How amazing and beautiful is that?

Not just on a surface level, although the sheer spectacle is still wondrous to behold.

But the *engineering behind it, the ambition, the unbelievable cajones on the three guys sitting atop a giant missile, the co-operation of basically an entire nation working to build something to advance the frontiers of humanity.... damn, I get teary-eyed just watching it.

Even if the motivations were ultimately political (beating those pesky reds!), sometimes we can still do the right thing for the wrong reasons.

*doublepromote one of mankind's finest hours.

The Up montage should have been higher.

That destroyed me when I watched it. Taken on its own as a short film, it would be Pixar's finest hour.

Yahtzee falls into the same trap a lot of people seem to be falling into, being completely ignorant of how people act when society crumbles. He judges everyone and everything in this game for how they act, like murdering desperate fuckholes, when everythings gone to hell. Why not do some research, read about what happens during a genocide or a warzone. Maybe he thinks that like people are taught in school that WW2 bombed out London was the citizens finest hour where they all pulled together, when in actuality it was swarming with criminals and yes murder.

I can understand the judgments of this game being predictable, it really is but that didn't bother me. What bothers me is people not thinking about what they would be prepared to do if the chips were down. When you're being attacked from all sides you put the biggest bastard psychopath in charge if he can get you out of it. If it's just you, YOU become that psychopath bastard. It's why Joel was still alive in that world for 20 years, how do people think you survive in such a world?

Around 5:45 Julian says that free-form strategy games cannot guarantee that the player will always have something interesting to do, and that, in his view at least, you couldn't get away with that sort of game anymore today.

Paradox Interactive with their Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis and Victoria franchises are still up and running. Hearts of Iron 3, in particular, seems more popular than ever, after the release of the third add-on, "Their Finest Hour". And if anything, HOI3 is even more of a sandbox than the original XCOM.

Similarly, Bohemia Interactive's Arma series as a comparable counterpart in the field of first person shooters is gaining massive popularity as well, even though it incorporates extensive "downtimes" for players.

You can't churn out annual iterations and expect AAA-rate numbers of sold copies, but the community is still large enough to warrent a couple of these franchises.

Patton Oswalt – Finest Hour on @Spotify
http://open.spotify.com/album/3qqkn0pwEYDDmvmKgtOUt4

Truly awesome.

The high has definitely worn off for applauded comments, probably because you're right: You start feeling like a low-rent clown.
When you're bored with your own brand of humor, it may be time to move on. I guess the plebeians will have to settle for blankfist. I hope they like rape jokes.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
As you know, the high of appreciated comments lessens and shortens. Next thing you know, you have to get 3 or 4 a week to be content. Finally you realize that you've become nothing more than a low-rent clown...a mere puppet of the plebeians.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
This was your finest hour. Now you're all washed up.
Welcome to the club.

>> ^rottenseed:

As you know, the high of appreciated comments lessens and shortens. Next thing you know, you have to get 3 or 4 a week to be content. Finally you realize that you've become nothing more than a low-rent clown...a mere puppet of the plebeians.
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
This was your finest hour. Now you're all washed up.
Welcome to the club.


And he should know!

As you know, the high of appreciated comments lessens and shortens. Next thing you know, you have to get 3 or 4 a week to be content. Finally you realize that you've become nothing more than a low-rent clown...a mere puppet of the plebeians.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
This was your finest hour. Now you're all washed up.
Welcome to the club.

This was your finest hour. Now you're all washed up.
Welcome to the club.

John Stewart's finest hour since the Jim Cramer fiasco.

Dan's Finest Hour - he plays an awesome straight man. This whole clip is just pure genius.

Alarmist much?

>> ^Irishman:
ONLY American pressure will end this genocide, as it did in Lebanon.
If Americans think that the world is angry about Bush, just you wait and see what the world will think of America if Obama doesn't condemn this and stop funding and supporting the Israeli military machine.
This is about rolling tanks into a country and slaughtering civilians, women, kids, babies. Those tanks were bought and paid for with American dollars. It's genocide and people around the world are sickened to their stomachs and are taking to the streets in protest.
This will either be America's finest hour or it will be the beginning of an almighty holocaust in the middle east.

ONLY American pressure will end this genocide, as it did in Lebanon.

If Americans think that the world is angry about Bush, just you wait and see what the world will think of America if Obama doesn't condemn this and stop funding and supporting the Israeli military machine.

This is about rolling tanks into a country and slaughtering civilians, women, kids, babies. Those tanks were bought and paid for with American dollars. It's genocide and people around the world are sickened to their stomachs and are taking to the streets in protest.

This will either be America's finest hour or it will be the beginning of an almighty holocaust in the middle east.

It will end up like Lebanon *only* with massive pressure put on Israel from the US. This would be Obama's finest hour if he did it, and the American people should be in the streets in support of Palestine just like the British and Irish people are to make it happen.

I think the same thing whilst watching the tools mentioned above....and, similarly, when I read some of your comments, theo47....ain't life paradise?

But seriously, what contributions do assholes like Jon and Bill, really make, to their mediums, or to towards the correcting of the ills of the shit they lampoon?? Lemme answer it so there is no confusion-

Dick. But, they do help to produce the next generation, of ineffectual, sarcastic, cogs, to give the world less and less meaning, daily.

The writers are spinning for the politicians, to ensure they same, business -as-usual, witha new wrapper.

And the sheeple? They gobble it up it like happy meals.

I wish they'd use some just one, of the goddamn state of the union address' I have sent. It would go down in History as Bush's finest hour....problem is, he has no balls, to back up the surname. And Hillary??? Fuck, that vampiric, soul-sucking slut's head would asplode!