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Wow, I thought X06 was pretty solid, decent at worst. Lighten up...

Hahaha. I thought Joystiq was all about professionalism lately, this is no where near that but I definitely enjoyed every pic - thanks!

Definitely Alien Hominid - from Newgrounds to BestBuy usually guarantees gold.

PLZZZZZZZZZ chill out a bit. Twas teh suck, but it twas yesterday - the news world moves fast, things like this don’t deserve Crucible-worthy-rallies. Guess what, somewhere in the world right now, in probably 100 different countries all at once, a group of people are dying for reasons you probably are adamantly against, yet do not know. Those situations deserve our collective uproar, but they rarely get them. You owe it to yourself to use the news (whether it be crappy TV news, youtube and digg, or even your own random net surfing) to find stuff you believe in, and to fight for or against it if it’s worth fighting for.

If one lousy blog post deserves your crusade of condemning, then so be it, but can’t you find something better to bitch about? i can - the fact that there’s no fucking ice cream in my freezer right now, what an atrocity!

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!!

I agree with derunt!

I think that cars that run on tracks is a much more convenient way of handling it, and doing the risky - handing over the keys to the government. far less car accidents - none of which are DUIs - and the cars would run on hella expensive energy terminals under the road which feed the car through the tracks they run on. Bye gas, by meaningless deaths, hello taxes doubling. I'm up for it, who's with me!

Nice pic!

I apologize if this has already been suggested (and also for how the long the comment will be), but your site has received a ton of emails apparently, and comments too, and I do not have time to read all 170+ comments. I hope you enjoy my idea..... Movie Business Challenge... Look at Nintendo's Wii - Nintendo knows people like interacting with games but it is about to push it to the limit with their new controller. I'm not saying every seat in the movie theatre should get a headset and controller to interact with the movie by controlling the camera (movie would have to be filmed in a reallly expensive camera) - that idea has been proposed long ago and it still seems too complicated and money inneficient for the returned revenue it would probably achieve. However, combine this idea with one of the most desired things in the game industry right now: Non-linear paths through a game and/or different endings to replay the game for. When you combine those 2 ideas to movies you now have a movie that could, yes, cost twice as much to film to set up 2 or more different endings - but to be honest plenty of movies already have different endings every year, whether it be on accident or not. Offering different movie endings to people AS they are watching the movie would shock and awe the world and get everyone back into movie theatres - not just once, but easily 2 or 3 sittings per movie. So how do you handle non-linear movie paths? Simple.. Every movie more or less uses the proven 3 act setup, so the first movie to start this new style of movie entertainment could easily just get away with having Acts 1 and 2 written in stone, with an Act 3 that the movie audience chooses. How do they choose? Well you could bring back intermissions for a 3 minute pause to let everyone vote via a machine built into the armrests. Would cost a heck of a lot of money though to spread these gizmo armrests around the nation but it would totally be worth it I think. But there is another major con to this argument - it will kill the momentum of the movie, something which can add to the movie in some cases, but usually just detracts from the movie as a whole. However, if this choice occurred right before the climax it would help build up tension to the max as everyone votes in hopes that the rest of the audience votes the same way they do. Could work extremely well. Then they want to come back and pay to see the other ending. And when the movie goes to DVD? Every dDVD player comes with a remote - having a popup interface asking for which ending they desire wouldn't be a big hastle at all. I know this interactivity and interface idea is very new to the world of entertainment, even though video games have been around for over 20 years now. But times are changing once again and people are really starting to assimilate the youth's belief in new ways of doing things since computers are slowly outgrowing our grandparents in age. I'll even offer a few examples of how it could work really well in the next paragraph, followed by an entirely different way of doing the same thing without an electronic audience vote. The most sensible thing would be crafting a movie plot that boils down to a climax where the main character must choose between saving his or her loved one, or (you guessed it!) the entire world! Wanna try it on a stupid summer horror movie that all the teens will want to see? The climax could boil down to the main character hot adolescent lady being trapped in her house with the killer inside. For once the audience could finally choose whether she decides to hide in a closet, run down to the basement, or [insert other stupid idea]. Knockoff epic LOTR adventure movie in theatres in 2011? Give the audience the choice of having him go through the mines of moria or around the mountains into the dangerous dark woods filled with more minions that await. This would let movie makers spend an extra few million for 'hidden' scenes, but would hopefully get people to pay for the movie again just to see the one scene. So many different possiblities on how to use this idea. You could even have it be introduced 5 minutes into the movie when the astute main character girl meets the jerk of an arrogant guy that will screw her life up in the next 2 hours. He asks for your phone number even though you don't know his name - but hey he just saved your dog and he looks cute - do you give him your number or not? Audience says yes and you go home and sleep with the guy only to find out he's the boss of the new job you just got hired for. Awkward... Say no and he becomes disgusted and when he sees you at the office the next day he then makes the job a living nightmare for you. 2 movies in one, both could be filmed for under 60 million, and I would pay to see both once or twice even though these crappy movies come out once every 2 or 3 years. SO MANY POSSIBILITIES! Too revolutionary and impractical for your moneys worth? Ok - how about you try adding a little Rocky Horror Picture Show to the mix of movies. The cigarette burns in the upper-right corner of the film screen tell some high schooler in the back of the movie theatre to switch the movie reels right? Just have 2 different movie reels for Act 3 of the movie with the understanding(thanks to commercial and poster promotion) that when the movie pauses at the theatre after a certain big question is introduced to the main character, that you are to stand up and shout what you want the hero to do. Whoever wants their ending more will easily let the high schooler in the back which reel to put on thanks to the lungs of the audience that just payed 8 bucks for a movie they can control. Lots of possibilities. I'm sure the first people to do it could patent the movie the gizmo-voting chair device, pay to put them in every theatre, and then charge movie studios to use this feature in their movies - giving the first movie studio to do it a small percentage of every movie that goes through the movie theatres. Thanks for your time, Tom Fronczak

Thanks for the shout out - we appreciate it!

Well, for what it's worth Sabre - I help post for the Destructoid page and I'm in college for a degree in Game Art and Design. I'm one year away from graduating, but I realize a degree in something doesn't make you an automatic professional in that field.

But as far as I know about the other few guys that run the site - it wasn't made exclusively for a free ride to E3 - it's part of a chain of DoubleViking.com websites. I was skeptic, but when you have a few hardcore video game fans with decades of gaming blisters to boast running a presentable website, then the only thing separating them from the staff at IGN is their paychecks (which is pretty much whatever the IGN staff makes minus all of it).

It all comes down to what Niero already said - our website isn't ment to look or feel professional - it's run by hardcore gamers with a similar audience. As far as E3 goes, we were just kicking back with the rest of the best, and trying to help fill in the rest of the world of what E3's really like. You can only hit refresh on IGN.com or GameTrailers.com so much before you crave something else - something new and fresh. And that's us.

And P.S. - E3 is hardly for 'industry professionals' - we all know E3 is nothing compared to the GDC.