Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

I can easily see a Doom mod having fewer monsters in closets, but could they actually retrofit stealth into it? Read more

Really? I thought it gave life to the trailer. Read more

Speaking as the person behind the site, I can guarantee you that that's not true. There are hundreds of truly terrible games that I will never review because they're pure crap. But just as there are hundreds of terrible games, so too have I found hundreds of pretty fantastic games. You know, just like happens when… Read more

I'm intriqued by TF:Prime, but can't watch it yet (the cable station in Canada that carries it isn't in HD, and we've done away with all the optional standard-def channels in our cable package). If it comes up for sale on Zune Marketplace I'll definitely buy it. Read more

"Ashton... Aston... Aston... Ashton... Ashton... Ashton" Read more

Can't agree. I'm sitting on about 400 reviews of good (3-5 out of 5 star) indie games over as [writingsofmassdeduction.com] out of just over 2000, so a whole more more than 0.1% of them are excellent. Read more

It's nice that they're doing fan-service for the '80s Transformers. Re-watching those old episodes is generally pretty painful now, though. They haven't aged well, I fear. Read more

Is that what happened here? That's the way the Daily Show portrayed it, but most of the big aquarium fans I know are adults. Certainly some kids are no doubt interested, but is the game designed with children in mind? Read more

Worst one of all: "Beam me up Scotty." It was never once uttered in the show, it was always some variant of "Scotty, beam me up", "Scotty, x-number to beam up", etc. Read more

"As humorous as the bit is, it's also something of an indictment of this kind of morally questionable game design." Read more

I got the impression the kid was rehearsed, and that there were better-than-even odds the entire piece may have been satirical. Read more

There are XB360 franchises on WP7 such as Ilomilo, Carneyvale Showtime, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, even some games that offer interoperability between the two (Full House Poker, and that Sentinels game that just came out). Read more

I own so many portables that I can barely count. My current collection consists of the Atari Lynx, the NEC Turbo Express, the Sega Game Gear, the original Game Boy, the Sega Nomad, the Game Boy Advance, the PSP (1000), and The Nintendo DS (Phat). Read more

The Arrive's a nice handset. I'm using a Dell Venue Pro. Read more

You can filter the search results, or be more specific from the get-go. Read more

Interesting, thanks for that! I'm a Windows Phone guy (but now playing around a bit with the Android 2.3-based Kobo Vox tablet) so this is all new to me. Read more

To me it just looks like jewelry hanging over robes/cloth of some sort, not a jagged metal thong. Read more

Does Nintendo still have no system in place for rolling out patches? Read more

Exactly. I can think of hardly any ninja-themed games that *do* take place in feudal times. Wikipedia, as usual, has a pretty exhaustive list: [en.wikipedia.org] Read more

Why wouldn't it? Android's an open platform, how could they block access to it? Pardon my ignorance, I don't use Android. I understand that some devices (the Kindle Fire, for example) use heavily customised versions of Android that attempt to lock it down, but even then it's usually possible to bypass it and "root"… Read more