Kierkegaard

I listened to a bunch of it in preview on iTunes just because of your enthusiasm. [Random note: Now the preview is 90 instead of 30 seconds? That's awesome!] I can see that they're trying to make something interesting hear, and I don't have the same instantaneous "ew" response I have had to everything Sean Combs has done in the past 5 years, but it's just not what I want out of a record. This stylish, overly produced, shiny hip-hop is not my scene. I don't think Kanye's record is revelational or has any great social meaning, just as you said, but it does have a hypocritical mixture of a raw bravado and a beautiful crescendo that really grabbed me. Diddy's just isn't my style. Glad you love it though. 

In my first Heavy Rain ending, Ethan bit it while saving his son. Fucking tragic. 

Ratchet and Clank-- Hilarious, fun, and get at the themes of the game. 

Watched the last one and I'm watching this one. This season is actually way better.  
 
They've kinda done some relevant stuff this year. Episode 6 is about designing a game and presenting it to a group of real QA people. It's actually a very good episode and one of the games sounds really cool.  
 
This season has had an absurd amount of military advertising, which sucks, but it's also had a much better cast, with stronger women, an openly gay guy, Gaymer, who has made it to the final three, and generally more intelligent people.  
 
It's still silly as all hell, but it's the equivalent of watching people hang out and do inane things for a little over a week, with some drama and humor thrown in, for a prize that, in an economy where getting jobs is a bitch, isn't terrible and 5,000 bucks extra for good measure. The winner also gets a fucking 3D TV this year, so that's something. It's a fun little thing. 

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" FACT: Temple of Doom is FAR worse than Indy 4. "

This statement is so goddamn crazy it's scary. Next thing you're gonna tell me Return of the Jedi is far worse then Phantom Menace. YOU ARE A CRAZY PERSON SIR! "

Indy 4 is actually entertaining as all hell as long as you watch it as I did: as camp. Fuck what Spielberg intended. If you watch that movie believing that it realizes how stupid it is, it is massively entertaining. Temple of Doom, meanwhile, holds up far worse than Raiders or Crusade and includes really bad characters and a mildly offensive plot, so, yeah, it's a close call.  "

But I don't want my Indiana Jones campy. That's not why I like it. I've never had a problem with Temple, I enjoy it. It has its faults for sure but I still watch it. 4 is just so terrible, and I'm not even harping on the whole Aliens thing, that for me isn't the biggest problem with that movie. It's just such a massive step down in quality from the previous three. For me anyways. "

" You're all so belligerently missing the point.   You guys clearly love the PS3 very much, and that's fine.  It's a nifty plastic box, for sure. All three big consoles are. Pretty and nifty plastic things. They are all wonderful and infallible.  Sorry to have offended you all by mocking Sony's marketing strategy in a way that is apparently above your heads (or at all, for that matter). "

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" FACT: Temple of Doom is FAR worse than Indy 4. "

This statement is so goddamn crazy it's scary. Next thing you're gonna tell me Return of the Jedi is far worse then Phantom Menace. YOU ARE A CRAZY PERSON SIR! "

You've forgotten two crucial things: 
 
1. Uncharted 2 does not have a bimbo screeching in fear or a half-racist, half-annoying as hell chinese kid ruining every scene, nor does it turn India into a hive of voodoo cults. It's actually, like, respectful of its locations and people, including the best depiction of Tibet in any game ever, and any movie since that Dalai Llama flick. 
 
2. We can play the uncharted storyline. Although the games certainly follow adventure tropes, and knowingly so (Amy Hennig openly references Indy, Romancing the Stone, other serials in tons of interviews and making ofs), I can guide drake along perilous cliffs and through beautiful locations, looking where I will, and keeping him alive. That's better than any film.  
 
It's a cool thing to notice and I really hope Uncharted 3 is the same leap of quality from Temple to Crusade, but I am willing to bet that Naughty Dog is well aware of their homage. 

There's some strange disconnects going on. At times, it looks like rotoscoping, where you just animate over real video, instead of a character animating. It's got a kinda real face in fake world look going on. I really hope they perfect it all so that the models and the faces match in such a way that it isn' distracting. In this video, I saw something amazing sometimes, but something a little off enough that I think I like the Uncharted 2 style better. There, they mo-capped and then perfected with animation, and it gives it a softness and a believable quality that looks like great CGI instead of a scarily off reality. 

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" Torture is illegal and ineffectual, but it's been accepted in pop culture as long as it seems justified in the fucked up logic of the narrative. In reality, the ticking time bomb case never happens. In reality, 24 is bullshit. But, in reality, administrations that use torture and basically brag about it are not brought to justice and allowed to write memoirs about it instead, so I can't blame the public for being so open to its inclusion in war.  "

Holy shit, best answer. "

Suffice it to say I'm writing a philosophy thesis on torture right now, so it's kinda on my mind, as are my arguments. It gives me this weird feeling of informed elitism when I read some answers on here, but I guess my time is better spent writing the damn thing than refuting people here. Thanks for noticing! "

Cool, you're back in the philosophy game? Nice to see dying in 1855 hasn't stopped you :D "