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OH, and I'm glad that they left SOTN 2D. That game's downright gorgeous. Best looking 2D game on the Playstation by a MILE. What is Silent Hill Origins? I love Silent Hill, but playing through it on a handheld seems dumb. A) That game was dark as fuck, and sometimes it was hard to tell what was going on playing with a regular-sized TV. B) I can't see myself getting freaked out when I'm looking at a tiny screen.

No one's seriously advocating a wage increase to $15, of course that would have a detrmental effect on employment rates. However, I don't like the claim that minimum wage jobs are 'meant' for high school kids and the elderly. You see lots of middle aged people working shit jobs. Maybe they can't handle harder jobs, but if someone is working a full-time job, this country is so freaking rich we should be able to pay them seven bucks an hour. BTW Darryl, where are you from? You said my country but didn't specify.

I don't know why anyone would need Vanish/Doom. The games not that tough, really. Hopefully they'll also fix Relm so I can maybe try using her without the game crashing sometime.

Between this and Valkyrie Profile, are Sony trying to carve out a niche for rare/cult games on the PSP? It's a good strategy.

This has not, historically, been the case. It may seem to be 'common sense' but it doesn't happen.

Shit, Nip/Tuck was onto something!

Boy, I sure love it when newspapers use words like punk'd, smackdown, and dissed.

I might pirate it, since I already own the SNES and PS1 versions. It's my top game of all time.

Second only to the "Andre the Giant has a Posse" scare of 1998.

I'm going with the freezing power, especially based on that scene with the frozen guy with his head lopped off early on. Where he got it from? Fucked if I know.

That's really freakin's weird, with James looking really good, and the rest looking like killer 7.

Juke Joint Jezebel is pretty keen. Shoulda been a wrestler's entrance theme.

Yes Also, I realize RVD has been devalued over and over. But Bob Holly, who FUCKING SUCKS, and has never drawn a single dime, beat him clean. At this point RVD is so ruined, and yet is still over, at least he could have a mid-card feud and build someone up. Bob Holly? BOB HOLLY?

Yams are really gross. I can stomach them cooked like mashers, but top them with marshmallows? Blarch.

Dr. Death in WCW: Homicide Backdrop. Homicide Backdrop. Homicide Backdrop. "Hey where is everybody?"

Wow. Just wow. There's the reason I watcdh wrestling once every two weeks. Just BAD. I you're going to bury punk and RVD for Striker and Holly, just ax the show, seriously. Just do away with it. I did not catch the Saby thing, tho. He basically called him Al Qaeda?

Well I don't like weed. It sometimes gets me incredibly paranoid. Also, after a few weeks of semi-regular use, it made me feel really paranoid. That said, it should be lealized medicinally, for sure. I think It should also just be legal, straight up. Just apply the standards of inebriation that we normally do. Hell, my drug of choice is alcohol, which fucks up 10% of the USA'a population, badly. Ends either their lives (in a meaningful sense) or others'. Alcohol's much worse.

I wasn't a mark for Ahmed per se, but I did think the Pearl River Plunge was a devastating-looking move, with a badass name. Thing is, years later I realized it looked so nasty because he injured people left and right with it! And I never was a huge fan of Mero, but his tucked shooting-star press was awesome (the Wild Thing?) was the first time I had seen a shooting-star press, and it really impressed me. Also, I like Shane Douglas enough, but the Pittsburgh Plunge, which I only remember being used sparingly in WCW, was freaking AWESOME. FOr those who don't remember, it was a fisherman's buster with an immediate small package pin. Sort of an uber Perfectplex. It looked tremendous. Then he changed it to the awful Franchiser. You know, supposed to be some kind of attacker-inverted stunner, but it looked really weak. Basically a jawbuster. Speaking of, how many people have used cutter/stunner variatons since Austin (limiting it to North America)? There's tons: Disco, Shane Douglas, Disciple, Orton, DDP (though I think he predated Austin), Test, Daniels, Mero, Masato Tanaka, Matt Hardy, just off the top of my head. there's tons.

Bowfinger was really funny. Life was good, and stuff like Dr. Dolittle is fine for what it is: Kid's fare. And I would count Shrek. He's half of those movies, and he's unmistakenly Murphy. I will say while the Nutty Professor is funny enough, but I'll say it bugs me. It's 90 minutes of making fun of fat people, then tacks on a hysterical "don't laugh at fat people, you wicked audience!" And Norbit looks just abysmal.

God does everyone in the Bush administration have to speak with a barely contained smirk on their face? That's really quite scary, though. Hey! Maybe if the Bush administration wasn't so fucking sneaky, and didn't withhold all its information, the judges would be better equipped to decide on the Bush admin's policy. Why doesn't the Bush administration disclose more information to the rest of the country? Probably because what they're doing VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION.

No particular order. Planescape: Torment. A very good plot, ar more in depth than any other D&D computer game I've played; witty asides from Morte, and the "three wishes" 'joke' is awesome. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the father. A very cool plot, 'specially since I was living in NO, and witty dialogue between the two leads. Gotta love voodoo and double entendres. And Tim Curry. Final Fantasy VI: Great plot devices (including, the most shocking twist I had seen at that time) great characters (stupendous villain) and a really good translation. Silent hill 2: The narrative is sort of convoluted, but it has just a crazy, sad plotline when it eventually is revealed. Suikoden II: Only a mediocre translation, but two of the best villains ever, ever. And some very affecting scenes. Honorable mention: FFIV, because it was the first game I played to have a decent plot. You?

The first game to give me jump was Gabriel Knight, with the snake and scare music and all. Second was Silent Hill. Crazy scary soundtrak, random wmipering from bathrooms, man I won't play that game in the dark. Not to mention the fucking opening. Fuck those zombie babies. And those fucking dogs in Resident Evil. That's the big 'gotcha!' moment. After that you're guarded. But that was a good jump outta your seat! moment. Then there was the first appearance of the cyborg of System Shock two. Can't really describe it, but you open a door and there's an HR Giger reject lurching at you and talking like a feminine stephen Hawking. Scarier than it sounds. And then there's fucking Silent Hill 2. Scarier than the face of the devil. You don't like scary? How's about of a big old side of disturbing. Recreate Blue Velvet only this time Pyramid is the enthusiastoc raper instead of Dennis Hopper. And he's forcing himself on the most ghastly creature creation ever. Then he looks into your eyes and drags off his latest rape totem. And it all makes sense in the story. And the story? it's probably more horrible than this can convey. Man I love Pyramid Head. Man I love Silent Hill 2.

Good call. After the championships, I haven't watched a lick of sports news. Well, Kissing Suzy Kolber, but that hardly counts.

Th end of Blackadder goes forth is powerful, powerful stuff. It totally makes sense, but is completely jarring. I think it's the only show where I just fucking sobbed at the end.

= They look EXACTLY alike.