The highest enlistment periods in American history, and the periods in our history where enlistment has grown the quickest, were at times before videogames, before popular television, and before desensitizing war movies. The effect of popular media on desensitizing people to real horrors is greatly over-estimated and…

@Owen Good: HAte to be a bore but it stands for Procedural Tackling...... but........ yeah....

I'd expect the ProTak system from Madden to be included in NCAA this year, but highly tweaked.

I'm sure that the comments to this post will be full of political insight... I'm really looking forward to reading it...

@Marcus A. Green: That was the only part of the game that I liked... That made some sense. But if you think about any other scene in that game, none of it makes sense. With MW2 you just have to sort of shut off your brain and accept that every mission is "get dropped into territory, kill 1million terrorists,…

I had a couple glitches in my first play through, but nothing substantial.

Good post. I am much more critical of games that have basic design flaws but are generally considered A+ games. For instance, the single player campaigns in Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3, I thought, were horrible and basically flawed. I wouldn't have been so critical if those weren't such high profile titles and if I…

@yihdego: @dallasmay:

I understand the chaffe on Google Buzz, it's been a giant failure, but Android has been a success — so far. That old phones can't effectively run the new software is neither surprising nor really discouraging. Your 18 month old phone is out of date? Well, no kidding it is. When the G1 was coming out, I bought an…

@joe.glass: Aye. I've drawn the line for myself at not taking on any project where there can be a 'flow' of *anything.* So, for instance, electrical work... no matter how simple, there is a flow of electricity, so I don't touch it. Same with anything having to do with water. I also have a gas stove, so you bet…

I am not a handy person at all, and so after buying a house last July, I was met with many failures in trying to do just about anything. But, I had a string of successes replacing the hardware in my kitchen and also hanging some faux woodblinds in my living room. Now, these were, of course, cut for me at Home…

@MSUHitman: The glitches were very insignificant in last year's game... and none that ruined the game or made it unplayable... unlike a certain other baseball game.

Decent article. Something holds back true-to-life RPGs in that we have far higher expectations of them than a fantasy or traditional RPG. Is there ever a moment in Fallout 3 where instead of being a lone wanderer, solving the ills of the post-modern society that you can, instead, retire to Southern Florida and lead…

I live by a few rules for fashion these days.

I'd love to have a CoD set in a fictional black-war environment... spies, covert operations, etc., and create a secret history of the cold war. Knowing the CoD series, of course, it will vehemently blame everything on the United States, but regardless, it'd be a nice change of pace from other historical shooters…

@Owen Good: Yeah, I can give a pass on the odd camera too because I know what they WANT to do with it... but it's just weird. The first thing I noticed when I switched to MLB The Show last year was just how visible balls and strikes is... it's not EASY to tell a ball from a strike, and I still struck out plenty on…

The video is pretty poor. Reactions on PastaPadre's blog are hilarious. Horrible looking uniforms, the gameplay is oddly times (note how SLOW pitches are when batting and then how fast the play is in field, it's so odd), animations are weird but they're 2K animations so that's not surprising/different, announcing…

The NPR Android app is my favorite Android app. I recommended it to my roommate and we both agree... this app has changed our lives more so than any other.

Haha, don't forget to back up your back up. Do we have to back up that as well? I will.

This is ... cool I guess ... but ... why?!