Maybe this was why the game felt so bland to me. The character has to simultaneously be himself and yet open to what I want to do. He can't have too strong a personality, or there's no room for me to make decisions - but he's still Geralt and not whoever I want to make, so he can't be open enough to become whatever…

I felt the same way. There is such overwhelming critical and consumer love of Witcher 2, and when I finally got the Enhanced Edition and played it through... I was kinda bored. It played well enough (with the exception of the insane difficulty spike on the last boss) but the story was mostly bland, the characters…

To pull a prank like this? The balls on this guy...

See him in Fringe. He plays two versions of the same character from two dimensions, and it's great. Fringe is in my Top 5 favorite shows of all-time, and worth binging on if you get the chance.

While I don't agree that your future is solely dependent on money (having a parent who makes time and gives a shit is worth way more), it does an interesting job of commenting on class divisions in Japan—and beyond.

I'm trying not to cry, now. Thinking about my sister off in space somewhere, having adventures in some surely hodge-podge cruiser of her own design, and wishing I'd have backed the Kickstarter at that level just to have the chance to run into her out there. It's a beautiful story, and thanks for sharing. I wouldn't…

Hey, there are a lot of non-health reasons to be against GMOs. Companies shouldn't be able to patent living things, and some seriously aggressive, evil shit is being done to use GMOs to take over modern agriculture. Then there's the dangers of mass monocultures, the potential hazards of which are huge and sweeping. I…

This happens with critics all the time, but I've been noticing it a lot in games journalism lately. It usually plays out like this: If Game Reviewer X publishes a review of a game that I agree with, then X is a quality writer, working for a quality publication, and I will continue to support and trust them. If…

Oh. I see what this is. My mistake; I should've realized you were just baiting people rather than looking for actual discourse. Carry on.

And, if you look at the aggregate numbers, it may turn out to your (and my, frankly) surprise that Kale could justifiably be called a "beloved vegetable."

Now, to spend the next four weeks trying to envision the context in which a Dragon Age: Inquisition character says, "I will bring myself sexual pleasure later, while thinking about this with great respect."

Construx were awesome. You know why? The cockpits were perfectly to scale with GIJoes. I could buy armfuls of old GIJoes for nickels a piece at yard sales, get some Construx sets on the cheap (because they weren't Lego) and have full playsets and vehicles for any setting I imagined. I would wish them for any child,…

You would be surprised. I have a dA page, I'm a pro artist at conventions so people come to me for commissions of stuff, I get around art communities online to see what's current, that sort of stuff, and virtually every Sonic thing I've seen has had furry connotations. You can imagine, then, my difficulty in taking…

Yes. What little of Sonic I've seen outside the games, barring the horrible animation, has always been fanficcy quasi-porn stuff from the furry types. None of the out-and-out pornographic variety, mind, but the skeevy "these people want to see these hedgehogs do things to each other" kind. Close enough to creep me out.

I wish it weren't so, truly, but at this point the only thing I can think of when I see anything Sonic related (that isn't a literal video game, and even then...) is the disturbing amount of furry porn out there with this poor bastard. That fandom has pretty much ruined this whole character's universe for me. Not that…

Oh, the nostalgia is far better. No question. I highly recommend NOT going back and watching these old shows, for the sake of your heart. I remember rewatching an episode of one of my childhood favorites - Silverhawks - many, many years ago, and man... that thing was so impossibly horrible. I didn't think they could…

There were a lot of these lesser-known one-and-done cartoons in that time period. Many of my favorites were hard to find, infrequently aired, and got canned after only one season. I still think Spiral Zone was a brilliantly deep concept for kids TV, but there was also the Dino-Riders, Sky Commanders, Centurions,…

Yes. Thank you. Found footage is the reality television of film - cheap, kitschy, and not half as "real" as their marketing people keep insisting. If you want a good story told well in a visual medium, it requires tools a shaky handheld can't always give - directorial control, cinematography, composition of shots and…

Dinosaucers was the absolute STUFF, man. I remember it being hard to find, for some reason, but I loved it so much. Anything with dinosaurs was automatically my favorite as a kid, and if you add in power rings (big Green Lantern fan) and things that transform into other things, and you have a perfect trifecta.

But think about it - when you were a little kid and wanted to play Star Wars out on the playground, everyone wanted to be Han Solo or Princess Leia, not Luke Skywalker. It wasn't that Luke wasn't as interesting a character as his compatriots, it's that they were most like us - ordinary people who faced hardships, and…