Recent content by Aesmodan

I note not a single person listed Resistance 3... 1. Skyrim 2. Dark Souls 3. Uncharted 3 4. Batman: AC 5. Deus Ex: HR Reserved judgement on MW3, BF3

I bought a PS3 years ago primarily as a media device/bluray player, and I've very rarely played anything on it until recently -- I only got into it when I had a few people over that brought their own games to show me what I've been missing. I have very little experience with action shooters...

Stupid question time from the casual gamer who didn't know IGN had this rep: I wrote off IGN a long while ago, but I chalked it up to having very different gaming tastes than most of its reviewers. That said: what are considered the best/most authoritative game review sites? OT: are the...

I started reading the series when it first came out (in the early 90s...?) and this was my issue too -- back then I didn't have trouble with the first two books really, but then it started to drag for me in the 3rd book and I never made it past book 4... It was fairly easy to give up (I think...

Thanks for the links NeutralDrow -- Would you recommend reading books 6-11? Or could I go from book 6 or so straight to when Brandon Sanderson takes up the series? Thanks, -Aes

Googled and searched the forums here for a while, and didn't find exactly what I was looking for, so I thought I'd post. The Wheel of Time is considered a foundation of the modern fantasy genre, but it's also veryyy long (and also considered very long-winded). Large parts of it I'm told...

One cannot disclaim criminal liability or otherwise attempt to circumvent rights provided by law to a client within a EULA/TOS. That would be tantamount to allowing freely-entered private contracts (such as EULA/TOS) to trump the details and context of federal law -- which is rubbish. So not...

I didn't know her, but I recognized her avatar right away as I read her comments in the R&P forum a number of times. We never did respond to each other directly on what one or the other had said -- I had to run a search to be sure -- but she always had interesting things to say. My deepest...

Holodecks are for the same thing the internet is.

Philosophy and history. These humanities are historically the origin of critical, logical, and 'scientific' thought. Man's first intellectual endeavor was an attempt to understand his surroundings, the heavens, and how the universe came into being. Without the humanities, there could be...

For me the most interesting parts of the game have been the achievements and crafting. Crafting should be given a lot more depth, and made more challenging -- it's boring how Blizzard has made crafting all about buying expensive mats. Seems to me that over time, the yields of crafting have...

I've read nebulous newsbits about an internal Diablo III alpha that's currently going on, and one is currently able to upload a system profile as an application for beta testing on Battle.net that includes Diablo III, so hopefully the beta is not far off...

First thing I thought of when I read this thread was this newsbit I read a while ago, where an Optometrist is calling the Nintendo 3DS an excellent tool for detecting vision problems in kids under the age of 6. Another is claiming that the 3DS has no impact on the sight of Rhesus monkeys, which...

Mine broke and I never bothered to fix it. (...Can a PS3 play PS1-2 games?)

1. Don't expect drivers to yield to you. Look left (not right) before you step out into the street. 2. See Harrod's, at least briefly. You'll be looked at funny if you don't. 3. Always drink the local microbrews. Beware drinking the coffee, there's a reason they largely drink tea. 4. See...