Well, sort of. Ceil was a scientist, but not the mechanic; Zero was upgraded most regularly by a doctor type character, who was also a reploid (robot). It’s a fairly different setup.

There is actually a difference, but it’s subtle: Alex has smaller arms. 3px wide to be exact, compared to Steve’s 4px wide arms.

Yup. When I was learning to Malzahar, I got into a game with some teammates that were obviously premade, and they just kept digging into me. I got frustrated, we had a back and forth and I got really heated and said some childish things. I realized close to the end of the game that instead of letting myself be…

I’m working on a tech demo for Nintendo DS (homebrew) so I’ve been teaching myself the basics of animation using Blender and a custom toolkit I wrote.

So glad I’m not the only one that had to do this. Sadly this was well after personal networks should have solved the problem; I was using floppy disks to move MP3 and MIDI files between my laptop and my desktop computer all through high school. Got really efficient at it too. Don’t miss it one bit; flash drives are…

My god, the government conspiracy folks are the worst. I work at a Best Buy and we get these folks in every now and again. It’s like every kind of logical reasonable argument just bounces off of these people, and they won’t shut up about it. I had one guy trying to convince me that the NSA had embedded extra cameras…

Doesn’t bother me that much actually; if someone is exhibiting beggar-like behavior around me, I’m much more likely to turn down requests. I *love* helping people, but at some point I had to learn to defend against people who only want to take advantage of me for their own gain. Being able to recognize that is a good…

That’s really the best strategy. I mean, you already found a woman who loves you, so there’s really no one left to impress. No one *important* anyway.

I just bought an h340 from them myself, which is definitely on the cheaper end, but boy it’s a nice case for what it is. (I’m loving the total lack of optical drives too; I feel like it has so much extra room, and it’s actually a smaller case than what I was using before.) Well designed cases go a long way, and they…

I can't fathom how anyone who has ever owned a penis would think that these tests could be in any way scientifically valid. On the one hand, us men have more control over our arousal than the tests seem to imply. On the other hand, the cases where we "lose control" and become involuntarily aroused often make no sense.…

I actually really like this change. The area of effect for teemo’s normal mushrooms is pretty hard to “see,” you just sort of get a feel for it. This effect looks a lot more readable.

I’m trying, but I just don’t see it; surely this isn’t a disembodied head? What is that thing?

Ooh, that one’s *mean.* Well done sir.

This is a very straightforward bug. The system timer has millisecond accuracy. There are 12x60x60x1000 = 2,592,000,000 milliseconds in 12 hours.

It's important to point out here that 5% toxicity is still pretty rough in a game with 10 players per match. That means you have roughly a 50% chance of there being a one-toxic player somewhere in any given game.

Also known as "Dear god, who fed Yasuo?" time.

As Eurogamer discovered, a player named Mamytwink is trying to break—or shred into a breathable mist of virtual cardboard flakes, as it were—the world record for longest Hearthstone turn ever. His plan involves setting off a chain reaction of attacks that will take more than 40 hours to complete.

1. Create your 'Shop and save it to your desktop. Images must be at least 636 pixels wide. If they aren't, you will be shot.

What alcohol can and does do to your brain is affect the way your neurons get their firing triggers from glutamate. It infiltrates the glutamate receptors in your synapses, hurting their ability to send off their normal "fire" messages. Alcohol has this impact all across your brain—the parts that control muscles,…

Well, full hardware support with a cartridge is a finnicky thing to get right. A developer can put whatever chips they like inside the cartridge, and so long as it can still run code, they can bake all sorts of extra features in that way. Because the developers get to choose which chips they use, emulating how the…