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It is, yeah. But that's not what I meant. What I meant was: seeing a still shot (esp. one we've all seen before) of Gordon within a game is really no more jolting than seeing his mug on the game's box. If we were to see new footage of him moving around and such, that'd be a little different.

It's true. The impact alone would crush your head. I think part of my love for the cinder block springs from the crude, brutal efficiency of a simple object being manipulated with science to serve as a super-weapon. Having carried a fair number of them in my time, I know they are heavy sons...

Personally, I think I'd have to go with the scripted sequence near the end of Nova Prospekt in which the Antlion Guard bursts through the double doors in pursuit of the terrified Overwatch troops. It seems to be part of a unique strand of dark humour in the series in which humans (or humanoids)...

Really? You see an image of Gordon's face in Undue Alarm? Not really the same though, is it?

...we saw Gordon's face? OK, so we know that the post-Combine invasion world of HL2 has no mirrors, but it clearly does have video monitors which broadcast both live and pre-recorded footage. Would it really be such a mystique killer to see Gordon in a context such as this. I'll admit...

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Totally useful. They have pockets, into which one can put pocket pouches, into which one can put pens.

Gah! The only spoilers I genuinely can't stand are puzzle spoilers. I had the blue barrel puzzle from Water Hazard spoiled for me and it always added a slightly hollow feeling to that part of the game. I thought I'd be safe looking at that link, but it spoils a big one.

Good point, The Raveholm trap blade kills you instantly if it ricochets back at you, as I learned to my chagrin last night. Yup, the small engine block is killer diller. It'd be number 1 on my list if only it were more common. Has anyone ever noticed it in Ep. 1?

As in, "most valued (or, if you prefer, 'vicious') projectile." My top picks are the cinder block and the small engine. The former is found in many areas of the game and combines compactness with a high level of lethality. The latter combines the best properties of the cinder block with...

Depends what you make of the whole Gearbox/canonicity bugaboo. If Opposing Force is accepted as canon, there's one scene in which the G-Man can be seen conversing with a security guard behind a locked door in "Welcome to Black Mesa." That brings the count up to three at least.

Read the book about this time last year. It was just OK--and I'm speaking as a fairly huge McCarthy fan here. Personally, I'm more excited about the upcoming adaptation of "The Road." God help us if Blood Meridian ever gets made into a film.

Don't get me wrong though, I'd prefer it if Breen died in the Citadel. It was a fitting place for the character to end his days, and he had the acest last words ever uttered by a game baddie (Hitler's "Auf Wiedersen, Eva!" from Wolfenstein was a distant second).

Hmmm, I wasn't familliar with that theory. It's true, though--he does get his poncho near the end of the film. Were the first two Dollars films post-Civil War?

Nazis? Let me ask you something: did World War II go on till Indy was 60? Neo-nazis, maybe....or Boys from Brazil types.

You are to be tried by as special tribunal at the Hague, pending your apprehension.

Temple of Doom was rubbish, a mere shadow of Raiders. ROTJ, while classic in parts, was fatally undermined by all that Ewok gibberish at the end. A kids' movie, nothing more.

Correct, but I still contend that the Dollars films aren't a real trilogy, a position supported by the fact that the first two films clearly are continuous, and the third one is not.

LOTR and "Dollars" are the only ones named that consist entirely of good movies. Also, it should be noted that Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef both play different characters in the two "Man with No Name" films than in "The Good the Bad and the Ugly," a fact calls the 3 films' status as a...

"They" don't, but Vorts appear to. I thought we'd agreed before that was a possibility. Not that I'm saying Breen escaped. For the time being though, his fate remains filed under "undisclosed material."