Recent content by robustyoungsoul

And I know a lot of people who play board games rather than video games because they are looking for a greater degree of complexity. We can exchange anecdotal evidence all day long, but that defeats the purpose. Your point is well taken though, perhaps games like World of Warcraft illustrate...

Great to see a mention of Dwarf Fortress, although I disagree with the description "unapproachable". Yes the game is complex. Yes the interface has a steep learning curve. But every person that complains that games are too similar, too cookie cutter and much too simple seems to look at games...

Hey everyone, sorry for the spam but there is a very helpful Firefox extension called Aardvark that is useful for isolating just the article content and eliminating all the other noise on the pages. By using it I'm able (with a couple of extra button clicks) to get things into a nice printer...

Oh man, I feel like someone just killed my cat. I'll keep my subscription active and hope for a link or something to make the entire thing easily printable (it was mentioned as something you are working on). As it exists right now though it is just not my cup of tea at all. Sorry everyone. :(

Ugh, definitely not a fan. I liked being able to click one link and print out the entire magazine. I would read it during lunch or even on the can! I certainly understand why this may have been necessary from a cost perspective. If we could just get an easily printable version, even in non...

I remember when I discovered the BBS scene. Watching those characters pop real time up on the screen as the SysOp chatted to me blew me away the first time I saw it. It was that moment that I realized I wanted to work with computers for a living. I also remember playing great games like Seth...