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  1. Wombat

    Cowboy Bebop

    Of course he dies, they even give you the star blinking out at the end of the credits to hammer it home.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Metal trash cans unfortunately provide easy sources of effective shrapnel.
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    Hannibal

    I'm enjoying this too (Bryan Fuller's name demands I at least give it a couple episodes), but all I can think of when I watch it is "Awake: Serial Killer Edition". It doesn't help that the same guy (David Slade) directed the pilots for both shows.
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    Community

    According to Sepinwall, that was the "last produced" (the singing and puppets took longer to produce, as you would expect) episode that Chevy skipped; apparently they made him come back for an hour and record his puppet lines before he was off the hook. So he did indeed "appear" in all the...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I would clarify that to exclusivity hasn't mattered for XBLArecently. I think/fear that if the 720 is still way behind the PS4 after Holiday 14, at E3 15 we will find out MS has broken out the checkbook and bought XBLA exclusivity for Shadow Complex 2, Trials+1, Spelunky 2, Dust 2, and as...
  6. Wombat

    Kudos EA - Worst Company in America two years running

    Is says that internet polls have such a level of self-selection bias that their results should be tossed out sight unseen, that the gamers voting for EA literally don't have a clue about reality at large, given the above that any group running (and promoting the results of) such a poll has...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Non-gamers don't need to spend $500 on a media device, especially when much cheaper devices (hell, if rumors are to be believed, including a $99 version of the 360) will do the same. MS intends on putting out a new machine and not eating a large percentage of the cost doing so. Both MS and...
  8. Wombat

    The Croods

    I took my nieces to see this on Wednesday. Today, the only things I can literally remember about it are A) amusing meta-jokes about Nic Cage inventing wigs and overacting, and B) wondering why the intro is scored to college football fight songs. (I guess the egg is football shaped, or...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Adjusting for inflation: The "Good" 360 (with a hard drive) launched at ~$475. (Without any silly Kinect camera.) It should overtake the Wii for #1 this gen in the US. The PS2 launched at ~$400, and there was a lot less to a system back then (no hard drive to start). It was #1 last gen...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    1) MS hired the guys they usually go through to produce an announcement event for them in April, later delayed to May. (That delay may not be due to any difficulties with the product, but venue availability in April, etc.) So they aren't planning on sitting until E3. 2) Those bad news details...
  11. Wombat

    Community

    Yeah, that probably was the best Zombie Community they've put out yet. The laughs/minute ratio still isn't great.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What's especially odd is that one of Gamestop's biggest growth sectors is codes for DLC. Sure, there are some paranoids that won't use credit cards online, but I have to believe the overwhelming majority of those people just don't have credit cards. If they don't have credit cards, do they...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It didn't come out today. There's been rumors - and even patents! - about requiring always-on connections, not having used games, etc. for both consoles going back to last year. PS4 has now officially said they won't require a connection and will allow used games. MS may do the same, or they...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Or we're three weeks into Free Agency and no one's signed him, so why not get something while playing for a legitimate contender. There are a lot of veteran guys taking relatively small amounts this year. You can view it as them hoping to refresh their resumes... or the continued financial...
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    Lucasarts shut down.

    Yeah, they've already nixed the rest of the 3D rereleases and killed the Clone Wars cartoon. It wouldn't shock me if they stop putting out new toy lines too until the movie versions come out. Mobile games, on the other hand, I continue to expect a ton of. Disney killing Lucasarts was my...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Good Lord in Heaven, I'm siding with Araysar. I think the evidence suggests that all option quarterbacks will eventually get knocked out for significant time, and that you are wagering whether their running performance will outweigh the time they're out of the lineup. It's one thing to be...
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    The Walking Dead

    I've only been catching up on this half season when reviews say to, but what in the world was that? It was like everyone involved said "Man, the prison arc is the best stuff from the comic, we can't be done with it already" and then decided to take the most inelegant path possible to "Still...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    1) AFAIK, the "due date" for spending that money isn't until the end of the league year. Teams way under can give new contracts with massive payouts for the 2013 season in March 2014 if they had to. (E.g. In March 2014 the Bengals could give Andy Dalton an extension with small per-year numbers...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Yeah, if his interpretation is correct (and it looks solid), then it's $16 mil a year for a mid-level QB, with friendly cap numbers. (The risk being that Jerry just signed over a $25 million check to Romo, who could be hit by a bus tomorrow.) Honestly, like the Sanchez deal, I may not like...
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    The big thread of game industry fuck ups

    What do you mean, lol. Show meanythingthat suggests digital downloads of retail disc games matter. The few times we've seen it are weird exceptions like XCOM (heavy PC background), Minecraft (no disc version), and Fire Emblem (supply issues). Instead, no one is putting out any sort of press...
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    Justified - Season 4 starts Jan 8th

