What we call a longsword today his historically called a "sword", while a longsword is a longer version of that, or what we would call a two-handed sword today. The term two-handed sword, incidentally, comes from, Zweihander, which was a Renaissance German word for just ridiculously big sword, almost as long as the…

This is actually a great example of the strengths and weakness of different fencing styles. The Scottish broadsword, which is a fencing sword, just a manly one, was slow and heavy but capable of powerful strikes, while the smallsword is fast and light and capable of deadly thrusts, but not too much on a slash. Roy…

Yeah, no. 5.56x45mm is used because it's light, "ball" ammunition means "not a hollowpoint", and it is not designed to cause non-deadly wounds. The "wounded soldier costs the enemy three fighters" thing is a myth.

The (original) Hills Have Eyes, or, as I call it, Beast's Revenge.

Hahah me too. In fact, I've been replaying New Vegas and actually had that image up in a tab when I saw your post.

I want each and everyone one of these. Thank you, Jason, for ruining my satisfaction with actual cars...

Oh yeah?

It's a guest artist variant, which are things Marvel includes to get stores to order more copies. There are usually a number of different variants per book, sometimes as many as 12, that are randomly packed one to a certain number of the regular covers ordered. These are immediately removed from the stock and sold for…

Ya know, I don't really want to defend Milo Manara here, because this isn't a very good example, but he's 68 years old and has been drawing comics in Europe for a very long time. He's done some really good variant covers for Marvel, but, like this one, they were printed in extremely limited numbers and few people ever…

One minute? It took my genes years to do this to me...

That's the cover for Spider-Woman #1. The image above is one of probably a dozen collector's variants that if it wasn't for the fuss about it, no one would ever see.

Huh...I at first thought this was silly, but the first West Coast Avengers members were Iron Man, Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Wonder Man, and Tigra. Replace Mockingbird with Black Widow, Iron Man with War Machine, and Wonder Man with Vision, none of which are great leaps, and this actually sounds possible.

Because the commercial and the Edmund's tests are made for American audiences?

That was the Passat V6 SEL Premium, the highest sport trim, not the cushy base model. I included the Miata because its a car noted for its handling, and the Charger is a full-sized sedan, not a pony car. The point is that while a Charger may not exactly be corner carver like an M5, it's plenty competent on the curves,…

As tested by Edmonds.com, the Passat has a lateral acceleration of 0.81 gs, while the Charger pulled 0.86, both with TC off. For comparison, they rate the Miata at 0.87 gs, also with TC off (just 0.84 with it on).

It's been years since I played it, but I remember there being a ridiculous number of die rolls per round. Like, every action had it's own attack and damage or skill check, sometimes multiples of them, and there were several actions per turn, and there were ancillary rolls to end or hold a bunch of different status…

Yeah, I mean, it's not like demos actually lead to full games or...wait.

I gotta say, New Vegas is probably my favorite game since Ultima IV, and I'm currently playing through Sawyer's mod for it. I'm really excited for Pillars of Eternity, and really anything Obsidian does.

I found it to be the opposite of that in nearly every. The rules were clunky, with way too many die rolls per action, the goofy minion class, and the pointless and boring skill challenge system. Combat seemed to last forever and consisted of everyone just using canned tactics with their canned powers, so they all…

Well, I guess someone had to like it.