Recent content by Aliasi

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    Escape to the Movies: Everly - Salma Hayek Kicks All Of The Ass

    Makes me think of the xkcd comic that has "River Tam Beats Up EVERYONE" as a theorized ideal action movie. Salma Hayek is a bit more credible in the "beat up everyone" role, though.
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    Escape to the Movies: Blackhat - Haxxor

    Well, true. The real danger of the net is how the abuse of systems by the poorly-socialized and the sociopathic can endanger other people. It's just, you know, so far that's mostly come across via assholes sending SWAT teams over to innocent people because they said something mean about them...
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    The Big Picture: Dinosaur Exodus

    There's an xkcd comic strip that nicely illustrates the fallacy in Bob's thinking on dinosaurs: http://xkcd.com/1104/ He keeps bringing up parrots and such, and that's the wrong tack to take. Imagine a majestic bird. An eagle, a falcon, hell, a friggin' roc, given the size of these...
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    The Big Picture: Remembering the Real Jack Thompson

    Anita isn't asking anyone to ban anything, or talking about how games are spreading homosexual thoughts into Our Children. She's using basic Women's Studies 101 stuff to point out that video games are really kind of embarrassing in how they fail to really do well by half of the entire human...
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    Escape to the Movies: Gone Girl - Fantastically Suspenseful Thiller

    Not much to say about the review, but... Yes, Bob, you do have a problem. That problem is you have the giant Mario doll, and not me. ;)
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    Game Theory: How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube

    I admit, I really don't care for Pewdiepie, but I do enjoy a lot of similar channels such as Markiplier and the Game Grumps. To me, I find Mark to be a less irritating person without a huge ego and always quite willing to make fun of himself, which helps. However, PDP has certainly helped...