Epic disappointment. I saw The Matrix a dozen times in the theater. The other 2, eh, not so much.

Comment by st_judas — February 29, 2008 @ 11:43 pm

The writers totally used up all their ideas on the first one. I mean who the heck think Albino’s are actually cool?

Comment by AlecDalek — March 1, 2008 @ 12:06 am

I dunno. I liked the second matrix, it had no plot obviously but very few Hollywood movies do. So they just went berserk with the video effects. They still look good today. Except when Morpheus pulls out a Green backlight LCD samsung phone with a monochrome screen.

Comment by Namelis1 — March 1, 2008 @ 4:50 am

The second one had some plot, the third one was like watching someone else play video games.
~
First 20 minutes of the movie:
“You can’t leave the train station.”
20 minutes later
“You can leave the train station.”
WTF?

Comment by Paul_Is_Drunk — March 1, 2008 @ 5:48 am

AlecDalek on March 1st, 2008 12:06 am

The writers totally used up all their ideas on the first one. I mean who the heck think Albino’s are actually cool?

Actually I don’t think it was intended to be cool, as much as a metaphor. The Matrix employed Matrix “glitches” or “Rogue programs” to describe what would have been perceived as “paranormal” activity by the residents of the Matrix. The twins were intended to be the digital analogue (if there is such a thing) of ghosts, and the albinism was intended to be a salient indicator of that.

Comment by Phyreblade — March 1, 2008 @ 8:09 pm

All of the Matrix movies were worthless pieces of trash, I still can’t believe that I watched the first one and now i have to go slam my testicles in a car door for remembering that little fact

Comment by paddymcpub — March 5, 2008 @ 9:11 pm

Uhoh looks like Neville’s frog got loose again.

Comment by Darthmalt — March 1, 2008 @ 12:22 am

Neville has a TOAD. And his name is Trevor.

Comment by Mythstae — March 1, 2008 @ 7:25 pm

It’s wonderful to be here
It’s certainly a thrill
You’re such a lovely audience
We’d like to take you home with us
We’d love to take you home
I don’t really want to stop the show
But I thought that you might like to know
That the singer’s going to sing a song
And he wants you all to sing along
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Comment by purple banana — March 2, 2008 @ 2:22 am

James Bond.

Comment by njch412 — February 29, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

For England, James?

Easiest boss fight ever.

Comment by Camiam321 — February 29, 2008 @ 8:07 pm

Goldeneye? I used to love that game.

Comment by Paul_Is_Drunk — February 29, 2008 @ 10:15 pm

telescope.

Comment by st_judas — February 29, 2008 @ 10:55 pm

I can has Wi-fi?

Comment by Mindless101 — February 29, 2008 @ 11:04 pm

No Alec … for me!

Comment by BowToMe — February 29, 2008 @ 11:20 pm

Thats a hell of a lot of channels…

Comment by Jaypeezy — March 1, 2008 @ 1:46 am

Radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Is used for SETI (search of extraterrestrial intelligence) and it’s the source of data for the SETI@home.

305 m of diameter… the largest radio telescope ever constructed.

Comment by yumeo — March 1, 2008 @ 2:12 am

searching for aliens, or best skating bowl ever?

Comment by T G Geko — March 1, 2008 @ 6:32 am

Easily my fav Bond game, and probaly film. That would be amazing to skate in!

Comment by BigFoot — March 1, 2008 @ 8:06 am

I’m waiting for a nice sunny day and then I’m going to make the world’s biggest stir-fry in there.

Comment by dorix — March 1, 2008 @ 10:58 am

Dorix, you win 12 internets for originality and execution of that post. Enjoy.

