Special K

Take the pretty much best cast ever(McGregor, Scarlett Jo, Djiamon Honsu, Michael Clarke Duncan, Buscemi). A pinch of really great special effects. A dash of Phillip K Dick. Then squat down and shit all over it because you're the worst fucking director ever. He has the reverse Midas Touch. Give him a solid bar of gold, and it's lead.

On the downside, Silent Hill 4 is terrible. They took everything that made RE annoying and added it to the game. Pain to save? Check. There's one place in the whole game to save. Of course there's lots of paths back to it. Incredibly stingy item management? Check. Basically you run around with a melee weapon all game, since each box of bullets takes an inventory space. Plus you have all those cases where, 'Oh gaddammit I needed the Seal of Lazarus, not the Silver Key.' Time to trudge back to your damn apartment! Poorly defined goals? Yup. Having an idiot NPC follow you around? Check and double-check. Not only do you have to keep he/she alive, you have to keep from taking damage at all, otherwise you get a shit ending. It's really too bad, because there are some very creepy moments in the game, and the plot is interesting. but you're too frustrated to get into it. About a third of the game is walking back and forth from your apartment to save, or inventory manage. Yay. Once I found out I had to go through every single area again (always a crowd pleaser!) I just had to turn it off. The really nice part of the first 3 games is they were largely frustration-free. You could adjust the puzzle and combat levels to your area of liking, to play the game how YOU wanted. You had all your incentory on hand, and save points were pretty abundant.

About Dick, he has so many kick-ass novellas they could do an entire series of them for years, a la masters of Horror. A Scanner Darkly looks interesting.

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I dunno, the idea had been done (and better) with X-Force/X-statix. It came off as a lame imitation. At least X-force was, you know, GOOD. Of course, the 'Registration act' has been done to death too, and they're actually making it good. I'm waiting to see what happens with Speedball.

I just want ONE good keyboardist. I watch Coldplay and Keane, and they just piss me off. plonking on chords doesn't make you good, no matter how hard you press the keys , you stupid shit. On the plus side, saw Sonic Youth. Fucking mesmerizing and incredible. PLAY that guitar with a screwdriver!

Um, pretty much because it's the best-looking costume ever. And it's all What if? Plus, on the whole, they don't want her to be Spider-Girl at all, much less worrying about the black suit. Going along with the Giffen league stuff (sorry) I just reread OMAC, and Booster is acting incredibly noble. and he and Guy seem to be bonding over Kord's death, and it's very cool. Guess that got shot down too, huh?

Yes and clean & jerk is another word for what I do to my penis every night. They really need to come up for new name for those lifts.

Well excuse me Mr. Umphus. /Can't believe he typed kaftwerk.

Silent Hill 2 is the best of the series. Incredible, soul-destroying plot. Pyramid Head. It's scary as fuck. Silent Hill 1 is still good, the opening scene shocked the shit out of me when I first played it. That goddamn motherfucking piano puzzle, though. I play piano. Well. I look at the puzzle, and then at the walkthrough. Puzzle. Walkthrough. It still doesn't make any sort of sense.

I really hope they're leading up to Sue coming back, because they have put Ralph through hell, like no other character. Is he even stretchy anymore? Hasn't he stopped drinking the Gingold extract or whatever? Obviously DC has plans for the character, I hope it's not just: He died, LOL! They're going SOMEwhere with the Giffen league characters. They're writing Booster like such a piece of shit I don't care about him anymore. Ralph better be the one to come out OK from this. I prefer DC to Marvel, but they're actually doing some stuff that is pretty radical, in the literal sense. 52 ain't over, so I can't judge but the sum effect of all that Crisis/52 stuff is: We're going to kill a lot of characters that fannboys love. A good read for sure. Can't take that away from them.

