Recent content by monyo

There's actually a Seinfeld-inspired site that keeps track of this for you: chains.cc. And a few clones of it, but I've only tried that one. Solves the problem of having to start over every month, though it's not quite as visible as a calendar hanging in your face. At least they send you a...

Lichdom: Battlemage. Haven't actually played much yet, just got a copy last week before my computer fan failed. But it's a heavily mage-themed FPS, apparently built by mage fans for mage fans. Which was the selling point that got me to shell out money for it; I'm one of those. The full release...

Best exclusives imo, going by some combination of critical acclaim and personal favorites: Metal Gear Solid 4 - probably the all around best, just an amazing game Killzone 2 (and 3) - insanely difficult and imo one of the best shooters ever made (Killzone 3 is much less difficult than 2)...

I started reading late as well but am enjoying it so far. Regarding character depth, part of it might be that the characters and their world are just more relatable to the audience. It would make it easier for both the author to come up with clever subtleties that elaborate on who the characters...

Hi Gregg, A lot of this though is simply a matter of opinion. It's fine to have personal disagreements with his philosophy, but I'd point out that it's still a subject of rather healthy debate. For example, plenty of people question the ideas of altruism, charity and kindness as being...

No particular offense intended, but this summary seems a lot more of a biased take on the guy than you'd normally get hearing about him in any intro. philosophy course. In particular, Nietzschean philosophy wasn't really "the one assumed by the Nazis and Hitler" so much as they stole some of his...

Sansa has definitely gone from being the single most boring character to one I positively look forward to seeing more of now. I had the same turnaround with Jaime as well around season 3. Still, I was definitely facepalming when I saw the last episode. I'd have gone ahead and gotten Littlefinger...

Strongly agree with the OP's views on it, and think just about any ideology could be a plausible motivation for a villain, even seemingly righteous or altruistic ones. It's the part about: Minus the word "toxic," because at some point I came to the conclusion that all ideologies are toxic...

Seeing as May is over and I think a lot of people have already finished or are already moving on, I wanted to post something that I found kind of odd about the way the story unfolded. I said at one point that parts of it seemed kind of predictable, and several things didn't turn out quite like I...

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828) Just came by this interesting blog post on "4th drafts" to enhance the language of your writing, and comparing the old editions of Webster's dictionary against modern dictionaries, including the...

Was also a Godzilla (et al.) fan when I was a kid, though likewise I can't even remember the old movies anymore. I am fairly sure the new enemy monster was somewhat Rodan inspired, though. Up until a certain point I was thinking that's basically who/what it was. Still, I honestly couldn't get...

Tough call, but I'll go with: Blood Meridian All You Need is Kill Embassytown

I vaguely remembering hearing once that sharks, being large predators with few natural enemies, tend to get discouraged easily when their prey fights back. Sort of like how criminals tend to look for the easiest targets, so might sharks. So it's possible the thing would run easily after being...