Recent content by WinterOrbit

A bunch of people have mentioned the Extra Credits video about Mass Effect DLC, which is really interesting but doesn't quite share the same topic as Jim's talk. The Extra Credits folks were talking about Day 1 DLC, which not only doesn't have to be on-disc but could be justified as more than...

I'm a cyberpunk fan (hell, my handle is a reference to a Gibson-Sterling story), but I take issue with this assessment of steampunk. Fundamentally, as it helps explain the present, steampunk is about feeling that technology is accelerating at a rate too fast for us to be able to understand the...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this song. It's the best when I'm feeling crummy because the slow build doesn't make me feel like I'm being crushed with the happy anvil. Also, Queen. What other reason do you need?

Peter Brundle suggesting teleporting genetic material... I see what you did there.

Really good. It's only been out since Wednesday, and it's all I've been playing. The randomly generated rooms and item drops keep it fresh.

Well, Edmund McMillen, one-half the Super Meat Boy team, just came out with a game called The Binding of Isaac. It's a mix of roguelike, Zelda, and Smash TV where you play as a boy whose crazy mother wants to sacrifice him to God. It's $4.49 until Tuesday. The trailer:

This website is pretty handy for finding out what you can run on your machine, though sometimes you can push it farther than they say you can.

I hate to do this because you have the awesome taste to listen to Cynic, but that's not Autotune. He's using a vocoder. OT: I'm fine with Autotune. It's a tool to be used well or poorly, like guitar pedals or synthesizers. Unless you're in a genre that needs a natural sound (e.g. folk), use...

Since you mix music, try listening to artists or genres you don't ordinarily listen to, or using effects you haven't played with much. You might stumble upon a new sound you like.

A few from the Mountain Goats that always get to me: "And I will get lonely And gasp for air And send your name up from my lips Like a signal flare." --"Get Lonely" "And way out in Seattle, young Kurt Cobain Snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain. Snakes in grass...

I have only a few things to add to the other members' good judgment. Besides that your brother has manipulated you and treated you horribly, disrespected you and your wife, acted violently towards you, and has shown no signs of changing, you should avoid him because he tempts you to act...

The problem as I see it is that Transformers 3 is a huge time investment for such little payoff. You have to sit through 90 minutes of the bullshit human plotlines to get to the cool giant robot battle, and even when you get there, you spend much more time with the boring, annoying humans than...

If you're still taking suggestions, the entire "Songs for the Deaf" album by Queens of the Stone Age is good (which makes sense because the whole album is supposed to fit the lead singer's road trips). My favorite driving song from that album is "Go With the Flow."

You are rad. I'll add to this: Picaresque by the Decemberists Lateralus by Tool In Absentia by Porcupine Tree Hypersomnia by Entertainment for the Braindead

You win the thread (derailment). I haven't laughed harder all week. OT: As a PS3 owner, I'm happy to know Sony tried to take more care with my data than some news sources let on.