I got one the first time I got 60 secs on Hexagon and Hexagoner, but only the first time - it said something like "Congratulations, level complete", and Hexagon Hyper Mode unlocked

It didn't end at 99:23 - he crashed. The game was "complete" because the game considers the level beaten if you make it past 60 secs. So after 60, whenever you crash, you get the "Congratulations"-screen at whatever time you made it to.

Yeah, he's entitled to not like the game, but you're right, he either didn't play the game or he's just terrible at cobbling together coherent arguments that follow logically from facts (seeing as every single one of his "wish-it-had-this" are literally Borderlands 2's bread and butter, aces in holes, raison d'etres,…

Same thing happened with SotC, surely - I first heard about it right after Ico came out, and yet it was one of the last "big" titles in the PS2 cycle...? if the pattern holds, Team Ico's next game will be ready just before the launch of the PS5, sometime in 2020.

Dude, I'm from Sweden. Video doesn't work. I thought you promised, I said PROMISED, only people from the UK would have this problem!?!?

Uhm. Ok, shameless Kickstarter plug. Very related, and a bit further along.

Yup, redaction fail.

Interesting article, but terribly written. Sorry - you need to re-write more.

So... not a party, more like a LARP? Or a Renaissance Fair in reverse?

I've always been amazed when I read that you guys in the US don't need 2-factor identification when logging onto your online banking-sites. Is it still like that? I've had to carry an electronic decoder to go online with my bank since, oh, 1998... Nowadays, it's 3-factor - I need a decoder, an ATM-card to put in the…

Cool. I should also point out that I wasn't saying you were wrong to be friendly - a lot of Scandinavians actually envy the ease with which Americans strike up conversations, and we can seem a bit withdrawn to people who don't know us.

The Nokia Brick was awesome. It also was nigh-on indestructible, I think I still have a working one somewhere in a drawer...

You're American, I'm guessing? In the Scandinavian countries or Japan, people would nod politely and then try to get away from you as fast as possible. It's not that they don't like you, it's that oversharing is seen as proof positive that you are faking; a person who was really interested in becoming friends wouldn't…

Someone should tell the health board in Ontario about the hygiene hypothesis...

Yes, you're right that the first few times it takes a while to retrtace my steps; this is a problem for maybe the first three weeks of a new year - after that it becomes second nature and takes maybe 10 seconds both to create and to retrace.

The absolute best way I've found is using a combination of several methods; I like to pick a few random words at the beginning of each year, then tie them together with pronouns to make a sentence - so

Wouldn't the cracks be, y'know, matter...?

I think I was two minutes into 'The Middleman' before I realized it was going to be absolute awesomesauce. I was never disappointed.

Meh. I'm a traditionalist on things like this, but then, I'm Swedish, so I don't have a problem with the English language...

On average, a 1 gig movie takes me 3-5 minutes to download. Of course, I'm on the "medium" service, with only 100 Mbit/s for an eyegouging $50 a month.