Amusingly enough, I know from personal experience with the Crunchyroll app for vita that the only reason it works is BECAUSE it's a poorly made port of their PS3 app with absolutely no touch screen support. You even have to use the analogue sticks and buttons to type in letters in the search field, rather than simply…

I'll have to look into that one. I guess for some reason I'd never associated Soylent Green with a book.

Although it's an older work now, for a thoughtful look at how society in a megacity might work I can't recommend Asimov's Caves of Steel enough.

I'm not gonna lie, the twist end of "Tribute" had me with tears in my eyes, about to cry. It's easy to make comedy with valve's characters, but making legit drama with that limited tool set is what I think takes some skill.

Thank you for that rundown, it was very informative!

I'd never heard of the issues surrounding the PS3 port. How did that ever get out of QA? When your game appears to be dropping to 10 FPS or so at times I'd say that's a good reason to hold onto it for polishing.

I introduced some friends to Borderlands only to end up completely losing interest in it because they were outleveling me so quickly that I felt left in the dust. Battleborn sounds fantastic to me because I might be able to actually play with my friends without worrying so much about whether or not I'm spending as…

I'm assuming it's saying that your kid can't plug in your copy of Final Fantasy and overwrite your save file because the cart isn't able to be plugged in at all until you take the lock off.

I'm gonna have to pick this one up. My last name is Borden, and Lizzie is a distant relative of mine.

Kinda neither. As I understand it Warlords of Draenor is a huge time travel storyline where you're going into the past to prevent the increasingly corrupt Garrosh Hellscream from causing a time paradox. Given this, they are in a way recreating the outlands (and parts of the world in general), but my understanding is…

you misread the article. It was praising them for keeping with that tradition, not going "OMG, PETER PAN IS A GIRL!!!!!"

You got that from xkcd didn't you?

Had to do some casual research to answer that one for you. It appears that in a way we were both right. Although pure oxygen is harmless for extended stays (some space missions have used a pure oxygen environment for the whole mission), when you breath pure oxygen for extended periods of time on earth the…

Toxic concentrations of oxygen are a myth. Astronauts will actually go on pure oxygen for a bit before taking a space walk in order to get nitrogen out of their blood and avoid what would essentially be the diving bends from hell.

what comic is the source of those two amazing panels? I must read it.

Fire Resistant is not the same as fire proof, and there's a poetic element to hurting the tree dude with fire. That said, if you look up the character you'll find plenty of references to him being fire resistant.

Amusingly enough that would not work well. He's fire resistent

For me, the thing that makes final fantasy special is the nuance of the characters. Now, it could be argued that the characters themselves are nothing too unique (you have the half breed with magical powers, the "treasure hunter" AKA thief who is escaping a tragic past, the lecherous but brilliant king, the prince…

Oh, I didn't talk myself out of getting Lasik (although not gonna do prk. Burning the whole top layer off? Ouch.) I just have not yet been able to save up the money. It ain't exactly cheap, and my credit ain't exactly stellar.

I was looking at getting lasik a while back, and in the process found out about other technologies that are less well known forms of permanent vision repair. Implantable contact lenses were actually one of these. I've included a link to the wikipedia article on conventional ICLs (Implantable Collamer Lenses), but…