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Raqn · 4 days

I've never seen anyone state this outright before, but there it is: derive loyalty from people by showing them the ropes and hoping that they stick with you. Brand new players definitely have value right off the bat too; everyone starts somewhere.

MobsInBlack · 22 days

I think Niyeaux has a valid point. Still... you could include news and reviews but make them different by putting more thought into them. News would therefore move beyond the typical soundbite bulletins we see and have a deeper (perhaps INVESTIGATIVE) tone. By the same token, reviews could tie into a wider theme or allow for truly unbiased, balanced reporting on new or upcoming games.

Ctrl-F-Guy · 1 month

I would love to know how NBC's Revolution is different from the Emberverse. I loved SM Stirling's world.

IslandGreetings · 1 month

The wild applause continues.

JethroByte · 1 month

Hey! That's a serious reply.

...looks for dimensional portal to get back to real world...

anonymous122 · 1 month

I have no skillz. But I wanted to try anyway: http://i.imgur.com/qUTJk.png

MAXIMUM_MACHO · 1 month

I love those lights that turn night into day. I saw them using one in Toronto one time. It is up on a crane almost a block away and it still lights up the whole roof set. BRIGHT!

FaceTfacts · 2 months

I think you're reading it backwards like I was at first: 100 percent DAMAGED not 100 percent intact. He was out there fighting... definitely not hiding.

And yes, I get way too attached to my little drones. I feel a serious pang of guilt when I warp off without them either in a panic or a moment of oncoming Alzheimers.

sammyj75 · 2 months

The author of the article came to a similar conclusion to mine. Mad Men has quality on its side, but I don't even like the show all that much. I am far more swept up in the coolness that is Game of Thrones. As for Hunger Games... I am calm enough about it to simply wait and see.

Sigatsu · 2 months

Then the not so critically acclaimed but enjoyable ones: High Incident and Seaquest DSV. That puts the quality quotient almost up to 9 percent. :-)

Sigatsu · 2 months

Wow. I gave up very early on (second episode I think). Wargazm nailed down all of my frustrations with this show. I would embellish his points to say that overall the unknown became known far too quickly and thus the scariness was muted right away.

DeweyQ · 2 months

My biggest problem with this article:

New Zealand musician Ray Colombus said anything that benefits the artist is a benefit for the country: "Some people believe in public domain. Why? Just so you can rip off dead people's works? That's pathetic."

I believe in the public domain. I think it is more about reduce, reuse, recycle than profiting off the dead. We get to advance culture by building on what has come before. The way things are going, and we see more and more evidence of this all the time: every expression of an idea and even ideas themselves will be "owned" by someone in perpetuity. Even independently coming up with a creative work will expose someone to litigation because someone somewhere will own the rights to something that closely resembles the new creation. We already have lawyers making a mint off "clearance" where any creative work is vetted to ensure that it has not been done before. Indeed, most average people are starting to assume that even things squarely in the public domain "must be owned by someone".

rustyballls · 2 months

L. Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz in 1899. It is undeniably in the public domain... but the 1939 movie isn't. Supposedly just stuff from the movie is "still under copyright" -- but try to write something derivative featuring Dorothy, the Tinman, the Scarecrow, or the Cowardly Lion. Warner Brothers will come after you -- just like they are going after Disney for trying to make Oz: The Great and Powerful.

In the case of Tolkien's work, both the book and the movie are still under copyright because since 1937 the Berne Convention has been strengthened and copyright "renewal" is in place. My point is not that the pub owners didn't break the law... they did (especially using Elijah Woods in promotional materials -- that's not even a thin line). My point is that copyright law has gone crazy (15 new copyright-related pieces of legislation in the US in the last 30 years alone). What would have been legal and good for culture is now illegal -- and little people are getting crushed under the advancing treads of the big content machine.

Edit: Spelling.

rustyballls · 2 months

Copyright is different from other property rights and that is not just my view. Your shovel analogy breaks down right away because of this.

Copyright is a government granted monopoly that is designed to allow creators/artists to earn money from their works. Thus I can agree that the general idea of infringing copyright is morally wrong. My argument is that corporations and rights-holders have over-reached so much in the last 100 years that copyright law itself has become morally wrong -- especially the way it is so vigorously pursued against individual citizens.

Finally, I can see how the original creator may have "cashed out" and the only way that is possible is if the person paying for the rights sees the value in obtaining the rights. But I also think that promoting the progress of the useful arts (as copyright is intended to do), the public domain cannot be abused as badly as it has been over the last century. It limits the rights of society as a whole.

rustyballls · 2 months

You have not said anything untrue... but your stance is still morally wrong.

The Hobbit was first published in September 1937. According to the copyright laws in place at the time in most locales, it would have LONG SINCE entered the public domain. Now we have rights-holders who are not directly associated with the original author in any way at all asserting rights that they bought and paid for; they DIDN'T CREATE ANYTHING. This leads to a situation of copyright lasting FOREVER and ALWAYS being something that the rights-holder will want to ring every last penny out of because, after all, they made an investment in the "right" to do so.

It is wrong.

ManifestYoself · 2 months

Yes. That's a thing.

It's not like studying Underwater Firefighting at the University of Saudi Arabia or anything.

Mordechai Richler, Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Pierre Berton, W.P. Kinsella...

maaaaaahr · 2 months

Heroes blew up, and Tim Kring was responsible... but he is not a complete idiot like everyone on Reddit seems to think. His previous success was derived from non-sci-fi shows. Touch can go light on the supernatural stuff and focus on the human interaction. If the pilot/teaser was any indication, they can pull it off that way.

Having said that, Fringe really is good sci-fi and should be the tentpole for Fox's genre-focused demographic.

Meanwhile, Alcatraz is still finding its feet. Apart from Sam Neill's annoyingly put-on American accent, it seems okay so far.

IamWiddershins · 2 months

I was about to complain that the narrator's voice sounds weak in places. Now I hear the original and realize that it was Gabriel Byrne and he was doing the cracking/fading voice for effect.

digifreak642 · 2 months

Not surprising. What is actually more surprising to me is that it was making money. Of course, with "Hollywood accounting" you never know if something is profitable or not.

TommyPickles1987 · 2 months

So... it has come to this.

mjolnir114 · 2 months

I'll be honest: it generally appeals to people with less refined tastes in television. However it is a "crossover" show in that I know plenty of people who enjoy it alongside very high quality fare like Boss, Deadwood, or The Wire.

(Sorry, I'm laughing at my own use of the term "crossover" from bad taste to good.)

ltherapistl · 2 months

I see this kind of question asked all the time. Writers can wring intrigue out of a pebble if they're good enough. Think of any procedural. Just add this twist of two realities to it. Now, if they answer questions and reveal that there really is only one true reality... then they close one door and open up another. It still works if he continues to dream the other world derive clues from it. A dark force massing in his dream world could be the harbinger of something serious coming in reality... and on and on. I am not a writer, but I trust them to see unlimited potential in almost any premise.

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