"Choose Your Own Adventure"

For the past thirty years movie critic Roger Ebert has been the last word in box quotes. He can literally bite his thumb at you and make-or-break your film. So in 2010, when he came out on the Chicago Sun-Times blog and declared that video games could never be art, you can imagine the schism that followed within the nerd community.

Now, I realize that geeks and games have always been synonymous. The two share an almost symbiotic relationship in the cultural development of untold millions of adolescent young boys and girls the world over, myself included.

Film buffs are a different story.

Poll Results, June-Sep2010

    A rough patch of consistent posting balances out with an equal amount of Poll neglect. While we usually relish in at least two polls a month, we tried to stretch out the durations for a bit more votes and time and excuses. We've got two new up now, and depending on how the ballots fall, we may be able to return to our preferred schedule here. We'll see, but for now check out the last four completed polls with a little commentary after the jump:

{Music Musings} Songs that Auto-Complete

    What an age we live in. The answers to your questions can be found with the tip of your fingertips and a handy connection to Google. From the stupidly simple to the obscenely obscure. Heck, even the irrelevant, absurd, and unanswerable bring answers. Well, uh... results at least.