Yea what this really means is Warner Brothers is run by a pack of wild idiots. The more they try, the more apparent it is that The Dark Knight was a fluke.

The Dark Knight had nothing to do Warner Brothers, just take a look at Batman & Robin. They threw in big names (not necessarily good actors), shitty script, and hoped the general public would eat it up. The Dark Knight was all the production team, primarily Christopher Nolan. The guy writes and directs great movies, Memento and The Prestige being prime examples. He finally is being recognized in Hollywood for his talent and I'm all for it.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Thursday convicted the "mastermind" of the Rwandan genocide and sentenced him to life in prison for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

It is the first time the tribunal has convicted high-level officials for the 100-day genocide in 1994 which left an estimated 800,000 people dead.

Theoneste Bagosora, 67, a colonel in the Rwandan army, was found guilty along with two other men -- Major Aloys Ntabakuze and Lieutenant Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva. All were sentenced to life in prison.

Over a decade later, three men are finally being brought to justice for their parts in the Rwandan Genocide. Many of you might be familiar with the atrocity through the countless documentaries, feature films, and news reports. The UN was divided on its course of action for such a long time and argued while thousands of Tutsis were still being slaughtered. Unfortunately, this wasn't the only time where the bickering of the UN nations delayed action against criminals. However, this marks a huge step towards justice for those who were murdered. Hopefully this will bring closure to some of the families affected. I only hope it doesn't take this long for the perpetrators of the Darfur genocide to be brought to justice.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/18/rwanda.tribunal/index.html

For those who believe the world will end on this day, please cash in all your assets and spend out all the money before Dec. 20th seeing as though there's no point to it afterward. I predict 2013 is going to be a bad year for you.

I love how some people are looking at this date as the end of the world, when less than a decade ago these same people were scared of Y2K. The Earth is not bound to any calendars, and if anyone can predict the end of the world, I doubt it would be a primitive past civilization. It's like going to a modern tribal village and asking them their opinions on the fate of the world... after they sacrifice a pig to their gods for answers.

The scenes in REC were pretty awesome, especially the last. I can't really see how this could be any better. Plus every time I see the commercial, all I can think about is a Emily Rose sequel.

If you push in the right stick and then go up/down you can zoom on the Xbox 360.

The really amazing thing about this car is that it doesn't consume fuel if you're traveling below 35mph. Use this car just to drive around town and you'll never need to stop at a gas station again.

This got a 9.5 on Gamespot under Xbox 360 games. So I was expecting it to be this great nex-gen game that for some reason, I heard nothing about. It's still funny to see a 2D game getting editor's choice award. Only 2 other games for the 360 got that score: The Orange Box and Halo 3. So it's tied for second place, with GTA4 being the best rated (10) for the console. That alone made me want to try it out.

Goodbye, children.

Fans are usually what will make loud, irritating sounds. Otherwise there's something seriously wrong with one of your other components, cause I'm not sure what else can be making that much noise and still be working properly.

See if you can borrow a friend's fan to test it out.

Would downloading a lot of music from rapidshare (and other such sites) be suspicious?

From what I've seen, file hosting sites are the most discrete way to download. Torrents and other P2P programs establishes multiple connections to the other users, which throws up flags if downloads are being monitored. Be wary that while colleges might not enforce rules against illegal downloads, most have a download cap and will look into a student's log accordingly. I worked for my former college as a computer technician, and we would get this all the time. One of the computer lab employees got fired because he downloaded like 20-30 GB of televisions episodes (plus a movie or something) while working in a month.

there will always be those quests and lots of them, i actually like the KILL 10 OF X, KILL 10 OF Y, KILL 10 OF Z, KILL NAMED and get 20% of a level quests

The only problem with quests not involving killing a bunch of enemies is that you won't be leveling quickly. I agree they need to change quest formats, so they'll need to increase the EXP from quests to balance things out.

Well, I guess that would be fairer. I've seen great tanking gear then it has +spell damage on the last line of the description. But at the same time, you have always have 3 classes rolling for that one caster gear. Priests, locks, and mages will always roll on a better cloth piece. Then you have the shammies, pallies, and druids who used to roll on healing cloth gear. Unified tank plate will only be 2 classes and only if they're tanks. DPS pally and warrior gear will still be divided because of the way each of us deals damage. You can't give plate armor the same DPS stats of a warrior then throw on +spell damage to unify the need. Then pallies will always have greater advantage from the gear.

