Thorgi Duke of Frisbee

I'm saying people should be judging the game based on playing the actual game, not the demo.

Oh man. Tonight's episode was amazing.

It's mostly the rubberized grip that makes it feel so great. It's really pleasant to hold. Also, the control sticks are completely customizable in terms of resistance. That may sound like some gimmicky feature, but after you spend some time playing with it, you understand why it's such a big deal. I change the resistance from game to game. I like my left stick to be loose and my right stick to require effort when I'm playing shooters, and I like to tighten the left up when I'm playing racers. In terms of the D-Pad, the individual nature of each direction is certainly an improvement over 360's giant fused wheel, but it's still not as good as a PS3's D-Pad. You won't be playing any fighting games with it if you like to exclusively use the D-Pad (but if you're a 360 user, you've already grown used to that). It works well for things like weapon selection and other secondary functions. The face buttons, at least for me, are the real stars of the show. It immediately becomes apparent that Razer set out to make a controller that mimicked the feeling you get when you're playing on a PC. The face buttons feel like a click of the mouse (and sound like it, too). You're not left guessing if you hit the button properly. You get an immediate, audible response, and it happens so easily that if a game requires rapid presses, it's the easiest thing in the world to accomplish. Also, since the face buttons are proper switches instead of the typical 360 membrane system, the buttons won't accidentally depress the wrong way during a game, leaving you with a Y button that only works occasionally. It also has two reprogrammable buttons near the top of the shoulders, if you're into that sort of thing. I've been using one of them to jump while aiming in Halo: Reach. It can add quite the tactical advantage.

Ask me anything about the controller! Looks great, feels great. But seriously, Razer, get your fucking act together on your site. You still have it listed as a pre-order, yet I have one sitting in my dorm room right now.

Elephant is the best album I've ever listened to. My favorite song on that particular compilation is "Black Math". I think my favorite of theirs in general would be "Blue Orchid".

I felt like Inception was pretty clear on its own rules (it explained them for a good chunk of the movie) and Cobb's rules. The rules of the dream world cannot be broken, and aren't broken at any time during the movie. However, Cobb's rules are constantly broken by Cobb himself, because he foolishly tries to achieve impossibilities that even the dream world can't sustain. Also, mind militarization makes perfect sense to me. If this kind of technology was used by the military and frequently traded in the black market, you wouldn't want a CEO or CEO's son to be manipulated into revealing company secrets. So the CEO is trained by a specialist to subconsciously fight back, which creates the armed force.

I love Alan Wake! It was TIME's GOTY, dontchano. Also, Barry's making a comeback in that new Remedy racing game, along with Duke Nukem and some other gaming pop icons. Awesome!

HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW? I went to see that movie three times within a week (people I know don't like watching movies alone, so I usually take the bullet, as long as they pay for the ticket), and that song got stuck in my head. I really like the movie, though, so it's not that bad of a bullet. It's just three times in a row... uggh.

Just finished watching the first season of Archer on Netflix Instant. It is absolutely amazing! If you've ever watched Frisky Dingo or Sealab 2021, this has similar humor (made by the same people, just aired on FX), but takes a much darker direction. I am hoping the second season comes to DVD soon.

In 2012, I will be 21, and will try my first beer. I imagine it will taste so horrible that I will destroy the world's supply of alcohol. Without alcohol, the world will burn.

I prefer Memento and Insomnia. And yes, MacGruber is somewhat funny. It's one of those films where one scene will make you chuckle, and another will leave you stone-faced.

The Lincoln Lawyer. Though there is one severe plot hole, the majority of the movie is very enjoyable.

First, I want to chime in and say that I love Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Don't tell me the "Vegan Police" bit didn't even get a chuckle out of you! Second, the last crap movie I saw was Fired Up. I'm pretty sure none of my floormates have any taste in movies, because they loved it. It was absolutely pants-on-head retarded, and it didn't get a single snort out of me.

http://www.oliandalex.com/james-face/ I fully support this brand of pranking. In fact, I haven't laughed this hard in a while.

I take issue with this viewpoint: it's not a choice. If it were a choice then I would choose to believe in God and seek forgiveness from Him for my sins and whatnot, because as people so often point out that is the "safer" option. However, regardless of how appealing a belief is, or how much I might truly want to believe it, I cannot will myself to belief something that just doesn't make any sense to me. Disclaimer: if my tone comes across as hostile I assure you that I do not mean it to be. Of course, I understand. Here's the appropriate way to put this; You're either convinced or you're not.

Didn't mean to say it like that. I meant this; At some point in everyone's lives, we go through some serious shit. Maybe it's the loss of a loved one, the destruction of our livelihoods, or a serious medical illness. At that crossroads, we take a definite stance on what we believe; we either follow God, or we choose to ignore/not believe in Him. Either way is fine with me. Like I said, I don't think any less of people who go the other way. Again, sorry. Didn't mean it that way, and the last thing I want to sound like is those "God hates fags" assholes. I have a rather open view on sexuality; some guys were made to love guys, and some girls were made to love girls. The only acts that are really judged are evil ones, like murder or rape.

Well said, sir.

For some reason, my defense to an anti-religious comment on Kotaku won't fucking post there, so I'll post it here, instead. It took me quite some time to write it down, so I might as well post it somewhere. Sorry if I've offended anyone. I just wanted to let off some steam and defend my point of view in a rational manner.

Can't say I've really noticed, but a lot of the more mainstream stuff does tend to fall into that category. It becomes easily digestible, grand narrative stuff rather than a complex exploration of an idea. I agree with that, but it really pisses me off when people call movies like Moon 'space operas'. That movie was singular in its ideas, and gave a thrilling examination of genetics gone awry. It was one of the most provoking movies I saw last year. Yet it somehow gets classified as an opera?

The term 'space opera' has lost all meaning. Every fucking movie, TV show, comic book, novel and video game set in space has been labelled as a space opera. It's like the setting alone designates it as operatic.

The Witcher has the best moral choices, hands down. Everything is in shades of grey, and the resolution to your choice may not be seen for half the game. Then it hits you like a brick when you made the wrong decision. The choices also affect everything around you. For example, choosing to defend one area instead of the other early on will determine how tough the enemies are later on.

I have no idea why, but I have absolutely no interest in Dragon Age II. I loved the first one, and I've adored every single BioWare game, but I played the demo and it's doing nothing for me. Maybe it's because due to unfortunate circumstances, I've never really finished the first one. I think I've gotten 20% through it about three times, then something catastrophic happens to my hard drive/Windows install and I have to start over.