Well, I have, so I just negated your comment. (It gave me a route to take 2 freeways that intersected in the middle of Downtown LA, and made me get OFF the freeway 3 miles early and take a twisting route through the downtown streets in the middle of rush hour and then made me get on the 2nd freeway 2 miles after the…

Personally I could care less what paper was used in the gift-wrapping as long as the item was nicely wrapped (I'm terrible at it myself I think, which is why I resort to using bags)

Anyone else have a problem with overly postprocessed Cosplay costumes? One of the biggest challenges with cosplay compared to, say, just actual video game/comic book/fantasy art or movies is that cosplay is meant to be viewed in person, mostly up close, and usually just standing/walking around, as in conventions. Of…

Yeah I had a 19" CRT monitor from Dell in 2001-2003 that did 1600x1280 that I had to get rid of because having a CRT monitor in college was just a pain to move around (I didn't have laptop and went to school across the country). But afterwards I had to put up with an early 17" LCD screen with terrible contrast ratio…

My TV is a Hitachi and one of the last HD CRT TV's they made. Sure it's 1080i, but it's 50 inches and costs 600 dollars in 2007 and I swear it looks as good as the newer HDTV's in my friends' houses. Of course we also have a narrow living room and the thing juts out 2 feet off the wall. The point is there's probably a…

On a side note, anyone else find the field of view in FC3 to be way too narrow? I'll admit the last time I played FPS's with regularity was the Orange Box on PC so playing single player on a console on a big screen TV isn't something second nature to me, but I feel that (not even counting the HUD, which I don't find…

He's looking for nut sauce, not cock sauce.

When a gaming celebrity name-drops an obscure game, that's pandering to the gaming crowd too.

It depends on the MB/MBP. I have a 2010 17" MBP and it supports audio via HDMI. My fiancee has a 13" MBP (2008 or 2009) and it doesnt, so she has to connect through the TV via her headphone port as well.

Where does one start with airline rewards? I use my Chase Freedom religiously (debt-free of course) because I vastly prefer getting cash rewards since I don't travel THAT often, but I would like to more in the near future and want to have this as an option. Is there a rewards system that doesn't involve a separate…

Yeah, no, those people aren't gonna win shit. I think it's still most closely resembles donation though, in that if you donate to public television you also get nice rewards.

Just pasting a comment I made to another person who referred to Kickstarter as investing:

Yeah investing is giving money in the hopes of getting that money back. Purchasing is giving money with the promise of getting a product back. As someone else has said, giving money with no expectation of getting anything but good karma back is just called donating.

I have basically the same reaction as you, though I will say that aside from ANH, the rest of the SW movies have essentially been independent films, so even if there was a studio exec out there that thought they knew better than Lucas did, none of them had any power to do it (of course we all know how that turned out…

Wouldn't the external drive still need to be plugged in?

Funny how this AT&T and Verizon camera phone review article is presented to us by T-Mobile.

yeah I want more camp too. I was really excited when the first director rumored for the original FF movie was Payton Reed, who had just directed the likewise campy and 60's-set "Down with Love." I didn't necessarily need it to be set in the 60's, but that sense of absurd flirty fun would've been great (I almost said…

It looked off because the first LCD TV you switched to wasn't very good. It had worse dynamic range and response time, with ghosting effects and terrible viewing angles. You didn't get used to it, you just got new and better LCD TV's. If you looked at that same old LCD now you'd still thing it looked terrible. 48FPS…

Fair enough. I actually meant more in that the energy produced by dam turbines ultimately comes from the sun (well everything does, but in a more direct and immediate way than fossil fuels), so while not an infinite resource, it's definitely sustainable, in that as long as the sun heats up the planet and facilitates…

The energy is basically just a more indirect form of solar energy, since that's what brings the water from the ground back up into the air. So there really wouldn't be much of a change other than what's already a concern with hydroelectric dams... that by slowing down/backing up the water flow you're going to deprive…