The "outrage" over the Rob Lowe shy bladder Dish commercial was internet sensitivity jumping the shark.

She jumped the shark on her last album. I think her praise really got hyperbolic following her superbowl performance a few years ago (people calling her a god/a queen/flawless seemed to start then) and it seems like she fully bought into it.

I'm still playing Destiny too. I mostly just play Crucible at this point; I got the Zombie Apocalypse HMG and have been destroying people consistently. I'm probably going to attempt the Vault of Glass for the first time tonight. Depending on how that goes I might buy the DLC.

I don't know. I had 4 or 5 iPods (and a Zune!) from the 2nd gen- original clickwheel model to 2 of the 160Gb classics over the past decade. My 160Gb classic still works, but is on its last leg. Use them enough (and inevitably drop them enough) and they will get corrupted and die eventually. To be fair, over this…

Catholics have pipe organs to make up for lip syncing hymns

I like that one, both musically and because it's often the recessional. Therefore it either marked the time I got to go home and go to sleep on Christmas eve or time to go home and play with presents when I was a kid.

"God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" is another great minor key Christmas song.

You could probably get a Sandisk player and a 40Gb SD cheaper than a new hard drive.

"What Child Is This?" is just "Greensleeves" though, which is a great song, but not Christmas-y to me.

A 512GB SD card exists, and 128GB micro SD cards are coming down in price. Flash memory is the future; moving parts are a liability.

The hard drives die inevitably. There is a finite lifespan on any memory storage medium. It can only take so many read/write cycles before it gives out. That is, unless you drop it and break it that way first.

I wonder where I would be if I had started playing WoW. My dad took me to go get a game from Circuit City (RIP) the month WoW was released. I didn't have a game in mind, though I was vaguely aware of reviews for some games. It came down to asking an employee which was better: Rome Total War or World of Warcraft. He…

I had Blue and Red. Well, I had Blue and played that first and my sister had Red, but she gave up after a while and I took over so I could trade myself all of the starters.

I remember Sessler brutally reviewing a Bruce Lee game. IIRC they played a clip of the character walking up stairs that was hilarious.

I remember TechTV fondly. They had a show (can't remember the name or be bothered to look it up now) consisting of commentated game tailors and CGI shorts that was pretty good.

In the "more winter than Christmas" category, I find myself listening to Carissa's Wierd and The National more when the weather is bleak.

A review isn't going to stop me from enjoying a game, but it might stop me from buying it in the first place. I read the review for Destiny here and considered skipping it, until my friends convinced me not to. 100+ hours played later I'm glad I bought a game with an admittedly generic and thin story, because gameplay…

Dragon Age is pretty far from an FPS.

Holy shit I always thought they were in Montreal

I play games as pure escapism at least 90% of the time. Yea games can be thoughtful, but I don't care about story unless the gameplay is there first and foremost. I'll read or watch movies for art; just let me shoot aliens or vaguely evil mercenaries after work with a beer for fun. I have to imagine many (or most)…