The ouroboros lookalike on the cover is just so appropriate.

I would completely support Nintendo's effort to revitablize the game manual practice. I always enjoyed the manuals that put in enough time to write interesting backstory for the game, and bios for the characters. I actually saved all of my favorites from growing up. I've got original manuals for the SNES Chrono…

You know, as infamous as it is, that only ever happened to me once. I was getting off of a deer-hut ladder in the middle of nowhere, and both of my legs broke. I actually crawled around a half mile to the nearest town, then crawled from house to house looking for stims to heal up my legs. I spent around two hours…

I put in a ton of hours with DayZ, and it is blowing my mind right now just how accurately this tiny chart sums all of those hours up.

I'd like to add: a good dry rub can really work wonders with wings. I use equal parts paprika, salt, pepper, and cayenne. That will make for some crazy spicy wings, so you can play around with the cayenne amount (or I've substituted in some Black&Red before to good effect, or just use a tsp of cayenne if you don't…

FISH!

Yeah I'm not quite sure where I stand on it... on one hand I like that it gives developers a cash infusion that might help them finish up a nearly-done game. On the other hand, a lot of games seem to be doing this early in the dev cycle, in which case it isn't really an alpha/beta, but rather an unfinished game that…

Alpha. And it has been in alpha for quite some time now. At the rate it is going, it won't leave alpha anytime soon.

Alyx Vance was strutting her biracial stuff in 2004.

It is a pretty well established fact that sleep deprivation is causes medical impairment much greater than most people realize. People who miss a night of sleep drive with similar skill to someone who is over the legal BAC limit. This extends to studying as well. By keeping yourself up for those extra hours, you're…

I don't know how to get rid of cliff racers. But this is how you get rid of the song.

To be honest, I think he is right. The problem that I always had with DayZ was that there was no end-game at all. What you see in the very beginning is what you get through the whole thing. Rocket tried adding in some things to enhance end-game play, like tents, barbed wire, etc, but never really succeeded. So you're…

Damn! That was the single worst boss for me on my first playthrough. A lot of the traps that made that fight so deadly felt pretty arbitrary, like you had to see it once just to know it was coming the next time to survive it. Nice work.

Horseradish, yes. Try adding in rosemary also. I was freestyling some mashed potatoes for my in-laws a couple years ago and added those two things in generous quantities. The results were absurdly good tasting. It is now the single most-requested recipe I have. If you've got only dry rosemary, add it into the boiling…

Ronald Reagan has a stack of three by five cards in his lap. He skids up a new one: "What advice do you, as the youngest American fighting man ever to win both the Navy Cross and the Silver Star, have for any young Marines on their way to Guadalcanal?"
Shaftoe doesn't have to think very long...
"Just kill the one with…

Keloid? What an unfortunate name.

But the 'occasional' cancer is enough.

You're absolutely correct. It is a pretty hot discussion topic on the forums. Arma 3 is built not as an all new engine, but rather as an evolution of the Arma 2 engine. It inherited many of its flaws, including the long-distance problems: lack of terrain detail, and very low-res textures. In fact, the new sniper…

Yep. That particular mechanic has not changed.

Which, funny enough, is actually pretty close to leading theory about how homosexuality fits within the context of selective pressure and evolution!