But I don't know, I do think gear should be suited for more classes and specs, but this does seem to give casters much more competition for loot. A pretty out there idea is that certain stats on gear should only be activated by class and choice upon spec, maybe. Like tanking plate gear would give +spell damage only for paladins and it gives more stamina or defense for warriors.

I do find the whole +spell and +healing merge a little odd because now all casters will be rolling on the same gear. And you got to feel sorry for caster DPS if they're going to be overlooked for healers. Every 70 should have multiple gear anyway. Besides, tanks are going to be need tanking gear then we have to go out and look for DPS gear, as well.

And to choose PANIC! at the disco, and Linkin' Park, it makes my heart sink.

Well, maybe if you bought more than one copy they wouldn't have to put in songs to attract the emo population. Which I'm guessing constitutes a good portion of the players.

Also, about the whole thing about Konami sucking for suing the creators of this game... it's the same exact concept. PRESS  X BUTTON NOW, 5 MILLION POINTS. NOW PRESS TRIANGLE, ONLY 2.7 MILLION POINTS THIS TIME. YOU HAVE MORE THAN 6 MILLION POINTS, NEXT ROUND. Yes, they should be sued cause of the patents.

If you were on peyote, this story could easily be a novel.

Pretty interesting. Though when you said "explosives merchant", I was thinking Lord of War. I was expecting a story about an illegal arms run, haha. That would have been pretty crazy, but nice story nevertheless.

The reason a lot countries are taking offense to this is because Zimbabwe claims to be democratic, sadly. And at the same time, because they are democratic, we (as fellow democratic countries) have to use diplomacy. Like mentioned before, involvement wouldn't be of any benefit to us, so war's just a huge bill that would ruin the country. Sure Mugabe's out, but now the country's worth nothing. So, we'll need to spend even more in relief funds. And I think Mugabe's the kind of guy who'll resort to genocide in war. Diplomacy has to be the option at this point cause it's not worth a country getting involved.

So, there's been international reaction to 2008 Zimbabwean presidential election, where voting took place on March 29th and June 27th. The incumbent president, Robert Mugabe, has been the head of the state ever since the country gained its independence in 1980. On March 29th, Morgan Tsvangirai won the popular vote over Mugabe. However, you must win a certain majority of votes in the first vote to bypass the second and claim victory. Tsvangirai didn't have enough votes and election was extended. In the following months, members of Tsvangirai's political party began to be targeted by the violent and powerful allies of Mugabe. The mayor of Zimbabwean's capital (who was also in Tsvangirai's party) had his wife kidnapped, stoned to death, and then mutilated about a week before the second round of voting. One of the CNN articles estimated the deaths as a result of the election to be in the tens of thousands. Tsvangirai was forced to concede and withdraw from the race in fear of his own life and those who had aided him. On the day of election, police officers forced people to vote (a red ink is rubbed on your hand after you do). Of course, Mugabe steals the elections with a ridiculous majority of the votes and has already been sworn in for his next term.

And all of this is known worldwide, with the heads of our countries denouncing the entire election, but not much can be done. Mugabe's people basically own Zimbabwean. Even though the country has bee in an economic freefall since it gained its independence, they are extremely rich. Invading the country be lead to a very long war that would leave the country dirt poor.

So, what do you think should be done about this? We can't just stand around and complain about it. Mugabe is a person who honestly doesn't care if everyone hates him, as long as him and his allies remain rich and in power.

Links to a bunch of articles:
http://topics.cnn.com/topics/zimbabwe

This is one of the greatest moments of my life.

Though I am worried that they said it's going to be simple gameplay. I would want more variety than the last installment.

I'll have you agree with that rant. RE4 was a great game, but I don't know why they decided to change a formula. It was one of a kind and always a refreshing play. Instead, they made the game easier and took away the main challenges in the original REs. I used to like having to dodge some zombies because I was low on ammo and being stuck on some puzzles. I did think they would make 5 more like the originals, but yeah... those screens look they could be for RE4.

EDIT: And what was up with the story for 4? Leon has to SAVE THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER. What the fuck? Is this Bad Dudes? I honestly think the story for the series is the best in games and it sucks that they're ruining something that wasn't broke in the first place.