, though, is it? I just realized that while our football championships (aka the Super Bowl) aren't as crazy as your fans, we have to deal with it every year. I wonder if that makes us even.

I thought the "Ninja" title was a joke, but it's in his humorless e-mails too? Eccentric.

Seasons 3 and 4? I don't think so. The web series is supposed to detail the formation of the resistance, and Season 3 will begin after the resistance has already been formed. The Battlestar Wiki has all the sources.

Lie-berals, you mean.

More trees, less Bush.

Yeah, Zarek isn't in the One Year Later section. RDM said (somewhere) he was Baltar's Vice President but has (or possibly will, after the Cylon occupation; I can't really remember what he said) become dissatisfied with Baltar.

The Half-Life Saga Story is crap. It hasn't been updated in forever and lots of recent information contradicts it. Yes, the Vortigaunts were enslaved in HL1... by the Nihilanth. The Nihilanth was a tinpot dictator running from the real big bad, the Combine. Its massive organic power over teleportation apparently allowed it to hold back the Combine portals... but once Gordon killed it, the Combine were free to invade Xen and then Earth. (Note that HL2 mentions that the Combine have lots of problems with teleportation, to the point where they can't teleport locally, only between universes, which is clearly not the case of the Nihilanth's minions in the final levels of HL1.) And of course I can't find the reference now. It was just in some interview or other. They give lots of them. Admittedly, I much preferred the idea that the Combine were on Xen, as it would explain the slave Vortigaunt at the beginning of HL2, along with a myriad of other things... but they said it. But hey, maybe they'll change their minds. They've also said something to the effect that if it wasn't in the game, it isn't certain.

Xen was not under the control of the Combine at the time of HL1 (as suggested by the dissimilarities between the two and, more recently, Valve's own direct confirmation).

Not standard nerdy, at the very least. Maybe pseudo-intellectual/artistic nerdy, but then that's nothing unusual for the Thumb.

That's happened every year since the sixth season, actually... I'm not sure why I still watch Stargate, really.

Yeah, the White Dragon's big sister is April. In the original TLJ, the (elder) White Dragon refers to April as "daughter" and is protecting an egg. When the (elder) White Dragon dies, the egg hatches and the new White Dragon emerges, which is the one you see in Dreamfall. Also, Cortez is (probably) dead. I, too, was surprised that the Balance featured so little in Dreamfall; the Dreaming/Storytime stuff seems to actually be even bigger than the Balance, though, which means I don't think it's going away. Additionally, I really liked Zoe's voice. Maybe it's the accent.

Faith was causing the Static and the corruption of the Dreamcore; something of her was left in the Wire after the massive Morpheus overdose killed her body. She was also being visited by the White Dragon, who told her to tell Zoe to save April Ryan (but why isn't really clear, nor how Zoe "saved" April by witnessing her "death"). Also presumably, if Faith would have brought down the Wire as she (through the Static) threatened to do, the Dreamer would have never been released and the Tower in Marcuria wouldn't have succeeded in its purpose (as shown at the end). Of course, the Tower's purpose has yet to be revealed, though it appears likely that the Prophet is behind both the Tower and the Dreamer... and the Prophet, as shown by the screenshot earlier in this thread, appears to be Brian Westhouse. Which is spooky. Perhaps the concentrated dreams collected by the Dreamer and focused in Tower can be a weapon against the Undreaming? Probably not, considering Brian (as the first chapter title tells us) is "tainted" (presumably by the Undreaming). Maybe they're just bringing them together so they can be easily destroyed...

Man, everybody uses stock footage from Walking with Dinosaurs, don't they?

I think that for the most part stories suffer the same problems, and that distinguishing a game through a good story is at least as difficult as distinguishing a game through original artistic design.