    Is it just me or has the show fallen apart from a plotting perspective in the last two weeks as they rush to shuffle pieces for the finale? Why did Colt kill Mort (the Detroit sniper) at the ambush? Was it to protect Tim for their big showdown? If so, why did Colt continue with an unwinnable...
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    FX to launch FXX spin-off channel with Always Sunny/League/Legit/Biased +1

    It is a bold (and seemingly strange) move - remember, FX didn't even have enough dramas to air one on Wednesdays last spring, and now they are going to cover programming a network with just their dramas? It's by no means unprecedented - the Turner Networks essentially do the same thing with...
  23. Wombat

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    NEWS Fox is officially going through with their goofy plan to split up the FX network. In September, Fox Soccer will become FXX - essentially FX's comedy branch. All the current FX comedies & talk shows will move to that network, and were renewed in the process. Because Sunny already had a...
  24. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Err, did future 2013 rookie signings factor into those numbers, because if not, Jerry's already screwed up. Or more likely, you have "surprise" cuts and/or Romo "extension" (really a restructuring) coming soon.
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Wait, are we really doing pre-draft Playoff Predictions? Because.. they will sound hilariously terrible in 9 months. AFC North: Bengals (Probably on tie-breakers.) South: Texans (Colts got "lucky" with Leukemia motivation, out of playoffs.) East: Patriots (Come on now, even the season...
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    Bioshock Infinite

    For those of you that have the game, is performance as meh as rumored (average of maybe 20 fps)? I've seen people argue that adoption of PS4/Durango will be slow because most of the games will be available on all consoles, but I think Far Cry 3 was just the start: people will be eager to...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Well, the Raiders are in salary cap/draft pick hell*, which is why they couldn't resign him. As to why no one picked him up, it does seem to be early in the process to burn your money on special teams guys, which says what the Texans think of all the remaining FAs out there. *Is it just me...
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    Ant-Man test footage leaked

    The standard opinions first: I love me some Edgar Wright. The "running up the gun" shot looks terrible. It's easy to imagine a lot of Nightcrawler/Azazel type fights. Then the non-standard: I'm worried we're going to get a comic-movie crash sooner rather than later, and I think...
  29. Wombat

    SimCity

    Pretty much everything in the recent term hasn't gone well. TOR was a flaming disaster, Medal of Honor failed as a CoD rival, Battlefield hasn't hit CoD numbers, Popcap ended up being a poor choice for the mobile markets, Origin hasn't turned into a real rival to Steam, Sim City turned into a PR...
  30. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    If you hadn't heard, Simpson doesn't need tips: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/70...e-simpson-home
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    "Your WR depth chart consists of Jerome Simpson, until his next inevitable drug trafficking arrest. Mike Wallace, the only real #1 WR signed this offseason, got $12 mil/year." Given the money crunch the Packers have coming (Rodgers, Matthews, probably keeping Raji), I'm actually glad we...
  32. Wombat

    North Korea goes full retard

    Are you guys really too young not to remember the Clinton-and-earlier versions of this rodeo? 1) China doesn't want a US ally literally on their doorstep, and will deter any efforts at a peaceful re-unification. 2) China doesn't want millions of refuges streaming across their border, and...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    I have to agree with Grim: If you're penalizing defenders for leading with a helmet (or even touching a QB's helmet), you have to do the same for offensive players - although how RBs, etc. would play under those rules will be different.
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    Saints row 4

    Yeah, that sure as hell looks like Enter the Dominatrix turned into a real title, complete with "Superheroes in Saints Row" plot. As long as the length is reasonable compared to 3, I don't mind though.
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    AFAIK: 1) This is the first year where every team individually has to spend 90% of the cap, or 110.7 million. (Barring exceptions like Washington and Dallas.) 2) That spending minimum's "due date" isn't until the end of the season. Teams could also spend that money on contract extensions at...
  36. Wombat

    Community

    This week's one joke: "And we have Britta to thank for it." "Don't ruin the moment." An entire episode to get another "Everyone Hates Britta" bit. I really don't know why I bother.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Pretty sure they clarified that it wasn't All-Stars either. I assume it's some mobile game, maybe a small team did a multiplayer Rock N Roll racing revival. (As an aside, how nuts could Blizzcon be this year? Diablo 3 expansion, WoW 6.0, and they have to reveal Titan one of these years...
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    1) I called it over a month before that; anyone with two brain cells to rub together should have seen it coming from that lopsided schedule. (By contrast, Araysar was hip deep in "Best offense in the league!" wharrgarbl at that point.) 2) The Bears schedule turned the week before the 49ers...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Anyone else think the new raids generating Random Enchantment items with One Stat (and thus mathematically crap) is rather dumb?
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    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    I didn't mention Alex Green, Tom Crabtree, or Jarrett Boykin either. 1) It's the comedy rule of three. 2) Jones is a red zone vulture.. but that's about it, buried way back in nearly all other rankings. The red zone TDs are mostly him getting lined up with weaker defenders due to all the...