I think you made fair points. I'm not active in the American LARPing community, so as I said it could very well suck monkey balls. If it's a matter of improper research, not taking the game seriously, and general suckiness I can understand that. Although now I'm wondering if American LARPing is so famously looked down…

Whoa whoa whoa... What do you mean Americans have a lack of culture and a self-image dysfunction? In certain respects I'd totally agree with you, but it sounds like you're saying our LARPing is hindered by our lack of a Middle Ages and a general disconnect from European countries. If it sucks, it sucks, but I'm not…

Happens to me all the time: you are not alone =P

343 didn't take over after Halo 2, though. They've never actually built a Halo game, so what have they proven??

No worries about harshness. My initial post was purposely provocative/bitchy, so I expected it in return. But man that Black example is ridiculous. I had no idea it was THAT bad. Well, I certainly do hope a solution can be found, whether it come by way of consoles or PCs, to address this issue. If the Razor was less…

Do we (the gaming community we) have any evidence that SE didn't inform them, and that they are in fact obligated to do so? If it's a standard contractual thing I'm not aware of, then I'll give you that. I thought that the deal between SE and Onlive was public long before the game actually shipped. Even if SE didn't…

You have educated me, sir. I concede, for the most part, my rant.

The problem isn't their unwillingness to promote a competitor, it's their tampering with a product that they didn't themselves produce. They shouldn't have broken into the games to remove the card; there are other, more legal ways of handling such things. If they didn't like the deal that Squareenix and Onlive had…

This is possibly the slimiest apology they could give. I mean, great, 50 Gamestop bucks, but considering the original problem was pulling a fast one on the competition, this seems a little underhanded.

I'm becoming begrudgingly optimistic about Halo 4... I'm still very much pissy about it, but part of me wants 343 to throw down and prove itself. Here's hoping...

I am going to play devil's advocate.

Considering one of my friends found that solar panels are cost effective even in the eternally foggy Bay Area, I would definitely look into this when I'm able.

Even though I agree the potential creepy-as-shit energy of this idea is extremely high, in practice (considering all things are done legally) it seems like a better way for people to show me shit I actually care about. Right now, networks have to hit the broadest demographics which means I'm bombarded, mostly, by crap…

At least people on the East coast get some kind of warning. Here in the Bay Area, we just live every day knowing that at any given second: boom. Good luck to the people out there.

There's a grey area between dressing well and, as you say, being stylish. My bar for attire is "put together," I could give two squirts about fashion and style. If someone looks more or less decent, i.e. lacking holes in clothes, everything fits well, and the clothes aren't wildly miss-matched, then who cares? I…

Oh hell yes. It's been three months, and despite two professionals in two very sweet places telling me I was very qualified and had a lot of potential, I am only just now, today, getting invited to work a seasonal job at Macy's working the stock room at 4 am or some such business. God speed to you, brother. God…

Psh, psh psh.

It gave me a subtle wig out because the Portal video dealt with someone being completely trapped and given hope only to have it snatched away. With Alzheimer's, you're sort of locked within your own brain which is slowly ebbing away and there's no way out (yet). What's scary-ish about this article is the idea that you…

Even though grammatically yes, saying "the Space Marines" means all of the Space Marines, I think requiring him to say "the Space Marines in the game" is a little ridiculous. Sure, maybe he could have said leader of a squad or a company or whatever, but really dude: context trumps isolated definitions in…

I don't think it was a good idea to read this article right after watching the Portal fan video. It's like watching a horror film and then looking up articles on how there were murders in your house.