I think the problem is that, much like PC gaming, there's a few shit-laden genres that overshadow everything else in sales, marketing, etc: romantic comedies, explodorama action movies, stupid guys acting stupid and calling it comedy, tear-jerker everyone-dies-including-the-dog Oscar bait, and kids movies that are even more derivative than any of the adult categories, if not outright sequels. Sure, you get stuff like your list, but except for LoTR, none of those really got the big marketing push.

Raspberry Pi B-model: $35 NAS/Seedbox containing torrented H.264 movies: ~$100 46" 1920x1080p TV: ~$500 So, for the price of six or seven nights out, you can get a home theater setup and all the movies you want, with no recurring costs save your electricity and internet bills.

Seriously. It's part of the panel, and says "Activities" in large bold font. GP is blind, stupid, or trolling.

Not anymore, you can't! -- the GOP

You're right, something does need to be said:
Achievement Unlocked: 130/5 kill-to-death ratio

Is anyone actually using pure HTML5 to write applications? I thought HTML5 was just an upgrade to the markup that included a few neat tricks like video tags, and the heavy lifting was done by JS, Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, C, C++, etc.

1. Optimization is never over. JavaScript is ridiculously fast now compared to 2005.
2. Cry more, faggot. Nobody's entitled to a particular business model.
3. HTML5 is a standard FOR DISPLAYING WEB PAGES. What a SHOCK and OUTRAGE it is that you need a web browser for that!
4. At least there is a standard...

PC gaming sucks. No, seriously, it's complete dogshit. Every time - literally every time - I've tried installing big-name titles on the machine I had when they came out, I've had massive headaches with drivers, misleading system requirements, or just random reboots in the middle of a level (looking at you, Halo). With my 360, Wii, DS, or even my old N64, I insert the game, power up the console, turn on the TV, and I can play. It Just Works(tm). I used Windows exclusively from 3.1 to Vista, and I still keep a Windows 7 partition on my laptop, on the off chance there is literally no way to do some college-required thing in Linux, but the only reasons I've booted it up, ever, were to download and burn a Debian iso, and to periodically let Windows Update spend an hour patching. GNOME 3 with a good selection of graphical and console-mode applications is miles ahead of Windows 7 for me, personally. I don't need Linux to take over the world, or even attract a lot of proprietary software developers. Just give me fully functional hardware, and I'm happy.

That sounds like Debian, Gentoo, or NetBSD.

I was using GNOME 3.2 on my netbook quite happily... and then I decided to connect a second monitor. Turns out that all that shiny compositing doesn't do well with a second monitor at 1680x1050 - it was garbling so badly I thought it was an Xorg issue. Even when I want to log in to Fluxbox, it mysteriously fails to start. I ended up just setting the default runlevel to 3, or whatever the fancy-pants sytemd equivalent is.

1-3 laptops, 0-2 smartphones, a Nintendo DS, a Sheevaplug server (Debian Squeeze), and the router/AP.

probably using the -pipe CFLAG.

I lived through six months of a cult-camp run by people who fully believed in Waldorf schools, were high-ranking members of the Avatar cult (Scientology fork), and kept their son's placenta in a chest freezer in the garage - the same freezer where they stored food. I didn't think they could get any nuttier, but this just raised the bar by an order of magnitude. I smelled a rat when they talked about not teaching kids to read before 8 or so, but this is ridiculous.

They're going to mine the shit out of the Spratlys and drill for oil - supposedly there's a huge reserve under there.

Did you notice how the sides break down nicely along Vorlon/Shadow lines? "The media asks, "What do you want?" The protestors prefer to answer the question, "Who are you?"