Recent content by helfire57 [deprecated]

uh, why don't you put the coffee in **after** the sugar, splenda, cream, etc?

I used to read more mags but since I now have three kids, I'm down to: NewType USA [cover to cover] Game Informer [cover to cover] Wired [cover to cover but only 2 - 3 times per year] Fortune [when on an airplane] Game Developer [only occational articles] Escapist [used to be cover to...

Hey, what's a good descriptive word for "adult", "mature", etc that doesn't instantly get the listener to think Pr0n or something else not good for kids? Maybe something that implies "boring to kids"; not "bad for kids"? Along the same lines: why is it that games tend to be either "for some type...

When Da Vinci Code first came out I thought that it was going to be more than a bunch of barely strung together historical baloney. Man, it was hardly more likely than Connections...

huh, I thought that it was somehow faked via RC or stop animation but instead is controlled via onboard software. The reaction to others in the area was the most facinating.

Greg Bear has written some fairly recent hard sci fi (read: science extrapolation). Slant [nanotech] and Darwin's Radio [quantum leap human evolution] come to mind. I would also recommend History of Ideas: from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson as a real mind improver. Not sure what it says...