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As I understand it, this is a list of the games that are most representative of the PC experience, not a list of the best PC games. As such, the most glaring omission is easily Counter-Strike, which seemed to account for something like 90% of PC-hours in the early 2000s worldwide. I don't...

If I controlled TES, I'd buy up the Skywind team and release Morrowind HD. Then, give control back because I'd be happy for the next decade.

I had a friend from class that I began to get pretty attached to. We would chat and text ever so often. I used to joke that I was helping her find a boyfriend and vice versa. Because she was about seven years older than me (we're both in grad school), I never thought she took it too seriously...

For me, it's at 2:03: "There are a few ways we can do this, and the choice... is... yours..." Played through that at least a hundred times. Also, FANCY, dude, he puts the tray on the table. Mind blown. I always dropped it on the ground, because hey, the walkthroughs all literally used the verb...

I'm pretty sure these have been covered up for many of her dresses throughout the show. I highly doubt it's much of a cosmetic problem for the industry. It's interesting to speculate what Martin will do with the character. She's hit a dead end, but death would be anti-climactic.

It honestly wasn't that good. Certainly nowhere near the best Marvel movie (Iron Man), and not even the best sci-fi film of the year (that Tom Cruise film with the terrible name). I wish people would stop supporting this sort of slick, lowest common denominator, sterile action flick. This...

Don't blame you guys for not finishing TES IV and TES V's mainquests. They're not that great. TES III, however, is a whole 'nother story altogether. For me, the most egregious case is probably GTA: Vice City. Spent hundreds of hours creating chaos in that, but could never advance the main...

I went through a phase of playing a tonne of Hearts on my computer because I also used to play it with friends. Does Pandemic II count?

One of the best original sci-fi releases in the past years. Really well executed. And yeah, better than Guardians of the Galaxy, which was so full of cliches and pandering. Based on the production history that was in the press, I think the main problem was that they spent way too much money...

For a second there, I thought I was reading The Onion. Yes, this sounds much more exciting.

I'd disagree. I was Team Sansa since reading the books and was very, very angry that she wasn't in Book 5. You can tell Martin is building her up to be absolutely kick-ass in the next entries, in an interesting parallel to Arya. More relevant to the show: ever since Season 1, I've been very...

Okay, here are a couple questions to consider: 1.) How long do you want to keep this laptop? (Bear in mind, parts are harder to upgrade.) 2.) How often will you move within the time you will have this machine? 3.) Do you always have to play on the highest graphics, or are you okay with...

I started doing this a while back with Paradox games and now I'm finding it very hard to stop. You can save right before a child is born or reaches adulthood, or an assassination plot is being completed, or you attempt to imprison someone... and reload, reload, reload until you get the result...

One of the most telling things about this movie is that the Rotten Tomatoes score far outstrips the Metacritic score. RT aggregates critics' scores on a simple up/down basis, while Metacritic averages them out. Last time I checked, the RT score was 89%, while Metacritic was 71%, meaning that...

I worked for a media-tech start-up that folded after about four years in business. The end can come very suddenly if the senior management folks believe that causes the least pain. I think often times they trick themselves into thinking, "I can make this work for one more quarter/month", until...