The show is pretty good TV. But the book is great fantasy literature. That's the difference. The show is pretty good at presenting a bunch of interesting characters and making you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what harrowing betrayal or murder will happen this week. The books do that as well as subtly…

I actually think you should go back and play Diablo 1. Yes, I'm an old curmudgeon and somewhat of an elitist, but I think it's important to be in touch with the roots of modern gaming and not just be running off to buy the newest shiny thing. It's cheaper too. But that's not the point. The point is that, much like the…

Love this poem. I remember it as the inspiration for this card.

I just wanted to say thank you for this. As someone who wholeheartedly agrees with you and has actually red feminist theory outside of blog posts, I consider myself more of a feminist than people who pick up a few buzzwords and think they are accomplishing something by bitching about costumes in comic books or…

True, but you can't even apply for that job to begin with if you've either been shot or arrested and imprisoned on a trivial drug charge after a stop-and-frisk, can you?

Brilliantly done. For reference: [en.wikipedia.org]

I've been arguing with a friend about this all morning, so I'll just sum up the results here:

They could just remake this one.

LOVE Belyaev. Had the collected works back in the old country and read "Professor Dowell's Head", "Man-amphibian", and "Master of the World" when I was like seven. I need to reread them sometime.

Ah yes, the trade window scam. I remember it from Runescape. Now there was a scammer's paradise if I ever saw one. Best way to avoid this kind of shit is just to keep your head down, do the quests, level up, and play the damn game as it was meant to be played. People looking for shortcuts or bling deserve to be…

This is the best comment I've ever read anywhere.

Don't be an ass.

The answer is related to a recent topic that came up on SpeakUp - there aren't enough good co-op games that could be this generation's equivalent of Streets of Rage or Golden Axe. Marvel Ultimate Alliance was cool, but the campaign is too long and there's too much RPG-type tinkering to really make it a game you could…

I haven't played it, but I thought Kane & Lynch was supposed to be going for a similar type of thing (though obviously they're not cops, but still). Also, this genre DID exist around the same time as buddy cop movies existed - it seems like you're just asking that we get more modern games in the vein of Streets of…

That's worth at least five internets.

It's not just the chiptunes themselves that create the nostalgic sound. An equally big part of it is the type of melodies that were used in 80's/early 90's games - catchy minor-key tunes that tried to emulate fast guitar riffs, which was of course related to the fact that metal and prog rock were blowing up in Japan…

And the award for laziest cookie-cutter bullshit reply goes to...

In both action and RPG games, boss battles are the main vehicle of plot advancement. The 'bosses' are the other important characters and villains in the game. The real question we should be asking "why does all the stuff in between boss battles even exist?"

As someone who double-majored in philosophy and literature, and went to grad school for the same, I'm supportive of your overall point but I think you're inadvertently siding with people like Ebert by singling games out as a medium.

Even my graphing calculator has crude ASCII porn images saved onto it.