PixlBit

Now now, breakfast is for breakfast, lunch for lunch, and dinner for dinner. You can have as many of each, but let's not mix mealtimes. We Hobbits like everything in their proper place. You're talking like that queer Bilbo who went on adventures and talked to Elves. Not a normal sort of chap he was.

I would suggest you name any FPS character Bilbo T. Baggins. No name could be better in that environment.

[note to sensitive types. I'm using the word 'queer' here the way Tolkein used it to mean strange]

Hobbits love to eat. National Lampoon founders Mr. Beard and Mr. Kenney took advantage of this in their book Bored of the Rings. Poo to you sirs with nobs on, I say. Now, time for second lunch.

You can get quite attached to the characters or objects in a game once you name them. I still remember certain characters I named in Wizardry.

When I get to X-Com, I don't think I'm going to use friends names. There's permadeath in that game.

I could see all the oil prints my fingers left on the screen while outside. I had to keep the system out of too much light or I couldn't see past the smudges. Inside I don't see them at all.

The tons of U.S. jokes told me right away this wasn't an American film. It's interesting to see how the rest of the world views the U.S. in terms of comedy. The message seemed to be our government is full of greedy, lying, war mongering, propaganda loving politicians out to rob the rest of the world of their resources. That's what this film seemed to be saying... in a comedic way.

I read a book on statistics recently and you have to do questionaires with small samples. The trick is picking the right group that'll tell you accurate information about the larger group. It's impossible to question everyone. Or at least, it costs too much to do.

But I agree that stats are to be taken with a grain of salt, but that 5 hrs of tv a day sounds like something people in the mainstream would do to me.

Everything in moderations I guess. I just know that I wouldn't be all worried about it like some people I know who are super strict about their kids playing games. Let them play and play with them. That's what I say.

I'm beginning to favor easy settings in games. Or at least, I don't feel that I have to go for difficulty right off the bat.

Yea, "funny sometimes" that's about right.

I saw there was a video game made, Iron Sky: Invasion, but I think it only came out in Europe because I've never seen it here in NA.

The effects are really good, but the script is kinda weak. It could've been a lot funnier too. There's some pretty hilarious criticism of the U.S. in there. I mostly chuckled rather than laughed out loud though. I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars, meaning I liked it, but not a lot, and definitely didn't love it. Some of the look of the film reminded me of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which I thought had a similar great-look-shallow-story appeal. Iron Sky got mostly bad reviews by critics but it did win an award for effects. That probably says it all right there.

The NPD reported an average of 13 hours a week of video gaming by Americans back in 2010 here: http://uk.gamespot.com//news/time-spent-gaming-on-the-rise-npd-6264092?

statisticbrain.com had a stat of 5 hours a day of TV watching for the average American here: http://www.statisticbrain.com/television-watching-statistics/ That's 35 hours a week! TV watchers got us gamers beat by a long way.

The most gaming I've done in a week was about 22 hours, most of that on the weekend.