Recent content by alphaxi

Huh. You know what's fascinating about that entry is it implies that both ways are correct. I guess your pet peeve is invalid as well as my Harvard PhD professor's pet peeve (hated people using quote as a verb, very adamantly so).

If you can afford an even better graphics card, get it: Crysis is insane. As for the rest of it, I'd also recommend updating your sound card. Integrated sound cards consistently suck.

This is interesting to me because the precise thing that I learned from a Harvard PhD was exactly the opposite of what you just said. I learned that quote is a noun, not a verb. You present quotes, you don't quote something.

"Moot" by its first meaning, 'arguable,' has the connotation of something being arguable as valid. Thereby, to say that your statements were moot was to say that they were questionable. A slightly clumsy usage of the word, I admit. I suppose the greater question surrounding the singular they...

"'Singular they' is a popular, non-technical term for the use of the pronoun they (or its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context." In other words, it is only allowable in informal contexts where it is previously agreed that it is in reference to a single person. A piece...

"Dark and stormy night" cliche beginning. I already don't want to read the rest but I will because I am trying to give you real help on this. Okay, but could be made better by not utilizing the cliche "until then" fragment and tightening some of the language up in the last sentence. Also...

lol, all too true. Then again, I think at this point we're just gonna be laughing at future whining simply out of imagining Yahtzee's response. It goes from annoying to amusing when they don't know when to give up.

I think what Indigo is getting at, though, is far too many 10s are given out in the first place. A game shouldn't be required to be perfect to get a 10, but an FPS with a boring single player campaign (Halo 3) should be considered enough of a fault to knock it down at least a point. But then...

and just as a sense of normalcy was returning to the thread, count on random trolls from nowhere to prevent such an occurrence...

Fixed it. One word out of how many? I like those odds XD

Not anymore, if it is. Here's a transcript, enjoy. Funnily enough, I don't get direct hatemail as often as you might think. I guess you're all afraid I might ignore you to death. But the Brawl review brought in an unprecedented, yet not entirely unexpected, amount of negative feedback, and I...

Please tell me that was the first time anyone asked for a transcript in this thread. That would be absolutely awesome XD

Good review as always. I'd argue that it wasn't entirely necessary to respond to the fanboys but at the same time this may be one of the lulziest things I've experienced in a while so I'm not complaining.

I don't think that we as a society are getting meaner or nicer, only that the people who are going to call others out for being retarded now have digital cameras and youtube at their disposal.

I don't think I can compete, but there's no reason to not try. Here it is Essentially, I'm a walking paradox. Let me elaborate. I'm extremely shy around people when I am in close contact or in a context such as public speaking, yet I have absolutely no problem getting up on stage in front of...