Mister Jack

God, Bouchart. Yes. THAT. I loathe that with a passion. I also don't care for spring jumps that require you to hit the jump button at a very specific time to get a jump boost. If you can just hold the button down that's fine, but when you have to tap it every game seems to have its own idea of when the right time is, and if you mess that up when you make the jump you're pretty much screwed.

Did you mean to post the same video twice? I don't see the connection.

I really REALLY hate it when games will put a bunch of springs on the floor and ceiling, and then somewhere in between there's spikes or enemies deadly to the touch or something like that. HATE HATE HATE.

Elite Beat Agents/Ouendan?

Mile High Club and my Meat Boy avatar are the two achievements I am proudest if. I'll 100% Meat Boy at some point but gah, so many new games right now.

So basically you're saying Gawker didn't learn a thing...

Chick-Fil-A, people. Someone show some love for the chicken sandwich in here.

Regarding the lifestyle thing, I think that with the right incentive, people would make the adjustment. If enough people did something as simple as turning off lights when they're leaving the room it would have a very noticeable effect. Just a random example off the top of my head: maybe the government could offer tax breaks to power companies who give discounts to people whose power usage falls below a certain threshold, kinda like how car insurance companies can give discounts for being accident-free.

Well now, I can't imagine what THAT has to do with playwriting...

Is that your professional opinion? I'm not being sarcastic, I just know that tracking the economy is kinda your job so I am just wondering if you picked that up in your research.

What exactly was this guy a professor of?

I usually throw out the best and worst option automatically in debates like this and try to think somewhere in between. I am of the belief that tech is always improving (not enough to completely replace oil right now, mind you) and that when the price of oil goes up, people are going to do less driving and flying. I know that isn't the only way oil is used but it's a huge percentage. Industrial first-world nations are extremely wasteful with the stuff, and eventually they'll have to either stop wasting it or go broke, and nobody likes being broke. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Basically, I think conservation will be kind of a pain in the ass to work with but we will be able to keep up our current standards of living, more or less.

So in regards to the global energy concern, there seem to be five main schools of thought. Which one do you subscribe to? If you believe something that the poll happens to overlook, post about it.

What is all this "WTF...I hate IPB" that comes up when you click a user's pop-up profile?

I don't download games that are still commercially available at retail, but I find it hard to sympathize with companies that use restrictive DRM. It's pretty much either buy the game and get all this borderline spy shit on your PC or download it and bypass all that. What do these companies expect to happen?

KFC costs more than Chinese over there?

Mud you just reminded me of a good one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjJode--jI

Yeah I hate that too. If you don't want your images hotlinked, just don't have them come up at all. Don't be dicks about it.

Facebook and RSS icons are indeed not very mascot-like Oh ho, you fixed that one fast.

Keep in mind this is just a sharing of personal opinion rather than predictions on any actual course of action Sony would take.

I don't think it'd be a stretch to say that a lot of people bought Xboxes for Halo, though. Something else to keep in mind about Sony is that Move game they're publishing featuring characters from Jak, Sly, and Ratchet. So even if they aren't tied down to one specific character, they certainly aren't ignoring their marketability. There are more than just those three of course, but it's the first example that comes to mind.

Nintendo is inarguably represented by Mario, and the Xbox is less officially represented by Master Chief, star of the Xbox's first major hit. The Playstation brand, though, seems to have mascot characters and franchises all over the board and people don't always agree on which one should or does represent the Playstation brand. So here is my question to you. Which Sony exclusive character should represent the Playstation?

He's got you there, Yant.

Officially Technically. Figuratively? I like New Years because it means the stupid bullshit of the previous year is officially in the past.

This is still my favorite Aqua song. Ever heard it in Dutch? I know it says German in there but it's Dutch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dpjA_i8l4