Recent content by CeeBod

Totally my reaction as soon as I saw the news. Hudson could have just been "generic grunt number 6" in Aliens, but Bill Paxton was so awesome I remember everything he did and said waay more than any of the actors with bigger roles, and even though he played lots more cool roles and lots of more...

The first thing I noticed when I moved here, was how there seems to be either a 7-11, Lawsons or Family Mart on every street corner! Quick check on wikipedia brought up these numbers: 7-11 Japan: 18,785 stores Lawson Japan: 11,384 stores (Plus a smaller number of Natural Lawsons and Lawson...

Fibre connection in Urayasu, Chiba - Fastest internet connection I've ever had, but the reliability's been a little crappy since a recent power outage caused by lightning strike, so even here the internet is less than perfect!

Don't forget that the atrocious colour filter used in Fallout 3 made EVERYTHING look green! It was pretty much the first thing that most people modded out, but pre-mods that probably influenced people's perceptions. Plus of course as we all know Orcs are green, and Super Mutants are just...

As someone currently working abroad myself (Japan), I'd say write a big list of things you want to do / places you want to visit, and whenever you find yourself in danger of being caught in a routine, pull out the list and do something off it! - I work with lots of other expats here (teaching...

Seriously, he's crusading against the "injustices" of Ladies nights in bars and pool parties? As a single guy I love places that make an effort to attract cute girls in, because many bars that don't are complete sausage-fests! That's not an injustice, it's to everyone's benefit to reduce the...

I've been playing it since it came out here in Tokyo, and I see so many other people walking around playing it too. For me it's a great incentive to walk more (10,000 steps per day gets those eggs a hatching!), and I've dicovered lots of shrines, statues and other cool stuff all over the place...

Not bad, but if we're talking about good one-sided anime fight scenes, how about this one? -

Here's an article that is rather relevant to the discussion - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6474/personality_and_play_styles_a_.php?print=1 I'm an rational/explorer personality so open world CRPGs are right in my wheelhouse, they appeal directly to the way I enjoy games, and the issue...

To me good roleplaying is the freedom to do what I want, when I want, and open-world games do that better. If I want a tightly scripted narrative I'll watch a movie or read a book, so for me the open world/sandbox approach IS better for RPGs. For other people, the character development or...

I was impressed when I heard about my Grandad's method of dealing with scammers - he'd be very polite to them and would make agreeable noises, so they thought that he was exactly the kind of idiot they were after, and when they went into full-on sales pitch mode, he'd quietly put the phone...

When I worked for an Internet Service Provider back in the '90s and 'Naughties, Worms was installed on pretty much every single machine in our office. Any down time where the bosses weren't around, somebody was playing a head-to-head worms game! Just for those times alone, I'd say that this...

Yeah it's completely wrong! Here are the words and Kanji used in some of the basic colours in Japanese: http://daiuinternational.com/japanese/vocabulary/colors.html One thing to note is that not all colours have their own specific Kanji - Brown is for example written with the Kanji for Tea and...

I take the point, but all I was trying (and apparently failing!) to point out was that the social media outrage machine could maybe use a little fine-tuning with regard to it's sense of perspective, particularly when it comes to the death of animals! I'm still seeing people talking shite daily...

Something I read the other day that seems rather relevant to this thread: Whilst everyone's been losing their shit over a single Gorilla being killed, over 1,000 men, women and children drowned trying to cross the Mediteranean last week - The hyenas baying for the parents' blood over this...