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So...it pretty much looks like every other iTunes clone out there?

Yes. That's pretty much the entire POINT.

I'm more of a reader than a listener, but I do have some recommendations: A Tale of Despereaux - A great fairy tale fantasy about a mouse, a rat, a maid, and a princess. Graeme Malcom's voices and accents for the different characters are absolutely amazing. Harry Potter - Jim Dale narrating all the Harry Potter books. Enough said. Now if you like Star Wars, I heartily recommend the Star Wars Radio Drama. In the 80s, Lucasfilm partnered with NPR to adapt the original Star Wars film to 13 half-hour long episodes which were broadcast weekly nationwide. Mark Hamill returned as Luke Skywalker and Anthony Daniels played C3PO. The rest of the cast was a group of very talented voice actors who sounded similar enough to their movie counterparts to make it believable, but different enough to allow them to make the roles their own (in fact, to this day I prefer Ann Sachs's Princess Leia to Carrie Fisher's). A lot of scenes were added and expanded, giving the story a lot more depth and foundation. A New Hope was very successful, so Lucasfilm asked Brian Daley (the scriptwriter for the first 13 episodes) to adapt The Empire Strikes Back to 10 half-hour long episodes. Hamill, Daniels, and the rest of the radio cast returned for the production, and Billy Dee Williams himself reprised his role as Lando Calrissian. I'm afraid I can't really recommend Return of the Jedi though. It was made in the mid-90s, long after Empire and it's only 6 episodes long. As such, it doesn't add a lot of new material to the story; it only stretches things out and makes the story tedious. Hamill and Williams didn't return to play Luke and Lando, and their replacements didn't really deliver (Lando's actor in particular was terrible). The only real highlight is hearing the radio cast again.

But they did say that. http://blog.capcom.com/archives/1154

How's it a spin? I mean, they're acknowledging the gaffe themselves, right? The bonus boxarts are EXTRAS.

Uh, if you can run it on PC just get it on PC.

OCR has a twitter. http://twitter.com/ocremix I've got it set up to aggregate Recently Posted Remixes, OCReMix Announcements, Larry's VG Frequency Blog, and Andy's Soundtempest Blog. I've also got a twitter myself, but I don't use it as much as I should. I prefer pownce, personally.

See, that's ironic.

Pretty freakin' awesome man. Always nice to see some virtuosity and creativity in a sea of "hay i can play vg songz on mah instrument" videos. Very cool

How is that ironic? Your name is Brushfire and you like playing as a pyro. that's not ironic. That's appropriate, or coincidental. Not ironic.

My problem with your roster, Coop, is that it's Bat-heavy. There's a wealth of characters to draw from beyond Batman villains and heroes. Something more balanced is JLA oriented roster; Supes, Bats, Wondy, GL, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and Flash. That's your original 7 right there. Then throw in some villains, maybe some JLI folks (Beetle, Booster, Fire, Ice). But having 5/16 of the characters Bat characters is just too much.

Ristar is totally worth the price of admission alone.

No he's not.

Mega Collection is a better value.

Yeah it's a great comic. Apparently Jim Davis is a fan of it too.

I maintain that the big WHOLE GRAIN sticker up top is the best aspect. I mean everything on the box is altered or changed in some way, but the fact that the cereal is WHOLE GRAIN is so important that Marcellis left it untouched is hilarious.

Countdown pretty much over and it was a terrible comic to the point where it's hilarious. DC has essentially acknowledged that Countdown did not accomplish what it set out to do (be the "spine" of the DCU). And even so, Countdown is an ensemble book; to be honest, Kyle was just along for the ride and not really one of the movers or shakers. That honor ( ) goes to Jason, Holly and Harley, Mary, Solomon, Darkseid, Jimmy, and near the end, Ray. GL is one of DC's strongest, most important titles right now, and Hal is the focus of that. Hell the current storyline is a retelling of Hal's origin story. If we're talking about going with current events, Hal Jordan is definitely the GL to go with.

Eh, not so sure about that. Hal's the number one GL these days considering it's him that the GL main series focuses on. Kyle's not really a solo/focal character anymore; I mean he's a main player in GLC, but that's really an ensemble book. If any GL is going to show up in MKvDC, it'll be either Hal Jordan or John Stewart. Hal because he's the main GL right now; John because he's more well known to non-comics DC fans who only really know the cartoons. I doubt they'd pick Roy over Ollie. Green Arrow is a classic hero; Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow isn't as well known. Wally over Barry I could definitely see.

Sorry, but seriously, what is hilarious about Aquaman? He's the fucking King of Atlantis and he's a goddamn badass fighter. He's got a hook for a hand, a trident, and a sword. I'm really tired of people crapping on Aquaman just because they watched Superfriends on Cartoon Network and think his super-power is talking to fish. And that's not an orange shirt he's wearing, it's orange SCALE MAIL armor. Aquaman will kick your ass. They would. DC is really trying to push Jaime's incarnation of the Blue Beetle. He's got his own title (which does well in trades), he's a regular in Teen Titans (though not as an official member), and he's showing up in Tiny Titans in July. He's also the version of Blue Beetle that's going to be in "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" animated series next year. Not that I'm complaining; I'm a huge Beetle fan.

I can't believe it took someone this long to actually make this point. Bravo Drack. Bravo.

No. Capcom hasn't had the Marvel license in years.

This isn't really the place to discuss this, but look at any review of a vocal or symphonic song by him; they're all tirades against the genres, not reviews of the songs, and the tone of these reviews is consistently abusive. Anyway let's get back on topic, shall we?

... Isn't it Dhsu?

Black text + dark gray background = unreadable. It's all so very low-contrast, and the stylized, messy font doesn't help.

Hey I finally bought it today. Steam's got a 33% off sale on TF2 this weekend. steamid: DarkeSword