TheMightyEthan

That's why Jack wants to fuck him.

Oh no, it is. DA2 broke 1 million sales in two weeks... I know it's not doing poorly, but "it's doing well" and "it's doing as well as they'd hoped" are two entirely different things.

Man, that was painful. Many fantastic games were cut. I would like to throw out honorable mentions specifically to Starsiege: Tribes, Rise of Nations, and Advance Wars, among many others. Halo Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Super Mario 64 Starcraft Mario Kart 64 Knights of the Old Republic Shadow of the Colossus Homeworld Black & White Portal Mass Effect Call of Duty 2 Red Dead Redemption Burnout: Revenge (X360) Civilization V

Yeah, I realized I'm confusing Burnout with some other game, but I can't figure out which one (possibly one I made up). It's still true for Splinter Cell, though. *Edit* - Also, it's the final 50 (or 100), not 15. If it were 15 I would agree with you, but with 50/100 it could make a difference.

What do you want the rule to be on the same game on multiple platforms? Most of the time I don't think it should make a difference (like RDR on PS3 or 360), but for instance I find Monday Night Combat on XBLA to be much different from Monday Night Combat on PC. *Edit* - Also there are games like Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and Burnout Revenge that released both on Gen 6 and Gen 7 consoles, but the Gen 6 and Gen 7 versions were ENTIRELY different from each other.

Huh, I did right-click copy, but when I tried to paste it just pasted what had previously been in my clipboard. I'll try again sometime.

This bugs the shit out of me too. If you say "the sky is usually red" you're just wrong, and prefacing it with "in my opinion" doesn't make you any less wrong. Just because you say it's your opinion doesn't change that it's actually a factual statement, which you are wrong about. People are taught in grade school that opinions can't be right or wrong, but they never seem to grasp the flipside of it that if what you say is verifiably right or wrong then ipso facto it's not an opinion, regardless of what you call it. So if you say "in my opinion the sky is usually red" then not only are you wrong about the sky being red, you're ALSO wrong about it being an "opinion." To throw some law in here, for the purposes of things like slander/libel/fraud/etc, a statement is an opinion if, by its very nature, it cannot be proved or disproved ("Coke tastes better than Pepsi"), conversely it's a factual statement if it can be proved or disproved, whether it is actually true or not ("Coke has fewer calories than Pepsi". Disclaimer: I don't know whether that's true or not). *Edit* - Also, "freedom of speech" doesn't mean people can't disagree with you, dumbass.

Not according to Dictionary.com. Based on your Google link it looks like "amendement" is the French spelling.

I really like the concept of EVE, and enjoyed playing it for a while, but it's just too damned complicated. I can't wrap my puny little brain around its mechanics. *Edit* - Yeah, when I played it was back in undergrad, and I would frequently select a new destination for my ship and then go to class while it autopiloted its way there.

I don't like it when games say "START button." It makes me feel like I'm being yelled at.

So... does this mean DA2 isn't selling as well as they'd hoped?

Ah, okay. I'm not ENTIRELY crazy!

That video was really familiar to me. I feel like maybe they took a video for the first Portal and just stuck different narration over it. I'm going to do some digging to find out. *Edit* - Okay, I can't find it, if it even existed, but the part that REALLY seemed familiar to me was the bullets filling up the inside of the turret, and then spilling out when they cut it in half. The whole thing seemed pretty familiar, but that was the part that made me go "I've definitely seen this before." Semi-relatedly, "That's 65% more bullet per bullet" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

BURNOUT PARADISE

Fallout: New Vegas.

That tonematrix thing is cool. I couldn't figure out how to save my song (if it's even possible) so I took a screenshot of the the configuration:

I wasn't sad about RDR because at the time my "gaming" PC was looking a little long in the tooth, so it couldn't have run that game anyway, but now that I've upgraded I am sad that LA Noire is only on console. It's especially odd to me when I watch the LA Noire dev videos talking about how they're pushing the boundaries of technology with their facial animations and digital actor performances, but they're doing it console-only. Sure the animation/expressiveness of the faces is amazing, but the modelling/texturing is really low; it looks like lumps of clay shaped roughly like a face. Imagine the kind of fidelity those faces could have on PC.

Yeah, Japanese stories often don't follow the same kind of progression that Westerners are accustomed to, you can see the effect in more than just video games. I honestly can't think of a game that I thought had a good story. Lots of games that had good story-modes, but that's an entirely different question.

Also there's the practical problem that women only lactate during/shortly after pregnancy, whereas dairy cows lactate all the time.

Oh yeah, I actually meant to end that by saying that you quickly recapture that lost credibility, it was just right at the beginning that I had a negative reaction to that comment. Overall it's a good article.

I wouldn't have any trouble drinking human-cow GM milk, though I would have a hard time if there were actual human milk from human breasts on the shelves.

Good article, though at the beginning you lose some credibility (at least with me) for saying that it's the same as walking into a store and taking something off the shelf. It may be just as morally unacceptable, but it's not "the same" any more than murder and rape are the same.

Suggestion: due to the month/day/year - day/month/year dichotomy across the Atlantic, maybe we should write out the date. For instance Chronixal at first I thought you were saying it expired on January 7, 2011 (the past), when actually it expires on August 1, 2011. You guys would have the same problem if I'd written out that date as 7/1/11. Something like 1/aug/11 or August 1, 2011 would be less confusing. Just a suggestion.

Tying it to difficulty is a really good idea, actually. I've always been more for underground lairs myself, though, so it doesn't really matter all that much to me personally one way or the other. That and the fact that I like how overhanging ramparts look anyway.