I suspect part of the reason for the terrible look is to minimize seams—while the fabric is strong, the seams would be a failure point. The more seams, the more failure points.

For a moment, I was in a wonderful dream where they had created some next-gen iteration of Elite 2...

Until I read your comment I couldn't put my finger on it, now the penny has finally dropped. My iPhone isn't the best smartphone and it's also unproductive. I thought the problem was with me! Turns out all along it was my iPhone at fault.

It's weird the things that you never realized you never knew. I had no idea that the plane of the ecliptic of our Solar system didn't actually match the ecliptical plane of the galaxy. Though thinking about it now, there is absolutely no reason why it should. So I don't know what I was thinking!

This. Who knew a house that was bigger on the inside than the outside could lead to such horrors. Really messed my dreams up for a while.

I got to try it at Eurogamer the other week. It was only for about five minutes, and I think it needed to be tweaked cause it was not as sharp as I think it was supposed to be, but man it was so much fun! Looking around the cockpit of a space ship shooting enemies, being totally immersed in a genre I usually don't…

And that's why I don't call them modern shooters, people. They offer little, to no advancement whatsoever.

There are more gameplay elements in a single basic corridor of Thief : The Dark Project than there are in most games of the past years.

Don't get me wrong, it's one hell of a ride when it's done properly. Strap yourself in and maintain the illusion that you're not running down a glorified hallway and modern, linear shooters can be a blast. It's tough, for example, to find someone who played through Modern Warfare's groundbreaking campaign and didn't…

Since this post covers enough of the same ground, this smaller thing probably doesn't merit its own post, but I'd like to throw a special "Zero" shout-out to a move that I've come to think of as the "First-Person Shooter Follow." That is, a mission—usually a stealth mission—where you have to follow a dude and do what…

Yes, yes, that's how you lose an argument.

People have some weird-looking penises.

My new video response for Internet Trolls, Haha!

Because the phone is meant to be held vertically. This isn't a failure of the user, it's a failure of the device makers to either include a camera that can maintain full widescreen resolution when the device is in a vertical orientation, or require the phone to be moved to the horizontal position before starting the…

Any kind besides medical reasons bothers me.

Go like a Time Lord? So regenerate 12 times first? I can get on board with this.

I thought they put their dead in a boat lit it on fire and set it out to sea?...

"The same thing that's also working to keep your sandwich fresh: plastic wrap."

what about cremating like Japan? that way burial takes less space too!