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It's the devil's advocate's day for me as I don't care much about abstract painting and I am ready to recognize there is an important social component to the success of some artists BUT, as an exercise of the mind, consider this: Probably all of you enjoy some music that has no lyrics. So you...

This thread would be better with pictures of the works of Araysar's friend.

What I remember of that thread was Astro saying mass destruction was out of place in a Superman movie. That's three occurrences of spectacular destruction in movies, but in The Avenger the perception was it was a cherry on top of a movie that had other qualities, in Superman it was attacked...

Kotaku's GOTY isThe Last of Us. Details bellow. They obviously like GTAV more than the people at Giant Bomb! EDIT: FORBIN!!!

To be fair, they are not bitching about the presence of spectacular elements, they are bitching about the fact that these spectacular elements are enough for some people to enjoy Gravity. I'll not defend Superman, but The Avengers also had effective comedy elements and very clever writing...

Having playedGone Homeyesterday, I would say that it is a very good idea for a game and an original subject matter, but I have not been overly impressed by the execution of this idea. At its core, it's a very basic first person adventure game (which surprised me as for some reason people...

Considering the price of the subscription vs the price of the games he wants to tag for download, he is losing time but saving a lot of money.

The opposite can be argued: there are a lot more movies with good plots than there are with amazing direction and stunning visuals. Also, if the plot and dialogues of Gravity are indeed sub-par, the tension is amazing. There are long stretches of the movie where you just can't breath or blink.

I landed on The Carpet Makers browsing the winners list of a major french price for speculative fiction (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire). I enjoyed it greatly so mentioned it to my pnp rpg group (which doubles as a speculative fiction reading club). Verdict: one already read it and loved it, another...

This is not a problem with 3D per se, but, as the polarizing filter will remove some of the luminosity, it's important to have a good screen (on the gives back the biggest possible portion of the light it receives) and a powerful projector (as in brighter than a regular projector). Not all...

Clearly that's what Simas meant. Clearly!

My bet is LARPer in steampunk or post-apocalyptic settings.

Some books and a lot of different kinds of food items. Some good surprises in both departments!

Because it is a good pretext for poor AI and poor path finding.

The very few 2013 games I played this year were all indies or short games. The highlights wereKentucky Road Zero's film making genius and narrative explorations (even if I can't say I really like the game),Proteus' organic and musical minimalism (even if it challenges the limit of what we call...

I don't want to know more.

NES can be argued, but no amount of filtering got even close to the grace of a SNES with an RGB cable on a SD CRT screen. As for the disappearance of physical media... what's the market share of audio cd?

Without going too far into spoiler territory, let's say that the book shows that not all german officers share the hopes and views of the guest and not all the french people have the stoic attitude of his hosts.

For those not familiar with the Regency era, some horses could be rented by the hour and thus were called hourses.

A small and old book caught my eye on my mother's bookshelf: it was a 1945 edition ofThe Silence of the Seaby Vercors, a short story written in 1942 about a french-loving Nazi officer trying over six months to break the ice with the french people that are forced to share their roof with him. A...

Constantly ejecting could be a mechanical problem caused by discs being force-fed to the console instead of gently swallowed. Could also be the disks are dirty because they are handled with dirty hands. Could be the drive has been killed because Ramar put stickers on his disks. Who knows...

This episode left me wondering... what is this show? It's almost a chronicle. I can't think of anything much like it.

If it happened several times over different consoles, it seem to me there are two theories: very bad luck OR user related problem.

I am pretty sure the best co-op experience you can have with a non gamer is playing Uncharted 2 while the non gamer watches.

I have no hope of ever playing through all the games I own. It's down to three factors. The first is that it's not a library, it's an archive, so there is a number of games I bought for reasons other than wanting to play them (NB: It's composed only of physical console games). Inside this...

Seeing a screener of Gravity does not count as seeing Gravity.

The spiritual forefather of the Soul serie is actually Shadow Tower, not King's Field. I played several hours of Shadow Tower recently and it's hilariously difficult... well... difficult is not the word... It's just constantly uncomfortable and stressful. The only way to heal is to use potions...

I have seen The Swapper mentioned in several "best of 2013" discussions, so maybe it's not the 'most underrated' game. Or maybe, it's so good it should be on everyone's list like, say,Papers, Please!

This was an exaggeration (based on a spike possibly). In the end, they sold the last 900ish in under one hour, but it's very difficult to estimate from that how many were sold in total, because of the time at which it occurred, how the word spread, etc. We'll have to wait to know more.

Better hurry if you want one: people using ordering tricks to know the number remaining in stock show the basic SKU at about 180 left as of this post and they sell about 1 per second... EDIT: No more basic SKU... still some Battlefield and Killzone bundles.

Did brick and mortar stores also get a PS4 shipment? The Amazon rankings make it sound like it was that big pre-christmas shipment people mentioned earlier.

JLaw obviously.

Eagle Eye

World Premiere for the opening of the Berlin Film Festival on the 6th of February 2014.

While Mikkelsen was good, I was mostly impressed by Thomas Bo Larsen who plays the neighbor. That said, I am not a huge fan of the film overall because its stubbornness to refuse dramaturgy left me narratively unsatisfied. That and the nauseating discourse, but let's not get all gender study...

Scribblenauts for the DS is both fun and a very good learning tool for writing/spelling/vocabulary.

If you really really have to remake Naked Gun, it might as well be with a lead that will bring his own brand of comedy instead of trying to mimic Nielsen. Anyway, convincing people that this remake is a good idea and that the end result will be worth watching is a very difficult task.

As far as I am concerned there was too much story. I don't think you need to make that much corny dialogue driven back-story to show someone facing hardships being tempted by giving up and ultimately deciding to fight. Still an extremely impressive movie. Space realism question: after all...

I found the 'teaching an actor how to fake playing trombone' storyline a bit ballsy and maybe a tad too meta considering Wendell Pierce is not a trombone player (but he probably had more than a day to learn faking it). But yeah, great episode. I found the Big Chief losing his sense of taste...

Give your puppet scissors at your own peril!