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Wait, Rachel Ray entertains people? I thought we sent her in to teach Norriega to cook, forcing his surrender...
It boggles my mind that people keep saying "Unreal is for FPS only!" This seems to be the creed of Unity users, and they desperately hang to it.

C'mon! That's absurd. Was Batman an FPS? How about DC Universe Online? Grimm? Destroy All Humans? Whizzle? Mass Effect 1 and 2? Mortal Kombat vs. DC? Shadow Complex? TNA Wrestling?

Only idiots say "UDK is for FPS!"

In reality a lot separates UDK and Unity. Want the most powerful PC engine you can get your hands on? Want a game that looks as good as possibe? Go UDK. Want to be on Macs and iPhones? Want to be web-based? Want to run on lower system requirements? Go Unity.

But to say UDK is only for FPS games... amazing that people think this.
I agree with the above guy. Somehow Spade doing the commercial is the creepy part. I think what makes it is that the movie wasn't a Spade vehicle, it was a Farley vehicle. They're taking the star and capitalizing on it. I think had Farley survived and done a commercial with a dead Spade it would rankle people less.

There's definitely something off-putting about it that makes the commercial a very bad idea. Everyone I've been around when it comes on gets slightly offended. Honestly, we're a group that's very difficult to offend. We're the kind of people that made Crocodile Hunter jokes immediately upon hearing the news. We pretty much joke about anything so long as we can find humorous absurdity in it.
Yet, somehow this sort of offends us.
Also, great, now we can change the number of beeps.
When will you let us change the color of the LED? Red for BBM, blue for email, green for missed call, etc? Maybe even allow us to do it for specific people.
Yes, 3rd party apps do this, but since they don't get integrated into the OS they just end up sitting on top of everything and doing it poorly.
Will autocorrect finally accept that I have a qwerty keyboard?
Outside of the small space bar, nothing about this phone drives me as nuts as the idiotic autocorrect. If I type "cakk" it should realize that, the k being next to the l, I probably meant "call." Nope, instead, as soon as I hit the small spacebar, it makes it "cake." Dammit, the e is nowhere near the k. The odds of that error are much, much less than simply having my thumb slightly to the side.
Going to agree with vivster.

I grew up with this one and hated it. I hated most everything from the 70s, despite very barely missing them. I hated the browns and oranges of the 70s, hated the detachment of the 70s, hated the drugged-out feel despite being too young to really put together that the feel was, in fact, drugged-out.

I still dislike the film for those reasons. It's just drab to me, not dark. Depressing, too. No real highs in it, no real lows, just a constant "meh."

Never watched the Burton film. Not a Burton fan (his films are often beautiful yet terrible. Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood are great, Batman is ok, the rest are mostly unwatchable.) But I have no love for this version.
Unwatchable. It was actually painful. The whole episode kind of gave me a headache. It was just stupidity for no reason, and not particularly entertaining stupidity.

This show has episodes like this every so often, but usually they're the hour-long episodes. The writers seem low on ideas so they just go with overwhelming stupidity without any fair balance.

The last episode that I can remember making my brain hurt was the post-Superbowl episode. That one seemed to go on forever with no real direction.
No fears here.
There's a difference between supporting and mandating.
No way is Natal a necessity. It's an enhancement for those that have it.
And, if it enhances well enough, we'll all have it.
This episode felt better.
New series, hasn't found its legs and everything feels somewhat off. Standard new series stuff.

It is synching better here, though. The cast is great, the concept works, it'll just be a matter of figuring out how to make it work weekly.

The movie was fantastic. Poignant in its own way, and I like that it was a bit more subtle about the divorce (I don't remember them outright using that word in the show, ever, unless I missed it in a prior episode.) It treated the father/son relationship a tad more delicately there than I'd expect from the show.
The movie wrapped up perfectly. It went from showing why Abed is so weird, and what his life has been like, to the zany credits.

I hope this show grows and flourishes. This feels like it fits with Better Off Ted, 30 Rock and The Office as the only sit-coms I'll watch.
This looks less like a reimagining and more like a shot-for-shot remake. Why would anyone want that? If I want to see the glove pop out of a bathtub I'll watch the original.

This looks so... unoriginal. Which makes it completely pointless, like the Psycho remake.


No one wants a remake. We have and love the originals. We want reimaginings. This trailer fails at that.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
 

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