Recent content by Jerusalem

Well duh. Also, not news.

I'm not against this, suprisingly. I dunno, seeing that it is now rather evident to even 2K that there's a demand for XCOM-style games, I'm thinking they might indeed end up taking a lot of pointers from the success of Enemy Unknown. Which bodes well to the prospect of getting a shooter that's...

In case you're wondering, the wife-carrying thing comes from old folk-tales, where robbers or suitors rejected by the woman's family would steal the bride in the middle of the night and flee across the swamps and forests to their farmstead. My great-great-grandfather did that, although at my...

I just don't get why is it such a big deal for Americans that people eat reindeers. What else are you supposed to do with them? Give sled rides to tourists? Reindeers are herded for food and whatever else you can get from their carcasses when you kill them. That is what they are for, and why the...

An interesting point about the Chinese pandas, anyone given pandas as diplomatical gifts in the 70's, fell from power soon afterwards. Richard Nixon, Edward Heath, Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan and Prince Bernhard of Netherlands all received pairs of pandas from the Chinese government, and all...

The reason why only 3000 users were affected is that it's the size of the group that uses both chrome and microsoft antivirus at the same time. That's like installing gentoo, and using explorer through wine.

"That just game the hilarious mental image that you tap a cow the same way you tap a keg..." Actually, they did that (George van Dyne et al.) in the 1980's. Although the cow in question was a bison. And the tap was through its bowels. And it was more of a hole than a tap. And they sampled its...

So I bought DA2. It's still in her shiny wrappers, since I decided to play the pirate version instead. And my life is better because of that. QED for the problems facing AAA industry, I guess. Sure doesn't make me feel like buying many games with what limited budget I have to use for...