Recent content by Varitel

Riggan was played by Michael Keaton, who ALSO played Batman in the 90s (too many Batmans for one decade). Either way, the point is the same, SUPER meta.

Our cultural identity is pride, my friend. Pride in our history, our unity, and anything else we can think of. Also just imagine roving gangs of townies, genius scientists/engineers with an army of robots, the logical next-step for a post-apocolyptic MIT, and an army of minutemen dressed in...

I'm an RF IC test development engineer at a semiconductor company. Basically the design and product engineers say "hey, we have this new part we want to release," and I go and design a printed circuit board and test program for the automated test equipment. I get the parts, debug the test...

Technically I think you mean that nothing with mass moves by its very nature. Photons DO move by their very nature (as far as I know, anyway). We also get energy from them, but I wouldn't call a photovoltaic cell a perpetual motion machine.

So it's a subtractive printing method, as opposed to most macro-scale 3D printers which are additive. That's pretty awesome. $500,000 is actually a pretty reasonable price for high-tech, low volume equipment. We have automated semiconductor test equipment at work that costs even more than...

Here are some albums that are pretty good I guess. British rock: British punk: American punk: British new wave (or whatever): American new wave: British whatever the fuck this is: British prog: (WARNING: Not for everyone, though I happen to love this album) Another...

I really didn't get the impression that Jim was ranting, or that he thought people using AdBlock were automatically horible people. I thought he made good points. He said basically that if you like the content, consider turning off AdBlock. Not too much to ask, in my opinion. Then again, the...

Overall, I was pleased with the episode ...at first. Don't get me wrong, the episode alone was pretty good, but as I thought more and more about it, and after going back and watching a few earlier episodes, it seems like they opened up a plothole. If The Silents (the alien race) were...

Hello all, I'm sorry if this has already been posted, but I didn't see it anywhere on the forums after a cursory search. Anyway, I thought I'd check out the alleged Fallout 4 teaser site: http://thesurvivor2299.com and was pleasantly surprised by a new message. This one was far more cleverly...

Just out of curiosity, what makes no sense about setting it there? Obviously everything's still up in the air, and we can't make any good assumptions about what Bethesda will do until they tell us, but why would Boston/Cambridge make any less sense than any other place in the world?

As someone from the Boston area, I always kind of wanted them to do something with the Commonwealth, but it'd be really neat to see the game take us to what's left of Paris, or London and see how the cataclysm has affected the people there. Plus Paris has that network of catacombs under the city.

There's also been some criticism (since the mid 80s) about the way that the book seems to present morality. They felt it was supporting a normative ethical philosophy that values intent over action, and took it too far.

The biggest thing that bothers me whenever I play an old game is the control scheme. Inevitably when I start a game, there's a good 5-10 minutes where I have to go in and change all of the controls to fit modern conventions. Sometimes, as is the case with Daggerfall, you have to try and figure...

Living on campus as an underclassman is difficult for a one major reason. They give you the worst dorms on the whole campus. There will almost never be A/C, and there will usually be an abundance of asbestos (At UMass Lowell, we couldn't even touch the ceilings in the freshman dorm because of...

I really wish Drake's snack cakes were back (Drake's Ring Dings > Hostess Ding Dongs). Drake's was a New Jersey-based company that made snack cakes in and around the northeastern United States. They are pretty unknown outside of the region, but quite beloved within it. Since '98, they were...