I've started working on a couple of minecraft mods recently, and really I'm not having too much trouble with stuff by way of Forge. Sure it would be nice to have the core game support a mod API directly, but Forge has done all the legwork for most people now. Even end-users have it easy now.. just drop the zip/jar…

dammit Kotaku, when do I just get to +1 comments, instead of having to reply to them? Oh well, here we go. I was very confident that this remake would be good.. I was there at PAX East when they went "yeah, we can add the soldiers with the Guile hairstyle back in as DLC!" (thanks to a question from the audience, no…

Let's not forget the other rather nifty story about RADAR while we're on the subject. To throw the germans off the scent of their new detection technology, the war office circulated stories of how their pilots were eating more carrots, to improve their night vision. Disinformation become urban legend for mothers and…

Yeah, the nonsensical 'people as batteries' thing is explained away in the Animatrix pretty well. The machines can't bring themselves to actually wipe out humanity, but they realize that they can't allow us to live amongst them either. The Matrix is basically a massive wildlife preserve for humanity. The whole…

Yeeeeahhhhh.. We should all change our behavior in relation to the perceived probability of a highly-unlikely event. The TSA Model of Birth Control, right here.

Thank you Thank you Thank You.. You just made me remember "Stare Into the Fist of Dredd" and the accompanying wave of teenage comicbook nostalgia. So much Badassness in only one panel.

We Denver residents have long referred to Aurora as "Saudi Aurora" for the prevalence of gang violence and low-income housing there. It is no where near one of the safest cities in the US.

If memory serves me right, the commander in the mobile desk was paraplegic, thus *all* his furniture came on little wheels. Build the story around the limitations, indeed.

specifically, this one: http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/rocket_raccoon_1-4.shtml

I actually wish they'd do one of their animated films, on Rocket Racoon's origin story. The whole tale of Halfworld (the hospice-world) was one of the best-written comic tales I read as a kid in the 80's