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I was kinda hoping the movie addressed the whole Tony Stark PTSD thing better. He had a nightmare, a few panic attacks (some for comedic value) and that’s about it. Suddenly, he’s fine fighting the main baddie without his suit on.

You also didn’t mention the ending. It felt horribly rushed in my opinion. Plus the whole taking-out-shrapnel-so-I-don’t-need-mini-arc-reactor-on-my-chest thing is frustrating! Isn’t the whole arc of Iron Man 2 ABOUT that chest piece of his? Realizing that he’s about to die due to slow poisoning, leads to him getting down and letting it all loose, then finding redemption in his father’s hidden message, developing a freaking proton collider in his house to create a new element for his chest piece. This is all negated when we realize at the end of this movie, “Hey, he could have gotten those shrapnel out in the first place!”. In Avengers, he also told Banner that the shrapnel is now a part of him, his curse like Banner’s rage, and he accepts that. Negated!

Overall, the movie is, like you mentioned, a good continuity of the Iron Man movie mythos. But the ending was atrocious!

@ Greg:

Yeah, the browser detection plugin is a bit out of date. I think the original author abandoned it, and I haven’t found anything to replace it yet. Maybe one day I will actually sit down and try to fix and make it detect mobile browsers properly. :P

@ Victoria:

Very true, but we still have an entire phase 2 of marvel movies to go culminating another Avengers movie. As sequels go, this is rather different: like a perpetual, evolving universe.

The good news is that this is the last stand-alone Iron Man as far as we know. Downey will still show up in Avengers 2 but he will probably be done with the franchise afterwards. My hope is that the Avengers will then become what it kinda was in the comics: a power group with more or less a revolving door policy. Old heros will retire and new heroes will be adopted into the movie-verse. The successful ones will be drafted into the bit Avengers film that will happen every few years…

Or the super-hero craze will die in a few years… Which seems kinda unlikely seeing how enduring these franchaises can be and how often they got adopted and rebooted even before Hollywood figured out just how much money and box office swelling power comic book enthusiasts (both past and present) actually have.

IMO, Robert Downey Jr.’s version of PTSD kinda sucked. The kid was horrible. Ah, and poor Guy Pierce – he’s now a Hollywood villain in dope makeup. His ‘early’ version in the movie was kinda Stephen King ‘the wicked years’. After that – just a boring douche. So, I didn’t like the movie much. I need to stop watching movies with number greater than 2 :)

Interesting. When I comment using my Android phone, it’s interpreted as Safari/Linux.

I asked that same question about the suit army to a co-worker, and he said it was because of the rubble covering the opening which the workers only later uncovered. if you’re struggling for an excuse to suspend disbelief, it works.

Warning: even though I was referenced as an authority on Emacs support for Python, I actually have little knowledge on this particular aspect of Emacs! Python is a language I haven’t studied at all so far. In fact, this article is now probably responsible for half my current Python knowledge.

I believe the recent versions of LyX do have in-line spelling error highlighting, but it is a mistake to use it. I am a big LyX user and I never turn this on because it is a productivity killer. Here’s why: When you are entering information, you want to focus 100% of you mind on the information you want to express. The very worst time to fix spelling errors is while you are in text entry mode. It is a major distraction and causes context switches between the real information you need to express in words and the exact spelling of those words.

The LyX batch spelling check is highly productive for several reasons, 100% focus on spelling, really accurate prediction of the correct word and outstanding single click ergonomics. Word users ask for inline spelling – software makers have to meet these requests, but smart people don’t have to use brain dead features.

since you’ve mentioned you want a stable OS that doesn’t update every 6 months, why don’t you just use Debian?

Hey man,

I read your review with interest, but I’d like to submit to you a review that I read on a french website, that has a completely different feeling about the game.
I tend to agree with him that the game is flawed from a bad gameplay design, which is in total contradiction with the story and artistic direction.

I took the liberty to translate it in english, here.

@ opensas:

Thank you sir, there are some good suggestions there. Bookmarked. :)

@ Karthik:

Yeah, as many people mentioned in this thread already both Gnome 3 and KDE 4 made some pretty radical design choices giving up performance and stability for glitz and glamour. Few years ago we had this big push in the Linux community to simplify, preatify and streamline… Which is good to a degree, but I think we might have went overboard with hit.

I used to love KDE. Back in the day it was the shit. Konqueror was a shitty web browser but a great file manager and I never understood why they replaced it with Dolphin which wasn’t as mature and had a fraction of the functionality.

Hell, Knoppix was a great utility distro back in the day but these days I find it barely usable because by default it loads with all the bullshit Compiz animations and transitions turned on. I used to use it all the time to recover files from dead machines, but it’s kinda annoying when you’re trying to rescue data from the windows partition and your file manager windows burst into flames and wobble as you move them around. :/