Whenever I'm feeling down, out-of-sorts, overly anxious, I literally google "puppy and kitty are friends", and "kitty loves puppy". I think I need to create a Favorites Folder, and put this in there.

Actually, a hyper-real pokemon would be kind of great. With creatures that straddle the line between grotesque and cute.

I'll tells ya the point. A next-next-gen oculus-type device running at 8k.

I've got no particular platform loyalties (else why the heck would I re-buy it for PC). Plus, my experience and opinion on witcher 2 performance is in line with the general consensus, which describe it as a poorly optimized for pc, and considered the 360 port an amazing technical achievement, considering the game and…

I love the pace of Elder Scrolls games. I actively seek out some of those little baby quests just as an excuse to stroll around, kill a few baddies, and maybe some wildlife and bandits, collect a little useless booty and sell it. There are plenty of multilevel mission quests if you want to go that route. And…

I support this - I picked up witcher 2 enhanced on sale, and man, was thing chuggy on my fairly spiffy pc (quad core 3ghx - $200 card). And the input lag was atrocious. It was not a big deal beacuse it ran great on my 360.

Reading CNN comments is the most disheartening experience. Such an ugly place.

Fellow Masshole - and nearly every day I grumble about how I'm court-ordered to live here forever. Not really, but I do have 50% custody of my kids, and my ex ain't movin. I told her I'd pay for the move - I'd even help find her a job. In any state where they can grow palm trees. I'm just not into all this grey…

I spent tons of time there as a kid - my dad lived there for a decade - north of Bangor in the serious sticks. I can see people being happy to spend their whole lives there. It's just a sturdy way of life. They're accustomed to the god-awful climate (6 month winters, and buggy-ass summers), and are 100% ok with it.…

I had Grandia 2 for the Dreamcast, and it was one game where I looked forward to the battles. Especially one you get into the rhythm of them. It's like a delicate ballet, especially the insane boss fights. That story was so-so, though the characters were pretty cool, so I rooted for them to succeed at, um, whatever…

I can see that. It's all perspective. For me, those games (all the way back to Daggerfall) were about a sense of deep immersion in a virtual world. So stuff like trudging along a woodsy trail between one town and the next, or carrying a torch in some nearly empty cave, are a key part of that experience. If you're…

Men's understanding of what it means to be raped starts with. "Oh I can see how horrible it would be to forced into sex under threat of violence/death." But, for many, it takes education to understand why other kinds of rape, the kinds that don't include a knife to the throat, are just as bad.

It's my canon. I'm on my third read-through, with my kids this time. Assuminng episode VII ignores it, I'll just assume it all went down between VI & VII.

Exactly, the mistakes of both Sony and MS this gen around have nothing to do with team fragmentation, and far more to do with distinct choices made. Both teams decided against a concerted effort to make the most kick-ass gaming system they could. That Sony's has a little more oomph under the hood is inconsequential.…

Exactly - I see it as "small child guilt" the kind where they don't exactly get what was so wrong about it, but do know you as the parent/master are going to be pissed about it. it's not a complex emotion. People who say "dogs don't feel guilt" are both right and wrong. They're right in that that complex…

I don't know why people go so far out of their way to do the opposite of anthropomorphizing when it comes to dogs. As if they're nothing but 40lb furry amoebae. Or robots with very simple programming.

ick, meth users

Right - two separate dogs and the same thing. What tipped me off to the accident or mishap was their behavior. My dog before this one was extra mischevious - always finding a stray sock or tissue, or worse, a kids toy, and chewing it messy bits. He's approach me so submissively, and I'd laugh and say "what'd ya…

this sounds dumb to say but I've always been jealous of shorter guys. It seems like the ideal sized dude is a light 5'4". Those guys always seem capable of amazing feats of agility - as if that's the human animal's perfect proportion, because they have the capability to build the same strength as tall men, but have…

This company makes a camera/software combo that makes 360-degree 3D movies for the rift (http://gizmodo.com/meet-the-crazy…).