Can we talk about the freakiness that the surround sound added? I was in college when this came out and had a cheap surround system, and it was freaky as SHIT to hear things whispering behind you. 

The fucking hand wringing over a video game is ridiculous. It’s a game where you shoot, stab, burn and blow up zillions of bad guys and people are hyperventilating about some WP? I’ve seen burns, and blast trauma. I see people die at work on a weekly basis. Stop the histrionics and just enjoy the game, because…

Except they do, because of the International laws of land warfare require it. If they don’t identify themselves as legal combatants, they are legally subject to treatment different that that of a soldier- namely a spy or saboteur. The uniforms may be different and national patched muted for tactical reasons, but I…

“This game is problematic because.....” Fill in the blank. 

Can I just point out that if Carey’s character had talked to *literally* any other protected class of people in the US like he’s doing to the character of that soldier, people would be shitting themselves in fury? 

I work in a near ICU and I had a guy six months after he was shot in the head and comatose for a VERY long time wake up and tell me and the neurosurgery resident ‘Hey. You were making fun of him about the Falcons loosing the Superbowl’. He’d been shot five days before the superbowl and was deeply comatose for weeks…

Mike, this is an incredible article. I’m a critical care nurse practitioner in a neurosurgical intensive care unit and sedate people daily for a variety of illnesses and injuries. There is a decent amount of research into post critical illness traumatic stress; but the conclusion of most of it, is that like other PTS…

This is how I played the ENTIRE Ninja Gaiden series. Find myself getting wrecked, stop playing for a day or a week, come back and crush the boss like a bug. Took forever to beat it, but holy cow, what an experience. 

Exactly my plan; except I am doing the reserve officer route. I’ll stil getl a pension, (slightly less) but my civilian career won’t wait till I’m in my 40's to take off. Nursing is a phenomenal career. 

I remember how very painful doing The Last Word quest was in D1. A true pain in the ass, but and The First Curse were worth it for the end result.

Government contractors are not bound by USGOV employee regulations regarding use of prohibited substances. If he was an employee, sure, but since he’s not....Who cares. 

And the denuding of trees with loss of topsoil leading to collapse isn’t unknown, archeologically or historically. Look at Iceland. They didn’t dissolve into intergroup warfare for the most part, but their numbers sure thinned out. 

Unrelated: How much retconning is allowed before something becomes dumb? Asking for a friend. A Klingon friend. From TNG. And his uncle with pointy eyebrows. 

Ok, Trek producers. The fans, and the rest of the non fans but casual watchers will STILL watch if you don’t awkwardly jam in classic characters. In fact, it’d be better if you didn’t.  See them from afar, sure. Maybe have one of them on a protective detail, or a research team following up on one of his discoveries or…

I love the fighting game characters, but big question: Why don’t we se more Mortal Kombat characters? That’s such a rich pool. 

Mapmyrun is good. The default apple watch is also good, weirdly enough. Don’t forget to hydrate!

Sadly, I’m putting on a uniform and playing Army, not video games. I wish I was. This site is my fix for the games I don’t have the time to play. Weirdly, I love the Eve Online overviews, even though I’ve never played it. I also never hear anything about World Of Warships, either. Maybe it’s a niche market? Anyway. I…

All honesty, Doom 3 was one of my favorites. It was so dark and screwed up, and the the early use of surround in a video game had me crapping myself (Figuratively speaking, of course) every time it did one of those noises/motions behind you. The flashlight/weapon combo was mocked but made for a fun mechanic too. Doom…

Aren’t the Forsaken dead already? So it’s not really a crime, if UC is wiped out, its more like just cleaning out a few corpses that don’t get that their dead. Sort of like a city wide version of Death becomes Her, only with more swords and less Goldie Hawn. 

Counter-Counter-Counterpoint: They were elves, not people. They sundered the world, blew up the Sunwell and have caused all sorts of problems for everyone else by making Illidan and screwing with magics they don’t understand. They had it coming, and if Ironforge wasn’t so far away, the dwarves probably woulda had at…