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I only like Pitch Black, it has been a few years since I saw it but I don't remember the aliens looking bad, hmm. The reason for the overdone filters was because they chose a spot to shoot the film that basically never rains, and then it rained for about 90% of the time they were shooting. They had to blow out the visuals to hide a lot of this. Would like to go back and watch again as I was very fond of it.

I guess I deserved that.

Okay, as a person who works in the games industry and that has worked in QA for the last 14 years with people within the age ranges of 18-28 - that entire bit in the middle with 'Hype' and 'mad' being bandied around actually made me grit my teeth. All of this stuff is just common day-to-day shit that everyone either posts in the common slack chat or actually saying this stuff in the hallways to each other. "You done goofed" and "Cool story bro" are among others that I fucking hate. Thank you.

Hhahah, I think that in his summer garb they decided he definitely didn't have a belly button.

Tried the Polygon show and I did not like it at all. I like all of the people's individual work on Polygon, but not them collectively just talking about Zero Calorie Coke for 10 minutes, or obsessing over whether McCree has a belly button or not. The latter was eye-opening as I imagine it is how a lot of women feel when they listen to all-male podcaster groups talk sexually about video game characters - a little bored and a little uncomfortable. I'll try and listen to some more before I give up on it but if there is too much Zero Calorie Coke talk I am going to end up zoning out.

I liked the first episode because it was them goofing off and trying to catch each other out and then just going down a weird hole. You are right though the second episode is much better.

I am absolutely loving Department of New Business. Abby and Ben work really well bouncing off of each with their weirdness.

Hhahah, I actually laughed quite a bit when I read this. But also replying to your thoughts on the possible racist connotations and beloved nature of some characters. I love Keith David so much that when that post was supposed to be proof that Childs is an alien, my first reaction was 'Noooo, not Keith David'.Like, for a second my reaction was the horror that real-life Keith David might actually now be a shapeshifting alien.

Please note a lot of the Big Daddies are not supposed to be beaten until you have improved a bit. Daddies become a piece of cake in the latter half of the game.

I second this. Shadow Warrior is fantastic. The boss battles sucked quite a bit.

Except there are multiple points you can see Childs's breath in that scene.

Damn it those Minion tweets... Also, subscription services are already a thing. EA has EA access, Microsoft has the Game Pass, and Sony has PlayStation Now.

I finished this on Sunday and I absolutely loved this from the very start, to the very end. The way that the story telling is presented, being able to follow different threads (or not) feels unique to video games. It reminds me of the people that watched the same film every day for a month and they started just watching what the extras are doing. Tacoma allows you to follow tertiary characters in a scene and what they do is interesting. Apart from one of those crazy 'follow actors around a scene' no other medium can present the story like this. Looking at the reviews, I am kind of shocked that people are saying 'good but not as good as Gone Home', I liked both but Tacoma is just about perfect - if you ignore the fact that I just wanted to hangout with Clive all day (the adorable, dumb weirdo).

To quote that Sony Exec 'There are such things as wrong opinions' To add to that, I really loved DOOM with all of my heart. Every arena felt delightful and the tactics required on higher difficulties are just fun to engage it. Sniper Elite 4 is also excellent.

Now, I don't understand the double post, but never mind. I was trying to joke around.

In my innocence I honestly thought you were secretly googling how to get a thread locked and then apologised for exposing your plans to the rest of the Idle Thumbs group. Was it originally, something a bit more porn-y?

Where can I get this Shaking hands with an electric eel app (SHWAEE is a great acronymm)? I googled it and found no official site. iTunes is so bad that I haven't had it installed on my computer since I stopped using Apple products. I actually liked the Zune Media player as a clean, one stop shop for music and podcasts, its successor Groove is not as versatile but at least it reads my OneDrive.

Yeah, I had to stop using Zune and started using a different podcast app because the compatibility broke on a lot of podcast's RSS. Shocker - the Zune media player was actually a very good alternative to iTunes.

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Interesting, because what you are describing is what I don't like about Baby.

Yeah, I really hated 'Baby', if they had replaced him with another actor I might have liked the whole film a bit more. You needed someone with the charisma of someone like Michael B Jordan to pull him off.

When this thread first started - it was me drunkenly copy/pasting an email I wrote advocating for Dan as President. I really liked Dan and his goofball antics. So, I was surprised when this was met with fury from a lot of regulars. Then it dawned on me through the subsequent posts of what a privileged douchebag he can be and how damaging that is (even if I was being stupid about the President thing, I genuinely found Dan very charming). To say that Dan is not a role-model, or that he shouldn't be viewed as one, is not true, I'll bet there are plenty of younger audience that make the logical step from 'he's a cool fun guy' (like I did), to 'he is someone I want to be like'. I still like Dan, but now I see him through a different frame and it is important to me that this was clarified by people on this forum. I think I would have ignored a lot of it otherwise, and ignored that same bullshit in my own demeanour.

So, I know there are plenty of people on here that are backing the PlayStation 4 I was just wondering if anyone is getting an Xbox One and if anyone was planning on picking up Dead Rising 3. I really wasn't and then the videos got to me. Someone at work had already put in a pre-order so I took that off his hands and now I am going to play this game. I've never been the type to be an early adopter but for some reason DR3 has its hooks in. Go figure.

I am really impressed by the deep dive some people are doing on this film but I didn't see any of it in the film itself. I found it shallow and devoid of character development. The filming and the editing is fantastic but in terms of anything else it goes right next to 'Sucker Punch' - pretty, well choreographed, but utterly devoid of anything else. I am starting to feel like Wright needs Simon Pegg to breathe some life into his characters or else you just have Scott Pilgrim and this film. None of it was bad, but with each film he makes I am less interested in seeing 'Written and Directed by' being solely attributed to Wright

This is my favourite bit of fan art: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/830203870522542001/7EB99555A8BD4D6BE027E9FE2EB6A1D18E3D88A5/