during a developers' conference last week in leipzig, fueled by too much caffeine and far too tired to be all that lucid, i suddenly caught myself thinking in a full sentence, in english no less. and what i thought (about a somewhat gnomish panelist, part of the "the future of MMOG games" panel) was ( Read more... )

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don't even think about it.

but, if yo do, as a world cup tourist from the underdeveloped regions of the world beyond the german borders, you should know: not all germans are nazis. some of them just want to make a nice profit off you. that said, here are a few dos and don'ts:

blathering on pointlesslyin germany, communication is always goal- ( Read more... )

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) is, apparently, somewhat of a cult movie in the remoter parts of the 5th continent. or so I hear.

the often-copied-but-never-duplicated tale of a greek sponge-diving love triangle complicated by a giant killer octopus truly is a gem of the silver screen. i can attest to that. uh-huh.

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as an iranian bus conductor operating out of damascus, i object in the strongest possible terms to my number 147 bus being hit by a tomahawk cruise missile ( Read more... )

in a mesmerizing four-hour speech delivered entirely without smoking, president mahmoud ahmadinejad today vowed to behead all infidels. "i am behumbled and behonoured to behead you, behinfidels", he told his still-attentive ministers ( Read more... )

you know what I'm talking about: the sort of games where you wander all over and have to get the loaf of Pinochle Bread from the Demon Baker so that you can combine it with the Fedora of Unnatural Attraction to create the Yeast Golem to give to the Wicked Witch of the Financial Aid Office so she'll let you over the Bridge of Internal Suffering ( Read more... )