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Dimensions != graphics. If you were talking about low-graphics games, then I would have answered yes, but have you seen Minecraft? Extremely low-graphics game, but 3d. (Incidentally, also fun.) How about Psychonauts? That has horrible graphics by today's standards (and not intentionally like...

Zinnia Jones [http://zinniajones.com], most definitely. (For anyone unaware of who ZJ is, I'm not entirely certain what pronoun he prefers, but he is genetically/physically male, and if I am remembering his statements on sexuality properly, also thinks of himself as male, but prefers to look...

Bob, I hate to disagree with you (I do, in fact, agree with you very often, and I usually see where you're coming from if I don't), but re: Chocolate, were we watching the same movie? I just watched it a couple nights ago, and I can't see where all this outrage at the premise comes from. I...

I don't even get the point of the boycott. Buy the game if you think you'll like it, don't if you don't. Don't let the business side of the company influence you unless they're directly screwing you. (In other words, if you feel you must boycott someone, boycott EA, not Zenimax.) I will admit...

You WIN, ma'am!

No, it's Kill Billy. I've gotta thank you for explaining what's going on behind the scenes because I read the original story (and the article condemning it) at Gizmodo and was horribly confused as to why they'd publish both.

Not as often as I used to, or probably as often as I should. Back in high school, I used to read at least a book a week, more often two or three (fiction), plus I always had a few nonfiction books on the side to peruse a bit of now and then, finishing them at a rate more like one every month or...

I feel it's not cheating to put a series on here instead of a single book (most really well-written series are like one really long book anyway), but I have so many books in my inventory that I really can't even limit myself to just one series. The first five or six Honor Harrington books (up to...

As much as I agree with Obama about parents spending time with kids, as well as reading (very much the reading; my bookcase that is warping the floating wood floor will tell you how much I advocate reading), there's no reason you can't spend time with your kids while playing video games. Aside...

Yeppers! I actually prefer analogue watches for some reason (although I think I'd be annoyed if my computer/DVD player/microwave/etc. weren't digital). I do wonder whether they still teach kids to use analogue clocks in school, though; last time one of my teachers tried that was in first grade...

Ashley is specifically an asshole co-worker, so nobody is happy to see either of them. Yes, she has always had the triforce tattoo on her wrist. Also a little star and rainbow one on her thigh. I kinda just realized last week that I hadn't read the earlier comics, so I ran through the...

^ This. There's been gorier, and even more disturbing films in the past; the problem with The Human Centipede is that it just sucks. Nothing about the plot is believable, none of the characters are likable (the Japanese guy starts out okay, but ends up being just as unlikable as the girls), and...

I've actually seen some people do some been done before [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2mCDkqXki0]. Also, the Yogscast had some amusing things to say about the concept a while back, during their Survival Island playthrough [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyR0UcQN-1Q]. Iirc, Simon said he...

Sorry, that's a habit I got into to annoy my friends on Facebook. If you want to try it out yourself, ALT+ 0254 for lowercase, 0222 for uppercase.

Speaking as a linguist, no, Dutch is not a version of German; þey're just boþ members of þe Germanic language family, which makes þem cousins. Related is not þe same as derived. Flemish... is a little more iffy; I'm tempted to call it a dialect of Dutch, but as Max Weinreich once said...