I'm curious: you stopped buying all manufactured goods? Does this mean that you grow cotton, spin thread, weave cloth, and sew all your own clothes? It's nearly impossible to live a modern life without using manufactured goods, unless you go completely off the grid and start living on a commune somewhere. I'm not…

It would be really hard for a single person to do all the tasks needed of a game designer on a AAA game. That is a lot of stuff you just mentioned. There are also designers that have different specialties and ranks: generally the lower-ranked designers will do nitty-gritty stuff like level design, while the more…

Actually, that would be the Creative Director. A large commercial game team can have dozens of designers, since they're needed for everything from the initial concept to playtesting to tweaking numbers right before release.

All of these kids could draw better than I could at that age. Not that I can draw now, either...

I wonder if this means that Zynga will have to drop the whole "steal a game and slap on some new art" strategy that has worked so well for them in the past? They might actually have to put some thought into designing their own original, innovative games. They might HAVE to, to survive.

I hope your brother was really embarrassed.

I'm really glad that you took the initiative to call the police and help this man. Ever since learning about the bystander effect and the Kitty Genovese case in undergrad, I've promised myself that if I were ever in this situation I would damn well do something about it, even if I think it's likely that someone else…

Geez, that announcer sounds like he's doing a wacky parody of awful kids show announcers.

Anyone else think they look exactly like the daughters from Modern Family?

Why is it such a big flipping deal to want a fast forward button on some games? I think that's a great idea. There are plenty of games that have come out in recent years that I've wanted to play, but I haven't played them because they blatantly do not value the player's time and force you to complete all sorts of…

Why is it such a big flipping deal to want a fast forward button on some games? I think that's a great idea. There are plenty of games that have come out in recent years that I've wanted to play, but I haven't played them because they blatantly do not value the player's time and force you to complete all sorts of…

The wind sounds make it seem freezing... I feel bad for the mama eagle.

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space—each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

The American Life League's slogan, "From creation to natural death", gives me chills. It sounds like the slogan of a violent fringe humanist group from a scifi novel that bombs hospitals and cybernetic clinics.

Something I've always wondered about fleshlights: does the silicone extend all the way down the shaft? Like, when I look at it I imagine that the silicone is just stretched over the top like saran wrap, but that doesn't seem like it would be very comfortable since for the most part you'd just be rubbing against the…

I've been in a similar situation, and I'm not going to tell you that you're a douchebag for feeling the way you do. I will say that you're not doing yourself or your girlfriend any favors by remaining in a relationship that no longer makes you happy.

Fame can do curious things to people. She may have been sweet-tempered while growing up, but after she became famous she was notorious for the terrible way she treated people. It wasn't like it was an isolated incident. It was a long history of maltreatment.

There should be some candidness about Whitney Houston. The counterbalance to her God-given talent as far as her legacy is concerned should not be the drug use, or her troubled love life and marriage to Bobby Brown—these are her private demons, and I for one would not judge her for that. Her widely-reported and…

There's a big difference between shaving completely and keeping things neat. If you use a trimmer or even some nail scissors, you can appear to be groomed without running into a problem with stubble.

Black licorice is disgusting. Guess I'll have to keep having sex.