The action figures are!?

Crap on that doc. That BBQ guy, Cooley was pushing to close down a homeless shelter near his restaurant, and he belonged to a group of entrepreneurs interested in gaining a foothold in an already pretty thriving Hispanic area who called themselves—get this—the Conquestidors.

I am the Toblerone of Detroit.

That's exactly what I was hoping.

The dudes who invented musical chairs and keep away are so pissed.

So John Howard Griffin = Godhand's Gene

I one of the early Paradisa sets, and it never occurred to me that they were aimed at girls. It just figured it was a Miami pastel sort of thing. I guess my parents did an ok job with me after all.

Just last night I picked back up Just Cause 2 after a lapse of a couple weeks, and learned that the X Button is not the confirm button on the save menu, it's the delete button. I fully expected this post to be about that.

Doesn't the Makopad actually have a bit of a following with the MAME fighting game crowd? It plus an adapter is like the USB Saturn pad for weirdos.

Hey Joni and the Sprawl are the two explicitly Gibson-influenced songs on Daydream Nation. Then there's the more obvious one, Pattern Recognition on Sonic Nurse.

It actually was in Battle Royale 2.

I thought they passed from hipster metal to mall metal sometime around 2001. This is all so confusing.

All the weird nebulously pejorative talk of "hipsters," online has had me confused for years, especially when confused folk prescribe patently uncool things to them. I guess truly awesome things are beyond the imagination of most lame cats, so they substitute their best guesses—wearing glasses, and having a mustache.…

I don't remember cats being too excited about the WotC buy-out of TSR... I remember Dragon Magazine disappearing for nearly a year, and everyone nervous about CCG-style money grubbing marketing (which we didn't really see until 4th Edition's annual Player's Handbooks).

I'm surprised I didn't catch wind of the oogy-boogy tribesmen 'til this article. Did it bomb so bad that no one noticed?

With Japan's aging post-Bubble population being anxious regarding the nation's youth, I always took Battle Royal to come down on the side of young people, while Suicide Circle was the one that reinforced old folk's fears.

I saw Eastman talk a couple months back, and, in response to a question from a fan, he defended all the TMNT-knockoffs, given his own history with Daredevil.

I love Super Mario Bros! Who would thing to say, "Let's stick the Max Headroom creative team, Dennis Hopper, and Sonic Youth's original drummer in a meticulously redecorated factory, abandon the script, and let things happen!"

My Cowon iAudio7 has the longest battery life of any portable gadget I've ever owned. I used to listen to music every day on the bus for 2.5 hours, and I only had to charge the thing once a month. That being said, the touch plate thing is really touchy (or sometimes not at all), tag support for OGG and FLAC is iffy,…

Huh? Sounds like I made the right choice.