Recent content by DeadMG

I thoughtt the Escapist was a news site? You know, that reports actual news. Preferably, gaming news. Not random American pop crap.

I've also noticed that the video advertisements on each page not only autoplay (which is very annoying since I don't have enough bandwidth for that) but they have live sound. What the fuck.

"This article was made possible with the sponsorship of Toshiba." So basically, it's an advertisement couched as news. I quit reading there. But then I decided that maybe, just maybe, I pre-judged, and I went back and read the whole article. But no, it's just advertising couched as news...

"Hello, fellow sport-loving Americans! Let's celebrate how sport-loving and American we are!". Thank you kindly for making many base assumptions here. I thought this website was supposed to be about *games*?

How are you going to call the functions when you don't know what instruction set to emit calls for? I very much doubt that you can build one set of binary code that will be "call" on x86 and "call" on Cell. With all the same relevant semantics and ABIs. I'm getting the feeling that what...

Yes, I'm sure that if you define an interface and compile some calling code for a Cell SPU, then implement that interface on an x86 chip, this will totally work. Game incompatibility has absolutely nothing to do with lack of OS API compatibility. It's the compatibility of the underlying...

No, that's how it really does work. A movie is just some data. You can convert that data however you like, any time. It's trivial. Terminator 2 is the same in mp4 as xvid or anything else. A game involves code and that's vastly more problematic. Not only is code unimaginably more complex, but...

I'm sorry Bob, I usually love Escape to the Movies and Big Picture, but this was terrible. Every single person who *wasn't* attending PAX, like, say, virtually all of them, had absolutely nothing in this video. I was expecting, say, some commentary on that PyCon fracas, not randomly "Let's come...

You know, I hate to say it, but I thought this episode sucked. Bob just seemed to be recounting Supergirl's Wikipedia page. I was like, "But why does all of this comic book character history actually matter?". The other two episodes on Supergirl seemed fine to me.

The new site blows. News ticker? Why would I want a news ticker? Protip: There's no point reading the same news article more than once, so I'd have to wait forever for it to tick to something new. Waste of space. The rest of the site has the same problem. The old site was efficiently...

Definitely Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Edit: And Kick-Ass. That was 2010? Man, this year's getting old.

I definitely feel that a lot of the appearance of disorder is just in the mind of the beholder. If you always put everything useful on your desk, when you need to find it again, it's on your desk. Easy.

Aby_z: Click the X on the video-moving ads, and the video stops playing. Start the video again, and it moves again. Click the X on the pop-over ads, and it's already too late.

Am I the only one who thinks that they're MUCH more obnoxious than the previous ones? You sit down to watch a video, and the advert physically moves the video so that you're no longer looking at it. Very disruptive. Even worse, today, I was watching The Last Airbender review by MovieBob, and...

Epic win.