Recent content by Dan Shive

How on earth does this need a trial? If they had a contract, it should have stipulated what was necessary to keep the contract, and the conditions don't sound at all complicated. Do they lose the rights if they don't make movies frequently enough? (Y/N) Does the contract specify that they have...

I like this comic, though in real life, you wouldn't see any lights with laser security systems. Such systems in reality use infra red lasers, which are invisible to the naked eye and simply cannot be beaten by methods seen in video games and movies. On the plus side, they won't slice through...

I think Movie Bob has a bit of tunnel vision. He uses terms like "people keep" and "gamers keep", but he's recounting personal experiences and presenting them as widespread epidemics. I'd be curious to know who exactly these people he's referring to are, because it sort of sounds like he's...

I don't think it's fair to say "they're all going to suck." I mean, that's probable and it's a funnier line than "some might be good, after all MLP surprised us", but still.

Doctor House would kill the majority of his patients in real life just by virtue of testing them to death. This isn't simple conjecture on my part. This is based on what real doctors have said of the show. That, and I know people, who aren't doctors, who regularly make a game of beating House...

You're not elitist because you don't like the Transformers movies. You're elitist because you characterize the people who do as frat boy morons.

I would gleefully buy Chell, Gordan, Engineer and Alyx action figures... so of course those won't get made. It's never the ones I want to be made... *sniff*

Maybe Nintendo's gimmick could just be "we have Link and Mario hostage, and we'll release new awesome title's more frequently"? No? Gimmicky controls? Okay. I'll continue to play XBox.

Really? Because I watch in the hope of gathering data to help me determine whether a movie is worth my time and money. I basically consider your job, as far as movie reviews go, to be one of entertaining and helping make movie-going decisions. Your background gives you the knowledge necessary to...

Critics seem to be really bad about taking negative comments. Or at least, the critics I watch. So much time seems to be spent desperately getting ahead of the negative comments before they happen, or making clear why the negative comments are foolish only to later continue having to explain it...

ANY inanimate object? Like... clothes? I think the bad guy would win under these conditions >_<

Generalizing an audience as douches is itself somewhat douchie behavior. Then, again, perhaps this comment is also douchie. We might be trapped in a mobius strip of douchousity.

Fallout 3's moral choices kicked the arse of Fable 3's. Just the fact that there were moments where I wasn't sure what the right choice was and the economy mattered beyond a massive gold dump at the end is enough for that victory. Plus, it felt less like genuine good vs evil and more like...

What bewildered me is that the exact amount of gold pieces was the exact amount of people in need of saving. If each person donated one gold piece to the "I want to live" fund, there'd be no issue. It also raises the question of how messed up the taxes in that world ultimately are if there...

Red Dead Redemption sort of pulls off the big immersive world dealie while allowing the option of fast travel, but the problem it runs into is you can't interact in any real significant way with people beyond violence or hog-tying them, and the random encounters really, REALLY start to repeat...