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The shriek is terrifying, but more than that it's the whole sense of helplessness the Redead creates. Every other enemy in Zelda you just have to dodge them or hit them. If you screw up it's your own fault and you could have done it better. If you get hit the damage is done and you get out of the way and keep…

I will also add this: Every would-be student of history needs to read Max Weber's lecture on Politics as Vocation before presuming to judge public officials: [www.ne.jp]

Not at war? The XYZ affair means nothing to you? Being on the shit list of BOTH major maritime world powers at the same time isn't a wee bit of a danger in your mind?

Listen man. Just because you only learned one fact about John Adams sometime in middle school doesn't mean that constitutes the entirety of his service to the country.

$0.36 a minute is a bit steep. But honestly I feel like I'd be willing to pay a small fee per minute just to be able to play games with cool people that I don't know. Most of my gamer friends have fallen to attrition or play different types of games and the pool of random people on XBL is pretty awful. Being able to…

Last Valentine's Day my mother calls me to say "Your dad just bought me Zelda for the Wii. He said it's a good way to keep me too entertained to complain to him about how little I am appreciated."

You know. I have a lot of friend in academia, most of them either pursuing or already possessing PhDs in history, political science, international relations, and economics. Somehow, I have discussions and arguments with all of these folks on their topics of specialization and they tend to listen thoughtfully and take…

You might enjoy the Zelda games. My mother loooooves Zelda. It's the only "mainstream" video game she plays. The emphasis is heavy on solving puzzles and while there is a bit of combat, it's not anything visceral. The stories aren't terribly complicated. They're mostly simple "Boy finds magic trinket, meets princess,…

Dude. The lady is interested in gaming and is obviously willing to try new games. She says she hasn't found one that interests her and rather than making a recommendation based on what she says her tastes are you're going to harp on her for not finding anything she likes?

WE NEED MORE SUPERWEAPONS! WE NEED A LOT MOAR!

@sick_and_ashamed: I think my big problem with it is that I've never seen a brutalist building that looks like the kind of place "the good guys" would live in. They all look like supervillain lairs to me.

Right but it's not a matter of getting "much money." It's just a matter of making back their initial investment. A sale abroad gets them less money than a sale in the US, but money is money.

IMO this conclusion only makes sense if you think in terms of the US market in isolation. But consider that the market for Hollywood is now more open internationally than ever before. The developing world is also much richer than ever before. While Blockbusters may not have the insanely huge sales that they used to,…

Geisel looks pretty, the National Theater is alright, and the Hirschorn is good although it's completely out of place sitting next to the baroque looking Smithsonian castle. The rest are hideously dehumanizing abominations and this is supposed to be the best brutalism had to offer?

JESUS CHRIST! IT'S A SYMBIOTE!

After completing the Suicide Mission in Mass Effect 2 I felt like the Goddamn king of the world. It was great.

@holy holes batman: Sorry, but if you’re the kind of employee who is going to violate company policy in order to distribute footage that you don’t have rights to, then you’re not the kind of employee that any company will want working for them. You don’t have a right to your job.

Why wouldn’t you bundle an app if you could? Thankfully my computing has mostly stabilized to the point where I don’t really care to install apps or tinker for fun anymore. But it always annoyed me how some programs would just create folders in the preferences folder that have nothing of consequence in them. This…

@Diminuendo: But compared to Wayne Brady he looks like Malcolm X!