Why do you guys pre-order digital downloads? Unlike cars, apartments, books etc, there's no limited supply of them so you don't need to pre-order.

The gap between the rich and poor only exists because of stupidity.

People aren't soft dude. It's just that you are jumping into the deep end and going a bit weird with your fetish.

To put it another way: desensitising yourself to violence is like desensitising yourself to sex. People who are addicted to porn are the ones that are pushing that weird incest stuff because the old edgy stuff like MILF porn just doesn't do it for them anymore.

So no, we're not soft. You're just the violence-fetishist version of those incest porn lovers. I don't wanna be like either.

And a later editorial about how it's actually discriminatory because of the lack of working class and/or disabled and/or parenting and/or Black, Indigenous or Brown non-binary femme in the game.

So basically 10/10 essential game, if you like associating yourself with Nazis.

The Wire is GOAT. It's even better to watch a second or third time around.

That's when you know you have something special on your hands.

I thought Dunkirk was a steaming pile of shit. Christopher Nolan's flaws as a screenwriter and filmmaker have been increasingly apparent the more he's moved away from the kiddie superhero genre. He always lacks three dimensional characters, and with the lack of characters blasting exposition this time, the non-chronological narrative was even more disjointed than before.

I maintain the only three good films he's made are Memento, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight, three films which contain simple, blockbuster-friendly stories that don't go over Nolan's unfortunately pretentious head.

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Blade Runner 2049 is insanely good, and better than the overrated original. Villeneuve has impressed me with pretty much every film he's ever got his hands on: Sicario was most definitely channelling Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now; Arrival is just simply one of the greatest sci-fi films Hollywood has ever made; and with Blade Runner he actually makes a good film out of the world Phillip K. Dick invented and Ridley Scott visualised without really forming a complete film from it.

2049 is the rare film I didn't fall asleep in (I normally fall asleep in movies that are mediocre-to-really good. I stay awake if they're horribly bad or insanely excellent). It's also a rare film where I wasn't aware of the running time. And it's an even rarer film that I'm going to go and watch for a second time in the cinema.

Now if only it had invested in philosophical discussions a la Stalker and Solyaris, 2049 would have been within distance of achieving sci-fi immortality. But it makes the same decision (or fatal mistake?) to raise questions of ethics and metaphysics pertaining to what constitutes humanity, without ever really addressing them. So it falls just a tad short of all-time greatness.

Not that I've played them, but the general consensus is that this generation of games have been better than last generations. They include clear upgrades in all genres:

• The Witcher 3
• Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Doom
• Wolfenstein: The New Order
• Hitman
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• Overwatch
• XCOM 2
• Invisible, Inc
• Resident Evil 7
• The Evil Within
• Alien: Isolation

I wish I was still a hardcore gamer because the games look legitimately brilliant.

LotRO played it loose with the canon, too.

The difference is that Monolith has never said it tried to remain faithful to Tolkien's lore.

I don't think any video game based on Middle Earth should stick to the lore anyway; I don't think it'll work well for good game design. It'd be like sticking to the Bible literally to make a game.

I say this as a huge admirer of Tolkien and a fan of The Hobbit and Rings. I'm a fan of the guy's talents more than actually being one of those fantasy super nerds, though. Because truthfully, every other fantasy series post-Rings has been complete and utte rshit from my point of view. Probably Harry Potter aside.

Still reppin' Microsoft like it was day one of your System Wars career.

Never change, bro! :)

I can just play the game and enjoy its technical and artistic merits, especially since this is the first monster PC rig I'm buying since 2007.

As an aside, I don't care about length. Four minutes of banging sex is better than a twenty minute lame blowjob. Every game I play from here on out better be banging sex, or Destiny 2.

Right now my 2017 to-play list looks like:

Destiny 2

The Witcher 3

South Park Fractured But Whole

That's a lot of gaming for me, but I'm open to more. I actually haven't played any big title significantly since 2014.

I asked about Tomb Raider since I'm an old fan of the series.

Yeah, these tomb challenges will make or break the decision for me. Going to watch them now!