Yes, Pharaohs often built their own pyramids. Thank you for that astounding insight.

"Not eating like pigs and move a bit."

That's an amazingly concise way to phrase that. I agree, of course, but I don't think I could ever have put it so succintly.

On FAT file systems, "delete" is a simple process. The first letter of the file name is erased. That's it. The space allocated to that file is then "unlocked" to be written over. So if you delete 100 files, then never write data again, all that data is still there. Old Undelete programs just found the files, and asked…

Very interesting article. I agree with pretty much all of it too.

Thank you—that was the point I was making.

Nice. I like the little insult nestled in the first sentence. Who I was replying to stated, "Spoken like someone who has never delivered a project in his life." Yes, I've developed a coding project—never said it was a game.

Thank you for that—it was entertaining and beautiful. I found myself grinning throughout.

I've been involved in web design and development for 13 years. And I've taken programming schooling and work (years ago, but still). The process is the same either way—good planning and design eliminates many problems before they occur.

Konami-nated?

We just need to educate them is all.

The publisher handles the quality assurance? No. Sorry. That's not an excuse.

NEWS FLASH: VIDEO GAMES ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR KIDS BY DEFAULT.

That controller looks like a person spreading their butt-cheeks to expose the pucker within. The fingers look like the hands.

Yeah, the daisy chain bullshit is getting old, not least of which is that my AV receiver doesn't also parse video signals—so the audio and video must be split separately. Whereas if the new expensive console had an additional $5 worth of parts to play old games, that one HDMI cable would handle it all.

To all the people who insist Backwards Compatibility isn't important because you can always buy an old console, I ask this:

Relevant bit starts at 1:10, but I think Russel's reaction at about 2:00 fits quite well in this situation.

<Best when read in Russian accent>

Am I the only one that gets a nerd-on every time I see something that doesn't quite fit into our theories and requires new ideas and possibly altering our view of the world?

People like /me/ played the original Zelda at age eight, and completely remember it. People like /me/ have a seven-year-old that played the intro to Skyward Sword at his friends' house, and at half and hour in, he was shouting "just let me play!" at the TV—which he didn't when he played A Link to the Past a few months…