And yet in this day and age, we can still see marvelous bags of shit like Ride to Hell:Retribution and Guise of the Wolf. If anything, the culture of Early-Access and Greenlight games on Steam — along with the seeming lack of quality-control on approved games — is creating a new tidal wave of shit on PC.

In my experience, smaller sites tend to be more vicious with bad product. It's the big gaming sites that have the really notorious reputation of favoring stuff from big publishers. Or have you forgotten when that Gamespot writer got fired for writing a bad review of Kane & Lynch 2?

It always amazes me to see someone so brainwashed by the concept of exclusives. You do know that exclusivity is anti-consumer, right? That you're actually praising a business for making it harder for you, the consumer, to get their product?

That's standard TotalBiscuit fare. He does this series primarily for PC gamers, so he focuses on the options a lot.

So those cars will suddenly teleport to the middle lane? Or perhaps they will levitate?

It kinda puts the hate for "fake gamer girls" into perspective. There are just that many humorless fuckers in the gaming community who feel the need to act like someone else's autocorrect.

Instead of being an ass and telling you the joke went over your head, I'll just explain it: that's the joke. By both incorrectly labelling Link as Zelda, then stating Zelda — a known female — should be a girl, you are creating a topic rife for nerd-rage from the more obsessive compulsive of gamers.

If that were true, then a simple two-hour traffic jam should be enough to discourage people driving cars, right? Yet time and again, day-in and day-out, we still come across the same daily two to three-hour traffic jams.

Then this is the review you need to see:

Does it have a reverse difficulty curve, like XCOM:EU, where everything eventually gets super-easy? Or is it more like Don't Starve, where despite all your preparations and efforts to eke out a stable environment, the difficulty doesn't change, and you're still one mistake away from death?

The dude was responding to another guy who said "Federal matching funds for encouraging non-motorized transportation". And yeah, I understand if he doesn't want to give up his car for a bike. He even asked what if he lived outside the city — something very common in highly industrialized areas. I mean, could you…

Dude, I'm not sure if you've ever lived in a traffic heavy city, but a lane merge like that is a death sentence. Because instead of cars just passing through that lane, they have to alternately squeeze themselves back into the left lane. That slows down both lanes, to the detriment of a lot more people than a few…

I think someone else mentioned it, but the cornerstone of 1984 and of Orwell's other anti-totalitarian book, Animal Farm, is the use of speech to recondition the population. Four legs good, two legs better. It's doubleplusgood.

The reason for that is simple: it's considered a lack of faith to question anything. Remember the doubting Thomas incident, where the apostle Thomas doubted that Jesus really had resurrected?

Really? Because I was recently reminded of 1984 by this movie:

No love for the Coon and Friends trilogy? The one where we find out that Kenny's immortality is courtesy of Great Cthulhu?

Never used more than one display at a time? Or use a projector? Same principle.

Disagree with the cigarettes. While I've managed to quit smoking using e-cigs, the success rate for a full switchover is not high. My brother has gone back to regular cigarettes, so did two ex-girlfriends, and a couple of my college buddies.

So Canadians are wildlings and Wisconsinites are the Northmen?

Comment: The earth will be fine. Sure, we'll probably push it to the point of human inhabitability, but the planet itself will survive, at least until Sol expands to a red giant and wipes it off the face of the universe.