“...assume that using language that others deem vulgar is equivalent to bad behavior...”

Because it is. If society on the whole views certain language as vulgar/offensive, then you are behaving badly by using it in certain situations (like shouting “FUCK!” in the middle of the street, or hurling expletives around at a…

“Peter Jackson helmed one of the greatest fantasy adaptations of all time...”

A sentiment I’m still waiting for time to erode. The LOTR films are really not that great. As action/fantasy films, they’re pretty badly written and directed, with a great many issues concerning pacing and plot (holes all over the place). As…

Also we have to factor in the malign influence of the existing energy industry. If some clever people did, tomorrow, get a functioning fusion reactor up and running in its ideal state... you can bet there’d be either a lawyer-induced wall of silence about it, or a lot of painful upheaval - a lot of lost jobs,…

“it had a lot less to do with homophobia”

Speaking as someone born in 86, here in the UK, most of the time the word “gay”, when used as an insult, had absolutely *nothing* to do with homophobia. It clearly *originated* along those lines, but for most kids, you’d hear the word “gay” being used to describe just about…

Because what we really need right now is new ways to increase our population...

And did anybody else think about a possible future of gene-theft, in which someone acquires cells from you without your knowledge, in order to produce a child without your consent? I’d imagine this sort of thing would spring up as a result…

...meanwhile Eve, infamous for its vast complexity and truly hardcore approach, not only included extensive tutorial content... but is apparently destined to further improve that content in the next update/expansion.

I think Elite suffered heavily as a result of its fan service - all those “Were you there in 84!?”…

“Huh? Which accounts are these?”

The thousands of people who *used* to post on the forums complaining about the dead, sterile nature of the game, month after month, eagerly awaiting the day when the developers actually fleshed it out a bit... only to realise that, after a year, the developer had moved on to releasing a…

It’s no fun til someone dies...

That’s only because that level of realism isn’t something we currently have in our various forms of entertainment. That boundary has not yet been pushed, and level of realism is entirely subjective.

If you went back in time and showed a modern gory FPS to someone in the 80s at the dawn of computer games, you’d hear…

Wasn’t Garibaldi. Was his second in command, Zack - Garibaldi was missing at that point.

I like how Person of Interest does it - they show literally the briefest clip from the episode in the opening titles, but because it’s all done as “AI viewing security camera footage” it spoils nothing, and is quite hard to catch. Anything more than that though, and I’m just sitting there thinking “JUST GET ON WITH…

People also seem to forget that insects are older than us - and as such, are actually more highly evolved (at least in the sense of having spent more time evolving on this planet). And unlike humans, insects tend to actually contribute to the healthy functioning of the planet, to the point where removing one insect…

I think you’re missing the distinction between “reinventing” and “upgrading”. The reason we have the term “reinventing the wheel” is because it implies that someone is literally saying to his peers, “Hey, what if we made a round thing!” - their idea is either redundant, or inferior, because the original invention has…

“A page about a long-forgotten video game”

Or, you know... a hugely well-known and well-remembered game still available thanks to GOG, whose developer went on to become one of the more prolific developers in the industry, working on such major franchises as Aliens vs Predator and Tron...

Doesn’t really excuse a shoddy port. Especially when the original release was actually (though people seem to have forgotten) a somewhat shoddy port, whose config files were absolutely packed full of bizarre Xbox references, whose sound system simply refused to behave with onboard sound chips (which were used by a…

To be fair, I think people are forgetting - Half-Life, Unreal etc... they represented the real pinacle of FPS design after the glut of Doom clones - the point at which technology had moved on *just enough* to unshackle the developers, without distracting them from the best of the old design principles.

As such,…

90s shooting mechanics can also work dripping with blood, guts, and raw pixelated grit.

I’ll totally agree with you on the “early 3D graphics” part - even at the time, when games started moving into 3D models, I thought they were ugly - but the sprite-based stuff? Duke 3D still looks fantastic, and running Chocolate…

Er, Blood 2 was set in dystopian future city environments for the most part...

What’s with all these “Reference to 90s shooter” games lately whose graphics are inferior to games from that time?

Quake looked better than this, aesthetically.

I mean, I’ll grant you - this game looks like a whole lot of fun. But still. Quake’s models were more detailed, and its levels more ornate - what we’re seeing…

Woah woah woah wait. Wait. Stop.

“I decided I was also going to do a clean install of Windows 10...”

“I decided...”

“Windows 10...”

What.

Just... what? What!? What. What? Whatwhat?

DEAR GOD WHY!?