Even in Garry's Mod, reality is subjective

So here I am dicking around on a TF2 map in Garry's Mod...

On Video Game Difficulty, Part 3, C, or three lower-case "i"s: Class

(I'm trying to clean out the "Vault," and this wasn't published back when I was discussing video game difficulty for some reason.  It's incomplete, but enjoy anyway.)

Something interesting happened to me when I played Mass Effect for the first time on my new laptop.  I didn't transfer over all the saved files, so I lost all the various buffs you get for fulfilling various achievements.  So I was playing the game with a "blank slate," although I had full functioning knowledge of how the game worked.

I finally saw the Red Wedding again

And I originally said it was a massive disappointment. I would like to revise that opinion slightly.

It was merely a disappointment.

Reminder: don't have high expectations for this year's Game of Thrones

So remember last season, where they had about 700 pages of material to get through, and they wasted about half an hour on Theon Torture Porn, and about a full hour with Tyrion (dude gets married and grouses a bit about how he's out of power. That's the sum total of things that happen to him in the first 700 pages of A Storm of Swords).

Yeah, this season they have about 400 pages to get through.

SPLOILERS!!!

The Rocketeer

Fun fact: about 20 years before he helmed Captain America: The First Avenger, Joe Johnston directed another comic-book film.

If you've seen the Mr. Plinkett Star Wars reviews, you're probably at least slightly familiar with The Rocketeer, and if you were in a movie theater between 1991 and 1996 you're probably familiar with James Horner's score. (Guy has a habit of getting his scores recycled into movie trailers: case in point, 1:00 to 1:30 of this cue from Aliens.)

It's about an aviator who stumbles across a jetpack built by Howard Hughes, but stolen by mobsters working for totally-not-Errol-Flynn.  The film takes place on the eve of WWII, and it's... well, far more lighthearted than today's superhero fare, which surprised me given that the main villain is... SPLOILERS...

A Blog of Thrones (Chapter 40) Catelyn VII: Trial By Wombat

Previously on A Blog of Thrones, Ned Stark wanted revenge while Robert Baratheon was the voice of reason. Yes, really. Today, Catelyn continues screwing up, so at least some semblance of normalcy has returned.

The most hideously depressing thing about the new Winds of Winter chapter

SPLOILERS!

3 quick reasons why A Feast For Crows is better than A Dance With Dragons

SPLOILERS OBVIOUSLY

Diablo III: I, Um, What?

So there's this thing going around about how there's supposedly a bug that prevents items of the proper level from dropping when your level is somewhere in the mid-60s.

Turns out that's not a bug, it's a feature.

So I have to ask: did Blizzard learn nothing from the Auction House?

I will now attempt to explain why the Diablo III expansion has forced you to drop a difficult level or 3

Inspired by this post.

I am going to do something I normally don't do, and assume for the moment that you know nothing about the subject material of this post. This is not because I believe you're a moron who needs things spoon-fed to you, but rather because I'm in law school and can't get out of the mindset at the moment.

Ten Reasons Why On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the Greatest Bond Film Ever Made

TLDR: a more human Bond, the best Bond Girl ever, the best theme ever written, the greatest scene in the franchise, the biggest risk ever taken, and five other wonderful little touches.