I don’t think macros alone are a violation of the TOS, heck WoW’s base ui supports macros. It’s full on automation that is against the TOS. Having one button press that casts Rejuvenation on your target’s target is fine, having your hardware setup so that your character will autonomously start mining nodes while you…

Hopefully with better global licensing, anime studios will make more money and thus have a greater motivation to pass that on to their animators. Fingers crossed. However, where I live (New Zealand) we pay most of our 3D animators pittance, and most of them are only given contract work, as opposed to being true…

I think that is the part that constantly gets lost in these photography talks. People are so willing to attribute everything to Photoshop that we have stop recalling the dark magic makeup artists the world over wield in their fingers and brushes.

There are well done, but I don't think anyone would mistake them for live models. There is something off about proportions...

I was never planning on selling this, I just make stuff for fun. People are asking to buy so I had to come up with a price. That price seems reasonable given the time involved in making the case and the fact that I have a full time career. If you want to sell them for $55 then go ahead.

You know, watching the old 1960s Batman, I realize just how much they played up the “World’s Greatest Detective” bit of Batman. This is something that’s been almost completely ignored in most of the newer iterations of Batman (with Dark Knight having more detective work than others), other than the most rudimentary of…

This is pretty dang good!

MY GOD

Well, you’re right, but “technical defensive boxing” is almost synonymous with “gaming the system.” Which isn’t fun for anyone to watch. It’s like watching a video game speed run where a glitch is used to bypass 99% of the game (I’m looking at you OoT runners!!!). It’s just... not fun to watch.

Damn, it is so cool to see these artists use Twitter as comic panels. Pretty ingenious! Really cute pantyshot picture too. It’s really using perspectives in a interesting way by drawing 2D with dynamic angles and putting that in dynamic angles in 3D as well. It just has a really surreal quality to it, like the 2D art…

Trolling is so easy when you’re anonymous... Maybe accounts should be tied to credit card numbers and IP addresses. That way once you’re banned, you’re screwed. You’d probably see that crap disappear pretty quickly.

I worked at GameStop for almost 7 years, was a store manager for the last 2.
There was this one time this kid came into my store, 18 or 19... smelling of smoke, bloodshot eyes.... you know, wanting to trade in a 360 for cash. The system he tried to sell was bright yellow, reeked of cigarette and pot and looked as…

No. But I had two sisters that wouldn’t take my sexist bullshit and it taught me at a early age that ‘holy shit, ladies aren’t here to serve my whims’.

Well, it obviously wasn’t actually alright with the parents, seeing as they left without the game. Employees are very much encouraged to warn parents about M-rated games if they’re obviously buying them for young children. If they seem unsure, we can try to show them what we mean. I’m betting the parents in the story…

I worked at Toys R Us for a while. I would get assigned to the video game section pretty frequently.

I had numerous events where the kid had clearly lied to their parents about the games, which always had me explaining to parents the ESRB and how to find the info on the box. Man those kids would get SO PISSED at me.

My…

The only really hard time I had at GameStop was trying to explain over the phone that World of Warcraft would not work on a PS3. Yes, while the PS3 is technically a computer it is not the PC that WoW is looking for. That conversation lasted about 20 minutes with my manager cackling the whole time. This was the same…

it’s always more fun to run into stuff in racing games.

I think enough time has passed that I can speak candidly about my experience at GameStop Headquarters as a customer service rep (turned support and escalation team). I will say that I absolutely *hated* customers who would try to use customer service like an overbearing parent to force the store to do what they wanted…

My brother worked at a place called Play and Learn Software (PALS) in Minneapolis. They sold educational software out of this strip mall, but they also allowed customers to test drive all the games on in-store computers which had all the games they sold installed. This would often result in parents dropping their kids…