Recent content by kalakashi

Yeah, I can imagine it's a bit of a balancing act between providing detailed content and reaching a sizeable audience. Something that's very difficult to do but very easy to criticise when not done correctly. I took a very brief glance at some of your articles, and that's what cemented my...

Having read some of your edits after my post (some of them good and informative, some of them seeming a little filler-y) I think the main problem is actually this type of article in general. The enjoyment of a "worst games" article is derived from very specific detail about individual games...

I hate to just jump on the bandwagon but this is not a good article. I was expecting some detail on what made the games bad, specific examples that might demonstrate why the game sucked, not "it was a bad game and has bad graphics". Rambo - "shoddy graphics, poor mechanics and painful...

Speaking of presence on the Escapist, what happened to DANGER-MUST-SILENCE? I've just now noticed he's banned, but there's no link to a corresponding post, and he was easily amongst the most diplomatic and eloquent of us, had some real good views that weren't common to come across elsewhere...

As mentioned above there are legal ways of getting rid of this. For scammers, play along; my dad once had the "your PC is broken" call, and he just played along, pretending to be completely technologically illiterate. String them along for as long as you possibly can, and let them see that by...

The escapist is a site on which it is fine to troll, but not to accuse someone of trolling (or even genuinely politely ask). Snidely insinuating unpleasant things about people is fine and dandy, but explaining in detail the reasons why you think someone is stupid/immoral/etc is not. The...

I can confirm that the 90s Spiderman cartoon is still fantastic. Was surprised to see them on Netflix, warily gave them a go, and jeez, it all came flooding back; that blinding guitar intro, the robotic "Spiderman" voice that goes with it. Nerdy, geeky, socially awkward Peter Parker, 6 foot 4...

The way I see it is, you have to play Dark Souls as if it were you in the boots of your character, as if it was your life that was at stake. In a place like Lordran, would YOU sprint into the next area willy-nilly to see who jumps out from the shadows/corners to attack you? Or would you take it...

If it was Dawkins saying something critical of religion in general, completely unprovoked and without consequence, I would think it odd, and it would annoy me if it was permeating general news spaces, because it wouldn't be news. It doesn't matter how broad the things I said were, because it...

Those are two very obviously different things. The pope saying the internet isn't all bad is not news. The people who care about what the pope says will hear him say it through whatever media outlet he chooses, and the people who don't care will not care. It is an unimportant article, and...

Strident atheists such as myself find this type of news irritating because it is not news-worthy. To us, there is a man who believes in god saying that the internet is a good thing, and for some reason, this is seen as cause for writing out an article and spreading the news. Who cares if the...

I think if you spent more time looking into it, you would find less and less differences between humans and all the other animals. Off the top of my head, I can think of an experiment in which a chimp could press a button to receive a treat, but this would also give a small electric shock to a...

I once went 39-4 on Modern Warfare 2 using just my knife and throwing knife, and shortly thereafter received a picture of a man sitting upside down on his couch, the focus on his cock and balls.

I think it should be noted that we have absolutely no idea how our own sentience/consciousness comes into existence. We can read brain signals and patterns, there's even a fairly impressive video of a computer reading people's brain patterns and recreating the video they are watching using tiny...