Hopefully the presentation will improve over time, but for now I'm just going to jump right in with this first blog post and go from there! I've always preferred jumping into the deep end over the "baby steps to adjust to the water" approach, so let's just go with that for today.

Movies and games are two big focuses of this blog, and currently each field is being dominated by a single juggernaut - Avengers and Diablo III respectively.... but you knew that.

As of this writing, Avengers has pulled in $476 million in the U.S.,  $1.2 billion worldwide, and is currently the fourth-highest grossing movie of all time. That's not counting for inflation, but still quite impressive. Unfortunately I doubt it's going to pass up Avatar, but hey, that's what the inevitable sequel is for. One of my favorite lines was undoubtedly this exchange.

                                                     (see a few more of these at vitamin-ha)

It's hard to pick just one funny moment from a movie filled with them (which should be no surprise considering Joss Whedon and all the other talent behind it) but I really wasn't anticipating the Hulk being such a hit. Who's your favorite Avenger?

And then there's Diablo 3. Launch issues and controversy over the DRM aside, (as well as the reportedly short campaign) Diablo 3 has destroyed all sorts of PC game sales records, so clearly these things aren't that big of an issue for millions of people. 

I have yet to get it, but I'm sure I will eventually. Maybe whenever Blizzard gets around to patching in the postponed real-money auction house.