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I'd say that my limited exposure to Warhammer media paints a far more worrying and sustained fantasy world than steampunk does, and that Stross and his ilk are no different than goths moaning about how the popularity of the Twilight movies cheapens their original idea of listening to Sisters of Mercy albums in a frilly black dress while shouting at their mum to get dinner ready.

Leaving aside that reimagining the past as a fantasy world is essentially imaging how it could/should have been better rather than how great child labor was, if it's okay for the BBC to sweep the treatment of black people in a period setting under the carpet for cosy, critically-acclaimed adaptations of hormonal housewife lit-porn, then some people taking their own time and money to dress like cunts and play pretend about things that did not actually happen and are a fantasy doesn't bother me at all in the same way that seeing children play at being princesses or pirates doesn't because the former aren't going to grow up to die in a Parisian underpass and the latter aren't going to grow up to rape their way across the Caribbean and then die of skurvy.
As for the 'class' angle to it all, the whole point of cosplay is to produce elaborate costumes and preen like a peacock, and a cloth cap and string vest does not quite pass muster in that context in the same way huge goggles, ludicrous hats and deeply effeminate waistcoats do.  Thus it follows that if you're going to pretend to be the kind of character who dresses like that, it makes sense that they would have to be a person of means and not a penniless oik.

It's crashed on me at least five times in 35-odd hours (yes, I know) of play, twice during loading a new area, and one of those times it corrupted the autosave data so I lost about an hour and a half of gameplay.  Manually saving is thus a good idea now and then.  On more than one occasion certain characters skip ahead to later in the story and use dialogue that assumes you've met before or witnessed something plot-related together.  The odd character or object gets stuck in mid-air or inside walls/the ground, too.  Whatever your companions carry can end up disappearing from their inventory - tons of bugs in this.
I've also heard some 360 owners can't get the Confirmed Bachelor perk to work as advertised (it lets you have sex with other male characters to get free stuff from them).

No Ordinary Family is quite awful, probably because it takes itself very seriously despite not being internally consistent enough to even pass as a kids' show from the 1980s.

For instance: some guys rob a string of wedding receptions and steal one of the main characters' wedding rings, later one of them is caught at a robbery in progress while in possession of an automatic weapon and the wedding ring stolen from the earlier job, which the police correctly identify as stolen and return to the rightful owner yet the robber is not charged because there is not enough evidence.  Now... I am not a lawyer, but hundreds (probably thousands) of witnesses, actual physical evidence and being caught on the scene during an act of armed robbery with violence after one confirmed murder attempt does not strike me as circumstantial, and why does this guy even have this one single ring on his person after all this time?
Another episode has cops realising that the earth shaking was created by artificial means, yet no explanation is given as to how they reach this conclusion.  You may even ask why cops would be investigating an earthquake or how they would actually go about doing this, and the answer is: because a drug store was robbed during one.  I'm not even joking, cops investigate the earthquake because one robber used it as a distraction, then they come to the conclusion that it was an artificially created quake.
One character is bulletproof until a few minutes later when he just isn't, and then after that he is again, then he has super strength that allows him to jump onto or fall off of skyscrapers without injury, yet being pushed over by someone knocks him out cold, and super strength makes you run faster than speeding cars, apparently.

Aw, man, this show is just brutally stupid and derivative, so I can practically guarantee it will be a success.

Chase jumps between the gung-ho scenes and the simmering tension between characters a bit too abruptly for my liking, but the female lead has yet to burst into tears on a flimsy pretext, so it's at least got that going for it, even if other female-lead genre shows like the new Nikita or Lost Girl can boast the same thing.

If you like Burn Notice, the Glades is a decent murder of the week show in a similar vein and setting, but it's probably not good that I can't recall the name of a single character.

Despite a recommendation from a forum user, I had to give up on Burn Notice after three series (so it's not like I didn't give it a chance) when I realised it was the same plot every week: Michael is reluctant to take a job unless child abuse is involved, then he takes the case, the client worries a bit, the mark is convinced that the feds/mafia/investors are after him and is forced to do something drastic that gets him arrested/kidnapped by the mafia, and all the while Bruce Campbell fails to get on with Michael's malnourished girlfriend and her wandering Irish accent and/or Michael outsmarts some low-level CIA stooge to get information on the person who burned him in a B-plot - the new person who burned him, mind, and not the one he already found or the one he found after that and then walked away from

This is literally what happens in every episode, usually bolstered with the Burn Notice drinking game where you take a drink every time the main character starts a sentence with "being a spy is a bit like being a (insert random occupation here)."  It's not actually terrible or anything, it's just that there doesn't seem to be any point in watching more of it by the time you've seen series one and two.

