Recent content by DarkExarch

My suggestion, in all seriousness, is to get a rat. No, seriously. The fancy rat is exotic (in that they're not a common pet), they're about as clean as cats and about as smart as dogs, they're relatively cheap, and they don't take a lot of room or specialized equipment to handle. They're...

I remember the original arcade game pretty fondly...I worked in a pizza place as a teenager and they had a dual-cockpit setup. When we had staff meetings, the owner would open up all of the games afterward and rack up fifty-odd credits on each machine and I'd play until customers showed up...

The best thing about LEGO was leaving them strewn all over the floor like caltrops so the monster in my closet couldn't get to the bed. This made middle-of-the-night bathroom runs an interesting exercise, and when dad came in to wake me up in the morning I got to learn new cuss words, but it...

The original Super Mario Bros. main theme sticks in my head like epoxy. Ditto the main theme from the original Legend of Zelda. And the Final Fantasy arpeggio.

In Soviet Russia, Peach saves Mario.

Nope, but Submariner is. Twice the angst, half the costume, and as a bonus he's got little wingythingies on his ankles.

I've always been a big fan of Captain America, not just because he's a mortal among gods but because of what he stands for--an exemplar of a bygone era of truth and justice (that may never have existed, a la Utopia) who finds himself in a world that needs him more than ever and is even less...

In the name of the holy Emperor of Mankind, this thread is purged. =I=

I have to say that I can understand the general disdain held by the world at large for American culture. It spreads like a virus, infiltrating and obliterating other cultures, and is in many ways a largely vapid, insipid replacement for what was once unique or at least different. One good...