Recent content by WyattEpp

EDIT: Whoops, already seen Monster. Good call, btw. Then seconding Speed Grapher and throwing out Flag. Yes, really.

I have no end of love for Minecraft, but I think you're selling modern Lego short. People like the late Nate "nnenn" Nielson and Fredo "Fredoichi" Houben prove that even in the less blocky Lego era, there's plenty to be creative about. Seriously, look at this stuff...

I should get in touch with Tom Scott; he's going the right direction and I'm curious if he'd like to work together. (If yes, then I need to rope an electrical engineer into the equation, too...). Thanks for recognising the potential of this uniquely open body of real-world data. ;)

Icculus mentions it's the only way to get Braid for Linux ("for now", I presume?). Child's Play and EFF are Totally worth a $50 dent. :) Get gift codes and give the others as gifts, then?

Is it really obscure? It can be had for a fiver at most used game stores... As for the article, the game that immediately comes to mind is Phantom Brave. My blade of grass was pretty much the ultimate weapon, but the fish wasn't bad either.

While it's good you know how to look at and compare postive integers with similar units, you fall into a fairly common trap of assuming that the numbers are equivalent. First off, remember that while the R4000 CPU in the PSP can hit 333MHz, it's intentionally clocked at 222 because of power...

"Once upon a time, videogames came with interesting collections of documents, manuals, and knickknacks." FEELIES! :D Seems like you didn't get much actual play. Also (and I'd be surprised if this hasn't been brought up already; haven't checked), D&D is but one of many different systems. If...

I'd like to get a Pandora. Seems like a neat platform for hacking; much more power than the DS (the Cortex-A8 is very nice) and less hoops to jump through to get my code running. Only real problem with it is the PowerVR. It's pretty powerful, but the state of the drivers in the kernel is...

Mahjong. JCR Rules. (Oh snap, not a video game!)

I'd like to note that Brink doesn't look like any Shmup I've ever seen... Looks like a third-person action game or an FPS.

I'm 23. I have it. It has its ups and downs. I can fail to remember the most important things in the world (lost my car that way), but recall the most minute details of things that I don't even think I'm absorbing (stopped 1:47:32 into the Seven Samurai; need to rememebr to finish that.)...

Right, now as to the article itself: entertaining. I had never caught the similarities with Early Tezuka and Uncle Scrooge. You've clearly done your homework. Likewise, I'm inordinately pleased that you touched on the cyclic relationship of cultural exports, too. The Disney -> Tezuka link is...

"Manga" as a word that translates directly to "comics" goes back to roughly 1300 BCE. The unique blend of form and aesthetic that characterises what we have come to know as "manga style", however, is much more recent. A cursory skim of the Wikipedia article would have told you almost as...

If you have a group around to pan the crap out of it, Gonzo's 2001 Hellsing is a decent evening. If you want what the author intended, the OVA, for all their slow production, are much more satisfying. Even more bizarre, a good half of the first TV series AND the subsequent moere was all...

I could probably write a recommendation for every person in this thread. Seems a lot of the replies fall firmly into various shades of "I don't like X and I'm seeing a lot of it, so that's all that's being made and I hate that. They need to go back to [the also relatively-recent] Y [that they...