Oscar Gold

I posted the other day on Tor.com about the Oscars hating on genre films. This year, I've seen a surprising number of the films nominated already, mostly due to the fact that a) there are more films nominated and b) the extra films nominated were almost assuredly nominated solely as a ploy to get normal people to watch the damn Oscars. So out of the list of ten, you can guess which ones I've seen. Go ahead, guess!

Nah, I'm just fucking with you. I'll tell you.( Handicapping the Oscars )

I will update my predictions as I get to see more movies. But I'm pretty sure I know what the score is on Best Picture. The acting categories for the women are, as ever, up for grabs. (Okay, maybe that's not true. Sandra Bullock has a lot of momentum going, I just refuse to acknowledge that.) For the men, Jeff Bridges and Christoph Waltz will win.

I agree with you, sir

From this Kotaku post, a video of gameplay in the new version of Aliens vs Predator. Which is coming out surprisingly soon, and if I'd known, I would have pre-ordered it for my brother-in-law as his birthday present. I guess he'll have to be happy with Arkham Asylum. Anyway, that video:

I always found that, when I did steel myself for the terror of playing the colonial marine in the original Aliens vs Predator, that that damned motion detector was less a useful device and more a means to ratchet up the fear. It would be much more helpful to, say, give me night-vision goggles goddamnit than to give me this cheerful box that beeps more regularly and louder about INCOMING DEATH. Jesus, my heart rate is elevated just thinking about it.

No, really, what I hear when that box beeps? Deaaaaath, deaaaaaath, deaaath deaaath! Death! Death! Death! Death! Death! DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! AHHHH YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD AND IT'S EATING YOUR FACE!!!