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I'm going to say something other than "The cake is a lie" or "I took an arrow to the knee" - the one that annoys me most is clips from the CDi Mario game. For example... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvLGgV4HWQY At least the Zelda CDi game was so goofy that it was kinda funny. The Mario...

A lot of the time, those computers with 256 MB RAM had two sticks which were 128 MB apiece. So, it still was sort of paired. The thing is that, in ye old days, memory likes to be installed in pairs, and some types wouldn't work unless you had two matching memory sticks. These days, I don't...

"Was it worth it?"

Unless you have a vested interest in the person's sexuality (for example, you are interested in dating them, or MAYBE if you're thinking of trying to set them up on a date), then the question's inappropriate. Why does it matter? If you're asking because they exhibit stereotypical traits (such...

That's a good idea. Would you like to pay my salary while we do that? The death march happens because people want the games, and they want them fast so as not to let technology slip past. Plus, in the initial contracts between developer and publisher, there's hard milestones that are put on...

You tend to see quite a bit of misogynist and generally antisocial behavior at some game development houses. I've seen a incredibly detailed vagina drawn on a whiteboard and left up for weeks at one, at another I've seen people who needed to be told to bathe more or else they'd be fired, and at...

FAIL Walk of Life - Dire Straits http://www.uncommon-sound.com/guitar-book/mark_knopfler.jpg Great guitarist, but not who I'd choose to wake up next to. I think only the ones who ended up with dead people (and maybe Steven Tyler) ended up with worse.

I knew someone who ran into a showstopper - couldn't continue the game at all from his save, and not due to a corrupted save but due to broken mechanics. Basically, he was waiting to get the patch so that he could actually finish the game. That's bad.

Fallout, Fallout 2, and Arcanum. Combine this with others' complaints about Vampire: Bloodlines, NWN2, and Fallout: New Vegas, and I think you see an interesting pattern. The in-house development team at Interplay in the late nineties (from which Troika and Obsidian sprung) had a decent bit...