drqshadow

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  1. How is trying to teach Bible studies through a video game "whoring" the religion out? It's not like gamers are taking on the role of Jesus in a FPS as he wards off the hordes of Hell. It's a trivia game.

    It wouldn't be the first Christian FPS. :)

  2. I'd pay off all of our outstanding debt, (Autumn's student loans, my car) buy a nice house, ($250-300K range) get Autumn a new car, take a couple weeks to visit Japan, invest the rest and carry on with business as usual.

    Oh yeah, and I'd probably play in the World Series of Poker once, just to say I did it, and I'd buy an iPod Photo. :)

  3. John Malkovich is in this, too, as a character new for the film. Here's what I found about it...

    John Malkovich has signed on to play a religious cult leader named Humma Kavula created specifically for this movie by Douglas Adams. Normally, when new characters are created for the movie based upon a popular book, one would expect fans to get suspicious, but in this case, Adams already has a history of adding new elements to each new adaptation of 'Hitchhiker's Guide' (the previous versions being the radio show, the book and the TV show).
  4. Now if only parents and stores would actually enforce the ESRB ratings.

    Actually, a couple years back when I worked at Circuit City, if you were found to have sold an M-rated game to anyone under 17, it was cause for immediate termination. National company policy. It even brings up a prompt on the monitor when you scan the UPC telling you to ask for ID. I know Best Buy has a similar practice, as does Toys R Us.

  5. Anyway, are these real covers with a few words changed, or what?

    The Superman ones are photoshopped (the text is, anyway), but the other gallery of strange comic book covers aren't. At least, a lot of them aren't.

    They are 100% real. In fact, you can see by clicking here and here.

    Yeah, they're the real deal. If you think they're photoshopped, you haven't seen a lot of the crap DC used to pound out back in the day.

  6. Good read, just short enough to read without getting too involved, but just long enough to whet your appetite for the story. I just finished the hardcover last night, and loved it. I accidentally stumbled across a spoiler regarding Rohjaz's identity before getting to that part of the story, so that sucked... but didn't kill the story for me.

  7. Ultimate X-Men. It's going the same way that the regular X-Men did: too many damn charecters. If the team had stayed the originals, and maybe Rogue and Nightcrawler, it would have been great. It took years for the original X-Men to add members, now it seems as though a new member is added after every arc.

    Exactly the same book for exactly the same reasons. It doesn't feel "Ultimate" anymore, it just feels like the same old continuity-laden X-books that are in the regular universe. A shame, too, because the first arc was brilliant.

    I also gave up on Hellblazer a couple months before issue #200. It felt like it was just being weird for weirdness' sake, and nothing intelligent was really going on. Every arc was basically "Constantine finds creepy monsters, Constantine acts cocky, creepy monsters threaten, Constantine says a bunch of gibberish, creepy monsters are defeated" and it took them seven or eight issues from start to finish. Bah. I miss Ennis, Delano and Azzarello on that book.

    The first book I really gave up on after giving it a multitude of chances was Spawn, which was never really all that good in retrospect but continued to get worse with time. I almost made 100 straight issues of it, but gave up with number 94 or something.

  8. By the way, why does everyone hate Liefield?

    I dislike most of his work because his characters look like they're yelling all of the time, and they're muscles are way too big/out of proportion with reality. Worst of all, his storytelling ability (in words and art) is lacking.

    That and he never seems to feel like drawing backgrounds. He always does these weird gradients or blast lines, so his books always look like they're happening in one of those blue-screen "make your own music video" stores in the mall.

    He's just a crappy artist, honestly, who made it big with one hot book and rode it for all it was worth.

  9. Instead of going head-to-head with War of the Worlds, 20th Century Fox has opted to push the release date of FF back to July 8.

    Smart, considering how some Superhero movies going head to head with others have bombed. LXG comes to mind...

    I don't think the movies that launched at the same time had much to do with LXG's failure... :rolleyes:

  10. -Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is really good, and the next Oddworld will be out shortly.

    -Knights of the Old Republic and KOTOR II are must-haves.

    -Jet Set Radio Future is great fun.

    -Most Tom Clancy games kick ass on the Box... Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, etc.

  11. They had the east coast premiere here at the Sarasota Film Festival about two weeks ago, and I got to check it out since Autumn works for the company doing all the Festival's design work. It's tremendous. If you've seen any of McKean's video work, this is very similar... just with a Gaiman fantasy twist. My only complaint was that it was a little shorter than I'd expected.

    Gaiman and McKean had a "master studio" discussion a couple days after the premiere, which I also got to attend. Not a lot of people knew about it, so it was basically the two of them shooting the shit with about thirty or forty fans. Lots of fun.