Comment by DemolitionsGeek — March 1, 2008 @ 7:33 pm

This and the previous post’s stitle both rhyme…

Comment by purple banana — March 2, 2008 @ 2:24 am

this was my favorite movie for a while
then i saw smokin aces

Comment by TrikYodz — February 29, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

^ i was agreeing with you for a while, then i saw your typo

Comment by AAK15 — February 29, 2008 @ 7:42 pm

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/....._0228.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0228-06.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23395826/

Comment by natedog — February 29, 2008 @ 7:44 pm

Smoking Aces seemed masterbatory to me, action for the sake of action. It was filled with gratuitous violence and overdramatic acting that wasn’t even tongue-in-cheek. Meh. Not that masterbation is bad. I do it all the time. But I usually watch a porno.

Comment by Tony — February 29, 2008 @ 7:46 pm

>>natedog

lolwut?

Comment by Tony — February 29, 2008 @ 7:50 pm

>>Tony

if you have to ask, just move on to the next purty picture

Comment by natedog — February 29, 2008 @ 8:01 pm

It was alright. Guy Ritchie was obvious influence…

…but Guy Ritchie it ain’t

Comment by Camiam321 — February 29, 2008 @ 8:26 pm

Well as this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose I must conclude that its value is both venal and virulent therfore I must vanish before my comments are vivified or vilified.

Comment by sinbin2 — February 29, 2008 @ 8:48 pm

>>Camiam321 - Yeah, exactly. Where was the wit?

>>natedog

I was stationed in Korea in 2003. Moments after I heard we invaded, I went out for a smoke. A enlisted Korean dude was there, and he asked me what I thought about what just happened. I told him I thought we just made the worst military decision since Vietnam.

It’s an even more bitter pill to swallow now that we know all the intelligence was ‘groomed’ for the invasion and all those sacrifices (both ours and the Iraqis) were for nothing. But we really shouldn’t be surprised when we look back at our culture. We have militarized police forces serving no-knock warrants with SWAT teams for non-violent drug offenders. A population that loves to exploit but hates to help its illegal workforce. That kind of hatred and paranoia is easy to sway. It only needed a spark.

There is some documentary out there that talks about the ’shock doctrine’. It’s where laws and policies are instituted after a major crisis. This was typically reserved for African countries, where state violence and corruption are the status quo. But intelligent economicists and lawmakers saw events as 9/11 as a perfect opportunity to push through radical legislation with nary a peep from the opposition.

In regards to the links you posted, I saw so much contract corruption and waste when I was in Iraq in 04-05. It was disgusting. You have guys making 3-4 times what they make back in the states (with the first 85k being tax free). On top of that, the contracting company charges a king’s ransom for the contract. Say you get a job making 150k a year doing something like being a web-page administrator. That contracting company would charge the government $250k for you and pocket the other 100k. When KBR was serving meals to the troops, the US goverment was being charged $30 a head for the lunch and dinner meals, no matter if everyone ate there or not. It turned out that about half ate there, and the Army guys started counting people as the came in so we could get charged appropriately. Subcontrators that employed 3rd world nationals were the worst though. They would pay these guys like $5000 a year to like in unprotected housing, without body armor or helmets to work shit jobs while mortars were coming in daily. And to have some fat ass hillbilly in her fucking bodyarmor making over $100k to yell at some Sri Lankan because he isn’t sweeping fast enough, fuck, it was enough to make me want to puke.

I always wondered where you could look up contract information like that. It has to be publically available. Right down to the line items of “I will charge you $500 for this $50 chair”. If you find it, could you post it here?

Fuck this post is long, sorry…

Comment by Tony — February 29, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

@Tony
tl;dr

Comment by Paul_Is_Drunk — February 29, 2008 @ 10:14 pm

I read your post, Tony. I’m a 3rd generation military child, enlisting in the Navy soon. I forgot where I was going with this post, but it had something to do with back-having.

Comment by DemolitionsGeek — March 1, 2008 @ 7:38 pm

Are you sure you want to go this route? I mean Optimus was actually kind of a hippie, what with wanting to preserve all like and protect nature and hacky sack. Megatron, now that’s patriot. He’s the kind of guy that would sell weapons of mass destruction to someone, then accuse them of having them, and then use weapons of mass destruction against them. Or is that more like Shockwave. Either way, Bush sucks.

