It’s largely because white men aren’t afraid of asian people stealing thier women. They’ll concede Asians are smarter because they still feel superior physically. It’s an easy way to say “see I’m not racist, this race is better than mine” but secretly they’re thinking you may be smarter but I’m bigger. 

St Judes is a wonderful organization and I volunteer to help them run an auction annually. We’ve raised millions of dollars for St Judes and I couldn’t be prouder. St Judes is amazing because they don’t charge families for treatment and they put up the parents in dorms attached to hospital so they can be close to…

Here’s the thing though, I never beat Dark Souls. I got stuck actually in a non-boss area, stopped playing for a few weeks because life got in the way then by the time I tried resuming my skills had deteriorated to the point I couldn’t advance and I never played it again. I still would not change it and I have no…

I appreciate the analogy with book translations. I always hesitate with this topic because it can become toxic quickly so let me be clear I’m by no means a “get gud” gatekeeper and I don’t care if people want to turn on God mode Dark Souls or whatever makes them happy.

Well said, I struggle with this as well. On one hand I’m firmly in the camp of I don’t really care how other people want to enjoy a game it doesn’t bother me if they turn on easy mode or add cheats whatever. On the other hand I’m firmly in the Dark Souls doesn’t need a difficultly slider camp which flies in the face…

I already admitted I was wrong in thinking this site was hosting old NES Roms I didn’t realize they were hosting pirated recent material. I’ve never pirated anything but I have downloaded Roms I used to own on NES back in the day when there was no way to play or purchase NES games ie. GameCube Era circa early 2000s…

It's a civil suit no? I'm pretty sure you don't get a public defender in a civil case. 

Okay okay I should have read more before posting after 4 beers. I thought this was a site hosting old NES Roms which I see now its more than that. I’m wrong on this one. 

Seems a bit harsh, websites aren’t free to run and file hosting is notoriously expensive. It sounds like this was his full time job and he made barely above minimum wage providing a resource many people on this site likely took advantage of. I haven’t read the full lawsuit, but the guy is representing himself so he…

I know much has been written on this but HL: Episode 3 remains the most baffling entertainment story in my life. There are any number of reasons a sequel doesn’t get made and I can’t think of a single one that applies here. The last one was a huge hit and ended on a cliffhanger leaving not a suggestion of a sequel but…

Renting games is one of those things that just kind of went away without us realizing it. I accidentally rented Super Mario RPG when it first came out. I didn’t know what RPG stood for at the time but just thought, cool new Mario game. I would not have bought it had I known the style as my only experience with turn…

Came here to say the same but figured on a technicality he’s not playing Ebenezer Scrooge so that disqualified him. Even moreso since they’re filming a TV version of scrooge in the movie, someone else is in fact cast as scrooge. That being said, if Clueless can be a Jane Austen adaptation in this list I think we’re…

I think it’s like how movies tend to be scarier when they don’t have budget to show the monster. Nobody is scared of extremely detailed cgi ghosts or demons, but show me a vague shadow standing in a doorway and it will keep me up at night for a week.

I don't really mind the epic ones because you go through the store checkout etc and are just getting a 100% discount. But what really annoys me is the Amazon fire TV apps which when installed send a receipt as if you bought something on Amazon. Those also make me think I accidentally added a subscription to something…

The planet exploring got more pointless each game. ME1, drive around the planet, explore, find bases, fight enemies. ME2 send probes, follow signals, find bases and maybe secrets. ME3, find the one or two planets in the system with a signal. Pointless have to scan and reveal the one and only spot that on the planet.…

Thirty years ago a flight Sim the likes of which MS just released was a fantasy to all us that played the DOS version. As tech improves it will be more likely for fantasy to meet reality.

I know this doesn’t apply to most people but if you have a MSDN subscription you can usually download specific release number ISOs which are fully patched. You’ll probably still get a few minor updates but the big feature releases are baked in. If you have a friend or family member who does dotnet development or It…

Microsoft has pushed AR developers towards use cases like this with the hololens. The problem they have is everyone tries to build games with it but that’s not what they really want to position themselves for. They envision something like a mechanic working on a car and being able to use AR to guide them, maybe even…

Great write up. I’ve always felt arkham games nailed their save system. You could log out at just about any point and return at roughly the same place. Even mid boss fight, if it was multi stage it would only restart you at the same stage rather than make you do the whole thing again. It was very rare to lose more…

Oh God I blocked it from memory but you just jogged it. I worked there during that period and there was like a $0.99 on Monday night triple cheeseburger special and it destroyed us. We physically could not keep up with demand because even using every grill we could we could only cook 32 patties every 3 minutes max and…