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I read the Riverwold series of books but not this one. I read those books back in High School. 

Iced Earth is one of my favorite bands right now. Ever since I heard Pure Evil in the Brutal Legend game. Thanks Double Fine!

It would be foolish to let a good idea go just for originality sake.

I'm seeing now only 16 new Swap Force figures. I'm not sure what I read on the back of the starter pack about 55 plus figures. Maybe that includes the figures for the previous games. So that means it's only $235 for the starter pack with 3 figures on Wii and the 13 other figures sold individually (add $30 for the 360 or PS3 starter pack). There seems to be like 221 figures total from all the games combined. Now that would be thousands of dollars.

They also have the Mario games. They have Mario Kart and Super Mario Bros. for the DS, but the talk is all about Minecraft and some Angry Birds. They all seem to play in creative mode and make up their own worlds and gameplay with their friends. This seems sort of ungamer-like to me because there's very little challenge involved. It's all just sandbox messing around. It's like a virtual playground.

I played the Xbox 360 version until I had all the basic achievements and then got bored with just creating stuff. I need some goals on top of messing around in an open world to keep my interest.

Neat. I'm at the northern part of the state really close to the Virginia border. I actually drove up the beach once and crossed over when I had my four-wheel drive vehicle. I wish I could do that again. Economy cars just can't cut it off road.

I played the Lego Star War Complete Saga this year and it was awesome. I got all 1000 achievements points in about sixty hours of gameplay and never got bored. I noticed how closely the lego games followed the properties they copied with Lego LOTRs, but this is apparently their standard approach to all their games. It's pretty cool.

There was a slight nod to that somewhere in Thor: The Dark World. My friend pointed it out, I forget where. He was dismissive of it but I always loved the sound design in Phantom Menace. The only thing Phantom Menace lacks is a strong story and characters. I kind of felt similarly about Thor: The Dark World. The fact that Natalie Portman is in both enhanced that feeling.

If you think about the Original Star Trek series, Into the Darkness really adds a lot of confident and strong females. Yes none of them pilot a starship and the men are still in all the leadership positions, but this is the early days of Starfleet. The movie updates the sexual politics of the sixties to match today's world, but some say it's not enough. Well, everyone wants to be Kirk, even the women, because he's in a position of power. Fine, be that way. But being in a position of power isn't everything. I would be very disappointed to see women start playing the roles of men and acting in exactly the same way in media. I hope women bring something new, some unique perspective like what they tried with Voyager before 6 of 9 brought it right back to eye candy for males. I'm tired of brotastic, power trip heroes full of braggadacio. I say, flush 'em down the toilet no matter who plays them.

I think Ripley from Alien/Aliens is still one of the best female leads. She's strong but still a woman unlike Vasquez who's clearly just trying to have the biggest balls. 

Cool. I hope to see more of these live feeds here at Pixlbit.