If you liked Castle, Mike, it might be worth giving White Collar a look.  Detroit 187 is a new copper drama that can't quite decide if it wants to be the Shield or Hill Street Blues and it shows at times, but it's worth a gander, as is Boardwalk Empire, a prohibition-era drama starring Steve Buscemi.
Blue Bloods is also worth a look if you like car crash television: starts out as gritty drama before inexplicably dropping in a plot about a secret society of cops and then Tom Selleck mopes about while shagging hot birds half his age and then looking grumpy while being everyone's fair-minded uncle.  It's bad tv in a good way, unlike something like Law and Order: Los Angeles, which somehow managed to do an episode telling us how the US military's secret trials of terror suspects don't go far enough, an episode that opens with the death of two young children in a drug lab explosion, followed by their mother utterly losing her shit while the two main leads crack jokes over her dead kids' charred corpses, whose deaths eventually turn out to be her fault because she's an adulteress.  A hateful, hateful television series spun off from an equally adolescent and myopic franchise.

You get a suite in casino 38 where you can stash your stuff.  I'm not sure, but those Courier bins dotted about might be safe for storage, or alternatively you can find Ed-E in the workshop in Primm (one of the first towns you'll need to visit on your storyline quest): he can carry a crapload of stuff and never dies unless you've got the game on Hardcore Mode, so it's worth taking the time to either level up to the point you can repair him without using parts, or scrounging for the parts you need to get him working.

Dr Who does just fine with recasting and I don't see why this should be any different given how utterly ludicrous it is, but that is terrible news about the actor's battle with cancer.

Cast replacements are always cause for much amusement as they're usually producers replacing younger actresses with those old enough to do lads' mags appearances (God bless you, Hollyoaks, and all who sail on your Jamie Bulger storyline), but this one's a sickener through and through.

I'm just throwing this out there, but maybe Jaimie Foxx is a box office draw.

I assumed from the thread title this was just a personal attack on the actor.  I won't lie - I am slightly disappointed that it is not.

Would love a few pointers DL stuff online to HD.

Quite easy, actually: open the PS3 web browser and find a site that allows you to direct download their video files - there are loads of them, usually blogs or places like Stagevu - then put the cursor over the 'download' option and press triangle on the PS3 pad, then choose 'file' from the menu, then 'save target' and save the video direct to your hard drive (although a thing about Stagevu files to know is that they download with names that appear as random letters and numbers in your PS3 video media, but you can rename by clicking triangle on the file while it's on your HD, going down to 'information', then highlighting the name of the file and pressing X to name it whatever you want).

Of course, you should only download the public domain stuff - that goes without saying.  Piracy is evil and funds pedophile terrorist drug slavers.

I'm sure the makers are gutted that this has happened - who on Earth would want great word of mouth buzz prior to the show premiering?  I'm sure they're scratching their heads trying to figure out how it got leaked...

The thing about preair pilots, though (and the preair is what's what's doing the rounds on torrents), is that often they have scenes missing that only appear in the transmitted version, or some scenes are reshot, recut, soundtracks can change, and even parts recast, so it's still worth checking out the proper premiere just in case.

The Walking Dead pilot is really good.  The slow pace works better in television form, as does the big chunks of dialogue that often made the comic look like a typewriter had vomited on a page, but with the moving image format a lot of the comic's omnipresent verbal diarrhea is both unnecessary and thankfully absent - actors do the work with body language that previously would have necessitated a couple of thousand words.  The zombies are good, and there's a great "holy fuck" moment in Atlanta where Egg Rick is chasing a helicopter, turns a corner, and then you see that while the walkers don't run like in 28 Days Later, they sure can shift when they're onto something.  It's wonderfully bleak and atmospheric in a way I don't think came across too well in the comic, too.
It's easily one of the highlights of the current season of new shows, and gives a lot of credence to those saying HBO is slowly being usurped as the home of must-see new television.

I came to this cold and thought it was really good.  Some minor niggles about the context-sensitive nature of the platforming, dodgy collision detection and overly-easy gameplay aside, it's a neat riff on Uncharted by way of a very Euro-sensibility post-apocalyptic setting and story.  Reminded me in a good way of the Jak and Daxter platformers.

It really is just for a throwaway joke- no need to think to hard, fellas!

And here we are on page 2 already.

All this nerdery surely has no place on a comics forum?

It'll take something exceptional to stop me playing the hell out of this - it will literally have to set the PS3 on fire or take a shit on my floor every time I turn it on.

The technical issues do not scare me off as we'll see a download patch for a lot of them within a week or two just like we did with Fallout 3, but even the stuff that isn't fixed won't deter me: autosave is your friend.