Recent content by Johann610

Gateway, 1999. After 9 months of use, the video card breaks down--the OS won't load anything but awful graphics, and the safe mode won't even network. For two months I have to wait while Gateway takes forever to replace the card. Then the DVD-ROM fails. Then something else...I re-installed the...

Bioshock 2 had a particularly hamhanded way of making you sit still for them. The character is locked in each room while jerk-of-the-moment* prattles on and on. But if you hit the "Esc" button to call on menus, maybe to SAVE or to OPTIONS, you will find that the RESUME and SAVE options--the only...

He was given three weaknesses (as seen in the Animated Series) and one liability: 1. Red sunlight. Cut off from the yellow sun, he is powerless as a human--captors and a red-sun satellite network made him weak enough to lose. 2. Kryptonite. Lex Luthor used it against him many times. During...

Duke Nukem Forever. EVERY trailer promised a better game, with more elements, than that threadbare, cliched shlock-fest we got.

Ah. It's been tooo long since this 100-ton siege tool lumbered onto my screen. What was it? Ghost Bear's Legacy? [sigh]

Agency. When I see a problem that grips me with terror or uncertainty, my first instinct is to act--what can I do about it? Break it down into a series of tasks--deposit the severance, buy cheap eats, walk along the park and rehearse the speech I need to ask for the job back, apply for...

I'm gonna go with Jeff Moreau and say, we need a gun that shoots Thresher Maws. Annnnd EDI just forgot to recycle the air.

Meh, let 'em. Van Gogh, Picasso, Paul-Rubens (and Paul Rubens, for that matter) all had their moments with porn, and history still likes them.

Mystical Ninja for N64 had Impact(-o), whose controls are totally different from core gameplay. No thank you! Slamit Pinball, Steam / PC. The graphics / colors wheel broke on load, and the table is unreadable. Goodbye! Painkiller Black. One crash-to-desktop too many. Dance Dance Revolution...

Wasn't Dragon's Quest like that? One long movie punctuated by failure?

Banh Mi is a good mix. I will stack it against the American burger with mayo and pepper--it makes its own gravy... Need lunch now.

Dubstep. How did it get to be so popular? It's House music with bass instead of treble--as if you shut off your alarm clock just in time to do your laundry! And yeah, it has a place, but why?

And now I need to go look that guy up. Good show, Yahtzee!

At least we have ONE. Debate over "the better one" will be spurred by this. I mean, I didn't know Cuusoo existed before this.

According to Wikipedia, the man-portable modern flamethrower was invented by Germans in time for The Great War, and used in the Polish Blitzkrieg in 1939. The allies came out with it afterward. Flame Tanks were used against Japanese caves in WWII, and the Western allies developed similar...