:D

Even Nothing was greater than L.A. Noire?

For that matter, it's possible to be stationed in a place that might see combat without seeing combat.

Yeah. :)

I've been wondering this, too. It seems like an insane record.

Yeah, New Vegas definitely had more of the wild, dark humor that had been present in the first two games. I loved (loved) Fallout 3 especially because it was relentless and bleak, but New Vegas definitely felt more organic and open.

This is really too bad. I was watching early this morning (around 8AM or so,) and he wasn't doing great; he had under 100 men left at that point, which was grim but not necessarily a death knell (Joel West, who has the world (marathon) record for Frenzy, was saying in chat that he achieved his record with very few…

You, gotta change all of the tiles to the color that the game shows you in the upper left corner.

Currently at around 54 hours.

Weirdly, that sort of obsessing over what's hipster and what's not strikes me as way more hipster than actual hipsters.

I guess I misunderstood your point. :)

He's still going!

Great book, great series so far. Glad to see it getting so much attention! (Er, except from io9 :D)

I find it difficult to take people's opinions about books seriously when they invoke book burnings.

In order to describe why it's so obvious (and therefore pandering,) you're still having to use technical terms that no non-musician is going to understand.

Bad style and verbiage is NOT the same thing as describing something using technical terms. There's lots of writing that is both extremely technical and totally clear.

That's a great list, and I have a few new tomes to pick up as well. "Zone One" looks especially interesting, and I hadn't realized how wild the premise to "Embassytown" is (I'm an anthropology student who spends most of his days trying to tease out the implications and histories of symbolic culture, so obviously I…

I've actually found talking about the music to be a rather substantial part of talking about music.

Out of curiosity, what did you find so compelling about it?

You brushed off his comment about arcade games, but it really is very true. Many of them DO NOT have win conditions; the only 'goal' is to go for as long as you can. Minecraft is absolutely bound by even more complex rules than those early games. It also has a set of per-world achievements to give structure and…