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Obviously if I had infinite money I'd buy both and it's a very close call. I have an XBox One which should align me perhaps with the rift, but at the moment I'm not interested in having FaceBook invading my personal space so that I can use a peripheral (I don't know how that pans out). I have a Facebook account but I don't share stuff on it so that's not a draw for me. I'm mostly a PC gamer with a fairly large Steam collection (of mostly non-VR games), if I find out that Rift can work with VR games available on Steam in a similar way then I might choose differently. I'm also watching for sales on PS4 consoles, so all bets have long odds at the moment.

Thanks, living in the UK I wouldn't have seen that show without searching. He didn't seem to be too bothered by it which is good.

Well that would definitely suck, because that albatross has been around his neck ever since. I've seen enough Keanu Reeves movies to know that his performances can be a bit wooden. So I can vouch for that (as an example), but I've only ever seen a short clip of Dick Van Dyke doing that bad impression on that MP film, and I used it to get a smile/laugh because it's "Universal Internet Knowledge (TM)" (where's Austin with that copyright memo?)

I don't give a fuck so long as it's not intentional and a sweeping generalisation with negative overtones. I'm Welsh (the part of land bolted onto the left hand side of England) and although I don't even live there anymore, I thought it was "tidy" (fun/positive/useful/etc, a good catch all phrase from Wales) to have a Welsh accent in Ni No Kuni for the sidekick. I think it brought something novel to the game, Brad seemed to be into it. In fact I just got back a couple of hours ago from a comedy gig where a comedian was comparing the Welsh and Indian (South Asia) accents, and he was saying that as someone with an English accent it was easy to accidentally slip between the two. It led to a sketch about how accents change whilst under the influence of heavy drugs, and I just found myself laughing so hard.

On the other hand If anybody onstage or in a heated discussion made fun of the Welsh accent, intentionally to demean Welsh people or to try to gain points in an argument, then I would be offended. That's not the place for that, and not particularly clever.

I can't complain about actors in general pretending to have other accents either:

Hugh Laurie (English) - House

Christian Bale (Welsh) - Batman, American Psycho

Idris Elba (English) - The Wire

Sean Connery (Scottish) - The Hunt for Red October

Dick Van Dyke (US) - Mary Poppins

Ok the first three are passable (perhaps great - I'm not from US shores), but the second two just get a pass for being so abysmal that they're funny.

One further thing, if an accent is used to make fun it's very often that it's an individual that is being imitated e.g. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. That's an entirely different question though, that the poll doesn't cover.

I can second a mention that George Orwell's 1984 is a good book, and it definitely made an impression which I enjoyed.

There was a lot of thought to the story, memorable characters and predictions of how society would change, some of which

have been happening for a while.

I haven't looked it up so I don't know if a A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick film) is available as a book, but the film is

dark. Also the film THX-1138 is worth a look if film is an option, it's all about oppressive control and was a film George Lucas

made long before Star Wars. I suspect that's out there in book format.

If you're going to play the original Dungeon Keeper, it would be best to also try to find the two official Direct 3D patch files (one for Dungeon Keeper, the other for the Deeper Dungeons expansion) as they make a huge difference to the graphics.

I don't know about this discussion, but it seems tangentially on-topic that I just want the fake Michael Jackson back in PvZ so I can roll a lawnmower over him. (as in 2K doing a Men In Black "did you see what happened? Nope" moment)

Jeff shaking his head at 45:30 on the unarchived stream made my day.

I caught the second half of the Japan/South Africa match, and it was a joy to watch the crowd backing Japan. You could see it unfold before their eyes and some of them were getting emotional. South Africa played well, but Japan last won in 1991 and this year they seemed determined it wasn't going to be 25 years without a win. No draw at the end, just win or lose. I can't think of a better way to do that than against a strong team like South Africa. Commiserations to SA, but Japan worked hard.

@sergio: I know what you're saying, but some materials don't work for me.