Archive for November 2008
For a long time, maybe a year and a half, the game was pretty much what remained of Brock Pierce's life: He would wake up, sit down at his computer, log in, and play. Pierce would play for hours slaying monsters, wresting precious coins and jewels and magic weapons from their corpses. "There were times I came outside," he says, "and the sun hurt." Read the rest of this entry »
Englez wrote re: 'Evil' Microsoft strikes again by 'giving away' their security suite. on 11-19-2008 1:56 PM. The only right thing for malware protection software is to be free. It's not users fault for being forced to ... Read the rest of this entry »
Next doc to have an end-of-the-empire tone, sources say Read the rest of this entry »
Of course, some science fiction films are more plausible than others: Would the Galactic Empire really have enough manpower to build (and then rebuild) the Death Star in the Star Wars films? Read the rest of this entry »
The villain's evil scheme in the new James Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, sounds pretty demented. But it can't possibly be as crack-addled as Blofeld's monstrous plan in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond films are known for their ridiculous Rube Goldberg villain schemes — here's our list of the most brain-dead, including a few Quantum spoilers. Read the rest of this entry »