Don't worry about sounding condescending at all dude. I know for a fact that you're being honest because I hear my friends and other students at my university in programs like that complain about it, or conversely really enjoy it.

Fortunately for me, my BS is in Emergency Management with Radiological Science as a…

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Me either. I usually like Patricia's articles about this sort of thing, but this is just way too far out for me. Its not the bad poetry either. TL;DR maybe.

Thanks. If you don't know about it, its sort of not very notable on purpose since its part of a Continuity program as well as the Single Integrated Operational Plan. Its an extremely important aircraft, yet hardly anyone knows about it, and those that do, usually don't talk about it.

Its the Doomsday 747, its a backup…

Yup, Porco Rosso is a good example, which I really like. As well as the Glider and such in Nausicaä. And the airships in Howl's Moving Castle. Its probably why I liked Ghibli so much, I'm an aviation enthusiast myself.

Yeah, it was about the Zero. I haven't seen it yet, but I do know quite a bit about the aircraft it self. My grandpa worked on Search and Rescue aircraft (the PBY Catalina) before the war and during the first part of it, working with the OSS in "California". Later on he went over to the Manhattan Engineer District, so…

I agree with you. It doesn't suit the mood if you ask me. Except in one particular circumstance, which I'll get to.

When I think of colors I associate with the recent warfare, I think black, dark black, smoke from burning vehicles, the different soil colors, the very distinct browns and yellows of the soil and…

I still find it one of the weirdest choices in the world. The Ghibli was an Italian light bomber from the war with the Ethiopian Empire, the British, as well as the Americans. It had been based on an Airliner. Its not notable in any real way.

Thats like me naming a place Studio Nightwatch because I like the E-4.

No. Not quite. The Chinese researchers will willing to go out on a limb (read: spend the money), and attempt to replicate his results. They probably thought he was completely full of shit and that they'd get to be the first to say so. Generally you're trying to disprove fantastic seeming findings like this, they…

Unless he/she/they/it edited it without Kinja saying so, which I kind of doubt, they said they felt for the people who are losing or have lost their jobs. First sentence. If you aren't a native english speaker, "I feel for you, bro/girl/robot" means virtually the same as "I feel bad for you bro/girl/robot", just with…

You're trolling right? Please tell me you're trolling. I personally really don't like Attack on Titan, like at all (and my wife's obsessed with it). I avoid it like the plague, and even I know who the main characters are.

I will say that the eyeliner's a little thick. They're supposed to look like they have the…

I forgot it was IRIX, but yeah it apparently was, I figured fsn would have been available on whatever Sun was calling Solaris at that point as well as the the various BSDs that were around, as well as early Linux and the other System V derivatives. Makes sense to use what you have laying around for the "hacking" scene…

I think it looks too colorful myself. The Character designs are fine, but I don't really like how everything looks too good. Its not gritty enough for me. I'll give it a chance though. It can only be a step up from Clone Wars, right?

Becayse Nathan writes for Kotaku? I mean that would be why to me.

If you're talking about content, The "rules" about what goes on Kotaku are kind of loose, though its not anarchy. Jesus hosts the anarchy over at 'Sploid. Its pretty close though. You'll find an Anime review next to an article about Cat Cafes in…

Yay, another zombie/zombielike monster movie. With Sam Raimi.
Color me unimpressed, but then again I didn't really enjoy the game much either.

The thing was, it was indeed captured from a UNIX box running this software called fsn which let a user visualize their filesystem.

If you look closely in that scene you can see root-level UNIX folders like /usr, /opt, and /bin.

Thats why I think its hysterical when people try to use that one as an example of how…

*yawn* Sounds like a fun way to kill five minutes but its not really anything awe inspiring. Plus on a mobile phone, with touch controls it sounds like pure hell.

I wish they'd just remake the game with HD visuals and voice acting, or make a real, full-fat sequel. I know some will say they have to gauge interest…

I never had an issue with the DRM. Its no more draconian than anything Steam or Origin have. I ran it on every PC in my house with no problems. My configuration is pretty irregular, and Ive known Origin and Steam to not cope with it. Spore's DRM either couldn't figure it out and failed safe instead of failing deadly,…

Couldn't have put it better myself. I still play it from time to time too, but it'll never be what I wanted and that I knew Maxis (back then) could do. I'll never has as much time devoted to it as I did with an older game like Sim City 4, which I still play all the time, or that my wife does with the Sims 2.

I saw the article's title and I came to post on this one just to say basically exactly what you said.

But to be fair, I didn't even know you could cheat with it until much later, when I'd beaten the game so much that a Cheat code was kind of a bit pointless. I was using it to get screen shots of the rarer weapons…