Recent content by akkronym

I have a 400+ library of stuff too, I'm not really sure how many it adds up to when I include all my systems - probably over 500 by a bit. However, I don't really feel guilty about having that much of a backlog and it's not really a collecting thing either. The reason is that I've...

I get that moviebob's politics are quite public at this point so maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but it bothers me a bit that in a movie that has a lot to do with spying on people, drone strikes, conspiracy, and going after present or future whistle blowers that the focus on "Why this was...

Scorpion Physiology The power to take on the abilities and attributes of scorpions. A sub-power of Arachnid Physiology. Sigh... It looks like I'm the guy in the lottery who won enough money to pay for the ticket.

The Matrix doesn't have anything to do with Cramer's Rule.

I'm not gonna lie and say that it wouldn't bug me (might not be the best word choice), it definitely would. But I'd like to think that I have an open mind about stuff, and if it turned out that the person I was dating was oh by the way... I don't know. I think I'd be able to come to terms with...

Pretty simple if you watch the video [and everyone here who hasn't, ought to]. Send messages to your favorite commentators, game companies etc, (Hey there Escapist Magazine) and request that they decline from attending or reporting on E3 unless the ESA withdraws support. My site has already...

While I'm seeing a lot of moral choice RPGs mentioned and the occasional niche title that was received with a general consensus oh "meh" from the gaming community, those examples sort of under cut what I think is being asked. And that is, can you create a compelling narrative from the...

Yeah OP, I know exactly what you are talking about. Tried out APB the other day - was massively unimpressed. To answer your question though, TF2 360 (and PS3 to my knowledge). Don't get me wrong, it's still one of the best designed games for multiplayer and I love it to death, but the community...

Communism doesn't account for human nature; it assumes that we'd rather be nice to each other than have more stuff for ourselves (incredibly straw man analysis but essentially true). Capitalism does, but it has no direct solution for corruption. If someone abuses the system to get power...

For me, this argument crops up on a near daily basis. The argument that PC Gamers are better than console gamers or the PC is better than anything else out there or that PC Gaming is inherently superior to everything else; not as a matter of preference but as if it is some written in stone...

OP: You missed the point of the book. I'll try and avoid spoilers so if for some reason you haven't read Watchmen and you're reading this, you've been warned ahead of time that I might slip up. A huge theme of the book was the fatalism of humanity and the fact that it literally takes the...

OP - missing the point. Skyrim fans don't feel superior to MW3 fans because of the game; it's because of the community it attracts. MW3 has become so popular that it has drawn in people who are familiar with the rest of gaming culture and certainly aren't playing MW3 for what it does right...

This shouldn't even be a discussion. Films and novels brush this topic all the time and rarely does anyone bat an eye at the controversy unless it's a blockbuster and no one saw that sort of dark turn coming. It's not a question of is rape unacceptable in a video game it's a question of can it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCx7VA8qGA Video is self explanatory - I found it funny and was sharing it with a friend.

heartless comment incoming that does not excuse the act in and of itself: ABOUT ****ING TIME TEENAGE COD TROLLS GET A MESSAGE THAT WORDS HAVE WEIGHT. Yes, the grown man with a mental disorder probably shouldn't have been playing the shooter in the first place (that's how things like Norway...