One of the strengths of the Mass Effect system was the abbreviated descriptions; you didn’t know how things were going to exactly play out. The scene in Mass Effect 1 where Shepard decks the reporter was so unexpected and over the top it was hilarious, made all the more so because you couldn’t anticipate the outcome.…

I found myself playing my own mini-game with the imaginative name of “You Gotta Be S**ting Me.” I would find the most ridiculously steep cliff on a mountainous planet and try to climb up and over it with the Mako. Unless it was a 90-degree wall or more, I could usually pull it off, though sometimes it would take me…

Fallout 3 is of the greatest games ever. It's pretty much in a class all its own, so I guess I'd have to agree its not an RPG. Dang, this article just makes me want to re-install it and play it again; I've hardly touched the DLCs, and there's so many mods I haven't tried, especially the additional playable content…

The eyebrows look fantastic, but with eyes like that they will probably go under-appreciated.

Yes, sometimes a small sin of omission is best thing in the long run. But I think that the meanness you describe comes not from honesty but from pride, the attitude that being "totally honest" makes them better than others and justifies them in using their "honesty" as a weapon. (And usually it turns out that their…

Just start reading; you won't be disappointed and everything will become clear.

I’ll get off your lawn when I'm done pissing on it.

Stand on Zanzibar is so brilliant it's timeless. Too bad nothing else Brunner did ever really came close to it.

Cleveland IS another planet (I have a contingent of trashy relatives there too); it’s just too easy to get to from here. And if you’re really worried about that mole, don’t wait. If it really is visibly changing prompt action *may* be required. (I emphasize “may” because most likely it’s nothing. But on the slight…

“Bernie” with Jack Black was great; I saw it twice over the last two weeks. Then, Google Bernie’s full name to find out about the sequel-to-be. It’s a strange true story that keeps getting stranger.

Think more about what kind of adventure you want, then go for it. What you get may be different, but it will be better than staying in LA. (I grew up there, and as far as I am concerned it's one place where nuclear war can have a happy ending.)

Talk to your therapist about whether to tell your partner. Relationships are generally based on total honesty, but a one-off thing like this might be worth burying for the sake of long-term happiness. (An “oops” is actually not uncommon in the passage of years.)

DBSaBPT has a good point. But also, if you want to try going partway to see how it feels, try a small gem. It’s more conservative and you can adapt the color according to skin circumstances.

Very nice, but with eyes like that, no one is going to notice the brows very much.

There are FO3 mods which change that, including one mod which compromises by letting you use the suit without training, but imposing some penalties for doing so. There are also mods which make the power suits worth striving for; I found them to be hardly worth the effort of obtaining them in the vanilla game.

Interesting that a "Tyrell" is used as the primary model here. They look so much like — replicants ...

My mom has done some really shitty things to our family, in particular to a sibling, and is so many of the things people have discussed (manipulative, self-absorbed, uncaring, etc.). But when I talked to her on Friday, May 8, about it being V-E Day, she told me for the first time that her family had been fairly close…

Ohhhh, you're a troll. Got it.

You're missing the point. There's a big difference between doing the best that you can and doing the worst that you can.

I do.