Word to that. Built a custom xpadder profile that allows me to play the game from my couch on controller. No KB needed really at all. I keep one at hand for convenience for some hotkeys, but nothing need be "simplified" to bring to console and make the game work. "Adapted" would be a stronger word. Problem is, even on…

Wouldn't this thing have effectively been dead the moment it broke the surface of the water? It looks to have suffered the same fate we would if someone were to suddenly yank us into the near vacuum of space on a line. Am I seeing that right, or are grossly-distended eyes a common feature on these fish?

Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve is a bit of an under-the-radar one. Extremely cheap for as good as it tastes. Don't get me wrong, it's not special, aside from really coming in strong on the taste/price ratio.

Your understanding of art is frankly narrow-minded and partially shambles. Art extends well beyond the visual, into the practical and the conceptual spheres as well. Expand your mind, expand your understanding, and with education you may find ways in which an argument for Minecraft as art unto itself, or a…

The Just Cause games did a few things very right, but vehicle handling and physics is not one of those things. Vehicles are a huge part of the Mad Max universe. Since this strikes me as a sequel of sorts to that series but under a coat of licensed-property paint, I hope they are able to tighten up that aspect of their…

I had never even heard of this movie til a college prof popped in for viewing on our optional final/review day last day of term. Watching this made it worth going to that class despite doing so 'ruining' my otherwise empty day. Good movie!

You're talking about an animal that will stare casually at an oncoming vehicle for several seconds before casually stepping out in front of it when it's inches away and then suddenly act surprised that it's there. Even deer don't know what deer are doing most of the time.

When the new kinja switch happened, it was highly tempting to change the screen name and profile pic to Hodor and go off to hodor around the Gawker sites for a while. Never worked up the nerve. And sure someone would have beat me to it, anyway... oh, well. Some dreams are not to be realized...

Came looking for the Barbeau-bot. Thanks for the lack of disappointment.

I'm betting you're making the VERY common new-player mistake of trying to parry with your shield raised. This will never work. You can either risk leaving the shield lowered and nailing the parry, or putting up the shield and blocking the hit. However, you cannot try to do both at once and will merely get nailed to…

Waited three years to see the reaction to this. Better than I could have hoped.

This interview is best experienced being read in the voices of 21 and 24. They aren't joking around when they say those characters are pretty much themselves playing themselves are they?

Ever since it came out on DVD, Scott Pilgrim has earned that distinction for me. I can watch that any time I'm feeling down and instantly feel better by doing it.

Anything stored even in semi-near proximity to a cash-jar or resin tin tends to smell like cashed pot or resin for the rest of forever.

Holy hell that's awesome.

A badly produced, boring licensing tie-in product published by Activision? This never happens.

I don't say this often, but.....meh.

Hey...I'd never seen one of those before. Good call!

2) I disagree, but to each his own.

"this is coming from the man who thought requiring players to know tons of Ultima trivia in order to progress was a good design decision."