Back in my WoW playing days, I met a guy that would name characters after AD drugs that he was taking / had taken before. I can totally see him taking this drug but then rolling a Voxra / Zyban orc alt and becoming even more addicted to the game.

if someone were to upload an incriminating cellphone video to WikiLeaks. But seriously, the timing here is indeed very suspicious, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

any and all civilizations advanced enough to spy on us have done so eons ago and reckoned that by the time any life form could possibly get to their own technological level, they would again be far too ahead to care. So they stopped looking in on us. Meaning that we will only contact other intelligent life when we ourselves obtain the technology to do so ourselves, or another civilization does so a little before us.

How do you compete with it? Certainly not with DLC. And certainly not with yet another MMO that needs to build its userbase from scratch (BioWare's loyal fans are roleplayers; they couldn't care less about MMOs).

one which will lead to the same place if developers aren't careful. Old games inspired people, took them to wholly different worlds because it left a lot to your imagination. It's curious to have come across this article today because just yesterday I was replaying half-life 2, felt intensely bored, and suddenly felt like playing the original quake. The premise is virtually identical: go in and shoot anything that moves until it stops moving. Yet in quake, in the back of my mind there were always these questions: Where am I? How old is this place? What manner of creatures have lived here? Is this on a different planet? A different galaxy? Because really, the game gives you no effing clues.

These days I don't know if we're playing games anymore or if the games are playing us. Don't get me started on RPGs that throw lore at you like you have nothing better in your life to do than read crappy fiction.

Proportional fonts: look pretty, increase readibility of words.
Monospaced fonts: increase readibility of code by making all symbols very distinct (ie. ( from {, O from 0, -- not a single line, etc.). The 14% improvement you gain in reading keywords and variable and fuction names is nothing compared to the bugs that arise from similar-looking symbols.

I use Terminus, with no smoothing of any kind. Just raw, beautiful pixels.

Or a johndoe@sealclubbers.com applying for a job at PETA.

Had they released a bug-ridden stinker like Daikatana, my fond childhood memories of the Duke would have been irreversibly damaged. Better to die a quic... very, very slow death than to live on in ignominy.

Yes, I'll have a chicken tikka, garlic naan, and a Rs. 500 laptop.

If I could sell bleach as a mouthwash, I'd want me on my staff too.

Ugh, I should learn not to post at 3AM.

And if it happened to be an unnamed chopper named TAUT, we'd have a recursive palindromic onomatopeic acronym.

The KDE team is trying to channel in the influx of new users brought in by Ubuntu with a carrot on a stick. Just search youtube for compiz and be amazed.

I just pray they don't push Gnome into following suit.

Wait a minute? Are you telling me not everyone prints out the kernel source, compiles it in their head and jots down the instructions in binary? What do they do, rely on GCC or *gasp* pre-compiled distributions?! What is this world coming to?

I heard they're working on a device called the iBrain.