Yeah, Nintendo seems to have some advantages with manufacturing quality. I still have my SNES, and it still works perfectly. The GameCube is one of the most robust systems ever made, and Wii and WiiU seem to have a good reputation so far.

In modern car windows, the convex nature and the fact that there are insulating on the inner portion make them almost impossible to break. This is done for safety and noise-reduction, but I guess this guy didn't know that.

You do realize that he sings in a Falsetto, right? And that Falsetto is the easiest among human sounds to synthesize, thus most auto-tuning programs rely on it. This does not mean he uses auto-tuning. All pitch-shifting techniques have flaws, and there are none in his videos that I have seen. What you think is…

No kidding. Man, I wonder what it is like to be a hater? to just hate and judge people so willfully and quickly, without even attempting to understand them. Especially when it is pretty obvious that he is playing a character for comedic effect here and in his other "Francis" videos.

Well, I doubt it. DDoS doesn't really get you into a system, it just shuts the system down. Besides, most of the donations go through PayPal, so they would have to be pretty stupid to attack EL's site directly. Likely, this is a type of practice run or resume for bigger work.

This is basically a DDoS practice or some type of resume. Hackers use this to get attention so they can get more profitable work in corporate espionage. Extra Life has been around for something like 6 years now, and a number of my friends are participants. If EL was dirty, we all would have known by now. Also, the…

You are kind of an idiot. This attack is not political, nor is it espionage. This attack is a sort of resume, meant to draw attention to the hacker for more profitable work. Extra Life had nothing to do with the attack, moron.

No Random Encounters today? Jason, aren't you just slacking off so you can play Suikoden? If so. . . bravo, good sir.

Hey, don't knock the GED brother, I got mine at 17 because I was already accepted into a liberal arts university. Added to the fact that most of my high school teachers were drunk or incompetent and really were not teaching me anything of value, other than a life-lesson in what becomes of jaded alcoholics.

Besides, can a launch shooter filled with grey-brown dirt and explosions really show off graphics? I am so sick of this type of thing, because art direction is what really matters, not how many lighting effects you have on-screen. In my opinion, both of these versions look like crap compared to Silent Hill 2 or Wind…

Pretty much. I did not see anything of note in between them, and still this is more or less going to cause some flaming. Kinda sad, actually.

What a twist!

Honestly, I tend to hate plot twists. Virtually all of them. Hitchcock could pull it off, because he would literally show his hand to you throughout the film, but then you still would not see the twist coming.

Look, for the most part, if you twist the plot, then you twist the characters. And characters should never be…

Forest fires are truly frightening. Most people do not realize that trees can explode when their moisture vaporizes to gas inside the trunk, and bursts out. Not to mention the hellish winds and choking smoke.

A good JRPG (any well-designed RPG, for that matter) envelops a player in a unified ecosystem that weaves together rules, mechanics, and storytelling such that each informs the other in the player’s mind. In other words, everything should feel interconnected and deliver meaning in the sphere of the game. When I’m…

Well, I meant to say that it was implemented as well as it could be. I still prefer regular controller input. Also, when I talk about TP it should be noted that I am speaking of the GameCube version, not the Wii version. I tried playing the Wii version, but I did not like it at all. Actually though, TP is my favorite…

Not really actually. I mean, in Beijing, westerners are more likely to get sick from the food, the pollution levels, or forgetting to boil their water. Even at the 5-star hotels, the water is not safe to drink.

Blue Sky is reasonably rare in Beijing. People out sightseeing should feel lucky it is so nice out there.

It goes without saying that many people liked or loved Skyward Sword. I don't have anything against them, but I do strongly disagree. I have been loving the Zelda series for about 24 years now, but I was tremendously disappointed in the game, not the least of which because I bought a Wii specifically to play that…

Oh, also, Fi. How on earth do you go from the annoying-because-of-hadware-limitations Navi, to the excellently characterized Tetra/Zelda and Midna. Back to Fi, a character twice as bad as Navi.