Recent content by Zato-1

You mean that article that was factually incorrect and when I pointed this out to Steven, he ignored me? The one that was a train wreck because its main point about how the game's pricing structure was unacceptable was simply wrong, because everything was not, in fact, more expensive in HotS...

Yeah, I realized this while looking at all of the hero costs for HoTS when making my second post. 10k gold is the "highest" cost bracket for HoTS, in the same way that 6300 IP is the "highest" cost bracket for LoL. Whether by average cost or for the highest cost tier, HoTS heroes take less time...

A'ight then, let's do it by average cost. There's 34 HoTS heroes, which cost a combined total of 229,000 gold; this averages out to 6,735 gold per hero, or 27 hours per hero of average cost for HoTS. It would take 7800 + 6300*32 + 4800*34 + 3150*24 + 1350*21 + 450*12 = 481,950 IP to buy every...

Um. Sorry to say this Steven, but you really should've checked your math. At your stated 110 IP/hour gain, it would take 57 hours of LoL playtime to earn the 6300 IP required to buy champions in the "highest" cost bracket (7800 IP is only for 1 champion at any given time). Earning your stated...

It's what Microsoft did with Windows 7. You want this super crippled version of Windows 7, subtitled "Home Basic"? It's the cheapest one! You want the full version of Windows 7, subtitled "Ultimate"? It's an outrageously expensive piece of software! They cut their product up into pieces, and...

This is not about what's best for him, it's about what's best for the rest of US society. This man is a danger to society if left at large, and so he's put in confinement so everyone else can be free from his abuse and so as to dissuade other potential bad apples from doing the same things he's...

Most of your points are fair, but I do want to point something else out: innocence. Innocence is best understood as the illusion of invulnerability. If an adolescent sees videos of Tony Hawk skating and wants to try stuff out himself, he's going to think that his parents fussing over knee...

It's kind of tragic that the incompetence and trigger-happy behavior of a lot of US police officers makes their visits potentially deadly, but you're right- swatting someone can get them killed, and is only a few steps removed from actually showing up at their place and trying to shoot them...

What is this drivel? Video should be titled "Max Weber's take on Capitalism", there's no real discussion about whether Capitalism is good or bad for you.

Final Fantasy VI is one of my favorite games of all time :)

All we know about Evolve comes from trailers, ads and interviews with the people making it. Right now, you're selling us a promise- literally. You're asking us to give you our money on good faith and pre-order your product, before we can have any independent reviews on whether it'll be any good...

Except the term Global Warming doesn't imply that the planet is warming up uniformly, only that it's warming up overall. It's like if you put a square plate of food big enough on a microwave oven that the edges get stuck and the plate doesn't spin, some parts of your food will end up really hot...

I actually become upset whenever people use the term "climate change" instead of "global warming". Global Warming is the more concise, accurate term as far as I can see; it conveys the idea succinctly, without a lot of room for misinterpretation. The planet is heating up. Why is it heating up...

Suikoden... 2? I'm very surprised that you'd call this a classic over the far superior original Suikoden game. Suikoden was a masterpiece; Suikoden 2 was a huge disappointment to me after the first one, and an average jRPG at best.

Condemning South Park for "punching down" instead of "punching up" completely misses the point about the show. South Park is not about social justice and speaking truth to power, it's about confronting ugly truths and being irreverent to a fault, which has its own value. Also, this: