Recent content by beniki

It's a product of over-saturation of communication. Whereas before, only the truly dedicated to praise or criticism could comment, now it's widely available to everyone. Since it takes less effort to comment, people put less effort into the comment. So when you look at all the insults and...

Well... at least you can still order it by getting extra meat paddies. Free choice and all that. Not that I care, since this is on the menu at my favourite burger place: Great for parties, and happily Vietnam is less fussy about making food look healthy.

Oh, please please PLEASE let this be the next big hit! I so want it to be the most popular costume at Halloween this year. Can you imagine it? Boys dressed up as a boy dressed up as a girl superhero! Girls dressed up as a boy dressed up as a girl superhero! So many heads are going to...

It's really more about practicing using English. I don't expect a student to play something like Gears of War and suddenly know Present Continuous :P What I'll be driving at with this tool is encouraging them to play at home on English speaking servers, or being able to play games with people...

Huh. Okay, new criteria. I want party games. Puzzle games. Games where people speak to each other to solve problems. Think Little Big Planet, where you have to work together to solve problems. Anything where you need to read/listen/speak in English to finish the game.

My fellow Escapists... I'm the Senior Teacher at an English language school. Recently, my school spent a lot of money buying up a lot of Xboxes and Kinects for use in the classroom. However, that's about as far as their thinking went. We have, as of now, the free software that comes with...

Well, having not seen the new Eva series, I can't comment on the insanity content... to be honest I saw some concept art for Eva spaceships and was baffled. The original series, though, was a Gainax satire on the state of popular big mecha anime at the time; the usual plot line being 'high...

Finally got around to reading this. Good to hear you have a good rapport with your students. That's often key to a classroom, and getting the most production from your students. That said, if you were one of my teachers I'd smack you around the head for being lazy. You have a context...

People get upset by 'white knights' because it shows them how much they actually let slide. People's mental image of themselves as 'good people' is important to them. But every sexist comment that they let be posted without raising an issue detracts from that self-image. It's a kind of a lie...

Hehehehe. This made me laugh :) Actually the article says there is a twitter feed instead. This made me laugh some more. Honestly, I've never heard of this before. 'Hathahate' has a nice ring to it though. Is that why people want it to be a thing? So they can call themselves 'Hathahaters', or...

Setting aside the sheer amount of real life advertising, these adverts are still subject to certain standards. False advertising is something you can be fined for. Saying electric cars have no draw backs and will, in fact, make you happy, is kind of pushing it. It even goes into the realm of...

There is still the 'Happiness' generated by the building. I'm not sure of the happiness value of what amounts to a power station being built next to my house. With a big amount of traffic too. Probably nit-picking, but it does raise an interesting question: Is this DLC subject to the...

Train wreck after train wreck... and yet, they still make money. You know, I remember from a Dilbert cartoon it was better to be a well-known screw up than a competent nobody. I can't honestly believe this is true for entire organisations as well as people.

Well, to be honest, you're still a noob. In video game terms, college is just the tutorial phase. You only have your beginner equipment, maybe some slightly shinier sword, and have just worked out the basics of the interface. You've got a long hard grind before you reach max level, or even...

So... A series which deals with conflict between religions, the Vatican, the American War of Independence, the Crusades, the struggle of Native Americans against colonials, and the suggestion of subversion of all governments... is being called out on for whaling? I'm not sure what to say...