Recent content by Polarity27

If this did have anything to do with his Twitter, I think that's a crappy decision. There are a ton of us who just come here for videos and don't generally give a toss what people say on Twitter-- I don't know if it's the format or the userbase, but Twitter seems to bring out the idiot in...

He gives his reasons for liking each movie except two, where a Lego figure yelling something inarticulate and a beat-em-up scene are supposed to stand in for "why I liked this movie" and are supposed to be AWWWWWESOME! ...but for those of us who haven't seen them, they're just two random...

But anyone with sense does that to some degree. You've never looked at a headline or a post title and decided to nope the heck out of there, for any reason? Yes, bad shit will happen and you can't tell it not to, but at the same time, you also can't give your attention to every single thing on...

Really, when you get down to it, "sexist" is an aggregate complaint. Yes, yes, it *can* be specific, but specific examples are mainly objectionable because of the aggregate. If there were more female characters, across the board, of all types and descriptions, the fanservice fighter wouldn't...

Eh. Beltway journalists take this to an even greater extreme and they actually are educated in journalistic ethics. I think the tendency toward this exists any time there's a niche or a bubble covering itself-- the smaller the pond that everyone swims in, sources and reporters, the harder it is...

I actually, no joke, expect something just like this. I've already had Apple fans look at me weird when I said I didn't understand the point of such a big, thin phone when you can't fit it in your pocket. As in, look at me weird for wanting to put my phone in my pocket instead of in a purse...

I love splitscreen co-op! My husband and I love playing together and it's just not the same experience if we have to be in separate rooms to do it. Halo is a perennial favorite in our house because it's just so good for local co-op play. But I do wish devs would think seriously hard about...

I wouldn't say all games need to allow you to choose your gender, but I would say "can this game allow for main character gender choice" is a question all game writers (writing games with a gendered character) should be able to answer, even if only to themselves. Just as I think all game writers...

What Indomitable Sam said. If you have a publishing contract, it has deadlines. Lesser authors can and have been sued over missed deadlines, particularly where they've been paid an advance. Do you think he's the only one who matters here? The publishing house has to jiggle its budget based on...

That exactly. I should tell my boss to quit badgering me about my deadline, doesn't he know that badgering makes me less apt to want to do my work? It'll get done when it gets done! Srsly, when did this ever work in the rest of the real world? Yo, professor, don't rush genius, your students...

^^This so very much! This, I would pay for. An HD version of the first game? Nah. Don't care about graphics in an RPG, but I'd love to see a console version of KOTOR II with all the content restored. I'm still angry they screwed the pooch with that godawful MMO-- it may be pretty, the mechanics...

This. They also live through moving just fine even if you don't disassemble them. Have 12 separate pieces of Ikea furniture that was moved three times in the last year and the only damage to any of them is a horizontal gash on the back of one of the narrow Billy bookcases sustained when my...

Seriously, THIS. To not mention The Wire at all, and to put Dexter over it just astonishes me. Also not mentioning Justified baffles me. Both shows gave us nuanced characters, tight writing, an incredible sense of place (so much so with The Wire that I fell in love with its dysfunctional but...

This isn't a matter of belief, this is a matter of science, and memory doesn't work that way. The "tape recorder" notion of memory has been thoroughly debunked, and the idea that false memories can be planted has been conclusively proven. There has never been a scintilla of evidence of any...

Wikipedia isn't a bad place to *start*, but there's plenty of good information out there in book form if you're willing to delve deeper. Here's my recommendation list (I'm actually researching this myself at the moment, so this is also *my* reading list), all of which can be found on Amazon and...