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The original Independence Day is a fun 3-hour film by Roland Emmerich released in 1996, wherein aliens attack Earth, but are defeated by Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith using a computer virus. This is a big plot-hole in the theatrical release, but was apparently covered in deleted scenes. It was a little bit flawed, but well put together and really enjoyable. Now, 20 years later, we have a sequel. The story is that Earth has implemented alien technology into our own, essentially becoming something like X-Com. We have achieved world peace, have fusion drives, and an outpost on the moon. Since the first film, all of the aliens on Earth have been catatonic due to not having their leader controlling them (except for some in Africa, which hunted humans, because this film doesn't want to be consistent). All of the characters who were psychically assaulted by the aliens in the first film have been having visions and headaches, and think the aliens are coming back. They do, and thing...

Dear Amazon, At the time of writing I am filled with anger and frustration. You see, I am a fan of the Zero Escape games, and I was very much looking forward to the release of the third one: Zero Time Dilemma. As is usually the case with these, there was a special edition announced which included the game and a replica of the watches the characters wear within it, for no extra cost. As usual, it was only available in the US, evidently being a deal with amazon.com specifically. Since I had no indulged in the watches for the previous games, I decided to do so this time, especially as it is the last in the series. So I placed my pre-order for the PSVita version (as the Nintendo 3DS is region-locked) within hours of being able to do so, on June 25th 2015. As I live in the UK, I then proceeded to live the following year without visiting Amazon.com at all (instead visiting the .co.uk version, which has different data) during which time my credit card expired (but I was sent a repl...