Recent content by JambalayaBob

I played the unpatched version of dark souls on my years-old PC that barely met the system requirements. . . . . . . . I had zero problems with it. It was exactly the same as the console version, except not laggy. I never expected them to do anything special with the port...

The reason that imperial seems so weird is that most countries use base 10, while most imperial units use base 12. A base 12 measurement system is much more logical in a low tech world, because 12 is easily divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, instead of just 5 and 2 like 10. It's how time is handled...

The first to encourage non-linearity? Don't you mean the second? The only thing strictly linear about Zelda 1 was the dungeon names, and if ALttP exclusively took place in the dark world, or didn't tell you the "correct" order for the dungeons in the dark world on the map, it would be the third.

You're supposed to do loads of Elite 4 and gym leader refights if you want mad dosh. Their pockets are infinite but their intelligence is not. There's a joke in here somewhere about the Pokégovernment getting all its tax money drained by punk-ass trainers who wipe the floor with the champion...

Wouldn't the fire burn down all the books?

Susan's distaste for the now-popular second definition of literally is somewhat hilarious, when one considers that her college degree was in English. She has almost certainly read plenty of novels that use the word in such a way, many of which may be books she enjoyed, some of which were written...

I'll tell you right now that it's probably not really your fault that you can't speak French after classes for 9 years. Taking a foreign language class because you have to is nothing like learning a foreign language because you want to, or learning a foreign language because you're in another...

Damnit, why are so many members of The Escapist editorial staff leaving so frequently? Russ Pitts, Steve Butts, and Mike Kayatta, all gone in about a year's time. Mike, you will be missed, along with your aversion to condiments, all your million dollar ideas, and even your magic kisses. QQ

There's nothing wrong with griefing unless you're just plain fucking people over; ie. some asshole hacker killing everyone on a DayZ server. There are ways to grief that are fine, especially when there are people that can just kick me if they get sick of it anyways. It's just another way of...

A good science fantasy series to read is the Heir to the Empire Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. It's a continuation of the story of the original trilogy of Star Wars, and it basically reads like Episodes 7, 8, and 9 would if they existed (in a good way). Someone mentioned the Ender Saga, although...

Saying "the theory of gravity" isn't the best example because gravity is 100% observable and always has been. Yeah, we know a lot more about gravity now than when we were all nomadic tribes, but in a sense, the theory has always existed. I'd say a better way of explaining it to someone would be...

How's that? Writing an ending themselves would actually be productive! Sure, it would probably be crap and only serve to boost their ego, but it's still better than whining about it.

I don't see how this would ever happen. First of all, I don't think space telescopes are used for any images of earth, since that would be a gigantic waste of money. Second of all, it's not like telescopes offer video feed or something and they aren't just "point and shoot" cameras, so you...

I've known about this for a few weeks, but I realized that nobody here had posted about it, so I might as well share it with you. It's looking really good so far, although it's still a ways off from completion, and it'll be awesome to see two hobbyist programmers do something that Nintendo...

I know this stuff has already been said plenty in the hundreds of comments here, but I think I'll kinda consolidate a few things that people really need to think about here. First of all, Anita Sarkeesian would not be wrong for raising money for a series that aimed to address certain issues of...