You may also want to check out what Tonner's doing on the high-end doll front. I mean really, REALLY high end. The Avatar figures are probably in the $800-1000 range, but damn. Facebook links here:

You have no idea how many times I've wished I could go to that place..... ;)

Mark Meer is.... awfully good at lecherous, actually. ;) This is him. Watch and be scarred. Or amused. Or amused and scarred....

It is a trick to get anything terribly decent looking out of the sliders. I tried creating a custom male Shepard because I wasn't a fan of the default, and the kind of face I wanted I could never quiiiiite get. He turned out okay, but it's not an exact science. So if you want to play a male Shepard I can see the…

The last time I heard a designer complain about how much of a pain in the ass it was to develop for Android, he included this link, and I suddenly had a lot more sympathy: [developer.android.com]

Here's a question. What IS the policy if the person wants to preorder a game for which he/she WILL be of age to play by the time it comes out, but isn't at the time of ordering? That might account for a few of the otherwise dumb-sounding "can he still preorder?" questions.... (or possibly I'm just trying to give…

I note, however, that according to that graphic, you STOLE the thing....

"Perhaps Lucas should of hired them" - should HAVE.

I just wish Ellie were the playable character, especially considering she was the viewpoint character in the trailer and now it's all "no, sorry, you will be playing the burly man with the gun, AGAIN," but, well, what are you gonna do. :\ Still looks awesome.

I know this doesn't count as science fiction, but I just want to hang out and jam with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. (And if you don't, you have no soul.)

drwaings? #corrections

When the game was first announced with 3-6-12 in the trailer, I had to look it up to make sure I knew what they were talking about, because I'm so used to NOT having American-style timekeeping in the game (your save files are all day-month-year and a 24-hour clock) that I was wondering if they meant June. ;)

Lending out books always made me nervous. I ended up instating a simple rule: if the book is signed, it doesn't leave the house. People tend to understand that one, and I go to enough readings that this ends up guarding a disproportionate percentage of my library.

My violence threshold with games is a little weird, but I can describe it as "the further away from reality the whole situation gets, the less twitchy I am." Take, say, Final Fantasy games. I really don't have a problem killing a 50-foot flan monster with fire. In Mass Effect I turn the difficulty down as far as it…

You left out the two most offensive problems I've seen described yet: the character who apparently just got over her autism and the gay character who turned straight.

Absolutely. I don't mind the folks who know what they're doing and aren't there expressly to be "hey, look at my booooooooobs, come over heeeeeeeeeeeeeere." Costumes, even if they're skimpy/slinky/whatever, can be just fine if they make sense for the product and — again — if said person knows what he/she's talking…

Will you watch this show?

*facepalm*

Agreed. At the point where I realized that your choices amounted to "giant rack, giant rack, giant rack or giant rack," I sighed. A LOT.

Most of the characters do. That cropped up with my Shepard all the damn time. Of course, being little miss accommodative esotropia myself (look it up), I just chalked it up to extreme avatar accuracy and ran with it. ;)