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I've been here for about 5 years, which is a good quarter of my life. It's kind of hard to see where I'd be if I hadn't found this site. I'd probably have a lot of time in my hands so I did all the things I wanted to do, got through college quickly, found a great wife, and did my dream. Or I'd be dead. It's one of the two extremes. No in between.

Personally, ads have never bugged me and I can never see why people make such a fuss about it. When I watch something on Crunchy Roll, I like the ads because it gives me time to think about what I've seen, plus some time to check up on other things before the episode starts back up.

Granted, what I'm about to say is going to be a bit biased because I'm currently a writer/reviewer for a news site, so say what I take with a grain of salt.

I personally think ad blocker shouldn't be used for sites that people are making a living on, whether it be news blogging or providing entertainment. These people are making a living off of the ad revenue, just like how people go to their daily jobs. The only difference is that their job is to provide you with information, entertainment, or sometimes both. It is the money that also keeps the site running.

Ad blocker has it's place, but it definitely interferes with people who need those ads to be seen in order to make money. I don't get paid for what I do, but it is nice to know that there is an official domain for the site that I work on, and that my work is helping generate revenue to keep the site going.

And yes, there are some sites that are backed by major companies. One of my favorite sites, Spill, does movie audio reviews, and are owned by Hollywood.com. They are able to provide some money to them, along with ad money, but they aren't able to get everything. They had to do a special fundraiser for the video game section of the site in order to get their two reviewers to E3 this year. They made way over what they asked for and beyond, but they shouldn't have needed to ask for donations from their fans.

I like to support what I like, and in turn, I'm helping them make sure that they are still there to provide me entertainment. It's a give and take relationship between the consumer and the creator. It's a market that is still not all that explored, and is still new, so some people may think it's nothing, but it could soon cause certain places to make drastic changes.

Yep had to agree. Lots of potential in the beginning, but the idea of plot was completely thrown out of the window early on. just like SAO

Entry #5 won me with the enthusiasm.

Anyone guess how I spent my morning? :D

Spoiler

Honestly, I really loved this movie. I said it before with a friend, and I'll say it again, it was better than The Avengers (which I also love).

The Avengers and Iron Man 3 have a very tight script, great direction, awesome characters, and great battle sequences. The only thing that Iron Man 3 has over The Avengers that one me over is that IM3 has a lot of depth and heart to it. This isn't a movie about him fighting off more terrorists, or even about Tony Stark. It's a movie about all the relationships that Tony is involved with, especially with Pepper Pots. He is healing from all kinds of damage, especially the ones that keep him very emotionally distant.

With the Mandarin twist, I really thought that was clever. I was thrown off for only a second, but once I understood what was going on, it was perfect and what went with the film.

The sequences with the suits throughout the film were also very clever an innovative. When they show you summoning the suit to himself at the beginning of the film, many other movies would have had that be brought back up either at the climax or at the final battle. Here, it's used in almost every battle in tense moment. It's used for a lot of humor (which really works) and for a lot of tension.

The ending is what really made me love this film. Once something happens to Pepper, there was only one way to end the movie from that point forward. In a way, throughout the entire film, it was showing you that there was only one way the movie could end. Tony may like to do things on his own, but he has to realize that he needs to allow others to come into his life and embrace them in order to save him (physically and metaphorically).

Great movie in my opinion. Can't wait to see it again.[DOUBLEPOST=1368332143][/DOUBLEPOST]

I think that Iron Man did a better ending than The Dark Knight Rises; and it's the exact same ending.

Get Arkham City. Trust me.[DOUBLEPOST=1368304304][/DOUBLEPOST]

Now, now, he's probably just starting the game. Give it a few hours and he'll see...

I just want to give you the biggest hug right now.

What exactly did they do to find out which one was the "best"? Did it go by fan popularity alone, or was it out of quality. It feels like something is lost here.

And it seems like a lot of it is politics too. Again, I go on my rant about SAO (it's okay, but not great), but I really don't think it's an anime that deserves to be top 5 if it's based on quality. Fan popularity though is a different story.

I seriously hate you guys right now...