We Don’t See You, Avatar: Hurt Locker Takes Best Picture

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by Robert Quigley | 12:16 am, March 8th, 2010

Well, the Avatar avalanche didn’t happen. Of the nine awards Avatar was nominated for, it only won three: Best Art Direction, Best Achievement in Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects.

The two juiciest prizes, Best Picture and Best Director, went to Avatar‘s Academy Award stalking-horse, The Hurt Locker, directed by James Cameron‘s deserving ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow.

It’s been an exciting night! We’ll have more Oscars thoughts and commentary tomorrow, when we get over our pain at District 9‘s snubbing.

aidriiyan

:( …. i wish avatar win…………….. anyway, its a win win for james cameron

A Beginner's Guide to Diablo III's Lore

Twelve years later, the third installment in the famous hack-and-slash franchise has finally released. Though the franchise is largely known for an inordinate amount of hacking and slashing, there's actually quite a bit of complex lore backing it up. Luckily for you, we have it summed up right here. Take a gander.

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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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Max "lily_tomlin_explosion.gif"
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Eric Limer André 300 http://t.co/4HX40AEk
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Max Lowest rating for the Antz soundtrack on http://t.co/l4iFAqyD is three stars and is titled "It did not meet all of my criteria."
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Eric Limer Spotify is great for listening to soundtracks of games with licensed music. There's playlists for everything. Now playing: Guitar Hero 2.
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James Plafke I think the next Bond movie, Skyfall, should be 2 hours of Bond falling through the sky, doing action and spy movie things.
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Eric Limer I swear Xbox Live is never not offering me 2 months of gold for $2. At that price, I kind of don't even mind the dirty, auto-renew trick.
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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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Max Pull up a loose tile in fifth avenue, discover a secret world populated by dogs that walk on hind legs and wear little waist coats.
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Max Legally changing my name to The Beachbummer
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James Plafke Just got home from a friend's, and now I'm eating Kix and reading about underwater phenomena on Wikipedia. #Saturday
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Eric Limer It's really a shame that writers spend so much of their time writing, which is -- coincidentally -- a very boring thing to write about.
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Eric Limer "Oh my god! That joke was so funny! I'm gonna pee your pants!"
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Max How to do a Thor voice: It's like a Kennedy trying to do Shakespeare, but less Bostony.
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Max I really sandals.
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Max Despite having an invitation from Cuba, I will be unable to attend "Battleship" in LA tonight.
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Eric Limer Cure for boredom: Start enough pet projects that you're procrastinating literally all the time. Suddenly, everything is fascinating!
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Max (exasperated horse noise)
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