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And, most importantly, love conquers all.

LOL. The established use of bullet time is to present elaborate action scenes. Scenese that would otherwise be a blur of motion that an audience couldn't fully appreciate. Paul Anderson uses it as the de facto way to present action, to such an extent it winds up sucking the impact right out of...

Even if that swashbucklery action is moving through mollases? "Wow, look at that 3D cannonball flying straight at me...very, very slooooowly. Oh, look, it's going to hit her, except that she's bending over backwards to get out of its way...very sloooowly. "

It's pretty much a given that there won't be enough Fires to meet the demand. Of course, that will only convince consumers that it must be worth having-as it did with the iPad--and thus further stimulate the demand. Probably the best thing Motorola could have done for the Xoom is have a limited...

What, you want a PG-13 version of The Little Mermaid? :uhoh: Back when I read news of Willingham's Fables being adapted for ABC, I knew that if it ever happened it would be converted into a huge blob of schmaltz in short order. Maybe he got a nice consulting fee and a promise not to have his...

Well, if you don't care about your position enough to avoid logical fallacies, then why advocate it? Why trouble someone by disputing them if you're not invested in being proven right? Fold your hand, concede the point, and let Kzach go on about how dumb the plot is unchallenged You allude to...

Oh, that's a good one, but I think you know where the potential for fallacy lies in a reductive argument. You can put a spin on anything, but that doesn't prove all premises are dumb, simply that it's not hard to make something sound dumb if you try. Conversely, marketing agencies are often...

This is an exceedingly reductive remark. All premises are not dumb, and even if they were a show could still be called dumb in a relative sense. So, it's not all six or a half-dozen. But certainly you are correct that dumbness has little to do with an IP's popularity. Many smart shows die on...

Well, Adobe apps on iOS is not news in and of itself. There are three Adobe Phtooshop apps available (one's a neat little finger-painting app). It's Flash that's ever been the major sticking point. Never heard of Kobo, but the tablet itself looks fine for $200. It's a bit underpowered, but you...

I'm not sure why anyone would claim that Siri is not really a voice recognition app, or "more" than a voice recognition app. It is a voice recognition app, but one with a very broad suite of application, possibly broader than we're seeing anywhere else. We're starting to see real progress in...

I remember watching a "Behind the Music" where one of the guys from Devo said that when he first heard "Dare to Be Stupid", he was gobsmacked because Al had managed to capture everything Devo was striving to be about in a song that was a parody of Devo, and he kind of hated Al for it.

I have not seen the film or read any reviews, but since it is from the same guy who does the Resident Evil films, I think it would be safe to wager my milk money that any scene denoting the slightest hint of aciton or danger devolves into gratuitious use of bullet time. Because as we all know...

The Kindle Fire is well-positioned. It has some major technical drawbacks. It can't be rooted like a Nook, for instance, so we're in for a walled garden that's likely even more constrictive than Applie's. Also, it has a scant amount of storage (about 6GB), and relies on the cloud for mass...

Well, the iPhone 4s announcement was pretty much regarded as a letdown, since most folks were hoping something grander than an iPhone 4 with a faster processor. As for Jobs, pancreatic cancer is the ultimate raw deal. Nearly impossible to diagnose until it's spread to other organs, which is...

You're basically doing that thing folks on the internet do: seize upon a minor comment, go way overboard dissecting its meaning, and ignore the relevance of timeliness. That's from, what, 2002? 2003 maybe? So, in summary: old artcile, and admitted it wasn't all that great of an idea at the...

I love the idea of prestige classes, that a unique class can be unlocked through dedication. The big problem is that they mostly seem to be designed so that they can be accessed no earlier than 8th level. That is simply a mite too late for most players to care. For that matter, ten levels is...

Well, causing all sorts of problems for the party via heavy-handed ruling does indeed seem to be the chief purview of many DM's in this thread. :) Murder may be evil, but it's not murder from the character's perspective. A CN character is primarily with doing as he pleases. He lacks a CE's...

Look more closely at the Bladesong Combat Style. In general, I don't see any major issues with translating the bladesigner into Pathfinder. Most D&D PrC's are underpowered anyway, as the core classes they are meant to contend with have received major bumps in power. Who in their right minds...

You have managed to miss the point others have so deftly made, which is that the player in question is not gleefully indulging in "PK", but rather that he's trying to indicate in no uncertain terms that attempts by another player to usurp his will is not going to pass without consequence...

You suggest that my short one-act play is overwrought? And here I left out the chorus of ENWorlders denouncing Player 2 as a munchking, minmaxer, CN bunghole, and a few other choice references to male anatomy. A character realizes when he is the target of a failed spell. It is not intended that...