No proof - I just found it extremely conspicuous that Kotaku staff are running multiple articles in one day about the new product after telling us to watch for an announcement for it, then you make grandiose claims like "It may be the future of PCs" when it seems a clear 95% or more of your readers want nothing to do…

Well, thanks for the warning, but they can do with my account whatever they wish. I'm never one to hide from the elephant in the room. I'm addicted to the site, but when I see a problem, I'll mention it. Maybe I think too highly of myself, but I think when they lash out at their most active and loyal members, it only…

Nothing new - here you go!

There's too much to address in this, and I don't think I have to - no one seems to be buying it, and others have done a point by point debunking already.

+1 for finding your flow! IMO that's the ideal state to enjoy a game.

Snack foods during entertainment can be a dangerous way to automatically eat cheap food, so... Ideally, green tea and trail mix for me. More often, it's water and cookies realistically. (I don't do much caffeine anymore. I'm almost 30, but without chemicals I can still stay up to 2 or 3 am which is usually late…

It's a regional thing. I'm in Western Canada and it's always "pop" as far as I've seen. People will know what you mean if you say "soda," but it'd be sort of like ordering "cola" instead of using a brand name, or calling Champagne "bubbly" (which I guess might be perfectly normal depending on where you are!)

I didn't see it so I can't legitimately hate it. I did look for something interesting many times in the raging hype though, and all I saw was enough pandering to keep me at bay. Then, I tend to steer clear of things that try to typify geeks like they're some "other" group, for better or worse. In my experience, real…

Well, that's closer than I can get, so I'll yield to your experience on this. I'd seen you arguing on here vociferously without offering any reason to believe it before.

Can you link to a retail agreement for any game store? That would put the issue to bed quickly. Were you a manager at a GameStop?

True, but they're also aware of its historical use as a good luck charm. It's been found on artifacts as far back as 10,000 BC, so the Nazis were barely a momentary blip.

Except that the maps became popular because the matches aren't a clusterfuck. There's plenty of room for innovation in NEW maps. The system could support thousands. Like I said before, the old maps are known, and that's really one of the advantages of Counter-Strike in the first place. If you want to play a game where…

"Today we will show that PC gaming is not dead."

Are you f!@#$ing kidding me? If that was really the world's first gaming laptop, then they've just set PC gaming back by decades. I've had so many people try to tell me that you can build a gaming PC that will last as long as a game console for just as cheap (hah!) but for that much, you could get every console on the…

There's an open-source formula for a (dangerously strong!) cleaning gel that's made to whiten old systems like this. It seems the yellowing is largely due to a fire retardant compound, and knowing this, they devised a formula to counteract it.

Don't worry about it - it's a dog. At least wait until they triple the battery (not a published plan, but really, don't get it if they don't do that much.)

I hope the West can take back the swastika in the next generation or two, considering its long, good heritage. I suspect more people are getting it now, with the popularity of manga, and particularly those like Blade of the Immortal, where it features very prominently. Still, it's been stained so deeply by a few…

It's stretching it a bit far to say they were part of Hitler's anything. They were allied with Germany by treaty, but WWII wasn't one continuous war - Japan fought in the Second Sino-Japanese war while Nazi Germany sold arms to, and provided expertise to China, Japan's target.

This. Also they're copying countless sites copying geeks copying other geeks - but managing to do it worse than most.

Gamestop is supposed to sell the retail boxed copies of games. The retail box for DEHR came with a cupon for OnLive. They have no obligation to inform GameStop of this, nor does GameStop have the right to surreptitiously remove this from it. Games have included cupons and advertisements for a very long time now, as…