TomFooligans's discussions

I'm sorry, but this is too funny. I just flashed back to every Chinese knock-off robot toy I ever owned, as well as every Chinese knock-off product I've ever seen in a shop, or on the blogs...it's so...China. I mean why isn't the Chinese flag just a Japanese flag with inverted colors? That is the true spirit of… Read more

Thanks for the heads-up on Eden. Having a worthless Acer netbook, I cannot run Minecraft. so this is a wonderful way for me to enjoy the block-building type of game until I can afford a real computer. Read more

@ChadCalhoun: Yeah...problem is, every time one game is successful, you get three types of controls in games which follow it: Read more

It's...beautiful... Read more

@WannaGoBowling: I'll go ahead and offer this challenge to the 'identity' you mentioned: Halo was the exact same way. You were a Halo player and your girlfriend hated you for it; you played LANs, you played Xbox Live...but if you (hypothetical you, not necessarily YOU you, as I don't know you) were like me, it became… Read more

Engines aside, the difference between DICE FPS games and IW/Treyarch games is, in my opinion, in the quick and reflexive, and intuitive way the latter are controlled. I have never played a Battlefield game which did not feel sluggish, or which had a control scheme I enjoyed. I bought BF 1943 on XBLA, played it… Read more

Wow, that's actually very impressive. So far no Android phone has made me consider leaving iOS4, but man...that think is silky smooth, and the PSPgo-style control pad looks great. Read more

PETA can neither take a joke, nor leave meat eaters' dishes alone. I have no care to tell PETA what they can, or should eat; why must they insist on mocking other people for dietary preferences? My girlfriend is a vegetarian, and she PETA'd me by cluing me in on how chicken nuggets are made. I was much happier just… Read more

That game was addictive as hell. I started a new campaign after I beat it, and thought, "okay, this formula will get tired in 5 minutes..." and three hours later, I was still playing. Didn't you hear? Intendro is releasing a new console! Let's go to the show quickly and see! Read more

Anyone else see a phallus on that boxart? Read more

NixNada made me laugh out loud. Thank you, double-N. Read more

I like that Treyarch is perturbed by the same things which perturb me. Glitching your clan tag green is like making sure you're the only guy in every lobby who's "already on his nth prestige". This same mentality drives 15 year olds to get mohawks and 30 year olds to put cheap flame graphics on their cars. They… Read more

Trying to be helpful here, not rude, but the article states: " We recently found evidence of oxygen on Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede, and now this finding on Europa" when it ought to say Rhea. Read more

@Grimwolf: Kotaku has recently been sharing daily science posts, and this one is actually re-posted from io9. Read more

@Brandon Cassata: And I should say you were the only one to which I replied; three is the magic number to get my attention :p Read more

@Brandon Cassata: Neither did I, and no you did not. Read more

I love Thornton, so I'll try to be polite about this, but he does not know what he is talking about. The entire horror genre has generally been built on the suffering of the protagonists at the hand of the villain, who is usually corrupt beyond remorse, and who more than a small amount of the time, gets away with it… Read more

I remember when Psychonauts hit Steam back in the day. I know the idea is, "PC games get pirated and no one buys them anymore no matter how good they are," but Steam really does have some sass to throw back at that sort of mentality, because they sell shit dirt cheap all year, and I'd like to think that encourages… Read more

@Brandon Cassata: I got three comments to this effect, and I must say either everyone was trying to be too liberal with my words, or I did not suggest that I meant what I was saying in the most literal way possible. I meant to suggest that even if it was in brown, shit-covered Washington D.C., featured vaults and… Read more

I spent 160 hours in Oblivion. I will go back for another 160 in ES:V. I don't care if it's just Fallout 3 with wizards, I want back in! Read more