Agreed, though I think that your giving it your blessing does help with that appraisal, as you've got rather more experience in the field (heh) than I do. Clarkson's modern popularity largely stems from highly-scripted fakery, and while Clarkson's Farm is heavily produced and has a lot of expensive ...

Yeah, I tried so hard to enjoy Star Citizen when I played it last year, but the number of bugs in fundamental systems made it entirely unplayable. I can't remember a single title in my 35 years of gaming where the inventory system just didn't work - picking an item up worked maybe 10% of the time. I...

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Mon May 20, 2024 9:38 am

Yeah it would be nice if the world just calmed the fuck down for a little bit.

It would, but of all the things I'd suggest to create that situation, the death of the Iranian president wouldn't be high on my list.

Yeah, this came as a total gut punch this morning. Todd was such a fantastic guy to game with, and I had the utmost respect for him going from soldiering into medical care. Just a couple of weeks back we'd been making plans to get him into Helldivers with us, and I really thought things were looking...

What did fun ever do to make you hate it so? :( Kidding, obviously, the pace everything moves at and raised voices are a negative, to the point where they actually lampshade it in the SNW crossover, but if you can ignore it I think it's a very worthy part of the franchise now, more so than Discovery...

Yes, playing god and man's hubris are at least fun concepts for a sci-fi film to explore. Fallen Kingdom is not about that. In this they're attempting to sell dinosaurs as the ultimate military weapon, for $30million, when not half an hour earlier, someone manages to mortally wound one with a single...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom This is the first of the Jurassic World series I've seen. Are.... are they all this bad? I knew it didn't have a stellar reputation, but I really wasn't expecting something that had more in common with Sharknado than it did the original Jurassic Park film. It has abso...

Wormhole Xtreme was the 100th episode, and was a great concept. It comes back for the 200th episode, which is one of the funniest pieces of sci-fi I've ever seen.

Kurzgesagt is my favourite Youtube channel; they're excellent at breaking down fairly complicated scientific topics to at least give you a layman's view. They also occasionally answer important questions, such as what would happen if we fired all of Earth's nuclear ordnance at the moon. They have a ...

And if it is cloudy, maybe a transformer near you will explode and you'll have your spectacle there instead.

If you enjoy educating yourself via the medium of colourful cartoon birds; Kurzgesagt did a video on these a few years back.

Yeesh, it's not enough material to keep the prose interesting (though I've never much liked Tolkien's writing), nevermind what will undoubtedly be spun out as a three hour epic.

After how poor the Hobbit films were, I'm not sure why having Peter Jackson having another crack at it is such a big draw anyway. One of the reasons the The Lord of the Rings trilogy was incredible was because of how it was filmed, and I'm not sure that's even possible anymore in the current financi...

*sigh*

The Line is probably the most ridiculous of the projects, but it's only one of a number of them in the Neom region. Apparently what dictators in the middle east like to do is secure their legacy, to make their mark on the world, so people pitch completely unrealistic ideas to them without any number...

Yeah, I can't say I really see the obsession with AAA games. I suppose it probably just comes down to marketing. Better looking game = better looking trailers and screenshots = more sales, and better looking game = better reputation for the hardware. I have no issue with flagship games, tentpole-tit...