(I've had the HD on the 360 for a year and Santa brought a standalone BR for Xmas, so I'm now immune to format attacks)

Paramount is denying that they will follow suit and switch over.

The more interesting article would be how exactly BR won here. HD appeared to have the cheaper players and dual compatibility, yet BR didn't and it won, as whether Paramount makes the switch or not, it does seem like it's all over but the crying now.

The name and credentials as stated do dial out, if you google for them. Of course whether or not this poster is that person is a separate matter entirely.

I'm disappointed, Professor. I was waiting for you to weigh in with some substance and I find none in your response. If you did, I think it not a stretch to say that you'd find it addressed by some posters, and if legitimate, recognized.

Tell us about the trees on Mars again. Lynx loves that one.

I know. I agree. I shouldn't be poking at it. I just found the spanking you gave him last time to be so immensely entertaining.

I could have written that exact same post; I do the same thing, and for the same reasons.

In an age when (hopefully) distribution from creator to viewer can bypass the studio and theatrical system altogether, I'm not sure what makes the Academy any more relevant than any other awards body, or what makes them any more authoritative or the defining statement on anything.

When even now it's entirely possible to shoot your own movie and get it seen by millions without ever hitting a theater, that you're not being recognized by an establishment just doesn't seem to matter terribly much. There's been an apparent disconnect between them and public taste since, well, forever.

I agree that box office receipts are ever more a poor metric of what's being seen and when. It seems nowadays you'd have to get receipts from not just DVD, but PPV in its various incarnations (on demand, download, etc) to really gauge how a movie did on "release".

...can enable you to determine not only whether or not your copy-and-paste from your other program actually displays correctly, but in certain cases will allow you to spot mistakes in grammar, spelling, and (this last, extremely rare) rationality.

Try it.

The realism of a character is not the main barrier to emotional engagement with a game; it's the other mechanics, most particularly the story and writing (in the case where such is the supposed main focus of a game), all too often bolt-ons to gameplay.

And yes, "The Casting" is an incremental step and not much of one. If you've been playing any recent releases in the last 6 months, this technology in real time is not new.

I'm surprised there was no mention of a recent release for the 360, Mass Effect, that was released about four months ago. I don't see much in "The Casting" that's done as well if not better by Mass Effect. Although it suffers from many of the same not-quite-there-yet minor problems, there's no denying that the designers did an insane job of character animation.

Particularly amazing is that the character you play, which can be male or female, can have an entirely custom face, beyond just simple variants or a list of preset choices. And no matter what face you created, it still expresses the same range of facial motions and lip-synchs to the dialogue as well as the default face did, thanks to whatever real-time facial animation system they came up with there.

And yet, of course, none of that is what makes it a good game. Had the characters been half as realistic looking, it'd still stand for the story and writing, and the voice-acted delivery.

You know I could swear I read the above post, factcheck1, somewhere else. As opposed to factcheck2, whose posts differ a little bit in wording but never in intent, tone, or missing a chance to plug herself/cityedition in the closing sentence.

Please, STFU you worthless postbots. Mild application of the banhammer to these shills, if you would be so kind, Salon.

Thank you.

Virtually every woman I've known intimately enough to have the conversation honestly and directly with, has been. And I've known two who didn't survive the experience.

I'll grant that some of the specifics of their stories put some of the decisions that facilitated it into not-the-best light. But that's absolutely as far as I'll go about that. It's heinous no matter what light it's put in.

So you 25% doubters? If I were to go on personal experience alone, I'd call 25% a way lowball figure.

I'm glad that your college experience, if you had one, was so unspoiled by certain realities.

I'm gonna have to go with the late great Bill Hicks on that one:

"...just like Koresh, except without the guns and pussy."

I had never heard of this stuff before a friend gave me a tube of it and some other take-care-of-yourself type stuff as I was about to take a flight.

As it happened this flight was for a funeral, and I was in pretty bad shape, hence presumably the intent of the gift. I was also in bad enough shape to not think to read the instructions. I just assumed they were pills or chewables, not that you dropped them in a glass of water like an Alka-Seltzer.

So, halfway between the east and west coasts in a window seat, I ate one to humor my friend.

I'll spare you the details, but afterward, the rest of the tube went unused, let's put it like that. I guess since they were a gift I can't get my money back, huh?

(that is also on topic!)

http://billboardliberation.com/HQ.html

...apologies if someone pointed this out already and I missed it, but this seemed to be a good place to share it!