Recent content by wtrmute

This. I mean, Sega's done all kinds of attempts to update the formula for Sonic games, and it's a running joke that every Sonic game has been terrible since Sonic 3. Then they cave in and do a game that is just like the early, good games, and everybody hates it anyway because it lacks...

Yes, they are. They're North Africans, mostly of Berber extraction, and white for all intents and purposes, even if they are tanned (about as much as a Californian). If you want to talk about blacks, you need to use "Ethiopian", but there were no Ethiopians in Middle Ages Britain. Talking...

Dude, Moors aren't black, they've never been. They look more like Arabs, and were only referred to as "black" because they had tanned skin, and to Medieval Europeans who'd never seen a proper black person it was close enough.

I agree I agree; especially if we get to horse around with a sweet scythe like that...

I've read about that strained graphene thing. Unfortunately, my understanding is not that the strained graphene generated a ridiculously strong magnetic field, but merely that it acted as though it had been subjected to a ridiculously strong magnetic field. It's still cool that we can now...

Funny that the thing that most bothered me in this article was that this Stohl character said that the studio can go off and build great new franchises, not great new games. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I guess it still says a lot about the state of the industry and its terminal case of...

I've never heard of groups against stem-cell research -- embryonic stem-cell research, yes, but there's an important difference there. And from the article, those stem cells weren't embryonic anyway. Anyway, five Higgs Bosons? Whatever they say, but frankly I'm skeptical of any Higgs Bosons...

My first instinct would indeed be to use ser in that expression, but most likely the correct verb in that phrase would be indeed estar. You see, it depends on whether the strip can be considered intrinsically,fundamentally good or whether it is an accidental property of how Shamus managed to...

"Muy bien" can be used, I grant you that, but it would translate as "very well", not "very good". Native Spanish speakers everywhere can use "muy bueno", generally because they're eliding the subject -- and the verb estar, which carries about zero content. "[Este episodio está] muy...

I also like open-world sandbox games like Mount and Blade or Starflight, like "here's a cool place, now go play in it". Obviously, other people like other things, but I agree that if you're telling a story, it should be a good one. I particularly am rubbish at it, but I appreciate those who...

Does Greenpeace ever do anything beside those silly protests like chaining themselves to trees -- and apparently, giving out scores for companies for what their public policy on biodegradable electronics is? Like, some research, conservation efforts, some positive action at all? Really, I get...

Actually, aside from missing punctuation, it's perfectly good Spanish... "Very good, thanks".

Oddly enough, Tolkien's dwarves have nothing Scottish about them, but rather Jewish. In fact, they hit lots of the stereotypes Jews had in the beginning of the 20th Century: good craftsmen and jewelers, secretive, having their own tongue they used among themselves while using the tongue of the...

As a matter of fact, current Persians are Caucasian, as well. Same with the Arabs and the Indians, even though they've got a bit more melanin. A good amount of Latinos, too... Really, Caucasian is an extremely broad classification which is not, as some people in this board might possibly...

Whoa! Who drew that picture? Cloud actually looks very cool in it, especially holding Seph's severed head like that. Looks like a Viking, really. He could stand to lose the heart tattoo, though. Beauty and ugliness are, of course, in the eye of the beholder. I don't think the...