Well, no. Star Wars was pretty much always cool, so you can't claim it before it went mainstream :p

To give my perspective, I think that Empire Strikes Back (despite the awful title) is the only one of the series which is consistently good. RoTJ had the forty minutes or so of Jabba's Palace which was so disjointed from…

Part of this might be because of Japan's biggest casual wear retailer, Uniqlo. It's kind of like a JC Penney, but without the formal wear, and there are 793 of them in Japan. To give perspective, there are 1107 JC Penneys in the entire US, and Japan is slightly smaller than California.

Have to say, I'm not loving the…

I lost it at Magikarp vs. Gyarados.

There are dozens and dozens of supplements which all work seamlessly with the core rulebook. The core book, by the way, goes from the stone age to the near future as far as weaponry and armor go, and covers vehicular combat and flight. There's a lot to work with just using the core book.

The flavor is going to be…

GURPS is perfect if you want to put more character-driven interaction into your games, or add realism. I personally find that it is much easier for a player to role-play because personality traits, physical or mental oddities, and character quirks are all game mechanics rather than fluff over your combat skills. It…

This. The killer fireflies were the worst :p

This.

A few others have good dubs—Trigun was all right, as was Fullmetal Alchemist—but I usually have to watch anime in Japanese. And it always irks me when there's that cutesy-pie female voice actor.

I wasn't expecting the bubbles. Makes sense, with the water melting and then boiling.

Neat video!

Joseph said it: there's nothing "anti-bug" in here. I didn't know about half of these species before reading the article, and though I never want to be close enough to one for it to touch me, I'm glad I was able to learn about a few new species on the planet today.

You're kind of missing the point. If an argument is unintelligible, whether because of lack of internal consistency or (in this case) lack of proper framing, it's not really worth anything. This isn't about "demanding" or "rights," just that the OP's post, without any sort of framing, doesn't make sense. And posting…

Uhhh. . . that's not even remotely correct. The core cast of characters—which is, by the way, far larger than what many other developers have to offer—are the most published, but by no means the only ones published.

That's exactly it, really. As polished as every aspect of the best selling MOBAs are, it's just longer than I usually want to play. If I knew that a match wouldn't go over 30 minutes, for example, I probably would have sunk a lot more time in them. A little ironic, really.

This is one of my favorite recent animes. The entire thing is a satirical deconstruction, as you mentioned, of the archetypal roles of villain and hero and Japanese, but also of the tropes which very often pop up in anime. The whole "epic struggle between the Dark Lord and the Forces of Light," which is exactly what…

I actually quite liked Apocalypse, though there were flaws. The big problem was that it didn't feel like a finished game . . . precisely because it wasn't a finished game. They had to cut out several features they had been working on. Oh well.

Yeah, it's a bit of retconning, just like how Enemy Unknown did a fair bit.…

What was?

I'm agreeing with Owen here. There's a level of abstraction with user interface that you really need to maintain. Otherwise you run into some amount of dissonance between what you "ought" to be able to do and what you actually can do. With a gun controller, aiming may be more intuitive (depending on how good of a shot…

Call me blind, but I'm not seeing you talk about a division between games and online interaction. But it's not really important either way, we agree on this point.

Not going to agree with you on the 2nd point. There is a distinct difference between something done out of compulsion—i.e. going to work—and something done…

Well, keep us posted if you pursue it further :)

That's a good point, but anonymous online interaction is not the same as gaming. Some games have that online components, others don't. Likewise, a great deal of online interaction exists outside of games.

Further research is absolutely warranted, as is civility, but let's not confound what we are talking about here.

Th…

I wonder how she would have felt knowing where the beef she ate came from. Or if she would be willing to kill the cow herself.