Recent content by Bento Box

Oh, good. I was almost afraid after all that legal bullshit surrounding the Fallout license, that Bethesda was going to break out of the insufferably stale mold of fantasy MMO's, and do something fresh with an infinitely more interesting IP. Good job, Bethsoft.

Wow, guys, nearly a whole page, and not a single mention of the Really Big Button that Doesn't Do Anything [http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm]? This bad boy predates the original Quake, and is still one of the better places to visit when you need a chuckle on the internet...

No, sir. Certainly, science answers the 'how,' but the why is not answered by faith or anything like it. Do you think that people are worth keeping alive? Do you think that it's best if we can live in a society in which people do the most good and the least harm? If that's the case, then...

Heya, buddy. How's that thread necromancy treatin' ya? But what the hey, I'll bite. What's ignorant about what I had to say? Being something of a (for lack of a better word) fan of the Phelps cult, I know a thing or two about their interpretation of the Bible, and their take on...

So a Journalism student in Missouri has concerns that video games are too down on religion? Huh. And here, I get frustrated because I don't think they're nearly down enough; there is so much more room for intolerance, bigotry, dogma, superstition, honor-killing and broad-stroke...

That there is still a substantial number of people who cling to the halcyon nostalgia of having a planet in the solar system whose name matched that of a cartoon dog. No, really. Chapter seven. [fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_The_Pluto_Files] It's also worth watching chapter eight to...

They aren't giving you helpful advice on how to use a captcha. They're demonstrating that captcha is a short-lived nuisance at its worst: a pittance compared to the desire to share any thoughts of relative importance or substance. They're also implying that you're either lazy or lacking...

0/0 !=0 I saw a video of a guy figuring out a way to divide by zero once. It was basically a really pretentious cop-out where the ultimate result was just drawing a number off of, and separate from, the number line, and calling it 'nullity.' It made my brain rage, and I'm not even a math nut...

My experience is less with games, and more with anime, but I think the reasoning will hold firm in both cases. I don't much care for subtitles; they draw my attention away from the action on screen, even if only briefly. Sometimes, though, they're a necessary evil, especially in games, where...

The eighth generation will bring more-affordable access to the almost-latest graphic and processing hardware, followed by a half-decade or more of stagnation, while moddable computers continue to set new bars -- bars inevitably nearly reached by the 9th generation of consoles, who sadly miss the...

Play fair. A huge chunk of the young adult population grew up with Nintendo. Kids a year or two younger grew up with Nintendo and Sega. A few years younger, they grew up with Nintendo, Sega, and Sony. It wasn't until the previous generation of consoles, in the 2000's, that America had its...

There's so much ado in this thread about the number of stabbings, as if one or two would have been likely to yield a different result. Look: A savage attack is not the long, drawn out affair you see in movies, where the camera jerks around a lot, then stands still for at least a second or...

Just clarifying -- are you suggesting that if there were to be a study conducted, that it wouldn't find a positive correlation between physical strength and ability to perform physical labor?

I know, right? That's like saying that frequently picking up heavier things than other people do, will make you better at picking up heavier things later in life! That's just silly!

My personal favorite anti-hangover measure is something that some people simply don't have access to: a tremendous capacity for alcohol. Of course, if you were born with an unfortunately small frame, or have a lamentably small amount of mass, or for any other reason are a lightweight, you...