P4: Gritty Reboot

Slim Jim & sugar-free Rockstar.

Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy are on Netflix.

I think my limit was $49.99 for Half-Life 2 back in 2003 (pre-ordered it then). I don't know if I've come close to that since...

I wonder if that's how they calculated it, or if they took the number of downloads and tried to go for statutory and punitive damages. Either way it's ridiculous.

That... was fantastic. Pirate metal. Hrm.

I never got the MMO thing. Boundless potential, doesn't deliver on the promises of the genre. I had a friend that played WoW for a couple weeks straight and realized he was sinking his life into it, so he managed to get out before it got crazy.

@HH: Still my go-to bass warmup tune ---

Sorry to interrupt this Avengers thread with the Last Good Movie I Saw, but Jumanji was pretty entertaining. Just a fun watch, nothing more or less. WHAT YEAR IS IT

Roy Dotrice, great voice for this sort of thing. He also played the Pyromancer in Season 2.

Dinklage is the only one to get it right--he's not doing British; he's doing Westerosi. All the other actors are simply mediocre, and as such can only pull off British.

Yeah, it's supposed to be like that I believe. Especially since the Wall is supposed to be like Hadrian's Wall on crack.

I love the Sony movies wherein a random PSP is tossed in. By far the worst product placement I've seen is in the later episodes of Bones, where whole chunks of dialog are devoted to fawning over their new Toyota vehicles (all of them mysteriously replaced their Chevys with Toyotas during a season break). It was so obnoxious:

The Max Payne poster is a nice touch.

Yeah, I loved MW3's singleplayer campaign, but if I had to pay cash monies for it I would have been disappointed at the value. Though I guess two runs through (one on Hardened, one on Veteran) plus the 30 hours I put into co-op and 5 hours of adversarial wouldn't have been too bad of a deal for $60. Sadly there's no Spec Ops for BO2.

Yes, Hot Heart, it was terrible. There are even errors in the CGI if you look close enough (clipping polys, etc.).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZDB0mAMkA4

Some of them are similar to the original levels but with a "wrench" thrown in to make it harder. However, some of them are completely redesigned altogether. Definitely worth playing through.

Redundancy/being let go is best for getting benefits in the U.S. for sure.

Fool of a Took...

I don't personally understand the claim that the writing is bad. It is simplistic at times, and GRRM prefers telling things plainly in prose rather than leaning toward the poetic. But it is easy to understand, highly descriptive, and at times beautiful. Some of my favorite quotes from the novels (ADWD actually, a teensy bit spoilery but no plot points really): His language is stark and harsh, much like the winter enveloping the land. His novels depict brutal, cold realities, and in that vein I feel the prose works very nicely. I can see why some might be turned off to it compared with some of the more eloquent authors out there, but it fits the complexity and tone of the world.

I'm curious what you thought of it. I was a little disappointed my first read through--in fact it was the only ASOIAF book that I put down for a few weeks and finished off later. I am a few chapters into my second reading, and I'm enjoying it a lot more now. I'm catching foreshadowing and neat little references I missed on the first time through.