That was so fake

When I visited Tokyo, those crows [look more like ravens] were one of the coolest unexpected attractions. They're all over the parks and they're very smart.

Yeah, but still, he's literally laying on top of their home.

I've been to a very popular park lake which had a beaver family and they were somewhat used to the teeming tourists (and their dogs), but not at all to this degree.

What B.S. The health risks of diet colas are very tenuous. And the health risks of normal colas are pretty much the same as any other sugary treat. Even then, there's very little evidence that sugary treats are linked to insulin resistance. Obesity is linked to insulin resistance, though.

Pools are well-regulated. There are guidelines on access control and insurance liability. It would be good if guns had more regulation than swimming pools. Guns aren't just a risk to your family (and statistically, they are a MASSIVE risk to you family), they are a risk to everyone. It's hard to take a concealed swimming pool into a movie theater and drown everyone.

Anyway, nobody is trying to take away your guns. Although I wouldn't really be opposed to it (e.g. I'd be happy living in one of the many peaceful nations with strict gun control laws). I've been hunting and skeet shooting a handful of times and I think it's fair to say that long rifles and shotguns are a part of American culture for a hundred plus years. But I wouldn't care if all semi-automatic handguns and rifles were banned.

This is an awesome premise.

There must be a tvtropes section for this premise, but I can't really think of an analogous situation where a designer gives intentionally ridiculous specifications for a creative project to try and frustrate a director / artist / engineer.

Edit: the closest trope I've found: Reassigned to Antarctica. Not a perfect fit, though:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReassignedToAntarctica

But we don't buy pools to try and prevent drowning.

This is marked with viral. Is it real or not? I want to downvote it if it's fake.

That is a salient point -- his victories would be diminished if he were the only guy on drugs, but since they were ALL on drugs... well, maybe his victory is still impressive.

Wouldn't that make a huge mess of the undercarriage?

Also, it looked pretty dangerous.

I'm impressed with his braking technique!

If you listen to the director's commentary (I saw him talk at Siggraph 2012), he basically agrees with you up until the point where he quits his job. The director says that the main character is being a wimp and hasn't done anything to deserve the woman until he shows the courage to really go after her.

Of course, that's just the fairy tale logic. Yes it's a bit stalkerish and impulsive.

Maybe it's in the "uncanny valley" of CGI trailers where it almost COULD be gameplay, thus it's more frustrating. The WoW trailers are so completely unrelated from the actual gameplay that it doesn't even make me think of the gameplay.

I'd like to think that some more dramatic scale variations are possible with mousewheel zoom. Heck, even if visual scale doesn't change so much, economic and gameplay scale COULD. What if a battlecruiser took 3000 minerals, 1500 gas, 30 pop, and had a corresponding level of ass kicking?

This cinematic is amazing, technically, although it is sort of frustrating when you then have to go play the ACTUAL game and:
(1) Units are nearly the same size, there's not this epic scale difference between battlecruisers and marines.
(2) You have a pop limit of 200, so you probably don't have more than 60 or 70 office units charging in, not the thousands shown here.
(3) Ultralisks can't actually step on things and squish them
(4) Nydus canals can't actually pop up in battles and be useful, because they're made of wet tissue paper.
(5) Things aren't so amazingly beautiful.

I'm being nitpicky, but the cinematic is great and it kind of makes you think "wow, that WOULD be a cool game" and then you have to go and play SC2, which admittedly is still a very, very well designed game.

Such terrible, terrible acting. Can't you fool us for the first 10 seconds of the video, at least? You probably spent 5x as much on the cg bear as the actors.