Recent content by DubMan

As long as federal stipends for education are still directly tethered to the conditions of No Child Left Behind, forcing idiots with no motivation to finish school will artificially lower test scores, and in effect, school funding.

Absolutely, I thought Morrowind's dialogue system was great: Give the NPC's one or two voiced lines, and then let us infer what the actual dialogue sounds like from there. Not only did voicing all of the dialogue not help "immersion" (this is becoming more and more of a useless buzzword) in any...

Thanks for not commenting on whether or not the writing has returned to Morrowind-like levels or if the aesthetic has gotten any less stale, because these were frankly the only things about this game I'm anxious to hear about. >_>

Asking me to remember the name of an NPC from Oblivion is like asking me to remember the name of the 678th person who walked into a Walmart on any given day. Also, I flubbed the Arena question because the wrong year had been given. You totally shoulda asked who the only reoccurring mortal...

He's usually referred to as "Tank Man." Nobody knows his actual name, he was black-bagged. Really next level scary shit.

Whenever I feel really helpless, apathetic, or inhibited, I ask myself what was stopping this man.

"Art" is a buzzword that intellectuals who think that they own a monopoly on meaningful thought use to explain why what they find to be aesthetically pleasing is more valid than what you do. No piece of music, no drawing, no writing, and certainly no game has ever actually diminished in quality...

This study doesn't have a control group. He in no way isolates violent video games as reasons behind viewing other people as essentially inhuman. Learn how to do the fucking scientific method. GUUUHHH.

This one minute trailer of nothing but art and music made me way more excited for the game than all the gameplay trailers and Todd Howard interviews combined could. Soule's string writing abilities get more and more impressive by the year; those major 7th suspensions in the violins are...

The lot of you people are missing the point entirely. Fox's actual guilt in the matter is secondary in importance to the fact that retribution and justice are things that both have to happen through legal institutions. Whether or not Fox actually deserves this treatment or not (pro-tip: deserts...

We should all road-trip to Kansas (or wherever their church is) and protest the WBC. That would rule, right? Who's with me?

Writers should have degrees in literature. It wouldn't hurt to mandate this for gamers as well. I keep trying to explain to people why the dialogue in games like Halo and Gears of War is totally fucking vacuous and relies exclusively upon the relative illiteracy of everybody involved to seem...

I get really fvkking stupid off grapefruit soda. Woodman's sells bottles for 69 cents - I swim in that shit. Occasionally, though, I'll drop a Lincoln on some bottled whole milk from the co-op and eat some cereal with that dank ass shit. Don't be hatin'.

So, here's a piece of advice from some pretentious dickwad who listens to too much Minor Threat and reads too much Kant: Ditch bar life, stop drinking. When people are in complete control of their actions, problems like this evaporate. I feel a personal moral obligation to respect my capacity...

I've seen this scenario before, it usually goes something like this: Asinine Keynes worshipers who only gain international renown through the public's supreme idiocy and illiteracy: "War is good." Said public: "Yeah, that's a really deep and intellectually stimulating idea, let's try it."...