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We now know that Community is coming back for a fourth season … well, short, 13 episode season … on a Friday … following Whitney. So, yeah, Community’s a dead show walking. But clearly they didn’t know that at the time the episodes were made, as Finality felt very much like a series ender. If it was one, it would have been fantastic.

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As I may have mentioned here once or twice before, my girlfriend Erin is awesome. She's sweet, she makes me smile, and she indulges even my most extreme moments of geekitude. Heck, sometimes she even enables them, such as a few months ago when she got me an Amazon Kindle Fire. I've seen the tablets, I've played with iPads and the like, and I think they can be very useful tools, but they aren't really the right choice for someone like me, someone whose biggest concern is the consumption of various forms of media. I play games on it, surf the web, stream movies and TV shows from NetFlix constantly, and occasionally use it as a reader. I still prefer my Kindle 3 for reading prose, but for illustrated books, the Fire made a believer out of me. Smartphone screens are entirely too small and whenever I tried reading on an iPad I started getting headaches. I don't know what's different about the Fire screen -- maybe it's as simple as a smaller screen generating less light, but I can read on it for quite a while with no problem.
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The week of the Diablo launch is upon us. Is there anything else going on? Probably, and because this is my week for random thoughts there is one more week of holding off before diving into the deep end of magic find bonuses and demon slaying. With everything going on in the 'real world', as Morpheus tells me, I had to do some serious digging to put a decent amount of not-quite coherent thoughts for this entry. But I do start off bashing a few things, so all is not lost.


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What the hell do you mean HBO – two episodes left this season? Nooo! (Unless you can promise me Breaking Bad comes back early, then fine – as long as I have some dark drama to distract me from my life. Ha ha! It's sad because it's true.) Anyhoo, I can't help but think the title of this episode, probably referring to Jamie, Joffrey, Xaro, and Theon all, is really owned by the sad sack of pathetic shit that Theon is right now. He's in over his head, and he refuses to acknowledge it. He so wants to impress the father who gave him away so long ago that he's declared war on the family that raised him, and there's no way this can end well. Unlike Joffrey, who seems to wallow and delight in his own crapulence (thank you, Mr. Burns), Theon looks pained. Not enough to stop, mind you. He's repeatedly slamming his own scrotum in a car door, because goddamn it, if this doesn't get him his own Jackass style reality show, nothing will. Or, as the case may be here, the love and respect of his father. But I kind of prefer my own scrotum/car door analogy, because somehow it's less sad.
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“Talk to me about crazy town banana pants.” Yes, let's do! This is a fake flashback episode, much like the totally awesome “Paradigms of Human Memory”, only it manages to reference it as well. Much like Inception, even the layers have layers.


Picking up where the last episode left off, it seems the gang has been gathering at Troy's, Abed's, and Annie's place for “potluck dinners”, although it's possible only Shirley actually thinks of them this way. Abed is brought home by the tubby policeman we've seen many times before, as it seems Abed, in his Inspector Spacetime guise, has been digging through the Dumpsters of Greendale – again! It seems he thinks the Dean isn't the real Dean at all, but an imposter. The cop who brings him home also gives the gang a card the Dean gave him, and it's to a psychiatrist. He thinks Abed needs therapy, fast.
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I got a message on Facebook yesterday from Steven Rogers, winner of the "2 in 1 Showcase listener with the coolest name award" three years running and all-around nice guy. Steven was writing with a purpose, though, to remind me that, on our Summer Movie Preview episode, I dismissed notions that Avengers could possibly crack a $200 million opening weekend. The record, after all, was a mere $169 million. How could it possibly overtake it by that much?

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Reviewer: Craig Reade
Quick Rating: Massive viral destruction, this time with a hero.
Rating: M

Official Site

Platform: X-Box 360, Playstation 3, Windows PC (in July)
Developer: Radical Entertainment
Publisher: Activision Publishing
Genre: Action-Adventure Sandbox
# of Players: 1
US Release Date: April 24th, 2012
MSRP: $59.99

About three years ago, the first Prototype was released - and proved to be a pretty popular game. The announcement of the sequel gave me some mixed feelings thought. On the one hand, I enjoyed the first game, but on the other - I wasn't sure how a sequel could manage to be anything other than a carbon copy of the first game. I wasn't wrong on either count - but the result as a whole was extremely positive.
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Something I struggle with as a gamer is what to make of certain publishers. Knowing a publisher, or having faith in a publisher, or knowing to stay away from a publisher, can be the litmus test for determining whether a certain game is worth playing. Sometimes reputation alone sells a game or buries a game. Yet, despite many releases, Bethesda remains an enigma to me. For whatever reason, one of the most successful RPG makers ever is a company that somehow manages to make landmark games that I never find the time to play. Despite their many successes with Elder Scrolls and Fallout, I still struggle to understand whether I should trust them.

Today I am going to explore the nether regions of my soul in an attempt to figure out what I should think of them, why it is probably wrong, and then try to comprehend my reactions to their recent announcement that Elder Scrolls was being made into an MMO.

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Happy belated Free Comic Book Day! As usual, it was a big weekend for comic fans - it was the one time of year Saturday is more important than Wednesday, and as FCBD usually is timed for a major comic movie release, we got the launch of The Avengers this weekend as well. My days of seeing midnight screenings are behind me, so I am waiting until next weekend to finally see it. Yeah, maybe that makes me old, but for some reason the appeal of standing in line and fighting for a seat to see a movie has waned. From what I hear, it will be worth the wait to see it in a little more comfort!

To kick off the month of May, we have three issues this week to cover on the $40 Pull List to cover - two titles from the DCnU "Second Wave:" Dial H #1 and Earth 2 #1, along with Daredevil #12.

Plus, I still have plenty of issues to give away if you want to try out one of these titles - as usual, read on to find out more!
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Writer and director Edgar Wright posted this photo on his Twitter account today. Has his long rumored Ant-Man movie been given the green light, or is he simply trying to ...