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Hahah, didn’t know if you were serious, looked it up:

“two weeks after having his toe amputated from a poisonous spider bite, lying on a crack dealer’s couch clutching his last guitar for pawning – Al Jourgensen finally decided to get clean.”

- Yup, that sounds about right. 

Hah, oh, I’m not saying you’re wrong... He may well have said it at some point. The dude has threatened some from of retirement more times than I can count.

I’m just saying so far as I know officially, NIN itself has never been put away, he was just distracted making soundtracks with Atticus and the HtDA stuff. And I

He’s taken breaks from writing new NIN material, and hiatuses from touring (sometimes implying it would be forever), but he has never retired “the band.”

Uh... Kind of hard for “them” not to be together. Until very recently when Ross was officially added, NIN has always been just one guy. (With a touring band.)

And I like Ministry and all, but Trent has more talent in his big toe than that entire band. IMHO, of course...

Thank you. I was about to scream into the internal grey void that any list without Flash Gordon on it is borderline offensive. Greatest soundtrack in the history of film. No other answer is acceptable.

Pets.com for sure... That may well have been the first (Non- AOL related) web site I ever saw an offline ad for.

FD and DK had a massive impact (in the same way poker sites did), but I think the public at large’s awareness of them is relatively limited compared to most of the other sites on this list... I worked in that

Can’t say as I’ve actually tried it (because it takes two seconds to quit to the menu in a DS game anyway), but I have read people have tested using standby mode on Ps4 and it does not actually pause DS titles.

According to the posts I saw on the topic, people came back from suspended mode to either find themselves

Oh, no kidding... Sounds like it really is just a Shield Tablet with an N slapped on it.

I won’t argue that it’s a bastion of perfect visibility, but the complaints are slightly overblown too... Having a backup camera in my model probably skews my perception of just how bad it actually is, but I don’t find it to have any worse (rear) blind spots than any older gen Camaros I’ve owned.

The only visibility

Ah, I was wondering how they were handling the Tegra in a device actually meant to be portable...

I have a Shield Tablet (and absolutely love it), but it is clearly not meant to be used as an actual game console when it’s in portable/tablet mode. If you play any of the proprietary games for it (Doom 3, Halflife 2,

Exactly. That low barrier to entry in both creation and viewing of content exploded the dev scene in a way nothing else ever has, especially when it came to game development.

The perfect example of how nothing that has popped up since is comparable is to look at Joe Cartoon. (Frog in a blender.) Did you know he still

Wholly untrue. The original, unaltered trilogy was certainly made available “beyond VHS. The single only format where you can buy the new versions of the OT and not the unaltered originals is on Blu-ray.

Betamax, VHS, Laser Disk, VCD, and DVD all offer it... Granted, some of those were limited runs or in smaller marke

You can convert (some) Flash content to HTML/JS, but only within reason, and it is nowhere near as simple and clean a process as people like to pretend. As3 code can generally be converted to JS easily enough, but that doesn’t help you when it comes to graphics, especially if you were doing on-the-fly vector work, or

So much this... I was a Flash Developer for close to twenty years and it was some of the most fun and rewarding development I’ve ever done. The scripting language is essentially JS with a massively expandable vector drawing API, so the possibilities were basically as far as your creativity allowed.

You could launch

Well, we could back and forth all day on whether or not you need specific first-hand reports to be concerned (despite the fact that the company itself has a pretty solid history of outspoken, miserable employees), but it doesn’t even matter anyway.

It’s not like Heather said, “this happened, boycott this game”, she merely said when games are this massive in size, it makes her concerned for the people who were involved in making it. It’s a totally reasonable concern given the history of the industry.

It would be no different than saying, “I really want the new

Nobody implied this had anything to do with the US (Ubisoft isn’t even a US company), but regardless, you are comparing apples to orange in the most wildly uniformed manner possible.

I’ve been in software development for 20 years (including some time in the game industry), and game crunch does not even compare to other

It wasn’t out of place, because it’s something the reviewer thought about when they were playing the game... It’s literally the only requirement for what should appear in a personal review.

Hah, uhh.... you can launch off a hill going 200 mph, sail through the air for 6 seconds and drop 600 feet onto pavement (in a 40 year old Lamborghini Countach) and then keep right on going... It’s not a driving simulator, it’s a (really, really) fun video game.

That’s too funny, because that’s precisely what I love about it... I don’t play driving games to memorize tracks and shave a fraction of a second off my time by perfecting the exact driving line the dev’s intended. I want to go balls-out down a road, be surprised by every race, every time, and have to react on the fly