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Those are the people that make F2P games thrive. People with large disposable incomes and short attention spans.

I saw it once in the theaters. It didn't warrant the price of two more tickets.

OK, I've seen it 3 times now, which is enough time for the whole thing to sink in. Did I like it on first viewing? Yeah. Did it start to suck on repeat viewings? Yeah. Let's see: 1. No character growth. At all. 2. Superfluous changes to characters for the simple sake of getting as many...

But no more Iron Man stand-alone movies. And I'm cool with that. If they can do trilogies for each character and keep adding new characters, I'm good.

AS soon as I saw Yara unwrapping that box,this songstarted playing in my head.

That gif is fucking hypnotizing.

Wouldn't a modernized version of the book take place in modern times? This was my problem with it. The settings, the dialog, the costumes... It's all 1920's. Then you have the music, which is all modern. Every time I heard Jay-Z or Beyonce open their mouths I was instantly transported back to...

Crows before hos.

No it isn't, because player who have the time to play the game can simply save up their gold and buy platinum that way. How many MMOs reward you with store items just for playing the game? Freepers could play, save their gold and purchase platinum AT NO REAL COST beyond their own time. If...

The entire premise of Star Trek Enterprise was that it was an alternate reality that branched off from the prime universe due to the events that happened in Star Trek First Contact. The Borg in First Contact traveled back in time, where their sphere was blown up. Most of them transported to the...

Yeah, they left that pretty vague in Supes 2. IIRC, Supes got into the pod that took his powers away earlier in the film, but somehow he reversed it so that he'd be safe in the pod while everyone outside lost their powers. After that they all ended up down into a hole in the floor of the...

I'm a fan of a wide variety of deep game systems, so not a fan of abilities being sold in a cash store. They could instead sell research resources used to craft abilities in the store if they wanted. That way the only people getting dinged are people who want to make an ability. Of course the...

If EQN can stick to selling non-disruptive things in their cash store, the game will be better for it. Since they keep selling it as a "sandbox game", I'm assuming they're going to have a player driven economy, similar to the one they had in SWG. If this is the case, then they can't really sell...

He was sorta right, in that J.J. has made the new movies more like Star Wars than previous Star Trek films. Whether that has made them "bad movies" is subjective.

http://blip.tv/redlettermedia/half-i...rkness-6592545 These guys, as usual, know their shit. EDIT: I don't know how to embedz EDIT2: fucking ads

Agreed. Loved this weeks ep.

From what I've seen, it looks to be what Richard Donner wanted to do originally with Superman: The Movie. That is, he wanted to combine the origin and the Zod story from the second film into one big epic movie. The producers chickened out and made him cut it into two films, then sacked him and...

That's no different than people saying, "I can't tell you what art is, but I know it when I see it".

Yeah, they basically wrote off the hard core trekkies to make the franchise appeal to a broader audience. That's good for the studios. That's good for the theaters. That's good for your average movie goer. Can't really blame Paramount for taking Trek to a place where it makes them buckets of money.

The JJ Abrams franchise has jumped subgenres from soft science fiction to space opera. That's why die-hard trekkies are pissed. It'sspace opera.

Heh. I think at this point the debate has migrated into the differences between speculative fiction subgenres (low & high fantasy vs. soft & hard science fiction, and what constitutes high fantasy and hard science fiction compared to low fantasy and soft science ficiton). But it's becoming...

Spoilered for length... But back to Star Trek Into Darkness. At its best it's a space opera. At worst, it's soft science fiction with plot holes large enough to fly the Enterprise through. Take your pick. I'm not saying I didn't like the movie. I'm not saying anybody that did like it...

Spoilering for brevities sake. Man, this really shows the divide between fantasy fans and science fiction fans. Fantasy fans have no problem with suspension of disbelief because it's MAGIC! Science fiction fans, on the other hand, run into problems with suspension of disbelief all the...

Science fiction is generally rooted in science; either modern science, near-future science, or plausible future science. The other VERY important part of science fiction is that it's part of speculative fiction, and speculative fiction asks questions. A good example of "the question" part...

Prime Spock gave Scotty his equations for transwarp beaming in the 2009 Star Trek movie, which is why Kirk and Scotty were able to beam onto the Enterprise when they were marooned on Delta Vega.

While the expansion did go live today, Cryptic is having a seriously bad time getting people into the game and playing it due to a login/character creation CTD that's affecting a large portion of their users. As for the expansion content, it's probably the best content Cryptic has released in...

Based on what I've seen, this looks like a struggle between the "ends justify the means" vs. the "means justify the ends" kind of story. Vulcan was destroyed in the last movie, so I'm guessing it's going to be an allegory to what happened in the U.S.A. after 9/11/2001. Best guess is there is...

The first season was very well thought out and planned. It was self-consistent, engaging and overall a great season, which is why it was such a smash success. In season 2 the quality started dipping. They got hung up on focusing on a few characters, and the characters they added weren't all...

This just in: It's the lens flare that makes it legit.

What networks/studios need to do is stop comparing their "new" series to old series. It's like everything is a mash-up these days, and they have to tell you what they mashed together, otherwise people won't be interested. RegardingBallistic City: Don't tell us it's a fucking mash-up of Blade...

That timeline reads like something a 7th grader would write, and the problems start in the first entry. A rogue star wouldn't "collide" with shit. It would certainly disrupt planetary orbits if it got close enough, but that wouldn't cause problems for an advance species. You just dig in and live...

When you get down to it, it's a post-apocalyptic love story. A good movie to take a date to, but not a good science fiction movie.

OK, first of all, you don't have to put your ideas about their back story in spoilers since you're just spit-balling. If you were talking about specific plot points from the show (like I'm about to do), then you should use spoilers so you don't incur the wrath of whoever might like this show...

Yeah, the primary reason why they're setting it in Defiance is that there's a MMO that is running parallel to the show, so having the protagonists moving from town to town would be a bit hard to follow for the players of the game. The thing that cracks me up is the game... I mean, I'm...

You know, that idea might have some merit, if there wasn't such as thing as "the fossil record". I watched this. Thought it was about as good as the other crap they have on Siffy. You can read all about it in the television thread.

I've been watching Castle since it began. It used to be hard for me to figure out who the bad guy was before the big reveal, but for about the last season or two I've been able to figure it out about 70% of the time. They have a formula, and it's pretty obvious once you figure it out.

This was the first show I've watched on SyFy since StarGate Universe was cancelled. It'll also probably be the last. Defiance is exactly what I expected: Formulaic. Derivative of better shows. Predictable. The characters are two dimensional. It's already obvious who they're going to have...

Season 1 of Heroes was some good stuff. Then it shit the bed when the showrunner couldn't figure out what made season 1 so popular. I'd highly suggest season 1. The rest? Not so much, which is weird, cause most shows take a season or two to get rolling. Heroes is the opposite.

Pete is so fucking stupid it's great. He's trying so hard to be like Don, yet he just doesn't know how to pull it off. I mean, his wife told him to get an apartment in the city so he could bang as many chicks as he wanted, yet Pete is so fucking stupid that he starts banging his crazy neighbor...

The full game is like 12-15 gigs. It seems to install really fast from Steam. If you're looking for fast ways to level up, the Mirror Event and Borg Red Alerts are the way to go. Mirror Event happens about every 10 hours, and you can usually get 4-5 runs finished in an hour depending on your...