Recent content by StargateSpankyHam

An SMG-Railgun. Futuristic, small, and practical in terms of design. An Anti-Armor Pulse Laser. Who wouldn't want a laser sniper rifle that shoots through tanks? A Minigun worthy of a terminator! Seriously, there are some terribad miniguns on this page. Laugable impracticality at...

I don't care what it says in the EULA - When I buy a game, I am not buying a 'service'. I am buying intellectual freaking PROPERTY, transferred from the company that creates and publishes it, to me. Once I OWN it, I will use it in whatever ways I damn well please, because I paid for those...

Buy rocket fuel. Prefab engines are for the boring and uncreative. Several thousand pounds of ammonium perchlorate should provide years of entertainment, with smaller-scale launches. You could do things like put rockets on remote-control cars, or celebrate your favorite holidays with...

Here's a brilliant idea: Cite your old paper as a source. Yes, write a new one, yes, update it. I'm pretty sure your instructor wants you to write a unique paper for that class - but I'm also pretty sure they'll love it if you reference your own work in a similar (even identical) vein, as part...

If I was reviewing games, I would use a few rules for the 1 - 10 scale: 'Average' in any area is FIVE. This means that the average triple-A title would receive a 5/10. Features that are better than average and push the envelope would get higher scores, thus bringing up the game's rating...

Dead Space - a fully upgraded ripper. The thing slices up necromorphs like they're made of tissue paper, and I can usually get two or three of them with a single blade. It uses so little ammo, and you can get so much ammo from dead necromorphs, I often ended up selling stack after stack of...

The worst thing a game can do is have its box art appear on failblog. That's when you know that a game absolutely fails in every way it is theoretically possible to fail.

Damn...if the game just outright fails to start, is there some type of repair utility you might be able to use? Some games generate an error log whenever they experience problems - I do not know if Battlefield 3 does this though. It's worth checking into. Also, make sure you have...

That's an easy fix - disconnect the PC from the internet and watch the DRM scream and writhe in agony. Unless it's one of those always-on DRM's. Then we need to mail EA games a few million scathing letters and boycott the game. That kind of BS is unacceptable, and it's our job as consumers to...

More often than not, legality and morality are congruent with one another - but this is not always the case. Just because something is a law does not make it morally correct. I believe that it is most certainly morally wrong for a game developer to keep you from playing a game that you have...

I did buy Unreal (the original) twice, because the disc eventually developed a crack after 10+ years of storage. I also bought Half Life 2 twice.

Well, fast zombies are undoubtedly more difficult to deal with than the slower ones, if all other things are equal. Shaun of the Dead Zombies = Easy Mode Zombieland Zombies = Hard Mode I enjoy a challenge...so I prefer the faster zombies. After all, what fun is it with an enemy whose...

Halo 4 for PC Also, any space shooter game for the PC, involving fully Newtonian flight mechanics, competent gameplay/configuration settings, decent storyline, and convincing visuals.

Perhaps more interestingly, immortality is actually within our grasp. With technology advancing as it is, computers will be as intricate and advanced as the human brain by 2029, assuming that human civilization doesn't suffer a socioeconomic meltdown between now and then. Neuroscience may...

Unless you're wearing a powered exoskeleton with a few dozen tazers wired into the exterior panels, don't behave like this around a security guard. You're going to lose the fight. It's common sense, and this kid had none. Now, if they were actually hurting the kid's arm or something, then I...