Recent content by Joubert

It's not uncommon for me to have the feeling of almost unlimited power in the dream realm, but I don't think I've even mentally taken advantage of it to the degree of treating my dream realm like a sandbox if that's what you mean by a lucid dream. I think the wildest thing is sharing a dream...

Amen to that! I had a creepy moment when I was walking along a path in a kinda rural area that had these lights that looked like streetlamps along the side. I was starting to walk down one of the paths when I saw some kind of bluish light down the path a ways, coming from around a corner...

Duke Nukem... still love the Duke Groovy...

The article points to a good distinction between debatable levels of "violence" and scenes that can actually be scarring to kids (or frankly even to adults). There are some things I see that I describe as "mind pollution" because certain scenes or images can leave me feeling thoroughly disturbed...

apparently the Mayan calender lead many to think that the world would end on 2012 due to yet another issue of mis-translation, or rather mis-interpretation. The end date and something along the lines of "time-ending" brought many fearful individuals to go "oh shit" the seers have foreseen the...

TL;DR I need me some more Ritalin...

The physics found in many of Half Life 2's puzzles made the experience enjoyable but not overly sensitive. I think it works well when developers make game physics real enough that the player can pull off cool things with a bit of thinking or intuition, but not so real that one's plans are foiled...

I used to wonder if the trend towards realistic blood and gore in games would get to the point that someone would make a WWII game and one of those Normandy-style beach storming levels would give some people PTSD (lol).

We have seen a trend towards realism in videogames, particularly in the environments, the characters, and the maturity of games' subject matter. But where in particular has this been really cool... and where has it been unnecessary, tacked-on, or simply executed poorly. We love it when a...

Yeah, you have choose between looking around at the person's room and the environment or hearing what they have to say. I've had moments of, "wait, what was that important objective you just metioned? You know, the one that the next mission revolves around and for some reason you won't let me...

Hmmmm... if Venture Brothers' Brock Sampson was in a videogame, he might at least be a close second to Duke.

..."hail to the king, baby!"

The pipe bombs in Duke Nukem 3D started my love affair with explosives in video games. so simple, and yet still one of my all-time favorites. any grenades that stick too, they's gooooood. I believe Duke 3D also had the gauntlets that shot stinger missiles... :)

wow, that takes me back... had some insane fun editing YR back in the day. I wouldn't consider myself having modding skills, but all the utilities floating around on the internet made creating original content so easy that even I was able to learn. Before I knew it I was making custom voxels...

And there are four sniper rifles that seem virtually the same to me. On the RSV2 website it listed the Arctic Warfare as having a 10-round clip... that would've been cool! But after 18 marksmanship ranks you unlock a sniper rifle that... looks different? If anyone can tell the differences in...