Am I the only person on the planet that has more trouble with jumping in a Smash Brothers game, than with the actual fighting? Seriously, even though Subspace Emissary is a fine game-within-a-game, I call shenanigans on some of the jumping required.

Ben Stein makes a Moore-style "documentary" promoting Intelligent Design.

This is almost as depressing as when I found out Beck is a Scientologist.

My laptop now has 1000% more burning courage!

..Until I turn it on. Dammit.

I never thought I'd see an animated scene of two main-battle-tanks caught in flagrante delicto outside of an art-school 80's anime(or something by Satoshi Kon), but thanks to Bill Plympton, I have been enlightened.

The Forbidden Kingdom resembles nothing so much as a mash-up of Once Upon A Time In China, The Laughing Hyena(or The Young Master, it's been awhile), and The Bride With White Hair, seen through a Tsui Hark filter[1].

And I'm totally okay with that. If only for Chan and Li getting to tell each other off[2 ( Read more... )

In Seattle, I had to browse the local GameStop used racks for months to find Gunstar Super Heroes(after foolishly passing it up once). I preordered both OG and OG2 when they came out, expecting the same thing to happen ( Read more... )

Really needs to be made into a movie if only the finer points of rootkits-as-applied-to-Lovecraft could be explained well on screen, and Real British Actors(TM) for the appropos characters ( Read more... )

David Sedaris signed our books! He drew a little bong in mine! With a comment that the college he'd just been to didn't have any, and I responded with an aside about some nice sculpted ones we'd seen in Seattle, which he found hilarious. Taylor asked him for a quote from a Cure song(for her best friend in England), which threw him off his stride, ( Read more... )

Utterly retarded, but I still laughed out of nostalgia.
(Whipper-snappers don't know what it was like as a kid and having nothing but SoundEdit16. We recorded our siblings most innocent comments and looped-n-flanged it LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW!)

An enterprising developer decided to try putting together a pseudo-Myers-Briggs test for gamers, based on Roger Caillois' work. It does have the same Myers-Briggs problem in that it's vague on some concepts("complex like Final Fantasy or Civilization"), but it's pretty worthy research, I say.
( My results, for other navel-gazers )