Brian Ashcraft's discussions

Oh boy, more asinine PR wordplay: Instead of making a hyper-realistic tropical island, we're doing something completely different! A hyper-realisti- er... ahem, CREDIBLE african setting. We don't want to replicate anyone's vacation photos (unless they're african vacation photos). Read more

Their excuse would carry a little more weight if they they didn't apparently have plenty of money to do voices for NINE male characters. Read more

While I'm sure some of the name calling is from people who are simply trying to say "you suck" in a different way, in Clifford's case, I'm pretty sure a good portion of them are just stating it as an impression. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but he does come off as a pretty big fruit. Read more

I'm going to have to take issue with this: "the color palette it draws on represents the depressing color scheme of our own worlds" Read more

I guess CliffyB really wants to be Hard Core these days. Gears of War put the "bad ass" and "gritty" stereotypes into such high gear that it managed to be a bit (just a tiny bit) unique in it's level of "gritty badassness." Unfortunately for him, if his introduction on the Gears of War 2 premier trailer is any… Read more

I'm fairly certain that MS originally (wrongly) assumed that this was a joke name, I mean they guy's name is Dick Gay Wood for Christ's sake. Unfortunately it turned out not to be a joke, but if if MS allowed it then they'd be setting a precedent for people creating legitimate sounding names that were inappropriate. Read more

Well, if nothing else they certainly have the advertising down pat. Read more

Uhg, they completely missed the mark on the graphics. TF2 managed to do it perfectly and got a goofy, cartoony interface. This just looks really creepy. Read more

@NESv1: How clever and edgy of you! Read more

Looks like gears 1, which was entertaining a couple playthroughs so this'll probably be worth a rent. Read more

Codemasters actually did try to make an MMO once. I think it was called Dragon Empires but it ended up getting canned partway through development. Here's hoping they have better luck this time, I guess. Read more

"HB 291, which authorizes castration as part of a sentence for a rape conviction." Read more

Not to be an ass or anything, but I recall commenting about Tomato being better when the DD-WRT firmware hack was mentioned here, a bit slow on the uptake I see... Read more

To anyone considering making the $60-for-$600 router mentioned in this article: Get Tomato, not DD-WRT. It's a lot more stable and functional, especially when ti comes to QoS. Read more