Buncha games that have been free on PC, buncha roguelikes and narrative adventure stuff. Bit sparse in the value / genre department

“Having to apologize and getting nothing in return usually means you were in the wrong.”

Renata, we get it. This is your sock puppet. You can rest now.

My dad had a 50th anniversary book of the old Buck Rogers comics. One of the devices they had shot a unidirectional force beam. My vision for the workings of speeders follows on your comment in that you mount one of these at each corner of the vehicle inside the body and pointing up to the frame or other structure,…

the way I understand it is that the electromagnetic force is easy for us to manipulate becuase it is expressed via positive and negative particles. controlling the interactions of Protons and Electrons forms the foundation for any of our electrical or chemical technologies (so, pretty much everything we do). Gravity…

Jason has completely missed the point of “anti-gravity”, which is indeed a real thing in physics, conceptually, just not observationally... yet. The anti-gravity vehicle would work by virtue of containing some mass (negative mass) that’s repelled by gravity (i.e., the force of other matter), rather than being…

I’m not sure why the article pretty much completely skips out on the aerodynamics involved. Sure if the hovercar is stationary relative to the observer then the air would be relatively stationary and anything floating in air would just kind of stay there. However if the car is moving at any normal speed, the floating n…

When your choices are to sexualize yourself or to be unwillingly sexualized by men/society, some people choose the first option. Not saying I agree with it or that that would be my choice, but it makes sense to me (a woman) on some level. If you’re going to make it in a male dominated field that almost certainly is…

Frankly, I’d hope that intelligence services were risk-averse about EVERYTHING. I mean, being risk-averse is pretty much what they’re there for! If you’re naturally comfortable taking accepting high levels of risk, why are you in counterterrorism!?

“I religiously go off about minorities being marginalized in this nation” This to me is the trashiest element of a trash apology ... he’s touting his cred regarding standing up for the marginalized, WHEN HE LITERALLY JUST TRIED TO MARGINALIZE OHTANI. More of the Trump-style “believe what I’m saying right now, not…

Yes as he should. His comments have nothing to do with Rachel Nichols white feminist bullshit with Maria Taylor. (Worth nothing Maria Taylor replaced Nichols after the incident on finals coverage). Stephen A smith deserves to be dragged because his comments were xenophobic and he has a tendency to only be cognizant of…

The chick lit issue. I read a lot of pop sci-fi and fantasy that are incredibly entertaining and full of amazing worlds, but if there is a female protagonist it is somehow automatically chick lit. Completely ignore all the amazing action and story, the heroine kisses someone and it is now all invalid.

According to Wikipedia, both tentacle porn and bukkake owe their existence and popularity largely (though not quite entirely) to several laws passed in post-War Japan, especially during the 1980s, which were intended to crack down on pornography. Specifically, these laws placed a great deal of restriction on showing…

It’s very prevalent in Korea, and a lesser degree in HK, Taiwan, or China. I don’t know about other SE Asian pop scenes, but it’s possible it may be for them too. But Japan and Korea seem to be the most extreme as far as fan reaction to both men and women idols dating.

This incident also highlights another major problem with America: everyone is too damn high strung about sex. People be fucking. Sometimes those people are the same sex, and there’s nothing wrong with that. BUT, because this is a “christian” nation founded by a bunch of Puritans even the English couldn’t stand, sex…

The emotions criticism of Super Princess Peach is unfair - the whole bit is she is in complete control of her emotions and uses them as a super power. I think it’s pretty clear the developers were intentionally subverting the ‘women are emotional’ trope - rather than making her weak and unreliable, they instead give…

Ugh, I want to be as respectful as possible to the author but I’m just going to be honest. As someone who’s been playing JRPGs pretty much nonstop for the last 30 years, this type of thinking really annoys me. Not only because it prevents people (like the author) of experiencing the rich, beautiful, touching and…

It baffles me that somebody can call this game “regressive” when it’s portraying a capitalist dystopia with a shiny neoliberal facade. Honestly, I feel like there’s an entire generation of games reviewers that have come up just flat-out not grasping the concept of dystopian fiction... or actively rejecting it,…

A child’s game, though simplistic in concept, is exploited to the nth degree by adults who are obsessed with it. They develop a following of the kids who are also obsessed with the game, but lack the mechanical facility and forethought to pull off the things their older idols can do. Idols elevated to god status.…

What if the exorbitant bonuses came in some envelopes, but not others? And at the end of every pay period, you could pay for an envelope with a better chance of having an exorbitant bonus inside? But the vast majority of the time, instead of an exorbitant bonus, the envelope you purchased just had some lipstick or…