Recent content by Vexik

Now I remember why I stopped reading forum posts... they make me feel old. All these vitriolic posts about partiers and drinkers remind me of being young and defensive and full of self-righteousness. Getting a life, when I use it, means a rounded existence. I've got more nerd cred than a...

I find a lot of his early work to be pretty good, and also short. "Shadow Over Innsmouth" is probably most recognizably Lovecraftian, and it's pretty awesome.

My boss? You mean I finally landed a job!? WOOHOO! Who cares if my boss is John Steele - that means I've got a job in Secret Agent-ing! I'm sure he's forgotten about those death traps.

Agreed! But I don't hate ET because I didn't buy it. I did rent Bayou Billy, and that game is intensely hatable. So confusing! So inexplicable! So bad! So insulting!

The real problem most governments would have regarding superpowers is how to take them away. Stark can make another Iron Man suit, and his first is undoubtedly safeguarded against theft. Then, not only is the government left with a useless metal suit, but they have an angry supergenius with...

So it seems like this is L4D but with me and three other people, and those people are from video games? No problem... I'll take the Medic from StarCraft (she can heal units... maybe the Infected too?) Morrigan from Darkstalkers (not human - maybe immune? Also, she can fly) Zoe from, well...

Gannon from the original Legend of Zelda? Y'know, I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not. I mean, sure he's evil, I guess? But there always seemed to be plenty of moblins and octaroks around, so I guess he has his infrastructure figured out. In fact, I'm not really sure he's evil... I...

What sustains zombies? Obvious: The willing suspension of disbelief. They also remain sustained on metaphors, especially regarding the human condition and consumerism. Also voodoo.

THIS. I luuuurve me some Medieval II: Total War, but so help me, it can really fall down on these points. I save before any movement through fog-of-war, because the pathfinding might detect something unseen, and thereby take a route all the way around some mountains or something... which means...

Deus Ex. Okay, it's a shooter, but you don't have to kill anybody. It's the most interesting game in the world. And Steam is selling it for less than a cup of Starbucks coffee. Okay, I just checked and the sale is over. STILL, only 7 bucks.

Would the difference in size between an American football and a regular football be that important here? That's like asking if the killer robot was 80 yards tall or 80 metres tall. In either case, it's waaaay too big. PS. Kill it. Science has proven that spiders are evil, and hate all...

Drink Victory Gin! This message paid for by the We've Always Been At War With Oceania Association.

Had a roleplaying session after my wedding dinner. Villains and Vigilantes, specifically.

In one of the testing spheres (1970s, I think), Cave comments that 'someone' keeps stealing their inventions. We could thereby posit that any valuable breakthroughs have been usurped, preventing Aperture from getting any cash.

Deus Ex. Sure, the world sucks, but it sucks for interesting reasons and motivated people can make some sort of difference. Also, I think that the idea of living in a game world should assume that the person living in it should be the common person in the game... i.e., to live in GTA-land...