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

Kinda funny…considering he was created in Japan.

Comment by gregzombie — February 29, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

The toy was created in Japan. The character was created over here.

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 6:10 pm

I it said parrot. I was most disappointed.

Comment by numb7rs — February 29, 2008 @ 6:52 pm

The name was created in America, but the toy/character was still made in Japan. He was known as convoy in Japan. But, he was still the same character.

Comment by gregzombie — February 29, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

Yes that was the Japanese name, but the toy started out as part of the Diaclone line. The original character was actually just a mindless drone, and had a human in the driver seat controlling it. There where several of them with the same design, but different colour (the blue one is highly sought after).

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 9:11 pm

Also, the original toy came with a little “micro-man” which went in the cab. That’s why you can open that compartment on the toy.

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 9:13 pm

I dislike the association of noble Optimus with a sick government of republican running dogs responsible for hacking through the constitution and civil liberties.

Comment by Mack — February 29, 2008 @ 9:33 pm

@mack

If it were just the republicans, then it would be easy to stop. alas, it is the democrats, too. they are all fucking pirates, and they all pillage teh booty

Comment by natedog — February 29, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

I love how some Americans are so deluded, they’ve convinced themselves that all the problems caused by the republicans in power for the last 8 years were actually caused by the democrats who’ve only recently gotten a small amount of power. By that logic, all the stuff the neo-cons bitched about Bill Clinton must have actually come from the Republicans.

Comment by AlecDalek — March 1, 2008 @ 12:10 am

Neo-con = Communist Leader of Zion? I don’t care about politics, I just live my life and has as much fun as I can doing it regardless of who’s in charge. It’s natural for people to bitch, and when there’s nothing to bitch about, attack the regime, right?

BACK ON TOPIC, The transformers toy line was made in Japan, then bought by the legendary toy company in America where two suit0-wearin guys were sitting around and decided to make a cartoon show about said toys. They grouped all the vehicular transformers together as the good guy, coined “Autobots,” and all the firearm and military vehicle transformers as the evil “Decepticons.”

So, toy design = Japan, character and story design = America.

Comment by DemolitionsGeek — March 1, 2008 @ 7:48 pm

100% Canadian goodness. Om nom nom nom.

Comment by Samael — February 29, 2008 @ 6:05 pm

OmNomNomNom.

Comment by envision1 — February 29, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

om nom nom nom eh?

Comment by TrikYodz — February 29, 2008 @ 7:08 pm

slinky slinky everyone loves a slinky

Comment by AAK15 — February 29, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

Oh sweet Caprica 6.

Comment by st_judas — February 29, 2008 @ 11:43 pm

Caprica sexy!!! i wish she lived in my head.

Comment by el_metal — March 1, 2008 @ 2:33 am

I’d nom that for days.

Comment by TokenWGuy — March 3, 2008 @ 12:16 am

See, I told you the cake is real.

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

I thought the cake was a lie. mmmmmm

Comment by korben88 — February 29, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

This was a triumph.

Comment by Gambit493 — February 29, 2008 @ 4:41 pm

I’m making a note here, huge success.

Comment by Jaypeezy — February 29, 2008 @ 5:34 pm

It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.

Comment by Mayy — February 29, 2008 @ 6:34 pm

Aperture Science?

Comment by ohmybob — February 29, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

We do what we must.

Comment by reptilecobra13 — February 29, 2008 @ 7:11 pm

Because we can.

Comment by Aeyve — February 29, 2008 @ 7:15 pm

Just remember the simple truth… There is no cake…

Comment by Drewlicious — February 29, 2008 @ 7:21 pm

For the good of all of us… except those who are dead.

