Roderick

I haven't been part of the conversation on MSG, but I would gather that villains in literature or pop culture have always had quite as much appeal as the heroes. Villains are memorable, stylish, daring even at their most wicked. I'd say it's obvious why it would be a bad thing if they use misogynistic language. It'd be different if they were repellant things whose only function was to sweep the audience in an uproar of booing and hissing. As it is, villains are rolemodels too.

Silly though it is, that might just do it for me.

I get the feeling I'd find the monochrome world extremely depressing. I get physically ill nowadays when I play something like Wolfenstein 3D, which is the bleakest, most colorless world in every way. Betrayer has the option to put the color back in, but it still seems and sounds so... sparse and morose.

I would absolutely love to have the new theme song as a separate track. I love the fullness of the sound: the electric organ, the rad drums, the horns and the choir give it such a body. How many people fit into that choir, by the way? And how many of them are forumites?

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Chris has officially won the intro song contest. All of them.

The differences between episodes is staggering. The one before was a tension-filled heist plot where Kirk and Spock engage in a dangerous gambit to steal a cloaking device from aboard a Romulan ship in the neutral zone. Then, traumatizing a bunch of kids under the influence of a fat ghost in a dress.

I have begun the final, third season of TOS. Captain Kirk shows a group of children pictures of their dead parents. Doc McCoy joins him on the bridge and sees the younglings: "They're crying, Jim. I don't know how you did it, but it's good to see!" This show.

Damn it, I was off by only 15 years! I had always hoped for a Paris locale, but in the Napoleonic era with the war against Russia. This game will surely find a way to incorporate Napoleon into the proceedings, ofc, as a scrappy young corporal defending the values of the revolution.

I'm genuinely surprised at Animal Crossing, which is designed to max out your daily play experience after 20 minutes. Surely that's a manageable addiction? Now Diablo 2, there's one. Though I always vastly more enjoy the road to building up my character than the endgame. Having instant complex and godly characters isn't something that appeals to me, I think. I like tinkering with skill trees and pining for that next level. Neither did I need a trainer to make the game crash my system. Back then I had an outdated PC and the necromancer was perfectly capable of flooding my memory with only a handful of summons. To answer your initial question, I've never been so much in the thrall of any game-related addiction that I had to take steps. Usually my enjoyment of a game diminishes after a few weeks all by itself.

Another Remo Face classic.

Goodbye my loooooove

Still, also, Rolling With The Pope is, also, still, a terrific title, still. [ADDED] Almost to the day two years ago...! (But not on the ides, damn it.)

Breaking ludonarrative news: Campo Santo to introduce the official metric of video game height: The Allard™ Scale.

Striking! «Man Who Isn't Impressed With Brandenburger Tor» 'It's not all it's cracked up to be, eh?'

I had forgotten Tim the Enchanter. He is amazing.

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Gurney Home

No, no, you've made your case clearly: you endorse everything the real Jordan Belfort did, and consider this film a truthful biography that does him justice.

A love that dare not beak its name.

It's Adam and Steve, not Robin and Jay!

A charming and heartfelt tattoo, Subbes. Here's to Cabot.

I think I found it easier/less appalling than you to put myself into the mindset, and even the enthusiasm, of these people. I never felt the film was glorifying the proceedings at all; at best it took a neutral stance. What Merus says is spot on: the film is itself a sale to us, the viewer, of this lifestyle. Scorsese rarely deviates from this. Today I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel. Very funny, though I feel

Gonna see The Grand Budapest Hotel tomorrow! Very excited! Last week I saw The Wolf of Wall Street and I've written a piece on it on Filmadeus: http://www.filmadeus.com/2014/03/the-wolf-of-wall-street-martin-scorsese.html