Recent content by SimuLord

Normally I would heartily endorse this, but since he's posting on a video game site, you know they'd just use it as more proof that "vidja games cause MURDER", so I have to object this time.

My stuffed animals tell me "don't say us. We love you!" (though women think it's the cutest thing they've ever seen, which endears me to them, which gets me copious amounts of manly rewards. But really, I'm just an overgrown kid.)

Attractive, stupid, sane... Sounds like 80% of my former girlfriends plus my ex-wife. I have an unfortunate tendency to go for cute airheads.

I've had a few successful long-distance flings (including one that ended up turning into a five-year marriage), and I've had a few disasters. In other words, remarkably like my regular relationships. If two people are compatible, they trust each other enough to be surrounded by potential...

I think of myself as a "Bostonian-American". In the event that the republic ever came apart at the seams, my first and truest loyalty is to New England, not to the United States as a whole, and I tend to regard anyone not from there, whether they're from America or Timbuktu, as having a certain...

I'd like to think that all the time I spent playing Tropico has perfectly prepared me for just such an occasion. Dictatorship would suit me well.

I don't know that I ever "realized" that I'm 100% heterosexual. When the hormones started popping when I was eleven, I didn't need social programming or anything else to say "go find a girl and do what evolution says is right" (not that I'd have been able to do so at eleven, but...) I just...

When I saw the headline I thought "Wait, does that mean they're adding beds or is there a new block that will make you literally hit the hay in order to get...I dunno, thatched roofs or livestock feed or something?"

Commander: Conquest of the Americas got a 68 Metascore. Patrician IV got a 66 (and, to be fair, it deserved it---that was a major "hardcore genre fans will like this, but everyone else is gonna think it sucks" game if ever there was one. Unless you're a DIEHARD simulation gamer you're not...

Fred Phelps, Hitler, Paul of Tarsus (the apostle who was the first religious leader in the world to get the idea that in-your-face evangelical assholery was a fine way to go about having a faith---everyone from Sarah Palin to Phelps to Osama bin Laden owes Paul a debt of gratitude), Caligula...

Ads in general annoy me. Most places on the Internet, ads are dealt with accordingly, here on the Escapist a few bucks take care of things with nobody having to engage any ethical dilemmas.

I would love to argue the merits of games-as-art with James Portnow from Extra Credits. He seems to have a touch of David Cage/Hideo Kojima syndrome, so it'd be interesting to hear that philosophy from the point of view of an actual designer and have it explained to me how that evolution in...

I knew it was a Rainbow Six game, I just didn't know which one. :)

Wherever you're getting your Sims 3 mods?

It'll never sell, nobody would believe it. :P How's this for a game idea? It's building cities. Lay roads, zone land, set up police and fire departments, provide electricity, keep crime, pollution, and such at bay, make sure there's affordable housing for all segments of society, and do all...