Roderick

I instantly cracked up when reading the title, because I thought you weren't being serious. But now that I've seen the trailer... damn, I'm so glad this exists.

I attest... from the graaaaaaaaaaave~ Anyway, quite the same issue as Lacabra, totally red-ringed. Go find someone else for your free games or something what do i care!

I am surprised by your enthusiasm, Toblix. Most of what I've heard about Windows 8 is doomsaying and the lamentation of their women. I'm quite neutral on the whole thing: I used Windows XP a preposterous amount of years after it was long abandoned, and don't see why I shouldn't use my perfectly fine copy of 7 for another sweet decade before making the switch. You can probably guess I'm no early adopter when it comes to operating systems.

Feel free to scrap Bottle Rocket from that list; I just named it as one of the 'early' Anderson films, not sure if it's actually defended.

I hear that The Life Aquatic was somewhat disappointing to people who saw and loved The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and Bottle Rocket first. That may be true, though the only part I can corroborate is that The Life Aquatic was the first Wes Anderson film I saw and subsequently fell in love with. I love how all-encompassing it is thematically (its shifts in genre and tone), but also the specifics of it: middle-aged Bill Murray, Bowie songs, an ode to Jacques Cousteau. It's a perfect storm of elements, though if none of those happen to appeal to you, I can see how it can be a little long and perhaps disjointed. Oh and SWAMP LEECHES.

Pretty cool, Luftmensch. It's got a touch of Perry Bible Fellowship, but in a different way. Less comic, more pondering.

Let's get some Aquatic Blum love in here.

I didn't know Ben Ainslie wore glasses.

That is beyond fantastic and I fully intent to become an evil villain just to be able to steal this from you in a hot air balloon.

Just yesterday my mom shot this pic of me and the neighbor's seven-year-old that we frequently have to babysit for. He's crazy about Lego and Star Wars and games and loves to just watch as I play Lego Batman 2 on my 3DS. This time we had a neat surprise: I dug up my old first generation DS and loaded up New Super Mario Bros, so we could play together. He didn't really like the game, but he loved Mario Kart DS afterwards.

If he really is trying to mimick, let alone communicate with, people around him, that's fantastic. Human rights for whales, I say!

I hope she makes it on her own out there. What a ridiculous father to have, he should be ashamed of himself.

I liked the first Silent Hill. It was a faithful translation and one of the few video games to make it properly into a movie. And, come on, Sean Bean is in there. There's no way it'll be bad.

Anyone else feeling it for Silent Hill: Revelation? I was a little worried they might screw up Heather (for instance by making her too, well, too pretty and girly, you know, she needs to be a little concerned and whiny, but still vulnerable and relatable), but I WORRY NO MORE: It's ironic that I absolutely must see this film, since Silent Hill 3 is a favorite, while this movie is probably way too scary for me. Too scary to see in the cinema in any case, I'll have to wait until I get it at home, surrounded by comforting pluche toys and loving family, and candles and in broad daylight.

AC1 is flawed, but genius in what it attempted and its unique atmosphere. I still love it dearly for what it did right and what it inspired. The ending, I don't even care anymore. It's shit, but the entire series has never really got the ending right. It's part of the deal, I guess. You play it for all the kerrazy roof jumping and horse(bag)ing around. I feel much more ambivalent about AC2, whose pacing problems weren't remedied until the vastly superior Brotherhood.

The only time I used it was when I was doing a lot of Photoshop and wanted to see TV shows at the same time. Otherwise I barely used it. But it can be useful, I am mentally powerful enough to admit.

Very little! I don't even want to think about horror films like Paranormal Activity, though I have a weird tolerance for other things such as science fiction horror. Alien, Prometheus, Sunshine, Solaris, that's all good. Just don't give me any weird stuff on earth, apparently. As for games, I hate it when things jump at me and are jarring and shocking. Again, it's all over the place. Silent Hill is no problem, Amnesia and Slender Man probably would be.

It's pretty great. Though I'll hazard a guess that Keighley isn't too happy about this either, but it's part of his job description. That's the story in my head anyway, but I enjoy seeing hidden tragedies in things.

I'm picturing John Stewart saying that. 'Oh helloooo, the queeeeene!'

I'd like to offer completely gratuitous and unnecessary support for switching back from two monitors to a single one. In my opinion, it is the second monitor that is gratuitous and unnecessary, not my support.

I find that a weird thing to be disappointed about. The thing that is important is that he shaped the story that way, with an idea that will likely have taken months to distil and get right. That the actual, physical implementation of that idea takes only a few minutes is irrelevant. On top of that, it would've been very hard and annoying to not write the stories in one go: finding the right tone again after a long break is a pain in the ass, not to mention losing all the countless minutiae when you're juggling a world in your head.

How can that not a deliberate choice for your company name? They're aiming for it.

It is for this reason that I ensure I'm always working on two projects at once.

Planking revivalist.

The Life-thread!