Recent content by Missing SHODAN

It isn't automated at all - those reports were all reviewed by the community through the Tribunal, which is a community driven paid jurist system, basically. The community reviewers get the full chatlog from the game, the reasons players reported the defendant/asshole/whatever, and their stats...

Hilariously, I bought the PSP for the ports - I didn't have a PS1 so when I saw I could get the first two Star Ocean games on a PSP, I was pretty psyched. I'm pretty sure the majority of the PSP games I bought were ports - SO 1 and 2, P3P (had the PS2 version but new FeMC? Sold.), Disgaea...

Oh yes, I remember the first time I ran into "Legend of the Overfiend," I had to adjust my top hat and monocle in order to maximally ponder the deep themes and cultural impact. The animated ladies involved certainly experienced some deep themes, if you know what I mean, and they seemed to be...

The use of 'anime' as a genre is only helpful in that it flags things as being from Japan because otherwise as a label it includes shows about 15 year old girls trying to lose their virginity (B Gata H Kei/Yamada's First Time) and movies about dying from the aftereffects of a nuclear bomb...

Bah, that's not true. I don't believe in Bigfoot, and I totally bother to deny the existence of Bigfoot when people say that it does exist. I don't see any reason why I should treat one fictitious irrational supernatural creature differently from any other, just because that particular...

Lulz. Truly, that Dan Savage, a fanatic. Remember that time when a bunch of atheists in his fanatical organization crashed airplanes into the WTC? Or when he gathered a bunch of atheists to protest at the funerals of our soldiers? When he sanctioned the torturing Christians and executing...

If you do, make sure it's one of the numbered ones. Al Lowe worked on 1-7, and then Sierra died. Graverobbing necromancers dug up the LSL license and reanimated it, but the resulting shambling corpses were not at all like their predecessors. While 1-7 are generally pretty funny and are...

I happily contributed to this, am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to throw money at The Two Guys From Andromeda, and dream about someone announcing Quest for Glory. I'd take "we put it up on GoG" (although GoG doesn't seem to get the VGA remakes of the first games from what I've seen) or...

This. I don't believe for a second that they 'accidentally' created a message that told players their game would be disabled at a future date, 'accidentally' sent it out, and 'accidentally' put an FAQ about it up confirming it would happen. The only 'accident' here occurred when people got...

Bought it shortly after launch for PC before I noticed it required GFWL, and it was the title that cemented my hate for GWFL forever. It soured me on the title so much that I doubt I played it for more than a half-hour or so.

Having tried a couple of these 'games', I 100% agree with Jim on this. At some point it ceases to be a game at all and becomes an inconvenient movie where I have to press play and hold it the whole time and set up my own cinematography.

The last time I bought a PC game that required GFWL, it was Bulletstorm. I installed the game, tried to run it, and got all the way to the splash screen. I clicked to try to get to the main menu, and it asked me to log into GFWL. I entered my information, and it told me my copy of GFWL was...

Or to make a claim even more outlandish than theirs, "There is an unusual pile of bones of Triassic aquatic reptiles, and we know that Predators collect groups of animals together to use as birthing vessels for aliens, therefore Aliens Versus Predator was a documentary."

It's fun, but that doesn't make it good science. The researchers are leaping to some pretty big conclusions based on what I would be charitably describing as weak evidence. I mean, the argument boils down to this: There is an unusual pile of bones of Triassic aquatic reptiles, and we know...

Hrm, the actual results seem to be a far cry from life. It sounds like his big accomplishment is replacing the head group on a phospholipid to make it a phospho-metallic-lipid, which while neat is not really the same as making 'living metal'. You'll get mycelle formation, sure, but I fail to...