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I don't know how II goes, but the original Dark Souls gets much, much more fun when you realize it's built around pretending to be merciless. It's theoretically possible to enter an unwinnable state, but you really have to go out of your way to do so. There are a couple of mistakes new players are likely to make (like…

Like I said, he turns into the main character. The protagonist misses the point of his own story, and Candyman misses the point, too. He does get it in the final episode, right when the protagonist finally gets it.

Turned out I misremembered a bit—he wasn't nearly as dudebro as some of the other LPers I've seen. Still, it's an interesting watch.

I once found the account of a total dudebro called Candyman who LPs military shooters. He did a blind run of Spec Ops: The Line, and he basically turned into the main character, feeling exactly the same emotions as him at exactly the same times. It was actually kind of creepy.

What, does someone strangle himself with his own guts or something?

I just realized—would The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar be considered a proto-creepypasta? It reads a lot like one.

That was a real operating system that actually looked like that. (Apparently, it was as unwieldy and useless as it looked.)

It's still not as bad as the products that tied into The Lorax.

To add to the list of comparisons, this sounds to me like Bad Day on the Midway.

Is this like that thing where you list things and say Blue Moon, only whether it's "right" depends on whether you do a hand gesture? I was once in a room full of students who all figured it out one by one, and I was just wondering what the hell was up with the hand gestures. Eventually, they gave up trying to show me…

I read a study a while ago that compared the effectiveness of various antivirus programs. Most of the paid ones were around 95% effective at catching viruses, and most of the free ones were around 90%. The best free one was Avast at 95%. (The researchers also noted that Avast had an unusually low frequency of false…

Still, you've got to give them credit for the best possible answer to what happened to Mr. Pink. (For those who haven't played: his fate varies depending on how professional you are.)

This page is so full of comments it's slowing my Internet to a crawl. Did anyone even read all the way to the bottom? Still, no harm in adding my two cents . . .

It doesn't take 30 seconds to find my name and address. It just happens to be the wrong address. Those background-check sites can only do so much.

I'm gonna have to give the points to Gone Home for this one, just because both the lesbians survive. Dead gays have been a thing since Nightwood.

While debit card users wait an average of two to three months before they get their money back, some banks are quick to reimburse customers' money while the dispute is being settled. This means you're not missing the stolen money in you account for however long the dispute takes. Two big banks that guarantee this are…

Despite the supposed cleanse that started in 2009, in 2010 a new online game based on The Journey to the West was marketed with one of China's earliest "models" Yan Fengjiao. Yan would then create something called "naked bear gate" where she would appear in marketing materials nude and only covered up by a stuffed…

Are you sure Baidu was one of the companies? They have an online channel for gaming news, but I don't think they make games themselves.

On grinding: Visions and Voices has relatively little growth from battles. One level-up might only boost a single stat by a single point. However, better equipment significantly improves your stats and makes survival easier, and you need to fight or dodge past monsters to get to the chests. It's a system that…