Recent content by Rashkavar

I'm tempted to say Serial Experiments Lain, but it's more the presentation than the premise that makes that show weird. Bakemonogatari, much the same....and Kurozuka, which was the other one I was thinking of. Hmm...it seems I've largely managed to avoid the truly bizarre story concepts and...

A statistical point to mention: almost everything follows either bell curves or exponential curves. (Bear with me, point is coming). Our data on when sapient life developed in the universe (or a subset thereof that's larger than our solar system) is limited to a single data point (ours)...

The problem, as with everything in game design, is balance. I can exemplify both extremes using a single game: Skyrim. When following a quest and trying to find, say, Kynesgrove. It makes sense for me to have a map that points out locations; heck, in many quest conversations, the NPC saying...

To be fair, if patriotism pissed me off, then the first Iron Man movie would have been what tipped me over the edge - Stark's opinion of the US requires one to have blinders on. They're action movies - the only way to piss me off about them is to have minimal or shoddy action. Worrying about...

Minecraft guy? Eh, he's not so tough. Let's just hope he hasn't visited the TNT material harvester recently.

From what I've heard (I'm a neophyte to the Song of Ice and Fire - I've only read Game of Thrones as yet), Martin made the same mistake in Book 4 that Robert Jordan did...in book 4. Character overexposure. Some viewpoint characters are dropped in book 4 and book 4's will be dropped in book 5 -...