IIRC, both Ruby and Emerald had two-attack uninterruptible combos which could defeat your entire party (i.e. deal over 9999 damage) if they happened to occur in sequence. Any strategy that cannot deal with this would rely on either Weapon not using those commands in a row. Basically you're saying FA-Phoenix isn't…

I'm saying there are distinctions in terms of copying, and yes, they do matter. In fact you *have* to break it down into levels in order to understand what was copied and why. When you fail to do so, you just make feeble arguments that carry no weight (i.e. you are trolling).

@snake6778: At the same time, if you look at Infiniminer vs. Minecraft, and Minecraft vs. Fortresscraft, there's a LOT more similarities between MC and FC, than IM and MC.

I ran into both Weapons and got smashed to bits instantly. My response was to get a golden chocobo, get all of the master materia, then I went to the place where the money cauldron enemies spawn (massive materia XP, iirc) and duped enough Final-Attack - Phoenix, and W-Summon - KnightsRound to equip the entire party. I…

That's Dr. McGonigal to you! I went to a talk by Jane McGonigal recently. She's got a lot of insightful things to say about gaming - not just video gaming.

@Keilwerth—LA: Your right to believe what you want is uninhibited by gays getting married. You have full rights to your beliefs. Noone is making you change your mind.

I had to explain this to someone else, but 1994 was the year the graphical browser was *invented*. Prior to that, the internet was nothing more than a computer billboard, and crude chatting tools.

@Homer Berkowitz: When you consider that petrochemicals exist in essentially fixed quantities on this planet until we come up with viable alternatives, saving every bit counts.

I buy green drives (for certain applications) because they are cooler and quieter. They go into applications where performance is not important, but aesthetics (including noise) are more relevant.

From an IP perspective the amount of copying here is pretty intense, and there are potential trademark and copyright implications. They took the name of the product, the icon for it, many of the textures are either direct copies or trivial variations.

@Dickeydoo: I meant tilt in the pinball sense, where you check the machine hard in a lateral fashion. Tilt-sensing pinball machines would detect this and disable the flippers to keep people from gaining an advantage by gaming the machine itself. Pinball tilting doesn't involve tipping.

@hurbieta: That's when you shake the machine. It's not like pinball; there's no penalty for tilting them.

@KingHippo: Game engines are designed to be robust. They're not one-offs for a particular game, but designed flexibly to support many different development needs. You can take one engine and build a racing game, an fps, a 2d scroller, and an isometric platformer, no problem. For any two games from the same developer,…

@pixelsnader: Ah, Ok. Cool.

@BillyMayes: 1500 Can't be right. I just checked my gamerscore, and it's near 4000. I practically never play on my x360, and I never grind achievements, and I have a ton more points. Maybe they meant 15,000?

@shimanopower: I know about half a dozen students that do this. Certainly still a tiny, tiny number of people. It's certainly viable with iPad Pages and a BT kb, it's just not versatile enough for all my needs, so I'd need a laptop with me anyway.

@Unchill English Bro now has Hipster Glasses: Why do people keep looking at marketshare at this point in the game? It really hides the enormity of Apple's success.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: I find it easy to justify the extra cost. I use some kind of computer for 8+ hours every day.

@scrapking: "Teen angst" in this case means that your mother is dead, you don't know your father, yet he is transforming you into a killing machine, and the world is ending.

@Nick Edge: Evangelion is likely the most psychologically unnerving narrative ever told. People who disagree simply have no idea what they just saw.