Yeah that was surprisingly fun to watch. I like how rough it was. Nice.

Oh, right, Outlaws!

Wow, we did a 3 day LAN party just for that game. It was surprisingly fun multiplayer.

My vote for best film I saw this year was Dredd. Proof you can make an engaging, exciting action film which makes sense and has a strong protagonist without it being three hours long.

In the year I decided to return to the cinema I rarely saw anything that was really exciting or elevating. But I was surprised how dull and bloated some of the blockbusters turned out. Prometheus followed by Dark Knight were my main disappointments.

I saw some older films. Salt with Angelina Jolie was surprisingly fun. The Proposition with Guy Pearce is an outstanding Aussie Western which does bring me back to Django - it probably isn't as funny but I'll bet it's more powerful. It even survives having Ray Winstone.

These videos are surprisingly fun to watch. Must be the sadist in me.

PC games, although lately I find it hard to justify the waste of time. Not because I'm particularly busy, but simply because games nowadays seem too boring to play. I loved old-style western RPGs - started with Baldur's gate, but I think Planescape was my favourite, and I really liked Arcanum as well, despite its flaws. Played the usual Quakes etc. of course, but around Quake II it started to get a bit old and I never got into the Unreal Tournament and quake III side of things. I think the last game I really got into was Battlefield 2, but that kind of died down after a while - the gameplay got repetitive, people got routines, it just got boring. Played TF2 a bit, appreciate the design, and it's fun, but somehow I can't bring myself to start the game up. I liked Oblivion, although the writing is terrible, the art is uninspired and the gameplay is somewhat clunky. It was free enough. Mostly I play Armed Assault 2 now, or a heavily modded version anyway, in co-op with a bunch of people.

Mass Effect was mentioned here, I played it, hated it. The story is something dug up out of a pile of discarded B-scifi scripts, the gameplay is repetitive and the design is generic. I thought Bioshock looked ugly, they butchered the art nouveau aesthetic by making it too clunky and thick-set. Crysis was actually surprisingly fun for what it was, although too long considering the gameplay remained the same throughout.

I've really enjoyed the Telltale episodics - Sam & Max started out quite good and got brilliant on the 2nd season. The Monkey Island games look promising, the first episode was decent enough. New ep should be out soon...

I like the format for this show. I didn't think I would but it was surprisingly fun. Just a chat with a very personable star, good stuff.

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That is surprisingly fun to say.

Wow, I almost didn't watch this, but then I saw "schadenfreude" as a tag and had to ... upvote for surprisingly fun (and well produced!) video, well-synched TMBG soundtrack, and, of course, wonderful schadenfreude.