It's an X-Wing. The seam is very clear near the engines, and you can see that the wings are split down the middle of the wings so that when they split there will be a forward wing and a back wing.

The key is to stop and REALLY think about it. "Does my rig run my games the way I want it to? Am I REALLY unsatisfied in how it's performing, or am I just wanting to upgrade because I know there's something better?"

Applying thermal paste:

The guys that do The Irregulars and Darths and Droids also give similarly useful DMing advice (though you have to discern for yourself when they're just kidding).

This might actually be my favorite episode of Mythbusters— surprising result and no qualms about their assumptions or the fidelity of the experiment.

The idea of a valve being controllable electronically is fine. The idea of a water main exploding due to overpressure and flipping a car (as shown above) is fine.

Frankly I'm surprised the water pipeline explosion from Watch Dogs (minus magically changing the pressure in a specific pipe using a network) is at all plausible.

I'd hate to have to drive my car with a game controller. I've never played a game that actually had good driving controls, and I don't think the fault is entirely on developers. There's a pretty good article somewhere on Jalopnik about why we don't use joysticks in cars.

Reminds me of when I was a kid at space camp and was the only one who could land the shuttle on the shuttle landing arcade/simulator.

Agreed, Roy is my all-time favorite character in any Smash game. He had the perfect balance between strength and combo-ability for me. I could tear people up with Marth, but Roy was always more satisfying and fun to play.

I agree with you in every respect. Almost turned off the video when he started saying that.

Toon thoroughly predates WoW. I was using it in Everquest and The Realm when they were new. I'd be surprised if the term as applied to video game avatars doesn't predate MMOs altogether (including NWN on AOL).

Sidonia works really well as full CGI, though the original art is rough enough to make it an easy transition. I've definitely been turned off by CGI in other anime, though— namely last season's Arpeggio of Blue Steel.

Is "You are a Duck" a sequel to the best chapter from As I Lay Dying?

I'm comfortable with the idea that Valve just started things off by having the first five days be won by a different team so every team would win at least one day. This is Summer Camp, after all, and that's how competitions work at summer camp.

I used to make a point to watch Grave once or twice a year. More than once or twice, though, I had to do it in shifts. It would take 2, 3, or even more sittings. I think one time I managed to spread it out over several months.

I think any time you're writing dialogue for a robot AI, you do yourself a favor by taking your cues from Douglas Adams. He's got a wonderful variety of AI personalities for you to take inspiration from both in terms of comedy and pathos.

The only thing I'm certain of is that there's a video game character in that trailer.

Getting spotted in Watch Dogs makes absolutely no sense, particularly in the criminal profiling loop. Some random guy who hasn't even committed a crime yet gets the tiniest glimpse of you amidst a crowd of pedestrians and he just KNOWS you're there to beat the shit out of him?

I try to avoid doing leaps of faith in the AC games because I can't help but wince every time my character pancakes himself in an insignificant pile of hay or "into" a body of incompressible fluid. In my mind, the character ruptures all his major organs, breaks every bone in his body, and distributes most of his…