Recent content by millertime059

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    Escape to the Movies: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part Two

    Oh boy. Well I saw it with my wife yesterday. Now to unpack the experience. I laughed several times, mostly at the film. The flying suplex on the cougar is but one moment of hilariously awful. Much of that revolves around how bad much of the CGI is. I'm sorry, any time they did their...
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    LoadingReadyRun: Some Kind of Geek

    I am giving you the evil eye right now Matt, F$#@%ing Kessler. Just remember that come playoff time the Blackhawks are really good at making Luongo cry. Sweet sweet goalie tears ahhhh.
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    Feed Dump: Marathon Train Poop

    We don't find out actual place (mostly) until the official race results booklet gets shipped, usually in late winter/ early spring. That said her time was 6:30. Considering that my time wasn't significantly better (pulled hammy at mile 18) she did a damn great job. This was my fifth race...
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    The Loose Ends of The Avengers

    That's what I figured, but since the extent of my comic knowledge comes from the movies I wasn't going to discount that I missed something.
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    The Loose Ends of The Avengers

    One thing I am a bit unsure of, you state the location where the Cap was recovered from as being Antarctica, a.k.a. the large continent on the far south of the globe. The movie shows him flying north over Sweden, Norway, then to the north pole. Did I miss something or was this just a mix up...
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    Critical Miss: The GameChurch

    Depends on where you live, and your particular branch of the Christian church. In the South and Midwest of the US alcohol is a major no-no for many (most?) churches. That said most people in my generation who attended such churches ignored it regardless. Even my current church, which doesn't...
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    Ubisoft Drops the Bomb in Post-It Note War

    This side of Ubisoft I love. The side that handles DRM is a steaming pile of filth. Ubi why must you be bi-polar?
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    Escape to the Movies: Fright Night

    See, I'm with Togs here. I was expecting cheesy B-movie with good action. Theoretically that's what it is. There are just several problems that torpedoed it for me. -Arnold was terrible, I expected this but still... -The plot felt very disconnected. Sure the part where James Earl Jones...
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    Escape to the Movies: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    Ok I'm interested to hear more. My main problem is that I am a BIG fan of the originals, and still have a bad taste in my mouth from Markey-Mark's turn in the franchise. What I love of the originals is the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) allegory of the day. I.E. xenophobia and racism...
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    Mine 4 Dead: Blockhawk Down: Minecraft Meets Left 4 Dead

    Minecraft mod of Left 4 Dead... Snore. Minecraft mod of downtown Chicago... Woot! I'm gonna play it just to destroy ... err walk around in... Daly plaza. My day is made.
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    Extra Punctuation: Keeping Old Games Intact

    One of the best things Yahtzee talked about is context. Let me explain why. I'm an avid reader, and have read most of what would be the pillars of modern sci fi and fantasy. This includes the mythologies they evolved from (Norse, German and English mostly). I'm also a huge Asimov fan...
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    Jimquisition: A Different Kind of Difficulty

    Here's a big wrench to those who complain about games difficulty, harder =/= more fun. Not every game needs to be harder to be fun. Some are built with this in mind (I play Super Meat Boy too) where lowering difficulty would be less fun, but other times hard is used as a substiture for cheap...
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    NCAA Football 12 Retraction

    I would like to throw my hat into wanting to know what was wrong ring. Like others have said, Russ, big respect to admit error publicly. I watched the video review and saw nothing wrong so to speak. The only thing I can guess is something to do with instruction manuals, as that was by far the...
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    Harry Potter and the Little Golden Man

    I feel those who are dismissing the movies, or decrying them as unworthy of such praise really need to step back and examine them more objectively. Full disclosure, I'm 26 and thus missed the boat the first time around. I had neither watched any of the movies or read any of the books until...
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    Jimquisition: Solving the Sexism Situation

    ninjas man, get you every time ;) Thanks for being one of the few people to actually notice the point though. you are 100% correct.