Well, *duh*

It's 99 LUFTballons rarh rarh snort. Luft means air, right? Those songs are pretty much New Wave to me, but again bitching about genres is just going to lead to an endless bitchfest. I'll make a contentious statement: Orbital's In Sides is the best techno album ever. And frankly, i haven't heard an album that even approaches it.

Hindu squats for ligament strength. Maybe wall sits too. Olympic lifts for speed and power (cleans, clean & jerk, snatches) That always did me right. Hindu squats are fucking torture, though. Olympic lifts are really fun. You seem to get off on lifting, try some Olympic lifts. It's cardio and lifting in one package! Of course finding bumper plates is a bitch. I joined a gym and they didn't have bumper plates. Well, c'est la vie. So I started doing cleans and this asshole tells me they're not allowed! For bragging purposes my biggest snatch (laugh it up) was 180. You have to have someone teach you that shit, though. Otherwise, you'll eff up your back badly.

He's fucking stupid. I think he's old, like from back in the 50's. That doesn't excuse the fact that he is useless and a giant piece of shit. This from a guy who likes Elongated Man. God I hate that character.

I like Kaftwerk because I grew up listening to them them. And actually read my fucking post. I didn't say you SHOULD like them, or that many people really would. I basically said they were I like or hate band, and that 'boring' was the one thing I wouldn't describe them as. Honestly I don't have a clue what you're talking about here. I have never been to allmusic.com And I'm right with you on the stupidity of splitting hairs with genre of music Oh wait. I already wrote about that: Dumbass.

Oh, Jesus Mary and Joseph. Thank the lord that never entered my earholes (tm Del) I can't believe some people still think his version of Sweet Dreams is better than the Eurhythmics'.

Well, if you ever read the original Claremont Wolverine, he implied he could be killed by a long fall, nothing more. I mean, he did the same shit in the terrible "Venom" comic (resurrecting from a skeleton) But if he was fried that bad, his fucking brain would bake. At least in Blade of the Immortal they have consistency with Manji's healing. And the art in Wolverine is fucking awful. It's like a dog dragging his ass on the lawn. Despite my griping, overall, Civil War is pretty compelling. A good take on an old idea.

First of all, quibbling about genres is just sort of counter-productive. I think there have been threads here which have consisted entirely of people arguing about the sub-categories of metal. Second, yeah you should really know the the name of the songs if you're going to critique them. As an aside, "Personal Jesus" is the only song that Cash worsened. I don't really get this. Either you're going to get off on their nerdiness, or just hate them. Boring is not a label I've seen ascribed to them. It's like Devo.

Sooooo.... We're essentially left with Guy (great) Booster (probably gonna die) and Ralph, who might be being ressurected (not literally, as a character, though...) And who the fuck likes Plastic Man? Oh he turns into a mailbox and a fire hydrant! How funny! I've hijacked this thread long enough.

It's sound is a little tinny and hollow, I almost wish they had made this album with their current production. The melodies still fucking kill, though, and if they made this album today, I wouldn't have the sense of nostalgia. Plus, they wouldn't be making awesome songs about pocket calculators.

If it is English Settlement, I feel like a retard. Great. It's English Settlement. I am now the dumbest motherfucker to walk the earth. But! By pressing down a spesh-ul key it plays a lit-tle mel-o-dee.

Of course it was shocking since it made absolutely ZERO SENSE. I mean, MM explicitly read his brain, like twice, and declared him not evil. I mean, I can understand them getting away from the BWAHAHA stuff. But most of the characters are at least acting somewhat consistently. Even though I hate them killing Kord, they gave him a nice send-off as a detective only second to Dibny and Bats. The Maxwell Lord shit made exactly zero sense, though. EDIT: wait, they killed Rocket Red too, right?

No. You don't like Kraftwerk? I'm grrooving to Computer World right now so that explains the Bleep Bloop. I listened to this shit when I was a kid. And whether or not you consider XTC synth pop, You can't hate English Tenament. You just can't.

Would XTC be synth pop? If so Tenament is oneofthe best albums of all time.