Recent content by Avaholic03

Wow it's amazing how all those women have pretty much the exact same body type. Every color of the rainbow with pretty much every super power imaginable...but all the same build. Yay diversity!!

Age is just a number. Turned 30 in November, and I still relate much more to the first panel. The day I start looking up symptoms on WebMD is the day I eat a gun.

That's probably the worst of your assumptions. FOR MOVIES: It's very unlikely that people will be storing large numbers of 4k videos on their local hard drive. The industry certainly won't allow people to just have digital versions of their movies (illegal downloads aside...people who do that...

That *poof* when they turned into devils scared the crap out of me (both times). In my headphones it almost sounded like it was behind me.

While those numbers are great (especially for charity), I still find it unsettling that even really shitty AAA games make more than that during launch week, whereas that $100M number is for dozens of games over 4.5 years. Many of those games really deserve more return on investment. "Goodwill...

Did you read the part about the shit being pasteurized? It's not that disgusting...cleaner than a lot of things you touch every day.

We want to include everyone....as long as they're willing to pay $70+ for admission. Sounds about right. Also, did anyone tell them that bigots, homophobes and general assholes fall into the "everyone" group? So that whole inclusivity goal is somewhat self-defeating.

Interesting take on the MOBA. Of course balancing will make-or-break this game, so it's still too early to tell if it's worth getting invested. I'm quite weary of the option to pay real money for anything more than cosmetic things, because that almost always leads to pay-to-win models that ruin...

Well it's not like you could see a bullet coming and dodge it to begin with, so aside from some specialized cases, this won't be any more deadly than a generic 50 cal.

Perhaps more subtle game mechanics. Like certain NPCs reacting more favorably to one religion or another. But that quickly enters BioWare levels of complicated dialogue trees, and it's a whole lot harder to test and balance all that stuff. In the end, it's probably not worth the effort...

How else are they supposed to get funding? Not like there's a lot of money in theoretical physics unless you can demonstrate practical applications. This could be used for more than just weapons though. Plenty of industrial applications too (like super-precise fabrication).

I don't know about anyone else, but for me the problem is that past Steam sales have been so good, I got pretty much every game I wanted. I've still got such a backlog, I'm not even tempted to buy new games no matter how cheap they are because I don't think I'll ever get around to playing them...

Ian makes a pretty convincing monkey. Maybe too convincing. What's his backstory anyway?

Surely there is a better way of phrasing that. The beginning was the best part as you explained in the second paragraph. Emotionally powerful stuff without a single word being said. The rest of the movie is pretty typical fun/silly Pixar stuff....not bad, but certainly not "great". The beginning...

1) For now that's true. But with all the exciting applications of graphene, it's only a matter of time before it is produced in significant quantities and becomes cost effective. It's far more versatile than Kevlar, and especially with all the consumer electronics applications, tons of money is...