Recent content by Roxor

Oh, what? They're still at it? Whoever is in charge of MLP is a poster-child for the Sunk Cost Fallacy. The second season was crap (I gave up on it three quarters of the way through). That should have been the point of "We're cutting our losses. No more of this show." Hollywood is run by...

"Super-challenging to do", huh? They're not very aware of the emulation scene, are they? The PS4 is basically a PC on the inside, and there have been PS2 emulators for Windows and Linux available for years (probably MacOS, too). They could save themselves a lot of work by just picking the...

This is about the worst news possible concerning Star Wars. GIVE US A FUCKING BREAK! I'm sick and tired of Star Wars. Everywhere you go there's Star Wars this, Star Wars that. It's been done to death! I liked Star Wars once. Now I despise it. And there's one simple reason for it...

We could approach the problem from the other angle: What makes for an OLD game? For the purposes of shows like the Angry Video Game Nerd and his various clones, I'd say having a copyright date more than 10-15 years in the past. Definitely no sooner than 10 though. So, by that criterion, we...

1. Yes. 1a. I blame it on unimaginative marketing departments and executives who know bugger-all about making games being allowed to have input on game development. Treat them like mushrooms: Keep them in the dark until ready for harvest. If the game isn't ready to be put onto disc, the...

8.5 million concurrent users, huh? Well, that's nice for you, Valve. Now how about you ban the use of third-party accounts and DRM for games sold on Steam so we have fewer headaches, hmm?

Given they like proprietary hardware so much, sell the equivalent of the nVidia Shield minus the screen and processing with a slot for your standard Android smartphone, and a Steam-like piece of software for the games library. I reckon that would make them plenty of money.

If making something to explore is too expensive to do, then you need a smarter way of making it. Shamus Young had a project a few years back which created a 32*32km island with sensible environments using procedural content.

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing you should ever do to your lawn is mow it once a month (assuming it's not the middle of winter when it doesn't grow). No weeding, no fertiliser, and definitely no watering. Either it makes do with what it gets or it can go and die.

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the hatred for kids in movies is just a subset of hate for stupid characters. I don't want to watch stupid people. I get enough of that in real life. Give us sensible people whose otherwise good plans get set back by nature or the opposition throwing...

Those are all really good. Almost makes me disappointed I haven't played any of the games they're from.

Yeah, as I recall it was something like 300 million less than the actual population at the time the episode was set. Yeah, the jab about the movie called "Alien" was just so fitting for the 12th Doctor. I think he's become my favourite from the revival. I still doubt anyone is going to...

Yep, and that's one of the great things about Doctor Who. Spinoffs like Torchwood: Miracle Day are just exploring in detail the sort of stuff which ends up as Fridge Horror in the main show.

Personally, I think the Old Clara world should have been the real ending. Everything was nicely wrapped up, and the happy ending seems tacked on. There's a bit of Fridge Horror about the "happy ending", too. Only Clara and the Doctor are awake. Everyone else who was in the base is still...

It's part of Tex Murphy's signature attire. Why not wear it if you've got a suitable outfit to go with it?