Recent content by lotusflwr

I play mostly mainstream titles these days, so I have a limited scope but: Best: GTA 4 had mind-blowing voice acting, and hours upon hours of it. KoToR was also exceptional. Worst: Oblivion, for the sheer repetitive stiffness of the 4 voices used among hundreds of characters. Starting out...

I just finished watching Best Student Council, Mushishi, Ghost Hunt, Ouran High School Host Club and xxxHolic. All were online, available via various outlets like Hulu, Funimation.com, Crunchyroll.com and Netflix. Every single one was utterly fantastic and awesome! I'd highly recommend any of...

There's no denying that great games can do this (and I'd argue that my definition of a great game would be one this immersive) but does this type of immersion affect your long-term behavior or cognitive processes? You said yourself you didn't go through with it, and I'm thinking that most people...

It all comes down to the old causation vs. correlation thing. Violence-prone individuals gravitate towards violent video games, but the body of violent-video-game players is much, much larger than those violent individuals. I think this applies to other forms of violent media as well...

Truth, tangled, in flux! Other seekers tread before. Wikipedia

Can this be bested? Pure distillation of words. Mmm, language vodka!

Penny Arcade and XKCD are the only 2 I keep up with. If I wasn't already married, I'd track down and force the XKCD guy to marry me because his mind works eerily like my own and he makes me laugh. o_O

I believe God is neither just nor unjust. If there even is one, God is indifferent. My opinion of the Old Testament God is that He was sometimes just and sometimes quite unjust. I personally am unwilling to subjugate my own sense of justice across the board to Old Testament standards...

I think those fans that you see people using in various movies/anime are probably the most useless... I mean, hitting someone over the head with a fan? Is that a real martial discipline? Maybe it's been poorly-depicted, but every time I see someone wielding a fan it just cracks me up.