MikkaQ

Yeah I often rent movies from iTunes for the Apple TV and whatnot, and if I really like the film and want to watch it over and over again, then I tend to buy the blu-ray.

The HD copy off of iTunes is going to be more compressed than the blu-ray, especially when it comes to audio. A 50GB Blu-Ray disc can hold a lot of uncompressed sound, a 5GB MP4 cannot. The same will happen with the video, but it's not as dramatic.

Full stop if you're not bothered by collecting discs and swapping them out to play a movie then yes the quality is objectively better with the physical media. If it's cheaper than the iTunes copy, that's even better. Hell half the blu-rays out there come with a digital copy anyway.

Also with the iTunes copy they generally don't have the special features that a blu-ray will have. That only really matters if you like commentary or making-of featurettes anyway.

I idiotically sold my N64 and all my games when the Gamecube came out. I've since recovered one and have been slowly rebuilding my wresting game collection. Now I have No Mercy, WCW vs. NWO Revenge, WCW Mayhem, and Wrestlemania 2000.

Wow poor Letterman, he looked so confused.

Back in like 2004 I was upgrading my computer to have a whopping 512MB of RAM from it's original 256. I really wanted to play KOTOR and Sims 2.

I got the ram which was like 90 dollars, and excitedly went home to install it, only to turn it on and have my PC not work. Turns out I somehow installed the RAM wrong and fried one of my hard drives as a result.

That PC sat there for like 6 months unrepaired. I was massively anti-apple that time (I was an opinionated little 12 year old, I don't how many other 12 year olds cared whether they had an IBM or Intel processor but I did so hey) but I had to use something for my homework and websurfing and ended up borrowing my dad's G3 iBook. Over the course of that six months I started to love the OS X interface and how sleek and snappy everything felt. Once the Intel MacBooks dropped I grabbed one right away and have been loving my macs since. I still keep a desktop PC for gaming, but for getting any work done, email, regular life stuff, I use my mac.

Babylon 5 was exactly this, planned out from beginning to end for five seasons. Too bad no one else managed to plan out a show so well in advance. Financially it makes little sense since no shows are truly guaranteed to last, but you'd think once the first season of something is a big enough hit, the writers would start to make a proper outline for ending the show.

The snacks sound terrible. If they had a JunkBox service though fuck sign me up right away. Just pack as much trashy junk food into a box and mail that shit straight into my mouth.

Oh yeah I forgot about that. That was a really cool scene and I was thinking about time travel plots for so long that the final reveal just left me confused,

BSG because I have major hard-on for spaceships and sci-fi. Also has a great soundtrack. Too bad the writers kinda lost the plot and it went weird places, but I've heard the same thing about Lost, so I don't know how they compare. I never saw Lost.

As far as characters go I think Starbuck is one of the most well developed characters on TV. Too bad they slapped some unnecessary mystery around her near the end, that basically killed her development dead. Also I do enjoy the complexity of her relationship with Apollo, it made for very compelling TV.

I'm pretty split on this game. I think the design, graphics, the world and combat mechanics are fucking amazing, but then like the mission structure is super boring. I got the same feeling from Red Faction: Guerilla: amazing open world, boring main game.