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That's because Norwegians are some of the most boring people on earth. They sit around on their North Sea oil money eating waffles and sardines and drinkinng aquavit. Norway hasn't been the same since Christianity cut its testicles off and put a stop to all the raiding and pillaging. I don't...

I refuse to take any position. I think, beyond a point (which I long ago reached), the whole discussion is a waste of time.

Yeah right, because that's exactly what The French Connection and The Exorcist are like, right? It doesn't have anything to do with "artistic" or "drama." It has to do with real people doing real things instead of shallow comic book characters doing purely fantastical things. And he never...

I'm your distant neighbor (Go Packers!) and it's the same for me out in the sticks. There's an unwritten code of rules to rural culture that is probably invisible to most outsiders, but it's pretty great in a lot of ways. I think it's a continuation of the old farm culture from before everyone...

Somewhat funny anecdote: my 82-year-old mother just finished reading that, although I think she had read it before once long ago. I'm not sure what possessed her to start reading it since she mostly likes westerns and pioneer fiction. Not surprisingly, she didn't like it much, although she...

Not really. Just because you're 30 or whatever and you've played Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 doesn't mean you know the history of Fallout, what Fallout was intended to be by the folks who originally created it, how Bethesda mangled it, or the disposition of Bethesda's backer, Zenimax. If I'm not...

It doesn't hurt that Sophia Loren was really hot, too. But yes, I agree. The old Ray Harryhausen motion capture monsters are just fun. They were fun to see when I was a little kid, and they're still fun when I see them today. On a different note, William Friedkin agrees with me about...

You're only proving your own ignorance, my friend. Please continue. The funniest thing I notice about Bethesda fans these days is that many of them seem literally incapable of playing the original Fallouts. Those games are simply too difficult for them to figure out. And I'm not talking...

Funny that you lived there. Florida is recognized nation-wide as the place where the most crazy news stories come from. There's a constant stream of bizzare things happening in that state for some reason. Never heard of people disliking the British, though. I'm not sure why they would...

I snuck out to see Inside Out this afternoon. It's pretty darned good. Definitely another winner for Pixar. I'm not sure where I'd rank it among all their movies, but I liked it. I'd rather watch this than yet another Jurassic movie:

Liking what Bethesda peddles as Fallout doesn't necessarily mean you're stupid. You might simply be ignorant. The latter is curable provided you're willing and able to educate yourself. You can't really expect anyone to do that for you, however.

This is me too. In fact, I've never given Bethesda/Zenimax any money. It's not the kind of company I care to support. I'm very, very disconnected from people who are going to rush out and pre-order Fallout 4. That makes you part of the problem, IMO, but I'm not going to harp on it much. I'm...

Lately I've been watching The Rockford Files, one of the best U.S. TV shows from the 1970s. I'd love to see this become a game:

Ha! That's classic contemporary movie sequelization: dinosaurs aren't enough anymore. We're all bored with "ordinary" dinosaurs. What do we need? MEGA-dinosaurs! It only saddens me because the dino-exploitation flick has a long, fun history, and modern movies are even capable of screwing...

I agree, things seem better now than they have in a long time. Technical advances have allowed enthusiast developers to reach their audience, and allowed their audience to reach them. It's possible to circumvent the big predatory gorillas squatting on the top of the industry. Imagine what...

I share the contempt companies like Bethesda and Blizzard have for their customers. As a whole, 21st century gamers are a pathetic sludge of people. They act like a combination of spoiled, bratty, illiterate children and hardcore junkies ready to spread their butt cheeks as necessary to get...

Proverbs 28:1, King James Bible: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion." Going to the movies alone is only strange if you're worried you're a weirdo.

He's popular now? Odd. I guess pop culture these days is fascinated by talentless losers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8YciwllLO4

Oh, no! I guess Wil Wheaton has to do something. No kidding. Everything from Pac-Man to Alex P. Keaton to Tears for Fears. Steven Spielberg is currently signed to direct it. I'm not sure how I feel about that. My preference would be for a director who actually remembers all that 1980s...

I've never purchased a Bethesda product and I never will until they start supporting DRM-free distribution like GOG.com.