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The Hellstrom Chronicle. Enjoyed it.

Started Dreamfall. Not quite as godlike as TLJ, but so far pretty dang good.

Just finished Monkey Island 2 special edition. Mixed feelings.

I've played the base, vanilla, Arkham Horror. None of the expansions or anything. It seemed well-made. It's best with a larger group.

Hugo. More or less lived up to the hype. Recommended.

Nausicaa or the first GiTS. Pixar stuff is up there too. Those direct to DVD Scooby Doo movies are surprisingly good. (Or surprisingly not terrible.) I really like them.

The old-timey Hawks version has nothing in common with the Carpenter version except the weather, though it is pretty well done by old-timey sci fi horror standards. The 2011 Thing isn't a remake, it's a prequel - though with that in mind an embarrassing amount of it is just a re-hash of the...

The Thing (2011). Not surprising anyone, it's inferior. The CG didn't help.

Sat down and played another five or six hours of Witcher. I don't play it very often, but when I do I just can't stop. I also beat an old-timey Commander Keen game that had been haunting me. I'm the best in the galaxy.

The endings of all anime/manga whatever related to Darker than Black are never good. They're weird, lazy, incomprehensible copouts. It's a testament to how good the rest of the show is that people don't view that as a deal breaker. The way that the show doesn't hold your hand can be a plus or...

I just read the first issue of the Queen of the Black Coast. (latest Conan.) It's my first exposure to any legit Conan, apart from the old timey movie, the video game, and a book by some fool named Carpenter. So far it seems pretty chill. Also picked up the new 52 Batman #1, Catwoman #1, and...

Darker than Black doesn't work for everyone, but if it does work for you, it really works for you. The various manga, however, are pretty weak. Don't watch the series in the order it aired - watch them in chronological order. Season One, the OVA, then Season Two.

Apollo 18. Watchable, but it should've been a lot better.

Origin's a deal breaker for me. I'll get it used and play it on Xbox a few months down the line. I'm pretty hype for Max Payne 3.

I've found all of the books and movies outrageously silly, but enjoyable. The Angels and Demons novel had one particularly egregious scene, that was fortunately omitted from the movie. I still think they're fun, and I'll get the Lost Symbol movie on netflix someday down the road.

And it deserves it, compared to a lot of manga out there. I hold Mononoke in lower regard because it's just a retread of the pacifist and environmental themes as Nausicaa - just over a decade later, and with more blood. A lot of westerners get real hype for Mononoke just because for a lot of...

I have. Miyazaki's art is tremendous; his storytelling is less impressive, but it's just a bigger, deeper version of the feature film. There's just a lot more content, and that makes for a looser, less precisely-crafted experience. It's very respectable - and even more so because it's...

Nausicaa and Spirited Away are head an shoulders above Miyazaki's other stuff. Totoro and Kiki's are the ones you have to show your kids. The Cat Returns and Whisper of the Heart are both fine films, but they're not Miyazaki, and it shows. A lot of kids probably wouldn't be too enchanted...

Serious-faced fans of the Earthsea books should stay away from the Ghibli version, but since I'm pretty neutral toward the books, I liked it. It's more like an unofficial continuation than an adaptation.

It had AC 1 and the Captain America with Hitler on it.