All I'd ever see is a chat dragon telling me there's no live stream if it weren't for you, Vager. Your bot continues to be one of the best things to come from the community.
Daredevil! That scene where Ben Affleck can see with the rain is truly inspired. And there's nothing more hardcore than Colin Farrell throwing paperclips at people.
Except that's not true. Howard the Duck is clearly the best Marvel Comics film there will ever be.
It'll be hard to mime swinging a pick axe in front of the Kinect for sixteen straight hours, but if I can build a giant Batman with a solid gold belt it will be worth it.
You want a Batman rant? No problem. Batman: The Animated Series is my mainstay because it is in many ways more accessible than the comics, but still generally faithful to the comics (with some horrible exceptions such as how Bane is handled). The Animated Series does a stellar job making generic characters like Mr. Freeze and Clayface interesting and easy to sympathize with, and it is the origin of Harley Quinn. The music is fantastic and carries the torch of the Tim Burton movies to the point that I now find the Animated Series theme to be as integral to Batman as Bob Kane. Plus, I prefer the Animated Series Bruce Wayne because he's dopey and affable, rather than a snarky playboy, and that seems to serve as both a better cover for and a more fascinating contrast to Batman. One caveat, though: I absolutely can't stand to watch the show after the budget was reduced and the new Batman Beyond art style was implemented, even if the quality of the writing is fairly consistent from earlier episodes.
Edit: Ugh, fixed some horrible tense shifting in that paragraph.
First, I'm going to echo that this was well presented, Patrick. Thanks.
It's hard to find video game fans more fickle than Silent Hill fans, and I should know - I'm one of them. Silent Hill is such a personal experience, I guess it makes sense that people are so protective of the core games. Still, I've already experienced Silent Hill 2. New or old voice actors make no difference to me now, and people new to Silent Hill 2 certainly don't care. So why should I get upset if a new audience doesn't experience a game the same way I did? If I have children, I'm not going to make their first Zelda experience be NES Zelda just because that's the way it was for me.
Really, my best response in these cases is that there's a reason people are passionate about certain things, but the fact that they are passionate is not the reason to be moved one way or the other.
Yeah, GameFly ignoring Netflix/Qwikster's move to rent games might not be bright, but at least they aren't the absolute daft assholes who are constructing a large Family Video building where I live. I imagine they will provide nothing but VHS tapes, judging from the circa 1987 signage they're using for their brand new store. But hey, at least they aren't using that abandoned Blockbuster building down the street, since the location was probably the only problem that place had, right?
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