Recent content by Agh-a-meme-knottle

Someone posts about the trouble they take to avoid the bad taste of their country's culture and you assume they're doing it all to impress you? Someone writes and thinks in correct English and you feel they need to be "translated," as you put it, into sub-literate net cliches about adolescent...

Now, that was a painstakingly mindless and therefore satisfying article, followed by a fun and relaxing thread. Obsessively technical descriptions of the visceral border on fetishism, but everyone here seems aware of that.

walkerofski: You're pretty much channeling Theodor Adorno, which makes you correct. However: Why does no one suspect YC's blaming American gamers for the box art they've been stuck with because that, like many of his other pronouncements, is a typical journalistic strategy for generating...

The interesting thing about the Japanese cover art is how much it makes the games look like American graphic novels from the 70s: If a book's about the cosmos, then there's an utterly dwarfing wraparound of the cosmos. If a non sequitur's called for, then it has the space of the entire front...

Sounds as if you have one of those antiquated dishwashers that lacked a viscous appendage insert. The newer ones have more attractive "features."

Why would questioning his opinion have to mean you didn't think he was awesome? I like his writing and respect him as a critic but differ with a lot of his opinions. He's almost always fun to read and listen to, but skepticism is also fun.

Somewhere between enraged gamers, who feel Ebert should be put in his place, and YC, who feels there's no point in arguing with him, lies middle ground that is being sadly neglected. No, it isn't necessary to beat Ebert in the debate team sense, or condescendingly suggest that, one day, he'll...

I'd certainly give YC's review a better grade than he'd give it if it were written by someone else. One thing I'm still pondering, perhaps because of the slice of my forehead hanging from the Winnebago of that chatty hydrocephaloid with an iPhone: Isn't it possible the Wii version's more...

One of my favorite things about the internet is when clicking reload on a page causes a post to be sent twice. This post, for example, which used to read exactly the same as the next one. How thoroughly fascinating and rewarding this post is. Be sure to read them all.

Dickens is disingenuous melodramatic pulp written by a hypocrite and, therefore, a bad example to anyone but Stephen King, who uses Dickens as a model for modern pulp. Greco-Roman gods might seem to us to be figures of entertainment now, but they were taken more seriously by the writers we...

Yes, the vidgame format could and should be used in an educational context. However, I disagree that present commercial games would be applicable. It would be nice if I could play Valkyria Chronicles in order to understand Ecce Homo or Twilight of the Idols, but better tools are available in...

If my learned colleague finds Dead Space boring, but, as he says at the end of his review, is "still hung up on Silent Hill," then this could mean one of two things. Either he's hung up on the original Silent Hill or the series as a whole. In his review of Silent Hill: Homecoming, he...