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The film, Downfall, is overrated perhaps. The Hitler Reacts meme with the resubtitled scene, however, is a brilliant method of cultural examination as well as wonderful mockery of Nazis. And if anyone deserves mockery its Nazis - past or present. I mean they couldn't even accept the theory of...

Sequels are tricky. There are plenty of movies that ended perfectly and having a sequel would only mess up the perfect resolution. We have seen plenty of sequels that have tarnished the legacy of the original. There are a few great movies where we long to see the characters in further...

Have you seen The Lives of Others (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/). It is set in East Germany during the 1980's. Bleak but inspiring and very realistic.

The graphics and art style of ATOM look great. The character portraits look pretty good, but its the developer portraits that are the standout. I hope they make it into the final game.

Northern California is a bit wetter than southern California, but both are green during the wet season and yellow / brown during the dry season. This means you will see very lush grasses and flowering plants after the first rain and by April/May they will dry up into scratchy weeds. Some places...

It is being released in Q4 2019. To put this in perspective: PS4 & XBone release: Q4 2013 PS3 release: Q4 2006 X360 release: Q4 2005 Today (2016) there are still a fair amount of multi-generational titles released. By 2019 there will be much less. I did a bit of research and only about 9 of...

After reading a lot of user reviews on Metacritic, but not yet seeing Batman v Superman, it seems to me that people are split on the quality of some of the performances, especially Jesse Eisenberg playing Lex Luthor. Most people actually liked Ben Affleck as Batman. The biggest complaint was the...

On the other hand, maybe nuking North Korea would have set a precedent that would have been followed in every war involving a nuclear power: Fight conventional until you get pushed back enough, and then drop a few hydrogen bombs on the enemy and try to regain your lost (irradiated) ground...

I don't mind pixels when they are artistically done, but when it is just a bunch of ugly, pixelated creatures moving around the screen and even more pixelated particle effects, I just stop and say, "No. I am not buying this no matter how good the gameplay is." I can only take so much of a...

The thing about world wars is they don't start out as world wars (using a statistical sample of 2). So far they have begun as more regional conflicts (WW1: Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia, WW2: Germany invaded Poland). I think there is a fair possibility that China could try to take...

Unfortunately, the generals don't always recognize when escalation is going one step too far. Imagine things progressing from proxy wars, small scale skirmishes, civilian targets, carpet bombing, use of MOABs, tactical nukes. And the generals are definitely afraid of inaction being seen as a...

I really liked Ergo Proxy's take on the apocalypse: domed city and everything outside is either pitiful or weird.

The Drake equation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation) and the Fermi Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox) leave me to believe that only the most peaceful and long-term thinking of species / civilizations would survive long enough to become an extraplanetary...

I think a fair amount of our ingested fats and oils pass through us. Also if you read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_metabolism it mentions that for animals we can convert the energy from carbohydrates into fats, but not the reverse process. I agree that in general it is...

My great uncle was a civilian contractor on a Pacific island in 1941 when the Japanese forces took it over and took him prisoner (along with others). When he was finally released at the end of the war he was rail thin due to the dismal rations. Then as my dad puts it, "he spent the rest of his...

I think that when a mass shooter dies in the act, we should remember them by photoshopping them into all kinds of beastial situations. It would be great if we could get the mainstream press to go along with this (I believe libel / slander laws are no longer in effect when the person is...

The developers could subvert this trope easily and it would probably make their game stand out more to those that play it. I think about the TV show Dexter where he basically goes stalking in a dark grey but normal looking shirt (no mask, no hood), so if he is caught before he does anything he...

I agree that there is a lot of coincidence (and it makes the plotting seem sloppy), but that was also the case with the original trilogy (even before they made everyone related to each other). For example, in episode 4 what if they had arrived at Alderaan 1 day before they did? What if at Mos...

There are lots of lists on the internet that include both the usual suspects and more indie pen and paper RPGs: Top 10: http://listverse.com/2012/02/15/top-10-current-tabletop-role-playing-games/ Top 48: http://learntabletoprpgs.com/tabletop-roleplaying-games-to-play/index.html Top 50 by users...

I enjoyed it, but yes it has its flaws just like the original trilogy - some of which may be fixed via retcon in upcoming sequels. I enjoyed it on a fun / nostalgic level, but yeah. It has not yet reached the cinematic level of quality that I hope it will. Some of the criticism leveled at...