Comment by thesixthsentinel — February 29, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake;

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Comment by Mack — February 29, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER

Comment by slakinator — February 29, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

ಠ_ಠ >> slakinator

Comment by Tony — February 29, 2008 @ 9:41 pm

I was loving watching the lyrics roll on by, and would have enjoyed seeing it all, but I must admit, seeing a reference to Killer Instinct destroy it all… bit of joy.

Comment by text — February 29, 2008 @ 10:04 pm

I made a note here. This post was a huge success

Comment by Saphykitten — March 3, 2008 @ 8:35 am

Yes but which one can make someone destroy their own TV?

Comment by Acriticalgent — February 29, 2008 @ 3:09 pm

Guess this means something if you’re numbers-obsessed. I had fun with both, but the Xbox got shipped off to anysoldier in Iraq, and the Wii’s still in my house.

Comment by HappyPig — February 29, 2008 @ 3:14 pm

this means that nintendo do better things with sligthly less good technology than microsoft.
wait is that redundant?

Comment by acid_monkey1 — February 29, 2008 @ 3:14 pm

the console war should be between the companies making the consoles, just like macs and pc’s. can’t we all play nice?

its like applejacks: we eat what we like

Comment by Camiam321 — February 29, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

very lulzy…

but are the numbers true?
(BTW, wii’s aren’t a video game counsel, they are a senior citizen entertainment device)

Comment by Flammy — February 29, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

the *real* console war should involve some Battlebot tech, and a cage match.

Comment by elzarcothepale — February 29, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

They should put the images to scale…

Comment by 42 — February 29, 2008 @ 3:34 pm

Yeah but Xbox didn’t have “Gay Faggy Fag Fag Mario Faggy Brothers Wangbasket Shitwhistle Galaxy 5″.

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 3:36 pm

“(BTW, wii’s aren’t a video game counsel, they are a senior citizen entertainment device”

SO true.

Wii’s are for people who get confused by actual videogames.

Comment by mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — February 29, 2008 @ 3:43 pm

So Nintendo basically tricked everyone into buying another Xbox for $300. Well, gay people anyway.

Comment by AlecDalek — February 29, 2008 @ 4:08 pm

No, no, you’ve got it all wrong, Alec. They’re spending $300 on an Xbox PLUS a gimmicky controller that kinda sucks a bit.

Comment by LukeV1-5 — February 29, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

Alec, you are right. The queers are infecting our video game culture. If Senator Santorum were still around, he would not have stood for this. Thankfully, we still have Presidential Candidate Huckabee and Sen Lott who want to de-fag this great nation and its video game consoles.

All right boys, let’s put on our queer stomping boots and get to work! It’s time to teach those dog-fucking homos a lesson!

Comment by Tony — February 29, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

Gah, this is fanboyism at its worst. If you don’t like a console, don’t complain about it, especially if you’re just doing if you haven’t played the console a lot. Its just a matter of choice. Its similar to the pc vs. console. The Wii is a great console, especially the way you play on it, its fun. The only real problem is the lack of epic games for it. If you want to be a fanboy and bash a console, though, please do it with real complaints, not just immature jokes, I’d understand if you could present good arguments, I actually appreciate it, but just spouting immature gibberish doesn’t help anyone at all.

Comment by gamenac — February 29, 2008 @ 7:57 pm

Gamenac, why do you have to fail so hard? You are taking this seriously. MCS is not a place for srs biznatch, it is a place for hookers and Jack Daniels and console fanboyism!

Comment by LukeV1-5 — February 29, 2008 @ 8:17 pm

lol

I love it when pinheads ride in here on high horses to take the role of judiciary and try to calm everyone/spoil everyones fun.

Fuckoff idiots.

Gay gay homo gay. Offended? Good. I want your last thoughts before the ol’AIDS gets you to be negative ones.

har har.

Comment by mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — February 29, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

Gamenac has it right. If consoles were all about power then the PS3 would be the best atm. We all know that’s not true.

