It’s a valid complaint, one that is somewhat rare in anime, though not unheard of—Jun Hono, the heroine of the classic giant robo manga Great Mazinger, had her mixed ethnic background and the social stigma she faced as a result of it as part of her backstory (she had an Japanese parent and an American one, white in…

I can’t agree more. In the old days, back when companies like NewEgg were terrible at the return process (as opposed to ‘less terrible’ like they are now), the RMA process basically meant every time you built a PC, you were playing a lottery for that relatively small chance that you got a component that was either DOA…

Perfectly sensible. Some people work on their own cars, some don’t. In the end, no matter what you’re taking some quantifiable risk—doing you first PC build from components you’ve selected absolutely carries a risk (in fact, a number of risks) that should not, however, deter you from pursuing it. The same goes for…

That sucks. My last build from NCIX was a testimony to their customer service, even though I didn’t realize it at the time: they called me, with a live human being, to explain my GTX 970 wasn’t available, and offer me a replacement (at adjusted cost). I was disappointed, since the GPU was marked as available, and…

There’s always a risk with this area: I’ve had NewEgg send me the wrong item purchased (a motherboard instead of a CPU fan) that I had to return, and they’re pretty well-known for being a pain to RMA to. Parts can also be sent to you broken from any of the major retailers. Who did you order from, if you mind me…

Having built three gaming systems personally, I actually don’t enjoy the experience (but I don’t fault anyone who does). It’s like car repair: if you live in the United States, chances are you’re obligated to own or at least regularly use a car, but you may or may not enjoy repairing it yourself. You may derive an…

Not that ironic—or perhaps, “not so surprising.” For starters, video games are not banned for any reason in the Russian Federation, perhaps because there isn’t a normal mechanism to do so. In the infamous ‘No Russian’ level of Modern Warfare 2, you play a part in a complicated false flag conspiracy that funnels you…

Good for her! I know my mother accidentally updated too (though in her case, she had the opportunity to reverse it and decided not to).

For a second, I thought this was in reference to the class-action lawsuit Sony had paid out years back to people who bought Playstation 2s. I’d never heard of this...interesting.

Just think of what he could’ve done in Duke Nukem 3D’s editor.

This reminds me of when the Steam workshop first opened up for Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas. I seem to recall that, especially for Fallout 4 and New Vegas, there was a brief (?) surge of mod theft across the platforms, almost exclusively from, yup, the Nexus modding community, and some mods are still Nexus exclusives…

I would never claim they were a majority by any means, but the notion of a majority of them being communists sounds roughly as inaccurate unless you limit yourself to the below thirty crowd, and even then I wouldn’t be fully convinced. “Large slew” may have been a bad choice of words, but there are definitely many out…

Fake Edit: Nope, J. Gordon-Levitt is over thirty too. Scratch that. Ellen Page is 29 (practically 30) and Canadian.

Given that Halo 5 is very comfortably the most successful, most played console exclusive first person shooter, I will politely disagree with you that it was an “abomination”—it is a very, very good game (that is by no means perfect, though no Halo game ever was, and certainly no Call of Duty game has been) and has a…

That’s a valid position. I personally dislike pirate games (I don’t find them intrinsically romantic or exciting, ironic as I actually enjoy modern sea conflict games like the Silent Hunter series, but there are so few of them), so its really hard to personally get excited about this title.

I actually can’t name any popular American actor who’s under thirty, with the lone exception of Jaden Smith (and maybe one or two child actors). Every lead in every Marvel movie (which are among the most popular collection of films), to the best of my knowledge, over thirty (excluding the actor who plays the new…

Not everyone needs a laser printer (indeed, nowadays not everyone needs a printer period)—and for the price of this one, you can expect to get a truly awful laser printer that you will curse every day you own it. :) I have one of them, snagged on a deal from Amazon.com—MX920. It’s a pretty serviceable printer, a good…

Not everyone needs a laser printer (indeed, nowadays not everyone needs a printer period)—and for the price of this…

As a Taiwanese national living in the United States, I have to say I find all of this sort of fascinating. It’s not really surprising Jackie Chan is a patriot, even a jingoist, and technically speaking, he’s in very good company among a large slew of patriotic or even jingoist American actors and directors, despite…

After the monster’s defeated, you have a chance to go for a ride with the game’s weirdly sexualized take on Cid.

Hasn’t Sony already sent out PS4.5 dev kits? If that’s the case, a hardware revision could be difficult at this point.