Hubertus Bigend never ceases to entertain.

Those creepy, creppy gazillionaires.

A friend of mine posted in response to a previous post: Some of my friends have gone so far as to get rid of their cell phones. They wanted to go back to a land line with an answering machine, only to find this was simply too expensive and complex to manage anymore. They just use Skype now. If you want to get ahold of them, and they're not home, ( Read more... )

It won't really be possible to track when the Social Media Revolution (SMR) started, if there even is one, because like all evolution, it started off slowly, much in the same way concepts like facebook evolved from concepts like newsgroups ( Read more... )

This series of posts is a reaction to this video about the social media revolution that was originally posted on the bulldrek forums. The video argues that the Social Media Revolution (SMR for short) is the biggest cultural revolution since the Industrial Revolution ( Read more... )

Just a quick thought I had today while playing Hitman: Blood Money, but when game designers do not program enemy AI 'realistically,' it really does break the illusion of a world outside the game and forces the view of a player-centered world upon the player.

What do I mean by this? Well, during a certain mission of Hitman: Blood Money ("A Murder ( Read more... )

Picked up Wrath of the Lich King a few weeks ago, and against my better judgment, rolled up a Death Knight (DK) intending on a frost spec for tanking. After the boredom and monotony that was hunter grinding (hunter's mark, misdirection on pet, steady shot, pop kill command/bestial wrath when they're up, steady shot til mob is dead), the attention ( Read more... )

"There is a special sort of mental toughness that you've got to develop to even think about being an English Lit graduate student: you're expecting lovemaking, you're going to get prison sex, but you're going to grin like a maniac and take it like a man because soon that bastard is going to get tired and fall asleep, and then it's going to be your ( Read more... )

Yeah, I finished two assassinations last night.

As noted, the gameplay will quickly get repetitive, and I'm thinking the troublemakers and various collection achievements exist only to distract us from how short the game really is, but that simply tells you to try not doing everything at once, or else you're going to go nuts very quickly. What ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's another Mass Effect entry: not only does this serve as a 'mental warm-up session' (so to speak) for more academic writing, but this game's really gotten under my skin, and not because it's just an awesome game. I'm more interested in the differences in storytelling from other RPGs.

Someone on the ME Community forums asked the question ( Read more... )

It's funny, but in the last five years or so, I've been reading literature as an act within itself: basically, literature is a letter from the writer to the "educated reader," and it rests upon the reader to find these nice little ways of interpreting the work, viewing it form multiple points of view, finding all the nice little in-joke references ( Read more... )