Uncle Acid rules. IMO the current vogue in metal is to ape early Sabbath, and I could recommend a half dozen bands like that.

Yikes. Details on this, or a link?

"But Our Fascinating Planet isn’t taking science ambassadors like Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson down a peg—that would probably have required Rimmarniet to wear a mock turtleneck"

"Half-Life’s plot isn’t especially heavy stuff, but the way it’s presented—all in first-person and with protagonist Gordon Freeman literally never speaking—was pretty revolutionary."

God, I love Flipmode.

BTMI! didn't resonate with me until I happened to hear 25! and Slumlord played back to back on college radio. And then they did!

Yeah, it's high up there for me too, but it's definitely limited by the design conventions of the time. The early levels in the mansion are so good, but over time it bends to the expectations of the genre and just piles on new enemy types and new guns rather than doing anything interesting.

Does anyone remember Clive Barker's Undying? Deeply, deeply Lovecraft influenced game. Your character gets summoned to a weird Scottish mansion in a bleak landscape in the 19th century, only to discover that the family that lives there is the seat of a weird cosmic hellcult.

I find most food content online to be really obnoxious and unhelpful (I want practical stuff I can use to improve my food situation, not a bunch of lifestyle nonsense hawking $200 kitchen items and hard-to-find ingredients), but I'm willing to give it a chance. I haven't really dug in yet (GET IT?), but I hope they…

Wife and I watched Moonrise Kingdom this weekend, and I really loved it, albeit not without reservations. The plot's a bit thin and it leans somewhat heavily on the humor of children not acting like children — but something about the feeling of longing, nostalgia, and discovery really spoke to me on an emotional level.

It's funny, the only reason I got into neurosis in the first place was because of those little inserts that CDs used to have listing the other albums being released by the same label around the same time.

Yeah, I was really happy that Adventureland was mentioned.

I too work with HIPAA compliance, and it really gives you a warped POV about the legal ramifications of actions. In most situations you would need to show damages to get any kind of restitution, but HIPAA is if not unique then at least unusual in that you can be massively fined for a HIPAA violation even if nothing…

Interestingly, most anti-arcade laws were already on the books from the pinball craze of the 30's and 40's. Towns just started using them to shut down video game arcades, as well.

There was an English version, but the translation isn't actually accurate.

I think you're striking on one of the major differences between the comics industry and the superhero film industry.

The game was fun, and I was impressed that they doubled down on a lot of the divisive stuff from the first game. I think the story was workable at best, though, and the freerunning gameplay felt like it just stopped raising the difficulty bar at a certain point (for instance, the final level is like 95% ziplining,…

The gawker article is speculation, sure, but they drew from sources that did speak with them. It's not like they made it up. So why not ask about it, when it's central too the criticism that they've received and which is the ostensible subject of the interview?

Hold the fucking phone, AV Club. That entire Jezebel article is about how there was a female co-creator, Lara Schoenhal, who they no longer credit and seem to be trying to whitewash out of existence. Why would you then decide to contribute to that, both by omitting mention of their cocreator from the introduction and…

If you like the music, check out Solar Fields. He's the guy who produced all the in game music for both games and is a pretty major ambient artist in his own right. His album Random Friday is especially Mirrors Edge-esque.