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But then it lets you know you are ignoring a message, and eventually I get antsy and unignore them because it gets to me.

I think to just cast off the whole film as an unfortunate randomness of life is to really sell the film short. There are some obvious parallels between the Book of Job (although not a retelling) and links between the Schrödinger's cat theory within the story. I'm not going to say I know what the hell the film is trying to say, because I don't. It's more easy for me to somewhat get an idea of what's going on in A Serious Man compared to Barton Fink, but how it all fits together is beyond me unless someone were to explain it. The Coens hardly ever talk so it's tough to shake a stick at what they are trying to do half the time. These are some things I picked up which seem to make sense for sure:

I get the feeling whoever wrote that one knew what they were doing.

Yeah, I bet you guys could have gotten away with double the release time, but I don't know if that somehow leaves less money to me made. I was very surprised at the rate they were coming out!

Oh yes, I do want that little artbook that comes with it so bad. I don't even necessarily need the game. Harsh mistress, indeed.

I think so, but that's fine with me.

I guess I should comment I saw A Serious Man and Where the Wild Things Are weeks ago, but I don't have much to say. A Serious Man confused me until I found someone explaining how it's like the Book of Job (I don't have any religious background, can you tell?). Then the movie became much more understandable instead of just a laughfest of weird ass characters acting obnoxious or otherworldly, although that's great in itself too, because I love Coen made characters for the most part. I liked it a lot more than Burn After Reading. Where the Wild Things Are made me cry a lot, which I feel like I should reveal publicly when asked about what I thought, but this is about as public as it's going to get, on a forum where I'm semi-anonymous. It made me so sad that I really couldn't stop the tears and it was embarrassing leaving out of the theatre lobby. Brought back way too many difficult childhood memories, I suppose. While I am a Spike Jonze fan and me following his work was the reason I went to see the movie, I did not expect to be a movie with a bunch of muppets to be so powerful. I was never a big fan of the original book and had only read through it a few times in my childhood, so I was really caught off guard. Sorry for that awkward post.

gBcd5aj_YhI It's on Youtube, but is it comical? It's something alright.

They should have just stuck with radio plays if that's the case. Which is what I said in response... DAYS LATER. Made this really funny though: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2009/09/hipster-toon-tude-retreat.html

Ugh, that constant tween shit that all cartoons on U.S. television are now is awful. Good thing Thunderpeel followed it up with a classic.

I've waited NO time, and there's still NO answer!

I think this gaming rumor is finally cracked. I'm still not fully convinced though, since it's weird it was hidden for so long or why Jackson is not credited. The excuse and explanation here is sketchy: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=18507 Maybe one day we will know for sure and we can pass the knowledge on to our grandchildren.

That still confuses the shit out of me. I have no idea who they are marketing to.

Where did Donald Duck's Playground come from? That thing is mostly a minigame collection to make money, right? Trivia about Donald Duck's playground: - Al Lowe, creator of Leisure Suit Larry, designed and programmed it early in his career when he did exclusively kid's games - Graphics for Sierra-made Disney games had the licensing rights to use cel animation sources from actual movies and shorts to make the graphics. I don't know really what the process was to create chunky pixel art from cels, but what I've heard is that Disney gave Sierra access to such materials.

Geez Louise, this concept art is great! The earlier poster Sam with moustache is the best by far though. I wish I could have posted it.

This is a very exclusive thread that I'm pissing on.

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I'll agree with that somewhat. I prefer Link's Awakening way over it's SNES counterpart, Link to the Past. Awakening was just somehow much more charming and seems to have a loose style of playing that's very engaging and easy to control along with weird things that came out of t he two button system like shooting arrows with bombs attached. It seems to have had a wittier localizing team as well. I'm not that into the Oracle games though, mostly because of how annoying the ring system was, but Minish Cap may almost be my favorite handheld Zelda. I'm not sure what you would consider its "counterpart" though in terms of style. The Four Swords Adventure? Different style of play, but same villian in the same Zelda era. Minish Cap was much more enjoyable and charming again though. Murdoc, have you heard of the DSi XL? It may help with the small screens. I don't like them myself as well (Always use the Game Boy Player or Super Game Boy if I'm at home), and I still have an old style chunky DS with the small screens that are sort of uncomfortable for me as well, so I think I'm going to upgrade to the DSi XL when it comes out, even if the larger screen is not going to have a higher resolution. http://kotaku.com/5392865/dsi-xl-coming-to-america-in-early-2010

These are amazing, and really make my blood boil too! Probably not a winning combination. Anyway, here goes, have fun: http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/ Also here is my favorite so far, just because it seems like something I might be okay with doing just because of the sheer absurdity:

I'm not on that page yet, but I think I'd want to work with that client more. It is sweet.

Man, ain't that the sad truth?

Wait, you guys haven't played this?! It's called "Wind Waker."

Brilliant! I guess you are trapping those pets inside your Xbox when it's updated, but this is borderline not even making sense! Link please!

I would guess that that is never going to happen, at least not on the Wii. Nintendo doesn't seem to like to compete against itself the way maybe Ratchet and Clank Size Matters did on PSP and PS2 or the latter two Prince of Persia games of the 1st Ubisoft trilogy appearing on PSP. I only say this because I get the feeling a Mario Advance version of the first Super Mario Bros. was not released because it would be competing with Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on Game Boy Color. Also Link to the Past was not put on the Gamecube collector's disc because of the existing Game Boy Advance port. But then again, this is the company that started "New Play Control," so I could be very wrong.

I don't understand why region coding still exists when even in the United States now, our boxes and manuals have 2-3 different languages plastered everywhere for every phrase. If you aren't going to take the time to print different package material for different in countries, why do it in the game (I know, they hate importers, but still)? More often than not all of the languages are available within the game and just depends on the language your console/handheld is set to. I would think with HDTVs becoming the norm, that PAL and NTSC versions should be a non-issue by now. I guess there's always still someone running older equipment, but even then, I think the console just outputs the signal that your country normally uses (assuming you didn't import your console), right? I guess it's sort of hard for me to wrap my head around this, but I'm not the most knowledgeable because the only two PAL games I own are Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, which allow you to choose between 50 and 60 Hz, fixing any screen offset. My DVD player has played PAL DVDs no problem as well, but I can output a PAL signal if I feel like it to the TV, but I think there's not much use to that besides being a higher resolution than NTSC.