Comment by Palms — February 29, 2008 @ 9:20 pm

I’m not sure what you’re insinuating, mAgnUS. I hate faggots.

Comment by Tony — February 29, 2008 @ 9:37 pm

I dislike this association of fanboyism and homosexuality.

Fanboys exist in equal percentages in both the gay and straight communities (Maybe more so in the straight/homophobic area, as they have a tendency to be more closed minded).

Having said that, the Wii is for pussies (of all orientations). Xbox and 360 are classic genre consoles. Fuck waving that white wang around.

Comment by Mack — February 29, 2008 @ 9:40 pm

ITT: People who hate socializing and prefer playing video games by themselves… because other people are scary. >:(

Comment by Paul_Is_Drunk — February 29, 2008 @ 10:13 pm

XBOX PROS:
- Amazing graphics
- Popular games (Halo, ect)
- Fun multiplayer
- Upload your mp3s onto the hard drive and listen to them while you play
- Cool controller?*

WII PROS:
- Incredibly interactive
- Fun!
- Sweet wireless remote-style controller
- More multiplayer-compatible
- Affordable!

XBOX CONS:
- HOLY SHIT THATS FUCKING HUGE
- Chunky
- Overheats too easily
- Took me like half an hour to find out how to open the fucking disc bay

WII CONS:
- Shitty graphics, mostly
- You look like a old woman with down syndrome when you play it alone
- I punched a kid in the face because he got too close

What’s the verdict?

Comment by Gunface01 — February 29, 2008 @ 10:43 pm

I vote for punching kids in the face.

/what?
//stupid kids

Comment by El_Chupachichis — March 1, 2008 @ 6:01 am

Hahaha, I love these threads. People argue and argue and argue… “how can xbox, with it’s superior hardware, still have the shittiest games in the universe?” versus “how can the wii, with it’s oh-so-last-year’s teachnology, be taking the market by storm? Mine’s faster, see? why won’t you buy it? WHYYY?”

If you want the games, buy the damn games, and to hell with what system they run on! Yes, some games have more cpu opponents on faster consoles, or dynamic lighting or online components or something but you know, you’ll always be buying more and more hardware, as old stuff breaks, as consoles are end-of-lifed, so why not just focus on the games you like?

Comment by mgear — March 1, 2008 @ 9:12 am

“I love it when pinheads ride in here on high horses to take the role of judiciary and try to calm everyone/spoil everyones fun.”

I just got to quote myself.

mgear doesn’t read so good. No preaching for you a-hole. You suck cocks.

Comment by mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — March 1, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

Magnus wants to have the last word. Word.

Comment by st_judas — March 1, 2008 @ 2:46 pm

The last word again implies an argument.

You are one of the people on here who need to lighten the fuck up. I guess not everyone is meant to get it.

for you

Comment by mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — March 1, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

And there he is again.

Comment by MacheteJak — March 1, 2008 @ 5:14 pm

If ONE thing I hate, when someone brings up “That console is gay because the graphics are not that good as in mine”.

OK, now you wanna see a fucking pixar movie, or play a fun and entertaining game that last almost forever? Because I have more fun with my Battlefield 1942 than any other FPS game relaised since then.

A video game should look like a GAME, not a friggin’ movie. Thats why we have ingame movies.

A video game should entertaine me, and not make me sit in front of it 12 hours a day just to collect some stupid game points.

Look at the recent titles relaised last year. And the year before. How many can you think back? How many would you think would remember after 20 years?

Games are more mainstream these days than any time before. That means they have weak story, boring grinding gameplay, and they just about making you wanna finnish it.

Comment by Hepathos — March 1, 2008 @ 5:23 pm

In 20 years? Barely any games. Maybe Half Life and Halo, but nothing compared to Pong/Space Invaders/Pacman.

Comment by Aeyve — March 1, 2008 @ 7:47 pm