Recent content by commodorejohn

I can't speak specifically to any of the games mentioned since I haven't played them, but in my experience, when I find myself doing this, it's because the game isn't engaging me on an auditory level. Sometimes that's because the game just has no audio (as when I'm playing roguelikes,) but...

Things load like molasses, somehow even the rendering of loaded pages gets all chokey, and it looks like it stepped straight out of that Godawful "yeah, every site is a blog now" phase circa 2007. Yeah, I hate it.

Being as I most definitely want kids, yes, that would kind of be a problem...

Isn't "Final Fantasy XIII" "guided tour" a bit redundant?

Best and most underrated: as has been said, the 1970s. Unfortunately most people just focus on the disco and Paul-McCartney-post-60s-synthpop aspects of the decade, but pretty much everywhere else in music there was all kinds of good stuff going on. (My personal true love being classic...

As part of a relationship, assuming that there wasn't a significant risk of genetic problems in any resulting children, and assuming that any of my female not-so-distant relations were the kind of people I'd want a relationship with (not really the case,) possibly.

Remember when iD Software was the go-to source for kickass PC gaming and could fall back on a workable software renderer when driver issues reared their ugly heads? I do...

* Macs from back when Macs were interesting and not just PC clones in fancy cases. * A spiffed-out Amiga 3000. * The first two albums by Starcastle, the best blatant Yes clone to come out of Illinois and release two worthwhile albums before going all "album-oriented rock." * Print collections...

Rampant intellectual inbreeding and an addiction to ever-increasing graphics budgets.

Uriah Heep, Demons & Wizards. Fine early hard-rock infused with mystic-fantasy themes and just enough proggy eclecticness to keep things interesting.

Had a man threaten to rip off my dick because he thought I was staring at his daughter's ass, because I was a teenage boy, obviously I must have been planning to rape her or something.

RAM. A 400MHz FSB on a 2.6GHz processor isn't doing anybody any favors, that's for sure. Which, I suppose, means that the next thing I should upgrade is the board, but eh, it works for me for now.

Crazy as it may seem, I'm not too keen on the idea of children having to get the thumbs-up from somebody in order to not get killed. Two somebodies is twice as odious.

I'm married to a sprite mage from my last Hengband game...good thing I always play female characters in roguelikes/RPGs...

Ooh, this is a good one - people always seem to assume that if you think this then you must hate and/or sneer at all the dirty, dirty people who go around having unmarried sex... In addition to the above: anybody who wants to ban any ideology (religion, atheism, communism, capitalism, what...