was it anything like this?

Mr Clean Dakimakura when?

The Sega Genesis/Megadrive has a more limited sound chip than the Super Nintendo. The Super Nintendo was much more capable of doing more varied sounds, getting very orchestral and dramatic in some of the best SNES games. However, the Sega sound chip really excelled in the gritty kind of heavy metal hard rock sounds…

I have a mixed collection of friends that have worked in restaurants. One always tips 25-30 percent minimum and gets all over my case for being stingy when I tip 15-20%, because "they work so hard and really need that to get by". I have another friend who says that that is a load of bunk, because where she worked at…

I still think that declaring that Gawker was shut down by Peter Thiel isn't the way to think about it. Gawker hung themselves, and Peter Thiel paid for the rope.

electrolytes mentioned in the article and no Idiocracy reference? for shame.

I like how finally movies made between 2001 and 2008 can be examined on their own merits and not constantly filtered through the "war on terror" lens. People were saying that Zach Snyder's 300 was a comment on the war on terror, it was pretty tiring after awhile.

At least the pass to Cook, while seemingly ambiguous at first by the two officials calling differently, was unambiguously a catch upon close review. That way it didn't end like the last playoff Packers/Cowboys game where everyone could not stop talking about whether a receiver caught the ball or not, what constitutes…

My grammar is not exactly up to snuff. In that sentence, is there the suggestion that owning a pro football team and being a disgraceful prick are correlated? Or is the suggestion that one owns a Pro football team INSTEAD of being a disgraceful prick?

What's funny is that as much as western gamers are befuddled by the Japanese cutesy anime character designs in their games, Japanese are befuddled by the steroidal macho man character design in western games. Square Enix has done a couple of interviews where they talk about why a thin male character with a large sword…

Well, Mel Blanc was Bugs Bunny so very through and through in the original shorts. Everyone else who came along after Mel Blanc died is basically impersonating Mel.

Japanese to english can be tricky because Japanese has a 3rd person gender neutral pronoun and English does not. In Japan they could very well have referred to Sypha as this gender ambiguous pronoun, without it coming across as awkward. There have been some anime where the exact identity of someone important is kept a…

Hey, "get them when they're young" is a company mantra. If you drink Coke as a teenager then you drink coke for life. Fanboy loyalty goes a long way.

Arstechnica seems to be much more skeptical about the Switch, at least the other stuff that you have to buy to do everything they say you can do. One point is that "Nintendo is selling most of these combined accessories separately in a $90 bundle".

You forgot the Stark's cousin Oliver!

If we had Wookies in Return of the Jedi instead of Ewoks like we were supposed to, we would have already had seen a wookie rip someone's arm out of their socket back in 1983.

What do you consider someone who doesn't pursue sexual relationships, but for religious reasons? The Arthurian cycle has Sir Percival, Dors, and Galahad being virgins their whole lives, presumably because there were ascetic ideals. What's funny is that White in The Once and Future King makes either Percival or Dors a…

There was that McDonald's flash ad where a guy says "Double Cheeseburger? I'd hit it. I'm a dollar menu kinda guy."

Does anyone remember the McDonald's flash ad, where the guy says "Double Cheeseburger? I'd hit it. I'm a dollar menu kinda guy?"

hypocrisy is too strong of a word. But a lot of Activists do seem to have no concept of "vote with your wallet" in the positive sense. They seem to relish boycotts and whatnot because of their reason (animal rights in this case). But then when companies cater to their desires, they don't go out and support it by…