Recent content by Stromko

I don't expect that Rage will be anything special, and I believe that is why id is leading on the consoles, where purchases are made much more lightly and they'll have much easier competition. id has been doing poorly for a while and they need something to get their cash and prestige back. I...

The problem with prisons is that there isn't enough control. Prisoners will always find opportunities to assault other prisoners, and that gives gangs more power than the guards. Prisoners come to depend on their gang to keep them safe, and when they get out, they not only owe favors to that...

I can't believe people are blind enough to actually think there's an excuse for bestiality. All of the arguments posted so far don't have an 'out' for paedophilia. The differences between zoophilia and pedophilia are really just a matter of degrees. They both boil down to a situation where...

I'm assuming ethics-free science would also be budget-free, because it would be very expensive to develop a self-upgrading self-aware artificial intelligence just for giggles. Yes, if successful it would almost certainly lead to human intellect being irrelevant, and perhaps our entire species...

It isn't glowing, it's just higher up so the setting sun can still reflect off the smoke. It looks like a craft that's spewing vapor or smoke from a nozzle in its nose, or simply an interaction between a fast moving aircraft and the smog over a city with no air quality laws to speak of. At...

Cemeteries have grass and trees. They're basically parks. In that sense, not a waste of space, as green space is a pleasant thing to have.

Quite fair Marquis, what's good for some isn't good for all, and one man's garbage is ten other's treasure. Or something. In this case though, I think I would've liked a text version of this feature, so for me it is a bit like the vlog has subsumed the blog in this case. Lots of the video...

Frustrating moments with gaming? How about frustrating moments with gaming blogs / sites, like how they like to tuck away so much content in podcasts and videos, which I find mostly impenetrable and not worth the time. I don't know why there's been this widespread trend toward podcasts and...

I'm fairly sure I did buy Startopia back in the day, I know I played it, and it really didn't make an impression on me. Somehow my recollection places it between "Dungeon Keeper 2" and "Evil Genius", and while it was more modern than the first, more stable and complete than the other, the...