To be fair, most of these lasted around a decade before they were shuttered. While you can argue all you want about EA's influence resulting in the downturn of some of these studios (and a reasonable number of those arguments might be quite legitimate), you can't really say EA was particularly hasty about most of…

*Completely off topic*

That's a shame. The likelihood of a SimAnt 2 is now even more remote than ever.

So why is there no coverage of the announcements related to Source 2 and Unreal Engine 4 being offered to developers for free?

He found the aardvark on Twitter? That's one goddamn talented aardvark.

That's an important point, too. So, the cubone's biological cycle makes even less sense than you'd think given that:

The cumulative impact of multiple generations of maternal skull-wearing on the average skull volume of Cubone pokemon must be devastating...

Granted, the handling of her on-screen death was one of the best things in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Emma Stone's portrayal of Gwen was a smart, vital part of the film, but there she was dead all over again.

Goblin's just being a moron. Spider-Man later realizes that the way he tried to save her caused her to stop falling too quickly. She snaps her neck and probably suffered internal injuries due to g-forces to boot. Later on, Peter reformulates his webbing and learns how to more gently catch people in these…

Ugh, I was going to offer a faux reply by agreeing with your viewpoints and then segueing into asking you for sex, but it was too creepy even as a joke.

The problem with your theory is that you're saying the study doesn't mean anything because the US and Norway aren't REALLY different enough, relatively speaking. But relative to one another, there is a significant difference between the views and attitudes of people in the two countries— enough so that there should…

Why do they think 160 degree fov looks good? Also, my wrist hurts looking at how the character holds his sword.

As you might imagine from the title, it's not a fast-paced book. I've essentially decided to approach it by reading one chapter (or day, as it works by the book's architecture) between each book I read. So I'm currently reading the chapter that corresponds with day 3 in Slow Regard, and once I finish that I will…

Rothfuss writes a very honest forward for the book which basically states that Slow Regard isn't for everyone and isn't really very much like anything you've probably ever read. It comes down to how much you like the character of Auri— do you love the parts of the other books where she's explaining the Underthing? …

Catch-22 is one of those books that I constantly tell people to read.

And then maybe after that I'll finally be able to read another Iain M. Banks book. I've had real difficulty getting into any of them since he died, but there's still a lot of great stuff to read in his library.

I'm between books at the moment (although I am slowly pacing my way through Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss).

Kafka on the Shore is a good one to read. It's weird and funny without losing too much accessibility which makes it one of the better entry points for Murakami. After Dark is also a great entry point— it's not really fantastical in the way some of his stuff is, but it is experimental in its architecture and…

I absolutely read the headline as "Hacker builds time machine to trade pokemon with himself."

The moment I discovered that hiding under desks was not proof against the Alien was profoundly distressing for me.