I'm curious how modern day Americans here feel about their revolutionary war with the benefit of hindsight. When you look at how Canada, Australia, etc., earned their independence from Britain bloodlessly, does the revolutionary war still seem justified and positive and influential on the peaceful independence of… Read more
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Hey, I know! They should make a game like Modern Warfare, except base it on World War II! Never been done before, it would be amazing. ;) Read more
I knew of the original two Castle Wolfenstein games, even played one of the two of them on the Commodore 64. Read more
The stripper librarian thing was working for Bayonetta, IMO. The only thing Bayonetta needed to look sexier was to be, you know, human looking. Instead she's 7 feet tall with a ridiculously long neck and an undersized head. Not the changes I look for in an idealised depiction of a human. :) Read more
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More proof of the "badass" view the U.S. Supreme Court has of the issues.
I started gaming with a Pong paddle technically, but by any reasonable measure I started gaming on the Intellivision controller. N64? I was 23 years old by the time that thing came out. :P I've used piles and piles of controllers over the last 37 years. Read more
Couldn't agree more. I could never get used to it in the first place. Read more
Having recently passed 228 consecutive indie game purchases/reviews over the last 228 days, I find my reviews at a crossroads. I have a one question poll on my site about what direction I should take things. If you answer only one short poll today, please make it this one: [writingsofmassdeduction.com] Read more
So far I've been playing: Read more
So much wondering how some observers centuries back could describe a colour in an odd way, and yet not one nod to the possibility that the observer/author in question had some sort of colour distinguishing impairment? In modern times it's surprisingly common, and likely was then as well. Read more
Better have a cover system. Seriously, get it in there. (With apologies to Gabe.) (And yes, I know, the series had had a cover system for a while.) Read more
@ths1optimistic: No expert on computers indeed! Not only was he unable to afford one at the time, he said in one interview he didn't even *know* someone who owned a computer by the time he wrote Neuromancer. The man's a true visionary, quite literally: he imagined something completely outside his frame of… Read more
What, no one's making jokes about the headline that end in "My Lord"?
@Wibblewozzer: Hey, some people still talk about "Urban Space Squirrels"! :P Read more
@RigAudio: Solar 2? Holy crap! Awesome, I loved the first one! Read more
Sure, the Gamecube was between the PS2 and Xbox in overall power, but right there in the mix. That was my point, though, it was only starting with the Wii that Nintendo fell noticeably (deliberately, in fact) behind. People act like they've been doing this for decades, but it's a very new phenomenon. Read more
@max.weir: Nintendo being drastically behind the competition is a new phenomenon, beginning with the Wii. The Gamecube was close to the Xbox and PS2 in overall power, the N64 was close to the Saturn and PS1, the SNES was close to the Genesis and PC Engine, and the NES was close in power to the Atari 7800 and Sega… Read more