Man, when I was a kid I did just that. Then a week or so later when my mom and brother got a book about solving the Rubik's cube, and the instructions didn't work, I had to 'fess up about it.

I think we'll get the announcement of it in June... then it'll come out in the fall. Just my speculation, though.

Basically, my interest in the Sims hinges on my ability to move in with the Golden Girls. I know I'm not the only one.

I hope so - one odd thing that happened to me last night, though, was that I accidentally crashed a helicopter and it gave me a message saying my mental activity rating was increasing, even though I was the only one who got killed. There was someone else nearby, but it was a fluke as I got caught up on a telephone…

No, it never really crossed my mind as being something I could contact them about and get a response... thankfully somebody did! I opted to just wear hats.

It would be cool if there was some kind of defense against being griefed by players in jet fighters. As a general rule I have a pretty relaxed attitude about getting into conflicts with overpowered players, but a jet fighter last night was just dominating everyone in free roam and there's pretty much nothing that can…

Cornrows now clear normally after haircuts. If you have cornrows stuck on your character, please choose any new haircut at a nearby barber shop.

Yeah, this happened to me recently, and it only charged them a few hundred bucks. Gotta be much more if they really want to make someone think twice about it.

I guess not. I've mostly lived in the South and the Northwest. I wonder if it's also common in the areas of Canada nearby Michigan? Thanks for letting me know, I'm fascinated with dialects and the proliferation of phrases, idioms and such.

"Funny that, no?" This might be a silly question, but I was wondering if this grammatical form is common in Japanese? Personally I usually associate it with French people speaking in English. I never hear Americans using it. But I've noticed several Kotaku writers using it recently.

Very cool. Let me know if any of you guys watch the whole thing—I'm curious to hear how good it is.

Well, I agree that they took a wrong turn circa 2008 as you say, because they were trying to catch the same lightning in the same bottle by repeating the unusual controller gimmick that worked so well for the Wii. From then on, it was one mistake after another. The confusing debut of the WiiU, the different processor…

Yeah, somehow I don't think so. Your theory that Nintendo can 'wait it out' while Sony and Microsoft destroy each other and have to exit the console market is certainly creative. Aside from the fact that their new consoles are selling better now at this point in their lifecycle than the PS3 and 360 did, Sony and MS…

I wonder why they changed their strategy? Because at the outset of the last generation, when everyone was laughing at the reveal of the Wii, Reggie Fils-Aime announced that their goal was to have the top-selling console.

Art for the sake of fun and awesomeness is still art! Besides, aren't adult artists often doing bigger and more complex versions of what we did as kids? Drawing, painting, dancing, singing...

Cool, thanks for the link.

Gonna go out on a limb and say Lando was probably making sweet love with someone at the time of this photo.

Well, technically it is possible, but it would require the same amount of work that professionals apply to feature films, probably with a lot of hand-drawn and edited masks... if it was done in post, it would function well as a demo to get into post effects in film.

True, but if I try to make my filenames go day/month/year it'll take longer to sort out which file is from the 29th of April 2011 and which is from the 29th of April 2013. Therefore I personally go with year/month/day, which still keeps things organized in a logical order individually but also in the entire group of…

But in this case, the similarities feel a bit more damning. It's because they add to some other issues I was facing while playing. Mind, these aren't technical issues or anything. The game runs great, looks great. Still, the entire time I was playing, I primarily thought two things: 1) I wish I was playing the…