In Assassin's Creed or Sleeping Dogs, every time some pok gai uses a foreign-language curse word you learned from that game
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I think there was a Newswire a few years ago about a live-action Pac-Man game show in the works. It got me thinking about how to stage live-action Joust or Donkey Kong or other arcade classics in front of a studio audience, preferably without killing the contestants.
For about 200 miles on either side of Oakley, Kansas, I-70 is lined with crude painted signs advertising "the largest prairie dog in the world." As you drive past endless rolling plains and wheat fields, these red signs with misaligned letters promise "Live five-legged steer" and "Pet the baby pigs" and such. As you…
I still can't figure out why the Cid-Celes subplot has an available happy ending. The opera sequence seems to be there mainly to set up the sad ending, and it does it damn well.
Badassfully, ….unghhh….what happened?
If I hadn't booked Gorxnuath the World Melter to perform at my 24th birthday party, Pat Robertson would have been right. You're welcome.
Wait, what's all this about expanding orbits? Apart from solar wind and a bit of lost mass energy, the sun's going to be pretty much the same mass post-helium flash, and it's mass, not density, that produces gravity. This hypothesis sounds like the work of the people that thought the Large Hadron Collider would eat…
In four semesters of teaching science to college freshmen in Texas, I got a lot of mileage out of that line.
Just to clarify if anyone's wondering: no unsavory language in the Achievement title, just a potential spoiler in and of itself.
I damn well had a playing experience ruined by a spoiler. When I played Red Dead Redemption, I made the tragic mistake of reading the description of the "N_____e or N______e?" Achievement before I got to the endgame. That ending is still fucking magnificent even if you do know what's coming, but I wish I'd had the…
This fall, witness the gritty, brooding events that drove a hunky young Kris Kringle to become the Santa Claus we all know today. Kringle, coming October on CBS.
I don't know, Tory getting hurt is always good for a laugh.
True story: my father the internationally recognized expert on thermoregulation served as a consultant for the "will tauntaun guts keep you alive in a blizzard" segment. As soon as they find a myth about posting Futurama quotes on a pop culture website I'm sure it's an honor I'll share.
The deep sea, where potential mates are exceedingly rare, has some of the freakiest mating shit on the planet. Consider anglerfish; when a male anglerfish locates a mature female, he bites her on the ass, then literally merges into her tissue as his somatic systems atrophy. A reproductively successful male…
Does she know who has the largest penis-to-body-size ratio in the animal kingdom? It's barnacles.
I'll save you the trouble. If the bug-lady won't put out, you stab her in the abdomen with your bug-penis to get your bug-sperm where it needs to go. This is so common in the True Bugs (order Hemiptera) that in some species, the female genital opening is reduced and the abdomen has built-in "channels" that can be…
I liked Monaco: What's Yours is Mine because teamwork has never been so satisfying. Sure, I've played co-op games where you have to work with your partners, but Monaco rewards communication and coordination and punishes lone-wolf heroics like nothing else. Watching the whole team die because you had to go for that…
Reach really impressed me by making me feel like I was losing no matter how deeply the alien corpses piled up.
Yes, they were literally bragging about its ability to track blood flow to different parts of your body as of E3, and acting like the implications were a good thing. Skip to 3:00 or so.