JKeats

De muscles from Brussels ees back, baybee!!

*does the splits*

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Damn it, Bsu! You owe me a new keyboard.

I can already see the headlines this fall:

"Jack Thompson was found beat up last night in an alley.  A group of disgruntled gamers broke into his house GTA:SA style, and attacked him after they heard the news that GTA "5" was cancelled due to overwhelming preasure by his agenda against violence in video games.  He was beaten with baseball bats and taken to south central where he had "sex mini-games" performed on him right before they said to him "game over dude".  The group said they were on an alll night GTA :SA marathon when they suddenly got the urge to "give it to the man"".

This is not news to me since there are extremists in everything......and the hardcore gamer is indeed a troublesome breed, especially when they say that videogames are their life.....        

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That would be the longest and most idiotic headline ever written.

Over the past year, I've asked skullone if he'll ever return to MW. Last time around, he told me he was no longer interested. I still talk to him over at the Anime News Network.

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Why did he leave? His fights with BankofKev always made me laugh.

This has to be one of the funniest threads I've read in a while...

I picked Sivil, I dig weirdos that I'll never understand. We can make it work, baby, I know it! C'mon now!

Joe Dirt (I don't care, it made me laugh and still does)

The Trooper films (Super and Starship)

Houseguest (I really can't explain this one)

Robocop

Point Break

and many more...

See, that's the great thing about this country (supposedly), I can play games where I kill people and you can play games where a magical elephant chases evil monkeys in balloons while collecting enough silver buttplugs to free the magical princess.

-Blaine wins.

EDIT: Yes, I totally messed up the quote on this. Dang you Invision, dang you.

Nice job!

Ahh, lasers. What can they NOT do?

Scientists developing a laser to kill cancer cells

trailer didn't look too good.  even from those little clips it seemed like alot of hackting (hack + acting).  those girls didn't even look like they were trying with that light saber fight.

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Haha, "hackting". That's a good one.

AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

::head explodes::

Oh, and welcome to MW!

"I swear to god, if somebody says "shenanigans" one more time, I'll pistol whip 'em."

"Hey Farva, what's that restaurant that you like? That one with all the crazy sh!t up on the walls?

"Oh, Shenanigans? Did you guys say Shenanigans?"

That pic just made my day a little brighter, thanks Bsu.

I don't understand this 3D crap that Lucas is talking about. The last thing I want to see is CG anime. Is he talking about CG anime? 'Cuz if he is ::shakes fist::

Actually, Nicholas Cage can act quite well when given a good role.  His work in Adaptation and Matchstick Men was very good, despite the fact that neither of those films were extraordinairy.  I was quite impressed with what he had to offer in those two films, enough so that my opinion of him was changed significantly.  I think he is quite skilled at his art in contrast to the projects he accepts and certainly better than most.

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Once again, I concur with Senor March. Cage = good, except for Con Air which = bad.

I don't think O.D. really ever got around to joining MW...

So this was where you guys were hanging out today...

Reply to the original poster-

Ask yourself these questions before you watch M7:

1. Do you like J-Pop/J-Rock?

2. Do you like mecha with faces?

3. Do you prefer repetitive singing over fighting?

4. Do you prefer your heroes fighting giant space monsters (not aliens but monsters)?

I could go on but if you answered yes to these four questions, there's a good chance that you'll be able to stomach some of the worst parts of M7.

Family Guy will also pull no punch.

The Simpsons I feel are above barf, fart and sex humor but Family Guy revels in it... once again I think that is just them playing to their key demographic: males aged 24 to 32 who grew up in the '80s.

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Well, I don't think that The Simpsons feel they are above it but you're right about the demographics. The Simpsons have had fart and sex jokes but they're like fart and sex jokes aimed towards little kiddies or for the whole family (Marge farts after scolding Bart for doing the same or Marge and Homer giggle under the covers but nothing risque is shown or heard). If I had to generalize, I'd say the Simpsons tend to be silly while Family Guy tends to be shockingly hilarious.

Azrael, nice post and a great read. I heard an interview with Steven Johnson on NPR a while back; pretty interesting guy.

I don't really agree with how he started comparing low crime rates to the rise in video game popularity (or maybe he did this on purpose to show how ridiculous it is to equate video game popularity with the things Hillary Clinton is accusing them of) but overall he hit on a lot of good points and I think everyone here agrees with him in one way or another.

Let's all just start guessing as to who will be picked to direct!

John Woo?

Ah, Futurama. In some ways, I remember it (perhaps falsely) as the stepping stone between The Simpsons and Family Guy. Futurama had a lot going for it except for mainstream appeal, by which I mean the story wasn't centered around a nuclear family. Hmm, methinks its time to start looking around for Futurama DVDs.

On another note, there are things about the "golden" Simpson years that will forever remain funny to me and in a lot of ways, smarter than Family Guy. I'm not trying to compare the two but there have been a few times where a Family Guy episode seemed tiring just because I felt like I had already seen The Simpsons do the same gag.

OH CRAP, does Robocop count? Robocop, Robocop, Robocop!

Jessica Alba

Tara Reid

Elisha Cuthbert

Jennifer Lopez

...just to name a few. Portman may have a lot to answer for with Star Wars, but she's very low on the list of overblown actresses that need to leave popular culture.

Besides, Portman went a long way toward redemption with Garden State and Closer, IMO.

As usual, I agree with Mr. March.

A tentative huzzah from my corner. I'll be truly happy when I see some prototype pics and a release date.

Nice scoop!

I swear, parent group/politicians' complaints about too much sex/violence in the media is such a huge effin' copout. Their fear of what could be damaging to their precious little ones is insane. If a huge ass "M for Mature" isn't going to stop them from buying GTA for junior then how is an "AO" label going to stop them?

Through all of this kind of shite, I just hear Reverend Lovejoy's wife pleading, "Will somebody please think of the children?"

Wow, those really take me back. I also remember when all you could really find were those pieces of crap and some model kits.

Those also remind me of the time when Yamato first announced plans of releasing the Mac+ toys stateside and then Harmony Gold stuck their weiner in Yamato's ear.

I'll second the Macross Plus Isamu VS. Guld duel and the Asuka VS. Mass Production Eva's duel.