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I still can't get past the first boss, the dreaded Purchase Authorizer.

Not surprising that this movie disappoints. The trailer took me on that ride already: Oh hey, a movie about cool subject matter I'm really interested in, with talented names attached! Oh hey, they're taking the premise and running it into the ground, which is apparent even in one trailer.

At the risk of receiving a warning, I will chime in with agreement that 'verisimilitude' was used incorrectly. First, it needs an article in this case. Second, if you want to say "an illusion of a global inventory" the meaning is much clearer by saying "an illusion of a global inventory." It's...

Yeah, there's definitely a benefit in knowing you're in for something 'out there,' rather than the bait and switch that seems to be the case with Winter's Tale. The local rental place (yeah, guess I'm showing my age here) had a poster for Immortel, and so I got it specifically because it looked...

Question for you Bob: Have you seen the film Immortel, by Enki Bilal? It's not really similar to this one, but it's another film that, when described, necessitates the phrase "I'm not making this up." Likewise, it's not a good movie per se, but it's so bizarre that it stands out in my mind where...

As was true with your informing article about the honour system, Mr Rath you have once again increased my enjoyment of Dishonored tenfold. I too found it frustrating game design to be given so many (fun!) tools that I wouldn't be able use when trying for Low Chaos. I hadn't thought of it from...

Interestingly, this article comes a few days after I had a similar experience myself, though I cannot boast quite the same degree of success as the author. I am an English teacher in Taiwan. My students are a bit younger (3rd-5th grade). I can't exactly compare L.A. Noire to Shakespeare with...

My appreciation of Dishonored just went up tenfold. Thank you Mr Rath!

Bob makes some interesting points, but I feel they are undercut by the distinct feeling that Zac Snyder loves every minute of the gratuitous, fetishized, fishnets-for-the-sake-of-fishnets as much as he loves his battle-for-the-sake-of-battle. And -given who we're talking about here- every minute...

My girlfriend is not at all interested in playing videogames, partly because she thinks she'll be terrible at them. I did, however, intrigue her about the possibilities of a well-realised interactive story as I was gushing about the Mass Effect trilogy. She said I had made her curious enough...

Well put, Bob. Especially liked the closing.

But will people wake up to the insecurity of most e-voting systems? Unlikely. Still, better for Bender to win than Skynet. Probably.

I don't always laugh at Jim's hyper-ego persona... but this time, he had me cracked up. Good episode too. Such a shame about how Ubi treats their customers, because they do put out a lot of quality titles.

Thanks for the comments! To answer a couple of the questions: For the behemoth, I just waited for the BoS troops to take it down. I think some of them are "quest significant" and therefore immortal. You can sometimes pickpocket weapons away from human enemies, but not mutants...

Thou Shalt Not Kill Radroaches In the post-nuclear wasteland of Fallout 3, it?s kill or be killed. Or is it? Read Full Article