Recent content by tock333

I live in Austria, but I may still be off on this as I am American. That said, it seems to me that the anti-fascism laws in Germany (and Austria) are less about distancing themselves from the past, but actually more about NOT FORGETTING the past to ensure that such atrocities NEVER happen again...

I am a freelance translator, teacher trainer, and e-Learning consultant... I work at home and can budget my time, i.e. can play video games while my wife is out earning a steady income for us! Just kidding... I pay all the fixed bills and she takes me out to dinner and buys me beers! It...

On the subject of language, it is also funny how this phrase, or its shorter form, is so freely used these days without any serious thought of its background...

I feel better knowing that edubacation is not all down the drain...

In the vernacular: LOL

Well the school season is starting up again... Maybe teachers are trolling the forums?

I would be tempted to agree, though the a and the e key are not that close. I am sure people probably know the difference if they think about it, but I know from my own experience that electronic media has certainly affected the level of my writing. I am sure this is due to email, texting and...

I do not know why this particular bug has crawled up my behind, but for the past few weeks the absolute incompetent use of than and then in EVERY forum I read has been driving me nuts! FYI for all you posters confused about the meaning of Then and Than: Then is an adverb of time! It is...

Being self employed I tend to say "Better work than no work!" whenever I get swamped. As a life quote, one that I like is "Wrong glass sir!" It is from the Blues Brothers movie when Dan Aykroyd is in a fine restaurant and holds up a water glass for the waiter to fill with wine. My...

LOL, but screw the punctuation and capitalization! As King I decree: Increased speed for all! All content for free! Long live net neutrality! And just like jayteedubya I need to work on my punctuation too... Maybe a period or a question mark would be good instead of just exclamation marks...

It was pretty short and linear... Judging by the trailers though I am not sure how much of the game it really shows you. Still my impression was that for nostalgia's sake it will get purchased, but prolly not until it costs considerably less at a Steam Xmas sale or something... Also FYI If...

First "console" in our house was the Tandy Vision, but the first one I ever bought on my own was a Sega Genesis... Still had the thing with a crate of games up to a year ago, when I lent it to my neighbor and he promptly moved out and took my Sega with him! Bastard! Nowadays it has to be the...

Man, reading through this list I too feel kinda old... The only ones I can really put names to are the arcade originals like Space Invaders, Asteroids, Command Control... And my favorites a few years later on were Millipede and Star Wars... "Use the Force Luke!" Consoles would be Atari...

I won't say I ever did this, but hypothetically if in an alternate universe I might have once bought a retail game only to discover that it was only in German (that is what I get for being an American abroad), I might have downloaded an English version of the game and used my German CD key to...