Roderick

The new trilogy will be an exhaustive look into the workings of Midichlorians. There's a Midichlorian factory on a planet.

It would be pretty terrific if they made Luke Skywalker go nuts and kill Han Solo in the first ten minutes of the film. I would like that. The whole film would be this dark excursion into going mad, like an abyssal Bad Lieutenant in space.

Rufus from Deponia springs to mind. He does some reeeally jerky things. (Adventure game characters in general tend to be jerky, moreso than RPG characters I feel, since in RPG's violence and destruction is among their main verbs of interaction. It's a natural extension of the gameplay, whereas an adventure game goes out of its way to plan, program and animate asshole behavior.

Yeah, iDeal is a necessity in the Dutchlands. It's either that, PayPal or bank transfer. I'm probably going to set up my website around a Blogger blog (bloggity blog), since I already have experience with the platform rather than starting all over on Wordpress. Not sure if there are any store plugins on Blogger though. There are more than a few easy solutions that'll cost you a monthly fee. I also looked at open source webshops like Magento, but that's kind of making my head spin.

Instead of plugging my shit, I'm gonna take this opportunity to ask for some shit, for my shit. I'm setting up a little publishing label to sell my books, as you may have heard, and I am struggling to get a webshop up and running properly. It needs to be literally the simplest thing imaginable: it'll have only a few items that never change (my books), I don't want customers to have an account and I only need a few payment options (PayPal and the Dutch iDeal system). Does anyone have any tips for an easy and ideally free webshop, or perhaps even care to help me out with it?

So, we're sad for things that aren't even made yet, and instead of which other things will be made that may or may not be of equal, worse or better value, but it's all just hypothetical?

How can a fucking book be wrong? It exists! It's right there, immutably in your hand! Who cares what some corporate chieftain decides? Canon is a bullshit thing. «Oh no, the stories I love are suddenly no longer valid or interesting because it now officially doesn't fit into the timeline, which is decided exclusively from higher-up.» No one ought to care about this decision, because it invalidates nothing, unless you drink the anally copyright-obsessed powermongering merchandise machine Cool-Aid of the Disney/Lucasarts conglomerate.

I will absolutely give Star Wars Ep 7 a chance to win me over, despite my interest in the SW universe having dipped below freezing temperatures in recent years. Oh, who am I kidding, as soon as I hear the John Williams fanfare and see the first wacky CGI alien made to appease children and sell toys, possibly based on a racial stereotype I'll be giddily jumping up and down in my seat.

I didn't quite dislike the episode, in fact, the beginning and middle parts were quite well interwoven, jumping naturally from one set of characters to the other as they came up in conversation. The last part was tedious though, because that absolute last thing that I wanted was

That is still so weird to me. Back when it was released I was completely floored by how Morrowind looked, and the reason is simple. Before Morrowind, Western RPG's looked like this: (This is Might & Magic 8 from the year 2000.) Then came Morrowind: I think you won't have a hard time appreciating the difference, even if the graphics have aged. To this day, I still don't think Morrowind is ugly. It's atmospheric, detailed, rich and coherent in design. (Okay, the faces are... well, not as bad as Dark Souls'.)

I can't speak for all the candy, but my one weird trick experience in the US was a Hershey's milk chocolate bar, which had an aftertaste like puke.

I don't know a lot of people who don't like Fantastic Mr. Fox. It's pretty... fantastic. (And I agree with your Anderson top list.)

I occasionally like liquorice (or DROP, as it's really called in Dutch), but I have to admit 98% of all the candy I eat is chocolate or chocolate-based. I don't eat a lot of candy though, it's a rare thing. I'll just get some Twix bars or something, or a Milka bar. The best thing about drop is feeding it to foreigners who have no conception of salty candy, and watch their reaction. Drop has many forms though, from salty to sour to sweet.

The Gaping Dragon is an amazing fight, I found. His attacks are quite readable and you can bait the charge. Yet it feels very grandiose, since you have to do some serious legwork on account of his size and speed.

If it had stayed in the hotel, I think it would've start to drag a little. On the other hand, the movie would be forced to actually develop the characters during the story (they're somewhat caricatural now). In any regard, it would be a totally different film.

Haha, absolutely. The very casual mentioning of police brutality and fascism makes for a fascinating contrast to that soft pink Mendl's world of design.

I haven't read the books, so I saw the scene 'as is'. Purely on a thematic level, I didn't feel it felt out of place. This show is practically defined by sexploitation and depictions of violence/torture/child abuse of the worst kind. The directorial intent makes it an interesting point to explore, since it deviates from the book, however the event itself didn't stand out as worse than anything else GoT has brought up. It's also an incredibly awkward scene with eerie music playing over it, so in that sense it does acknowledge this is bad stuff, which I think is a point that does have merit. The show may sensationalize the characters here, but at no point does it trivialize the violence.

You're right, that was even before then. 'Pappies' we called them, and soon they were all bummed in the gob.

You mean beyond the odious events of the ********* insurrection of '06?

Not if you use the right weapons and abuse the right weaknesses, I'd think? Dark Souls is built such that your level isn't that dramatically important if you play it flawlessly.

On a tangential note, I recently came to the conclusion I've had my fill, for the rest of my life, of discussing diets and which foodstuffs are good and which foodstuffs are bad during lunch. I realized it had been making up 50% of all conversation at work during lunch break. It's the most exhausting thing: everyong agrees anyway, everyone knows everything that is being said before it's said; it's a pointless and boring play of self-flattery.

Hell yeah, I love Jazzy Jeff. Finally, a topic about this formidable musician.

I loved Blighttown from the minute I stepped in it. It's incredibly tense and super dangerous, and feels like Resident Evil 4. Everything I play in Dark Souls 2 is put next to the Blighttown-o-Meter to measure its worth.

There's a secret book in Morrowind called «The Nerevarine Delusion» by Richard Hlaalu-Dawkins.